Skill pure
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A skiller or skill pure is an unofficial account-type that plays with heavy restrictions to combat skills. Skill pures usually have the goal to advance as far as possible in the game without increasing combat level, remaining combat level 3.
The challenge is based on reaching various milestones such as max level in skills and by completing quests, achievements and obtain items typically gained through combat. The account-type also excludes the best training methods in the game, as certain locations like Prifddinas is non-accessible for skill pures. While skillers generally do not train combat skills, some variants (see below) selectively train one or more of the combat skills while avoiding others.
Variations[edit | edit source]
Type | Description |
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Level 3 | This is the generic skiller; they have level 10 Constitution and all combat skills are level 1. These are the most commonly found type of skiller. |
Summoning pure | The only combat skill these accounts train is Summoning. These pures must obtain charms from a handful of non-combat sources (see below). These accounts have a maximum combat level of 15. |
Prayer pure | The only combat skill these accounts train is Prayer. These accounts are a fairly common type of skiller due to the accessibility of bones and ashes. These accounts have a maximum combat level of 15. |
Constitution pure | These accounts train Constitution with all other combat skills at level 1. Since these pures cannot gain Constitution experience from combat without earning experience in other combat skills, they rely on uncommon methods to earn Constitution experience. These accounts have a maximum combat level of 25. |
10hp pure/9hp pure/1hp pure | Commonly named hp pure after Hitpoints, now called Constitution, this type trains all combat skills except the Constitution skill. Since slaying monsters yields Constitution experience, they must use uncommon methods to train skills that are typically considered impractical or impossible to train outside of combat. The maximum combat level possible for these pures is 116. Some players may be level 9 Constitution after having registered the account during RuneScape Classic, whilst a few might be level 1 Constitution after being reset for botting during the Classic days. |
Citadel pure | A Citadel pure is a type of skill pure created solely for the purpose of skilling in a Clan Citadel. As such, the only skills trained on a Citadel pure account are the skills involved in Citadel resourcing: Woodcutting, Mining, Firemaking, Smithing, Cooking, Crafting, and Summoning. These accounts are often created by higher-ranking members of clans to assist in the process of gaining needed resources each week as only a certain amount of resources may be collected by a single account per week. |
Tips and tricks[edit | edit source]
- The unofficial skiller homeworld is 100.
- Players can hide attack options on players and NPCs through Attack Options under Combat & Action Bar in gameplay settings.
- Players who choose to have these options visible can wield a bow with no arrows to avoid attacking by accident.
Tagging[edit | edit source]
To tag something means to hit a 0, allowing the enemy to retaliate. Wearing a Ring of recoil when taking damage will slowly kill the opponent. Other useful items to kill an enemy through recoiling damage are the blood amulet of fury and the deathtouch bracelet.
Tagging is required for a kill to count towards your account most of the time. There are however some exceptions in a few quests. In order to make sure your pure hits a 0, it is recommended to wear Leather armour and drink a Saradomin brew, making it a 0% chance for a combat 3 to hit on any opponent.
Hitting a 0 awards no combat XP.
Training Slayer, Dungeoneering, and combat skills[edit | edit source]
This section lists methods for training skills that are not straightforward to train without combat. Slayer and Dungeoneering require special consideration since they cannot be trained solo by traditional means, while combat skills (for skillers who train them) are naturally impractical, but not impossible, to train without actually participating in combat.
The following methods are universal and may be used to train any of these skills:
- Lamps from Treasure Hunter
- Jack of trades aura
- Penguin Hide and Seek D&D
- Troll Invasion D&D
- Weekly lamp rewards from Anima Islands D&D
- After Broken Home is completed, it can be replayed once a week for a large lamp, or huge lamp once all replay challenges are completed.
