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=== Introduction === | === Introduction === | ||
This page presents one possible way to start your Melvor journey. Please note that the instructions below are for the Standard and {{Icon|Hardcore|nolink=true}} [[Game Mode|Game Modes]]. For {{Icon|Adventure|nolink=true}}, please refer to [[Adventure/Guide]]. | |||
The goal of the provided steps is to give you a helping hand in the early stages of the game by acting as tutorial by introducing you to more intermediate concepts of the game and some inter-skill synergies. Please keep in mind that this guide is NOT intended to be the most efficient way to do things. ''There is no right or wrong way to progress in the game''. Therefore, new players are heavily encouraged to try a larger diversity of [[:Category:Skills|skills]] as soon as they feel more comfortable with the basics. | |||
This page was originally inspired by the following [https://www.reddit.com/r/MelvorIdle/comments/r6e6wk/comment/hmsrvon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 reddit post]. | |||
This page | |||
=== Steps === | === Steps === | ||
# Level {{Skill|Astrology}} | # Level {{Skill|Astrology}} until the {{Icon|Ameria|type=constellation}} constellation is unlocked ({{SkillReq|Astrology|20}}) | ||
# | #* Once {{SkillReq|Astrology|10}} is achieved, training on the {{Icon|Iridan|type=constellation}} constellation is the fastest path to Ameria. Generally speaking, the fastest method for training a skill is the one with the highest level requirement. | ||
#* | # Continue training {{Skill|Astrology}} on the {{Icon|Ameria|type=constellation}} constellation until {{Icon|Mastery}} level 80 is achieved in Ameria. | ||
#* | #* Doing so will provide access to 3 basic modifiers and 2 unique modifiers from Ameria, which can then be activated and then upgraded by consuming {{ItemIcon|Stardust}} and {{ItemIcon|Golden Stardust}}. All of these bonuses are good, however, be aware that the cost '''doubles''' for each upgrade you purchase. For now, we recommend not purchasing past the following upgrade levels: | ||
#* | #** For {{ItemIcon|Stardust}} modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 5-6 | ||
# Level {{Skill|Astrology}} further. Equip the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Ring of Mastery | #** For {{ItemIcon|Golden Stardust}} modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 3-4 | ||
# | #** ''You can always come back for more bonuses later!'' | ||
#* | # Train {{Skill|Woodcutting}} until you obtain one {{Icon|Ent|type=mark|Mark of the Ent}} | ||
#* | #* [[Woodcutting#Axe Upgrades|Axe upgrades]] should be purchased as soon as possible, as they significantly decrease the amount of time required to cut all trees. | ||
#* | #* Open any {{ItemIcon|Bird Nest|Bird Nests}}, plant the seeds you're able to in {{Skill|Farming}}, and sell any seeds you're not able to plant. If able, always use {{ItemIcon|Weird Gloop}} (by combining 2 {{ItemIcon|Compost}} with 10 {{ItemIcon|Rune Essence}} in the {{Icon|Shop}}) when planting seeds as this guarantees their growth. | ||
# | #** Farming works passively while you're doing something else, so harvesting crops/herb/trees and planting new ones as soon as they're available is the best strategy. | ||
# Train {{Skill|Summoning}} by creating {{ItemIcon|Ent}} Tablets until about {{SkillReq|Summoning|5}}. | |||
#* We will use these Tablets in {{Skill|Woodcutting}} to further level to around {{SkillReq|Summoning|10}} to unlock the Ent/Octopus [[Ent#Synergies|Synergy]] for Fishing later on. You can see all possible {{Skill|Summoning|Synergies}} here. | |||
#* Summoning is a very {{GP}} expensive skill, especially in the early game. It may not be possible to complete this step immediately. This is a great time to explore some other skills and see what their basic requirements are while you grind up a bit of cash. | |||
# Train {{Skill|Woodcutting}} with your {{ItemIcon|Ent}} Tablets equipped, until 5 more {{Icon|Ent|type=mark|Marks of the Ent}} have been discovered, making your {{Icon|Ent|type=mark|Mark of the Ent}} level 2, enabling one half of the {{ItemIcon|Ent}}/{{ItemIcon|Octopus}} synergy. | |||
#* No matter what you're doing, try to ensure you always have Tablets equipped, even if this means temporarily stopping whatever skill you are doing to create some more. Having a {{Skill|Summoning|Tablet}} equipped that works in the skill you're training increases the amount of {{Skill|Summoning}} XP you gain per action. | |||
