What to level first

There is no right or wrong way to progress in the game, and you will rarely, if ever, be punished for experimenting. Melvor Idle is about the journey not the destination. This guide gives one method for how to start your Melvor Idle journey. The goal is to give players a helping hand in the early stages of the game. It is not a complete walkthrough, nor optimal for all play styles.

This page was last updated for (v1.3).

Why not to use this guide?

This guide is intended for Standard and

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Hardcore

Game Modes:

• If you are playing Adventure gamemode then please refer to the Adventure/Guide.
• If you are playing Ancient Relics gamemode then please refer to the Ancient Relics/Guide.

Before you start

In general:

• You should expect some parts of these guide to take many days and weeks to complete, so feel free to deviate from the guide at any time.
• Melvor Idle has true offline progression, when the game is opened after being turned off, it will automatically calculate the difference in time and reward all progress made in the time spent offline up to 24 hours.
  • If you find the 24 hour timespan too limiting, it can be extended with the "Unlimited Offline" Mod. Longer periods of inactivity may lead to long load times.
  • Mods to any game always come with inherent risk, use your own discretion before downloading mods and keep regular backups.

Skills That Buff Other Skills

These skills are mostly centered around "if you invest in this skill, other skills will get stronger". Some of these skills also provide some direction about what order to work on other skills, because the bonuses that work on other skills unlock in a specific order. For the sake of simplicity, this section only discusses non-combat bonuses. See the full skill pages for how they provide buffs for combat skills.

A far more comprehensive list of what skills do can be found in the Beginners Guide.

If you wish to see how Skills effect other Skills please expand the column below.

Skill	Description	Order of unlocks for other skills
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astrology	This is the most straightforward Skill that buffs other skills. Study constellations to unlock "stars", then purchase permanent bonuses with Stardust.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Farming * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fishing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cartography * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archaeology * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Agility * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astrology
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning	Create Summoning familiars that provide a bonus to the corresponding skill, using a combination of materials that use ingredients from the skill and materials bought for . Much stronger bonuses utilizing synergies are unlocked as a reward for heavy usage of multiple familiars.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fishing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Agility * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astrology * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking	Firemaking provides XP bonuses for all skills: Skill XP in the form of Firemaking Skillcape, and Mastery XP from the pool checkpoint and achieving 99 item mastery. It's also required to unlock better cooking fires.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore	Most skills have at least one potion that provides a bonus. Potions provide passive effects while active, and consume one "charge" for each action performed in the relevant skill.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking - Controlled Heat Potion * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astrology - Secret Stardust Potion * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining - Perfect Swing Potion * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Agility - Performance Enhancing Potion * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting - Elemental Potion
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Agility	Build obstacles that provide bonuses to specific skills. The higher your skill level, the more obstacles you can build, at higher tiers. These obstacles can be expensive in both and items, but they also provide some of the strongest bonuses in the game. There is no single "best" agility course.	Agility has bonuses for all skills in no particular order.

Raw Material Gathering Skills

These skills provide items that usually are necessary for training other skills.

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Herblore

and

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Agility

aren't explicitly included because the materials for these skills come from everywhere.

If you wish to look at which Skills power which other Skills, please expand the table below.

Skill	Description	Primary skills powered by these items
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting	Chop trees. Get logs.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firemaking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching - Bows & Javelins * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Farming - Bird Nest and Raven Nest * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting - Hardwood Armor
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining	Hit rocks. Get ore.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting - Gems * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting - Rune Essence and Pure Essence
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fishing	Catch fish.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting - Gems
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving	Steal all kinds of things. Each thieving target gives different stuff from all over the game. Thieving targets also provide unique items that can provide unique bonuses for many different skills.	These items are used everywhere.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Farming	Plant and harvest crops. Farming is passive output, you don't activate Farming.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cooking - "Allotments" or vegetables * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore - Herbs * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting - Logs
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archaeology	Go to dig sites, and find cool stuff. Most of these items don't impact other non-combat skills, but there are some exceptions.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Woodcutting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Summoning

Artisan Skills

These skills provide finished items, primarily used for combat.

