RuneScape Practical Powerleveling Guide: Part 3

Name	Practical Powerleveling Guide: Part 3
Category	General

Note: This guide was written in the purpose of leveling fast with no worry of losing/making money on RuneScape, so if you don’t like the methods described below simply don’t try them.

P.S. The combat skills will not be described here.

Skill-1 ~ Prayer
Skill-2 ~ Runecrafting
Skill-3 ~ Construction
Skill-4 ~ Agility
Skill-5 ~ Herblore
Skill-6 ~ Thieving
Skill-7 ~ Crafting
Skill-8 ~ Fletching
Skill-9 ~ Hunter
Skill-10 ~ Mining
Skill-11 ~ Smithing
Skill-12 ~ Fishing
Skill-13 ~ Cooking
Skill-14 ~ Firemaking
Skill-15 ~ Woodcutting
Skill-16 ~ Farming

If you want to find your way to the skill as fast as possible, press Ctrl + F and type in what you are looking for.

To start off we are going to talk about prayer.

PRAYER

This is a very useful skill that at high levels will benefit you in many ways. For example: the protect from attack prayers will help you protect from ether missiles, magic, or melee attacks while fighting. Also, there are boost prayers that will help your defense, attack, and strength. To access the prayer list, go to the “prayer” icon located on the top right next to the magic book.

After clicking on this icon you will see a new screen. Here you can click on any prayer as long as you have the level requirement. For example: to use protect from melee, you need level 43 prayer. If you don’t have 43 prayer then the protect from melee prayer will be turned off (or not highlighted). The highest level prayer requires level 70 prayer to use and because of this you might think “Well, why get any higher then 70?” Well, this is where you find out.

The higher your prayer level is, the longer your prayer will last while it is activated. For example: if you protect from magic and your prayer level is 60, your prayer will slowly drop down until it hits 0, then it will turn off and you will have to either pray at an altar or drink a prayer restore potion.

So it is always better to try and get your level as high as possible.

To start off prayer, you do not need to do anything special; just walk around and bury every bone you see. Here is a list of XP each bone gives you:

Normal bones – 4.5 XP
Big bones – 15
Baby dragon bones – 30 (members only)
Dragon bones – 72 (members only)
(There are more bones but these are the most common to use.)

If you don’t have much money and/or don’t want to spend it, I suggest killing your own monsters and gathering your own bones because this way you will get combat experience while training, plus the chance of a valuable drop.

Normal bones – kill goblins behind the Lumbridge castle and bury all the bones as you kill.
Big bones – kill hill giants to the north west of Varrock in the Edgeville dungeon and bury the bones as you kill them
Baby dragon bones – in the Taverley dungeon there are baby blue dragons, bury the bones as you kill them (dusty key needed to enter)

Dragon bones – okay the guide is mostly going to center around these because simply this is the fastest and easiest way to get the prayer XP in the game. To get dragon bones you need to kill green dragons, blue dragons, red dragons, black dragons, or any other type of dragon.

I suggest you stick with green and blue dragons just because they are the easiest to find; green are located in level 23-26 wilderness right behind the grave yard to the north of Varrock and also in level 13-18 wilderness north of Edgeville. I suggest you kill these at Edgeville because if any player killers come at you, you can just teleport.

Blue dragons are located right next to the baby blue dragons in the Taverley dungeon and in the hero’s guild (hero’s quest needed to enter). I suggest to kill them at hero’s guild just because the bank in the rogues den is located just north of the guild and is a fast access. Bad thing is, there is only one dragon and I am not the only person who knows about it. So I suggest you bring mind runes and air runes and 1 click attack them; there are mage and range spots so remember to use them.

Red dragons – I don’t suggest you kill these; there are no good spots near the bank
Black dragons – same as red

Or best of all, just buy the bones! This will save you a lot of time but you will be losing money. Whether you killed monsters or you bought them, I suggest you don’t bury the bones ever! The way to power praying XP in my opinion is to use a gilded altar at a player-owned house.

I suggest getting your construction to a high level so that you can move your house to Yanille (see construction guide). This way you have fast access to a bank and it becomes a lot faster.

Just find someone that has a gilded altar with 2 incest burners in the “event” forums and just run to the bank. Get your bones and run back to the player’s house; enter it and use the bones on the altar.