#* Once at least 1 batch of Tablets of the appropriate Mark has been crafted, you have enabled finding additional Marks of that type even when the Tablets aren't equipped or present in your Bank. However, the drop chance for Marks is higher when respective Tablet(s) are equipped. | |||
#* We want to prepare unlocking the {{ItemIcon|Ent}} half of the synergy now, so that it is immediately ready while we're training Fishing later. Having a synergy active further improves Summoning XP gained per action. | |||
# If not already {{SkillReq|Summoning|15}}, train {{Skill|Summoning}} until {{SkillReq|Summoning|15}}. You can train Summoning by either: | |||
#* Preferably, equipping and using Tablets in its appropriate action (e.g. equipping {{ItemIcon|Ent}} while {{Skill|Woodcutting}}) | |||
#* Alternatively, but slower and not recommended, creating additional Tablets (e.g. creating {{ItemIcon|Ent}} Tablets) | |||
# Train {{Skill|Fishing}} until you receive one {{Icon|Octopus|type=mark|Mark of the Octopus}}. | |||
#* Don't forget, after the first Mark is found, you must create at least 1 batch of Tablets of the associated Mark to be able to find any additional Marks of that type. | |||
# Create at least 1 batch of {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} Tablets to enable finding additional {{Icon|Octopus|type=mark|Marks of the Octopus}} | |||
# Train {{Skill|Fishing}} with both {{ItemIcon|Ent}} and {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} equipped until {{SkillReq|Summoning|25}} | |||
#* Equipping both prepares you for the likely chance that you accumulate enough {{Icon|Octopus|type=mark|Marks of the Octopus}} to enable the Ent/Octopus synergy, enabling even faster Summoning XP gains | |||
#* Synergies use both Tablets in the Synergy simultaneously, so expect the Tablet usage for both to go up when the Synergy is active. | |||
# Train {{Skill|Cooking}} until you find a total of six {{Icon|Pig|type=mark|Mark of the Pig}}. | |||
#* Again, remember to craft at least one batch of {{ItemIcon|Pig}} to be able to find more than one {{Icon|Pig|type=mark|Mark of the Pig}}. | |||
#* The chance of mark discovery per action scales with the recipe's base cooking time for {{Skill|Cooking}}, therefore the recipe chosen has no impact on the mark drop rate. | |||
# Train {{Skill|Fishing}} with {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} and either {{ItemIcon|Ent}} or {{ItemIcon|Pig}} equipped until both the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Ring of Skills}} and {{ItemIcon|Ancient Ring of Mastery}} have been acquired. | |||
#* Remember that these rings are incredibly rare and may take a very long time to obtain, ''feel free to do something else if you get bored.'' You can always come back later when you have more bonuses. | |||
#* Use the raw fish you catch to create {{ItemIcon|Octopus|Octopi}} and the cooked fish you earn from the synergy to create {{ItemIcon|Pig|Pigs}}. Some resources cannot be used to create Tablets. | |||
#* {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} and {{ItemIcon|Ent}} should be phased out as you progress and transition into {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} and {{ItemIcon|Pig}}. The synergy will require the {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} to be Mark Level 3, and the {{ItemIcon|Pig}} to be Mark Level 2. | |||
#* {{ItemIcon|Pig}} allows you to ''make money'' while training Fishing and Summoning, instead of pouring all of your {{GP}} into familiar tablets. | |||
#* Once you start making more raw and cooked fish than you need to create Tablets, sell the excess for spare {{Icon|GP}}. | |||
#* Most summoning Tablets allow you to select the recipe, changing the type and quantity of resources consumed per action. For example, {{ItemIcon|Pig}} needs 50 {{ItemIcon|Shrimp}} available at {{SkillReq|Fishing|1}}, making good {{ItemIcon|Pig}} Tablet uptime hard, but only needs 7 {{ItemIcon|Swordfish}} which is available at {{SkillReq|Fishing|50}}. | |||
#* It is likely that {{SkillReq|Fishing|99}} will have been reached by the time this happens due to the rarity of these rings. | |||
#* Like with Woodcutting's Axe upgrades, [[Fishing#Fishing Rods|Fishing Rods]] also provide a significant decrease to catch time and should be purchased as soon as they become available. | |||
#* Open any {{ItemIcon|Treasure Chest|Treasure Chests}}, equipping the {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Fishing}} if it drops, as this greatly reduces the catch time for all fish. | |||
