đź’ˇ The skilling guide is intended to offer practical advice, highlight commonly used methods, and provide options for various play styles. It does not aim to represent the entire player base or define definitive best practices.
Last updated on June 20, 2025. Therefore, this guide may not yet reflect content or updates released after this date.
- Bliss skills award XP at 76x the rate of RuneScape 2. Once you reach 200,000,000 XP in a skill, you can prestige it at the Prestige Master (::home). Each prestige halves that skill’s XP rate and earns you 100 prestige points per level, which can be spent in the Prestige Shop. Prestiging is key to progression—multiple prestige levels are required to unlock the completionist and trimmed completionist capes.
- Double XP Weekend occurs on the first full weekend of every month and applies to all players.
- You can access nearly all skilling locations mentioned in this guide by clicking on the respective skill icon.
- Skill pet drop rates on Bliss begin at 1 in 500,000,000 raw XP at prestige 0. This rate improves with each prestige level and follows the formula: (prestige + 1) / 500,000,000 XP.
AGILITY
How to train
- Level 1
Gnome Stronghold Agility Course - Level 35
Barbarian Outpost Agility Course - Level 48
Ape Atoll Agility Course (obtain a greegree from the scout near the course) - Level 85
Advanced Gnome Stronghold Course - Level 90
Advanced Barbarian Outpost Course or Advanced Gnome Stronghold Course
Alternatively, Brimhaven Agility Arena
Tips & Tricks
- Use summer pies (baker stall via ::thieve) to boost from 80 to 85 Agility, allowing early access to the advanced Gnome Stronghold course. This helps you progress toward the agile outfit (a requirement for the completionist cape) and reduces post-99 grinding on the level 85 course.
- Most players use their XP lamps on Agility.
- The Brimhaven Agility Arena is the best XP per hour during the minigame spotlight.
- Agility 99 cape: +10% run energy restoration
Agility 120 cape: +25% run energy restoration
CONSTRUCTION
How to Train
- Level 1
Bring one inventory of normal planks and a few steel nails. Build a crude wooden chair, then use the rest of your planks to make rocking chairs. - Level 38
Create a dining room, bring one inventory of teak planks, and use them to build teak tables. - Level 52
Build mahogany tables in the dining room. A slightly more expensive method, but significantly faster XP—popular for prestiging. - Level 60
Build teak wardrobes in the bedroom. A cheaper method, but slower XP—also commonly used for prestiging.
Tips & Tricks
- Once you’ve found the right camera angle and zoom, Construction can be trained entirely without moving your mouse or using right-click menus—with the help of menu entry swapper and a normal butler (not the demon butler).
- You can hire a butler north-east of the Yanille house portal. The gameplay settings in the ::settings menu include an auto-pay toggle to avoid extra dialogue during training.
- At level 96, you can build a bank chest in your costume room.
- This bank chest acts as extra storage, separate from your regular bank.
- On group ironman accounts, it is shared with your team and cannot store untradeable items.
- The sawmill operator can convert noted logs into planks, but it costs 5x more than using unnoted logs.
- Construction 99 cape: Sawmill operators give a 10% discount on converting logs to planks.
Construction 120 cape: Sawmill operators give a 25% discount on converting logs to planks.
COOKING
How to Train
- Level 1
Cook shrimp and anchovies - Level 40
Cook lobster - Level 68
Cook monkfish - Level 88
Cook cavefish (popular method for prestiging) - Level 93
Cook rocktail (popular method for prestiging)
Tips & Tricks
- You can obtain cooking gauntlets by bringing 100 noted cooked lobsters to Caleb in Catherby, located just north of the bank.
- If you receive grapes from the Kalphite Queen, collect jugs of water from Shantay Pass to make wine for additional Cooking XP.
- The juju cooking potion gives you a 10% chance to cook a piece of food 3x as fast (stacks with Cooking master cape and Cooking prestige perk).
- Cooking 99 cape: Food will never burn
Cooking 120 cape: Grants a 5% chance to cook items twice as fast
CRAFTING
How to Train
- Level 1–27
Cut low-level gems:- Opal (level 1)
- Jade (level 13)
- Red topaz (level 16)
- Sapphire (level 20)
- Emerald (level 27)
- Level 34–55 Gems (popular for prestiging)
- Ruby (level 34)
- Diamond (level 43)
- Dragonstone (level 55)
- Level 57–93 Dragonhide (popular for prestiging)
- Green d’hide items (level 57–66)
- Blue d’hide items (level 66–73)
- Red d’hide items (level 73–79)
- Black d’hide items (level 79–87)
- Royal d’hide items (87–93)
- Level 89
Robust glass is a slower but highly accessible method—ideal both before and after prestiging. It’s created by mining red sandstone.
