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What’s going on guys, my name’s Theoatrix and welcome to my complete level 1-99 Thieving guide for OSRS. Table of Contents Changes To Thieving Why Train Thieving Useful Unlocks Pathways To 99 Low Level Training Fastest Methods Other Fast Methods Alternative Methods Profitable Methods AFK Training Ironman Thieving Changes To Thieving There’s been a number of updates to the skill since my last guide. In May of 2024, jagex reduced the pickpocketing fail rate for some npcs, as well as increased the xp rates of stealing from stalls. Also in 2024, jagex introduced Varlamore, bringing citizen pickpocketing and house robbing to the game. Rogues chests in the deep wilderness also got buffed, and are now the fastest experience in the game if uninterrupted. Why Train Thieving Thieving is one of the essential skills in progressing your account. The Ancient Magicks spellbook is locked behind level 53 thieving, and a number of other quests and unlocks require thieving. Also, the best skilling money makers involve pickpocketing. Useful Unlocks There’s a range of important unlocks that you should aim to get before levelling up. The Ardougne achievement diary increases your chances of pickpocketing npcs, where with medium, its a 10% increase on any npc within ardy, and with the hard diary, it becomes 10% on any npc in RuneScape. This is a must for pickpocketing methods, and you dont have to wear the ardy cape to get the effect. If you don’t have the diaries, then you should at least get some gloves of silence, which increase your pickpocketing success rate by 5%. These do require 54 Hunter to wear though. The gloves of silence do not stack with the ardy achievement diary effect, so gloves of silence arent necessary after completing the diary. Dodgy necklaces, which are enchanted opal necklaces, provide a 25% chance of avoiding the stun when failing to pickpocket, and it holds 10 charges per necklace. This is another essential when doing pickpocketing methods, and works together with gloves of silence or the diaries. There’s also the shadow veil spell on the Arceuus spell book, requiring 47 Magic to cast, as well as completion of the kingdom divided quest. This spell provides an extra 15% chance to not get stunned while pickpocketing, stacking with dodgy necklaces. For most pickpocketing methods, shadow veil can improve the xp rate by quite a lot. The final important thieving unlock, is the rogues outfit, which is vital for money making with thieving. With the full rogues outfit, your loot is doubled, and without the full set, each piece gives a 15% chance to double the loot. The set is obtained from the rogues den minigame, which requires 50 Thieving and agility, and it takes an average of 12 runs to get the full rogues set if youre on rate. Pathways To 99 On your journey to 99 thieving, its helpful to visualize your entire pathway from 1 to 99. In this section, ill show you 2 suggested pathways, along with some profitable and AFK training methods. The first pathway I’m showing is the fastest possible pathway in the game. This involves a lot of blackjacking, then most of your experience is done at the rogues castle chests. Overall, this pathway is going to take approximately 50 hours to go from level 1 to 99. The second pathway is my recommended pathway to 99, which involves a lot of thieving at ardy knights, and can also be done at pyramid plunder for slightly faster experience. With this pathway, its going to take about 70 hours if you focus on ardy knights, whereas if you do pyramid plunder, you’ll save around 7 hours of time. Making money while you level up is always good, so these are some of the most profitable thieving methods in the game. Pickpocketing vyres from 82 to 99 is going to net 230 mil in profit at this point in time, which makes it the most profitable pathway to 99. With the introduction of varlamore, we received an AFK thieving training method, which is stealing from houses. These let you afk for around 60 seconds at a time, which isn’t very long, but its easily the most AFK thieving method in the game. If you choose to become a house burglar, its going to take a bit over 130 hours to reach 99. Low Level Training From level 1 thieving, you realistically have 3 training options. You can either pickpocket men or women, you can do quests, or you can partake in the thieving room in chambers of xeric. Lvl 1: CoX Thieving Room The fastest method is within chambers, where you can get over 30k thieving xp per hour at level 1. The method has no real requirements since anyone can access chambers, although having a lock pick is highly recommended to speed it up. There’s the cox timers and additions plugin which is helpful in knowing which chests have grubs and which ones are poisonous. Lvl 1: Questing Questing is another fast way to level up from 1 thieving, and is probably the most efficient, assuming you’re going for the quest cape. Here are the 5 best quests to complete from an early level, to boost your thieving. Some of these quests have a couple of requirements, but they won’t take long to get. Lvl 1: Pickpocket Men/Women Alternatively, without chambers thieving or questing, your only option to train from level 1 is pickpocketing men and women. For this, its recommended to go into your game settings and hide your npc attack options. There’s many locations to find men and women around runescape, but the easiest would be simply teleporting to lumbridge and finding one near the castle. Overall, pickpocketing from level 1, you’ll get about 5k xp per hour, which is very slow compared to the other options. Lvl 5: Tea & Bakery Stalls Once you reach 5 thieving, you unlock tea and bakery stalls, which both give the same amount of experience, and both have the same respawn time. So you could steal from the tea stall in varrock, on the eastern side.. Or you could steal from the bakery stalls inside the ardy market. It’s important to stay away from view of the guards, and to do that, you can just stand under the stall npc and they wont catch you. Lvl 25: Fruit Stalls Hosidius Tea and bakery stalls are the best between level 5 and 25, where at 25, you can start stealing from the fruit stalls in the hosidius house. This used to have a favour requirement, but since jagex removed the favour system, now any player can do it. In the house to the east of the city, there’s 2 fruit stalls inside. And to get the fastest experience per hour, you should steal from both stalls at once, by running back and forth. You also get strange fruit drops from the fruit stall, and those regenerate your run energy, allowing you to endlessly run between stalls. It’s not a whole lot faster to run between the stalls, so if you want a more relaxed method where you don’t move your mouse, you can just stick to 1 stall. Fastest Methods So those were the low level training methods, now lets talk about the fastest possible thieving methods. Lvl 30: The Feud Quest At level 30 thieving, you can complete the feud quest, and this unlocks the blackjacking method. Although, for the most efficient training, you should continue at fruit stalls until level 43, then at 43 you can complete the Feud quest to level you to 45, from the xp reward. Lvl 45: Blackjack Bearded Bandits At 45, you can start blackjacking, which provides the fastest xp in the game up until level 84. So with 45, you can blackjack the bearded bandits for around 100k xp per hour. For all blackjacking methods, this is what your gear and inventory setup should be. You should bring the full rogues set if you have it, some coins, a weapon switch and noted food. you can unnote the food at an npc called bank exchange merchant, found near the general store. I would recommend using wines as food since they're only 3 coins each. Bandits are located in pollnivneach, so the fastest way there is using a house teleport, either by moving your house there or using a redirected house teleport tablet. Alternatively, you can get there by taking the carpet ride from shantay pass to pollnivneach. With 45 thieving, bearded bandits are found on the northern end of the city. You can right click a bandit to lure them into a house to make sure they dont move. So essentially, you have to knock out the bandit by right clicking, then you pickpocket them twice while theyre knocked out. If you pickpocket a third time by accident, the bandit will start attacking you. The menu entry swapper plugin does not work for blackjacking, so you’ll have to manually click everything. This means its a fairly difficult method to do on mobile, but it is possible. In your in-game settings, its important to hide npc attack options to avoid attacking the bandit. If the bandit does gain aggression, so if you accidentally pickpocket 3 times, you can go up and down the nearby ladder to lose the aggression and continue training. Alternatively, you can bring any weapon switch and just change weapon then try to knock them out, and the bandit will stop attacking you. Lvl 55: Blackjack Non-bearded Bandits Once you reach level 55 thieving, you can start blackjacking the non-bearded bandits, and at these, youll already get 130k xp per hour when you unlock them. For non bearded bandits, the gear is the same as the bearded ones, so you can skip back to that section if you missed it. The non bearded bandits are located near the bearded ones, on the northern side of pollniveach. Lvl 65: Blackjack Menaphite Thugs With 65 thieving, you unlock blackjacking menaphite thugs, located in the southern side of pollnivneach . At unlock, youll already get nearly 200k xp per hour, and closer to 235k at higher levels. Lvl 84: Rogues’ Chests Once you reach 84 thieving, you unlock the fastest method in the game, stealing from rogues chests in the wilderness. This method is only the fastest experience if you steal uninterrupted. So with pkers around, its not likely to bring the best experience. Although, some clans offer protection services, which would allow you to get the max rates, but these are barely worth paying for in most cases. You can expect to get at least 270k xp per hour here, and up to 300k is possible without interruptions. The rogues chests are located in deep wilderness, near the chaos elemental, where you need to run to the back side of the castle. You can use the wilderness obelisk to get there, or an annakarl teleport. So using a lockpick, you steal from all three chests out the back of rogues castle, while using protect from melee. The wilderness player alarm runelite plugin is a useful one here, where it will flash your screen if a pker is nearby. A cool trick, is if you bring a locator orb, you can sit on 1 hitpoint, then if a pker comes you turn off your protection prayers and die to the rogues. This counts as a pvm death and you keep all of your loot. Other Fast Methods Next im going to cover the other fast methods, and i personally would recommend these methods over the fastest methods, simply because blackjacking is so click intensive, and the rogues chest isnt safe. Lvl 49: Stealing Artefacts Piscarilius So first up is a method unlocked at level 49, which is stealing artefacts. This used to require piscarilius house favour, but now it just has a thieving requirement. Artefacts can be the fastest method at level 49, but if youre a regular player its not the fastest since you need to learn how to do it. Overall, the xp rates range between 130k to 260k xp per hour depending on your level. To do this method, you need a lockpick, and having kharedts memoirs or a book of the dead is going to greatly speed up your xp rates. To get started you make your way to the north eastern region of zeah, where you speak to captain khaled in the hall. He gives you a contract to steal an artefact, then you run to the nearby houses and steal the artefact, and then make your way back to captain khaled while avoiding the guards. Lvl 55: Ardougne Knights Next is ardy knights, which is my preferred thieving training method. Ardy knights can be more relaxed and still decently fast. They’re unlocked at 55 thieving, where you can get about 85k xp per hour when you unlock them, and that includes a high fail rate. You eventually stop failing to pickpocket knights at level 94 Thieving, as long as you have the ardy diaries completed. So overall, your xp rates scale from 85k up to 240k xp per hour. The method involves just spam clicking a knight, although it is recommended to find a splasher, and to do that, you can either join the theivinghost friends chat, or the splashworlds one. Then once youve joined, you sort the list of players by world, and you scroll through the world list, and once you find a lot of players on the same world, that is the world that the splasher is on. The splasher is almost always found at the bank near the market, and this allows for easy access to food. You can turn your npc attack options to hidden to make it so your left click is pickpocket. Dodgy necklaces help tremendously here, so if youre a regular account, or an ironman with access to supplies, you should definitely make dodgy necklaces. Having at least the medium ardy diary completed here is also very helpful,which can greatly reduce your fail rate. The rogues outfit is nice to have here, since it doubles all of the coins you get, and thats obtained from the rogues den minigame. Now, this is my preferred setup for ardy knights. You firstly, can optionally tag the knight with runelite to outline it. Then you set your camera angle in line with the knight, at the lowest angle possible. Then, in resizeable modern mode, you can drag your inventory over the knight. And then to empty your pouches, you press the hotkey for your inventory, so f1 for me, then click, then press the hotkey again and keep thieving. This works best with a wireless or bluetooth mouse, then you cover the movement sensor on the bottom of the mouse, then you can walk around and spam click while doing other things around the house. Lvl 71: Pyramid Plunder At level 21 you unlock pyramid plunder and this requires partial completion of the Icthlarin's Little Helper quest. Although, pyramid plunder is only really fast experience above level 71 and becomes one of the fastest methods in the game once you reach level 91 thieving. It provides competitive xp rates for far less clicking compared to blackjacking. In terms of rates, at level 71, you can expect 120k xp per hour, but once you reach level 91, you can get 270k. This is what your gear and inventory setup can look like for pyramid plunder. Bringing a lockpick is helpful with opening the doors faster, and having a pharohs sceptre makes this method easier, allowing you to teleport closeby. To get there, you can use the pharohs sceptre to jalsavrah or you can alternatively use a nardah teleport and take the magic carpet from there. The activity involves going through floors and looting objects around the room. At higher levels, you should skip the first few rooms, and focus on the last 2 floors. Lvl 78: Dorgeshkaan Rich Chests With 78 thieving, you can start stealing from dorgeshkaan rich chests. These give around 220k xp per hour without banking, and about 190k with banking, while making 300k profit per hour. To be able to do this method, you do need to have completed the death to the dorgeshuun quest, and the training area is within dorgesh kaan. Each chest takes 5 minutes to respawn, so with that, you can loot chests then hop worlds and repeat. This is more of an alternative method - it can be pretty fast at level 78 thieving when you unlock this method, but its not really the fastest once you level up a bit. Lvl 90: Pickpocket Tzhaars At 90 thieving, you can start pickpocketing from tzhaars within mor ul rek. And to get there, you need to have a fire cape to enter the area. For this method, you also need ice gloves to reduce the damage when pickpocketing, so this means you cant wear the entire rogues outfit, but you can still wear most of it. Pickpocketing tzhaar hurs gives you gems, so this means having a gem bag can be handy. If you drop the gems that you get, its possible to reach xp rates of up to 250k xp per hour, however this method is best past level 99 since the fail rates can be high. Alternative Methods Its time for some alternative training methods, and these have their own benefits, but aren’t the most efficient way to train. Underwater Agility/Thieving Firstly, is underwater agility and thieving, which is unlocked after the bone voyage quest with access to fossil island. Its a relatively relaxed way to train agility and thieving at the same time, where it scales from 2 to 40k agility, and 9 to 145k thieving xp per hour. Its not entirely an efficient method, but its still a decent way to train. Squirking Another alternative method is Squirking, which used to be popular, but nowadays it can be hard to do it effectively. You can get around 150k thieving xp per hour in the summer garden, with very little attention. But thats only possible on a mass world, and those don't exist anymore since you can get faster thieving xp elsewhere. Profitable Methods Its now time to talk about the profitable thieving methods, and ill go through these in level order. Lvl 38: Master Farmers The first somewhat profitable method, is pickpocketing master farmers. This requires 38 thieving, although having at least level 50 is going to help a lot with the fail rate. When you stop failing at level 94, you get 680k gp per hour if you get everything on the drop rate, while getting 130k thieving xp. At level 70 thieving, its more like 250k gp per hour, and only 50k xp per hour. So while this method is unlocked at low level, its much better at a higher level, or even better for ironmen. Lvl 82: Pickpocket Vyres While most methods are profitable, thieving really becomes profitable at level 82, and thats where you unlock vyres. For pickpocketing vyres, you need to have completed the sins of the father quest, and going from 82 to 99 thieving here, you’re going to make around 230 mil in profit, and its going to take around 60 hours. The xp rates scale from 140k to 250k xp per hour depending on your level. In terms of gp per hour, at 82 you can expect 2.5 mil an hour with the full rogues outfit equipped, then that scales up to over 4 mil an hour at 99 thieving. The shadow veil spell, and dodgy necklaces are highly recommended for this method to reduce your fail rate, as well as the ardy diaries completed. Lvl 84: Rogues’ Chests With level 84 thieving, another profitable method is stealing from rogues chests deep in the wilderness. This can be very profitable, however being in the wilderness, it is an unsafe method. It takes about 34 hours to go from 84 to 99 thieving here, while making 70 mil in profit if you dont get pked. At maximum, this spot gives 2.2 mil gp per hour, with zero deaths and constantly thieving. If you want a more in depth guide for this method, i spoke about it in the fastest methods section earlier. Lvl 85: Pickpocket Elves At level 85 thieving, you can start pickpocketing elves, and that also requires the song of the elves quest. Going from 85 to 99 thieving here, you can expect 125 mil in profit, and thats going to take approximately 70 hours of thieving. So thats an xp rate ranging from 140k per hour, to a bit over 210k xp per hour, and a gp per hour ranging from 1.8 to 2.8 mil. Once again, shadow veil and dodgy necklaces are strongly recommended for this method, and having your ardy diaries done will boost your xp and gp rates. Its best to find an elf in one of the houses near the bank, and you can trap them in there and continuously thieve. AFK Training Alright, so every method ive shown so far has been pretty click intensive. There’s only one viable afk thieving method in old school runescape, and that is stealing from houses in varlamore. Lvl 50: Varlamore Houses This requires level 50 thieving, and there’s 2 parts to stealing houses. You firstly steal keys from wealthy citizens… Then you use those keys to enter houses to loot. While stealing from wealthy citizens, they sometimes get distracted, giving you a 20 to 25 second afk time where you are automatically pickpocketing. Once you break into a house, you have 50 to 60 seconds of afk time per hotspot, and about 2 and a half minutes of total afk time per house. Including the time gathering keys, you can expect xp rates from 60k to 110k xp per hour depending on your level. This means, going from 50 to 99 thieving here is going to take around 140 hours. For this method, theres a plugin called house thieving varlmore which can help a lot, so i highly recommend that if youre doing this method, although its not required. Ironman Thieving So the final section of this video is for ironmen, where ill give a summary of the best ironman training methods. Overall, ironmen can follow the same pathway as a regular account for the thieving skill… there isn't much variation, but there are some methods that are more inviting than others, mostly for the loot. Bakery Stalls Cakes are an important food source for the early game, where stealing a couple hundred cakes should last you long enough until you have better food. Silk Stalls There’s also stealing from the silk stalls, which can be a decent source of early game cash, although you do have to wait a while before you can sell the silk. Overall, this can bring in over 50k gp per hour in cash, which isnt bad. HAM Store Rooms After partial completion of the death to the dorgeshuun quest, you can enter the ham store rooms, and stealing from the chests here can make a couple hundred k per hour in alchables, and is also an excellent source of jewellery for you to enchant. Master Farmers Master farmers at 38 thieving are great for all types of ironmen to get the seeds for farming. Stone Chests Stone chests are a decent way to get a xerics talisman without having to kill lizardmen, which makes it easier to get one in the early game. Stone chests also give medium clue scrolls. Gem Stalls Stealing from gem stalls can be a decent way to collect gems on an ironman for some early crafting training. Pyramid Plunder And pyramid plunder is an essential for the pharoahs sceptre drops, where you need 1 for your house altar and 1 for a master clue step. Tzhaars And lastly, a method for ironmen which requires at least 90 thieving is stealing from tzhaars, and this can passively give around 50k crafting xp per hour in gems… For these, you do need to be wearing ice gloves… So that was my updated level 1 to 99 thieving guide. Thanks for reading!