#* Consume any {{ItemIcon|Mastery Token (Fishing)|Mastery Tokens}} acquired to increase your {{Icon|Mastery|Mastery Pool}}, as long as you don't cap your pool. | |||
#* Keep any {{ItemIcon|Diamond|Diamonds}} gained along the way as these are required for a number of highly desirable things later, notably {{ItemIcon|Diamond Luck Potion|Diamond Luck Potions}} and the [[Agility#Obstacles|Ice Jump]] {{Skill|Agility}} obstacle. | |||
#* Once you've obtained a decent amount of of {{Icon|GP}}, you can begin saving any {{ItemIcon|Emerald|Emeralds}}, and {{ItemIcon|Sapphire|Sapphires}} obtained from fishing, as these will be useful for creating {{ItemIcon|Devil}} Tablets later, and for various other skills further down the line. | |||
#* Sell everything that isn't a rare special drop acquired while Fishing, which should provide enough {{Icon|GP}} to fund fishing rod upgrades | |||
#** Special drops can be seen on [[Fishing#Special|Fishing Specials]], other notable drops include {{ItemIcon|Circlet of Rhaelyx}} | |||
#* Once the 2M {{Icon|GP}} for the [[Dragon Fishing Rod]] upgrade is acquired, all gems can reasonably be saved at this point. | |||
#* Catching the following fish is suggested: | |||
#** Below {{SkillReq|Fishing|99}}: | |||
#*** See [[Fishing/Training|Fishing Training]]. Your fish selection should always be the highest XP/h fish. | |||
#**** Keep leveling {{Skill|Summoning}} simultaneously by always having the {{ItemIcon|Octopus}}/{{ItemIcon|Pig}} Synergy equipped, and making sure your selected fish can actually cook. It is preferable to only pick fish that work with this synergy, even if it means losing a bit of {{Skill|Fishing}} XP/h. | |||
#** {{SkillReq|Fishing|99}} with [[Fishing Skillcape]] unlocked (requiring {{SkillReq|Fishing|99}} and costing 1M [[Currency#Gold Pieces|GP]]): | |||
#*** {{ItemIcon|Raw Whale|Whales}} for GP and eventually so they can be cooked into valuable food and {{Skill|Cooking}} XP, or turned into {{Skill|Summoning}} Tablets ({{ItemIcon|Octopus}}, {{ItemIcon|Wolf}}, and {{ItemIcon|Pig}}), as well as other uses, including as a resource for an {{Skill|Agility}} Obstacle. | |||
#*** {{ItemIcon|Raw Magic Fish|Magic Fish}} are generally not recommended if using Summoning. If you're ''not'' using Summoning, they are technically worth approximately [[Money Making#Fishing (Max 4,421k/hr)|1% more]] GP/h than Whales, which makes Magic Fish require the least amount of setup to be effective for GP. However {{ItemIcon|Raw Whale|Whales}} seriously outweigh Magic Fish in flexibility in other uses in the game, as well as severely outvaluing the GP/h when Whales are used with the {{ItemIcon|Octopus}}/{{ItemIcon|Pig}} synergy. | |||
#** For maximum special drops, once {{ItemIcon|Message in a Bottle}} is acquired: ('''Only suggested if stacked on cooked fish and GP'''): | |||
#*** By reading the {{ItemIcon|Message in a Bottle}}, you unlock the [[Secret Area|Secret Fishing area]] which has a 5% special catch rate, the highest in the base game. With Level 50 {{Icon|Mastery}} in the respective fish, the special catch rate is 8%. | |||
#*** Equipping the {{ItemIcon|Ent}}/{{ItemIcon|Octopus}} Synergy for an additional +6% chance to acquire special items will push the special chance to 11%, or 14% with Level 50 {{Icon|Mastery}} in the respective fish. | |||
#**** The Level 20 {{Icon|Mastery}} Unique star from the {{Icon|Ameria|type=constellation}} constellation in {{Skill|Astrology}} can further increase the special catch rate by another +1% per point invested. | |||
#**# For the most special rolls per hour: {{ItemIcon|Raw Seahorse|Seahorses}} | |||
#**#* Fastest catch speed in this area, which maximizes the chance of acquiring both rings | |||
#**#* Contrary to the other fish in the Secret Area, Seahorses can be synergized with {{ItemIcon|Octopus}}/{{ItemIcon|Pig}} if {{ItemIcon|Ent}} resources are hard to come by. | |||
#**# For prayer points: {{ItemIcon|Raw Skeleton Fish|Skeleton Fish}} | |||
#**#* Can be redeemed for 3 {{Skill|Prayer}} points each, but can not be cooked | |||
#**# {{ItemIcon|Raw Magic Fish|Magic Fish}} is not recommended for special drops, as their catch rate is the one of the slowest in the base game, with {{ItemIcon|Raw Skeleton Fish|Skeleton Fish}} having an almost 100% increased rate of special catches per hour in comparison. | |||