That’s it for prayer! Now comes rune crafting.

RUNE CRAFT

Very useful skill mostly when done with magic, but in power leveling you just want to hurry and get fast XP, that is why rune craft is kind of hard. The fastest way to get XP is by making fire runes, yes, fire runes. Start off by making the best runes you can make, like airs then body’s then minds and so on. When you can make fire runes, buy as many normal essence (not pure) as you can and get a bunch of dueling rings.

Start at the duel arena with a fire tiara and enter the altar to the north east. Craft the runes and teleport to castle wars with the dueling ring bank there. Take out all the essence you can carry and teleport back to the duel arena and repeat. That’s the best way I have found to get my XP in rune crafting. Also, another good way is when you get 92 rune crafting; you can now have many 2x nature runes per essence so buy a lot of pure essence and go into a world were they are running nature runes and stand in the altar. Trade someone 26 pure essence and 52 nature runes for their 26 rune essence. This isn’t a great way since you lose money but it’s very fast XP.

CONSTRUCTION

This skill is money consuming and no good way to make too much out of it but it is worth having the level 99 because come on your own house…

The best way I see it is to get your level high enough to make oak larders (not ladders; I mean the thing in the kitchen that needs 8 oak planks). Buy the planks ready-made and hire a butler. I suggest the demon because it carries 26 items at a time and it is very fast. Just carry about 500k with you to pay him right now and when he asks. Also bring a saw, and 24 oak planks make a larder, destroy it and make it again and again. Repeat this over and over, and after the 24 planks are gone ask your butler to bring you 24 more just keep doing this and you will get very fast XP.

Construction is an awesome skill to have 99 and have all the furniture and all the rooms in your house very nice, since you can host a lot of parties and stuff. I mean there is no real way to make money out of this skill but it is a great skill to get recognition for….

AGILITY

This skill in my opinion is fun but very time consuming. Just start off by going to the gnome training arena and stay here for a long time until you reach level 35 agility, then do the bar crawl and enter the barbarian outpost arena. Stay here until level 52 agility; after that just go to the wilderness agility training arena.

I suggest bringing food and a dds and just stay here until 75 agility, then do monkey madness and stay at the agility arena there until 99. Running around so much is very annoying but they have worlds where people meet up to have some fun and race each other around the course. Also, it is very useful to buy a bunch of super energy potions and just take a full inventory with you. While running, if your energy gets low just drink up some pots.

HERBLORE

Another very useful skill, but this one is kind of hard to figure out how to power level since the only good ways not to lose millions are to either get your own herbs or your own seconds.

I just suggest to buy as many ranarrs as possible and as many snap grass as possible and make prayer potions until level 99. Yes, this will take a lot of money but it’s the best way in my opinion. Remember, you must do druids ritual in order to start off Herblore. Yhe quest will give you the XP needed to get to level 3, then from there on, make normal attack potions. This is easy because Guam leaves are very easy to find and now that they have updated all the shops to where they have unlimited amounts of vials of water and of eyes of newt, the process becomes that much faster.

Then when your level starts getting higher and higher, you get to make better potions and they will become better for your XP. I recommend getting your Herblore to level 63 and buy snap dragons for cheap and also buying water filled vials (at Shiloh village) then you can either buy red spider eggs or get them yourself. Simply buy about 10 glory amulets then run to Edgeville dungeon and go to the wilderness gates and follow it all the way straight up. There will be 6 eggs, get them and wait for them to respawn. It only takes a little while to gather all 28, then teleport to Edgeville with the glory amulet bank and start over. This is a great way to get XP. Then at level 81, I suggest you do Saradomin brews all the way to 99; toadflax are easy to buy and the only thing that costs a lot is the crushed bird nests as they are around 2k each, but this is very fast to 99.

THIEVING

Okay, this one takes a lot to explain. To start off, pickpocket “men” at Lumbridge until level 5, then head to Ardougne and steal from the bakers stall until reaching level 20, then do silk until level 35. Afterwards, do fur until level 40 then guards until level 60, then comes my favorite mini game for thieving – pyramid plunder mini game. Do this until level 99…and there’s my mini guide.

Alright, you're going to want to bring the best food you can afford (and be sensible I wouldn't recommend wasting money on sharks) and bring 4 super anti-poisons (4) per inventory. That's right, you get attacked in there. You do not need armor though. There is a nearby prayer altar so if you get attacked (which isn't all that often) just put on pro from melee.