Slayer[edit | edit source]
- Using a ring of recoil to defeat God Statue fanatics
- Soul Wars
- Using a ring of recoil to complete Slayer daily tasks
- Using a Slayer skill training dummy (this method can utilise bonus experience)
- Tagging slayer kills (dealing a 0) and having a friend finish the kill
- Bursting corrupted scarabs in Menaphos (this method can utilise bonus experience)
- Experience voyages from the Assassin (requires 90+ Slayer)
- Lamps from the Waiko Reward Shop
- Big Game Hunter (requires at least 70 Hunter and 55 Slayer)
Dungeoneering[edit | edit source]
- Anima Islands D&D This is used by Ironman skillers to reach 50 Dungeoneering.
- Sinkholes D&D
- Shifting Tombs (requires 50+ Dungeoneering)
- Leeching floors in Daemonheim
- Make sure to turn off experience sharing in the party interface.
- Bind a tangle gum shortbow or longbow with no ammo bound, equip it, and choose the 'Hidden' option under NPC Attack Option settings in Combat Settings. Turn auto-retaliate off. This will make sure you don't accidentally misclick and attack any monsters in the floor.
- Be cautious as certain skill doors and certain puzzles can reward combat experience. If you're not familiar with a skill door or puzzle, don't interact with it just to be safe unless told otherwise.
- While leeching, the most common puzzles you'll likely be asked to assist with are Emotes or Levers since they can sometimes require everyone in the party to participate depending on the Floor difficulty. These two puzzles are safe for skill pures to participate in and knowing how to do them correctly will help you and your party a lot.
- After reaching Level 60 Dungeoneering and getting at least 50,000 Dungeoneering tokens, try to get the scroll of quick teleportation as soon as possible. This item allows you to teleport with the Dungeon Home Teleport much faster as long as you're not in combat, which is very useful for low combat level leeching.
- To save yourself and your party some time, try your best to pay attention to the chat taking place so you can know if you're needed for a puzzle or needed for the floor ending after the boss has been killed. If you need a break or have to go, try to let your party members know in advance if possible.
- Experience voyages from the Exile (requires 90+ Dungeoneering)
- Lamps from the Waiko Reward Shop
Dungeoneering tokens cannot be obtained from Shifting Tombs.
Attack[edit | edit source]
- Soul Wars
- Pest Control (requires 35+ combat and 25+ Attack)
- Warriors Guild (requires 130 combined in Strength and attack or 99 in one of the two)
Strength[edit | edit source]
- Barbarian fishing
- Soul Wars
- Pest Control (requires 35+ combat and 25+ Strength)
- Pyramid Plunder (open sarcophagi)
- Warriors Guild (requires 130 combined in Strength and attack or 99 in one of the two)
- Sunchoke farming
Defence[edit | edit source]
- Soul Wars
- Pest Control (requires 35+ combat and 25+ Defence)
- Warriors Guild (requires 130 combined in Strength and attack or 99 in one of the two)
- Prickly pear farming
Ranged[edit | edit source]
- Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza D&D
- Soul Wars
- Pest Control (requires 35+ combat and 25+ Ranged)
- Archery competition
Magic[edit | edit source]
- Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza weekly D&D
- Soul Wars
- Non-damaging spells (e.g. Confuse, Weaken, Curse, Superheat Item, Teleportation, and High Level Alchemy)
- Pest Control (requires 35+ combat and 25+ Magic)
Constitution[edit | edit source]
- Soul Wars
- Pest Control (requires 35+ combat and 25+ Constitution)
Level 99 Constitution pures cannot play Pest Control due to the combat level requirement.
Summoning[edit | edit source]
Summoning experience may be earned from the following:
- Using charms to create pouches
- Soul Wars
- Summon reinforcements at Wilderness Warbands
The following methods allow skillers to obtain charms:
- Using the Hunter skill to catch charm sprites, charming moths, and spirit implings
- Using LootShare
- Interacting with fire spirits that occasionally emerge while adding logs to bonfires
- Soul Wars (requires 30+ combat to redeem Zeal points for charms)
Summoning pures cannot obtain charms from Soul Wars due to the combat level requirement.