#* Any spare GP can be spent on bank slots. It is advised to leave a sizeable buffer of GP (at least 3M) remaining to be able to afford Shards for additional {{Skill|Summoning}} Tablets, as well as other upgrades. | |||
#* When your {{Skill|Fishing}} Mastery pool exceeds 95%, you can start spending your Mastery pool to increase your {{Icon|Mastery}} level for individual fish. First, level all fish to at least level 20, then focus spending on whichever fish you're currently working on, if it is below 88 Mastery. | |||
#** Level 88 {{Icon|Mastery}} is an approximate point where spending Mastery pool becomes inefficient, while you can use the pool to level an item higher than 88, it is recommended at that point to simply train the item until it hits 99 and spend your pool on other, lower leveled items. | |||
#** Higher total {{Icon|Mastery}} levels across all items and all skills increase the rate at which you obtain certain rare items, so your first goal when hitting above 95% Pool in any skill should be to level as many items as possible as high as possible. | |||
# Train {{Skill|Astrology}} further. Equip the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Ring of Mastery}} and study {{Icon|Deedree|type=constellation}} until level 80 {{Icon|Mastery}}. | |||
#* Like suggested in the start of the guide, purchase modifiers as you see fit, but as earlier, upgrade costs double each time for each respective area upgraded. | |||
#* For {{ItemIcon|Stardust}} modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 5-6 | |||
#* For {{ItemIcon|Golden Stardust}} modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 3-4 | |||
# Alternate between training {{Skill|Woodcutting}} and {{Skill|Firemaking}} until {{SkillReq|Firemaking|15}} | |||
#* The ultimate goal here is {{SkillReq|Firemaking|99}} to unlock the {{ItemIcon|Firemaking Skillcape}}. | |||
#* '''Equip the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Ring of Skills}} before starting.''' | |||
#* Any [[Woodcutting#Axe Upgrades|Axe upgrades]] should be purchased as soon as possible, as they significantly decrease the amount of time required to cut trees | |||
#* Open any {{ItemIcon|Bird Nest|Bird Nests}} dropped for seeds, then plant those you can in {{Skill|Farming}}. Don't forget to buy new Farming plots when available. | |||
#** Keep all {{ItemIcon|Strawberry Seeds}} for {{ItemIcon|Gentle Hands Potion|Gentle Hands Potions}} used in {{Skill|Thieving}}, and keep 3000x {{ItemIcon|Watermelons}} for {{Skill|Agility}}. | |||
#** High Mastery level in Farming gives a chance to return seeds (to the point where crops sustain themselves), so a surplus of Strawberry Seeds can be planted if its Mastery level is high enough. | |||
#* Manually lighting bonfires is ''not'' recommended | |||
# Train {{Skill|Agility}} until {{SkillReq|Agility|10}} is reached. This will allow the Monkey Bars [[Agility#Obstacles|Agility obstacle]] to be created, providing a 4% decrease to the Firemaking interval | |||
# Train to {{SkillReq|Woodcutting|35}}<!--This is not a typo, the obstacle requires level 30 but also uses Teak logs to build, meaning for this guide the effective level requirement is 35--> and {{SkillReq|Firemaking|30}} | |||
#* If you haven't already trained {{Skill|Township}} a bit ({{SkillReq|Township|15}}), it is worth doing this now to unlock {{ItemIcon|Warm Beanie}} for additional {{Skill|Firemaking}} boosts. If you've followed the full guide up to this point, you should have plenty of Township ticks to easily reach {{SkillReq|Township|80}} or higher, so it is highly recommended to be mindful when spending ticks. | |||
# Train {{Skill|Agility}} once more, this time until {{SkillReq|Agility|20}} is reached for the purpose of creating the Stepping Stones obstacle. This obstacle provides both a 6% decrease to Woodcutting interval and a 3% increase to Firemaking skill XP. | |||
# Continue training {{Skill|Woodcutting}} and {{Skill|Firemaking}} until {{SkillReq|Firemaking|99}} | |||
#* Having {{ItemIcon|Ent}} and {{ItemIcon|Octopus}} equipped will increase the number of {{ItemIcon|Bird Nest|Bird Nests}} dropped and continue to grant you more summoning XP. | |||
#* If you have reached {{SkillReq|Summoning|90}}, as soon as you obtain one {{Icon|Devil|type=mark|Mark of the Devil}} you can begin to craft {{ItemIcon|Devil}} and use them for Firemaking to increase your summoning XP/action considerably as well as your Firemaking XP/h. | |||
#* Once again, keep planting seeds awarded from [[Bird Nest]]s and keep the ones noted in the first {{Skill|Woodcutting}} section. | |||