Now, say you're level 91…You obviously (as far as I know) do not have time to go through every single room. I usually start on the 7th floor and search all urns, then move to 8th floor and search all urns. 8/10 times you can finish if you're focused.

Sarcophagi and Golden Chests:

The sarcophagus gives you a Pharaoh’s scepter…sometimes…actually very rarely. I don't usually do it because it's hard to get and you get no XP, but then again you could make 1 mil any give time you raid it. Both of those will send scarabs and mummies after you if you fail, so beware! Golden Chests on the contrary also give you Pharaoh’s Scepters and XP, so these are worth it!

Another good mini game to do for this is Sorcerer’s Garden, but it takes kind of long and doesn’t have great rewards. I will give you a short guide on this one too.

I will tell you how you get past the elementals in the summer garden (level 65 required to enter). Here’s a step by step guide:

1) The elemental walks around a hallway with three spots to hide. After getting inside, wait a little bit before you enter the hallway until the elemental turns around and then run for one of the three hiding spots on the opposite side of the hallway. Most players try to get in the middle spot because it takes less time. The third option is possible when running and waiting a bit after the elemental has turned back. During this time, put run on and when the elemental turns around just rush past him. You can also just walk past him, but I don’t suggest this mostly because why walk when you can just run and get past it! Running is a lot faster and will take less time to get to the center of the maze, and that equals faster XP.

2) Now, getting past the second one is not really that hard; simply stand next to the wall that’s to the west and just wait until the the elemental is heading south and gets to the point where you are standing. Then, simply run past him to the next spot; make sure to have run on the whole entire time. This guide is being written as if you have run on and if you are walking you might find some difficulty getting around the maze by following the steps I’m listing here. If your energy is low, simply stand around and wait, or just drink an energy restore potion. Read on to find how to get past the third elemental.

3) The third elemental is walking north to south and there will only be one spot to hide – behind the wall shaped like an “L” us the best place. Just stand at the bottom part of the “L” until you are ready to head over to the fourth elemental.

4) This next guy is very easy as he walks around doing figure eights. There are two walls in the middle that are shaped like this – the best spot to hide is in the middle of the two walls as for some reason he won’t find you here.

5) The next elemental is guarding the herb patch; he is walking around in an L-shape kind of figure. Just wait right next to the herb patch, then, when he comes back, simply click inside the herb patch and you will run up to it and pick the herbs. From the safe zone next to the plants the idea is to reach the square between two corridors. This is a safe spot for both elementals that operate in that area. It can be easily reached by starting when the elemental walks past in the opposite direction. A faster method is to head immediately to this last safe spot in run mode, catching up with the elemental and sneaking past while it is turning. This is a tricky maneuver.

6) The last elemental has a fairly long circular route. Starting in run or walk mode when it passes the safe spot gives plenty of time to get to the central tree area without being seen. However, I still recommend running because it simply saves time and there is less a chance of being caught.

Another way to get it up is by thieving Ardougne knights with the gloves of silence. This is a good way since the gloves were updated; now, you will be stunned a lot less and will get about 3k XP a minute. Most people do this from level 55 to around level 99.

CRAFTING

The best way to do crafting is to buy as many tanned leather as possible and just craft them all into the highest piece of armor. You can start with the green dragon hide armor then blue until you can do black. Just do this until whatever level you want. However, a lot of people also suggest doing just cow hides all the way because they are cheaper and easier to find, but remember that this is a power leveling guide and power leveling means the fastest way to a certain level goal, so I say stick with dragon hide. At level 40 you can enter the crafters guild that is located south west of Falador; you must be wielding a brown apron to do so. The guild is very nice has a lot of gold rocks you can mine from, as well as clay and silver, and they sell stuff on the top floor.

FLETCHING

This is the best skill to make money with and it is very easy to do. Start off by cutting normal logs and fletching them into arrow shafts until you hit level 10, then fletch them into long bows (u) until level 25, then go cut oaks until you hit level 40, then buy a bunch of willow logs and cut them into (u) long bows until reaching level 70 fletch. Afterwards, buy yew logs at around 330-350gp each (no more than 350) and buy either flax (if you want crafting XP) or bow strings at 190-200gp. Then, either make the flax into bow string or just start cutting the logs into (u) long bows then string them into yew longbows then go on the fletching forums and sell them at 600-620gp each long bow.

