Training Combat

Melee is an important aspect in runescape and many players achieve a high overall combat level through long hours of training. It would be nice to have a more efficient method to train combat... and it is possible to improve efficiency.

Overall combat is made up of melee, mage and range as well as prayer skill. Although players do tend to favour one style of combat over the other.

Anyway, I was browsing through several runescape help sites and came across runecrypts' training combat guide. There is a lot of information packed onto the page and it covers each aspect of combat training (well, it doesn't mention prayer as part of combat, but everything else seems to be there - including some training locations).

A very brief summary of that combat guide:

• Level 1-20 train on cows near lumbridge or on chickens or on goblins nearby
  
• Level 20-30 train on cows, dark wizards or skeletons
• Level 30-40 train on guards
• Level 40-60 train on experiments or elemental monsters (members) or hill giants
• Level 60-99 pest control, experiements, giant skeletons (members) or lesser demons
  

For training range:

• Level 1-40 Cows
• Level 40-60 Dark Wizard Tower
• Level 60-99 Fire Giants, Blue Dragons, Pest Control (members) or Lesser demons

For training mage:

• Level 1-45 Casting Air Strike on Cows
• Level 39-55 Varrock Sewers
• Level 45-55 Camelot Teleport (members)
• Level 55-99 High Alchemy

Hopefully that is a brief guide to trainin combat on runescape covered and that there are enough tips for both members and free to play people to enjoy their training.

Runescape Cooking Tips

Cooking in runescape is a skill that is easy to raise compared to many of the other available skills. It is equally important for free to play runescape characters as well as runescape members. On free to play there are a lot more limitations, although lobster and swordfish do provide decent cooking experience.

The aim for all runescape players when cooking is to burn as little food as possible. This is normally a lot easier for members as they can wear the cooking gauntlets rewarded from the family crest quest. Although free to play runescape characters simply need 5 additional cooking levels to get the same benefits.

Free to play Runescape Cooking:

• Level 15 required to cook trout - Trout is cheap to buy and will give 70 experience for each on successfully cooked. It might be wise to get to know a member who is training their fishing skill at Shilo Village - as they can quickly bank salmon and trout and are highly unlikely to cook the trout. They may be willing to sell cheaply or even give for free as I have done in the past.
• Level 20 required to cook salmon - Salmon is a bit more appealing to members to cook than trout, although many members may well sell cheaply to non-members. Alternatively, non-members may fish them at barbarian village river fishing spot.
• Level 40 cooking required for Lobsters - Lobsters are a staple food on runescape for both members and free to play worlds. These can be fished at Karamja on free to play worlds and at multiple locations on member worlds. 120 experience for each lobster successfully cooked can really help non-members get high level cooking easily. Level 75+ cooking is required to be able to cook them without burning any.

Runescape Member Cooking Tips:
In addition to any tips for non members, all runescape members can take advantage of the vast amount of foods available to cook. However my preference still lies with different fish available - namely members are able to cook shark.

Each shark gives 210 experience when successfully cooked and can be bought easily at world 18 in Edgeville Bank. Level 76 cooking is required to be able to cook shark and so members can easily train their cooking skill up via lobsters if they desire until they can cook shark.

At level 76 cooking, even when wearing the cooking gauntlets, a lot of shark are likely to get burnt. As cooking level increases, the number of shark being burnt will reduce. Eventually, at level 95 cooking and wearing the cooking gauntlets, runescape members will be able to cook shark without burning any.

It should therefore be relatively straightforward training cooking from level 95 to level 99 via sharks. It shouldn't really cost anything either as cooked sharks can be sold at Edgeville Bank or at other locations for the same price as raw sharks cost.

More Runescape Melee Tips

As mentioned before, runescape combat and melee in particular, is one of the most highly desired things in the game. Jagex have made it a lot easier over the years to raise combat quicker, although it is primarily runescape members who benefit rather than free to play people as the easiest way to train melee is through the Pest Control mini game.

Anyway, since Jagex are unlikely to radically overhaul combat training for free to play runescape, it stands to reason that there must be some decent spots for training. Obviously there are some spots, but not ideal. Especially given the fact training is more limited as there are fewer monsters and areas to enter.

Some free to play runescape melee training locations are:

• Ice Warriors in the dungeon south of Port Sarim
  
• Black Knights Castle
• Wilderness Hobgoblin Mine

As stated, it is not ideal locations although decent experience points can be gained at these locations. Players should note that the hobgoblin mine will be risky as pkers may also attack you in that location. This mine is also an effective place to train your runescape mining.

