Strategies for Jack of trades aura

This article is a strategy guide for Jack of trades aura. Information on mechanics, setups, and tactics is on this page.

A quick, cheap and easy way to complete the required skill of a Jack of Trades aura is to use a daily routine after activating the aura. There are three main suggested ways for collecting experience in up to 20 skills, the Taverley & Burthorpe routine, the Varrock routine, and the Prifddinas routine listed below. See also: Legendary jack of trades aura routines

Taverley & Burthorpe routine

The methods presented here can be performed by anyone regardless of level. Higher–level alternatives exist, and may be substituted if the player chooses. Everything required to complete this routine is collected en route.

Reusable items

• A Melee weapon and a Ranged weapon with ammunition.

The Gnome Shopkeeper's Armoury in Burthorpe provides both a bronze sword and a chargebow (which supplies its own ammunition) for free.

Recommended items

• A Toy mouse

#	Skills	Action
1–6.		Start from the Taverley lodestone and travel north to the flax field. Pick one flax from the field. Fish one Raw crayfish from the pond to the east. Chop the surrounding trees until you've obtained two logs. Make a fire with the one log. Cook the Raw crayfish on the fire. Fletch the other log into an Arrow shaft, Shortbow (u), or Shieldbow (u).
7–8.		Trade with Ayleth Beaststalker north of the pond to obtain a free Bird snare. Catch a Crimson Swift. Bury the bones obtained.
9–11.		Travel to Jack Oval's crafting Shop. Use the Spinning Wheel to craft a Bowstring. Enter the Burthorpe mine, mining one copper and one tin ore. Exit the mine to smith one Bronze bar.
12–16.		Check all the combat styles in the Xp Selection frame on the combat settings screen, and ranged combat experience for an option that is not Defence. Attack and kill a wolf found north of the Burthorpe mine with a Melee weapon and Ranged weapon.
17.		Travel to Poletax's Herblore Shop, taking the free Grimy guam. Clean the Grimy guam.
18.		Follow the road south from Poletax's Herblore Shop to the market. Pickpocket a Pompous Merchant or steal from one of the Vegetable Stalls.
19.		Travel to Pikkupstix's Summoning Shop, collecting the 7 Spirit shards, 1 pouch, 1 gold charm, and 1 Wolf bones for free. Infuse a Spirit wolf pouch.
20.		Travel to the Burthorpe Agility Course. Walk-across the Log Beam. Alternatively, a Toy mouse can be used to gain the agility experience negating the need to teleport away from, or complete the agility course.

Varrock routine

	45	20

Required skills

• 20
• 43
• 15
• 64
• 53
• 40

Reusable items

• Explorer's ring 4 (or Staff of fire & Nature runes)
• Wicked hood
• A Melee weapon

Resources consumed

• Staff of fire & Nature runes (or Explorer's ring 4)
• A raw fish
• A Summoning pouch
• 45 Vibrant energies and 20 Chinchompas for creating a Divine box trap.

Recommended items

• Bonecrusher

#	Skills	Action
1.		Start at the South-west Varrock mining site. Mine some Clay and Silver ore.
2–7.		Travel to Varrock Square. Make some soft clay at the fountain. Cast Superheat on the Silver ore via the Explorer's ring 4, or with runes. Create a Divine box trap. Place and search the Divine box trap, collecting the full resources if you choose. Summon a cheap summoning familiar.
8.		Teleport to the Air Altar via the Wicked hood. Withdraw some Pure essence from the Wicked hood and craft an air rune.
9.		Travel to the Varrock West Bank. Pickpocket a nearby guard.
10–15.		Set your melee combat experience to Balanced, and ranged combat experience for an option that is not Defence. Kill a Guard and bury their bones. Equip a Chinchompa caught earlier, and kill another Guard.
16–19.		Travel to the Varrock Palace courtyard. Chop two logs from the nearby trees. Fletch one log into an Arrow shaft, Shortbow (u), or Shieldbow (u) Make a bonfire with the other log. Cook the raw fish on the fire.
20.		Travel to Treznor at the Varrock Palace tree patch. Check on the tree's health at the farming patch or clear the patch of weeds if you do not have a tree planted there. Alternatively, pick a White fruit from the White tree in the Varrock Palace garden (Requires completion of the Garden of Tranquility quest), or pick berries from the Bush patch south of the South-west Varrock mining site during the first step of this routine.

Prifddinas routine

45	20

Required skills

• 61
• 89
• 43
• 89
• 91
• 75

Reusable items

• Explorer's ring 4
• A Melee and Ranged weapon along with armour, ammo, and equipment to kill a Cadarn mage and/or Cadarn ranger.
• Toy Mouse

Resources consumed

• A raw fish
• A log
• A grimy herb, or a herb and a Vial of water
• A Summoning pouch or a Bone
• Enough Divine energy & resources to make a Divine fishing bubble or Divine hunter spot
• 1 Nature rune and 4 Fire runes if an Explorer's ring 4 is decided against

#	Skills	Action
1.		Start from the Prifddinas lodestone. Create a Divine fishing bubble or a Divine hunter spot.
2.	or	Place the divine location, and gather from it.
3–6.		Deposit your inventory and withdraw a Toy mouse, a raw fish, a log, and a herb. Wind, release, and catch the Toy mouse. Light a fire with the log. Use the raw fish on the bonfire to cook it. Clean a grimy herb or add a herb to a Vial of water.
7.	or	Withdraw a bone or a Summoning pouch from the bank. Bury the bone or summon a familiar with a pouch.
8–10.		Travel to the Crwys district. Chop a log from the Magic or Yew branches in the Crwys district. Fletch the log obtained from woodcutting in the Crwys district. Pickpocket a Crwys Worker. Alternatively, pickpocket a Cadarn, Trahaearn, or Iorwerth Worker later.
11–15.		Deposit your inventory in the Crwys bank chest, and withdraw a Melee and Ranged weapon along with food, armour, and ammo to comfortably kill a Cadarn mage and/or Cadarn ranger. Travel to the Cadarn district. Set your melee combat experience to Balanced, and ranged combat experience for an option that is not Defence. Attack and kill a Cadarn mage and/or Cadarn ranger with each combat style.
16–17.		Travel to the Cadarn flax patch. Pick one flax in the Cadarn district. Use the spinning wheel to craft a bowstring.
18–20.		Travel to the Trahaearn district and deposit your inventory in the bank chest. Withdraw the Explorer's ring 4, or Fire and Nature runes to cast Superheat Item. Mine a piece of Corrupted ore from a Seren Stone. Cast Superheat Item on the ore.

Tasks that don't count

These provide experience in a skill but do not count towards training 10 skills for this aura

• Exchanging Dungeoneering Tokens for Dungeoneering experience
• Minigame rewards (Soul Wars, Pest Control, Temple Trekking, etc.)
• Distractions and Diversions (Circus, Ancient Effigy, Penguin Hide and Seek, etc.)
• Experience gained from catching a Guthixian butterfly.