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What's going on guys, my name's Theoatrix and welcome to my updated Slayer Guide… Guide Outline Changes To Slayer Why Train Slayer How Slayer Works Slayer Masters Slayer Points Useful Slayer Unlocks Armour & Weaponry Slayer Training Styles Low Level Training Fastest Experience Profitable Slayer AFK Slayer Most Slayer Points Slayer Tips & Tricks Ironman Tips If you would prefer to watch a video-version of this guide, I have linked that below. Otherwise, continue scrolling to read the written-version of this guide. Changes To Slayer For most, Slayer is the slowest 99 in the game, and it can be a complicated skill to train, so in this guide ill show you exactly how to train effectively. It's a skill that is constantly evolving, and recently, Jagex introduced the Custodia Pass Slayer Dungeon with the release of Varlamore Part 3. Here, you can find 3 tiers of custodian stalkers, with the minimum requirement being 54 slayer, and they have a chance of dropping the antler guard, a prayer and offensive boosting offhand. Jagex has also proposed a range of further improvements and adjustments to slayer, with separate blocklists for every master, as well as a range of updates benefitting the early to mid slayer levels. As a whole, slayer is becoming easier and this guide will show you every piece of info you need to know, before and after the updates. Why Train Slayer So why should you level your slayer? Despite the low XP rates, its is an enjoyable skill for most, and is an efficient way to train your combat stats if you're going for the max cape. This is because you're training slayer and combat at the same time, and with the boosts of the black mask or slayer helmet, you're getting increased damage and subsequently, increased XP rates. Slayer is also one of the most profitable skills in the game depending on your play style. If you aim to complete boss tasks and manage your costs effectively, you can make hundreds of millions on your journey to 99. For Ironmen, slayer is essential for the preparation of high level content. This is because you unlock monsters that drop game changing equipment, including the abyssal whip, the trident of the seas and the occult necklace. You need level 69 slayer in order to get the quest cape, and you need level 95 for the achievement diary cape. And some very important quests have a slayer level requirement, including Desert Treasure 1, Animal Magnetism, Sins of the Father and Monkey Madness 2. How Slayer Works Slayer is a task based skill, where you’re assigned to kill a certain monster from one of nine slayer masters. Each Slayer Master assigns monsters from their own task list, and higher level Slayer Masters give harder and longer tasks. A slayer task consists of one type of monster, and a quantity of that monster that you're required to defeat. Upon defeating an assigned monster, you receive slayer experience equal to the monsters total hitpoints with some exceptions. Some slayer monsters require specific gear in order to fight them, such as wearing a face mask when fighting dust devils. And once you complete a slayer task, you will usually receive a number of slayer points, which can be used to get various rewards and unlocks. Overall, slayer is a skill that is considerably faster if you have high combat stats, so I would suggest starting with at least level 70 combat, although ill still cover some low level gameplay further in this guide. Slayer Masters Now I'm going to briefly cover each slayer master so you know the benefits of each one. As I mentioned, there are 9 of them, and I'll go in order of difficulty. The first is Turael, located in Burthourpe, and this master has zero requirements. He is often used for point boosting or for skipping a task that you don't have the points for skipping. There’s Spria, unlocked after the Porcine of Interest quest, and Spria has the exact same task list as Turael except with the extra task of Sourhogs. Its not a commonly used slayermaster. Krystillia is the other slayer master that has zero slayer requirements, and this is the wilderness master. Krystilia is by far the best slayer master for points and can also be fast slayer xp at mid to high combat levels. Mazchna requires level 20 combat to get a task from, and this could be a decent way to understand how slayer works, especially after the proposed changes that increase the slayer points rewarded with him. Vanakka is a level 40 combat slayer master, and can offer tasks that are pretty tricky with a low combat level. This master again, should only be used if you're looking to try out slayer at a lower level, but with Jagex’s proposed update the slayer points from Vanakka aren't as low. The next master is Chaeldar, unlocked at level 70 combat, and this one is great if you've just reached 70 combat. To be able to use Chaeldar, you do need to have completed the lost city quest, and she assigns a range of mid to high level monsters. And the next one is Konar, unlocked at 75 combat. This master is great for profit since you have a chance of getting a brimstone key drop on her tasks. These keys allow you to get amazing supplies on an ironman, although in terms of getting the fastest XP rates, Konar is generally not the best. With 85 combat, you unlock a high XP slayer master, Nieve. she generally gives long and high XP tasks, and she is located right next to the stronghold slayer cave, which is not only a great slayer location, but is also fast to reach once you unlock slayer rings. And the final slayer master is Duradel, unlocked with level 100 combat and 50 slayer. Duradel gives the most boss tasks out of any slayer master, and also gives the longest slayer tasks. He is also excellent for XP, similar to Nieve. Generally, if you're looking for bosses and profit, go to Duradel. If you're looking for the fastest XP, go to Nieve or Duradel. If you want some extra profit and variety, go to Konar. If you want points, then wilderness slayer is best, although Turael point boosting is not bad either. In the proposed slayer update, Jagex will allow you to setup blocklists for each separate slayer master, so you can set up each master to be tailored towards a certain play style, like for profit or for XP. An update that Jagex released somewhat recently is where once you get 99 slayer, you can access any slayer master regardless of the combat requirement. So this means that pures can access Duradel, Nieve and Konar, as long as they have 99 slayer. Slayer Points As I mentioned, upon completing a slayer task, you receive slayer points. You don't get any slayer points for your first 4 slayer tasks in a row, but then on your fifth and subsequent tasks, you start receiving points. And once you hit certain task count milestones, you get a boosted amount of slayer points for completing that task, with 5 times the points for every 10th task, ranging up to 50 times for your thousandth tasks. With these points, you can use them to purchase rewards and unlocks from any slayer master, which can be done by right clicking the master and selecting rewards. There are 4 main categories of rewards. There’s unlocks, where you can unlock new slayer tasks, and you can also unlock slayer items, or unlock utilities. There’s extension rewards, which allow you to increase the number of monsters assigned to you with certain slayer tasks. There’s purchase rewards, where you can trade slayer points for items, including slayer rings, broad bolts and some storage bags. And lastly, there are slayer task rewards, which allow you to skip or block a task. There are a lot of rewards, and generally, the best order of unlock for your slayer point rewards comes down to your training style. but in general, this is the best unlock order that most players go for. Firstly, is the Bigger and Badder reward, which unlocks superior slayer monsters. And these monsters significantly increase your slayer XP rates, and also give you a chance at some highly valuable drops. In Jagex’s recent proposal, they are looking to reduce the slayer point cost of Bigger and Badder, so its not a bad idea to wait a bit until the cost is less than the current 150 points. After unlocking superiors, you should then unlock the slayer helmet, which allows you to use the boost from the black mask on a range of other tasks that already require headgear. Some players choose to unlock the slayer helmet first, but i would recommend Bigger and Badder first since you can still use the boost from the black mask without needing the slayer helmet. With superiors and the slayer helm unlocked, it now becomes more open ended about which reward you unlock next. There’s slayer ring crafting, which has a number of benefits including easy access to slayer areas, as well as faster access to tarn’s lair for a salve amulet. The “hot stuff” reward, which allows you to be assigned Tzhaar monsters as a task, and can be great for fast experience and profit as well. You can also get a Tzhaar task before going for your first fire cape, which can make it easier with the black mask or slayer helmet boost. The “I wildy more slayer” reward is one that actually costs zero points, but is best unlocked after getting at least the slayer helmet, and this reward allows you to be assigned a few more high experience tasks from the wilderness slayer master. And with Jagex’s proposed changes, the slug salter and reptile freezer rewards will be more accessible for lower levelled players, proposed to cost less points. And on top of those, a slayer reward that is very important is sorting out your blocks and extends. This all depends on your playstyle, and for example, for the fastest experience, you'd block the tasks you cant cannon or burst, and then you’d extend the tasks which give the fastest experience. Also, Jagex is proposing to have separate blocklists for every slayer master, with reduced costs to block with the lower levelled masters, so this way you could setup a blocklist with one master for points, and others for profit and experience. There’s also task storage, which is excellent for all playstyles and especially useful for Turael skipping. It allows you to put away a task for later and get another task, which is an alternative to skipping your task. Task storage is proposed to cost only 500 slayer points after the update, down from 1 thousand. From here, where you go is up to you. If you want more boss tasks, you can unlock the “like a boss” reward, or if you want a different coloured slayer helmet, there's a range of different designs you can get. But before getting any of those, its strongly recommended to have your blocklists and task extensions in order first. Useful Slayer Unlocks Now lets go through the useful unlocks that you might consider before training slayer. Firstly, I'll talk about quests that unlock certain slayer tasks. There’s about 20 quests that unlock slayer monsters, and some of these monsters are better than others. But I would very much recommend doing quests like desert treasure 1 for dust devils, horror from the deep for Dagannoths, and if you want to avoid dragons tasks all together, you can skip completing the dragon slayer 1 quest, although that does restrict your account. Next in terms of slayer unlocks, is a very important one, and that is using enchanted silver bracelets on your task. This includes the expeditious bracelet, which shortens your slayer task, and the bracelet of slaughter, which extends your task. Your usage of these really depends on your play style, but for example, if you're going for the fastest experience, you can use the expeditious bracelet to shorten the slow tasks, and you can use the slaughter to extend those tasks that are fast, usually burstable or cannonable. Ironmen can go out of their way to make these bracelets, or on a regular account, you can just buy these straight off the grand exchange. Aside from the bracelets, there's a number of other items that greatly improve your slayer training. The dwarf multicannon is one that I've already mentioned, and this is unlocked after the dwarf cannon quest. Using the multicannon greatly speeds up slayer and is almost a must for every training style. Having the Ancient Spellbook unlocked after Desert Treasure 1 is essential for bursting your slayer tasks, which is how you can get some of the fastest slayer XP rates in the game. Having fairy rings unlocked facilitates quick travel to hard to get to locations, and also, having an upgraded player owned house can improve your gameplay, with convenient teleports, reducing inventory clutter, and for utilities like the restoration pool or occult altar. There's also the gem bag, herb sack and the seed box, which are excellent for saving inventory space while training. You can also get the Soulbearer, which is useful in the long run with ensouled head drops. There’s the holy wrench, which is great if you're using prayer potions, and also, bringing along high alchemy to your tasks can extend your duration at a slayer task. Now aside from those items, there's 2 crafting level requirements which will improve your training. With 54 crafting, and 400 slayer points, you can make a slayer helmet, which is a must for slayer training. This gives a damage and accuracy boost with melee, then at the nightmare zone or PvP arena, you can imbue your slayer helmet or black mask to make it work with magic and ranged as well. And with 75 crafting and 300 slayer points, you have the ability to make slayer rings, which I spoke about earlier. Armour & Weaponry Let's talk about armour and weaponry, and with slayer, at the bare minimum, I would suggest having a melee combat set. At minimum, you should always be bringing a black mask or a slayer helmet to every task, and with the imbued version if you're using ranged or magic. This greatly speeds up your slayer training. As a whole with slayer, you’ll need the following armour… You need a melee set, prayer armour set, a magic bursting set, and you can optionally have a ranged setup, wilderness setup and bossing setups. For melee gear, you typically want to be using at least a dragon scimitar all the way up to a rapier, Blade of Saeldor or inquisitors mace for low defence monsters, then an Osmumtens Fang for the high defence monsters. In terms of armour, you should be prioritizing strength bonus, which could include obsidian armour, blood moon, Bandos, Oathplate or Torva. In terms of prayer armour, here are the best prayer sets to use, and the best in slot is the new Sunfire fanatic armour, which will allow protect from melee to last almost 10 minutes. For magic, you should only really use it for bursting, and the best weapons to use are the Kodai wand, ancient sceptre, or at minimum you want the ancient staff. With magic bursting armour, at minimum you want to use Ahrims, and Virtus or Ancestral are going to be your best in slot. You should also imbue your slayer helmet or black mask. Optionally, you can also have a ranged setup, and this is best with a venator bow, but without the venator bow, I would recommend just using melee on your slayer tasks. In terms of a wilderness setup, you should only ever bring 3 valuable items and turn on PvP skull protection. One of those items should be the black mask or the slayer helmet, and taking a wilderness weapon is going to give the most damage output. Although, you do risk more with a wilderness weapon, so your best regular melee weapon also works. And with slayer, certain training styles prioritize bossing tasks, and for each boss the setup varies, and these setups can be very expensive but in the long run, completing these boss tasks will bring in the most profit. Slayer Training Styles So now lets get into the training styles for slayer, and its up to you to choose which one you do, and each of them have their own benefits. So there's low level, fast XP, for profit, afk slayer and farming points. Low Level Training At a low combat level, its not always worth it to train with slayer, due to reduced access to high level slayer masters and getting high defence monsters assigned. At a very low combat level, Turael and Spria can provide some easy tasks, but it should only be done as a way to understand how slayer works, since its not very efficient. You are better off training until a higher combat level, and using one of the higher levelled slayer masters. Although, masters like Mazchna and Vanakka may become more worthwhile at a low combat level after the proposed changes, since they will now earn you more slayer points. At mid combat levels, around 50 to 60 combat, you could consider trying out wilderness slayer for some semi efficient training. This is because you can use the wilderness weapons which stack with the effect of the black mask or slayer helmet. However, most players, including ironmen, should aim to start their slayer journey at 75 combat when you unlock at least Konar, although level 85 is even better once you have Nieve. Slayer could also be started at 70 combat with Chaeldar, but you can expect lower xp rates there. Although the upcoming changes to slayer, they will make lower levelled slayer more viable. Fastest Experience Next is the fastest XP strategy, and this is what most players go for. When slaying for the fastest experience, there are some key things you should be focusing on. You should be using the enchanted silver bracelets on every slayer task, whether you're extending or shortening a task, and these will greatly improve your overall slayer XP rate. You should be cannoning every task you can, as well as bursting or barraging every possible task. Your skip and blocklist should consist of tasks that you cant use a cannon and cant use bursting spells. To also increase your overall slayer XP rate, you should be using combat boosting potions like super combats, and you can use prayers like piety to increase your damage output. In terms of slayer masters, you should generally use Nieve or Duradel for the fastest XP since they give longer tasks with higher hitpoint monsters. In terms of your blocklist for the fastest XP, you should aim to block the slow XP tasks that have a high task weighting, which is how often the master assigns that task. Here are some example blocklists for getting the fastest xp rates, with one for Nieve and one for Duradel. For the absolute fastest xp rates for slayer, they're actually possible in the wilderness since the wilderness slayer cave is both multicombat and cannonable, meaning you can burst your tasks while using a cannon. The venator bow also works very well here, and its possible to get over 100k slayer XP per hour at places like hellhounds or dark warriors, which are very high slayer xp rates. Technically, using alt accounts to assist you with slayer is the fastest possible xp you can get, where you can use alts to stack up monsters, or to help defeat monsters. Profitable Slayer With slayer, there are 2 main ways to train profitably. You can train with Konar, or with bossing with Duradel. With Konar, you sacrifice the convenience of picking your slayer task location for the occasional brimstone keys for extra profit. One brimstone key has an average loot of around 100K, which can really add up over time. You do occasionally get decent boss tasks and decent xp tasks, but sometimes the tasks can be slow. With this, you should always extend the good tasks with slaughters and speed up the bad tasks with expeditious bracelets. Here’s an example blocklist if you choose to use Konar, and these are tasks that don't bring in much profit, or they are often assigned in bad locations. Now for boss slayer, you do want to be using Duradel and you want the like a boss slayer reward unlocked. The reason for Duradel is that boss tasks occur more commonly than Nieve's boss tasks, so you'll get boss tasks more often with Duradel. With this, you’ll need plenty of decent gear to be able to do boss slayer, and the gear will vary from boss to boss, so quite a bit of starting capital is needed. If you're prioritizing boss tasks with Duradel, this is an example blocklist you can go for, and generally, these are slow tasks with no boss variants, and they have high weightings with Duradel. AFK Slayer Next is the AFK slayer style, and for this, it works a bit differently. You can afk a slayer task in a few different ways. Firstly is with monsters that are aggressive, and they will stay aggressive for 10 minutes at a time. Second is by using a cannon, and with the combat achievements completed, you can load your cannon with more cannonballs, which allows you to afk for longer. And thirdly, you can attack a bunch of monsters in multiway combat and let your character slowly defeat them all, AFK. And the latest upgrade for afk slayer is the introduction of goading potions, which make all monsters aggressive for 6 minutes, and these are quite expensive, but do provide the easiest afk slayer experience. For AFK training, many players choose Nieve or Duradel, and these are 2 example afk blocklists depending on the slayer master you're using. Using prayer regeneration potions is another boost for afk slaying, where you can last for longer with protection prayers active. Prioritizing your prayer armour set is pretty important for afk slayer, so getting that Sunfire Fanatic armour is a big upgrade. You can mix AFK slayer with one of the other training styles, like fast XP or fast points, but it is difficult to make a lot of profit out of AFK slayer. Most Slayer Points To get the most slayer points per hour, there are 2 main strategies you can follow, either Wilderness slayer or with Turael, by point boosting. With wilderness slayer, you get the most points per task out of any slayer master, and that's 25 points per task. For your 1000th wilderness task, you get an astonishing 1 thousand 2 hundred and fifty points for completing that task. Wilderness slayer works off a separate task counter to the regular masters, so you cant just do regular tasks up until your thousandth and then wilderness slayer for the thousandth, you actually have to do 1000 wilderness tasks. With wilderness slayer, if you're solely going for points, you should be using an expeditious bracelet on every single slayer task to speed it up, no matter how profitable and efficient the task is. Here you can see an example blocklist if you're using the Krystilia slayer master solely for points, and I’ve tried to account for Now the safer option for fast slayer points is Turael boosting, and this involves doing 9 tasks with Turael, then completing 1 task with Konar for the 10th task. with this, if you're going for points, you should camp the expeditious bracelet the entire time, for all tasks. And generally, your blocklist doesn't really matter for this, although blocking Kalphites could speed up the Turael side since they can be a bit slower compared to the other Turael tasks. You can also use a different master like Duradel for your 10th task, but Konar is going to give slightly more points. Doing Turael boosting with duo slayer is another decent option for points, where you can very quickly get through the 9 initial tasks with the help of a friend. Slayer Tips & Tricks Now lets go over some tips and tricks for slayer training… Firstly, if a task is too difficult for you, and you don't have enough points to skip it, you can reset your task by getting one from Turael in Burthourpe. This does reset your total task streak, so you should try to avoid doing this, but if the task is way too hard and you're out of points to skip, its not a bad idea to skip with Turael. On top of that, I mentioned that you only start gaining slayer points from your 5th task, so you should aim to complete your first 4 slayer tasks with Turael to get them out of the way quickly so you can start earning points. When you're in places like the slayer tower or the stronghold slayer cave, you should be cautious when running past certain monsters without the proper protection. For example, aberrant spectres can deal a lot of damage and drain your stats if you aren't wearing a nose peg, and they are aggressive monsters, so running past these will significantly impact your gameplay. There are a range of slayer tasks that can be completed at certain monster variants for a better profit rate. And this includes fighting demonic gorillas on a black demons task, fighting tormented demons or Zammy on a greater demons task, killing Vorkath on a blue dragons task, and there are a range of other ones. One thing to note, is you can complete a slayer task from reanimating creatures with ensouled heads, which lets you train your prayer while doing slayer. Safespotting with a cannon in a singleway combat area makes the cannon act as if its multi combat, which can speed up your task. This works great in the stronghold slayer cave where you can range the monsters from a distance while your cannon attacks all of them at once. You should always use the bracelet of slaughter on the good tasks for your training style, and the expeditious bracelet for the slow bad tasks to speed them up, then you should skip and block the worst tasks that have a high task weighting. These are the monsters that are most commonly assigned by your master. You can use the NPC contact spell to contact slayer masters and to get a new slayer task. So if you have 67 magic and have completed lunar diplomacy, you can contact the slayer masters that are far away without having to go to them. You can get slayer tasks with a friend by doing duo slayer. To do this, you partner with them on an enchanted gem or slayer helmet, then you share the task and task killcount. Duo slayer can be a decent way to get points and sometimes experience depending on the tasks you get. Ironman Tips And to finish off this guide, id like to briefly give a few ironman training tips. Overall, ironmen can follow the same training styles I showed earlier, but with a few exceptions. One of those is that ironmen shouldn't really cannon their tasks since it takes so long to make cannonballs, but if you're looking for something to AFK and you have the mould from the giants foundry, making cannonballs is still not a bad idea. Getting the herb sack and the gem bag is very beneficial on an ironman for slayer training since those drops are going to greatly improve your training for herblore and crafting. Ironmen don't really have the option for wilderness slayer at a low combat level, that's mostly for main accounts with access to the wilderness weapons. So ironmen should aim to get at least 75 combat or 70 plus in the melee combat stats before training slayer. Items like the dragon scimitar, dragon defender and some strength boosting gear is almost a must before you start. As an ironman, you can’t do duo slayer, so you're on your own for the entire pathway to 99. 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Theoatrix's 1-99 Slayer Guide (OSRS 2026)

