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Skills are a player's attributes that can be advanced throughout the game. Skills are trained by repetitive actions that give experience in the skill, until enough experience is earned for the next level. Some skills allow players to cook, chop down trees, make fires, use magic, make runes and more. Some skills are "interlaced", meaning that they can be used together. For example, logs obtained from Woodcutting can be used for Firemaking, and fires from Firemaking can be used for Cooking.

There are currently 24 skills in RuneScape. Members have access to them all, while non-members can only advance in 15 of them.

All skills start out at level 1 except for hitpoints which starts with level 10. Players can advance a skill to level 99; after that they can increase their experience up to 200 000 000 but get no more levels for doing so. A player's combat level begins at 3. The maximum combat level a player can reach is 138. Non-member can reach level 126. See highscores for the relative rankings of the different skills.

Skills can be temporarily boosted or lowered using certain items or equipment, such as Capes of Accomplishment, beer, and potions.

If players are in the top 1 000 000 and above level 30 in any skill they get into the hiscores.

Contents 1 Non-member skills 2 Member skills 3 Skill types 4 Experience increase 5 See also

[edit] Non-member skills

	Attack	Allows players to wield stronger melee weapons and fight more accurately in melee.
	Strength	Allows players to deal more melee damage and equip certain weapons. It also gives access to several agility shortcuts.
	Defence	Allows players to wear stronger armour and decrease chance of being hit (a common misconception is that high defence reduces damage dealt).
	Ranged	Allows players to fight with missiles and projectiles from a distance.
	Prayer	Allows players to pray for assistance, such as ability boosts.
	Magic	Allows players to cast spells and teleportation.
	Runecrafting	Allows players to make runes for magic.
	Hitpoints	Allows players to sustain more damage.
	Crafting	Allows players to create arts & craft-like items, from pottery to ranged armour.
	Mining	Allows players to obtain ores and gems from rocks.
	Smithing	Allows players to smelt ores into bars and smith bars into armour and weapons.
	Fishing	Allows players to catch fish.
	Cooking	Allows players to cook food. The food can then be eaten to heal players' hitpoints.
	Firemaking	Allows players to make fires with logs.
	Woodcutting	Allows players to cut down trees to obtain logs.

[edit] Member skills

	Agility	Allows players to use shortcuts and increases the rate at which energy recharges.
	Herblore	Allows players to make potions which can be used to boost stats.
	Thieving	Allows players to steal from market stalls and chests and pickpocket non-player characters.
	Fletching	Allows players to create projectiles (arrows, bolts) and bows which can be used for Ranged.
	Slayer	Allows players to kill certain monsters that can't normally be defeated.
	Farming	Allows players to grow plants (fruits, vegetables, herbs, trees, etc.).
	Construction	Allows players to build a house and its contents.
	Hunter	Allows players to track, net, deadfall, snare, and trap animals.
	Summoning	Allows players to summon familiars and pets to enhance gameplay in both combat and non-combat skills, this skill also raises a player's combat level.

[edit] Skill types

There are four types of skills in RuneScape: Extraction, Processing, Combat, and Independent.

Extraction skills - These skills involve obtaining resources or items from the environment.

Mining, Fishing, Woodcutting, Hunter, Thieving and Farming.

Processing skills: - These skills involve processing items obtained through extraction skills into finished products.

Magic**, Cooking, Smithing, Fletching, Firemaking, Herblore, Crafting, Runecrafting, and Construction.

Combat skills: - These skills involve fighting in combat.

Attack, Strength, Defence, Magic**, Ranged, Prayer, Slayer, Hitpoints and Summoning.

Independent skills: - These skills have no classification.

Magic**, Agility.

** Note magic appears under several categories. This is because there are several "schools" of magic skills such as combat spells (meaning it is a combat skill), enchantment spells (used to create magic items - making it a processing skill), and teleportation spells (making it an independent skill).

[edit] Experience increase

The below equation gives the number of experience needed for the next level:

where L = current level

[edit] See also

• Experience
• Level 99 skills
• Total level
• Cape of Accomplishment
• 200 million experience