This is a very good way to make money and the fastest way to level it well until level 85 fletch where you can do magic longbows. However, I don’t really suggest doing magic longs because the logs are hard to find and you will spend more time buying logs than fletching them, so just stick to yew long bows if you are just looking for max XP.

HUNTER

This skill can make you some money on your way to 99. Start off by buying a bird snare at any hunter store and heading to Feldip hunter area. Stand by the shore line and catch birds until level 23 hunter, then head to the Piscatoris hunter area. Bring with you a hatchet, a knife, and like 5 logs (can be obtained there), then just set up dead fall traps and catching wild kebbits until level 53 hunter. Then, buy 2 box traps and stay at the same area as before and set up 1 dead fall trap and 2 box traps and catch normal chinchompas and wild kebbits until you reach level 63.

After you reach level 63, buy 2 more box traps and head back to the Feldip hunter area. Set up all 4 box traps and catch red chinchompas until level 99; this is going to take long but it is worth it because each red chompa is worth about 700-800 gp each! You need to catch 47,796 red chompas from level 63 to level 99; if you sell them at 700gp each (cheapest) you make around 33mil! Keep in mind that this is not something you can do in about 1 or 2 weeks. This will take quite some time and in my opinion it is very well worth the level 99 recognition you get from it.

MINING

The best way to power mine in RuneScape is by iron. Yes, I mean the level 15 ore iron. Just start off by mining copper ore and dropping it until level 15, then from there on just mine iron by Ardougne mines and drop it if you just want fast levels, or if you want money go bank it. After you reach level 60 mining go to the Miners guild that is located just south of the east bank of Falador and mine coal there until level 99. Either bank it or drop it just like iron. When you get 85 mining and you want to make money, I suggest mining some rune ore as they sell for about 12k each. However, don’t do this all the way to 99 because it will take years.

SMITHING

For smithing, the best way I could find is to do the dwarfs cannon and get your smithing up high enough to make cannon balls. Then, buy the coal at around 200gp each and iron at around 100gp each. This will make you, let’s say, 4k cannon balls; you need 2k coal and 1k iron, and that’s 500k in all and will get you 1k steel bars. Each bar makes 4 cannon balls, so you will end up with 4k cannon balls which sell for around 200gp each – that’s 800k! You will make 300k profit with this method. This is kind of slow, but it’s the best way to 99 in my opinion and most profitable. Also, another great way would be to simply buy iron and 2x the coal and just make steel plates and high Alch them; I doubt you will get much money and you might just end up losing some but it is fast and easy.

FISHING

In my opinion, Best way for fishing would be to buy a bunch of feathers and a fly fishing rod and simply catch trout and salmon. This is because at high levels the XP goes very fast. The best way to do this will be to do the Shiloh village quest because right next to the bank there is a river and has a fly fishing spot, so it’s close to the bank, and this way it will help you out with 99 cooking later on. This isn’t great if you are trying to make some cash because no one buys salmon and trout unless you go into non-member worlds and sell them to pures, but this will take a long time and will take away from your skill training time.

If you want, you can go fish some lobsters but I don’t suggest doing so until you get to around level 80+, because it will take very long at low levels to just get one inventory. Also, a great way of getting XP is fishing monk fish; this is super fast XP but requires the quest Swan Song to be completed in order to fish here (great place and really close to bank). I never ever suggest fishing sharks because it is super slow; good thing about them is the cooking XP if you are ever planning on it…

COOKING

This was my first ever skill to 99 and I was proud of it, but after a period of time I learned that there was no reason to really be proud because it could be obtained in about 3 weeks by almost anyone.

Start off by cooking low-level food and stick with the highest you can cook until level 40 cooking. When you get 40, start with lobsters; it doesn’t take many to get to level 55 so I suggest you fish them yourself if you can. Once at 55, simply buy them raw and cook them then sell them; you will lose some money but try and keep the raw and the cooked at around the same price so you won’t lose much. Remember to do the Family Crest quest and getting yourself a pair of cooking gauntlets; this will give you the ability to burn less lobsters and sharks at level 72 cooking.