In addition, all runescape players should note in order to train melee effectively they should aim to be hitting monsters often and causing damage. This relates to a previous post I made and a guideline I normally follow when I actively trained my runescape combat. A basic reminder is to aim to fight monsters at about half your current combat level and to fight them with a quick weapon... normally a scimitar or something at the same speed.

Runescape Combat Tip

Runescape combat tips are essential to help players quickly advance their levels and gain greater rewards from higher level monsters. Many runescape players over estimate their strengths and under estimate their weaknesses when fighting some monsters. This can lead to heavy losses in virtual wealth over time.

This runescape tip is a brief guide that can be followed by both members and free to play players. In general, any tip for free to play runescape can also be applied to members - with members being able to have access to more resources, areas and tips in general.

Training combat in runescape effectively is easy when following some basic principles. This is what I generally do when I am training:

1. Always ensure you are wearing appropriate equipment for the monster you are going to train on
2. Always have a stockpile of food if wanting to train for long periods of time
3. Never take too many risks - if your health is low and your inventory of food has finished, the safest thing is to teleport back to a bank and restock instead of adding additional risk by fighting just one more monster
4. Always pay attention when fighting monsters that can hit hard or often
5. Always have teleport runes so you can quickly escape any danger if needed

Following those basic tips for training combat in runescape, you should ensure that you never suffer any unnecessary or premature deaths. The more time you spend actually fighting, the greater the amount of experience you will be able to accumulate.

In addition to this, if I was training combat I would set a specific goal to try and achieve. By setting a goal I can keep motivated to achieve it much easier. Particularly in free to play, combat training is much more limited. However, I do try and work to this basic outline when in training mode to improve the efficiency:

• Monsters will be around half of my current combat level
• I will use quick weapons like a rune scimitar instead of a heavy weapon such as the rune 2 hand sword

Following both of those runescape tips, I will be able to maintain a quick training rate as I will be able to hit the monsters quite often and will be less likely to get surprised by the damage they can inflict. This is a safe way to train and has enabled me to suffer very few deaths to monsters since I started playing runescape.

All players must bear in mind that any runescape tip is just that, a tip, a piece of advice. It can be taken with a grain of salt and ignored or it can be followed and actively used. It will help some people while many others may prefer to always add risk into their training as it gives them more reason to improve their combat.

Free to play runescape has significant limitations but it is not impossible to get a good level of combat. It just takes time as many of the popular training locations will often be busy. If this is the case, players can also look at training non-combat skills in order to build up their virtual wealth or stockpile fish to help them with their future combat training.

Runescape Inventory

Runescape inventories are often overlooked by players when they are setting out on their adventures. Failure to check your runescape inventory can lead to the loss of valuable items or large sums of money.

A simple check to ensure nothing of value is in your inventory before venturing into the runescape wilderness or an aggressive area can really help save money and items in the long term. This is even more true when there are a number of ingame runescape scams that can affect a player, although Jagex have taken some preventative measures to address the known issues, some dubious players will still try and scam others in similar ways.

Players should only ever take an item into the wilderness if they are fully prepared to lose it. Obviously they may not always lose in the wild, but they should be able to easily afford any replacement items if they happen to die through being pked.

Back on to the runescape inventory, I have heard many people through the years complain of losing a lot of stuff they forgot they had with them. Common items lost include:

• Coins - large stacks of coins, sometimes in the millions
• Large stacks of runes (air, fire, chaos runes etc)
• Rare items - santa hats in particular that are then quickly picked up by others
• Valuable items such as barrows for members

Overall, if people simply checked to ensure they are not carrying an excessive amount of cash (anything over 50k is normally excessive unless you have the cash specifically to buy something costing greater than 50k), players would save millions in the long term. Similarly, players should just check and ensure when they are going into the wilderness or an aggressive area of runescape that they do not have any extra or spare items that would be better off stored in their bank.

As I said, it is a very simple runescape tip but one that is very commonly overlooked. It is often the case, people look to gain advantages through searching for runescape cheats when they really only need to take care of the basics and prevent their own stupidity. It is this stupidity prevention that will truly give them a competitive advantage over the majority of other players and be more rewarding in the long term than any so called runescape cheat.

Runescape Mining

Runescape mining is one of the most effective ways for players to earn money in runescape. Players who are not members are more restricted in what ores they can mine, however, a good amunt of virtual wealth can still be built up over time - even on free worlds.

Free to Play:
Although mine locations and ores are more limited on free to play runescape, the following is a list of ores and locations players can still build up their virtual wealth:

• Rune Essence - Rune Essence Mine
• Iron Ore - Dwarven Mines and East Varrock Mine
• Silver - Crafting Guild
• Coal - Mining Guild, Hobgoblin Mine
• Gold - Crafting Guild
• Mithril - Hobgoblin Mine

As mentioned, the ores for runescape mining are more limited, however free to play on runescape is always more limiting - afterall, Jagex want people to upgrade to membership. In saying that, players can eagerly accumulate any of the above ores in bulk and can then use it for themselves or find people looking to buy in bulk.