If you wish to look at these skills, please expand the table below.

Skill	Description	Primary skills powered by these items
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing	Make bars (ingots), then turn them into metal items.	* Melee weapons and armor. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching - the metal components for Javelins, Arrows and Crossbows.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Crafting	Make items that you wouldn't use a forge for.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ranged armor * Jewelry (a wide variety of uses) * Consumables (also wide variety of uses)
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fletching	Ranged weapons and ammunition.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ranged
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting	Transform Rune Essence (from Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining) into Runes and Magic equipment.	* Error creating thumbnail: File missing Magic * Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alt. Magic

Before Settling on Desired Gameplay

Before we get into the actual different ways to play. It is advised to get a feel for the game and how each skill works / interacts with other skills by leveling each skill to around Level 30-40. Once done, you should have a better understanding of how the game works. The core game mechanics won't really change much at higher levels, just a bit more complex interactions. The process of leveling each skill to around level 35 should take only a few hours. Switch to

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Astrology

if in doubt about where to go next.

1. Open the
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   Township menu and select a worship. Aeris grants the most useful benefits of the various gods.
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     Township is trained passively and will be important later, however, completely ignore it for now.
2. Train
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   Astrology until at least level 40.
   • Buy the the first 5 levels of the first 2 Stars (the Blue ones) in each Constellation (
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     Deedree,
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     Iridan,
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     Ameria,
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     Terra and
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     Vale) if you have enough Stardust.
   • This will grant 5% Skill experience and
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     Mastery experience in
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     Woodcutting,
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     Farming,
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     Smithing,
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     Fishing,
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     Firemaking,
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     Mining as well as 15% Global Accuracy and 5% Experience in
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     Attack and
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     Strength
3. Train
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   Woodcutting and
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   Summoning at the same time.
   • Summoning is a very important skill that benefits all your other skills, and it is leveled by equipping and using Summoning Familiars (tablets). It levels slowly while training other skills, and cannot really be sped up, making it an important skill to train early.
   • Train
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     Woodcutting until you get your first mark of the
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     Ent.
   • Sell some of your logs and use the money to buy Summoning Shard (Green) to make
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     Ent tablets.
   • Repeat (remember to change to Oak Logs and Willow Logs as they become available) until
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     Level 15.
4. Next, train
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   Fishing and
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   Cooking (and more
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   Summoning).
   • The goal here it to gain enough to purchase the Shop upgrades for the first
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     Black Axe,
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     Black Fishing Rod,
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     Black Pickaxe,
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     Octopus and
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     Pig tablets, as well as some extra bank slots.
   • Once you get to roughly
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     Level 23 you should get enough to upgrade the Fishing Rod to the
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     Black Fishing Rod.
   • Train
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     Fishing until you get your first mark of the
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     Octopus.
   • Sell all Junk and about half of the fish, then make and equip some
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     Octopus tablets.
   • Continue training
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     Fishing until
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     Level 25.
   • Train
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     Cooking using the fish caught in
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     Fishing until you get your first mark of the
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     Pig.
   • Make sure to save 300 Raw Herring and 300 Raw Salmon for the next section.
5. Finally, train
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   Agility.
   • This skill has bonuses for
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     Woodcutting,
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     Cooking,
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     Agility,
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     Herblore,
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     Firemaking,
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     Mining at low levels.
   • Switching
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     Agility Obstacles can be quite pricy at these levels, especially before you have a good source of income. Choose a single obstacle in each tier and leave them for now, optimizing Agility itself can come later.
   • At
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     Level 20 build
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     Pit Jump as your Tier 3 obstacle with the fish you saved from the previous step. See the next section for more options in
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     Agility.
6. Follow these basic outlines to level rest of the skills to Level 30. Some Artisan Skills may pose an issue as the raw materials may not be accessible yet, come back to these later.

There are several ways to earn in this Game. Below are some suggestions on how you can obtain them effectively.