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What’s going on guys! My name is Theoatrix , and welcome to my updated level 1–99 Hunter Guide for OSRS . Guide Contents Methods Overview Fastest Pathway Alternative Methods Birdhouse Runs Hunter Rumours Ironman Hunter If you'd prefer to watch a video version of this guide, you can watch that below. Otherwise you can continue down the page to read the written guide. Methods Overview This is an overview of the hunting methods in this guide: The fastest pathway from 1 to 99 Hunter, takes around 75 hours. This includes a range of training methods like hunting birds, salamanders, kebbits, and chinchompas. After the fastest pathway I’ll cover alternative training methods which have their own benefits, but are not the fastest Hunter XP. There are the new Tecu Salamanders, Red Chinchompas, Herbiboar, Aerial fishing, and Drift Net fishing. After the Alternative methods, I’m going to show the AFK methods, and as I mentioned, Pyre foxes are a new AFK Hunter method unlocked at level 51. Maniacal monkeys are great for AFK experience, but they do require Monkey Madness 2. Afterwards, I’ll cover Birdhouse runs, which are an efficient Hunter method if done quickly, then I’ll cover the new Hunter Rumours in Varlamore and then Ironman Hunter training. Over the years, Hunter has become less click-intensive with Runelite, and the addition of herbiboar, maniacal monkeys, and more. With this guide, I suggest following the fastest pathway. Fastest Pathway Now let's move into the fastest pathway, and I’m going to show these methods in order, going from level 1 to 99. These are all of the items you'll need for this pathway. You'll need different types of traps, some teleports, and some potions. Varrock Museum - 1-9 So to get started, make your way to Varrock, northeast to the museum. Head 1 level downstairs and speak to Orlando Smith to start the natural history quiz . Then, the idea is that you need to answer the questions correctly on all of the display cases on this floor. (Runelite highlights the correct answers by default) So you go around, clockwise or anti-clockwise, answering the questions for each display case. And once you've completed them all, you return to Orlando Smith and he rewards you with 1000 Hunter and Slayer experience, getting you straight to level 9 Hunter. Copper Longtails - 9-12 Next, you'll need a butterfly net, at least 3 Hunter potions, 2 bird snares, at least 2 butterfly jars, 4 stamina potions, and a teleport to Piscatoris. The easiest way there is with a Piscatoris teleport scroll which you can buy off the Grand Exchange. Alternatively, there are some other ways to get there which I’m showing on the map. Make your way to this part of piscatoris, near the western fence of the falconry, and set up a bird's snare in the darker patch on the map. Next, you wait a little while, until a bird is lured over. And you check the trap, then reset it, and wait again. You'll repeat this until level 12, which is going to take 5 to 10 minutes. Copper + Ruby (boosted) - 12-20 At level 12 Hunter, you can boost with a Hunter potion to catch Ruby Harvest butterflies. These almost triple your XP rate if you catch them while you hunt birds. The best location to do this is in the area shown, and here, there are a number of birds near butterfly spawns. I suggest using Runelite to tag the butterflies with the NPC indicators plugin. You hold shift and right click a butterfly and select tag all. Then once you’re ready, set up a bird snare, then take a sip of a Hunter potion, and a sip of a stamina potion, then click the closest butterfly to catch it. Once caught, you can hold shift and click on the butterfly jar to release the butterfly, and that only works if you have shift drop enabled. Then, you continue clicking butterflies, and repeat. You'll want to keep an eye on your bird snare as well, and reset it as soon as it's ready. This is the fastest way to train Hunter from level 12 to 20 and will take under 30 minutes to get there. Moss Lizards - 20-27/39 At level 20, moss lizards give the fastest XP. These are caught within the Moons of Peril, so you need to complete the Perilous Moons quest to hunt them. If you don’t have the stats for the quest, you should continue with Crimson Swift birds and Ruby Harvest butterflies until level 27. The Perilous Moons quest rewards you with a 5 thousand Hunter experience, which will get you from level 20 to 26 Hunter. So you really only have to do moss lizards from 26 to 27 Hunter to reach the next goal. However, moss lizards are actually on par with the next training methods until level 39. So you could continue with these until 39, but I'm including both pathways in this guide in case you don’t have the stats for Perilous moons. For moss lizards, you need just 1 rope, and stamina potions are handy, but if you’re an Ironman, there's a place to replenish run in the area. Make your way to perilous moons, so the fastest way there would be to teleport with a Calcified Moth. Alternatively, the Quetzal transport can take you to the entrance of Cam Torum, if you've built the landing site. Once you’re in Cam Torum, run all the way north to enter the Moons of Peril. When inside, take the northwestern pathway to enter the earthbound cavern, then follow your way around until you reach the moss lizards' hunter area. Once you’re here, you firstly set up the traps by clicking on each of the rocks. Then, you rustle the nearby bush to send off moss lizards into your traps. For the next time you set up the traps, you should follow the 1, 3 then 2, 4 pattern. Catching these is the fastest experience from when you unlock them, although the combat requirement of the quest may be too tough for some accounts. So otherwise, you should just stick to the previous method, birds and butterflies until level 27. Eagles Peak Quest 27-29 At 27 Hunter you can complete the Eagles Peak quest for 2.5k Hunter XP. This quest unlocks box trap hunting and is required for future methods on this pathway. It's a fairly short quest, and with the Hunter XP reward, you can go from level 27 to 29 which unlocks the next training method. I've linked slayermusiq's eagles peak quest guide for you to enjoy. Swamp Lizards 29-39 At 29, you unlock swamp lizards in Morytania. For these, you need to have completed the Priest in Peril quest. That’s a quest that almost every account should complete, so if you haven't done it yet, its worth doing just for the swamp lizards' hunter method. So, to catch swamp lizards, you'll need at least 3 ropes and small fishing nets. And also bring a bit of food if you’re a low level. A fast way to swamp lizards is by teleporting to Canafis and running south east. Alternatively the ALQ fairy ring is close by and you run south west. At level 29 Hunter, you can use 2 traps at a time, and the best location to do 2 traps is this area here. This is the order you should follow: You first set up both traps, then wait until a trap is triggered by a lizard. If you successfully catch the lizard, you just click the trap to get your Hunter XP and the lizard. If you fail to catch it, you'll need to pick up your rope and net from the ground, then click to reset the trap. At level 37 Hunter, you can boost to use 3 traps at a time with Hunter potions. So you should do this from 37 to 39 Hunter. Embertailed Jerboa 39-43 Once you reach level 39, you can catch Embertailed Jerboa. To access them, you need to complete the Children of the Sun quest to enter Varlamore. It's a short and easy quest with low requirements. To catch Jerboa, you need to use box traps, which require the Eagle's Peak quest. You can buy box traps off the Grand Exchange, or if you’re an Ironman, the Hunter shop in Yanille is easily accessible and sells them. So, to get started, bring at least 5 box traps, then make your way east of the Hunter guild. The fastest way there is with the AJP fairy ring, or you can also use a Varlamore teleport and then run south. You should bring a few extra box traps in case you go AFK. At level 39 you can only set up 2 traps at a time, but as soon as you reach level 40 you can set up 3. Without tick manipulation, you should turn off menu entry swapper to ensure that the "check" option on the box trap is the left click option. If you want more AFK experience, you can swap "check" with "reset", which checks your traps and sets up another one automatically, but at a slower rate. You can also use tick manipulation to set up box traps more quickly. At a low Hunter level though, you won't benefit as much from tick manipulation since your catch rate is slower. So, if you want to learn about 3ticking Hunter, I talk all about it in the black chinchompa's section. Falconry spotted kebbits 43-57 Once you reach level 43, you can partake in the falconry. For this, you'll just need at least 500 coins to be able to hire a falcon to use. The easiest way to the falconry is to use a piscatoris teleport scroll off the Grand Exchange and run south east. Alternatively you can use the AKQ fairy ring and run east. Once you're here, you firstly talk to Mattias near the entrance and ask if you can have a go with his bird. The idea of the falconry is you set your bird off to catch kebbits for you, and then you retrieve the bird to claim the Hunter experience. If you focus and play actively, you can get decent XP rates here for such a low Hunter level. So you'll start with targeting the spotted kebbits at level 43, and this is the best area to stand in for the fastest experience. It's handy to use Runelite at the falconry so that you can tag the right kebbits. Falconry dark kebbits 57-60 At level 57, you'll continue at the falconry, but you'll switch to dark kebbits for the fastest experience. The process is the same as spotted kebbits, except now this is the best area to stand in, since there's 2 kebbit spawns. Red Salamanders 60-67 At level 60 Hunter you should move onto Red salamanders. These are actually unlocked at level 59, but since you can only use 3 traps at 59, the falconry is faster, so you should wait until level 60 Hunter. To catch salamanders, you need small fishing nets and ropes, and again you should bring a few extra with you incase you lose some. I would recommend wearing Graceful because you'll be doing a fair bit of running around. Red salamanders are located near the Ourania Altar. An easy way there is to teleport to Castle Wars and run north. Or you can also use an Ourania teleport from the lunar spellbook, or there is a spirit tree close by. This is the best spot to catch them and at level 60 Hunter, you can use all 4 traps in this area. You should turn on Shift Drop to release the salamanders more easily after you catch them, and you should follow the same process as I mentioned for swamp lizards. You can also catch these with 4 traps at 57 Hunter, with a Hunter potion boost. Black Salamanders 67-73 At level 67, the fastest experience is with black salamanders. These are located in the Wilderness, so you should never bring any valuables with you while doing black salamanders, and hardcore ironmen should try an alternative method or birdhouse runs, which I’ll show soon. So, to get there, you can teleport with a Burning amulet, or a ring of dueling to Ferox. Alternatively a Carrallanger Teleport or the Wilderness Obelisks can take you close by. It's not a super popular PK area, mostly because PKers don’t usually get any loot here, but you will still need to keep an eye out for people just to save you from having to come back here and waste time. The process is the same as other salamanders. You firstly set up all of the traps, then wait until one catches one or gets dismantled. Then you check the trap or pick up the rope and net, then you click to reset the trap. Overall you can get up to 125k Hunter XP per hour here which is quite fast. 73-99 Black Chinchompas At level 73 Hunter, you unlock the fastest training method in the game, black chinchompas. You need the Eagle's Peak quest to be able to catch these since they're caught with box traps. These are located in the Wilderness and its pretty common for PKers to come here. The fastest way to them is with a Revenant Cave teleport scroll, which is under 300 coins on the Grand Exchange. Ironmen can get there from the Burning amulet, Lava Maze teleport, or the ring of dueling Ferox teleport. Black chinchompas are the fastest experience in the game normally but can be an even faster experience if you tick trap placement and kill stray chinchompas, you can get up to and over 250k Hunter XP per hour. You can set up your traps in most of the Hunter areas between the trees, but I prefer setting up traps in this area here. You can hunt these without 3 ticking, and it’s the same as Embertailed Jerboa where you can either check or reset the box traps. For the fastest experience, you should 3 tick trap placements. To 3 tick, you need items that can start a 3 tick cycle, and those options are all on the screen now. I recommend using herb and tar since you can bring grimy herbs with you incase you accidentally finish the action. So, to 3 tick, you should use menu entry swapper to set the left click option for box traps to "reset". Then you wait until a trap has caught a chinchompa and you go to reset it, and as soon as it disappears, so as soon as you’ve collected the chinchompas, you start the 3 tick action. Then your character will set up the trap faster than you normally would. So then you can click on the next box trap, and repeat the process. This also works when the box trap gets dismantled, so when you reset it, you can 3 tick to speed it up. Bringing a bow and arrows with you is useful for killing the stray chinchompas. If you have an alt account with membership, you can speed up your training even further so that you can kill while hunting. As soon as a chinchompa spawns, there's a chance that it will target one of your box traps. But if it doesn’t, you should kill the stray chinchompa so that it respawns nearby and has another chance of going into your box trap. A recap of the fastest pathway (taking 75 hours total) is above. Now on to the alternative methods which have their own benefits. Alternative Methods Tecu Salamander - 79-99 With Varlamore, came a great alternative Hunter method, Tecu Salamanders. These give around 150k Hunter XP per hour at 99 Hunter, and are unlocked at level 79. These are the XP rates you can expect from Tecu Salamanders. You get about 95k XP per hour with 4 traps, but as soon as you reach level 80 with 5 traps, it jumps to 110k XP per hour. To catch these, you only need the Children of the Sun quest to enter Varlamore. These require small fishing nets and ropes to catch since they’re salamanders. The fastest way there is to take the Quetzal transportation to Cam Torum, which requires the built landing site. Alternatively, you can take the Quetzal to the north, or you can just run west from the main city. These are the trap locations you should use. While hunting here, you mostly get immature Salamanders, but at a rare rate, you can get a Tecu Salamander, which you can use for combat or sell for a profit. They're a decent money maker at the moment since they're selling for over 200K each. Red Chinchompas - 80-99 At level 80 Hunter, once you can place 5 traps, Red Chinchompas become a fairly efficient Hunter training method, all the way to 99. Your XP rates with red chinchompas really depend on whether you use tick manipulation to reset your traps. You can get up to 195k XP per hour with tick manipulation or 140k XP per hour without. Red chinchompas are best hunted in Feldip hills. You can hunt in this region in the outer world, or you can use the private Hunting grounds with the Hard Western Provinces Diary. The entrance to this is located to the south in the Feldip hills. The fastest way to the Feldip hills is to use a Feldip hills teleport scroll off the Grand Exchange. Alternatively, you can use the AKS fairy ring, or there's a spirit tree in Feldip hills as well. Overall, Red Chinchompas are particularly useful for Ironmen, but still provide a fast way to train Hunter for regular accounts. Herbiboar 80-99 An excellent alternative method, which is far less click intensive, is hunting Herbiboar. This is done on Fossil Island so this requires the bone voyage quest, along with 80 Hunter. The XP rates at herbiboar are higher than red chinchompas but lower than black chinchompas. You can get up to 170k Hunter XP per hour here, at 99. To hunt Herbiboar, you don’t actually need any items, but magic secateurs will yield you an extra herb for every herbiboar you catch. A herb sack is very useful here, allowing you to store the herbs you get. By default on Runelite, there's a plugin called Herbiboar. This shows the starter objects and the trail, which makes this a lot easier. So to catch a herbiboar, you need to find a starter object and just click on it. Your player will search it and start a trail, which you can follow to search the next object. You continue searching objects until you reach the end of the trail, where a herbiboar will spawn. You can then click on the herbiboar to harvest herbs off its back. Overall, this is a less click-intensive, but it’ll be a fast way to train Hunter, and I would strongly recommend at least trying it on your journey to 99 Hunter. Aerial fishing - 35-99 If you're looking to train fishing as well as Hunter, aerial fishing is a decent option. This is done on Molch Island on Zeah, which has no requirements to access, except you do need 35 Hunter and 43 fishing to partake. Your XP rates reach up to 80k Hunter while getting 60k fishing at the same time. At lower levels, its still decent, giving 28k Hunter XP per hour when you unlock it. To get started with aerial fishing, talk to Alry the Angler On Molch Island. They give you a cormorant, a bird. You then need bait, and you can pick up king worms on Molch Island, then you can use a knife on the fish you catch to get more bait. You make your way to the edges of the island, and click on the fishing spots to send your bird out to catch fish. You repeatedly do this for consistent fishing and Hunter experience. Overall, aerial fishing is not the most efficient training method for Hunter, but it can be worth doing if you need to train fishing as well. Its also great for the rewards, or to switch up your training. Drift Net fishing - 44-99 Another alternative method is drift net fishing, and drift netting is a very efficient training method in terms of XP rates. You get up to 115k Hunter and 87k fishing XP per hour at 99. If you consider that you’re getting both of those at the same time, its actually the most efficient Hunter and fishing training method in the game. You need level 44 Hunter and 47 fishing to do drift net fishing, and its located underwater on Fossil Island, so you need Bone Voyage. You should also get the fishbowl helmet and diving apparatus from the Freeing Pirate Pete subquest of Recipe for Disaster . It's strongly recommended to bring flippers as well as any type of trident. You can also pay numulites to send your catches to the bank, so bring some numulite. For this method, you do need drift nets which you can buy off the Grand Exchange, or ironmen can make them with jute fibres. You use about 100 drift nets per hour here. There's an NPC in the area called Anette which you can store drift nets with. So if you’re just getting started, bring noted drift nets to give to her, then you can withdraw them for free while you train. So from the diving spot on Fossil Island, make your way north Into the drift net fishing area. Once inside, you can set up the two drift nets. Then, you click on the fish around the area to chase them into the drift nets. Once the net is full, you click it and can send the fish straight to the bank with numulite. This is the most efficient Hunter and fishing training method in the game, and you can see that from the huge amounts of XP that I’m getting. Overall, I recommend drift net fishing if you’re looking to efficiently max, but if you’re going for 99 Hunter the fastest, this is not your best option. AFK Methods There's only 2 viable Hunter training methods that can be considered AFK, and they are maniacal monkeys or pyre foxes. Pyre Fox - 51 - 99 Pyre foxes are unlocked at level 51 and are found on Varlamore, so you need the Children of the sun quest to access them. The AFK intervals at pyre foxes last around 20 to 40 seconds. The XP rates for these reaches only 40k XP per hour at 99 so I would only recommend foxes if you can't complete Monkey Madness 2 , because maniacal monkeys are a fair bit faster. Foxes are caught with deadfall traps, so you need logs and a knife to set one up. You should bring along an axe because there's trees nearby to get an infinite supply of logs. Pyre foxes are located near the Hunter guild. So the best way there is with a Quetzal whistle from Hunter rumours… alternatively you can take the Quetzal transport system there, or you can use the AJP fairy ring and run west.. So catching these is simple. You click to set up the trap, and you can only set up 1 trap at a time at all levels, then you wait until you catch a fox, and click it to get XP and then again to reset your trap. Maniacal Monkeys - 60 - 99 So at level 60 Hunter, you unlock the best AFK Hunter method in the game, maniacal monkeys. As mentioned, these require Monkey Madness 2 to catch. Maniacal monkeys provide 50k XP per hour when you unlock them, and it scales to over 100k XP per hour at higher levels. To catch maniacal monkeys, you need bananas and there's a few ways to obtain them. As a main account, you can buy baskets of bananas off the Grand Exchange, and you can bring an inventory of those for the most AFK training. You can also bring along bones to bananas, the spell, or the tablets, and since there are bones scattered around the area, you can pick these up for an unlimited banana source. As an Ironman, I would recommend just doing bones to bananas . Also for maniacal monkeys, you need a Kruk monkey greegree, which you get during Money Madness 2, although if you’ve lost it, you can easily get one back from the quest NPC. So to get to maniacal monkeys, you make your way to a gnome glider, and the easiest way to one is using a royal seed pod teleport and going to the top of the Grand Tree. Take the glider to ape a toll. Then run to the hidden trapdoor in the trees. From the ladder, run north To the monkey bars, and here, you'll need to equip the Kruk monkey greegree to go across. Then run further north And go into the crevice In the wall. Now you're at the maniacal monkey Hunter area. If there's another player here, I would recommend hopping worlds since you get the maximum XP if you're training here alone. Then run to the loading bays and mount a gorilla, and you need to be on a gorilla to be able to hunt here. Next, you click on a boulder to set up a trap with a banana. Then, you can go AFK for 30 seconds to a minute, and then you click the trap to check it, and click it again to reset it, then you can go AFK again. Take note, if you’re using bones to bananas, you do have to run outside of the arena to cast the spell since your spellbook is hidden when you're wearing a greegree. Birdhouse Runs Birdhouse runs are a time-based Hunter training method, where every 50 minutes you can set up bird houses to collect birds nests and Hunter experience. Birdhouse runs are great for people that enjoy routine based methods, and these give fairly competitive XP rates if you convert it to an hourly rate. BUT that’s only if you do really fast birdhouse runs, and quickly return to what you were doing previously. You can see that if you do 1 minute 30 runs, your XP rates are quite high when they’re hourly. This is how you do a birdhouse run: You'll need 4 birdhouses which you can buy off the Grand Exchange, or you can make one with clockwork and logs. You'll also need some seeds, and I recommend hops, flower or allotment seeds, you'll need 10 Per birdhouse. So then you make your way to Fossil Island, and I would suggest teleporting to Fossil Island With a Digsite pendant. Then take the Mushroom Teleport System to the verdant valley, and click on the birdhouse Hunter spot. Then you Use seeds on it to set it up fully. Then you click on the second spot in verdant Valley and do the same thing. Then using the Mushtree teleport system, teleport to mushroom meadow And go to the birdhouse spot to the north. Then once you’ve done that you run down south towards the swamp to the final birdhouse. Then you can teleport out and get back to whatever you were doing. Hunter Rumours With the release of Varlamore, Jagex introduced Hunter rumours. These are sort of like contracts, where you're assigned a monster to hunt. To do rumours, you need access to the Hunter guild which requires 46 Hunter and the " At first light " Quest acts as an introduction to the Hunters guild.. There are 4 tiers of rumours ranging from level 46 To 91, each giving a different amount of experience and reward value at the end. From rumours, the rewards include the new guild Hunter outfit, which increases your chances of catching a Hunter monster, effectively increasing your Hunter XP rates. You can get the Quetzal whistles from rumours, which are teleports players to the Hunter guild. There's also the Quetzal pet, which is a very rare reward from rumours. Overall, Hunter rumours provide very competitive XP rates if you do them efficiently, and they’re a great way to train if you don’t like doing the same Hunter method over and over again. Rumours allow you to experience a range of different Hunter techniques and monsters around the game. So this is a run through of completing a rumour: You start off by going downstairs in the Hunter's guild and speaking to a guild Hunter for a rumour. I then head to the bank upstairs to get the required teleport and items for hunting. Then I make my way to Tecu Salamanders which are my Hunter task, and then I catch these until I received the salamander claw , which is the unique item needed to complete the Hunter rumour. Then I head back to the Hunter's Guild and return to the Guild Hunter Wolf (Master) to complete it, and I’m rewarded with a Hunters loot sack reward. You can block certain rumours by getting the monster assigned by a lower level guild master which is key to getting the best XP rates. Ironman Hunter As an Ironman, training Hunter is similar to training it on a main account. You can follow the fastest pathway that I showed in this video, except there are a few key differences. Chinchompas are great to have on an Ironman for both bossing and training, so consider prioritizing training at red or black chinchompas. Herbiboar is also excellent on an Ironman, for the source of herbs and decent Hunter experience. Hardcore Ironmen should avoid doing Black Salamanders and Black Chinchompas obviously because of the Wilderness, so Red Chinchompas or Tecu Salamanders are an inviting option for Hardcores. Anyway, that’s my updated level 1 to 99 Hunter guide for Old School. If you missed something, use the content guide at the top of the page to navigate through every step of 1-99 Hunting.

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What’s going on guys! My name is Theoatrix , and welcome to my level 1–99 Construction Guide for OSRS . Guide Contents Why Train Construction? Your Path to 99 Low Level Training Oak Larders (Lvl 33+) Mounted Mythical (Lvl 50+) Mahogany Table (Lvl 52+) Teak Benches (Lvl 66+) Oak Doors (Lvl 74+) Gnome Benches (Lvl 77+) Mahogany Homes Maxing Your House Ironman Tips If you'd prefer to watch a video version of this guide, you can watch that below. Otherwise you can continue down the page to read the written guide. Why Train Construction? With the Construction Skill, you build and upgrade your player-owned house As you level up, you implement teleport facilities, regeneration pools, spellbook altars, and more… All extremely useful features for your account. With 83 construction, you can boost to create a maxed house. Recently, Jagex improved player-owned house loading times, so you can now benefit from all of these rooms without impacting the loading time Construction is one of the fastest 99s in the game, taking as little as 16 hours for level 99 with mahogany planks. However, Construction is an expensive and click-intensive skill. With the release of Mahogany Homes, Jagex has lowered the cost and intensity of Construction You can now get 99 Construction for as little as 30 mil using Novice Contracts. The Construction Skillcape has one of the best perks in the game, providing unlimited teleports to your player-owned house. Your Path to 99 With leveling your Construction, there are 2 methods at your disposal, Traditional Training or Mahogany Homes. Traditional training involves building and removing furniture inside your player-owned house repeatedly. With Mahogany Homes, you repair furniture in various houses across the Runescape map. In short, traditional training is faster XP per hour, more expensive, and more click intensive, whereas Mahogany Homes are slower but less expensive and click intensive. You can see from the XP rates on the screen, that traditional methods are considerably faster than Mahogany Homes, but also cost quite a lot more. In this guide, I'll show you each of the traditional training methods, and I'll explain mahogany homes afterward. This is how much it currently costs to reach level 83 construction and max hour house. Getting to level 83 allows you to boost with spices and a crystal saw to create everything you need except for the fully upgraded Portal Nexus.. if you want the Nexus, you should go for 84. It's going to cost anywhere from 6 mil to 41 mil to get from level 1 to 83, and on top of that, you'll need 15 mil to buy the materials needed to upgrade your house. With the release of this article, I made a Construction Calculator on theoatrix.net which shows the gp per XP of every method, along with the cost of 83 and 99. Low Level Training At a low construction level, your options are still either traditional training or mahogany homes. From level 1, you can complete the Daddy's Home mini-quest to reach level 8 construction, and it also acts as an introduction to Mahogany Homes and gives you a player-owned house. For Daddy's home, the items you need are on the screen now, plus the recommended teleports. For Daddy's home, the items you need are on the screen now, plus the recommended teleports. If you want to do mahogany homes for your low-level training, you should skip to the mahogany homes section of this guide. Although, I would suggest traditional training at a low level since it's much faster. For traditional training, your first goal is to reach level 33 construction for oak larders. On the screen is all of the furniture you'll need to build and remove in your player-owned house to reach level 33. In total, it takes around 20 minutes to reach the goal, and costs around 180k including the cost to build rooms in your house. To reach level 33, you'll need a teleport to Falador, a teleport to house, 94 Planks, 270 Oak planks, 200 steel nails, and 30K coins. Have all of those planks noted in your inventory, and use the Falador teleport. From the Falador teleport spot, run east to the estate agent and ask how can I get a house then purchase a starter house in Rimmington for 1k. Then right-click your teleport to house, and teleport outside the portal. Head over to the nearby general store and use your noted regular planks on Phials, then select "All". Then, right-click the purple house portal and select building mode to enter your own house in building mode. To build furniture, you right-click the white furniture spots, and then you can select what you want to build. Once you’ve built it, you right-click it and remove it so you can build another for more XP. You start by building crude wooden chairs. Followed by wooden bookcases. Next, you need to get more planks, you exit your house, run to the nearby general store, and un-note at Phials. At level 9, you need to build a kitchen room. To do this, you right-click a door hotspot to create a room. From there, you can follow the rest of the pathway shown to reach level 33. You'll need to build a workshop room and a dining room when you get to the level and continue unnoting at