Tips & Tricks
- Jack Oval, opposite the bank at ::home, can tan noted hides. However, this service costs 5x more than tanning unnoted hides.
- You do not need any crafting tools besides thread, which is already included in your toolbelt.
- Crafting 99 cape: Allows you to craft without needing thread.
Crafting 120 cape: Gives you a 1/28 chance to blow glass or craft leather twice as fast.
DUNGEONEERING
How to Train:
- Floors 1–29/35:
For the initial floors, common practice is to “rush” through the dungeons in the following themes: Frozen, Abandoned 1, Furnished (and optionally, Abandoned 2).- Dungeon Size: Small
- Complexity: 1
- Guide Mode highlights the critical path on your minimap, brightening required rooms and dimming others.
- Solo or duo: Duos are optimal if both players know what they’re doing; otherwise, solo is faster. Avoid larger groups unless doing 5-account T11 hunts for BIS boss drops.
- Floor 30/36–60:
After your rushes, the focus lies on maximizing XP gain.- Solo Play:
- Dungeon Size: Medium
- Complexity: 6
- Objective: Maximize XP by opening all rooms; only kill guardians and bosses
- Group Play:
- Dungeon Size: Large
- Complexity: 6
- Objective: Party leader should be the most experienced player—they manage the critical path and gatestone teleports.
- Solo Play:
Tips & Tricks:
- Dungeoneering fundamentals:
- Use abbreviations to communicate quickly during team dungeons.
- Open your minimap as soon as you enter.
- Gatestones save travel time. Gate far-away key doors, not doors near base. Always communicate gating decision.
- Keep moving—waiting at doors or standing still wastes time.
- For boss and puzzle mechanics, refer to old pre-EoC YouTube guides or the RuneScape 3 Wiki.
- Reward shop
Dungeoneering tokens unlock key utility items—especially vital for ironmen:- Core unlocks: Demonhorn necklace, bonecrusher, charming imp, herbicide, resource scrolls, arcane stream necklace.
- Completionist content: Spirit cape (post-comp), various (trimmed) completionist cape unlocks.
- Weapons: If you own drygores, an ascension crossbow, or noxious weapons, you may skip chaotics. For ironmen, chaotics are a crucial progression step.
- Bind Slots
Your number of equipment binds increases as you level:- Level 1: 1 bind
- Level 20: 2 binds
- Level 40: 3 binds
- Level 60: 4 binds
- Level 80: 5 binds
- Level 100: 6 binds
- Level 120: 7 binds
- Recommended Equipment Setup
Bliss is balanced around the hexhunter bow, making a ranged setup ideal. Start with craftable gear and upgrade to BIS drops as you unlock more bind slots.
Core progression:- Grave creeper shortbow (BIS: Hexhunter; Soulgazers)
- Promethium arrows (BIS: Sagittarian arrows; Sagittare & Skeletal trio (most common on F23–25 and F36–38)
- Tyrannoleather body (BIS: Sagittarian body; Hope devourer (most common on F51–53))
- Tyrannoleather chaps (BIS: Sagittarian chaps; Necrolord (most common on F39–41))
- Tyrannoleather vambraces (BIS: Sagittarian vambraces; Icy bones (most common on F1–2))
- Promethium spear (BIS: Primal spear; World-gorger Shukarhazh)
- Blood necklace (Edimmus)Shadow silk hood (Night spiders)Lycopus herb (+ void dust from trader → strong ranged potion (bindable))
- Dungeoneering 99 cape: Right-click teleport to any resource dungeon once per day.
Dungeoneering 120 cape: Right-click teleport to any resource dungeon with unlimited use. Additionally acts as an ava’s alerter inside dungeons.