The first 2,500,000 should go to

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Auto Eat

,

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Multi-Tree

, and a pair of Gem Gloves

Skill	Level	Method	Comment
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Thieving	54 / 57 / 77	At appropriate levels Thieving provides very good income, but requires a bit of investment in the form of Gloves of Silence or Thieving Gloves, as well as time spent in Thieving to obtain the Chapeau Noir, Golbin Mask, Thiever's Cape, Sneak-Ers. Enabling the "Continue Thieving on Stun" option if you have plenty of Food available
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining	85	With , Mining becomes a serious contender for early . Pure Crystal sells for 750 each, which racks up quickly. Perfect Swing Potion multiplies how much effective HP the rock has, and helps the player mine for much longer before waiting for the rock to respawn.

With this minor preparation of our skills, we're now ready to start choosing a way to play the game, be it Skilling or Combat you should be set for both!

Ways To Play The Game

There are several ways to play the game, depending on your goals and preferred gameplay. Here are some suggested ways to play the game and a guide on how to do it.

• Laid back: Only logging in once/twice per day or at least not actively playing, knowing what to set your offline times to and what to do when online.
• Combat Focus for Max efficiency with Throne of the Herald/Atlas of Discovery: road to 100% completion. This will be combat focused, since it involves leveling as little non-combat as possible to rush Harold, after which skills and item collection will be done.

Laid Back

This Guide is aimed at people that don't have a lot of time, or don't want to log in more than once or twice a day. If you have 10-20 minutes to play and want to do something else than is suggested here, feel more than free to do so, the majority of these things will take a long time, 10 to 30 minutes won't impact the overall progress that much.

