Speed Training Guide - Trik Forum

DeathGamer · **Speed Training Guide -** 05-31-2007, 07:39 AM

Intro
Combat
Cooking
Thieving
Fletching
Runecrafting
Fishing
Herblore
Woodcutting
Magic
Smithing
Prayer
Agility
Crafting
Range
Firemaking
Introduction

There are a few basic tips that can help speed up any type of training.

Bring only the items you are going to need, and group them in your inventory.
Place items you are going to use (i.e. click on one then the other to make the items interact) together right next to each other at the bottom of your inventory.

Combat

If you want maximum experience, you want to train on a monster with higher HP that will not hit you very often. This way, you can hit them as much as possible without using a lot of food.
Just because a monster gives great loot, does not mean it is going to give great experience; train smart.
Stockpile food before you train that way you do not have to break your habit and go off to fish or buy food. Have more food in the bank than you think you will need.
Training against a monster that is aggressive and will attack a person of your level is very helpful since you will not have to click on each monster to attack it.
Different weapons hit different monsters harder so choose your weapon wisely.
While a ruby amulet might make you hit harder, it does not make you hit more often. Try to use a diamond or dragon amulet if you can afford it.
Choose a monster that is not too strong for you. Dragons usually have very high defense, and are therefore not good experience. The highest level monster should be about the same as your combat level, but not higher. That will only increase the time spent on less experience, and will quickly drain your food storage.

Cooking

Cooking is one of the quickest skills to train in Runescape 2, especially with the release of the Cook-X option
Use the closest range to a bank you can find if you are cooking mass amounts. Rogue's Den is a good example, as it has an everlasting fire right next to the bank NPC.
When you cook, click on the range or fire, and a menu will appear in your chat screen. Right click on the type of food you are cooking. Select "X" and type the amount, or click "All" to cook them all.
Do not drop all of your burnt food each time you cook just deposit it all into the bank and drop it all at once in notes when you finish cooking, this saves a lot of time.
When you get high enough, you stop burning certain types of fish. Start trading that fish cooked for raw fish, and you will get experience so much faster this way. You may have trouble with this method, though, so instead, you could try buying raw fish from a shop or another played, and reselling it once it is cooked.
If you have completed Family Crest you can get Cooking gauntlets from the Chef in Catherby. These will decrease your chance of burning your food. If you have finished any part of recipe for disaster you have access to a bank chest right underneath the lumbridge cooking range(which has a much less chance of burning). This used with cooking gauntlets makes it near impossible to burn food.

Thieving

The fastest way to level is to pick pocket NPC's. Try to trap them inside a house to limit their wandering about to a minimum.
Try to get a guard/knight/etc. for yourself. If you pick the same time as another player, you will both get caught if one does.
When pick pocketing, you get hurt. Steal cakes form the cake stall while training, to get some extra experience from that.

Fletching

Do not string bows that you make until you get up into maples, it is not worth it and its faster just to cut logs and sell them to a general store.
I would not cut bows as you cut the logs it wastes time and is not efficient.
Do massive amounts of bows at one time, it is boring and time consuming but much less time consuming then doing small amounts.
Making arrow shafts is an exception to my rule, cutting the shafts as you go works well since they are stackable and it only takes away two inventory spots (shaft and knife).

Runecrafting

There are not many shortcuts here, try working with a friend and having you all carry essence out to altar to speed things up.
If crafting natures, use general store trick. You withdraw all of you essence in notes and bring spare money (I would bring 10k or more depending on how many you are making) instead of going to bank you walk to the general store northwest of altar, sell essence notes to them, and buy them back in un-noted form, it wastes small amounts of money but saves massive amounts of time.
Another quick yet risky way to runecraft would be to use the abyss. The Mage of Zamorak in level 5 wilderness will teleport you there.
Use pouches so you can carry more than 28 essence at a time. You can get pouches by killing creatures in the abyss.
Using tiaras instead of talismans can speed things up a bit too.

