Power levelling

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This article is about the legitimate practice. For the method of training using automated software (which is strictly against the rules), see Macro.

Power levelling or grinding is the term referred to when speaking of a player who is trying to raise their level in a certain skill in as short a time as possible, often without care about what resources they may gain as well as experience.

A good example of this is when a player is training Mining, and drops the ores they mine so they can collect more without completely filling up their inventory. This allows them to raise their level without the need of going to sell it or deposit it in their bank. This saves travelling time, which makes the levelling faster.

Contents 1 Known power level skills 1.1 Melee 1.2 Construction 1.3 Cooking 1.4 Crafting 1.5 Firemaking 1.6 Fishing 1.7 Fletching 1.8 Magic 1.9 Mining 1.10 Prayer 1.11 Ranged 1.12 Runecrafting 1.13 Smithing 1.14 Thieving 1.15 Woodcutting 2 Power levelling cost 2.1 Power levelling cost for free players

[edit] Known power level skills

[edit] Melee

Main article: Free-to-play Melee training

Main article: Pay-to-play Melee training

Players can train their combat skills by:

• Killing bandits
• Killing yaks
• Killing moss giants
• Killing giant spiders
• Killing rock crabs
• Killing Armoured zombies
• Killing Experiments

[edit] Construction

Players can train their Construction by:

• Making oak larders
• Making oak doors
• Making Mahogany tables

[edit] Cooking

Main article: Free-to-play Cooking Training

Main article: Pay-to-play Cooking Training

Players can train their Cooking by:

• Cooking tunas
• Cooking lobsters
• Cooking swordfish
• Cooking monkfish
• Cooking sharks
• Cooking rocktails

Cooking gauntlets will help prevent burning lobsters, swordfish, sharks, and monkfish at certain levels, also note that monkfish requires the player to do Swan Song.

[edit] Crafting

Main article: Free-to-play Crafting training

Main article: Pay-to-play Crafting training

Players can train their Crafting with:

• Craft any type of dragonhide vambraces
• Craft leather coifs
• Craft Green dragonhide body

[edit] Firemaking

Main article: Free-to-play Firemaking training

Players can train their Firemaking by:

• Burning willow, teak, maple, mahogany, yew, or magic logs

[edit] Fishing

Main article: Free-to-play Fishing training

Main article: Pay-to-play Fishing training

Players can train their Fishing by:

• Fly fishing at Lumbridge River, Barbarian Village or Shilo Village
• Catching Leaping fish

[edit] Fletching

Players can train Fletching by making:

• Fletch yew longbows
• Fletch magic shortbows
• Fletch magic longbows

[edit] Magic

Players can train their Magic by:

• Casting ice barrage at bandits
• Casting ice barrage at the skeletons in Ape Atoll Dungeon
• Casting High Alchemy on items like yew longbows (though this can become tedious)
• Casting curse spells on the magic dummy at Lumbridge
• Casting blast spells from bought death runes
• Casting crumble undead on low level zombies
• Casting combat spells in Fist of Guthix

[edit] Mining

Players can train their Mining by:

• Mining granite and dropping
• Mining iron ore and dropping
• Mining Gold ore and Coal and banking in the Living Rock Caverns

[edit] Prayer

Main article: Free-to-play Prayer training

Players can train their Prayer by:

• Using dragon bones or other high experience bones on a gilded altar
• Always using the Ectofuntus
• Buying bones from the Grand Exchange and burying them
• Killing relatively low-level Hill Giants for their big bones as well as their profitable drops

[edit] Ranged

Main article: Free-to-play Ranged training

Main article: Pay-to-play Ranged training

Players can train their Ranged by:

• Using red chinchompas on skeletons in Ape Atoll Dungeon
• Using red chinchompas on mummies in the Chaos Tunnels
• Using red chinchompas on Nechryael in the Chaos Tunnels

[edit] Runecrafting

Main article: Free-to-play Runecrafting training

Players can train their Runecrafting by:

• Crafting runes at the Ourania Runecrafting Altar using Ourania Teleport.
• Crafting Lava runes with Magic Imbue.
• Being a runecrafter in Air running.

[edit] Smithing

Main article: Free-to-play Smithing Training

Players can train their Smithing by:

• Smelting gold ore with goldsmith's gauntlets
• Smithing iron platebody from iron bars bought from the Grand Exchange
• Smithing adamant platebody from adamantite bars bought from the Grand Exchange

[edit] Thieving

Main article: Thieving training

Players can train their Thieving at:

• Pyramid Plunder
• Pickpocketing H.A.M members.
• Sorceress's Garden (this also trains Farming)
• Thieving Menaphite thugs with use of a Blackjack

[edit] Woodcutting

Main article: Free-to-play Woodcutting training

Main article: Pay-to-play Woodcutting training

Players can train their Woodcutting by cutting down:

• Willow trees at Draynor Village and Lumbridge
• Willow trees at Barbarian Assault
• Teak trees at Ape Atoll, south of the Castle Wars arena, or Tai Bwo Wannai
• Ivy

[edit] Power levelling cost

Power levelling cost refers to the loss in coins per experience point using a certain method to power level. Generally speaking, skills with a higher power levelling cost is harder to train.

[edit] Power levelling cost for free players

Below is a table showing the power levelling cost using different methods to power level. In the method of loss section, Drop means dropping the produced item, which results in no loss of money as the loss is theoretical, Destroy means the original item is destroyed in the process, resulting in actual loss of money, and Transform means the original item is changed into another item, ready to be sold.

You can increase the value of your training by using skills to train other skills. Classic examples include cook the fish you catch and burn or fletch the logs you cut, but there are many more combinations out there.

Skill	Training Method	Power levelling loss	Method of loss
Prayer	Bones from GE	-30.667	Destroy
Smithing	Iron platebody from iron bar from GE	-12.528	Transform
Smithing	Adamant platebody from adamantite bar from GE	-16.8	Transform
Woodcutting	Willow	-0.119	Drop
Firemaking	Willow	-0.089	Destroy
Firemaking	Maple	-0.23	Destroy
Firemaking	Yew	-2.227	Destroy
Runecrafting	Runecrafter in air running	See air running for details.	Transform
Mining	Iron ores	-5.657	Drop
Fishing	Fly fishing	-0.286	Transform
Cooking	Tunas	-1.5	Transform