1. We start off with a little preparing to do some minor Combat.
   • This is where our Combat section starts. If time is of importance, it is suggested you progress through the Steps #2-5 until you want to take a break from the game. Continue on with step #6 until you feel like revisiting these Steps at a later time.
2. Level
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   Mining to Level 50. This gives us access to Mithril Ore.
   • Save all the Ore you mine for the next step.
3. Level
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   Smithing to Level 57. - Has a minimal Guide here.
   • At
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     Level 57 Smith 2x Mithril Helmet, 1x Mithril Platebody, 2x Mithril Platelegs, 2x Mithril Boots, Mithril Gloves and a Mithril Sword
     • Turn 1 set of these items in for Normal Township Task #1, this rewards a (G) Mithril Platebody and (G) Mithril Shield, saving you some time needing to gather the Silver Bar and Gold Bar.
     • Upgrade the Mithril Helmet, Mithril Platelegs and Mithril Boots to (G) by pressing Upgrade in the bank (orange button on the right). The first step requires a certain amount of Silver Bar and the second upgrade will require Gold Bars after both those upgrades are done the items gain the Damage Reduction stat too. Gloves have no upgrades but do provide Evasion Rating.
       • This will require 525 Silver Bar and 750 Gold Bar.
4. Sell all the Crafted
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   Smithing Items and sell all the rest of your Ores.
   • This should get you closer to 1,000,000.
     • Either go
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       Fishing or mine Crystal in
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       Mining (Requires the Atlas of Discovery Expansion) until you reach 1,000,000
     • Once 1,000,000 has been obtained, buy
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       Auto Eat from the Shop.
     • If you still have some food from leveling
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       Fishing to Level 30, equip the food and you're ready for some Combat.
     • If you're out of Food Fish up some Shrimp and cook those in
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       Cooking so they can be eaten.
     • To consume food, it must first be equipped through the Bank and then selected using the food drop-down menu on the
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       Combat or
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       Thieving page.
     • If you skipped the "Level everything to Level 30" step, Craft some Bronze Equipment and level all your Melee Combat Skills to Level 5, then craft some Steel Equipment and level your Combat Skills to Level 20. Chicken, Cow or Golbin are your suggested Targets. They don't do too much Damage and have relatively little Health.
     • The suggested target for now is the Master Farmer. He drops Seeds which will be needed for
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       Farming. With
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       Auto Eat and
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       Hitpoints Level 30 this should be completely safe as long as you don't run out of food. Killing Master Farmer will
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       Auto Eat around 420 Shrimp per hour. If you have higher healing food than Shrimp you will be using less than 420 per hour.
5. Plant a few of your found Seeds in
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   Farming Farming Plots.
   • Be sure to this once every so often to passively Level
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     Farming.
     • If you run out of Seeds that you can plant, you can always get more from the Master Farmer.
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   Astrology is our next Skill.
7. The first large goal is to reach
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   Level 99, this increases
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   Mastery and Stardust gains.
   • Start with Deedree and work your way up through the other Constellations when they unlock.
   • If they're close to Level 80
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     Mastery it will be worth waiting a little while then switch as soon as they reach Level 80
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     Mastery.
   • Once you're
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     Level 99 buy the Astrology Skillcape from the Shop and equip it.
   • Keep training
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     Astrology until all Constellations are at least Level 80
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     Mastery, this allows you to Purchase 5 of the 6 Stars.
     • There are a few Constellations where it's worth to Level them all the way to 99
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       Mastery and Purchase all the stars, those are:
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       Iridan,
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       Terra,
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       Nysa,
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       Arachi and
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       Ko.
   • If the Throne of the Herald Expansion is owned, this skill can go to Level 120.
     • In which case it's worth sticking to
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       Astrology.
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       Haemir’s benefits aren't all that useful at this point, however it does give the most xp/h so it's only purpose is to level
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       Astrology faster if you're not at Level 110 yet.
       • If you're already at
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         Level 110 you can completely ignore
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         Haemir, the rewards from this Constellation will not provide any bonuses for now.
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       Rosaniya is a very good Constellation and should be fully maxed to 99
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       Mastery and Purchase all the stars.
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       Ashtar is also extremely powerful, but can be skipped until you start combat. If you do combat in the times you are online, it is highly recommended you max out this Constellation to 99
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       Mastery too and Purchase all the stars.
8. The next step is to make some
   • This is the start of the Money Making Method, for an alternative Method go here
     • It is still advised you start by following the
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       Woodcutting,
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       Fishing and
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       Cooking steps first. As the other Method will take time to set up.
   • We start by
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     Woodcutting.
   • Keep
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     Woodcutting until you find the
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     Ent Mark
     • Craft
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       Ent Tablets until you're out of wood.
       • You'll need to buy some Summoning Shards from the Shop, which you should have enough for from selling all the stuff you got from leveling everything to Level 30.