FARMING
How to Train
- Level 1
Rake allotments at P0 to shoot past level 35. - Leveling strategy depends on budget
- If you’re on a low budget:
→ Plant maple trees and pineapple plants for steady XP
→ Many herb seeds cost less than the yield they provide - If you’re well-funded:
→ Plant palm, magic, and spirit trees, especially during Double XP weekends
- If you’re on a low budget:
Tips & Tricks
- Patch teleporting:
It’s sufficient to type the first 3 letters of the patch type in your commands.- ::f [patch type] → first patch of that type (e.g. ::f tree)
- ::f [patch type] [number] → specific location (e.g. ::f herb 3)
- ::f next → next patch of the same type
- Commands for all farming patches:
- Allotments: ::f her
- Vine herbs: ::f vin
- Trees: ::f tre
- Fruit trees: ::f fru
- Spirit trees: ::f spi
- Hops: ::f hop
- Bushes: ::f bus
- Cactus: ::f cac
- Mushrooms: ::f mus
- Belladonna: ::f bel
- Evil Turnip: ::f evi
- Boosting yield and efficiency:
- Juju farming potion: 33% chance to harvest double herbs
- Magic secateurs: +5% harvest yield
- Supercompost (farmer Fromund or Catherby Farming shop): +5% herb yield
- Ultracompost: +20% herb yield
→ Add 1 root pulp to supercompost, or 10 pulp to a compost bin.
(Root pulp is made by grinding tree roots) - Bottomless compost bucket (500 prestige points):
- Stores compost types (2 uses per bucket)
- Compost is removable
- Fill from a compost bin if types match
- Tradeable when empty
- Helpful tools and rewards:
- Pre-filled plant pots from farmer Fromund (::sdz and Taverley)
- Scroll of life (50,000 Dungeoneering tokens): 10% chance to reclaim seeds
- Seedicide (400 prestige points): Passive XP from monsters, by destroying seeds drops
- Farming timers on Bliss are the same as on real RuneScape. However, nothing you plant can die/get diseased and plants don’t need to be watered.
- Farming 99 cape: Increases the speed at which you harvest crops.
Farming 120 cape: Increases your harvest by 5% (stacks with magic secateurs).
FIREMAKING
How to Train
- Level 1
Normal logs - Level 15
Oak logs - Level 30
Willow logs - Level 35
Teak logs - Level 45
Maple logs - Level 60
Yew logs - Level 75
Magic logs - Level 83 (+ Level 83 Woodcutting)
Curly roots at the Jadinko lair (about the same Firemaking XP as magic logs, but far faster to obtain)
Tips & Tricks
- Most players put all Managing Miscellania workers on coal, with the rest on wood (for maple/yew/magic logs) or hardwood (for Construction).
- The Evil Tree D&D is a good source of magic logs.
- Watch for fire spirits, they have a 1/100 chance to drop the ring of fire (+2% XP) and 1/250 for the flame gloves (+2% XP). Wearing both gives a 5% Firemaking XP boost.
- Firemaking 99 cape: Allows right-click “Light-fire” to make a fire anywhere without logs or a tinderbox
Firemaking 120 cape: Increases your chance of attracting a fire spirit when Firemaking from 1/500 ticks to 1/400 ticks
FISHING
How to Train
- Level 1
Catch shrimp and anchovies (→ Fishing skill → Catherby) - Level 40
Catch lobster - Level 62
Catch monkfish (→ Fishing skill → Piscatoris Fishing Colony) - Level 85
Catch cavefish with fishing bait (→ ::dz or Living Rock Caverns via ::rok) - Level 90
Catch rocktails with living minerals (→ ::sdz or Living Rock Caverns via ::rok)
Tips & Tricks
- Shops for fishing bait:
- Fishing Guild Shop (→ Fishing skill → Fishing Guild)
- Gerrant’s Fishy Business (Port Sarim lodestone)
- Fremennik Fishmonger (Rellekka, ::makeover (3))
- Harry’s Fishing Shop (Catherby lodestone)
- Hank’s Fishing Supplies (::s goblin)
- Fernahei’s Fishing Hut (Slayer skill → Slayer Masters → More → Duradel, go down the ladder)
- Miscellania Fishmonger (::misc, the Fishmonger to your west)
- Etceteria Fishmonger (::f bush 3, the Fishmonger inside the settlement)
- The fishing outfit as well as a tackle box can be obtained from Legendary Fishing.
- Save your fish for Cooking.
- Large quantities of living minerals can be obtained by participating in the Living Rock Patriarch D&D. Every Saturday after the DXP-Weekend, the Living Rock Patriarch Mass Event takes place at 4 PM server time.