#* Skip cutting {{ItemIcon|Magic Logs|Magic Trees}} due to the long cut time | |||
#* It is highly suggested to have the {{UpgradeIcon|Multi-Tree}} upgrade by the time you reach {{ItemIcon|Redwood Logs|Redwood Tree}}s as this allows you to level Woodcutting with the best XP rates while keeping the primary Firemaking resource ({{ItemIcon|Yew Logs}}) intact | |||
#** This means using {{UpgradeIcon|Multi-Tree}} to simultaneously cut {{ItemIcon|Redwood Logs|Redwood}} and {{ItemIcon|Yew Logs|Yew}} logs. | |||
#* Save any {{ItemIcon|Redwood Logs}} gained as these should be turned into {{ItemIcon|Dragon Javelin|Dragon Javelins}} later, burning only up to and including {{ItemIcon|Yew Logs}} to achieve {{SkillReq|Firemaking|99}}. | |||
#* Although lighting bonfires will increase the {{Skill|Firemaking}} Skill XP gained, this is very manual to maintain and uses significantly more logs per hour. | |||
#** Lighting bonfires automatically by using {{ItemIcon|Controlled Heat Potion}}s is highly recommended if you are able to reach {{SkillReq|Herblore|20}} by creating only {{ItemIcon|Bird Nest Potion|Bird Nest Potions}}, requiring {{ItemIcon|Garum Herb|Garum Herbs}} from {{Skill|Farming}} and {{ItemIcon|Potato Seeds}} from {{ItemIcon|Bird Nest|Bird Nests}} to create. | |||
# Purchase and equip the {{ItemIcon|Firemaking Skillcape}} | |||
#* It might be worth checking your {{Skill|Firemaking}} {{Icon|Mastery}} pool and seeing whether the 95% checkpoint is active. This provides an additional +5% Global Mastery XP - if not, go back and finish this this up now. Continuing on your moderately mastered {{ItemIcon|Yew Logs}} you should be getting a bit more than 1% pool per hour. | |||
#* Reaching maximum level in a skill increases the amount of pool provided per action from 25% to 50% of the Mastery XP. | |||
# Train {{Skill|Astrology}} once more, this time until {{SkillReq|Astrology|99}} is reached in order to unlock many more bonuses, including the {{ItemIcon|Astrology Skillcape}}, which - when equipped - further speeds up the rate at which you find both types of Dust. | |||
# Go back to {{Skill|Astrology}} and ensure all your constellations are at least {{Icon|Mastery}} Level 40, and train those which are not. | |||
#* {{Icon|Mastery}} Level 40 unlocks the 2nd tier of normal modifiers, which contain Skill XP or Mastery XP (or both) bonuses. | |||
#* Many {{Skill|Astrology|notext=true|nolink=true}} {{Icon|Mastery}} Level 60, 80 and 99 unlocks provide modifiers that are rarely seen elsewhere in the game, with some of them only being useful in edge cases, so it is suggested to only further master the constellations that you know you will be benefiting from. You can see the list of constellation modifiers on the {{Skill|Astrology|notext=true|nolink=true}} [[Astrology#Constellations|Astrology]] page. | |||
At this point, you have | At this point, you have both Ancient rings (providing +8% Skill or +7% Mastery XP, depending on which is equipped), the {{ItemIcon|Firemaking Skillcape}} (providing +5% Skill XP to all skills), and a variety of other bonuses from {{Skill|Astrology}} and {{Skill|Agility}}. | ||
{{Skill|Mining}}, {{Skill|Smithing}}, and {{Skill|Fletching}} | The choices on what path to take next start to open up, some suggestions are: | ||
* {{Skill|Thieving}} for [[Currency#Gold Pieces|GP]], and various [[Thieving#Areas|Area unique]] & [[Thieving#Thieving Targets|NPC unique]] items, a number of which provide various bonuses to other skills. | |||
* {{Skill|Mining}}, {{Skill|Smithing}}, and {{Skill|Fletching}} for the {{ItemIcon|Dragon Javelin|notext=true}} [[Money Making#Fletching_Dragon_Javelins_with_Alt_Magic_.28Max_.7E9500k.2Fhr.29|Dragon Javelin money-making method]], which is one of the best in the game. This is where any saved {{ItemIcon|Redwood Logs}} from Woodcutting will be used. | |||
* {{Skill|Agility}} to unlock further [[Agility#Obstacles|obstacles]], providing additional bonuses. Reaching any further than obstacle 5 or 6 may be difficult initially however, due to the significant cost of obstacles and various level requirements. | |||
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Latest revision as of 10:00, 10 June 2024
This page was last updated for (v1.3). |
Introduction
This page presents one possible way to start your Melvor journey. Please note that the instructions below are for the Standard and Hardcore Game Modes. For
Adventure, please refer to Adventure/Guide.