       • You will need to craft at least 1 Tablet to be able obtain more Marks for the same Familiar.
       • Equipping the Tablet doubles your chances of getting Marks.
   • After the
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     Ent tablets have been crafted, equip them.
   • Then continue
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     Woodcutting until you find
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     Ent Mark Level 2.
   • Don't Sell your Normal Logs for now. Keep 630 Normal Logs in the Bank, they will be needed later.
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   Fishing is our next target.
   • Start by buying the
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     Iron Fishing Rod from the Shop for 100.
   • Buy further Fishing Rod upgrades when they unlock at Levels 10, 20, 35, 50, 60 and 80.
   • Fish the highest experience Fish you can, there is a list of the experience/second to be referenced here. Alternatively you can installed the "ETA" Mod which will tell you exactly how much Experience per Hour you'll get on each Fish.
   • Just pick the highest one until you get to Shark then keep fishing Shark until
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     Level 85
   • Open any Treasure Chest you get in the hopes of getting a
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     Amulet of Fishing. Equip it as soon as you find one.
   • When a Pirates Lost Ring is found, you should also Equip it as soon as possible.
     • At
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       Level 85 it is best to switch to Manta Ray until
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       Level 95
     • At
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       Level 95 it is best to switch to Whale
   • Keep
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     Fishing until you find a
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     Octopus Mark
     • Make a bunch of
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       Octopus Tablets and Equip them in the other slot than where
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       Ent is equiped
       • 2 different Familiars together offer what is called a Synergy, when the Synergy is active the arrows in between the 2 Familiars will turn Green. This means the Synergy is active, it will use 1 Skill Related Tablet per action (in this Case Octopus) and when the Synergy is Active it will use an additional Related Tablet and 1 Synergy Companion Tablet, so in short, it will use 2
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         Octopus and 1
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         Ent as soon as the Synergy is active.
         • Synergies require
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           Summoning Marks to be a certain Level, their current Level can be viewed in the
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           Summoning Menu. In this Case with
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           Octopus and
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           Ent it will require both Marks to be Level 2. As soon as you find enough
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           Octopus Marks for another Level, the Synergy will activate.
     • Keep
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       Fishing until your
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       Summoning reaches Level 25 and your
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       Octopus is Mark Level 3.
10. Start by
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    Cooking the Fish you caught in
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    Fishing.
    • • We're looking for
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        Pig Marks here
      • Once you receive your first Mark, craft some
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        Pig Tablets and continue
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        Cooking.
      • Keep Cooking your Fish until your
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        Pig is Mark Level 3.
        • If you run out of Fish you can buy Bag of Flour and turn those into Bread.
        • For this the
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          Basic Furnace will be needed. If your
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          Pig is already at Mark Level 3, you can skip these steps for now and move on to point #6 .
          • Go to
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            Firemaking and burn 130 Normal Logs to reach Level 15.
          • Mine 500 Copper Ore and 500 Tin Ore in
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            Mining.
          • Smelt 500 Bronze Bar in
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            Smithing
          • Purchase the Shop Upgrade
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            Basic Furnace
11. The
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    Pig
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    Octopus will give a 75% chance to give you a Cooked version of the Fish you're fishing.
    • Keep
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      Fishing selling all the Raw and Cooked fish you obtain. Your goal is around 47,000,000 to prepare for
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      Agility
    • You can also keep
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      Fishing for more to buy some Bank Slots. How many slots is up to the Player, a minimum of 100-150 would be suggested.
12. This is also a good time to upgrade to
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    Auto Eat - Tier II for 5,000,000 and then
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    Auto Eat - Tier III for 20,000,000. This makes your
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    Auto Eat more effective.
13. Visit
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    Township and check out the Tasks some are quite easy to do and very worth your time.
    • You can buy Bar Box I, Wood Box I and Herb Box I after completing 40 Tasks and having Level 40 in the relevant skill. These boxes will help a lot while leveling
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      Smithing,
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      Fletching and
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      Herblore.
    • Now that you have a way to make start investing in your Town. Build buildings that increase your resource generation.
      • You can't completely mess up your Town, if you don't notice in time that one of your resources is running low and you're not producing very much of it, all that it is gonna do is cost you time. Production of resources never falls to 0 so you will be able to build some buildings eventually. It just might take time.
      • Looking up a Guide for how to build your Town is not needed, almost all guides relating to that are from before the rework of
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        Township and are no longer relevant.
14. If Atlas of Discovery Expansion is owned
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    Agility is next.
    • There is a whole list of items and Skill Requirements for this. This Guide will not go in detail where to obtain the items, you can click the items to view their sources and requirements.
    • The 3 required skills and