- The juju fishing potion gives you a 33% chance to catch baron sharks when fishing sharks.
- Fishing 99 cape: Gives you an invisible +2 levels fishing boost
Fishing 120 cape: Gives you a 5% chance to receive 2 fish while fishing
FLETCHING
How to Train
- Level 1
Arrow shafts and headless arrows - Lvl 52
Broad arrows (300 Slayer points to learn from a Slayer master) - Level 60/Level 61
Adamant arrows are slightly better XP than broad arrows, and a great alternative if you have the heads. It is not recommended for ironmen to smith adamant arrowheads, as adamant bolts are hard to come by. - Level 75
Rune arrows give excellent XP. It’s worth smithing runite bars into arrowheads.
Ironmen may prefer to save rune bars for rune knives instead. - Level 80
Magic short/longbows are a popular method for skillers. If broad arrowheads are hard to come by for any other reason or you haven’t unlocked broads yet, you can simply make bows. - Level 90
Dragon arrows are almost 2x XP of broad arrows. The heads, however, are over 10x the price.
Tips & Tricks
- Tipping bolts and making rune/dragon arrows are for the most part better XP than broad arrows, but it’s difficult to obtain large quantities of supplies.
- Slayer masters have a stock of 3,000 Broad arrowheads. Shops are IP-bound; no one else can buy out your shop. Shops fully restock over the course of 12 hours.
- Shops for feathers:
- Fishing Guild Shop (Fishing skill → Fishing Guild)
- Gerrant’s Fishy Business (Port Sarim lodestone)
- Fremennik Fishmonger (Rellekka, ::makeover → Option 3)
- Shantay Pass Shop (South of Al Kharid)
- Hank’s Fishing Supplies (::s goblin)
- Fernahei’s Fishing Hut (Slayer skill → Slayer Masters → More → Duradel, go down the ladder)
- Miscellania Fishmonger (::misc, the Fishmonger to your west)
- Etceteria Fishmonger (::f bush 3, the Fishmonger inside the settlement)
- The Chicken God in ::sdz is a great source of feathers.
- Fletching 99 cape: Allows you to fletch batches of 15 stackable items.
Fletching 120 cape: Allows you to fletch batches of 20 stackable items.
HERBLORE
How to Train
- Level 1
Clean herbs - Level 38
Prayer potion - Level 45
SUPERS:- Super Attack potion (lvl 45): Irit + Eye of Newt
- Super Strength potion (lvl 55): Kwuarm + Limpwurt Root
- Super Defence potion (lvl 66): Cadantine + White Berries
- Super Ranging potion (lvl 72): Dwarf Weed + Wine of Zamorak
- Super Magic potion (lvl 76): Lantadyme + Potato Cactus
- Level 88
EXTREMES:- Extreme Attack potion (lvl 88): Super attack + avantoe
- Extreme Strength potion (lvl 89): Super strength + dwarf weed
- Extreme Defence potion (lvl 90): Super defence + Lantadyme
- Extreme Magic potion (lvl 91): Super magic + ground mud rune
- Extreme Ranging potion (lvl 92): Super ranging + 5 grenwall spikes
- Level 96
Overload (Extreme attack (3-dose) + Extreme Strength (3-dose) + Extreme Defence (3-dose) + Extreme Ranging (3-dose) + Extreme Magic (3-dose) + Clean Torstol
Tips & Tricks
- Make sure to save your high level potions for DXP-weekend to get as much XP out of them as possible. Making overloads is up to 200,000,000 XP/hr (base).
If you’re happy with your current supplies for PVM, you can also opt for just making Extreme Ranged potions, as they only require 1 inventory spot for the Grenwall spikes, and therefore are the most AFK method for doing Herblore. - Wear your Morytania legs when making prayer renewals for a chance of making 4-dose potions instead of 3.
- The scroll of cleansing gives you a chance to make potions faster and 10% chance to save your secondary item.
- For ironmen, the Herblore Shop in Taverley sells packs of eyes of newt, and has a stock of 10 limpwurt roots and 10 white berries.