The goal of the provided steps is to give you a helping hand in the early stages of the game by acting as tutorial by introducing you to more intermediate concepts of the game and some inter-skill synergies. Please keep in mind that this guide is NOT intended to be the most efficient way to do things. There is no right or wrong way to progress in the game. Therefore, new players are heavily encouraged to try a larger diversity of skills as soon as they feel more comfortable with the basics.
This page was originally inspired by the following reddit post.
Steps
- Level
Astrology until the
Ameria constellation is unlocked (
Level 20)
- Once
Level 10 is achieved, training on the
Iridan constellation is the fastest path to Ameria. Generally speaking, the fastest method for training a skill is the one with the highest level requirement.
- Once
- Continue training
Astrology on the
Ameria constellation until
Mastery level 80 is achieved in Ameria.
- Doing so will provide access to 3 basic modifiers and 2 unique modifiers from Ameria, which can then be activated and then upgraded by consuming
Stardust and
Golden Stardust. All of these bonuses are good, however, be aware that the cost doubles for each upgrade you purchase. For now, we recommend not purchasing past the following upgrade levels:
- For
Stardust modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 5-6
- For
Golden Stardust modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 3-4
- You can always come back for more bonuses later!
- For
- Doing so will provide access to 3 basic modifiers and 2 unique modifiers from Ameria, which can then be activated and then upgraded by consuming
- Train
Woodcutting until you obtain one
Mark of the Ent
- Axe upgrades should be purchased as soon as possible, as they significantly decrease the amount of time required to cut all trees.
- Open any
Bird Nests, plant the seeds you're able to in
Farming, and sell any seeds you're not able to plant. If able, always use
Weird Gloop (by combining 2
Compost with 10
Rune Essence in the
Shop) when planting seeds as this guarantees their growth.
- Farming works passively while you're doing something else, so harvesting crops/herb/trees and planting new ones as soon as they're available is the best strategy.
- Train
Summoning by creating
Ent Tablets until about
Level 5.
- We will use these Tablets in
Woodcutting to further level to around
Level 10 to unlock the Ent/Octopus Synergy for Fishing later on. You can see all possible
Synergies here.
- Summoning is a very
expensive skill, especially in the early game. It may not be possible to complete this step immediately. This is a great time to explore some other skills and see what their basic requirements are while you grind up a bit of cash.
- We will use these Tablets in
- Train
Woodcutting with your
Ent Tablets equipped, until 5 more
Marks of the Ent have been discovered, making your
Mark of the Ent level 2, enabling one half of the
Ent/
Octopus synergy.
- No matter what you're doing, try to ensure you always have Tablets equipped, even if this means temporarily stopping whatever skill you are doing to create some more. Having a
Tablet equipped that works in the skill you're training increases the amount of
Summoning XP you gain per action.
- Once at least 1 batch of Tablets of the appropriate Mark has been crafted, you have enabled finding additional Marks of that type even when the Tablets aren't equipped or present in your Bank. However, the drop chance for Marks is higher when respective Tablet(s) are equipped.
- We want to prepare unlocking the
Ent half of the synergy now, so that it is immediately ready while we're training Fishing later. Having a synergy active further improves Summoning XP gained per action.