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      Fishing have Guides next to them with tips on how to Level them,.
    • Keep in mind that things like Agility Skillcape and the
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      Mastery Pool Thresholds will lower the cost of items. These reductions are not calculated in these item requirements.
    • 300 Raw Herring
    • 300 Raw Salmon
    • 300 Bones
    • 500 Mind Rune
    • 1,500 Maple Logs
    • 500 Coral - Obtainable from (22, 6) The Vibrant Coral Gardens.
    • 5,500 Paper
    • 10,000 Magic Logs
    • 250,000
      • Visit (4, 26) Shrouded Horizon for 50,000
      • Visit (22, 13) Dragon Valley for 50,000
      • Visit (2, 10) Shrouded Badlands for 150,000
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      Level 70 - Has a Guide here
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      Level 70 - Has a Guide here
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      Level 70 - Should already be covered in previous Steps.
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      Level 70 - Has a Guide here
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      Level 70 - Has a Guide here
    • Now to actually start
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      Agility
    • Build
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      Cargo Net
    • At
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      Level 10 build
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      River Crossing and continue training
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      Agility. Build
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      Balance Beam if is not owned.
    • At
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      Level 20 build
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      Pipe Climb and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 30 build
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      Gap Jump and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 40 build
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      Mountain Climb and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 50 build
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      Tree Balance and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 60 build
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      Heat Trap and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 70 build
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      A Lovely Jog and continue training
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      Agility. If is not owned, this is where we stop. Skip to step #19.
    • At
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      Level 80 build
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      Ocean Drifting.
15. The next Skill is
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    Cartography
    • Visit This Wiki Page for more information on how to level it.
    • The goal here is
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      Level 120 and Full Hex
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      Mastery.
    • If is NOT owned, skip this step and go to step #19.
16. Continue training
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    Agility
    • At
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      Level 90 build
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      Waterfall and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 99 build
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      Pillar of Skilling - Requires 3,500 Silver Bar and 3,500 Gold Bar.
    • If Throne of the Herald Expansion is owned, we continue to
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      Level 120.
    • For this the following items and Skill Levels will be required.
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        Level 115 - Has a minimal Guide here.
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        Level 120 - Has a minimal Guide here
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        Level 120 - Has a Guide here if needed.
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        Level 120 - Has a Guide here.
      • 12,500 Corundumite Ore
      • 5,000 Meteorite Ore
      • 12,500 Oricha
      • 20,000 Terrorfish
      • 20,000 Divinite Ore
      • 20,000 Carrion Logs
    • At this point it is advised you level
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      Crafting to Level 115 for access to Stamina Pouch.
      • You can get Basic Bag from
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        Thieving or if you have the Atlas of Discovery Expansion the better choice is to dig up Ancient Woven Bags from Bazaar (Medium) and turn those in to Basic Bag in
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        Crafting.
    • To continue
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      Agility. These aren't the most effective Obstacles but they are the easiest to build.
    • At
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      Level 100 build
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      Pit Maze and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 105 build
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      Forest Jog and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 110 build
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      Ice Trap and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 115 build
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      Forest Climb and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 118 build
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      Water Dive and continue training
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      Agility.
    • At
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      Level 120 build
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      Elite Pillar of Expertise
17. The final Skill covered in this Guide is
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    Firemaking.
    • Has a Guide here.
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      Firemaking has 2 main benefits that effect almost all other Skills.
      • The Firemaking Skillcape grants 5% increased experience when worn. (8% for the Superior Firemaking Skillcape).
      • The second benefit is
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        Global Mastery Bonus.
        • The
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          95% Pool Mastery threshold grant 5%
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          Mastery bonus.
        • Every Log brought to
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          Mastery Level 99 grant an additional 0.25% bonus
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          Mastery.
18. This is where the Guide ends. Feel free to look up how to level other Skills by visiting their Guides.
    • The order in which Skills get leveled does not matter a whole lot, as the remaining Skills don't have Global Bonusses. There is however a relationship between Gathering and Artisan Skills, this can be found here.
19. When you're active and online it is advised you do some Combat. Especially at the start Combat sessions don't last long and desired items are gotten rather quickly.
    • You can also follow the Combat Focused Guide from this point, you'll have a leg up when you start that after following this Guide, just skip the steps you've already done.
20. Please don't forget to return to the Step you were on when you're going offline again. Offline Combat can kill you if you run out of Food.