- More Potion combinations:
- Prayer potion: Ranarr + Snape Grass
- Prayer Renewal potion: Fellstalk + Morcella Mushroom
- Super Restore potion: Snapdragon + Red Spiders’ Eggs
- Antifire potion: Lantadyme + Ground Blue Dragon Scale
- Super Antifire potion: Antifire + Phoenix Feather
- Saradomin Brew: Toadflax + Crushed Nest
- Combat potion: Harralander + Ground Desert Goat Horn
- Super Energy potion: Avantoe + Mort Myre Fungus
- Recover special potion: Super Energy + Papaya
- Summoning potion: Spirit Weed + Cockatrice Egg
- Herblore 99 cape: Zahur in Edgeville will give you a 25% discount on making unfinished potions.
Herblore 120 cape: Allows you to clean a full inventory of herbs with 1 click, and Zahur in Edgeville will give you a 25% discount for them to clean your herbs.
HUNTER
How to Train
- Level 1
Crimson Swift - Level 19
Tropical Wagtail - Level 53
Chinchompas at ::dz or Piscatoris - Level 63
Red Chinchompas at ::dz or Feldip Hills - Level 66
Pawyas at ::sdz or in Tirannwn (Box trap, requires Papaya fruit as bait) - Level 70
Common Jadinkos in ::dz or in the Khazari Jungle (Use marasamaw plants from Papa Mambo) - Level 77
Grenwalls at ::sdz or in Tirannwn (Box trap, requires Pawya meat as bait) are the fastest hunter XP in the game, and therefor a popular training method. - Level 80
Draconic Jadinkos in ::sdz or in the Kharazi Jungle (Use marasamaw plants from Papa Mambo) give only half the XP of grenwalls, but are a popular training method because they require no bait and their vines are valuable, being used for juju potions.
Tips & Tricks
- The Hunter bait sack from the prestige shop (600 Prestige Points) holds up to 100 of a single type of bait and automatically baits traps as you place them.
- The Arctic Bear familiar gives you an invisible +7 Hunter level boost. You can get Polar kebbit fur from the fur stall at in Ardougne (::thieve)
- The Juju Hunter potion increases the catch rate of all Jadinkos.
- The Scentless potion improves the catch rate of all traps (this stacks with the Juju Hunter potion).
- Zamorak’s Favour gives you 10% bonus experience when hunting Jadinkos.
- 100 Draconic and 100 Common vines are required for an achievement.
- Amount of traps you may lay per level:
Level 1: 1
Level 20: 2
Level 40: 3
Level 60: 4
Level 80: 5 - Hunter 99 cape: Gives you a 60% chance to not lose your bait when hunting (up from 50%), increases your chance to successfully hunt with a net, and increases the duration of your traps.
Hunter 120 cape: Gives you a 75% chance to not lose your bait while hunting, increases your chance to successfully hunt barehanded, and increases the duration of your traps further.
MAGIC
How to Train
- Level 1: Cast basic spells on low level NPCs such as the rock crabs at ::train.
- Level 4 to 87: Enchanting bolts is a very fast way of training Magic, and especially useful in later prestiges where getting your levels back up after prestiging can be challenging.
- Level 55: High-alching items.
- Level 62: Smoke burst (Ancient spellbook) in multi-combat areas such as “::s vyre 2”. As your levels increase you can switch to more powerful spells.
- For prestiges, Skeletal gorillas in the Ape Atoll dungeon provide the best Magic XP, up to 65m/hr. Setting up a stack of gorillas can be a considerable time investment, but once you have them set up, you can stay there for hours at max XP rates. It is recommended to do skeletal gorillas when you know you have a few hours of somewhat uninterrupted time on your hands. Do not bring a bonecrusher, as the gorillas respawn from their own bones.
Tips & Tricks
- Players may want to save bolt enchanting for Double XP Weekend and post-prestige leveling.
- Rune shops:
- “::shops”, which cannot be accessed by ironmen
- “::sdz” Wizard Shug, which cannot be accessed by ironmen
- Wizards’ Guild (Magic skill)
- Baba Yaga (Lunar lodestone)
- Mage Bank (Teleport tab → PVP areas)
- Aubury’s Rune Shop (Varrock lodestone)
- Void Knight Magic Store (::pc)
- Betty’s Magic Emporium (Port Sarim lodestone)
- Magic 99 cape: allows you to change your spellbook once a day.
Magic 120 cape: allows unlimited spellbook changes.
MELEE & RANGED
How to Train
- Level 1: The easiest way to start out with combat skills is to kill low level NPCs such as the rock crabs at ::train.