Phials. Oak Larders So now that you're level 33, oak larders become the best traditional training method. Oak larders are done until you unlock your main method, so this could be anywhere from level 50 to level 74. On the screen right now is how many oak planks you need to reach each method. While you are training, I suggest playing on resizable mode. This way, you can right-click and left-click in the same spot by putting the construction object in the bottom part of your screen. On Runelite, you can set up guides with the screen marker plugin. You press the plus in the top right, then draw boxes where you'll be clicking. You should also be using your keyboard to go through the menus, by pressing the numbers., this greatly speeds up your XP rates, and you can use your keyboard in the construction building menu, talk to your butler, and with removing furniture. From levels 33 to 40, you'll be unnoting planks at Phials but at level 40, you can hire a butler to bring items from the bank. You can get a servant from level 20 construction, but the servants below the human butler are too slow and you're better off unnoting your planks at the exchange merchant. So once you reach level 40 construction, to get a servant, you first need to create 2 bedrooms in your house, and you need to build a bed in each of the rooms. Once you’ve done that, head over to Ardougne and go to the servants guild which is in the northeast corner. Then speak to the human butler to hire him. At level 50, you can get the demon butler, which is even faster, and you should fire the human butler and go and hire the demon butler once you unlock it. To use a servant, you talk to them and ask them to bring items from the bank. You then ask for as many as possible, and the servant will disappear off to the bank. It then returns with your planks, and for maximum efficiency, you should train while the servant is away. Every 8 trips to the bank, the servant asks for payment which requires coins in your inventory. At level 58 construction, you can build a servant's moneybag in your player-owned house. This holds cash and automatically deducts when your servant requires payment. This speeds up your training since you don’t need to go through any dialog to pay the servant. At level 47 construction, you can build mounted mythical capes in a quest hall room in your house. Mounted Mythical Capes This requires Dragon Slayer 2, which has a level 50 construction requirement, so the level needed to do mounted mythical capes is 50. These are the cheapest traditional construction methods since you get more XP per plank than regular training. The method is similar to oak larders. You first need to build a quest hall room in your house for 25k. Then, you find your servant and send them off to the bank to retrieve teak planks. Then select Build on the guild trophy Construction space, and select to build a mounted mythical cape. It uses 3 planks plus a mythical cape, and then once you remove it, you get the mythical cape back. Since mythical capes use fewer planks than the other methods, you can get away with using a human butler, which saves you money in the long run. Overall, getting to 99 is going to cost 86 mil The fastest viable construction experience in the game is done by constructing mahogany furniture. Mahogany Tables (Lvl 52+) At level 52 you can start making mahogany dining tables where you can get up to 900k XP per hour. To build these, you need a kitchen room in your house. With mahogany tables, you should use a demon butler for the best XP rates since they use 8 planks per table. With this method, you can once again set it up so that you are right and left-clicking in the same spot, with the construction object at the bottom of your screen. At level 77, you unlock gnome benches, which are a faster experience with mahogany planks, and I'll talk about benches shortly. Overall, getting to 99 with mahogany planks is going to cost around 200 mil. Teak Benches (Lvl 66+) A slightly cheaper but slower option compared to mahogany is using teak planks. The fastest teak method is building teak garden benches in a superior garden room, and these are unlocked at level 66. With these, you need a superior garden room in your house, which costs 75k. Since there are 2 benches right next to each other, as you're removing one of the benches, you can open up the build menu for the other bench at the same time. This gives a slightly faster experience overall. You can also set it up so that both benches are in the bottom region of your screen, allowing you to easily right-click left-click to build and remove. Overall, 99 is going to cost around 118 mil. Oak Dungeon Doors (Lvl 74+) At 74 construction, you can build oak dungeon doors in a dungeon room, which are slower than teak benches, but less expensive. Oak dungeon doors use 10 planks instead of 8, so they're slightly faster than oak larders. The method is much the same as the others First need to build a dungeon room in your house, so to do that, you can build a dungeon entrance in a regular garden room. Then at the door space in the dungeon, you can build oak doors, and since they use 10 planks, you'll want to use a demon butler and ask him to bring 20 planks from the bank. Currently, it costs around 98 mil to get to 99 with oak dungeon doors. Gnome Benches (Lvl 77+) At level 77, you can build gnome benches in a superior garden, and these use the same amount of mahogany planks as dining tables, but there are 2 benches right next to each other as I mentioned in the teak benches section. For these, you'll need a superior garden room and a demon butler. You start by building one of the benches, then as you go to remove it, you hold 1 and select build on the other bench so that your character removes a bench while the next menu is open. Doing this nets you up to 1.1 mil XP per hour, and is the fastest viable construction method in the game. That's all of the traditional methods you should do for 99 Construction, Here is a recap of them on the screen with their cost and time to 99. On your journey to 99 construction, you may consider Mahogany Homes as your training method. This involves repairing objects in houses across the Runescape map. Mahogany Homes As a whole, Mahogany Homes has slower XP per hour when compared to traditional methods, although they are cheaper and less click-intensive. There are 4 levels to Mahogany Homes with varying XP rates and costs. The most viable is Adept contracts which give over 100k XP per hour and cost 37 mil for 99. Aside from construction XP, you can get the construction outfit from Mahogany Homes which gives a 2.5% XP boost with the full set. To do Mahogany Homes, you need to be a homeowner and you can get a home from the Daddy's Home mini-quest or you can buy one for 1k from any estate agent. These are the items you need. You'll want teleports to Falador, Varrock, Ardougne, and Hosidius, as well as a saw and a hammer. You'll need planks and steel bars, approximately 1 steel bar for every 10 planks. You should wear graceful while doing this activity, and the plank sack which is rewarded from mahogany homes will increase your XP rates. To get started, you speak to Amy in Falador, next to the estate agent, to get a contract. You can choose the difficulty, and then you travel to the house you’ve been assigned. You go into the house and repair each piece of furniture with planks and steel bars, then speak to the homeowner to get additional construction XP and a cup of tea, which restores your run energy to full. After your first contract from Amy, you can then speak to one of 4 NPCs to get a new contract, located in Falador, Varrock, Ardougne, and Hosidius. Amy in Falador is the most easily accessed at a low level. Although Higher-level players can use the NPC Contact spell in the Lunar Spellbook to get new contracts. Overall, mahogany homes are a more relaxed way to train Construction but as a main account, I would recommend doing the traditional construction training methods since they are so much faster. For many players, the main goal with construction is to max their house. It currently costs about 15 mil to max your house although you'll spend quite a bit getting your construction high enough for all of the upgrades. Maxing Your House To max your house, you need to reach level 83 construction, or you can go for level 84 if you want the fully upgraded portal nexus. This is how much it costs right now to get to 83 construction, and you can see that it's a lot less costly when compared to getting to 99. The traditional methods are quite expensive when compared to mahogany homes, but the XP rates are considerably faster. For a maxed house, there are some quest requirements. You need access to all spellbooks, fairy rings, the crystal saw, spicy stews, and the Digsite pendant. You also need to complete the quests for each teleport if you want to add them to your portal room. If you want to max your house, you should check out my complete Max House Guide . It covers all of the furniture you need and shows an efficient house layout. As an ironman, getting planks is where you'll spend most of your time rather than training Construction. Because planks take a while to get, mahogany homes are an inviting option since they give more XP per plank. Ironman Tips The best method to obtain planks is by getting teak and mahogany logs from Miscellania, and then turning them into planks at a sawmill or with a butler. There are a few different methods to convert logs into planks, the fastest way to do it is by teleporting to your house with an inventory of logs, then asking the butler to take them to the sawmill, and then teleporting to a bank, and repeat. The butler automatically banks the planks Recently, Jagex added sawmill vouchers as a reward from forestry, which halves the cost of using a sawmill. Overall, if you want to save money, and need to train Woodcutting, sawmill vouchers aren't a bad option. At a low construction level, you can get regular planks from behind Barbarian Assault. Also, Tempoross is a decent way to get noted planks. At a high combat level, you can get a lot of plank drops from places like Zulrah, Raids, and Callisto. Thanks for reading my 1 – 99 Construction Guide . 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What’s going on guys! My name's Theoatrix , and welcome to my updated level 1–99 Melee Combat Training Guide. GUIDE CONTENTS Why Train Melee? How Melee Works Weapon Progression Armour Progression Pathways to 99 Low Level Training Questing (Low Level) Regular Training (Low Level) Fastest Pathway Nightmare Zone Guide Fastest Methods in OSRS AFK Pathway Slayer Pathway Bossing With Melee F2P Methods If you'd prefer to watch a video version of this guide, you can watch that below. Otherwise you can continue down the page to read the written guide. Why Train Melee? High combat stats give access to a wide variety of content for your account. Training your melee lets you defeat a number of bosses.. Also, all 3 raids in Old School require melee. In PvP, there's a range of powerful melee weapons with strong special attacks, like the Dragon Claws, the Armadyl Godsword or the Voidwaker. With the highest strength bonus setup in the game, the max hit in PvP is now 87 with an Armadyl Godsword. 12 quests in Old School have a melee requirement. I've broken these down into attack, strength and defence. Lunar Diplomacy is an essential one for mains, along with King's Ransom for piety. For the Quest cape, you need 50 attack, 50 strength and 65 defence, although, you will need higher combat stats to defeat the bosses in the quests. For the Achievement Diary cape, you need 50 attack, 76 strength and 70 defence, as well as level 100 combat. How Melee Works Now I'm going to go over how melee melee works. Increasing your attack level increases your accuracy, and also allows you to wear better weaponry. For example, at level 1 attack, using a Bronze Sword, your accuracy is 48%. Whereas at level 99 attack, your accuracy becomes 96%. Your attack bonus, which can be found in the equipment stats interface, mainly comes from your weapon, but can also come from your armour, jewellery and defenders. Increasing your attack bonus increases your accuracy. With 50 attack and an attack bonus of 10, your accuracy is 92%. But if your attack bonus is 100, your accuracy is 97%. Increasing your strength level increases your max hit, and can also unlock some weaponry. With a Bronze Sword, at level 1 strength, your max hit is 1. At level 99 strength, your max hit becomes 12. Your strength bonus mostly comes from your weapon, but can also come from other equipment. Having a higher strength bonus increases your max hit. With 50 strength and a strength bonus of 10, your max hit is 7. If your strength bonus is 100, your max hit becomes 15. Increasing your defence level decreases the accuracy of the enemy. Your defence level does not affect the max hit of the enemy, only the accuracy. For example, if you had level 1 defence, and General Graardor used a melee attack on you, his accuracy would be 99%. With 99 defence and the same gear, Graardor's accuracy becomes 91%. Your defence level is somewhat amplified by your defence bonus. Having a high defence level won't do much unless you have a high defence bonus as well. Your defence bonus mostly comes from armour and jewellery, and having a higher defence bonus also decreases the accuracy of the enemy. Using General Graardor as an example again, if you have level 99 defence, wearing no armour, Graardor's accuracy is 91% with melee. Although, if you wear full Torva, Graardor's accuracy goes down to 53%. Weapon Progression Now let's get into weaponry. I've broken these down into 3 categories, level 1 to 60 attack and strength weapons, level 60 to 99 attack training weapons, then level 60 to 99 strength training weapons. For training defence, you should use the best attack training weapon you can. The weapons go from best on the left, to worst on the right, within each box. In the low-level bracket, the Dragon Warhammer is the best weapon to use at 1 attack, although it does have a 60 strength requirement to wear. So, the best in slot at level 1 is the Swift Blade or the Ham Joint. At levels 5 to 30, the highest level scimitar you can use will be your best option. At level 40, the Brine Sabre is better than the Rune Scimitar, and then at level 50, you unlock the Granite Hammer and Leaf Bladed Weaponry. For training attack, these are the best weapons to use. At level 60, you can use Obsidian weapons, and when paired with the Obsidian Armour set, it gives the highest DPS at level 60. At 65, you unlock the Sarachnis Cudgel which is not as good as the Obsidian set, but is an upgrade from the Dragon Scimitar. At level 70, The Abyssal Whip is best for attack xp followed by the Bludgeon and Dagger. At 75 attack, you can wear the Abyssal Tentacle, which gives the highest DPS but does degrade. At 80, the Ghrazi Rapier, Inquisitors Mace and Blade of Saeldor are equally your best option, although each have different attack styles. At 82 you unlock the the Osmumten's Fang, although is only the best option when the monster has a high defence level. If the monster has low defence, you should use the Rapier, Mace, or Blade. But, the Fang is a lot cheaper than the Rapier, Mace or Blade, so you should get the Fang if you don’t have those other weapons. For training strength, these are the best weapons. At levels 60 and 65, the weapons are the same as the attack training weapons. However, at level 70, the Abyssal Bludgeon is the best to use for strength training, followed by the Zamorakian Hasta. At level 75, the Blessed Saradomin sword is about as good as the Abyssal Bludgeon, although it degrades. At 80, the Rapier, Mace and Blade are all the best options, then at level 82 you unlock the Osmumten's Fang, which is only good against high defence monsters. Armour Progression Now let’s go through armour progression. With melee, you should prioritize strength bonus when choosing armour and jewellery. Attack bonus is useful, but strength bonus is priority. I'll also be talking about prayer bonus and magic defence gear later on. From levels 1 to 30 defence, you should just use the best metal armour set you can, ranging from iron through to adamant. From there, here are the best armour pieces to wear…. Going from left to right, these are the best to worst in slot items for the head slot. The Fremennik Trials and Isles quests for the Berzerker helm and helm of Neitiznot, are both vital steps in upgrading your gear. With 30 defence and 70 strength, you can wear Inquisitors, which gives a decent strength bonus, but should only be worn if you're using a crush weapon. On a main account, you don’t need to complete the Fremennik Exiles to make and wear the faceguard, that’s only for ironmen. In the body slot, these are the best items. At level 40, you can wear the Fighter Torso from Barbarian Assault. It gives the same strength bonus as a Bandos Chestplate but its free, so its highly recommended to get one. Alternatively, you can just get an Obsidian Body if you cannot be bothered getting a Fighter Torso or do not have enough money for a Bandos Chestplate. In the leg slot, you can wear the Fremennik Kilt at any defence level for a +1 strength bonus, but that’s currently over 2 mil on the Grand Exchange, so you can just wear Rune Platelegs or Granite Platelegs when you unlock them. At level 60, you can wear Obsidian Platelegs, which are cheaper than a Fremennik Kilt and give better defensive bonuses. The best in slot is Torva, giving a +4 Strength bonus. With a combined attack and strength level of 130, you can enter The Warrior’s Guild to get defenders. You should do this as soon as you reach 130 since defenders give high attack and strength bonuses. Alternatively, you can wear a Dragonfire Shield or an Obsidian Shield for a small strength bonus, or you can wear the Book of War from horror from the deep also for a small strength bonus. In the ring slot, the new Desert Treasure 2 rings are the best in slot, but they’re very expensive so the best for a lower price is an imbued Berzerker Ring, which you can imbue at Soul Wars, the PVP arena or the Nightmare Zone. Alternatively, a Warrior Ring is a decent option if you’re using slash. In your cape slot, the Infernal Cape is the best in slot, followed by the Fire Cape, Mythical Cape, a Skillcape and then the Obsidian Cape. In the boot slot, at a lower level you can just wear the best metal boots you can, but I would recommend wearing Climbing boots for the +2 strength bonus. Guardian boots give prayer bonus and have high defence bonuses, and Granite boots are fairly cheap for a +3 strength bonus. Spiked Manacles are best in slot for pures as they have no defence requirement, but are expensive. In the necklace slot, the best in slot is an Amulet of Torture, which currently costs about 10 mil. The next best amulets are the Fury, Glory and Amulet of Strength. In some cases with melee, you're going to want to wear armour that gives a high prayer bonus. Proselyte is the best in slot, requiring Slug Menace , followed by Zealots Robes from The Shades of Mort’ton minigame. Vestment robes are decent low-priced option, but if you don’t have the requirements for any of those, you can just wear Monk's robes. Particularly while you’re slaying or bossing, you'll sometimes need to wear magical defence armour. The best in slot for magical defence is Fortified Masori, but that’s pretty expensive, so your next best option is Karil's. Below Karil's you can wear Void for magical defence, but alternatively you should just use the best Dragonhide Armour you can wear. You should avoid using Armadyl for magic defence while using melee, because Armadyl gives negative melee attack bonuses. Pathways to 99 Now lets move onto your pathways to 99. I’m going to start off by showing 2 low level routes, questing and regular training. I’ll then show 3 pathways to 99, and I'm showing the time it takes to get max melee for each pathway, so all three 99s, attack, strength and defence. I’ll start by showing the Fastest Pathway to 99 in the melee stats, where you can get up to 400k xp per hour with alt accounts, or 200k xp per hour solo. On the AFK Pathway that I’m showing, you can get 99 attack, strength and defence in 350 hours at the Nightmare Zone, or 500 hours at Bandits. After the AFK pathway, I’ll talk about slayer which is going to get you 99 in all 3 combat stats in approximately 600 hours. Then I’ll talk about bossing with melee, and I’ll finish off by talking about Free to Play methods. Low Level Training Questing (Low Level) So, as a low level player, your best option for combat training is questing. You can complete the Waterfall quest with no requirements to get from level 1 to 30 attack and strength. The quest takes 10 to 20 minutes, whereas training from 1 to 30 attack and strength normally is going to take a couple of hours. After the Waterfall quest , there's some additional quests you can do that have low requirements. Doing the quests on the screen, plus the Waterfall quest , will get you to level 45 attack, 36 strength and 31 defence. If you don't feel like questing, then you can train melee the regular way. Regular Training (Low Level) At level 1 attack and strength, you have 40% higher DPS against cows over sand crabs. So, you should train your low levels at cows with an Iron Scimitar. Above level 10, you can train AFK at any type of crab. Crabs have low defence, and high hitpoints, making them a great target for low level training. There's 4 types of crabs in old school, Rock, Sand, Swamp And Ammonite. They all have similar stats, but the most common ones for training at a low level are sand crabs. There's a number of locations to find sand crabs in old school, mostly along the south eastern coast of Zeah. To train, you just need to find a location with 2 or 3 sand rocks on the ground, and you stand near them to spawn the crabs. After 10 minutes, the crabs stop being aggressive. So, to reset, you run out of view, about 30 tiles away, and then run back. If you find that those standard sand crab locations are too busy, you can complete the Depths of Despair Quest to access the crabs in the Crabclaw Caves. Or, you could pay 10K to go to Crabclaw Isle, which is usually less populated. Now lets move onto the fastest pathway to 99. Fastest Pathway This is what the entire pathway looks like. You start off questing and then training at Sand crabs until level 50. Then the Nightmare Zone becomes the fastest experience with overloads and powerups. You can train at the Nightmare Zone all the way to 99 with either Obsidian or Dharok's, but the fastest XP in the game comes from using alt accounts to transfer special attack energy, while using the Dinh's Bulwark special attack. Without alt accounts, your fastest method is Pest Control with Combat Achievements completed for the extra points. Another method I’ll talk about is chinning on defensive mode, which is the fastest defence experience in the game without alts. So, from level 1, the fastest way to gain experience is Questing , by at least doing the Waterfall quest . I just talked about questing in the low-level section, so if you want to learn more, skip back to that section. From level 30 to 50, the fastest experience you'll get is attacking monsters constantly, and crabs are perfect for that because of their high hit points, low defence and AFK time. I also talked about crabs in the low-level section, so skip back to that to hear more. If you’re going for the fastest experience though, you should be using stat boosting prayers with prayer potions, as well as divine super combat potions. Nightmare Zone Guide At level 50 attack and strength, you should head to the Nightmare Zone for the best experience. The Nightmare Zone is the fastest because… You can use Overloads for a higher boost than Super potions, And you can use powerups, particularly Power Surge, which constantly regenerates your special attack. To take part in the Nightmare Zone, you need to have completed at least 5 quests with applicable bosses. These are the quests and subsequent bosses that you should aim to complete to train melee in the Nightmare Zone. If it’s your first time at the Nightmare Zone, you'll need to earn some points to use Absorptions and Overloads. To start off with, you should select bosses that use melee and use protect from melee with Prayer Potions until you have enough points. You should also activate the recurrent Damage, Zapper and Power Surge powerups when they appear. To get the most out of your Nightmare Zone trips, you should also unlock the Dwarven rock cake or the Locator Orb. The rock cake is far easier to get, only requiring the freeing the Mountain Dwarf part of Recipe for Disaster. These items are useful in the Nightmare Zone because they prolong your Absorption potions. Every dose of an Absorption potion absorbs 50 incoming damage from enemies. If you lower your health down to 1 with a rock cake or locator orb, you'll only be hit a maximum of 1 by enemies, so your absorption will only go down by 1. At level 50 in the combat stats, you should set your dream to a Customized Normal Rumble. This is because Hard Mode monsters have a high defence level, and should only be fought above level 70 in attack and strength. To enter the Nightmare Zone, you firstly need to start a dream by talking to Dominic, and select the type of rumble you want. Before you can enter, you need to have coins in the coffer nearby. To deposit, click on the coffer and select deposit. You’ll also want to withdraw some overloads and absorption potions from the barrels. Then, to select the bosses on your customized dream, click on the potion. Then select the relevant melee training bosses, and when you're ready select accept. Once you’re inside, if you’re overloading, you should sip that first. Then, you can use your rock cake or locator orb to lower yourself down to 1 hitpoints, but don’t do it too quickly because you can die from the overload damage. Once you’re at 1, you can drink a bunch of absorption potions. Now you are ready to fight, so you can make your way to the center of the arena or if you have the Ice Troll or Dad Boss activated, you should stand in a corner. You attack the bosses while keeping an eye out for a yellow powerup, which is called Power Surge, and it’s the one that constantly regenerates your special attack With 50 in the combat stats, you should use a Granite Maul as your special attack weapon, paired with a Granite Hammer as your main weapon, if you can afford it. With 60 defence, you can wear Obsidian Armour, and wearing the helmet, body and legs together gives a 10% accuracy and damage boost with obsidian weapons. You can also wear a Berzerker Necklace for a 20% damage boost with obsidian weapons. With the full set plus the Berzerker Necklace, you can use an obsidian sword to get up to 100k xp per hour in the nightmare zone, provided you’re still using the Power Surge powerups. At 60 attack you can wear the Dragon Claws, which become your best special attack weapon. Paired with an Ornate Granite Maul, you can use your whole special attack bar in one tick, and it fully regenerates by your next attack. With 70 attack, strength and defence, you can wear the full Dharok's set, which provides the fastest experience within the nightmare zone. But, Dharok's is only viable if you have above level 90 hitpoints, because the extra damage is higher with a higher hitpoints. With Dharok's you can hit high damage, and paired with the Power Surge powerup with Dragon Claws, you can get up to 170k xp per hour at high levels. In the Nightmare Zone, you can also boost your xp rates by using Piety. So, bring some prayer potions if you’re going for the fastest experience. It costs money to use the Nightmare Zone - but you can easily recoup that money by purchasing herb boxes from the rewards chest. Each day, you can buy 15 herb boxes which have an average value of 190k in herbs. Fastest Methods in OSRS At level 75 attack and defence, you unlock the fastest melee method in the game. This is done using the Dinh's Bulwark. It has a special attack that hits up to 10 enemies in an 11 by 11 area, with 20% increased accuracy. Pairing this with the energy transfer lunar spell, you can use alt accounts or have your friends constantly regenerate your special attack. The best place to do this is at Nechryaels in the catacombs of Kourend since there’s a lot of monsters, and its easily accessible. So, the alt accounts will be using energy transfer, then teleporting to house, regenerating their special attack, and then teleporting back to the catacombs to use energy transfer again. With 3 alt accounts, you can get up to 420k xp per hour with high combat stats. At level 100 combat, Pest Control becomes the fastest solo melee training method. A couple of years ago, Jagex added Combat Achievements… and one of the rewards for completing Combat Achievements is increased points from Pest Control. You now get 8 points per game with the Hard Combat Achievements in the high-level boat. With that, you can get up to 240 points per hour, and you can convert points into combat experience at the Rewards shop. 240 points is going to give you 145k combat experience at level 99, which means in total, you can get up to 200k xp per hour. At lower levels though, you’re going to see slower xp rates. At level 75, 240 points will get you 82k xp, totaling around 120 to 130k xp per hour, which is still the fastest solo xp in the game at that level. The final method in the Fastest