Alternative Money Making with Atlas of Discovery

This takes a while to set up due to having to grow Herbs to level

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Herblore

. There is a guide to leveling

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Herblore

here.
It is however much more per hour than

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Fishing

.

1. Start by leveling
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   Mining to Level 85.
   • Make sure to buy all the Pickaxe Upgrades from the Shop.
   • Craft a
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     Mole Tablet as soon as you receive the Mark.
2. Level
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   Herblore to Level 53.
   • Craft Perfect Swing Potion, preferably until you reach
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     Level 90.
     • The higher Tier Potion, the better effect you're getting.
3. Buy Mining Gloves from the Shop.
   • Keep an eye out for how many charges you have left on your gloves, they double all the Pure Crystal you get.
4. Mine Pure Crystal for profit and sell them all.
   • This will net you approximately 4 to 39.5 Million per hour.
     • Ways to increase the profit per hour can be found here

Combat Focus for Max efficiency with Throne of the Herald / Atlas of Discovery

This Method aims at clearing

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Throne of the Herald

as soon as possible for the Harold pet. This gives:

• Max Pool Mastery Cap increased by 25%
• 2% Global Interval reduction
• 0.1s Attack Speed Interval reduction
• 5% Global Mastery Gain
• as well as many more useful things.

Doing this first has many benefits to every skill.

This will be combat focused. Level as little non-combat as possible to rush Harold for the benefits, after which skilling and attacking will be faster/easier. It's the biggest boost one can get in the entire game.

It is recommended you completely ignore

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Township

buildings after setting Aeris as your Worship.

• Keeping
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  Township low will allow for cheaper rerolls of Casual Tasks.
• We will be using these Casual Tasks for free Slayer Coins.
• Tasks that provide Slayer Coins will reward 1,000 per
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  Slayer Level.
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    Township Level has no influence on that.
  • Equipment that awards extra does effect the amount, so wearing Slayer Equipment, Hunter's Ring and the
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    Cartography Point of Interest Dark Waters do effect the amount.
• Once you feel you no longer need the Food, Prayer Points, Bolts or Arrows from them, and you have a decent Gold income, feel free to start leveling
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  Township.

Before going into Combat it is recommended to Level these Non-Combat Skills:

Skill	Level	Reason
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Astrology	60	Max out the first stars (They give Global Accuracy which applies to all Attack Styles) in the Constellations Error creating thumbnail: File missing Iridan, Error creating thumbnail: File missing Terra, Error creating thumbnail: File missing Vale, Error creating thumbnail: File missing Syllia and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Arachi. If there is not enough Stardust obtained, try to balance out where you spend it and maximize the amount of Accuracy Gained.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Runecrafting	85	For Ancient Runes & decently crafted Wizard Equipment.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining & Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing	40	At 40 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mining and 40 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smithing you can mine & craft Silver Bar and Gold Bar, which are required to upgrade Melee Armour to (G), so they actually get their Damage Reduction.
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Later Aims should be:

Skill	Level	Reason
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore or Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cartography	90	Both these Skills grant access to Damage Reduction Potion IV which is very helpful, especially in the Throne of the Herald Expansion. When Error creating thumbnail: File missing Herblore is chosen it will also need Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 90. In Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cartography 1000 can be obtained at (31, 19) The Sand-Covered Treasure. These can be turned in for 5,000 Damage Reduction Potion IV with Township Task Hard 15.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archaeology	118	This is highly Optional Not required but very fun to play with, Merman Pendant and Pirate Hook are 2 very powerful items only obtainable from very high Error creating thumbnail: File missing Archaeology. You can defeat the entire game without them, they will however make some parts of the game faster/more fun.

Starting Off Your Journey

Once you've got all the skills at around Level 30, with

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Astrology

at level 60,

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Agility

at Level 50,

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Runecrafting

at Level 85 and

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Mining

&

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Smithing

at Level 40. You're ready to start your Combat Journey.