- Mid to high level
It’s generally recommended to prioritize gaining combat XP through Slayer and bossing, for the sake of efficiency. However, melee and ranged skills are also great skills to train when you need something that’s particularly AFK, due to the 20 minute aggro timer on NPCs (or 30 minutes with the Strength cape perk), even without the slayer beacon trinket.
Some AFK-able monsters (that drop bones) are:- Dark Beasts (”::slayer dark” has 2 locations accessible without a slayer task)
- Dagannoths (”::slayer dagannoth” has 2 locations)
- Fire Giants (”::slayer fire” has 7 locations)
- Frost dragons (Prayer skill teleports) (Requires 85 Dungeoneering) with the 120 prayer cape perk for AFK prayer training
Tips & Tricks
- Being able to efficiently and consistently AFK combat requires a bonecrusher and a Demonhorn necklace. This requires a Dungeoneering level of 90. The combination of them can supply you with infinite Prayer points at many monsters that drop bones.
- The ectoplasmator trinket is the spectral creatures version of the bonecrusher.
- The ash sanctifier trinket is the demonic version of the bonecrusher.
MINING
How to Train
- Level 1
Copper/tin ore rocks at mining sites like the Dwarven mine. Get some of each and save the ores for low Smithing levels. - Level 15
Iron ore
Get some extra and save the ores for low Smithing levels. - Level 40
Gem rocks
These aren’t better XP than iron unless you’re wearing Karamja gloves bought from the Prestige Shop. They are worth mentioning because they do play an important part in leveling back up after prestiges. - Level 68
Lava Flow Mine can yield some of the highest XP rates in game when done properly. It also allows you to unlock the golden mining suit and several completionist and trimmed completionist requirements. - Level 77
Concentrated coal deposits - Level 80
Concentrated gold deposits - Level 81
Red sandstone is a popular training method for its decent semi-AFK XP rates, but also because the sandstone can be turned into the crafting supplies robust glass. - The fastest XP for Mining is the first 2 layers of the Shooting Star D&D.
Tips & Tricks
- Ironmen can buy a rune pickaxe from the Dwarven shop in the Falador mine.
- The inferno adze can be bought from the collector’s exchange for 25k points and is equivalent to a dragon pickaxe.
- You may want to mine some granite on the way to 99, to aid you in 99 Summoning.
- The golden mining suit is obtainable from the Lava Flow Mine. Nymphs appear at a rate of 1/500 successful mining attempts (1/400 with 120 Mining cape). The outfit, since it has 5 pieces instead of 4 will only give 0.8% per piece, and 1% for a set bonus, also totaling 5%.
- If owned, remember to wear your Varrock armor for an extra 1% Mining XP and a chance to mine 2 ores at once. The golden mining chestplate adopts the effect of the Varrock armor if you own it.
- The juju mining potion gives you a 10% chance to summon a stone spirit when mining ore that will bank ores for you for 30 seconds after being summoned. This effect also applies to sandstone and gem rocks.
- Mining 99 cape: Gives you an invisible +2 levels Mining boost.
Mining 120 cape: Gives you a 5% chance to receive 2 ores while mining, gives you a 5% chance to receive 2 stardust from the Shooting Star event, and increases the spawn rate of the Liquid Gold Nymph from 1/500 to 1/400.
PRAYER
How to Train
- Level 1
Use the best bones you can get on your (or someone else’s) gilded altar in a player-owner house with both burners lit.
The ectofuntus is a viable alternative for getting a bit more XP out of infernal ashes. - Level 120 (With 85 Dungeoneering)
Frost dragons can be AFK-ed with the 120 prayer cape perk and a bonecrusher. Players also often use this skill cape perk during slayer tasks and at Dagannoth Kings.
Tips & Tricks
- Turmoil works with all 3 combats styles on Bliss.
- As an ironman, you can only use your own gilded altar, but you can use an alt account and make it relight your burners while you train.
- Prayer 99 cape: Allows you to use a holy wrench on the cape for it to adopt its effect of restoring more prayer points per potion sip.
Prayer 120 cape: Doubles the XP you receive for burying bones. (Works with bonecrusher)
RUNECRAFTING
How to Train
- Level 1
The fastest consistent Runecrafting XP depends on your rank and is somewhat complex, as god (and above) ranks are able to set a waypoint at the ZMI altar, which in that case is the fastest XP, but below that, the lower your rank, the further away from the altar you have to be to be able to set a waypoint. This significantly cuts into the XP/hr. However, because those ranks can still set a waypoint at other altars, and a non-rank player cannot, ZMI is the best XP when you don’t have a rank at all.