Pathway is chinning on defensive mode. With Black Chinchompas and 99 Ranged, you can get up to 350k defence xp per hour. At the same time, you will be getting 350k Ranged xp and 250k Hitpoints xp. This makes chinning on defensive mode the fastest defence xp in the game without alt accounts. AFK Pathway Now it’s time for the AFK pathway… On this pathway, you will start off training at crabs for your early experience. And then at level 50, the Nightmare Zone becomes a viable AFK training spot. Bandits are another decent AFK option at around 70 in the combat stats, and Slayer can be an AFK method as well. So, from level 1 to 50, your best AFK xp is going to come from crabs, where you can AFK for up to 10 minutes at a time. I talked about crabs in the low-level section of this guide, so if you want to learn more about crabs, skip back to the low-level section. At level 50 attack and strength, the Nightmare Zone becomes one of your best AFK options. In the Nightmare Zone, you can AFK for up to 20 minutes at a time depending on what setup you’re using. If you’re using overloads and absorption potions, you can AFK for 5 minutes at a time before you need to re-overload. If you only use absorption potions, you could AFK for about 10 minutes before you should drop your health with the rock cake or locator orb, and drink more absorptions. If you’re using protection prayers in the Nightmare Zone, you can AFK for about 5 minutes at a time depending on your prayer bonus and level. But, to get the most AFK time in the Nightmare Zone, you can use the full Guthans setup to automatically heal yourself, allowing you to AFK for 20 minutes at a time. Within the Nightmare Zone, you should do Normal Rumbles at level 50 until around level 75, where you should swap to Hard Rumbles . To learn more about the Nightmare Zone, skip back to the Fastest Pathway . There I talk about what quests you should do and some more useful tips. At level 70 in the combat stats, bandits become a viable AFK training method. At bandits, you can AFK for up to 20 minutes if you have a Saradomin or Zamorak item equipped. With 70 defence and full Torag's, you can AFK at bandits for up to 10 minutes before you should eat food to heal up. In the general store nearby, you can find tiles who un-notes items, so you can bring along noted food to stay here forever. Using Protect from Melee is another popular option at bandits. With 80 Prayer and full Proselyte, Protect from Melee is going to last 6 minutes and 24 seconds. You can also bring noted prayer potions and un-note them at tiles. Although, Guthans gives the longest AFK times at bandits, allowing you to AFK for 20 minutes at a time. Bandits are located at bandit camp in the desert. You're immune from the desert heat while you’re inside bandit camp so you don’t need waterskins. To get there, you can take a magic carpet ride to Bedabin Camp from the Shantay Pass and then run south. These are the best locations to stand to be constantly attacking bandits. Bandits are popular so you might need to hop a bit to find an empty world. Also, at 70 in the combat stats, slayer becomes a viable AFK melee training method. There's 3 ways to AFK slayer tasks. If the monster is aggressive, then you can AFK for 10 minutes before you need to reset. If the monster is in multicombat, then you can attack each one, and then AFK while you finish them off. Or, you can use a cannon on some slayer tasks to attack monsters for you, and if you stand underneath your cannon, you can prolong the duration of your cannonballs, letting you AFK for longer. Slayer Pathway Slayer isn't just an AFK combat training method, it’s also efficient combat experience because you’re training your slayer at the same time. Also, on Slayer tasks, you can use the Black Mask or the Slayer Helmet for the damage and accuracy boost, which further increases the efficiency. While training from 1 to 99 slayer, it’s possible to get 99 in most of the combat stats. If you plan on getting 99 slayer one day, you should train your slayer instead of following the Fast or AFK pathway that I’ve shown, otherwise you'll be gaining a lot of xp past level 99. Bossing With Melee Next up I’m going to cover bossing with melee. Training up your melee stats is a great way to get a taste of bossing. Arguably the easiest boss in the game, the Giant Mole, can be defeated with just 43 prayer and level 40s in the combat stats. Using Protect from Melee, you can mitigate all damage. One of the easiest pets in the game can be obtained by defeating the Chaos Elemental, which you can flinch with melee to also take no damage. 2 more fairly easy bosses are Obor and Sarachnis which are both weak to melee. 2 of the 4 God Wars bosses are best killed with melee, and particularly Bandos is a great introduction to team bossing at a low level. Venenatis and Vet’ion are both highly profitable wilderness bosses that should be killed with melee. 4 slayer bosses are melee weak, all of which can be killed for high profit, and ironmen can obtain a number of important uniques from these bosses. The recently added Desert Treasure 2 brought 2 new melee bosses to the game, Duke Sucellus and Vardorvis. Vorkath is a highly profitable boss that’s weak to stab, accessible after Dragon Slayer 2. The Nightmare is weak to crush attacks, and the Corporeal Beast is weak to stab, and both are difficult bosses with valuable drops. All 3 raids in old school require melee, and before going on any of the raids, I’d suggest having at least 85 attack strength and defence, plus high ranged, magic and prayer. F2P Methods Now to finish off the guide, I'm going to talk about Free to Play melee training. In 2015, Jagex added frogs to the Lumbridge Swamp. They have decent hitpoints and minimal defence, making them a great target for low level training. In the area, you can find Regular frogs, Big frogs and Giant frogs. You should attack the Regular frogs at a low level, then move onto Big frogs and Giant frogs above level 20 combat. At a higher level in free to play, you unlock an AFK and decently fast training method within the Stronghold of Security . You can train at the giant spiders on level 3 of the Stronghold for an AFK time of 10 minutes, although at lower levels you will need to eat food. After 10 minutes, the giant spiders stop attacking you, and to reset, you need to run out of view and come back, or you can go to another room on the other side of the Stronghold. If you want to make some money in free to play, you can go to the Ogress Warriors near Corsair Cove. They drop a few alchables and runes. Thanks for reading my 1 – 99 Melee Guide. Anyways guys, I hope you learned something helpful today or enjoyed. If you have any questions or just want to chat to me, you can join the Theoatrix friend chat in game. 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Whats going on guys, my names theoatrix and welcome to my updated OSRS level 1-99 fishing guide. Image Created By FalcoAJ Guide Quick-Links Why Train Fishing Fishing XP Boosts Pathways To 99 Low Level Training Fastest Methods Barbarian Fishing 2-Tick Harpooning Tempoross Guide Drift Net Fishing AFK Methods Prif Spot Cave Eels Profit Methods 62 Monkfish 65 Karambwans 80 Infernal Eels 82 Minnows 82 Anglerfish 85 Dark Crabs 87 Sacred Eels Ironman Tips F2P 1-99 Fishing If you would prefer to watch a video version of this guide, you can watch that here. Otherwise, continue scrolling to read the 1-99 fishing guide. Why Train Fishing Training your fishing is essential in progressing your runescape account. A range of important quests have a fishing level requirement. You need level 53 fishing to obtain the barrows gloves. You need 62 fishing for the quest cape, and 96 for the achievement diary cape. The fishing skill also unlocks a broad range of money making methods, where you can make over 100 mil getting 99 fishing with some pathways. For ironmen, fishing is an important food source, vital for bossing and slayer. Fishing XP Boosts With fishing, it's important to note the xp boosting items and equipment. By boosting your fishing level you can do methods that you havent unlocked yet. So you could fish for sardines from level 1 fishing, if you use the boost from an admiral pie. You could also boost to level 58 for better barbarian fishing. The angler outfit gives a 2.5% fishing xp boost with the full set. This is obtained from aerial fishing or fishing trawler, where it is faster to get it at trawler. The full set is also required to catch minnows, and with spirit flakes, you can convert regular angler to spirit angler clothing. Wearing this full set acts as a rope during an encounter with tempoross. Some fishing methods require a harpoon, and there are 5 harpoons available in oldschool, where the best for the fastest experience is the crystal harpoon. The infernal harpoon cooks some fish as you catch, the dragon harpoon is the best non degrading harpoon, the barb tailed one is equippable, and the standard harpoon is available to free to play as well. Even if you can’t equip the dragon harpoon you can still use it for fishing training. The dragon, infernal and crystal harpoons all have a special attack. Consuming 100% energy, it boosts your fishing by 3 levels, essentially speeding up your fishing rates. From Tempoross, there’s a range of notable rewards. The tacklebox stores common fishing equipment in one inventory slot. The fish barrel doubles your inventory space when fishing, but can only be emptied at a bank. With spirit flakes, you have a 50% chance to catch an extra fish, but you gain no extra experience. This is useful for money makers. The kourend achievement diary is another fishing boosting unlock. Wearing the rada’s blessing reward, you get a 2 to 8 percent chance to catch an extra fish, again with no extra experience. So another one thats good for money making. At aerial fishing, with molch pearls you can purchase equippable rods. So this means you have an extra inventory slot for fish while training, which is most useful for afk training. Pathways to 99 Now ill show you 4 example pathways to 99 fishing. First is the fastest pathway to 99 in the game, and involves 3 tick and 2 tick methods. This entire pathway will take around 105 hours to complete. Next is probably the most common pathway to 99, and thats doing barbarian fishing… You can train regularly, or 3 tick, and will take as little as 120 hours for 99. Tempoross is another viable pathway, where you need 35 fishing to start training there. Doing this to 99 will take around 180 hours. There’s also the AFK training pathway, which can be done at prif fly fishing or dorgeshkaan bait fishing, and these methods will take around 300 hours to reach 99, although are very very AFK. Low Level Training In this next section, I'll show the best low level fishing training methods. Questing Questing is the fastest way to level up from level 1. You can complete the sea slug quest and the fishing contest quest to reach level 26 fishing straight from level 1. Sea slug does have a firemaking requirement, but won’t take long to get. You can also complete the freeing pirate pete subquest, tai bwo wannai trio and the fremennik trials quest to reach level 33. Bait Fishing Alternatively, the fastest regular way to train your fishing is to start by catching sardines at level 1, with the +5 boost from an admiral pie. This is done with a rod and bait, and can be done at various locations across runescape. An easily accessed area is south of lumbridge, where the fishing tutor is. Catching sardines is the fastest experience until level 20, where you unlock trout. Shrimp However, if youre an ironman, or dont have much money, using admiral pies can be hard. So your best option for training is to catch shrimps south of lumbridge. To get a small fishing net, you’ll get one off tutorial island, otherwise there are some free nets on the ground at this fishing location. Once you reach level 5 off shrimp, you should upgrade to a rod and bait and catch sardines at the same location, all the way until level 20. Fly Fishing At level 20, you unlock fly fishing, specifically trout. You could actually start this method at level 15 with an admiral pie, which would be the fastest method at level 16. Trout and salmon fishing is the fastest regular training method until level 58, where you unlock leaping salmon at barbarian fishing. For trout, you’ll need a fly fishing rod and feathers, and to reach level 58 youll need around 5000 feathers. In terms of fishing spots, you can train in lumbridge near the goblins, or you can go to barbarian village too. 3-Tick Fly Fishing The absolute fastest xp per hour at level 20 is done by 3 ticking trout. To do this, you need items to start a 3 tick action, like herb tar, teak logs, kebbit vambraces or snow. So you start a 3 tick action, then click on the fishing spot, and every 3 gameticks, you keep repeating those actions. From when you unlock this method, you can already get over 20k fishing xp per hour, scaling up to over 90k xp per hour at 99 if youre 3 ticking. Fastest Methods Now lets move onto the fastest training methods, and you should continue with trout and salmon until you unlock one of these methods. Barbarian Fishing At 58 fishing, you can catch leaping salmon at barbarian fishing, which significantly increases the xp rates from barbarian fishing. This is done at either otto’s grotto, or near chambers of xeric. The most popular location is ottos grotto. To be able to partake in barbarian fishing, you need to start barbarian training, which requires 48 fishing as well as 15 agility and 15 strength. Once you find the rod under otto’s bed, you can start barbarian fishing. It’s not recommended to start at level 48 since your catch rates are very slow, and you should start at 58 when you unlock the next fish. This is another method where you can 3 tick for faster experience, and it almost doubles your xp rate by 3 ticking. Although this is also an excellent AFK training method, so both afking and 3 ticking are viable. Your xp rates range from 20k to 100k xp per hour, depending on your level and whether you 3 tick. At the same time, you’ll get one tenth of the xp in both strength and agility. If you’re training afk, the average afk time is about 50 seconds. 2-Tick Harpooning The next method, 2 tick harpooning, is the fastest method in the game, but it does require tick manipulation. This is done in the piscarillius house on zeah, and involves having 2 rats attack you so that they hit you every 2 game ticks. Then you click on and off the fishing spot repeatedly to fish in a 2 tick cycle. To get the agressions of the nearby rats, you can bring runes for spells like weaken or confuse, that dont actually damage them. When you unlock this method at 35, the xp rates arent very competitive, but once you unlock swordfish, you can reach over 70k xp per hour. At maximum, its possible to get 130k fishing xp per hour with this method, which makes it the fastest training spot in the game. Tempoross Next is tempoross, and this requires level 35 fishing. Tempoross provides competitive xp rates, sitting in between regular barbarian fishing and 3 tick barbarian fishing. When you unlock it, you get 30k xp per hour, scaling up to 95k at maximum. To get to tempoross, theres a boat near al kharid bank which takes you straight there. You dont actually need any items to partake since you can obtain all of the items while youre in there. The battle with tempoross involves catching and firing fish, then once tempoross is vulnerable, you can harpoon nearby to damage it. While training here, you can optionally cook the fish that you catch to get cooking experience, but a decrease in fishing experience per hour overall. With cooking, your xp rates go from a maximum of 95k to only 70k xp per hour, although cooking does yield more rewards. Going from 35 fishing to 99, with cooking, you can expect to make around 50 mil in profit. If you dont cook, and you solely go for fishing experience, you can expect only 20 mil in profit. Drift Net Fishing The next fast method im showing is drift net fishing, and this is done underwater off fossil island. You require drift nets to be able to train here, and drift net fishing is actually the fastest fishing method in the game in terms of efficiency. At level 47 fishing when you unlock it, you can already get over 50k fishing xp per hour. Which isnt really that fast, but you’ll also be getting 60k hunter xp per hour at the same time, making it very efficient. At level 70 fishing and hunter, you can get 115k hunter and 85k fishing xp per hour, which still makes it the most efficient method in the game. The main downside of this method is that youre going to lose about 40 mil going for 99 fishing, and its also extremely click intensive. The method involves chasing fish into the drift nets. And its as simple as clicking on the fish, and they find their way to the net. Using a trident to lure the fish is extremely important, and greatly improves the xp rates. AFK Methods Now lets talk about afk fishing training, and you could say that most fishing methods are afk, but these methods im about to show you are VERY afk. Trout Prif Spot The first method is fishing for trout and salmon to the south east of the gate to enter priff. Depending on your fishing level, you can afk for 2 to 4 minutes at a time, and this is because the fishing spot never moves, and never despawns. At maximum, its possible to get 50k fishing xp per hour here, which isnt super fast, but since the fishing spot doesnt move, you only need to click the spot once and you’ll get a full inventory of fish. To get to this spot, you need to have started the regicide quest to access the elven area, you dont need to start song of the elves. Cave Eels AFK The next afk fishing spot is bait fishing for eels in the caves to the south of dorgeshkaan. This is another fishing spot that never moves, and provides slightly slower xp rates than the previous spot. The good thing about this spot though, is that you get more xp per click since the eels give more xp than trout and salmon. This also means theyre more AFK, with afk intervals up to 5 minutes depending on your level. To access this area, you need to have completed the death to the dorgeshuun quest, and you’ll also need a light source. Profit Methods Now lets move into the profitable training methods, and fishing really starts becoming profitable once you reach level 62. 62 Monkfish With completion of the swan song quest, you can fish for monkfish at the piscatoris fishing colony. Going from 62 to 99 here will net about 20 mil in profit, with afk times lasting around 1 minute. In terms of xp rates, its not super fast, but its still decent compared to some of the other profitable methods. 65 Karambwans At 65 fishing, you can catch karambwans. This requires the tai bwo wannai trio quest completed, and you use karambwanji as bait. The bait is caught to the south of tai bwo wannai, and with a small fishing net, you can afk fish for these. Then, karambwans are caught next to the D K P fairy ring, north of the camp. Going from 65 to 99 here will net over 80 mil in profit, but the xp rates are fairly slow if you bank them. With a fish barrel from tempoross, you can afk for around 3 minutes at a time, but without the barrel, its possible to afk for about a minute and a half. 80 Infernal Eels At level 80 fishing, you can catch infernal eels. These are caught with an oily fishing rod and bait, the mor ul rek region of tzhaar city. With a hammer, you can turn these into tokkul, saving the need for banking. Going from 80 to 99 fishing will net about 80 mil in profit, and its also a fairly afk method. 82 Minnows With 82 fishing, and the full angler outfit, you can fish for minnows near the fishing guild. This requires a small fishing net. Your xp rates here are pretty decent, and you’ll make about 75 mill getting to 99 here. It’s far less afk than other methods though, with only around 15 seconds of afk time. 82 Anglerfish Also at level 82, you can start catching anglerfish. This is done in the piscarilius house, with a normal rod and sandworms as bait. This is one of the slower fishing methods out there, maxing out at 23k xp per hour at 99. However, its also one of the most profitable methods, netting 130 mil in profit from 82 to 99. It’s also decently afk at the same time. 85 Dark Crabs With 85 fishing, you can catch dark crabs in the wilderness resource area. Theyre caught with a lobster pot and dark fishing bait, which you can buy off the grand exchange. Dark crabs give decent xp rates, up to 40k at higher levels, and its also highly profitable, netting 90 mil on your journey to 99. However, being in the wilderness its not suitable for afk training, and theres a chance youll get pked for some of your crabs. To get away from pkers, you can bring a lockpick to go into the magic axes house. 87 Sacred Eels And at level 87 fishing, you can start catching sacred eels near zulrah. These require a regular rod plus bait, and you should bring a knife to cut the eels into zulrah scales. At maximum you can get a bit over 20k fishing and 20k cooking xp per hour, while making 115 mil on your journey to level 99. This is an afk method as well. Ironman Tips As an ironman, training your fishing can be done with the methods ive already shown. But in this section of the guide, ill cover some specific ironman training methods and tips. A good place to start is getting fishing supplies. At a low level, both the port sarim fishing shop and the catherby shop are easily accessible and sell all of the equipment you’ll need. There’s also the shilo village fishing shop, right near the fly fishing spot, so its another decent option. If you’re catching anglerfish and need sandworms, you can buy them from tynans fishing supplies in port piscarilius. Karambwans are an excellent source of food for ironmen, where theyre easy to catch, not likely to burn and they heal 18 hitpoints. Getting the bait for karambwans, the karambwanji, doesnt take long, and it can be a good idea to go out of your way to get the fish barrel for better karambwan fishing. But overall, ironmen can follow the rest of the methods I've shown in this guide. Tempoross in particular can be a great way to get resources. F2P 1-99 Fishing In free to play, fishing can be a bit slower to train, and is less profitable. This is the fastest pathway to 99 fishing in free to play. If you 3 tick, its going to take about 170 hours to reach 99. Once you reach level 20, you unlock the fastest method in free to play, fly fishing, with a fly fishing rod and feathers. This can be done near the goblins in lumbridge, or east of barbarian village. You can either train AFK, or its also possible to 3 tick in free to play. Using a snow globe, you can collect snow and fish at the same time to tick manipulate, which greatly increases the xp rates. The globe is obtained from completing a christmas event. There are a couple of profitable methods in free to play, including lobsters or tuna and swordfish. The xp rates from these are very very slow though, and the bank is far from the fishing spot, so its not really recommended to catch these unless youre playing for nostalgia. With the addition of the below ice mountain quest, you can fish in camdozaal with a small fishing net. Its recommended to start this at 33 fishing and cooking for the better xp rates. This is a method thats more suited to free to play ironmen, since you can train your prayer level at the same time. The fishing xp rates here are very low. Anyways, thats my complete level 1 to 99 fishing guide for OSRS. If you missed something, there are links to every section of this guide down below. Quick-links Why Train Fishing Fishing XP Boosts Pathways To 99 Low Level Training Fastest Methods Barbarian Fishing 2-Tick Harpooning Tempoross Guide Drift Net Fishing AFK Methods Prif Spot Cave Eels Profit Methods 62 Monkfish 65 Karambwans 80 Infernal Eels 82 Minnows 82 Anglerfish 85 Dark Crabs 87 Sacred Eels Ironman Tips F2P 1-99 Fishing

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Welcome to my 1-99 Woodcutting and Forestry guide for OSRS . The first player to reach 99 Woodcutting in RuneScape was Everdred , who reached 99 on 28 August 2001. That's less than 8 months after RuneScape was released . Guide Quick-Links Changes To Woodcutting Woodcutting Mechanics Axes & Equipment 1-99 Woodcutting Guide Low Level Training Fastest Way To 99 Fast Methods AFK Methods Profitable Methods F2P Woodcutting Complete Forestry Guide Forestry Basics Forestry Locations Forestry Events Forestry Rewards If you would prefer to watch the video version of this guide, you can watch it below. Otherwise continue scrolling to read the 1-99 Woodcutting guide. Changes To Woodcutting So what's changed with woodcutting? In 2023, Jagex introduced Forestry, a group woodcutting activity with forestry events and new tree mechanics. Most trees were updated to have a time before they get cut down, whereas, in the past, most trees would have a 1 in 8 chance of being cut down. The timer scales with the tree level. Oak trees have a 27 second timer, and redwoods have a 4 minute and 24 second timer. The timer only starts when you receive the first log. You can continue chopping logs until the timer reaches zero, then when you get a log after zero, the tree gets cut down. So you can expect to afk for longer than the tree time since you spend time cutting the first and last logs. When cutting a tree, forestry events can spawn. There's 9 events, each with a unique xp rate and strategy. For example, theres one event where you pick the odd symbol out, and another where you pollinate flowers. If you're paying attention and doing events efficiently, you can boost your xp rates by at least 40%. Additionally, chopping the same tree as another person gives you up to a plus 10 invisible woodcutting boost. You get +1 for every person chopping the tree up to 10. Woodcutting Mechanics Let's go through the mechanics of woodcutting. When you cut a tree, you have a chance of getting a log every 4 gameticks, or every 2.4 seconds. The type of axe you use, and your woodcutting level, both affect your chances of cutting a log. On average, a rune axe is 3 times better at cutting when compared to a bronze axe. The best axe is the crystal axe, over 4 times faster than the bronze axe. It is possible to tick manipulate to have a chance of getting a log every 3 ticks, 2 ticks or every 1.5 ticks, and the fastest woodcutting xp rate is possible with 1.5 ticking. Axes & Equipment You should always be using the best possible axe up to the dragon axe. It considerably boosts your xp rate to use a better axe. With song of the elves, you can use a crystal axe, which is about 4.5% faster than a dragon axe. The crystal felling axe is the best axe in the game for the fastest experience, although it requires crystal shards and rations. Felling axes are 2 handed axes which can be bought off the grand exchange, or created with an axe handle from the forestry rewards shop. On average, felling axes are 10% faster than regular axes. To use a felling axe, you need foresters rations, and you consume a ration every time you get an xp drop. Rations can be bought off the grand exchange, or ironmen can make them with leaves and cooked food. With felling axes, theres also a 20% chance to not obtain a log, making it more AFK since you wont need to empty your inventory as often. With 61 woodcutting and 85 firemaking, you can use an infernal axe. These have a 33% chance of burning the log you receive from woodcutting, giving half of the firemaking experience. The woodcutting skilling outfit, the lumberjack outfit, is worth getting for both regular accounts and ironmen. It boosts your woodcutting xp by 2.5% with the whole set - and it takes around 30 minutes to get. The outfit is obtained from temple trekking, where you need to find the undead lumberjacks event, and jagex recently increased the likelihood of that event spawning, so this should take less than 30 minutes. Low Level Training When you first start woodcutting, the first thing you need to worry about is axes. You can buy them off the grand exchange as a regular account, and ironmen can buy axes up to steel off bob in lumbridge. Defeating tree spirits is a decent way to get a high level axe, up until you reach 60 woodcutting where you can enter the woodcutting guild. In there, there's a shop that sells axes up to rune. To skip the slower early levels of woodcutting, theres some quests you can complete. You can complete all of these quests to go from 1 to 28 woodcutting. Some of those quests have fairly high requirements to complete, so instead, you can do the Monk's Friend quest to get from 1 to 14 woodcutting very quickly. Then you can cut 9 regular logs to get to 15 woodcutting, then you can do the ribbiting tale quest for 2000 woodcutting xp, and it’s a very short quest. If you arent into questing, you can train your woodcutting the normal way. From 1 to 15, you'll need to cut 161 regular trees. There's regular trees all over runescape, but I would suggest training behind lumbridge castle, or on the outskirts of varrock. If you're an ironman, its not a bad idea to light or fletch the logs you get, but if youre a main account trying to level woodcutting the fastest, you can just drop the logs. Also, its very important to be using the best axe possible at all times since it dramatically increases your chop rate. Once you reach level 15, you can cut oak trees, which are the fastest experience until around level 35. With oak trees you can partake in forestry, and to do that, you should go to world 301 to Draynor and chop the oak to the east of the bank. For regular training though, you can cut the oak trees near varrock west bank. At level 30 woodcutting, you do unlock willow trees, but oak trees are better experience until level 35. Going from 15 to 35 at oaks, you'll need to cut 534 oak logs. Once you reach 35, you unlock teak trees, which are one of the fastest methods in the game, and that leads us to the next section, the fastest way to 99 woodcutting. Fastest Way To 99 On a fresh level 3 account, the fastest way to train woodcutting is by completing the Monk's Friend quest like mentioned earlier. Completing the other quests for xp will take longer than regular training, but if you are going for the quest cape, doing the quests is an efficient pathway. Without questing, the fastest is just regular trees, then oak trees, just like I explained in the low level training section. But… for the fastest experience at level 15, you can 2tick oak trees. This gives over 100k xp per hour at higher levels. To do this, you need to lure two rats from Falador farm all the way to the Falador city entrance. Then once they are alternating their attacks, you click the tree, then the ground, and repeat after every attack. This caps out at 111k xp per hour above 60 woodcutting with a rune axe. At that level, you have a 100% success rate when cutting oaks. Now, for the fastest methods in the game, teaks with tick manipulation. As a woodcutting training method, I personally don’t recommend doing these methods over forestry or AFK woodcutting since these methods are extremely click intensive. But if you want the fastest possible experience, this is your best bet. With teaks, theres 3 different ways you can tick manipulate. There's 3 tick, 2 tick, and 1.5 tick. I'll be explaining all three, starting with 3 ticking. 