You won’t be burning any more lobsters so I suggest to do lobsters until level 92 then you won’t burn any sharks. Buy sharks at around 950gp if you get the chance, or 1k each and just cook them then go to the player-killing worlds and at the Edgeville bank sell the sharks for 1k each. You might even make some profit if you are good at it.

The best place to cook is in Rogues Den which is located to the north of the hero’s guild in Taverley. It is in a bar (beer icon on top); go in the dungeon door and there will be a never-ending fire with a guy usually pretty close to the fire (sometimes one step away) where you can bank in. Just camp out here for a long time.

FIREMAKING

This one is kind of simple. First, get your level high enough to where you can burn willows; it is only level 30 so I don’t suggest you buy any logs just yet because it goes by fast. Trust me, just woodcut and burn, woodcut and burn, just that easy. When you get to level 30, simply buy willow logs and burn them; this is tricky because your character moves to the west after each burning and sometimes gets stuck in a place where it can’t light a fire, and it gets very annoying because you are going to have to move over and light on the other side and start again. But the best places I have found would be Draynor, dual arena, or Varrock east bank. If you have enough money, then buy maple logs and do those because it is a lot faster but kind of expensive and hard to find. I don’t suggest doing anything higher than maples because the money lost would be too much.

WOODCUTTING

Well this is another great skill to have 99 in; mostly, it shows you are committed. This one is just like every other, one start off with normal logs (save them for fire making), then as you get along do better trees for more XP. At level 30, do willows all the way to level 60; if at level 60 you want some money, go cut some yews and sell them, but if straight up just want some XP, stick with the willows as they are a lot faster per inventory. This means faster XP. I recommend you cut willows at Draynor village because the willow trees are really close to the bank; the drag about it is that a lot of people stand here doing the same and some even auto woodcutters, but still this is a great way to get 99 and you will still make some money (not much but more than you started with). Just bank all your willows because they can either help you on your way to 99 fire making or 99 fletching; you never know…

FARMING

Okay, this one is very boring in my opinion and takes a bit of money. The best way to power this skill is by chain farming. This is were you plant seeds all over the place and come back later to take the stuff out and put new in. I will go into some depth for this skill.

Start off by buying yourself a well respected amount of law runes, yes, law runes. You will not need them for farming exactly but to teleport to every place that has a farming patch. Here are the places where they are located:

Full farming patches –
North east of east Ardougne
South east of Falador
North of Catherby
North West of Port Phasmatys

Bush patches –
South of east Ardougne
North of the chemist house in Rimmington
South of Ecteria castle
South west of Varrock nest to champs guild

Hops patches –
South west coast of Entrana
North of McGrubor's Wood, north-west of seer’s village
Across the river, along the route from Lumby to Varrock
North of Yanille

Trees patches –
Falador Park
South east of Taverley
West of the agility training arena in the tree gnome stronghold
North west behind Lumby castle
South east of Varrock in the palace grounds

Fruit tree patches –
North coast of Brim Haven
South east of Catherby
South east of the grand tree in the tree gnome stronghold
North west of the tree gnome village

Spirit tree patches –
South of Eceteria castle
North east of Brim Haven
North east of Port Sarim

Belladonna patch –
West of Draynor manor
North east of Alkharaid

Calquat patch –
North of Tai Bwo Wannai village in Karamja
South west of Canifis

Those are the places where the farming magic happens…and they are the reason you need so many law runes, that is, to teleport from place to place, because if you stay at the same patch it would take forever! The best thing to do at the beginning is to gather as many seeds as possible even if they are too high for you to use because you will be using them later on.

Gather potato seeds and onion seeds at first since you will only be at level 1. Have all the tools needed and some seeds with you, then teleport to Cammy and run north of Catherby. Clean the patches – all of them – then plant all of the potato seeds and put all the weeds you get into the compost bin. This will get you some extra XP later on. Then, teleport to Ardougne and go north east and do the same here then move on to south of Falador and do it again.

After a while of this you will get higher levels; just keep doing the same with the best seeds you can plant until you reach level 15 farming. With this level, you can now plant trees; also, gather acorns and go from patch to patch planting them then later on come back and check the health. Cut them down and plant a new one in all the spots.

When you get higher and higher, farming will become long and difficult but just stick with it and you will see that it helps a lot.