Runescape Members:
In addition to the ores and locations for free to play people, runescape members can readily use the following:

• Pure Essence - Rune Essence Mine
• Iron Ore - Ardougne Mines
• Coal - Coal Trucks or Miscellania
• Gold - Mines west and south west of brimhaven

Of course that is not all possible locations or ores that people can mine, however, it does list the more profitable and in demand ores. Runescape members are more likely to benefit more than non-members simply due to the fact they can make better use of ores themselves as rings of forging will enable them to get 100% pure iron whereas free to play people will suffer 50% loss due to impurity.

There is a runescape mining chart that players can check out and can help maintain and improve it simply by registering on my runescape help site. I am seeking quality guide writers as I plan to develop the site to be more comprehensive in all aspects of the game.

Runescape Attack Tips

Runescape tips are common for many skills in the game, however, many people overlook the fact that combat is one of the widest used combination of skills. Consequently, many runescape players are highly inefficient when training their melee stats.

With the introduction of Pest Control as a minigame, Jagex have made it a lot easier for players to effectively train their overall combat - well runescape members at least. This still leaves a large amount of the playing population at a loss when looking for specific tips to help train their runescape attack skill.

The runescape tips compiled for attack are predominantly focussed on members, however, if players have any specific tips that have been omitted from inclusion on the list they can comment on this post or alternatively register on runescape help site and submit a guide for their own tips.

The more people that submit runescape tips for any specific skill the better. It will help build a comprehensive reference point for tips that are within Jagex rules. Obviously tips are things that will help people rather than runescape cheats that will only result in hampering people - especially if players who cheat in runescape get caught by Jagex.

As mentioned, the attack tips are not extensive and can always be added to, so I would urge any runescape players who feel they can add to this list to either get in contact via the runescape help web site (or register on it) or to comment on this post to get your tips included.

Runescape Agility Tips

Agility in runescape is a member only skill and is often overlooked in how useful it may be in order to help people get where they need to go quicker. Runescape agility enables players to access short-cuts or specific areas that require a minimum agility level. The agility tips for runescape have been compiled in order to give players some insight into how useful the skill can be and how to make use of their existing agility level.

The runescape tip compilation for agility is not complete, as there are many other tips than can be added. If any player has any additional runescape tips for agility they can register on the site and submit a comment - or players can use the contact form available on the main runescape help site that I operate. Bear in mind runescape-help.net is a help site and not an official Jagex site and I am not able to help in any runescape account enquiries.

There are numerous other tips available on the runescape help site and I will update this blog to highlight all the tips over the coming weeks. Players can bookmark this site to their favourite social bookmarking tool or can bookmark and register on the main runescape help site so they can access all runescape tip compilations easier.

Runescape Construction - Using Oak Logs

Construction in RuneScape is an expensive skill to level and just as expensive to decorate your house with all the finest materials. However, Oak Logs offer a relatively fast and more economical method of levelling your construction. It is not cheap, simply more economical.

The idea is to get to level 50 construction - once you reach level 30 you can use Tears Of Guthix weekly experience or genie lamps as well as doing some general building.

Once you reach level 50 then you should hire a Demon Butler to do your bidding. The furniture of choice to make is the 'Oak Larder' that requires 8 Oak Planks. Players will need to build the larder and remove it 3 times (24 oak is the maximum the demon butler can carry - but you will also have some cash to pay the butler, some noted oak planks or oak logs as well as a hammer and a saw).

The process is somewhat laborious although it is one of the most efficient methods of raising your construction level effectively. It will still cost a lot of cash with 6000 coins needed to convert the 24 oak logs to oak planks per inventory as well as the 10,000 coins needed to pay the demon butler when he demands it.

Runecrafting - World 66

Runecrafting may be one of the more difficult and labour intensive skills in Runescape if you are determined to mine the essence and run the essence yourself. Members in runescape do have a good option to speed up the process - world 66 law crafting.

Since Jagex released pure rune essence and later released player owned houses, many players have focussed on raising their construction skill and many have stopped training their runecrafting.

This is primarily being posted to remind members that world 66 law runecrafting is still one of the quickest methods to gain runecrafting experience. The cost involved may have increased as pure essence is at least double the cost of the price rune essence used to be traded at, although the rate of experience gained is still the same.

Free to play runescape players will still need to look at other runes to gain their runecrafting levels - air and fire runes generally will be the easiest and possibly the most beneficial to runecraft for these players.