3-Tick Teaks With a 3 tick action, like using herbs on tar, you can speed up your woodcutting training by 33%. You have to start the 3 tick action every 1.8 seconds, then click the tree, and repeat. At level 35, it provides competitive xp rates, and it reaches up to 93k xp per hour at 99. Overall, for a 33% xp increase, its not really worthwhile for all of the extra clicking, and I would really suggest 2 ticking over 3 ticking. But… you can 3 tick on a forestry world for high xp rates. At priff or soul wars island, you'll find groups of people cutting teaks on the forestry worlds, and if you 3 tick here, you can boost your xp rates because of the forestry events that spawn. 2-Tick Teaks 2 ticking doubles the speed at which you woodcut, since normally it’s a 4 tick action. 2 tick teaks works similarly to 2 tick oaks, where you need an npc hitting you every 2 ticks, so you can get two 4 tick mobs attacking you, and have their attacks alternate. Every time you get attacked, it resets the 4 tick woodcutting action and allows you to get a log on the next gametick. To do this method, you need to equip any shortbow with no arrows equipped, and you need auto retaliate on. This allows you to retaliate and reset the ticks. The best place for this method is done in the ape atoll jungle, by tagging 2 birds. You can use a fun weapon, or a spell like confuse or weaken to get the agression of the birds. Then you move them around to ensure theyre attacking every 2 ticks. Overall, 2 ticking is probably easier than 3 ticking. It does require you to click every gametick, but there are less clicks when compared to 3tick. However… there is an easier 2 tick method. If you plant your own teak trees, you can 2 tick just by moving every time you cut. This is because the game gives you a chance of cutting 2 logs at a time. So this is essentially still 4 tick woodcutting, but you get 2 logs, making it 2 tick. So basically, you click the tree, then click a tile away, and click the tree, and repeat. With both of these 2 tick methods, you can get up to 215k xp per hour at high levels, and at level 35 when you unlock it, you'll already get 78k woodcutting xp per hour, which is high for such a low level method. 1.5-Tick Teaks But theres an even faster method…. 1.5 tick teaks. This can only be done on trees that you've planted with farming. Essentially, this method involves 3 ticking while doing the second 2 tick method. You do a 3 tick action, then move for a chance at 2 logs. So you have a chance at 2 logs every 3 ticks, making it a 1.5 tick method. This is a very click and focus intensive method, but you are rewarded with huge amounts of woodcutting xp. At level 35 when you unlock it, you can already get close to 100k xp per hour. At high levels, it reaches up to 235k xp per hour, and is the fastest woodcutting method in the game. Fast Methods Training with Forestry is an excellent way to level up, while having some periods of downtime. Below is each tier of tree, with their average xp rates on a forestry world. At level 15, oaks become the first tree you can partake in forestry with and most notably, teak and yew trees both give competitive xp rates if you do all of the forestry events. Here are the best locations to do forestry. For oak trees, your best bet is either draynor village or at varrock west bank. For willows, draynor is best. For Teaks, you can go near castle wars, to soul wars or to priff. Seer's village is the best place for maple trees. Yews can be cut outside of the seer's village church. Magic trees can be found near the ranging guild or myths guild. Since their introduction in 2017, Sullicuep Mushrooms have provided competitive woodcutting xp rates, and before forestry, provided the fastest xp rates without tick manipulation. Theyre unlocked at level 65 woodcutting, and you need access to fossil island to chop them. The xp rates range from 55k to over 100k per hour, and there are decent afk intervals while training here. All you need is a rake and an axe, but its recommended to have prayer increasing items, a strong defensive shield, something to cure poison, and the best possible food. You firstly need to find the active sulliscuep mushroom, then you cut it down, and move onto the next active mushroom, as shown on this map here. You'll repeat this pattern while you train here. AFK Methods If you want to train AFK, you do not want to use a forestry world since the trees will chop down more randomly. The woodcutting guild is an excellent area for afk training, since you get an invisible +7 woodcutting boost. With the new tree despawn timers, higher level trees have longer afk times. To view the despawn timer in action, you can install a runelite plugin called tree despawn timer which shows how long until the tree will chop down. A great middle-ground between xp and afk time is cutting maple trees in the woodcutting guild. These provide 1 minute of afk, while having a high chop rate. Yew trees let you afk for around 2 minutes, and you can expect around 30k xp per hour when you unlock them. Magic trees let you afk for 4 minutes, and the most AFK woodcutting method in the game is unlocked at level 90, and that is redwood trees. These provide up to 80k xp per hour and you can afk for 4 and a half minutes at a time. If I was to get 99 woodcutting again, I would do redwoods from 90 to 99 just because of how easy it is. Another decent AFK method is chopping the blisterwood tree in Darkmeyer. This requires the sins of the father quest to be able to chop it, and these trees have the oldschool mechanics, where theres a 1 in 8 chance of stopping chopping. Depending on your rng though, the afk interval will sometimes only be a few seconds, but can last over 40 seconds at a time. Blisterwood provides about 60k xp per hour at lower levels, scaling up to 80k at higher levels. But if youre above level 90, I would suggest redwoods. Profitable Methods The most profitable woodcutting method, in the entire game, is camping forestry events. You can get over 2.5 thousand anima bark per hour if youre in the forestry chat, and you only complete the announced forestry events. The method involves hopping between forestry areas constantly to become eligible for forestry event, then completing the event for the anima bark reward. If you convert the bark to felling axes, it equates to over 700k gp per hour at higher woodcutting levels. Mahogany logs are expensive… so with that, you can chop mahogany logs for around 200k gp per hour. The best place to cut them is in tai bwo wannai or in priff. Theyre unlocked at only 50 woodcutting, and you can expect about 140k gp per hour at that level. Cutting yew and magic logs can also be profitable. They both give roughly 150k in profit per hour, although provide slow xp rates compared to the other methods. Forestry Guide So partaking in forestry requires 15 woodcutting, to chop oak trees, and its also available to free to play players. Forestry Basics To get started, you firstly make your way to a friendly forester in either Draynor, Seers Village or Prifddinnas, and from them, you should grab the free forestry kit. This stores items that you find while doing forestry. To actually start forestry, you just start cutting a tree. To find other people, you should go to one of the official forestry worlds. The most popular one at all times is world 444. As a free to play player, you should go to world 301. Forestry does not work in the Woodcutting Guild, nor with Blisterwood trees. Forestry Locations On those forestry worlds, there are certain locations that are populated with players. To find those locations, I listed them all in the "Fast Methods" section of this guide. Forestry Plugins There's a number of RuneLite plugins you can install to make chopping easier. In the default woodcutting plugin, you should turn on the notifications and highlights for all of the events. The tree despawn timer plugin can estimate how long a tree will stay up for. The "tree count" plugin shows how many players are chopping a tree, which is useful for getting the maximum woodcutting level boost. You can get up to a +10 woodcutting boost with 10 or more people. Lastly, entity hider is useful for being able to see and maneuver the forestry events. Forestry Events So while you're chopping, forestry events spawn nearby. There are 9 different forestry events, with some events giving rare rewards. By completing a forestry event, you're rewarded with extra woodcutting xp, further boosting your xp per hour. Rising Roots The rising roots event is where roots appear on the ground nearby. In this event, you should chop the root with green veins for the best xp and rewards. Flowering Bush The flowering bush event is where 8 bushes spawn, and only 2 of those bushes can trade pollen with eachother. You have to find the two bushes then repeatedly pollinate them. The bushes will change every so often, so you need to relocate the correct bushes. Beehives There is an event where you build a beehive, and for this, you click on the unfinished beehive and add logs to it for woodcutting and construction experience. Struggling Sapling For the struggling sapling event you need to collect 3 materials and feed it to the sapling. It takes a certain combination of materials, so for this, you should start by taking three from one pile to see if there are any matches. Then 3 from another pile, until you figure it out. You can also turn public chat on because people usually announce when they've found the right combination. Poachers Sometimes, poachers can spawn, and for this event, you have to disarm the fox traps that they place down. For this you get woodcutting and hunter experience. Enchantment Ritual There is also the enchantment ritual event, which is visible by the colored shapes on the ground. For this, you have to stand on the odd one out. So one of them will not share a color or shape with any other marking. Friendly Ents Sometimes, Friendly Ents can appear, and for this event you have to read what they are saying, and trim them accordingly. There are four different dialogues that the Ents can say, and on the screen are how you should trim them. Pheasant Control When nests and pheasants appear, you must take the egg from the unguarded nest (where no pheasant is on top of it) and take it to the Freaky Forester. Leprechaun The last forestry event is the leprechaun, who you can talk to to deposit your logs to the bank. From events you get anima bark. That anima bark can then be spent at the rewards shop. Forestry Rewards There is a lot of different rewards at the rewards shop, and ill briefly take you through the most notable ones. The clothes pouch blueprint allows you to get the lumberjack outfit xp boost without wearing the outfit. Twitchers gloves increase your chance of getting a birds nest. The felling axe handle and the sawmill vouchers are both very useful for ironmen. If you have 99 woodcutting, the cape pouch can be a decent upgrade too. F2P Woodcutting To finish the guide, I'd like to cover free to play woodcutting training. Below is the fastest pathway from 1 to 99 woodcutting in free to play. It's a lot different to members since free to play is very restricted with the types of trees that are available. The fastest method in the game for free to play is 2 tick oaks, which I showed earlier in this video. You can get over 100k xp per hour, although it does require a lot of focus. Cutting willow trees with forestry, while 3 ticking, is another very fast training method for free to play. You can get over 70k xp per hour doing this, which isnt quite as fast as 2 tick oaks, but its still great for free to play. Maple trees recently got introduced to free to play, and are a great afk training option. ----------------------------- Guide Quick-Links Changes To Woodcutting Woodcutting Mechanics Axes & Equipment 1-99 Woodcutting Guide Low Level Training Fastest Way To 99 Fast Methods AFK Methods Profitable Methods F2P Woodcutting Complete Forestry Guide Forestry Basics Forestry Locations Forestry Events Forestry Rewards

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Whats going on guys my names Theoatrix and welcome to my updated level 1-99 Fletching guide for OSRS. Fletching is the fastest 99 in OSRS where the fastest recorded time is by Sherlockness. He reached 99 only 2 and a half hours after making his account. Guide QuickLinks Methods Overview Passive Fletching Cost Of Fletching Low Level Training Fastest Methods AFK Methods Profitable Methods Ironman Methods If you would prefer to watch the video version of this guide, you can watch that below. Otherwise, continue scrolling to read the 1-99 Fletching guide. Fletching Methods Overview There are 7 categories of fletching methods. Bows You can fletch bows for mediocre xp rates but at a small profit in most cases. If you just string the best profitable bows you can all the way to 99 you would profit 13.6 mil but it would take 60 Hours. Darts There's fletching darts which give the highest xp rates in the game but at a fairly big cost. The fastest xp is achieved with windows mouse keys and this is how Sherlockness set the fastest 99 record. Bolts There's Bolts, which are trained in a similar way to darts and bolts also give very high xp rates. They can also be cheaper than darts in some cases. Arrows Fletching arrows can give over 650k xp per hour with dragon. Arrows can be a low cost training option while still providing some afk time. Javelins Making javelins is another fast and semi afk fletching method... Although they have low trade volumes on the grand exchangeand they are not cheap either. Tipping Bolts You can add gem tips to bolts for decent experience and in some cases for profitable fletching experience. Tipping bolts can also be considered to be semi afk. Weaponry Fletching also allows you to create weapons like the blowpipe, crossbows, the webweaver bow and more. In some cases these can be profitable methods and I'll talk more about weaponry in the profitable section of this guide. Passive Fletching Fletching is a skill that can be trained somewhat passively. You can fletch while you do other activities across runescape, like during a quest, or while you level another skill. Doing this is the most efficient way to train fletching since you're progressing your account at the same time. Here are 5 examples of when you could train passively. While training agility, you can fletch bolts or darts in between obstacles. With low level hunter, there's some waiting time between trap placement. While doing farm runs you can fletch darts or bolts while you run to the next patch. You can fletch inbetween games at the wintertodt. You can fletch while youre running doing a quest or achievement diaries. Cost Of Fletching The cost of fletching fluctuates a lot so I would recommend checking a fletching calculator before doing any fletching training methods. Fletching Calculator > Low Level Training At level 1 fletching, you have 4 training methods at your disposal. There's bronze arrows, headless arrows, arrow shafts and questing. Bronze arrows are the fastest way to level your fletching at a low level. You can get around 55k fletching xp per hour from level 1, which is very fast for such a low level. To do this, you need to purchase headless arrows and bronze arrowtips. To train, you use the two items on eachother, then select to create 10 Sets of 15 arrows. You'll automatically process the 10 sets, then when you're done, you use them on eachother again and repeat. Headless arrows are a profitable alternative to bronze arrows, providing fast experience, reaching around 45k xp per hour. Being profitable, I would suggest training with headless arrows instead of bronze arrows if money is an issue. To make headless arrows, you need feathers and arrows shafts, then you use the feathers on the arrow shafts and select to process 10 Sets of headless arrows. Then you repeat that once you've created 10 sets. Another low level fletching method is just cutting logs into arrow shafts. This is quite slow and expensive if you buy the logs off the grand exchange. So I would only recommend cutting logs into arrow shafts if you're woodcutting the logs yourself. So maybe if you don’t have any money at all, this would be an inviting option. To make arrow shafts, you use a knife on some logs, then select to create arrow shafts. This is pretty afk compared to the other methods, but much slower. The final low level fletching method im showing is questing. Completing animal magnetism, then zogre flesh eaters, then temple of ikov, will get you from level 1 to 28 fletching. Although, questing is not a popular pathway at a low level. For example, if you fletched bronze arrows for 10 to 15 minutes you'd end up with the same amount of experience as completing all of those quests. Fastest Methods Im going to start by showing the fastest possible pathway to level 99. Below is the fastest pathway to 99, with the xp rates, costs and amounts. It costs 287 mil at the current prices (September 2024), and will realistically take 6 to 8 hours if you use windows mousekeys or a touch screen. Your first 6 levels are done by fletching bronze arrows, which are the fastest until you unlock bronze darts. Then you can use a dragonfruit pie to boost by 4 levels to create bronze darts with level 10. Along the entire pathway, you should take advantage of these pies to access the next method 4 levels early . There are no quest requirements to fletch darts, you only need the tourist trap quest to SMITH dart tips, so you can train with this entire pathway from tutorial island. Darts are made with feathers and dart tips, and to process them quickly, you need to go into your in-game settings and turn off the make X for darts and bolts option. Every time you make a set of darts, you only make one set. But you can fletch as many darts as you can and the game will process all of them. So you basically have to spam click really fast to get the best xp rates. But you can use windows mousekeys which can be faster and easier. This is how windows mousekeys works. Jagex allows 1 to 1 input actions which means 1 keyboard input can be mapped to 1 single movement or click. Windows mousekeys lets you set 1 to 1 actions on the keypad of your keyboard, Pressing 4, 8, 2 and 6 move the mouse, and 5 is left click. This is how you set up mousekeys. 1. You firstly search for mousekeys in your computer search and open your mousekeys settings. 2. Turn on mousekeys 3. Then in the settings, turn on the control setting, then you can lower the speed and acceleration. 4. Then you hold control while pressing 4 5 6 5 4 on your keypad for horizontal, or 2 5 8 5 2 for vertical training. 5. You can also set up sticky keys to keep control held down. A popular alternative is to train fletching on a tablet with OSRS mobile. This is easier on your hand and you can walk around while you do it. Instead of fletching high level darts like dragon darts on this pathway, you can stick to fletching one type of dart all the way to 99. This is slower but still faster than the other methods. Mithril darts are a great option, where going to level 99 will cost 110 mil. Alternatively, an even cheaper but slower method is making steel darts. At level 90, amethyst darts are a cheaper alternative to rune and dragon darts, and provide very fast xp rates. Next im going to cover Bolts, which are similar to darts where you make a set of bolts every time you click. So these can be done for very fast experience with windows mousekeys, and can be used while you train another skill. Bolts are generally cheaper than fletching darts, but are slower. You can see that bolts give less xp compared to their dart counterpart, but keep in mind that some of these have low trade volumes. Broad bolts are a popular option, as well as dragon bolts which can sometimes be breakeven. To make bolts, you need unfinished bolts, so for bronze for example, it would be bronze bolt then unf in brackets. You then attach feathers by using them on eachother. Fletching arrows is another fast training method which can be semi afk. The xp rates are nowhere near as high as darts and bolts, but youll be getting at least 100k xp per hour from level 15. Above is a cheap and fast arrow training pathway to 99. It takes around 28 Hours with this pathway and costs 58 Mil. Steel and amethyst arrows are particularly cheap compared to the other arrows, however, you should avoid making adamant and rune arrows since you lose a lot of money. Making arrows is the same as I showed in the low level section, where you buy arrowtips and headless arrows and use them on eachother. The AFK processing time with arrows is 12 Seconds, which isnt long but it’s a lot less click intensive than the other methods. Fletching javelins provides similar xp rates to fletching arrows, except javelins can be a lot more expensive in most cases. They have very low trade volumes on the grand exchange, and the only javelin really worth making is dragon javelins. Recently though, the cost has increased, where going from level 92 to 99 will cost 82 Mil and should take 9 to 10 Hours. To make javelins, you need javelin heads and javelin shafts. Then you use one on the other, and click the confirmation box to make 10 sets of javelins. AFK Methods Now im going to cover the AFK and semi AFK fletching methods, and they are fletching bows, battlestaves, celastrus and antler bolts. Fletching logs into bows is a common pathway to 99 fletching since it can be profitable and afk, although if you have the money, I would suggest training with cheap darts, bolts or arrows. There's 2 steps to make a bow. You firstly cut logs into an unstrung bow. Then you add bowstring to the bow, and both actions give fletching experience. Stringing bows is faster experience than cutting logs into unstrung bows, but is less afk since you can only process 14 at a time. Above is the pathway to 99 fletching the profitable bows. Stringing is more profitable than cutting logs at this point in time, and stringing magic longbows will be your main method to 99 once you unlock them. From 85 to 99 fletching, cutting magic longbows will get about 4 mil in profit. At level 40 fletching, you can cut celastrus bark into battlestaves. These give the same afk time as cutting logs, but the xp is quite high for a level 40 method. The downside though, is you lose money, where right now youd lose 340 coins per bark. To do this method, you just buy celastrus bark off the grand exchange and with a knife in your inventory you can click the bark to convert it into a battlestaff. Making antler bolts is another afk fletching method, where the afk interval lasts 18 Seconds, which isnt overly afk, but these are currently profitable to make, although I don’t think that will last. The xp rates for these is not the greatest either. To make antler bolts, you use a chisel on the respective antler, and you get 12 bolts per antler. The xp rates are very low for this method, so this is more for profit, but I chose to put it in the afk section because the profit probably wont last after uploading this. Making arrows and javelins could also be considered a semi afk method. With both of these, your afk interval lasts around 12 Seconds, which isnt a very long time but it still allows you to multitask while watching shows, lectures or while you do something else on your PC. Overall, these fletching methods are mostly semi AFK rather than being actually AFK, but fletching logs into bows is the best you'll get. Profitable Methods Fletching bows is a profitable way to train where currently, maple, yew and magic longbows are all profitable bows to string. From level 1 to 99 fletching, if you string the best bow you can, you'll profit 13.6 Mil. Tipping bolts is another profitable fletching method, and this is where you add gem bolt tips to bolts. A lot of the lower level bolts have low trade volumes, so youll most likely lose money if you do those. But bolts like ruby, diamond, dragonstone and onyx are all profitable ways to train. The xp rates are quite high at the same time, reaching 280k with onyx bolts. To do this, you just use the gem tips on the bolts, then you click the creation interface to make 10 sets. You can also tip dragon bolts, which can be more profitable than regular bolts, but do keep in mind that some of them have low trade volumes so they wont end up making any profit. The popular dragon bolts are still decent options though, like ruby and diamond. You can also turn cut gems into bolt tips for fletching experience. This is NOT good fletching xp per hour, but it is highly profitable in some cases. For example, cutting ruby bolt tips from rubies from when you unlock them, all the way to 99, you would profit over 480 mil.. BUT it would take 1500 hours, so the hourly profit is only about 300K per hour. To make gem bolt tips, you just use a chisel on a cut gem. And I would strongly suggest NOT doing dragonstone or onyxes since you lose a lot of money on those. Check a fletching calculator to see what's really profitable at the current time. Next up is fletching weaponry, and this is the most profitable fletching method in the game but it does require a lot of patience with the grand exchange, as well as a lot of starting capital. At 47 fletching you can make light ballistas. this is currently quite profitable and gives 330 experience per ballista. At 72 fletching you can make heavy ballistas with an unstrung heavy ballista and a monkey tail, but these are usually less profitable although give double the amount of experience. Making crossbows is another fletching moneymaker, where they mostly become profitable from rune crossbows. If you solely string rune crossbows at 69 fletching, youll profit 120 mil going to 99 at this point in time. Dragon crossbows are also profitable, but require more starting capital and patience with the grand exchange. A new item, the sunlight hunters crossbow, is currently profitable as well. And to make these you use a chisel with a sunlight antelope antler and a regular hunters crossbow. This gives zero experience, so its only useful for money making. At 78 fletching, you can turn a tanzanite fang into a blowpipe. This can be profitable if you're patient with the grand exchange. Once again, this does require a lot of starting capital since each fang is over 4 mil. And you only get 120 xp per blowpipe, so its not as fast as ballistas. Another profitable weapon that can be made with fletching is the webweaver bow, which is made by combining a fang of venenatis with a craws bow. This requires 85 fletching and once again can be very profitable if youre patient. The last profitable method that im showing is training at the Wintertodt. You get xp based on your current fletching level, so at higher levels youll get more xp per hour. But this method is only recommended if you need to train your firemaking. Going from level 50 to 99 firemaking at the wintertodt will get you from 1 to around 50 fletching if you fletch every log that you chop. Although, I recommend training some fletching normally before doing the wintertodt so you get more xp per log and skip the early levels. If you start with 20 fletching, and get 99 firemaking, youll reach around level 70 fletching. Ironman Methods As an ironman, fletching is still a fairly fast skill if you have the money. For low levels with no money, cutting trees and fletching the logs is a common way to train. The wintertodt can also provide some early fletching training for ironmen. But the fastest way to level fletching at a low level is buying arrow shafts and feathers from shops, and creating headless arrows. Feathers can be bought from fishing shops, and arrow shafts can be bought from the ranged shop in the ranging guild. That requires 40 ranged, so without it, you can cut and fletch willow logs for a lot of arrow shafts. The main goal for ironmen is to unlock broad arrows, which are a fast and fairly cost effective way to train fletching. You need the broader fletching slayer unlock which costs 300 slayer points to be able to do this. Broad arrows give 450k xp per hour at a cost of 2.8 mil gp per hour. So its almost 6 gp per xp but it’s the fastest fletching method on an ironman by a mile. This is because you can buy broad arrowhead packs from any slayer master. Another common fletching pathway for ironmen is to gather maple logs at miscellania, then cut them into maple longbows, and optionally string them too. You can then alch the longbows to get your money back, as well as magic experience. There is also the recently updated trouble brewing, where you can get 200k fletching xp per hour from a low level, just requiring the cabin fever quest. You essentially just cut the scrapey trees for their logs, then you can spam fletch the logs with a knife. They give 160 xp each, and it doesn’t scale with your level. As a higher level ironman, some of your fletching experience will come from creating the ammunition used for raiding and bossing. For example, fletching the darts needed for your blowpipe might get you a significant chunk of fletching xp over time. Guide QuickLinks Methods Overview Passive Fletching Cost Of Fletching Low Level Training Fastest Methods AFK Methods Profitable Methods Ironman Methods