Fishing

Still the same principle, fish, bank, fish, bank, fish bank. A fishing potion would help you catch quicker, but it would also make you lose a space in your inventory. Use it if you are very close to a bank, like in the fishing guild.
If you are power fishing, do it in Shilo Village. Fish a full inventory, sell the fish to the shopkeeper there and buy new bait/feathers from him for the money. This saves you a lot of bait, as you usually sell for more than you buy.

Herblore

This is a VERY hard skill to level, but getting high agility helps quite a bit. By using the features in the agility dungeon, located north of Yanille, you get the best herb and second ingredient dropping monsters, and the spot closest to a bank. Level 40 agility is needed to enter.
Try not to ID your herbs while in the dungeon. Collect them all, bank them and then ID when you have about 200. Nearly half of the experience comes from guams and marrentills, but they are often thrown away.
Take your time to gather the needed second ingredients and a bit extra. Here are some easy second ingredients and their locations:
- Spider eggs are found in level 5-6 wilderness in Edgeville dungeon.
- Snape grass spawns on the peninsula west of the crafting guild.
- Unicorn horns from black unicorns in level 24-25 wilderness.
Vials can either be made by yourself or bought in stores. The best store is the Ardougne general store, as it sells water filled vials, and people rarely buy there.
Another quick way to get vials is from the water elementals in the elemental workshop. Water elementals drop a water filled vial every time that you kill them. They also have rare drops like the dragon half shield. You can get a lot of vials, runes, and if you are very lucky, a dragon half shield from them.
Chaos druids in the Edgeville wilderness dungeon are great to collect herbs from, also the thugs at the very beginning of that dungeon drop herbs too. And it is very easy to avoid getting PKed down there, since its only level 3-4 wilderness. Just attack a druid if PKers are bothering you then run all of a sudden. Almost guaranteed to escape.

Woodcutting

A good trick would be to power cut willows. The trees south of Draynor bank are really fast experience.
Use the best hatchet you can get.
Try not to burn/fletch the logs as you get them, as it slows you down.

Magic

Try and train magic on something that cannot reach you. The lesser demon in the wizards tower is great (and if you can telly grab every once in a while you might be able to snag a rune medium helm).
Working magic in with other skills is great, high alching bows is great if you are a member since it is fast experience that pays for the natures by itself.
Training with mind runes is always a great and fast way to gain experience, no matter what you level.
Make your own runes. Use an elemental staff (fire/water/earth) and buy the minds/chaos/death/blood or you can sometimes trade essence for chaos/minds.
Wear magic gear to make sure you cast the spells successfully. Wizards hat, robe top, Zamorak robe bottom, a sapphire or dragon amulet, and either a spell staff (iban or god staffs) or an elemental staff is the best outfit you can get.
Smithing

When smelting bars (or making jewelry) you now have the ability to smith 1, 5, 10, or X (a given amount) bars.
When smithing things on an anvil right click on the item and just click make 10, even if you can only make 5 of the item it will still make as many as possible and save time.
Making steel bars and selling them is fast experience and you can also make money with it.
Once you reach higher metals (full mithril and higher), you can sometimes buy the metal cheap enough that you can smith it and sell for a profit or at least break even, this is an easy way to gain experience without mining.

Prayer

Bury every single bone you see.
If you do not want to buy bones, you have to get them yourself. In the wilderness, there are quite a few big bone spawns that comes again quickly.
The Mort Myre swamp, home of the Ghasts, is another good place. The Ghasts give 30 prayer experience each, they have 45 hits, which means 180 experience to your chosen skill, so they are good for both.

Mining

Use the best pickaxe you can get. The type of pick you use actually does effect how fast you get an ore so get the best one your mining level will let you use.
Bank all the ores you mine (unless you decide to power mine) even if you do not wish to smith them. Someone will always buy ores so you should sell them.
If you choose to drop mine (power mine), try to find a mining spot in the middle of nowhere, a long way from a bank. You will often be the only one there and the ores will spawn very fast, you win both ways.
Mining iron is very fast experience. Even above 60 mining, you will not get coal every time you mine it, so your chances are better with iron.