Quests[edit | edit source]
The following quests are possible to complete while remaining level 3 combat. Additional quests may be possible for skillers that train one or more combat skills. For quests that involve defeating enemies in combat, food and rings of recoil are usually necessary. A blood amulet of fury or deathtouch bracelet may also be used. Generally, as long as no direct damage is dealt by the skiller, they will receive no experience for recoiling the enemy to death. However, recoiling an enemy to death does not always correctly advance the quest. In these cases, deathtouched darts are the only option for level 3s. Pures that train Defence can also try using Reflect. Unlike most forms of reflect damage, armour spikes do grant combat experience, even if the monster is not tagged.
Ironman skillers can obtain rings of recoil by catching murderous bakami.
Maximum quest points: 194 (or 59 if free-to-play), although 195 is possible for skillers who completed Family Crest previous to its magic requirement, or for skillers who reset prayer after Shades of Mort'ton.
The skills required to complete the quests below are the following:
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Broken Home | ![]() |
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Chef's Assistant | ![]() |
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Cook's Assistant | ![]() |
N/A | |
Demon Slayer | ![]() |
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Dragon Slayer | ![]() |
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Druidic Ritual | ![]() |
N/A | |
Ernest the Chicken | ![]() |
N/A | |
Gertrude's Cat | ![]() |
N/A | |
Goblin Diplomacy | ![]() |
N/A | |
Gower Quest | ![]() |
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Gunnar's Ground | ![]() |
N/A | |
Heartstealer | ![]() |
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Imp Catcher | ![]() |
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The Knight's Sword | ![]() |
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Let Them Eat Pie | ![]() |
N/A | |
Missing, Presumed Death | ![]() |
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Myths of the White Lands | ![]() |
N/A | |
Once Upon a Slime | ![]() |
N/A | |
One Piercing Note | ![]() |
N/A | |
Perils of Ice Mountain | ![]() |
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Pirate's Treasure | ![]() |
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Priest in Peril | ![]() |
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The Restless Ghost | ![]() |
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Rune Mysteries | ![]() |
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A Shadow over Ashdale | ![]() |
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Shield of Arrav | ![]() |
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Song from the Depths | ![]() |
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Stolen Hearts | ![]() |
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Swept Away | ![]() |
N/A | |
Violet is Blue | ![]() |
N/A | |
Violet is Blue Too | ![]() |
N/A | |
Vampyre Slayer | ![]() |
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What's Mine is Yours | ![]() |
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Wolf Whistle | ![]() |
N/A | |
All Fired Up | ![]() |
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Back to the Freezer | ![]() |
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The Blood Pact | ![]() |
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Biohazard | ![]() |
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Buyers and Cellars | ![]() |
N/A | |
Call of the Ancestors | ![]() |
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Carnillean Rising | ![]() |
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Clock Tower | ![]() |
N/A | |
Cold War | ![]() |
N/A | |
Contact! | ![]() |
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Creature of Fenkenstrain | ![]() |
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Deadliest Catch | ![]() |
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Death to the Dorgeshuun | ![]() |
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Desperate Times | ![]() |
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Devious Minds | ![]() |
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Diamond in the Rough | ![]() |
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The Dig Site | ![]() |
N/A | |
Dimension of Disaster: Coin of the Realm | ![]() |
N/A | |
Dimension of Disaster: Shield of Arrav | ![]() |
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Dwarf Cannon | ![]() |
N/A | |
Eadgar's Ruse | ![]() |
N/A | |
Eagles' Peak | ![]() |
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Elemental Workshop I | ![]() |
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Enlightened Journey | ![]() |
N/A | |
The Feud | ![]() |
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Fishing Contest | ![]() |
N/A | |
The Fremennik Trials | ![]() |
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Garden of Tranquillity | ![]() |
N/A | |
The Golem | ![]() |
N/A | |
The Grand Tree | ![]() |
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The Hand in the Sand | ![]() |
N/A | |
Haunted Mine | ![]() |
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Hazeel Cult | ![]() |
N/A | |
Heroes' Quest | ![]() |
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Hunt for Red Raktuber | ![]() |
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Icthlarin's Little Helper | ![]() |
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Impressing the Locals | ![]() |
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In Pyre Need | ![]() |