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Mining used to be one of the slowest, most tedious skills to train… but with recent updates, mining became a lot easier. We saw changes to shooting stars, there was duke mining, changes to the motherlode mine, as well as the introduction of calcified rocks, overall decreasing the effort required to level the skill. Guide Contents Why Train Mining? Mining XP Boosts Pathways To 99 Low Level Mining Fastest Methods AFK Training Profitable Methods Ironman Methods F2P Methods If you would prefer to watch a video of this guide, you can watch below. Otherwise keep scrolling to read the 1-99 mining guide. Why Train Mining? So why should you train your mining? Well mining is one of, if not THE most useful non-combat skill for raiding . Both the chambers of xeric and the tombs of amascut have mining components. Having at least level 85 mining lets you deal sufficient damage in the Tombs of Amascut. And the higher your mining, the higher you hit on guardians within the Chambers of Xeric. Along with that, mining is required for a broad range of essential quests. For example, lunar diplomacy has a 60 mining requirement, and song of the elves requires 70… You need level 70 mining to get the quest cape, and level 85 mining for the achievement diary cape. Aside from unlocks and upgrades, mining is a profitable skill. Depending on the pathway you choose, youll make a substantial amount of gp on your journey to 99. Mining XP Boosts With mining, its important to know about the xp boosting items and equipment. By trading in 2000 stardust from shooting stars, you can get the celestial ring, which gives a +4 Invisible mining boost, essentially increasing your mining speed. If you charge the ring with stardust, it gives a 10% chance to mine an extra ore up to adamant, giving the full amount of experience. This is essentially 10% more xp per hour - excellent for methods like powermining iron. Varrock armour, which is rewarded from the varrock achievement diary, also gives a 10% chance to give double the ores, again giving around a 10% xp increase overall. Every tier of varrock armour works up to a certain type of rock, and paired with the celestial ring, you can get 20% more xp per hour at some methods, which saves a lot of time on getting 99. With level 60 mining, you can access the mining guild. Inside, the rocks regenerate faster, and additionally, you get an invisible plus 7 mining level boost while in the guild. While mining inside the guild, you can find unidentified minerals. These can be traded for 3 types of Mining Gloves with varying benefits. When equipped, they give a chance to prevent depleting the rock that you mine, which is useful for rocks that regenerate slowly, like runite and amethyst. While training in the motherlode mine, you find golden nuggets, and with 180 nuggets you can purchase the full prospector's outfit. This set gives a 2.5% mining xp boost, and most players should aim to get this outfit, although, it takes 10 to 20 hours to get the full set. With the medium falador diary, plus 50 agility... You can use the shortcut within the motherlode mine to more efficiently deposit your pay dirt. With level 57 mining, plus 100 golden nuggets, you get access to the upper level of the motherlode mine. This gives increased xp per hour, as well as more afk time. You should always be using and upgrading to the best pickaxe possible, up to the dragon pickaxe. Starting from bronze, you have a chance of getting ore every 8 gameticks. That goes down to 3 ticks with rune, but with dragon, theres a 1 in 6 chance that your mining action becomes 2 ticks. The best for the fastest experience is the crystal pickaxe. This requires the song of the elves quest, and is ideal for higher level mining training. The crystal pick has a 1 in 4 chance to have a 2 tick mining action, slightly better than the dragon pickaxe. While you're mining, you can use the dragon, crystal or 3rd age pickaxe special attack to get a plus 3 mining level boost, which improves your mining speed. Even if you don't have the mining level for a Dragon Pickaxe, you can still benefit from the Special Attack, as long as you have level 60 Attack. Pathways To 99 The fastest way to reach 99 mining is by using tick manipulation, and by following this pathway you can go from level 1 to 99 in around 130 hours. It includes 3 tick 4 iron and granite where you’ll mine granite for the majority of your experience. The fastest pathway to 99 without tick manipulation is going to take 180 to 200 hours. You could choose between training at the volcanic mine, blast mine or by defeating zalcano. Some popular AFK mining pathways to 99 include mining shooting stars, or at the motherlode mine, or at calcified rocks. In terms of money making, ill be showing Blast Mining, Zalcano, Runite Rocks and Amethyst. Low Level Mining Now lets move into the low level mining training section… Questing (Low Level Training) At a low mining level, questing is the fastest way to level up. Every regular player should aim to complete doric's quest to go from 1 to 10 mining very quickly. You need iron ores to finish the quest, so ironmen can either get them from killing dwarves, or by pickpocketing ham members. You can then do the plague city quest to get to level 18, which is a short easy quest. Then lastly, you can complete the digsite quest to reach level 33. You will need some extra stats to do this quest though, but having level 33 means you'll be able to powermine iron fairly effectively. There are a few more quests that give mining experience, but they have higher requirements. Copper & Tin (Low Level Training) If youre not into questing, the regular way to train your mining at a low level is copper and tin powermining. This can be done in a variety of places across Runescape, but some easily accessed places are the lumbridge swamp mine, and both the south east and south west varrock mines. You should be upgrading to the next available pickaxe as you unlock it because it dramatically increases your mining speed. So you should buy all of the pickaxes before you start training. To reach level 15 from level 1, you need to mine 138 ores, which is going to take about 15 minutes… Technically, you can 3 tick copper and tin for faster xp rates, where you start a 3 tick action before mining each rock. Using tick manipulation can almost double your mining speed in some cases, and tick manipulating is the only way to reach above 100k mining xp per hour in the entire game. Fastest Methods Now ill cover the fastest mining methods, and ill be showing iron, granite, the volcanic mine, blast mine, and gem rocks. Powermining Iron (Fastest Methods) First up is powermining iron, and from level 15 when you unlock it, all the way to level 70, powermining is the fastest experience without tick manipulation. The xp rates start at around 15k per hour when you unlock it, scaling up to over 60k per hour with a dragon pickaxe. Varrock armour is an important unlock with iron mining, since it effectively gives a 10% xp boost. When youre training, you should mine at a 3 iron rock location, where you don’t have to move while having access to 3 rocks. Above is every 3 rock location, where the noteable ones are alkharid and the isle of souls. However, once you reach 60 mining, its strongly suggested to go to the mining guild 3 rock locations. This is because rocks respawn faster here, and you get unidentified minerals. So the process of powermining iron involves mining and dropping without moving. On runelite, you can move your inventory closer to the rocks so that you don’t have to move the mouse as far to drop the ores. You can mine and drop after each rock, or alternatively you can mine all 3 around you, then drop all 3, and repeat. 3 Tick 4 Iron (Fastest Methods) 3 ticking 4 iron rocks is the fastest experience in the game between levels 15 and 45, and it involves movement and tick manipulation to get very high xp rates. Instead of the usual 15k youd get from powermining at level 15, you can get over 30k xp per hour with 3 tick 4 iron. This is because you spend no time waiting for rocks to respawn.. This method can only be done at certain locations where there are 4 iron rocks closeby to eachother. My favourite place for this method is on the isle of souls, which any members account can access. To 3 tick, you will need something that starts a 3 tick cycle, and that could be herb tar, teak log and knife or kebbit vambraces… So you start by doing a 3 tick action and mining an iron rock. Then as soon as you receive an ore, you start another 3 tick cycle, then click on a nearby rock, and repeat. You have to move every 3 gameticks as well, so even if you don’t successfully mine a rock, you have to move onto the next one to keep up the 3 tick actions. It’s recommended to swap the iron ore to left click drop, and once youre comfortable, you can click to drop right after starting the 3 tick cycle. While youre learning any 3 tick method, you may need to start your cycle again since mistakes will stop you from getting ores until you restart the cycle. 3 Tick 4 Granite (Fastest Methods) 3 ticking 4 granite rocks is the fastest method from 45 all the way up to 99 mining, although it also involves movement and tick manipulation to get the highest xp rates. You can expect up to 85k xp an hour at level 45 with 3 tick 4 granite, all the way up to 125k exp an hour at level 99. The only place for this method is mining in the quarry deep in the desert, where there are 4 granite rocks close together. You will need some waterskins, a circlet of water or the Desert Amulet 4 to protect yourself from the desert heat. Similar to 3tick4iron you will need something that starts a 3 tick cycle, herb and tar, teak logs and knife or kebbit claws and vambraces. 3tick 4 granite can be tough at first, but once you get the rhythm of it you can consistently see over 100k xp an hour starting at level 65. So you start by doing a 3 tick cycle action, then click to mine a granite rock. As soon as you receive the xp drop, you start another 3 tick action and click on the next rock, going in clockwise order. Its important to keep moving every 3 ticks even when you dont get an xp drop, and once again, you can use left click drop on the granite so you can drop inbetween mining. Volcanic Mine (Fastest Methods) One of the fastest methods in the game, without tick manipulation, is partaking in the volcanic mine. This is on Fossil Island, requiring 50 mining and having the Bone Voyage quest completed. 40 prayer is also recommended for protect from ranged. While you can start this activity at level 50 it is recommended to start doing the group method after level 70 mining. At 70, you can expect up to 70k xp per hour, scaling up to 85k at 99. To enter the Volcanic Mine you will need to pay 30 Numilite, and its recommended to take food and a prayer pot. The primary goal in the minigame is to mine the Huge Rock in the lava channel, as it moves downstream players mine it where it stops. You receive ore fragments when mining the Huge Rock and these fragments can be exchanged for rewards. You also have to monitor the mines stability and interact with the various vents to keep the mine from collapsing. So there are 3 main methods that you can do in the volcanic mine, known as capping, fixing and the group method. Capping in the volcanic mine involves taking the large rocks near the gas chambers, checking on the vents and repeatedly blocking and unblocking the chamber until you have 406 points. Capping gives a lot of reward points, and can give around 50k mining xp per hour. This is a great way to get some volcanic mine shop items for ironmen including the canteen. The other solo method, “fixing”, involves managing the vents, while mining the huge rock. While this method is more afk it will get you up to 20k xp an hour at level 50 all the way up to 60k at 99. Now, the fastest volcanic mine method in terms of xp rates is going as a group… In teams consisting of 4 or 5 players there are four designated roles. The roles for each player consist of a combination of checking, fixing and mining the boulder. I could make an entire guide for this method so im not going to explain it here - if you want an in-depth volcanic mine guide, go here . Blast Mine (Fastest Methods) Next is the blast mine, which provides competitive xp rates as well as profit. The blast mine is a great way to get higher level ores than your mining level by using dynamite, which will allow you to receive ores up to 10 levels higher than your mining level. This means you can get Adamant ores at level 60 and even Runite ores at level 75. You can start mining here at level 43 but it is recommended to wait until level 45 to unlock mithril ores at least. For the best experience, start at level 60 where you can expect up to 45k xp an hour going all the way up to 90k at level 99. Your profit from the blast mine increases greatly after 75 mining when Runite ores are unlocked. Weight reducing clothing like graceful is strongly recommended over the prospectors outfit while mining, and if using stamina potions, you can also consider using a ring of endurance too. The process involves Mining out a section of wall, placing the Dynamite in, and lighting the fuse. By moving on to the next section and following a pattern you can avoid all explosions and receive the best xp an hour possible. The optimal spot for training is to the north east. Zalcano (Fastest Methods) After a recent update, the Zalcano boss is now one of the fastest mining training methods in the game without tick manipulation. To receive more exp, you can toggle loot off at Rhiannon which boosts the mining xp to 55k starting at level 70, all the way up to 100k xp an hour at 99. While you don’t receive loot, you still have a chance at the Zalcano pet. Zalcano is normally ran in groups between 2 and 5 players. Wearing weight reducing clothing and health regenerating items is recommended, like the bracelet or hitpoints skillcape. As far as inventory goes, it’s recommended to bring 3 staminas and some hp restoring items, most people bring 4 to 8 saradomin brews for extended trips. Killing Zalcano involves mining rock formations in one of the four corners and refining the tephra you receive at the furnace to the east. You then imbue it into imbued tephra at the altar on the western side. Throwing these allows you to attack Zalcano and any golems summoned. Standing under a blue demonic symbol will increase your accuracy and damage when throwing imbued tephra. Saving your tephra until there are blue symbols to stand on is highly recommended, reducing how many you will have to craft each run. When the armor is depleted, Zalcano drops to the floor and becomes vulnerable allowing you to mine. After 12 to 16 seconds have passed, Zalcano will stand up and reset to 300 hitpoints. You repeat this process until your team has defeated the boss. 3 Tick Gem Rocks (Fastest Methods) At 40 mining, a notable method that gives high xp rates, is 3 tick gem rock mining, located in Shilo Village. For this method to be practical it is recommended to be level 61+ to use a dragon pickaxe and you MUST wear an Amulet of Glory which will triple your likelihood of mining the gem rock. You will also need the Medium Karamja diary unlocked to be able to mine non-stop without world hopping in the Underground Gem Mine. There is a bank chest nearby to put your gems in each time you complete a lap around the room. You can expect to get up to 55k xp an hour at 61, and up to 105k xp an hour at 99. For this method we move around the room counter clockwise. To begin we use the 3 tick items on each other and move onto the rock directly next to you. As you get more comfortable you can drop unwanted gems right after using your 3tick items allowing you to collect more each lap. When your inventory fills you can deposit all at the deposit chest. AFK Training There are various AFK mining methods in Oldschool, and ill be showing Shooting stars, the Motherlode Mine, Calcified Rocks and the passive mining xp you get from zeah runecrafting. Shooting Stars (AFK Method) A method that has gained popularity for its downtime in between clicks is Shooting Stars which have an average afk time of 7 minutes per layer. While these are unlocked at level 10 it is recommended to start at level 50 mining so you can access stars sooner instead of waiting. Each star drops and is tiered 1 through 9. These are the requirements for each tier and the average xp rates when mining. You can see that the rates are fairly slow, but for 7 minutes of afk time, you can’t really expect high xp rates. In terms of items, your best pickaxe, the Prospectors outfit and teleports to get around the world are recommended. Below are all of the recommended teleports you should have to quickly access stars. Some of these have fairly high requirements, but you dont need all of them. To find stars many people join the in game shooting stars friends chat through the group finder, although i would recommend using the star miners map website . It shows exactly where each active star is located on the runescape map, and tells you how long they approximately have left before they disappear. So to mine a shooting star, you firstly locate a star, then you choose a teleport closeby. Once you reach the star, you just click the star to mine it and you’ll be able to afk for up to 7 minutes. When one star layer depletes, it moves onto the next tier, where you can click once to continue mining for another 7 minutes. Once the star depletes, you find a new star with the star chat or with the star miners map, then repeat the process. Motherlode Mine (AFK Method) One of the most popular AFK methods is the motherlode mine which is unlocked at 30 mining. It can be accessed by going down the eastern Falador mine entrance and through the cave tunnel or by using a skills necklace. Once inside you will be able to mine the paydirt from the walls and deposit them in the Hopper. When the sack is full you can loot it for various ores and golden nuggets. Starting on the ground floor the paydirt when mined lasts between 23 and 27 seconds from when the first paydirt is mined. On the upper floor, ore veins will last between 36-40 seconds allowing you to spend longer without interacting with the client. Starting at level 30 on the lower floor players can expect 13k xp per hour, which increases towards 35k as you approach 60. Once on the upper floor players can expect to receive 45k xp at level 60 all the way up to 65k at 99. As for unlock order it is commonly recommended to unlock the rewards in this order. Now ill take you through one inventory at the motherlode mine. Starting from the bank, I run to a nearby pay dirt deposit. Then I click on the Ore Vein in the wall.. And Once its mined, i move onto the next wall deposit and repeat until i have a full inventory. To clean the paydirt, Place it in the hopper, on the north side of the waterwheels loop. You will receive an xp drop when the paydirt reaches the sack at the end of the water flow. If the water isn’t flowing you will need to repair the wheel by using a hammer with it. Once the ore sack is full, you can loot the ores and gold nuggets by left clicking the sack. Deposit it all at the bank or bank deposit box, then you go back to mining pay dirt. Calcified Rocks (AFK Method) A method introduced after partial completion of the Perilous Moons quest is Calcified Rocks, and these require level 41 mining. These rock veins are similar to the motherlode mine but instead of ore you receive blessed bone shards which can be used to get prayer xp. With an average afk time of roughly 70 seconds you can expect to receive mediocre xp rates, but you do get bone shards at the same time which can be used to train prayer. To access the Mine you will have to travel to western Varlamore, south of Ralos Rise. While in the room, every 1-2 minutes some rock veins will leak water. Mining these specific rocks increase the success rate of mining by 15%, but they deplete faster. If you world hop while in the mine your pickaxe won’t work until you wait for the next ore cycle or leave and come back. Zeah Runecrafting (AFK Method) If you plan to train your runecraft at Zeah Arceuus Blood Altar you will receive over 1.2 million mining xp from 77-99 runecrafting. It can be a great way to save hours of mining elsewhere if you plan to do this method. You can afk up to 3 minutes at a time at higher mining levels but, you can expect only 4k mining xp per hour, but it is somewhat passive. So essentially, if you plan to get 99 runecrafting at zeah, you should do that before you get 99 mining. Profitable Methods Now ill cover the most profitable mining methods, where we will see the blast mine, Zalcano, Runite rocks and Amethyst rocks. The motherlode mine and shooting stars could also be considered to be money making methods however they are better for afk training. Blast Mine (Profit Method) In the blast mine, because you receive ores 10 levels earlier than your unboosted level you can expect a higher amount of gp at an earlier level. While it is quite click intensive you can expect to make 180k gp an hour at level 45. The profits scale up to 620k an hour at level 90 and eventually reaches 800k at level 99. Going from level 45 to 99 mining at the blast mine, you can expect to make over 100 mil in profit. Zalcano (Profit Method) Defeating Zalcano is the most profitable mining money maker in the game, requiring level 70 mining and completion of song of the elves.. If you toggle loot on at zalcano, you can earn up to 2 mil gp per hour, however, the mining xp is quite low, reaching a maximum of only 15k per hour. If you did zalcano from when you unlock it, all the way to 99 mining, you would profit over 1.5 bil, but its going to take over 500 hours. Zalcano has a range of rune and noted resource drops, including ores, bars, high level gems and even onyx bolt tips. Every kill you get has a 1/200 chance of hitting the Crystal Tool seed drop as well as guaranteed Crystal Shards each kill. Runite Rocks (Profit Method) At level 85 mining, you unlock the second most profitable mining method in the game, mining rune rocks. Each rune ore is worth 10k, and its possible to mine over 60 of them per hour, which translates to a bit over 600k gp per hour. There are 15 different mining locations for runite, and while the ones closer to a bank are usually the most profit per hour, you’ll find that those ones are usually crowded with other players. So if you want to mine rune, you should choose a spot that not many players go to, regardless of how far the bank is. With mining runite, varrock armour 4 boosts your profit and xp by 10%. Amethyst (Profit Method) At level 92 mining, you can mine amethyst in the mining guild. This brings in around 300k gp in profit per hour, and is a very afk method of mining. It’s strongly recommended to have mining gloves while mining here to increase your afk times, and varrock armour and the celestial ring do not work with amethyst. Ironman Methods As an ironman, there are a few methods that are more viable than others. Mining at places like sandstone and gem rocks are beneficial, providing both decent xp rates and decent rewards. Ironmen can use all of the regular training methods ive shown in this video, however I will go into more detail about which ones are useful for ironmen. Sandstone (Ironmen) Unlocked at 35 mining, sandstone is the best way to gather sand for crafting training, netting over 2 thousand buckets of sand per hour. The xp rates reach up to 45k per hour at higher levels, which isnt that fast, but its still decent since you’re collecting crafting supplies. Sandstone is mined in the desert quarry, deep in the kharidian desert, and here, there are sandstone and granite rocks. Once you mine a full inventory of sandstone, you can run west to the sand grinder. Each different weight of sandstone gives a different amount of sand buckets, and you can then claim all of the buckets in noted form from Drew, costing 50 coins each. Gem Rocks (Ironmen) Gem rocks are another inviting option for ironmen, where you can just mine them normally, or you can 3 tick for the fastest rates. You can get over 12 hundred gems per hour at a higher mining level, and bringing along a gem bag can store the regular gems you get. Shooting Stars (Ironmen) As an iron, shooting stars can be an excellent way to get clay packs and gem packs, useful for making teleport tablets and for making jewellery. This is only really viable for irons if you want to train AFK, since the overall output of clay packs and gem packs is pretty slow. Amethyst (Ironmen) Amethyst is a key unlock for ironmen to create powerful amethyst ammunition. Many ironmen choose to train their mining this way since its fairly afk, but it is slow experience. Zalcano (Ironmen) And the final ironman method is zalcano, which is excellent for resources if you toggle rewards on. You’ll get a wide range of rewards, including runes, ores, bars, crystal shards and bolt tips. If you opt out of rewards, zalcano is one of the fastest mining training methods in the game without tick manipulation. Overall, ironmen can partake in the same methods that regular accounts follow, but they may choose to train mining with the aim of gathering resources, and thats where sandstone and gem rocks are used. F2P Methods To finish off the guide, I'd briefly like to cover free to play mining training. Fastest 1-99 Mining in F2P The absolute fastest way to 99 mining in free to play is firstly completing dorics quest, then powermining copper and tin, then from 15 to 99, powermining iron is the fastest xp in the game. Shooting stars do work in free to play, however they give reduced experience. They can be a decent way to train though, but you wont be able to get any rewards since the shooting stars reward shop is members only. Mining barronite deposits after the below ice mountain quest is another decent mining training method for free to play. Its pretty low effort, and you can take the barronite to an anvil to gain some smithing experience. You can also purchase the charm of mining for 2.5 thousand barronite shards, which gives a 10% increased success rate when mining barronite rocks. In terms of profitable training methods in free to play, you can access adamant and runite rocks to make some money. Adamant will make around 115k gp per hour in free to play, with 70 mining, while runite can earn over 500k gp per hour, but thats very hard to achieve since the runite rocks are usually occupied in free to play. The only rune rocks for free to play are also deep in the wilderness, making it a less inviting method. Thanks for reading! To skip to any section of this guide, use the table of contents below: Guide Contents Why Train Mining? Mining XP Boosts Pathways To 99 Low Level Mining Fastest Methods AFK Training Profitable Methods Ironman Methods F2P Methods

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What's going on guys! My name's Theoatrix, and welcome to my level 1-99 Ranged Guide for OSRS . This guide is ironman friendly, and its suitable for pures as well. GUIDE OUTLINE Why Train Ranged How Ranged Works Useful Unlocks Ranged Weapons Ranged Armour Pathways to 99 Low Level Training Fastest Pathway AFK Pathway Ranged Slayer Bossing With Ranged F2P Methods If you would prefer to watch a video version of this guide, you can watch that below. Otherwise you can continue down the page to read the written guide. Why Train Ranged? So why should you train your ranged level? Ranged is one of the Fastest 99's in the game - At high levels you can get XP rates of up to 1M per hour … On the Fastest Pathway that I’m showing in this article, you can get 99 Ranged in only 22 Hours . Ranged is also an AFKable 99. On the AFK Pathway that I’m showing, you can get 99 Ranged in 105 hours , with AFK intervals of up to 20 minutes . A big reason to train Ranged is because of its excellent use in PvM and PvP . A number of Bosses are weak to Ranged, like Zulrah and Muspah, and all 3 Raids require Ranged.