Tldr: non-rank and god+ rank do ZMI, bronze/rune/dragon ranks do the highest altar available at their level.
The first few layers of the Runesphere are technically the fastest xp in game, if you can catch them.
Tips & Tricks
- You can obtain your 4 Runecrafting pouches from killing Abyssal creatures in the Abyss. These pouches work with presets; adding an already filled pouch to your preset, will auto-fill empty ones when loading the preset.
- The Ardougne cape gives you a 15% chance to craft double runes at ZMI.
- Runecrafting 99 cape: Gives you a 1/20 chance to craft 2 essences at once, gives you a 1/20 chance to receive 2 impure essences from the Runesphere event.
Runecrafting 120 cape: Gives you a 1/15 chance to craft 2 essences at once, gives you a 1/15 chance to receive 2 impure essences from the Runesphere event.
SLAYER
How to Train
- Level 1
Use your highest available slayer master all the way up to Kuradal. - Level 75
The Kuradal Slayer guide has its own dedicated page.
Tips & Tricks
- You may get reaper tasks (boss tasks) at Death, north of ::home; bosses give large chunks of Slayer XP. The Slayer helm effects apply to these tasks.
- Slayer is a very decent money-making skill due to the Slayer Casket drops that give you between 100k-3.5m cash each.
- Slayer casket formula: (NPC combat level, capped at 200 divided by 30) out of 150. With the cape it’s out of 130 instead of out of 150 – so for a monster with a combat level of 126 it would be (126/30) or 4.2/150, or 4.2/130 with cape.
- You do not need any Slayer equipment to fight/finish off the Slayer creatures on Bliss. The Slayer helm is for DPS only.
- Glacor and Tormented Demon tasks may always be skipped without penalty.
- Slayer masters can sell you the elusive Slayer Beacon for 1,500 slayer points, which is an item that makes your slayer task aggressive to you, even if they aren’t normally aggressive monsters. This allows you to AFK almost every single task.
- Additionally, the cannons from Artisan workshop can be an enormous help in aggroing monsters that are too far away to see you.
- Slayer 99 cape: Increases your chance of slayer casket drops while slaying.
Slayer 120 cape: Allows you to skip 2 tasks per day for free.
SMITHING
How to Train
- Level 1
Bronze bars - Level 15
Iron bars - Level 30
Steel bars - Level 40
Gold bars - Level 30 (iron), 45 (steel), 60 (mithril), 70 (adamant), 90 (rune), road to 200m, and beyond
The most popular Smithing training method is Burial Armor in Artisans’ Workshop due to its AFK-ability and respect/reward system. At least 19m XP done in the Artisans’ Workshop is required to unlock the cannon for the completionist cape. An additional 334.4m XP is required to unlock the remaining rewards for the trimmed completionist cape.
Tips & Tricks
- Players commonly use their Miscellania kingdom to gather coal to account for the large amounts needed at the Artisans’ Workshop.
- If owned, remember to wear your Varrock armour for a chance to smelt bars faster and a chance to smelt 2 bars at once.
- You can get goldsmith gauntlets (gives you 250% XP for smithing gold bars) by bringing 100 noted coal to Avan at the entrance of Al Kharid mine.
- Unlocking the scroll of efficiency from the Dungeoneering reward shop gives you a chance to save bars when Smithing. 50% for bronze, 25% for iron, 20% for steel, 10% for mithril, 8% for adamant, and 5% for rune.
- Smithing 99 cape: Acts as your goldsmith gauntlets. (gives you 250% XP for smithing gold bars)
Smithing 120 cape: Gives you a 5% chance to smelt 2 bars at once. (stacks with Varrock armor)
SUMMONING
How to Train
- Level 1
Spirit wolf (Gold charm + wolf bones) - Level 16
Granite crab (Gold charm + iron ore) - Level 33
Beaver (Green charm + willow logs) - Level 68
Bunyip (Green charm + raw shark) - Level 74
Granite lobster (Crimson charm + granite (500g)) - Level 79
Fire titan (Blue charm + fire talisman)
Moss titan (Blue charm + earth talisman) - Level 83
Lava titan (Blue charm + obsidian charm) - Level 89
Geyser titan (Blue charm + water talisman) - Level 95
Iron titan (Crimson charm + iron platebody) - Level 96
Pack yak (Crimson charm + yak hide) - Level 99
Steel titan (Crimson charm + steel platebody) - The most popular pouches to make while grinding for prestiges are Geyser titans, Fire titans, Moss titans, Steel titans, Iron titans, Pack yaks, and Unicorn stallions.