1. It is assumed that Combat Stats are also at Level 30.
   • If your Combat Skills are not Level 30, go beat up some Chicken, Cow or Golbin to get to at least
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     Attack and
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     Defence Level 5.
   • Craft some Steel Equipment and upgrade it twice with Silver Bar and Gold Bar to it's (G) version so it gets the Damage Reduction.
     • Equip the armour and continue your Combat.
     • It is suggested to do Slayer Tasks. Since they are free to reroll at this point, keep getting new tasks until you see a task you can easily do.
2. When you're roughly level 20-25 in Combat Skills (or 30 from Leveling everything to 30), it's time to switch to Mithril Equipment. Seeing as our
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   Mining and
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   Smithing isn't high enough to craft this, we can get these items from Mithril Knight.
   • Collect: 2x Mithril Helmet, 1x Mithril Platebody, 2x Mithril Platelegs and 2x Mithril Boots.
     • Turn 1 set of these items in for Normal Township Task #1, this rewards a (G) Mithril Platebody and (G) Mithril Shield, saving you some time needing to gather the Silver Bar and Gold Bar.
     • Upgrade the Mithril Helmet, Mithril Platelegs and Mithril Boots to (G) the normal way so they get Damage Reduction too.
       • This will require 525 Silver Bar and 750 Gold Bar.
3. Continue Farming
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   Slayer while leveling your Combat Skills.
   • Once you reach Combat Levels around Level 40-45 it's time to upgrade the Armour and Weapon again. This time we'll be aiming for Rune Equipment, completely skipping Adamant Equipment.
     • We also can't craft Rune Equipment so we'll be getting it from Rune Knight.
     • This will be the last Melee Armour Set needed before upgrading to God Equipment.
     • A good Weapon alternative at this point is Ice Sword or Ice Dagger or Ice Battleaxe. This can be obtained from
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       Frozen Cove.
       • A Rune Claw would also be a very good weapon but requires some Barrier combat.
     • Upgrade the Rune Helmet, Rune Platebody, Rune Platelegs, Rune Boots and Rune Shield to (G).
       • This will require 2,000 Silver Bar and 3,750 Gold Bar.
4. You will also need to level your
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   Magic and
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   Ranged.
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     Magic Wizard Armour you can craft in
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     Runecrafting.
     • Simply craft the highest Wizard Armour you can craft that matches the Element of the highest Spell you can Cast. This will increase the Minimum Damage of the Spell.
     • A Magic Wand (Powerful) can be crafted by upgrading 100 Magic Wand (Basic)
       • Or as a drop from Angel or Dark Wizard, which are both
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         Magic enemies and can be rather rough unless your
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         Ranged is already decently leveled.
   • D-Hide Equipment is slightly harder to come by. For this,
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     Spider Forest needs to be cleared several times
     • This drops Green D-Hide Equipment (Level 40), Blue D-Hide Equipment (Level 50), Red D-Hide Equipment (Level 60) and Black D-Hide Equipment (Level 70).
     • Clearing
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       Spider Forest 30 times rewards 10,000, 25,000 and a (U) Green D-hide Body through Normal Township Task #3
     • Amulet of Looting also drops in this dungeon. When worn this item loots all items directly into your bank instead of the Loot Box.
       • It is recommended you keep 5 Amulet of Looting for the Loot Container Stacking later on.
       • There is also a Township Task to turn one in, although this only provides 25,000 and is not worth it at this time.
     • You can get a Adamant Crossbow, Rune Crossbow or Dragon Crossbow by thieving
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       Marauder at
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       Level 21.
     • An easy way to get Bolts is by buying Slayer Resupplies. This will also provide you Prayer Points and some Food.
5. At this point you should have all 3 Combat Styles available to you. Keep fighting
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   Slayer tasks until you reach
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   Level 77.
   • At
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     Level 77 you're set to start
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     Volcanic Cave, you can find a guide here.
6. This is where this guide ends. You should have grasped the basics of Combat and Upgrading at this point.
   • Further Guides can be found with each Dungeon. They all have a list of recommended/required Equipment and Skill Levels.
   • The Dungeon Guides have been kept as low as possible on the Requirements and Gear needed.
   • If you want to know what the next objectives are, look at the Next Dungeon guide. This should give you Items and Skill Levels to aim for.
7. After defeating
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   Throne of the Herald.
   • Fully max out
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     Cartography if Atlas of Discovery Expansion is owned. Including Hex Mastery.
   • Level
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     Agility to Level 120. Guide to which obstacles to pick for minimum effort/other skills can be found here at step 15.
     • It is suggested to get
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       Crafting to Level 115 for Stamina Pouch to lower interval even further.
   • You will need several Skills at high Levels to be able to build
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     Agility Obstacles.
   • Build your
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     Pillar of Expertise when available.