It's recommended to level up to 80 Ranged before you consider Bossing or Raiding. Some day, you might consider making a Pure account. Well, Ranged is commonly the main attack style for pures due to its fast attack speed and high accuracy . 8 quests in Old School have a Ranged level requirement. Most of these quests are essential in progressing your account, unlocking new areas and more quests. You need level 60 Ranged to get the Quest Cape, and you need level 70 Ranged for the Achievement Diary Cape. How Ranged Works Now I’m going to go over how Ranged works, starting with your ranged level. Increasing your Ranged Level increases both your Ranged Accuracy and Max Hit . With a regular Shortbow and Bronze arrows , at level 1, your max hit is 1 , and your accuracy is 50.5% . At 99 Ranged, with the same gear, your max hit is 12 , with an accuracy of 95.8% . Your Ranged Attack Bonus comes from weapons and armour, and increasing your ranged attack bonus increases your Ranged Accuracy . The Bowfa (Bow of faerdhinen) gives the highest ranged attack bonus out of any weapon, giving +128 . Every piece of Ranged Armour gives a ranged attack bonus, with Masori armour giving the highest in the game. Your Ranged Strength Bonus mostly comes from ammunition, and some weapons and armour give ranged strength bonus too. Increasing your ranged strength bonus only increases your ranged max hit. The highest ranged strength bonus you can get comes from using a Heavy Ballista with Dragon Javelins . The Necklace of Anguish is a notable item that gives ranged strength bonus, and the Masori armour set gives a small strength bonus as well. Most ranged weapons in Old School have 3 Combat Styles. There's Accurate , which gives a +3 invisible ranged level boost. There's Rapid , which attacks 1 tick faster. And there is Longrange , which has an increased attack distance. For the best XP and DPS, its recommended to always use Rapid . Chinchompas work a little differently. They have Short, Medium, and Long fuse , which have similar attributes to Accurate Rapid, and Longrange , except they have different accuracy rolls. Their accuracy is based on how many tiles away the monster is. So, this means you should use Short fuse if you want to save money and get the most out of your Chinchompas. Although Medium fuse is the best XP per hour due to the increased attack speed. Now I’m going to go over the useful unlocks that will help with your ranged training. Useful Unlocks Completing Animal Magnetism rewards the Ava's devices, a cape slot item that automatically picks up ammunition as you shoot it. This is a must for ranged training - its going to save you millions on your journey to 99. You can then complete Dragon Slayer 2 to upgrade to the Ava's assembler, which gives extra ranged bonuses. Starting Monkey Madness 1 and Monkey Madness 2 , both unlock chinning training locations. If you're after the fastest experience, you'll need at least one of these to be able to chin effectively. Overall Maniacal Monkeys are better XP per hour, so aim for Monkey Madness 2 . Completing the Dwarf Cannon quest allows you to use the Dwarf Multicannon , which provides the fastest XP rates at a low level. The cannon is also used with Slayer training, another big source of ranged experience. From the Horror from the Deep quest, you can get the Book of Law , which gives a plus 10 ranged attack bonus. This use useful for pures since it doesn’t have any requirements to wear. Its highly recommended to use an imbued Archer's ring . You can now imbue items at Soul Wars, the Nightmare Zone, and the PvP arena. I recommend imbuing at the Nightmare Zone (NMZ) since its really AFK, although Soul Wars is a quick way to imbue. The last useful unlock is Rigour , a prayer unlocked at 77 prayer. To unlock Rigour, you need to read a Dexterous Prayer Scroll , and these currently cost 30 Mil on the Grand Exchange. Now I’m going to go over the Ranged weapons you should be using. I've picked 5 of the best weapons for each combat bracket. Ranged Weapons These are the weapons for the low ranged bracket. At level 1, using a Cannon is the fastest, followed by Iron knives and short bows. At level 20, Mithril Darts are very affordable and effective. At the mid-level, Chinchompas are going to give you the best XP rates. A Rune crossbow with Broad Bolts is about on par with a Magic short bow with Rune arrows, although Rune arrows are far more expensive than Broad Bolts. In the higher-level bracket, Black Chinchompas give the highest XP rates. The Corrupted Bowfa (Bow of faerdhinen (c)) is the best to use for regular training, followed by the Toxic Blowpipe. The Venator Bow is another decent option in multicombat areas. Ranged Armour From levels 1 to 50, these are the best armour sets that you should be using. Take note that the Green d’hide body requires Dragon Slayer 1 to wear. Pure accounts can only wear the leg slot item, and pures can't wear Snakeskin. Above level 50, these are the best armour sets to wear. Black d’hide is a cost effective armour option, and Masori is the best in slot. Blessed d’hide gives the same ranged bonuses as black d’hide, but gives a prayer bonus as well. There are 2 more armour sets you should be aware of. Void is a great armour set to have; however, its only effective against monsters with a high defence level, so Void is good against bosses. You should aim for Elite Void for the extra ranged damage boost. The Crystal Armour set, which you can wear after Song of the Elves , is a very effective armour set if you’re using Crystal weaponry. The Crystal Set is better than Masori when using the Bowfa. As well as your ranged armour, there's some extra items you should aim to have. In the Head Slot, these are the best items to use. Masori is best, followed by Armadyl, Blessed Coifs and Karils. The Robin Hood hat is best in slot for pures. Boot Slot items for ranged are pretty expensive. If you have the defence level, you can wear D’hide boots which are much cheaper than Rangers or Pegasians . Otherwise you can just wear Snakeskin boots. In the Gloves Slot, at a low level, you should use the best vambraces you can. If you have the Barrows Gloves unlocked, they are better than Black D’hide vambraces. The best in slot are Zaryte Vambraces . In terms of necklaces, if you have the money you should get a Necklace of Anguish for the extra Ranged Strength bonus. Otherwise, you can use a Fury or Glory , which both give a +10 Ranged Attack bonus. In the shield slot, the Twisted Buckler is the best in slot, although an Odium Ward or a Book of Law are decent low-priced options. Pathways to 99 Now lets move into the Pathways to 99. I'm going to start off by showing some low-level training methods, then I'll show 2 Pathways to 99, the Fastest Experience and an AFK Pathway. The Fastest XP pathway takes as little as 22 Hours for 99. It costs 112 mil if you use Black Chinchompas, and it costs less than half if you use Grey or Red Chinchompas. The AFK Pathway takes 105 Hours and costs 4 Mil . I recommend following both pathways and switch depending on whether you want to AFK or not. Low Level Training At a low ranged level, levelling up is incredibly slow if you attack monsters normally. So, its strongly recommended to complete quests for your early levels. The Temple of Ikov quest can get you from level 1 straight to 27 ranged. In the Quest menu, it says you need 40 Ranged to complete Temple of Ikov , but you can bypass this requirement by using Darts or Knives, while having Ice Arrows equipped. Another quest you can complete from a low level is Horror from the Deep , and this grants 4.6k Ranged XP . It requires 35 Agility , and you'll need a decent magic level to kill the Dagannoth Mother . If you completed the Temple of Ikov first, you'd get to 31 Ranged after Horror from the Deep . Death to the Dorgeshuun is another quest that gives Ranged XP with low requirements. You need 23 Thieving and Agility , plus the Lost Tribe quest. If you did the previous 2 quests, you'd be at level 32. If you would prefer to train normally instead of questing at a low level, there's 2 methods, Crabs and Cannoning . There's 4 Types of Crabs in Old School, and they all have similar bonuses, except Swamp Crabs have a negative ranged defence bonus. This makes them the best for low level ranged training. Swamp Crabs are found in Morytania . There are a few locations, but on the screen I've marked out the spots with at least 2 crabs. Alternatively, Sand Crabs are a good option for fresh accounts, and there's many locations to find these. On the screen are some of them. So the other low level method is Cannoning, and even at level 1 Ranged, you can get over 100k XP per hour , which is very fast. There's a few places you can cannon. You could go to Ogres near Castle Wars , or there’s Caged Ogres available after the Biohazard quest. Or you could go to Rock Crabs with your cannon, or Dagannoths in the Lighthouse which are one of the fastest cannon spots in the game. If you want to save some money while you cannon, there are a few cost effective cannon locations. You can cannon Ice Trolls for various Rune items and Granite Shields, overall making you break-even. Or you can cannon Scabarites after the Contact quest, and these drop alchables, herbs and seeds. Fastest Pathway Now lets get into the fastest pathway to 99. As mentioned, this pathway takes 22 Hours and costs around 112 Mil. So, you start off cannoning from a low level, then you'll be chinning all the way to 99 at high XP rates. You can choose to use Grey or Red Chinchompas all the way to 99 for slower XP rates, but at a far lower cost. So, at level 1, you'll want to complete the Dwarf Cannon quest, which has no requirements . Then get your hands on a cannon from the Grand Exchange, and some cannonballs. To get from level 1 to 45 , you'll need around 2000 Cannonballs. You should cannon at one of the locations I mentioned in the low-level training section Something to keep in mind while using a cannon , is that your cannons accuracy is based off the attack bonus of your current attack style. So, it’s best to wear your best gear and weapon when using a cannon. At 45 ranged , you can wear Grey Chinchompas , which are the fastest method until Red Chinchompas and Black Chinchompas. There are 2 places I suggest chinning at. The first is the Monkey Madness 1 tunnels, where there are Skeletal Monkeys . And the other is the monkey madness 2 tunnels, where you can find Maniacal Monkeys . Both caves require you to almost complete the Monkey Madness quests to access them. These are the XP rates you can expect. At a low level with Grey Chins, you’re going to see XP rates of around 250k per hour , which is really fast. At high ranged levels and with Black Chinchompas , you can reach over 1 mil XP per hour . It’s important to keep in mind that the Monkey Madness 2 tunnels are faster XP per hour since there’s a lot more monkeys there. So, if you’re chinning in the Monkey Madness 1 tunnels, you might need more chins than the amounts shown on the screen. Grey Chinchompas are the most cost effective but give the slowest XP rates. although if you want to train at a lower cost , you’ll still level up really fast with Grey Chins. Overall, if you went from Grey Chins to Red, to Black, its going to cost 112 Mil, but will only take 21 Hours from 45 to 99. In terms of armour, these are the best setups to use. It's important to prioritize ranged strength bonus as well as prayer bonus , although having a high ranged attack bonus does help. This makes Elite Void the best setup to use, followed by Masori and Armadyl. At low levels, just use the best Dragonhide you can, as well as Monk Robes or God Vestment Robes for prayer bonus. This is what you should bring in your inventory. It varies depending on whether you go to the Monkey Madness 1 tunnels or Monkey Madness 2 . In the Monkey Madness 2 tunnels, you don’t need to bring many Prayer Potions with you since the monkeys drop Prayer Potions, and you can use the Bonecrusher . You shouldn’t use the Bonecrusher in the Monkey Madness 1 tunnels because the Skeletal Monkeys spawn from bones that are left on the ground. You should also bring Divine Ranging potions for the best XP rates, and you'll also need a light source for the Monkey Madness 2 tunnels. This is how you navigate the Monkey Madness 1 tunnels. You start by using the Ape Atoll Teleport Spell, or you can use the tablet available off the Grand Exchange. It teleports you right inside the tunnels, close to where you’ll be chinning. So, from the teleport location, you follow the tunnels for about 1 minute, until you reach an opening with Skeletal Monkeys . Walk around to get the monkeys aggressive to you, but avoid the spike traps on the floor. Then, once they’re aggressive, stand on this tile. Here, you’ll avoid damage from the falling rocks in the cave. To stack up the monkeys, you can run between these two tiles. After some time, the monkeys lose aggression. To reset, you can run back the way you came and then return. For the Monkey Madness 2 tunnels, you should start by teleporting with your Royal Seed Pod , then head up to the gnome glider on the top floor. From here, take the glider to Ape Atoll (Ookookolly Undri) . Then you head South into the trapdoor in the grass. head South , then East , and here you follow the path you took during Monkey Madness 2 , until you reach the green circle. Here, you enter another cave, then you run East , all the way to the open area with a lot of monkeys. Then, you run to a corner of the room, and to stack up the monkeys you run back and forth around a corner. Once they're stacked, you can start chinning. After some time, the monkeys will stop being aggressive. To reset, just run back towards where you entered the cave, then run back. AFK Pathway Now let’s get into the AFK pathway. On this pathway, you’ll start off training at crabs , then at a higher level you’ll move to the Nightmare Zone . At level 80, the Venator Bow becomes the fastest AFK training method. So, from level 1 to 70, or from level 1 to 99 if you’re a pure, the best way to AFK is at crabs. You can AFK for 10 minutes at all types of crabs. If you want to learn more, skip back to the low-level training section of this guide. If you find that those standard crab locations are too busy, you can complete the Depths of Despair Quest to access the crabs in the Crabclaw Caves . Or, you could pay 10K to go to Crabclaw Isle , which is usually less populated. It’s going to take approximately 25 Hours to get from 1 to 70.. I strongly suggest having Ava’s Device if you’re planning to AFK at crabs since it allows you to use better ammo without losing much money. At level 70 Ranged, you should head to the Nightmare Zone. Here you'll get better XP rates, and if you start at 1 Hitpoint , and drink a lot of Absorption Potions, you’re able to AFK for 20 minutes before you stop attacking. When training ranged in the Nightmare Zone, you should set the monsters to Normal Mode , not hard, since the hard monsters have a high ranged defence. On the screen I’m showing the recommended quests and subsequent bosses for training ranged in the Nightmare Zone . You need at least 5 of these to be able to start a dream. For the most AFK experience, you’ll need a Rock Cake or a Locator Orb , which are obtained from freeing the Mountain Dwarf and Dragon Slayer 2 . Additionally, you’ll need Absorption Potions and Super Ranging Potions , which are rewards from the Nightmare Zone. So if its your first time in the Nightmare Zone and you don’t have any reward points, you should select bosses that use melee and use Protect from Melee until you have enough points for Absorption Potions . At level 80 Ranged, you can wear the Venator Bow . This currently costs 44 mil on the Grand Exchange, and its charged with Ancient Essence which are only 66 coins each. When charged, the bow attacks up to 3 monsters at once. In dense multicombat areas, this lets you AFK for up to 20 minutes at a time. There's a few notable places to use the Venator Bow. The Catacombs of Kourend contains a lot of monsters in a multi-combat area. Monsters like Bloodvelds , Abyssal Demons and Dust Devils and all be AFKed. However, the Nightmare Zone provides the highest XP rates with the Venator Bow since you can use Super Ranging Potions . Next I’m going to briefly cover Ranged training with Slayer. Ranged Slayer As I just mentioned, the Venator Bow can be used on monsters within the Catacombs of Kourend for AFK experience. And a lot of those monsters are assigned as Slayer Tasks. But with slayer, I suggest using Melee as your main attack style. If you trained from level 1 to 99 Slayer , cannoning as many tasks as possible, while using melee as your main attack style, you'd reach around level 90 Ranged. So if you plan on going for 99 Slayer one day, you should do Slayer before Ranged, otherwise you'll end up with a lot of excess ranged XP. Bossing With Ranged Now lets talk about bossing Ranged is commonly used with bossing due to its high accuracy and damage. With at least level 61 Ranged for the Rune Crossbow, you might consider defeating Jad for the Fire Cape. Also with the Rune Crossbow, you can defeat the King Black Dragon , which can drop a Dragon pickaxe, a Visage or a Pet. With a recommended Ranged level of 85, you can defeat Zulrah, Vorkath, and Muspah, all highly profitable bosses with pet drops. At an even high ranged level, you can start raiding , which brings in the most profit in the game. F2P Methods Now to finish off the guide, I’m going to go over some free to play training tips. As you level up, you should use the best bow you can until the Maple Shortbow . In free to play, the best weapon you can use is a Maple Shortbow with Adamant arrows . Although Adamant arrows are expensive, so Iron arrows are a cheap option for free to play where you can't get the Ava’s devices. At a low level, cows and chickens around Lumbridge are low defence targets for ranged training. At mid to high levels, players can start safe spotting monsters. You can safe-spot Ogress Warriors for profit in the Corsair Cove Dungeon , and to get there, you need to start the Corsair Curse quest. Moss Giants can be safe spotted in Varrock sewers as well, and these aren't really that profitable in free to play but you’ll be able to fight Bryophyta. For AFK training in free to play, I suggest going to the spiders on the 3rd floor of the Stronghold of Security . Here you can AFK for 10 minutes before you need to reset, but keep in mind, they do hit quite a bit, so you’ll need some defence levels to train here. I also recommend wearing Full Rune with your Maple Shortbow when training here so that you can AFK the longest without dying. OSRS Ranged Guide Thanks for reading my 1 – 99 Ranged Guide . I hope you learned something helpful today and enjoyed. 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Whats going on guys, my name’s Theoatrix and welcome to my updated crafting guide… Guide Quick-Links Changes To Crafting Why Train Crafting Low Level Training Fastest Methods Alternative Methods Profitable Methods AFK Crafting Ironman Crafting F2P 1-99 Crafting If you prefer, here is a video version of the guide. Or you can continue scrolling for the written guide. Changes To Crafting There has been some changes to the skill since my last guide… June 2023: Jagex introduced mixed hide armour September 2024: Jagex added Hueycoatl Why Train Crafting Crafting is one of the more important skills in old school, where training unlocks a range of jewellery and equipment. You need level 55 crafting to be able to make the slayer helmet, and you need 75 crafting to make slayer rings. You also need 75 to be able to make the divine rune pouch, rewarded from the tombs of amascut. For ironmen, crafting is an essential skill, for the creation of armour, and especially for jewellery. Items like the games necklace, ring of dueling, amulet of glory, and more, can all be made with crafting and magic. A range of notable quests also have a crafting requirement including sins of the father and dragon slayer 2. For the quest cape, you need 70 crafting, which is the requirement for monkey madness 2. For the achievement diary cape, you need 85 crafting to create a magic pyre ship. You can boost with a mushroom pie which gives a +4 crafting level boost. With that, you can craft items you havent unlocked yet to speed up your xp rates, or ironmen can use these pies to make armour and jewellery 4 levels early. Low Level Training Now ill take you through the best low level training pathways for crafting. There are 4 different methods that i recommend from level 1. Questing (Low Level) Questing is probably the most efficient way to level up, if youre going for the quest cape, where you can complete the murder mystery quest to go from 1 to 9 crafting. There are a range of other quests that give a crafting reward, where death on the isle gives a notable 5 thousand experience. Cutting Opals (Low Level) For those wanting to train crafting normally, the fastest way to level up is by cutting opal gems. To do this, you use a chisel on an uncut opal, which you can buy off the grand exchange. To go from level 1 to 20, you should buy 500 uncut opals since there’s a chance of crushing these when cutting. Going from 1 to 20 is going to take under 10 minutes, and the cost is minimal. For your reference, the xp rate at a low level is about 20k xp per hour cutting opals. Leather Crafting (Low Level) An alternative crafting training method from a low level, which is also the fastest low level crafting xp in free to play, is crafting leather items. This involves starting with leather gloves at level 1, all the way up to leather bodies at level 20. You need 217 leather to reach 20, and is currently going to cost 70k. To make leather items, you use a needle on regular leather, while having thread in your inventory. Above, im using a threadless needle , which is rewarded from the Death on the Isle quest. This removes the need to use thread, and is nice to have. Stringing Amulets (Low Level) Stringing amulets with balls of wool is a profitable way to training from level 1. Doing this, you can get 10k xp per hour, and in particular, ruby and dragonstone amulets are quite profitable to make. Fastest Methods Alright, now im going to cover the fastest ways to 99 crafting. Unlike most skills, these fast methods aren’t overly expensive. Crafting has become a lot cheaper over the years, and has even become profitable. I’m going to cover 3 fast training pathways. Gem Cutting (Fast Methods) Gem cutting is the fastest way to level from 1 until level 77 crafting, and is quite cheap with the lower level gems. Here is the complete pathway to 99 cutting the best viable gems. After opals, you start on sapphires at level 20, and work your way up the standard gemstones. Dragonstones are extremely expensive though, costing nearly 500 mil to reach 99, so instead, you can stick to cutting emeralds, rubies or diamonds all the way to 99, for fast xp rates, and some short AFK times. Cutting emeralds is very cheap, but rubies are a good one too since theyre fast, and you can get 99 at a cost of only 30 mil. I would strongly recommend against doing dragonstone cutting, and stick to the lower level gems to save money. Battlestaves (Fast Methods) Another fast, and a more cost effective way to train your crafting, is by making battlestaves. You unlock the first one at level 54 crafting, then it goes from water, to earth, fire and air, at 66. Your xp rates scale from 240 to 330 k xp per hour, and overall its going to take under 40 hours to reach 99.. However.. Air battlestaves are quite expensive in comparison to the others, so with that, you can stick to either water or earth battlestaves to save money. With water battlestaves, you currently make a profit of around 3 mil getting 99, which is very minimal, but its still profit. It takes 50 hours with waterbattlestaves, but only 42 hours with earth battlestaves. So for a higher xp rate, you can spend a couple of mil instead of making a profit. Battlestaves are made by combining charged orbs with a regular battlestaff. So you withdraw 14 of each, and use them on eachother, then you craft all 14 and repeat. D'hide Bodies (Fast Methods) The fastest way to train your crafting at a high level, is by making dragonhide bodies. At level 63 you can start on green dhide bodies, and it goes up to blue, red then black dhide. Doing the best body you can all the way to 99, its going to take under 35 hours from level 63. However… it is going to cost over 200 mil, mostly due to the massive loss when making black dhide bodies. So with that, you can once again stick to one type of dragonhide all the way to 99, like doing green dhide bodies, it will take 40 hours for 99, and at a cost of 20 mil. Blue dhide bodies arent too bad either, but green is the cheapest. So i mentioned earlier that gem cutting is the fastest xp until level 77… well at 77 you unlock red dhide bodies which are faster than cutting dragonstone. To make dhide bodies, you use dragonleather on a needle and thread, and then you select to create your full inventory. Alternative Methods Now lets move into the alternative methods section, where i show some AFK methods and a few other fast methods. Glassblowing (Alternative Method) First up, one of the most afk crafting methods in the game, is glassblowing. For every inventory that you make, you can afk for about 50 seconds. However, the xp rates are quite low in comparison to the fastest methods. Pretty much every glassblowing method doesnt cost a lot of money, usually under 20 mil to reach level 99. Unpowered orbs and light orbs are particularly cheap, although theres not a huge difference. To make glass items, you use a glassblowing pipe on molten glass. Then you select to create your full inventory, then you can go afk. Cutting Amethyst (Alternative Method) Once you reach level 83 crafting, you can start cutting amethyst. It ranges from bolt tips, through to dart tips at 89, although the xp rates for all of them are the same, at around 160k per hour. The method involves just using a chisel on regular amethyst, then you craft the inventory at the same speed as cutting gems. In terms of cost, arrowtips and dart tips are generally pretty cheap, and sometimes even can be profitable. I would stay away from bolt tips and javelin heads since they have far lower trade volumes on the grand exchange. Profit Methods Alright now lets go through the profitable crafting methods. And ill be showing jewellery, drift nets, mixed hide and hueycoatl armour. Silver Jewellery (Profit Method) Currently, you can make nearly 1 mil gp per hour crafting silver topaz amulets. These are unlocked at level 45 crafting, and is one of many pieces of silver jewellery that brings in a profit. Jewellery like opal necklaces, which are commonly enchanted to become dodgy necklaces, and theres jade amulets, used to make the amulet of chemistry, and more which bring a lot of profit. For these methods, you bring a mould to the furnace with silver bars and gemstones, then you just click the furnace to open the crafting interface. The afk interval for one inventory of silver jewellery is 25 seconds, which is not that bad for a profitable and decently fast method. Gold Jewellery (Profit Method) Gold jewellery is another profitable crafting method, where crafting any piece of gold with a gemstone is usually going to be profitable. Things like sapphire necklaces, emerald rings, and ruby amulets are all in high demand, and give decent xp per hour. Although, gold jewellery really becomes profitable once you reach dragonstone, where currently, making dragonstone bracelets will earn you over 30 mil on your journey to 99, while giving over 150k xp per hour. Drift Nets (Profit Method) Now another fairly profitable crafting method is unlocked at level 26, where you can make drift nets out of jute fibres. This is done at a loom, which you can find one near a bank on fossil island. You get a maximum of 60k xp per hour doing this, while profiting over 500k, so doing this from 26 to 99 will bring in 130 mil in profit, but will take 200 hours. Theres a fairly decent afk interval with drift nets too, about 25 seconds. Mixed Hide (Profit Method) As I mentioned at the start, jagex introduced mixed hide armour to the game in 2023. Well with that, making it can be a highly profitable money maker depending on the grand exchange. You can make the top, legs, boots or cape, for very high xp rates, while profiting a lot. To make mixed hide armour. You combine a mixed hide base with certain furs. You obtain mixed hide bases within the hunter guild, or you can also buy them off the grand exchange. Overall, making mixed hide bodies is the most profitable right now, but im not sure how long that will last. And one thing to keep in mind with this method, is that it costs a lot of money to buy the supplies for most of these, so you do need a lot of starting capital. Hueycoatl (Profit Method) The final profitable method i want to talk about is hueycoatl armour. This is made with a needle and thread, used on hueycoatl hides. After monitoring the profitability, they seem to remain consistently profitable to craft, but there can be challenges with buying enough hides and selling them quickly. To be able to afford the supplies to get 99 crafting this way, you need over 20 billion gp. But you can definitely do this method incrementally. Hueycoatl bodies actually give a higher xp rate than black dhide bodies, over 500k xp per hour. Overall, with mixed and hueycoatl hide armour, its important to always double check the profitability of the methods with the live grand exchange prices. They can be very profitable, but you can also lose money in some cases. AFK Training I want to briefly show the afk aspect of crafting. Purely gold or silver jewellery lets you afk for 50 seconds Jewellery with gemstones takes 25 seconds Glassblowing lets you afk for 50 seconds per inventory Cutting gemstones or amethyst is 32 seconds Crafting drift nets at a loom gives 26 seconds of afk time Battlestaves are 17 seconds D'hide bodies take 16 seconds Overall, most crafting methods have some afk aspect to them. But in terms of a combination between afk time and xp per hour, cutting gemstones like rubies or emeralds gives a good balance. Ironman Crafting As an ironman, crafting works a little differently. The majority of your time is spent gathering the supplies that you need, and only a smaller portion of time is spent actually crafting. There are a variety of ways ironmen can gather supplies. Charter ships provide the essentials for glass blowing. And theres also sandstone mining, seaweed farming, the shilo village gem mine, or thieving tzhaars for gems. The best way to train from a low level is completing quests. Quests like murder mystery and elemental workshop are a great way to boost through the slow early levels. Once you reach level 10 you can start making bowstring out of flax. This can be done in camelot, where you can pick the flax and spin it nearby. If youre a keen quester, then theres about 10 different quests you can do that have minimal requirements. Doing all of those quests will get you from level 1 to 35 crafting, skipping most of the slow early levels. Some of your low level crafting could also be done at the guardians of the rift minigame, where you passively gain 3 to 5 k crafting xp per hour. The most common method to 99 crafting on an iron is glassblowing at charterships. This involves buying seaweed and buckets of sand from charter ships and using the superglassmake spell, and banking. Making jewellery is another common way for ironmen to train crafting, where you can get a lot of gold bars from buying gold ore at the blast furnace. Gems can be obtained in the early game from places like the wintertodt, and at higher levels, the shilo village gem mine is a great source of gems. There is also battlestaves for ironmen, where with completion of varrock achievement diaries, you can purchase battlestaves from zaff. You can also get battlestaves from pvm, or also from planting celastrus trees. To get the powered orbs, you need to get them from pvm or you can also make them for some magic experience. F2P 1-99 Crafting And to finish, this video wouldnt be complete without explaining free to play crafting. Crafting is fairly quick in free to play if you have the money, since cutting gems is available. And there are 3 quests that give crafting xp in free to play, which can give you a small boost from a low level, or is particularly useful for free to play ironmen. In free to play, you can string amulets with balls of wool, and stringing amulets like ruby ones can bring in some profit while giving decent xp from level 1. Crafting leather items is an option in free to play, where the majority of your experience will come from making hardleather bodies. Thats going to cost about 100 mil to get 99, so i would strongly recommend cutting gems if youre free to play. You can cut emeralds or rubies to 99 for fast xp rates and a low cost, reaching xp rates of over 230k xp per hour. Emeralds are currently the cheapest, where you lose under 10 mil going for 99. Crafting jewellery is another popular option, where there is a range of gold jewellery available to free to play. Diamond necklaces and amulets are currently the most profitable, bringing in over 10 mil in profit to 99, while giving around 100k xp per hour. Anyways that was my complete level 1 to 99 crafting guide. If you missed something, there are links to every section below. Guide Quick-Links Changes To Crafting Why Train Crafting Low Level Training Fastest Methods Alternative Methods Profitable Methods AFK Crafting Ironman Crafting F2P 1-99 Crafting

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