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The Jack of Spades | ![]() |
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Jungle Potion | ![]() |
N/A | |
Kennith's Concerns | ![]() |
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Kindred Spirits | ![]() |
N/A | |
Lost City | ![]() |
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The Lost Tribe | ![]() |
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Merlin's Crystal | ![]() |
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Monk's Friend | ![]() |
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Murder Mystery | ![]() |
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Nature Spirit | ![]() |
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The Needle Skips | ![]() |
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Observatory Quest | ![]() |
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Once Upon a Time in Gielinor | ![]() |
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Plague City | ![]() |
N/A | |
Rat Catchers | ![]() |
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Recipe for Disaster: Freeing the Mountain Dwarf | ![]() |
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Recipe for Disaster: Freeing the Goblin Generals | ![]() |
N/A | |
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete | ![]() |
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Recruitment Drive | ![]() |
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Royal Trouble | ![]() |
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Sea Slug | ![]() |
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Shades of Mort'ton | ![]() |
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Sheep Herder | ![]() |
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Shilo Village | ![]() |
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The Slug Menace | ![]() |
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Some Like It Cold | ![]() |
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Tai Bwo Wannai Trio | ![]() |
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A Tail of Two Cats | ![]() |
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Tears of Guthix | ![]() |
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Throne of Miscellania | ![]() |
N/A | |
The Tourist Trap | ![]() |
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Tower of Life | ![]() |
N/A | |
Tribal Totem | ![]() |
N/A | |
Troll Stronghold | ![]() |
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Wanted! | ![]() |
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What Lies Below | ![]() |
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You Are It | ![]() |
N/A |
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Death Plateau | ![]() |
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Desperate Measures | ![]() |
1 |
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Dishonour among Thieves | ![]() |
3 |
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Curse of the Black Stone | ![]() |
8 |
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In Search of the Myreque | ![]() |
1 |
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My Arm's Big Adventure | ![]() |
1 |
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One Small Favour | ![]() |
4 |
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Smoking Kills | ![]() |
4 |
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The World Wakes | ![]() |
3 (8) |
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Family Crest | ![]() |
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Miniquests[edit | edit source]
Skillers can complete a number of miniquests. Rather than provide an exhaustive list of all miniquests available to skillers, the following list contains only miniquests that require special consideration.
- Lair of Tarn Razorlor
- The fight is currently bugged. Tarn's 1st form does not yield experience. His 2nd form requires a deathtouched dart for the kill to count.
- Mogre
- The miniquest itself is straightforward, but skillers that are after flippers or the mudskipper hat must use recoils to kill mogres.
- Boric's Task I
- The quest takes place in an area with aggressive bats. Though they wont hit very high, it makes it difficult to speak to the quest NPC in the end. Bring food and recoil/blood fury amulet to recoil the bat to death, then speak to the NPC when the coast is clear.
- Boric's Task II
- You need to defeat 5 level-1 Living rock brawlers. Bring recoil rings and a blood fury amulet. Tagging is not necessary, as these will attack you automatically.
- Battle of the Monolith
- Though the quest seems daunting, follow the quick-guide tips and don't attack any monsters. They will neither attack you, meaning you don't need food or recoil jewellery here.
- Fortunes
- In the boss fight in the end, simply allow Relomia to kill you. Recoiling damage isn't necessary, as the point is to die here.
Tales of the Arc[edit | edit source]
Skillers can complete all 10 Tales of the Arc miniquests. Those that involve combat are listed below.
- Head of the Family
- The miniquest enemies yield no experience, so they can be killed with a weapon.
- Spiritual Enlightenment
- Bring a friend to help you kill the acolytes. Tag them and have your friend kill them. You will receive the drops.
- Jed Hunter
- The Gu ronin can be recoiled.
- Eye for an Eye
- The zyclopes yield no experience. Bring a weapon (preferably ranged), a blood amulet of fury, 2-3 recoils, and an inventory of Saradomin brews. Tag the zyclopes to pull them off the houses, and switch targets often to ensure each wave of zyclopes dies at roughly the same time. Undead Jed can be killed with a weapon.