- No matter what you're doing, try to ensure you always have Tablets equipped, even if this means temporarily stopping whatever skill you are doing to create some more. Having a
- If not already
Level 15, train
Summoning until
Level 15. You can train Summoning by either:
- Preferably, equipping and using Tablets in its appropriate action (e.g. equipping
Ent while
Woodcutting)
- Alternatively, but slower and not recommended, creating additional Tablets (e.g. creating
Ent Tablets)
- Preferably, equipping and using Tablets in its appropriate action (e.g. equipping
- Train
Fishing until you receive one
Mark of the Octopus.
- Don't forget, after the first Mark is found, you must create at least 1 batch of Tablets of the associated Mark to be able to find any additional Marks of that type.
- Create at least 1 batch of
Octopus Tablets to enable finding additional
Marks of the Octopus
- Train
Fishing with both
Ent and
Octopus equipped until
Level 25
- Equipping both prepares you for the likely chance that you accumulate enough
Marks of the Octopus to enable the Ent/Octopus synergy, enabling even faster Summoning XP gains
- Synergies use both Tablets in the Synergy simultaneously, so expect the Tablet usage for both to go up when the Synergy is active.
- Equipping both prepares you for the likely chance that you accumulate enough
- Train
Cooking until you find a total of six
Mark of the Pig.
- Again, remember to craft at least one batch of
Pig to be able to find more than one
Mark of the Pig.
- The chance of mark discovery per action scales with the recipe's base cooking time for
Cooking, therefore the recipe chosen has no impact on the mark drop rate.
- Again, remember to craft at least one batch of
- Train
Fishing with
Octopus and either
Ent or
Pig equipped until both the
Ancient Ring of Skills and
Ancient Ring of Mastery have been acquired.
- Remember that these rings are incredibly rare and may take a very long time to obtain, feel free to do something else if you get bored. You can always come back later when you have more bonuses.
- Use the raw fish you catch to create
Octopi and the cooked fish you earn from the synergy to create
Pigs. Some resources cannot be used to create Tablets.
Octopus and
Ent should be phased out as you progress and transition into
Octopus and
Pig. The synergy will require the
Octopus to be Mark Level 3, and the
Pig to be Mark Level 2.
Pig allows you to make money while training Fishing and Summoning, instead of pouring all of your
into familiar tablets.
- Once you start making more raw and cooked fish than you need to create Tablets, sell the excess for spare
GP.
- Most summoning Tablets allow you to select the recipe, changing the type and quantity of resources consumed per action. For example,
Pig needs 50
Shrimp available at
Level 1, making good
Pig Tablet uptime hard, but only needs 7
Swordfish which is available at
Level 50.
- It is likely that
Level 99 will have been reached by the time this happens due to the rarity of these rings.
- Like with Woodcutting's Axe upgrades, Fishing Rods also provide a significant decrease to catch time and should be purchased as soon as they become available.
- Open any
Treasure Chests, equipping the
Amulet of Fishing if it drops, as this greatly reduces the catch time for all fish.
- Consume any
Mastery Tokens acquired to increase your
Mastery Pool, as long as you don't cap your pool.
- Keep any
Diamonds gained along the way as these are required for a number of highly desirable things later, notably
Diamond Luck Potions and the Ice Jump
Agility obstacle.
- Once you've obtained a decent amount of of
GP, you can begin saving any
Emeralds, and
Sapphires obtained from fishing, as these will be useful for creating
Devil Tablets later, and for various other skills further down the line.
- Sell everything that isn't a rare special drop acquired while Fishing, which should provide enough
GP to fund fishing rod upgrades
- Special drops can be seen on Fishing Specials, other notable drops include
Circlet of Rhaelyx
- Special drops can be seen on Fishing Specials, other notable drops include
- Once the 2M
GP for the Dragon Fishing Rod upgrade is acquired, all gems can reasonably be saved at this point.
- Catching the following fish is suggested:
- Below
Level 99:
- See Fishing Training. Your fish selection should always be the highest XP/h fish.
Level 99 with Fishing Skillcape unlocked (requiring
Level 99 and costing 1M GP):
Whales for GP and eventually so they can be cooked into valuable food and
Cooking XP, or turned into
Summoning Tablets (
Octopus,
Wolf, and
Pig), as well as other uses, including as a resource for an
Agility Obstacle.