Tips & Tricks
- 10 Iron and 10 Steel platebodies can be bought from Horvik’s Armour shop (Varrock), Zenesha’s Platebody shop (Ardougne), and the Shanomi’s Armor Shop (Warriors’ guild, ::wg).
Ironmen do not have access to the warriors’ guild shop, but do have an extra 10 iron platebodies in the ironman shop. - 100 Yak hides can be bought from Vanligga’s Contraband Yak Produce shop on Jatizso. (Summoning skill → Yak-Hide shop)
- Magestix (Pikkupstix’s house) has a shop with a selection of Summoning supplies, including unicorn horns, water talismans, and fire talismans. This shop is not available to ironmen.
- Raw rabbit and bird meat can be bought from the food shop in Oo’glog.
- Excess pouches can be exchanged for spirit shards at the Bogrog. (Summoning skill → Bogrog)
- Excess spirit shards can be sold at the Pet shop, Bogrog or Pikkupstix to get their original 250gp shop value returned to you.
- Summoning 99 cape: Gives you a 1% chance per pouch creation to save your materials.
Summoning 120 cape: Allows you to right-click ‘Restore’ your familiar and your summoning points, once a day.
THIEVING
How to Train
- Level 1
The most popular Thieving method is stealing from stalls, as your character will automatically keep thieving for you (no spam clicking needed) until you get caught by the stall owner. You can start at the baker’s stall and follow the stalls around clockwise as you level up. The gem stall is the most profitable skilling method in the game. - Level 21
Pyramid Plunder is a great non-AFK alternative to stalls. The XP rate is slightly higher, but the profit is significantly lower. Many players prefer this method over stalls post-prestige to level back up.
Tips & Tricks
- All nodes in Pyramid Plunder have a 1/1000 chance to grant you a piece of the Black Ibis outfit (1/750 if you’re holding a Sceptre of the Gods).
- The drop rate for a pharaoh’s sceptre is 1/300 (sarcophagi and golden chests), and the rate for a sceptre of the gods is 1/400 (only from the engraved sarcophagi in the last room).
- The gem stall drop rates are 1/150 for dragonstones, and 1/750 for onyx.
- Buy a lockpick from the tool shop at ::shops and keep it in your inventory to decrease your chance of failing Pyramid Plunder doors.
- Thieving 99 cape: Makes you invisible to guards while thieving, and you will no longer fail to disable spike traps in Pyramid Plunder.
Thieving 120 cape: Decreases your chance of being caught while thieving from 1/10 to 1/15 (after the first 5 attempts, as you cannot get caught on those), increases your chance of receiving coins rather than items at stalls, and makes you invisible to mummies in Pyramid Plunder.
WOODCUTTING
How to Train
- Level 1
Normal trees at ::home. - Level 15
Oak trees at Seers Village. - Level 30
Willow trees at ::dz or Draynor Village. - Level 35
Teak trees at ::sdz or Tai Bwo Wannai. - Level 50
Mahogany trees at ::sdz or Tai Bwo Wannai. - Level 68
Ivy is the fastest Woodcutting method and therefor very popular, but it does not give you any resources. - Level 75
Magic trees are the slower but more AFK method, and is equally (if not more) popular. - Level 83
Curly roots are slow Woodcutting XP, but the roots are similar Firemaking XP to magic logs and much faster to obtain.
Tips & Tricks
- The Inferno adze can be bought from the Collector’s Exchange for 25k collector points and equals a dragon hatchet that has a 33% chance to burn your logs for Firemaking XP (works with Flame gloves and Ring of fire).
- The juju woodcutting potion gives you a 10% chance to summon a wood spirit when chopping logs that will bank logs for you for 30 seconds after being summoned.
- Woodcutting 99 cape: Gives you a 1/28 chance to receive 2 logs while Woodcutting.
Woodcutting 120 cape: Gives you a 1/75 chance to find birds’ nests while Woodcutting, up from 1/100.