- Final Destination
- The miniquest enemies yield no combat experience. Wield a chargebow or comparable weapon to defeat the zyclops cannoneers before they sink your ship. The final boss can deal heavy damage, so brews are recommended.
Minigames[edit | edit source]
There are certain activities that skillers can do. The ones listed are those that are possible to do at combat level 3. Precautions may need to be taken in some activities to avoid gaining combat experience.
- Barbarian Assault[1]
- All Fired Up[2]
- Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza
- Castle Wars
- Fist of Guthix[3]
- Fish Flingers
- Fishing Trawler
- Flash Powder Factory
- Games Room in Burthorpe
- Gnome Delivery
- Great Orb Project
- Heist
- Pyramid Plunder[4]
- Runespan
- Shifting Tombs
- Sorceress' Garden
- Social Slayer[5]
- Soul Wars[6]
- Stealing Creation[7]
- Vinesweeper
Notes[edit | edit source]
Tasks[edit | edit source]
Skillers are extremely limited when it comes to completing tasks/achievements. The following sets of tasks can be completed at combat level 3:
- Ardougne Tasks (easy)
- Fremennik Tasks (easy)
- Recoils can be used to defeat the required monsters. Boosting your summoning points above 1 will allow you to use the obelisk in Rellekka.
- Karamja Tasks (easy)
- Recoils are needed to defeat the Jogre.
- Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks (beginner & easy)
- The Restless Ghost now gives the Prayer experience reward in the form of a lamp, so skillers can finish the beginner task set without any combat experience.
- Recoil the rat and zombie.
- Seers' Village Tasks (easy)
- Varrock Tasks (easy)
- Wilderness Tasks (easy)
- Using normal bones on the Chaos altar yields 15.75 prayer experience. The Wilderness sword 1 requires 40 Attack to equip, but can be operated from the inventory.
Challenges[edit | edit source]
- Certain quests are impossible to complete while remaining a skiller as they carry combat skill rewards or involve killing a monster. This means that skillers often aren't able to take advantage of the best skilling methods available.
- Member Level 3 skillers may complete a combat Daily Challenge, usually kill 8 Level 2 creatures, by using holy fire on tentacles within the Tuska minigame. The combat lamp may be discarded after earning the Treasure Hunter key.
- Slayer is very difficult to level efficiently for a skiller. Although Slayer tasks can be completed using rings of recoil and retribution/wrath, methods such as using experience lamps and the rewards from Penguin Hide and Seek and Soul Wars can be used to get experience without actually completing any Slayer tasks.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- There are a few skillers that have level 9 Constitution. This was done by making an account in RuneScape Classic and transferring it to RuneScape 2. Since you only received 1000 Constitution experience in RuneScape Classic, when you switched to RuneScape 2, you would have level 9 Constitution.
- There have also been skillers with level 1 Constitution. This was done by botting in the early stages of RuneScape Classic. If caught by Jagex, they would reset your Constitution experience to 0. Some of these accounts have since been locked by Jagex.
- There have been skillers who have legitimately obtained the Fire Cape after defeating TzTok-Jad and single-handedly fighting off 62 waves of TzHaar creatures in the TzHaar Fight Cave. By utilizing prayers, poison, recoil methods, thousands of purple sweets, and 3 deathtouched darts, the Fight Cave can be completed.
- Other skillers have illegitimately obtained the Fire Cape via certain glitches that allowed other players to enter the fight caves with them. This is a direct breach of the Rules of Runescape, and many of these accounts have been banned. The glitch that allowed this to happen has since been patched.
- Some skillers have obtained boss pets, such as variations of the Araxyte pet. This was done by using a deathtouched dart on the boss and obtaining the improbable rare drop. Nonetheless, it has been achieved a handful of times.
- Several skillers have obtained the Golden mining suit, Lumberjack clothing, and the Constructor's outfit, despite normally being locked behind content that requires high combat levels to access. This was possible by purchasing the sets from Vic the Trader in June 2017 and January 2018.