Agility

Use the courses as soon as you can. Start out by doing the gnome one. At level 35 switch to barbarian course, and at 52 go for wildy.
If your agility is high enough (50+ recommended), you can yet again combine agility with herblore, or just go for experience, and do the Brimhaven agility arena. Not the fastest, but you can get the new herbs, and it is a bit more fun.
Train together with some friends, maybe do some races to get your mind off the boring stuff. Helps quite a lot. If you do not have any friends online, listen to some music.

Crafting

If you are F2P only and do not want to spend a ton of money raising your crafting, I have one word for you. Leather. 1gp per spool of thread and a spool of thread lasts about 5 items you craft. It costs 1gp to tan one piece of soft leather or 3gp to tan one piece of hard leather. You may think this will all add up but it does not. The experience is quick and a lot cheaper than buying silver for holy symbols.
If you are P2P then you have access to the wonderful bowstrings. Crafting bowstrings provides supreme experience since flax plants are usually pretty close to a spinning wheel and a bank. You can easily make 500 to 750 bowstrings an hour if you work diligently. Now that might only be 7500 - 11250 experience an hour, but you also spend absolutely no money to make that. Bowstrings sell for 100gp each so if you sell them you can make 50-75k an hour. Not too bad for only requiring level 10 crafting!
Making glass things in Entrana is also fast crafting experience, just bring a bucket, all the other required things are on the island.
If you have access to Shilo Village, cutting gems from the rocks is not too bad to train with. I would only do this if you are trying to collect good gems to make amulets or rings with.

Range

If you want the fastest experience do not collect your arrows. When you start off ranging (level 1), you can use a buddy and range chickens. You range and have your friend collect arrows and feathers, then after a while you can switch. You can use those feathers to make more arrows to range with some more.
Do not train on anything that has less total HP than what your max ranged hit is (with the equipment you are using). If you can range 5's, then do not train on chickens that have only 3 HP. You get experience per hit. You want to train on something that you can hit your full 5 on that way you are getting more experience per arrow.
Do not wear melee armor, it will only make you hit less often and hit lower numbers.
Only buy bronze or iron arrows for training. Yes, you may be able to hit a couple points damage more with steel, but you can get up to 3 bronze arrows for the price of a steel sometimes. You get more experience for your money with bronze. Also, when you use bronze you will care less about leaving them on the ground.
One of the best ways to train ranging believe it or not, is darts! They give more fletching experience than arrows for one thing. The only down side is that less darts are made per bar than arrow tips.
Pick a dart, go to somewhere where you can range (eg. moss giants near the fishing guild, stand behind the rocks, select rapid and go. You will see that the hit rate is MUCH faster than even short bows on rapid.
Arrows are hard to get on free servers. F2Pers have two options: if you are low on money, go collect arrows at bears in wilderness. Many fast spawns, but the danger of PKers. If you are a bit more wealthy, get a member friend to buy in either range guild or Catherby archery store, and sell them on to you. They cost 6 gp in store, the member friend will want to profit from it, so offer at least 10 gp each for bronze.
What to train on (free servers): 1-10 chickens, 11-30 monks, 31-40 Barbarian village, 41+ Moss giants. Members have many more options, but these are good targets for easy and fast experience.
Members: All you need is a weapon, level 43 prayer and a monkey gree gree (monkey madness). Hold your gree gree go up to the monkey guards level 167. Wield your weapon, turn prayer on and start killing. Stand right next to the alter so if your prayer gets low, recharge.

Firemaking :

Cut tons of logs and save them in the bank before you even start training firemaking, in that case, you wont have to keep on cutting and burning.
Do it near a bank like Draynor or Edgeville. Burn logs, get more logs from bank, and so on.
Firemaking like all skills on Runescape take a lot of patience and commitment! You will not get 10 levels a day unless your firemaking is very low! Try burning for 2 hours or more a day to break up the monotony.