Fletching in Banks

A lot of players still continue to fletch their logs at the same place they cut them. This is inefficient and can easily be improved upon if players simply stockpile their logs and then later fletch them at a bank.

The idea is simple, players can quickly bank the logs they get from woodcutting and continue stockpiling until they get the required amount of logs or even reach a woodcutting level.

With the logs stockpiled, players can then bring out their fletching materials which should consist of a knife and 27 logs. It is just a matter of making longbows whenever possible for all the logs in your inventory at one time and then banking all the unstrung longbows, taking out all logs (only 27 will be able to be taken out), and repeating the process.

This is a much more efficient method than simply fletching the logs as you cut them since you do not have to waste time in dropping the unstrung longbows. Players can also gain some money from this by later selling the noted longbows to a shop.

If a player has a high enough fletching level to make either Yew Longbows or better, then it is normally better to cast high alchemy and receive 768gp for each Yew Longbow or 1536gp for each Magic Longbow.

Overall, if you want to speed up your fletching and you have stockpiled logs, then fletching at a bank can save you time AND make a little bit of money in the process as well.

Tears of Guthix

Any player in Runescape that has completed the Tears of Guthix quest should be fully aware of the experience gained from the mini game associated with the quest. The weekly experience is given to the lowest skill of a player - provided they have above level 30 in that skill.

To start a game, players will need to speak to Juna - located through the back of the Lumbridge Swamp Caves.


Players will then need to collect up as many Guthix Tears as possible in the time permitted. The Guthix Tears will flow from the blue streams and increase the experience gained when time is up. Players should avoid collecting any tears from the green stream as it will reduce the total collected and therefore reduce the experience awarded at the end of the game.


Overall, this is not going to be a great source of experience in your favourite skill, moreso, it will offer players an easy way to train their most disliked skill and therefore is a valuable way to gain some of the lower levels of a skill that you do not like training.

Crafting Tip - Glass Making

Making glass can be a profitable business for members in RuneScape. The resources required are:

1. Buckets of Sand
2. Glass Blowing Pipe
3. Soda Ash

Collecting up the required ingredients can be tedious at the best of times. However, if you can successfully set up a supplier of Seaweed or Soda Ash then the process of glass making becomes a lot simpler and potentially more profitable. A Soda Ash supplier would be the ideal option, however, if you only managed to get a Seaweed supplier then it cuts down the time required to collect the resource, as you would simply need to cook the Seaweed on a range to get the required Soda Ash.

A second, much overlooked tip for making glass production more efficient is the daily collection of sand from Bert at Yanille. Any player who has completed the Hand in the Sand Quest will be able to receive a daily bonus of Sand Buckets.



Combining both tips, if you remember to collect the sand daily, then you could focus on making glass only 1 day each month. This would maximise your profits on that day as well as giving you plenty of time to concentrate on any other area within the game.

Runescape Construction

Tips by South Gal79

Oak logs- best area I know of so far take the spirit tree to the grand tree once you get to the grand tree there are about 6-8 oak trees beside the bank.

Teak Logs- only places I know of atm would be tele to castle wars walk south then all the way west there is one tree there. If you have done the recipe for disater quest and ape atoll quest you can tele to ape atoll and there are a few trees beside the wooden gate and by the dungeon there.

Teak and Mahogany- If you have done the Tai Bwo Wannai Clean Up mini game, you can gain access to teak and mahogany here but you have to give the gate keeper 100 trading sticks to get in each time.

Building mode- If you have the level to buy the Butlers, i refer the Butler himself he carries 20 logs a time and he cost 5k to purchase and 5k about every 5 or so trips he does. You can take your noted logs, saw, hammer and cash with you and just stay in building mode to gain levels until your logs run out.
- Use your noted logs on the butler, he will bring back unnoted
- Use your unnoted logs on the butler again and he will take them to the saw mill.
- Fastest way Ive learned to level would be making the oak larder which gives 480 each larder and you can get 3 larders out of one inventory.

Runescape - Tip Collection

This will help Runescape players help each other and with new releases regularly by Jagex, anyone can submit a runescape tip either by commenting on any of the posts in this blog or contacting us via the runescape help site that has now been put in place to deal with all aspects of the game.

I will review all tip submissions on a regular basis and for now there are a few restrictions in place to prevent automated spamming. I would hope this would continue to be the case and that no further moderation would be required.

From all contributions on any post, I will assemble information and move it into the main website whenever there is sufficient information to become useful. I do urge people to contribute to any aspect of the website and help me in the development.

There is an existing list of runescape tips broken down by category already available, however, the list is not exhaustive and any new tips can be added at any time.
Thanks.

Latona