Magic Fish are generally not recommended if using Summoning. If you're not using Summoning, they are technically worth approximately 1% more GP/h than Whales, which makes Magic Fish require the least amount of setup to be effective for GP. However
Whales seriously outweigh Magic Fish in flexibility in other uses in the game, as well as severely outvaluing the GP/h when Whales are used with the
Octopus/
Pig synergy.
- For maximum special drops, once
Message in a Bottle is acquired: (Only suggested if stacked on cooked fish and GP):
- By reading the
Message in a Bottle, you unlock the Secret Fishing area which has a 5% special catch rate, the highest in the base game. With Level 50
Mastery in the respective fish, the special catch rate is 8%.
- Equipping the
Ent/
Octopus Synergy for an additional +6% chance to acquire special items will push the special chance to 11%, or 14% with Level 50
Mastery in the respective fish.
- For the most special rolls per hour:
Seahorses
- For prayer points:
Skeleton Fish
- Can be redeemed for 3
Prayer points each, but can not be cooked
- Can be redeemed for 3
Magic Fish is not recommended for special drops, as their catch rate is the one of the slowest in the base game, with
Skeleton Fish having an almost 100% increased rate of special catches per hour in comparison.
- By reading the
- Below
- Any spare GP can be spent on bank slots. It is advised to leave a sizeable buffer of GP (at least 3M) remaining to be able to afford Shards for additional
Summoning Tablets, as well as other upgrades.
- When your
Fishing Mastery pool exceeds 95%, you can start spending your Mastery pool to increase your
Mastery level for individual fish. First, level all fish to at least level 20, then focus spending on whichever fish you're currently working on, if it is below 88 Mastery.
- Level 88
Mastery is an approximate point where spending Mastery pool becomes inefficient, while you can use the pool to level an item higher than 88, it is recommended at that point to simply train the item until it hits 99 and spend your pool on other, lower leveled items.
- Higher total
Mastery levels across all items and all skills increase the rate at which you obtain certain rare items, so your first goal when hitting above 95% Pool in any skill should be to level as many items as possible as high as possible.
- Level 88
- Train
Astrology further. Equip the
Ancient Ring of Mastery and study
Deedree until level 80
Mastery.
- Like suggested in the start of the guide, purchase modifiers as you see fit, but as earlier, upgrade costs double each time for each respective area upgraded.
- For
Stardust modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 5-6
- For
Golden Stardust modifiers, be careful upgrading past star level 3-4
- Alternate between training
Woodcutting and
Firemaking until
Level 15
- The ultimate goal here is
Level 99 to unlock the
Firemaking Skillcape.
- Equip the
Ancient Ring of Skills before starting.
- Any Axe upgrades should be purchased as soon as possible, as they significantly decrease the amount of time required to cut trees
- Open any
Bird Nests dropped for seeds, then plant those you can in
Farming. Don't forget to buy new Farming plots when available.
- Keep all
Strawberry Seeds for
Gentle Hands Potions used in
Thieving, and keep 3000x
Watermelons for
Agility.
- High Mastery level in Farming gives a chance to return seeds (to the point where crops sustain themselves), so a surplus of Strawberry Seeds can be planted if its Mastery level is high enough.
- Keep all
- Manually lighting bonfires is not recommended
- The ultimate goal here is
- Train
Agility until
Level 10 is reached. This will allow the Monkey Bars Agility obstacle to be created, providing a 4% decrease to the Firemaking interval
- Train to
Level 35 and
Level 30
- If you haven't already trained
Township a bit (
Level 15), it is worth doing this now to unlock
Warm Beanie for additional
Firemaking boosts. If you've followed the full guide up to this point, you should have plenty of Township ticks to easily reach
Level 80 or higher, so it is highly recommended to be mindful when spending ticks.
- If you haven't already trained
- Train
Agility once more, this time until
Level 20 is reached for the purpose of creating the Stepping Stones obstacle. This obstacle provides both a 6% decrease to Woodcutting interval and a 3% increase to Firemaking skill XP.
- Continue training
Woodcutting and
Firemaking until
Level 99
- Having
Ent and
Octopus equipped will increase the number of
Bird Nests dropped and continue to grant you more summoning XP.
- If you have reached
Level 90, as soon as you obtain one
Mark of the Devil you can begin to craft
Devil and use them for Firemaking to increase your summoning XP/action considerably as well as your Firemaking XP/h.
- Once again, keep planting seeds awarded from Bird Nests and keep the ones noted in the first
Woodcutting section.
- Skip cutting
Magic Trees due to the long cut time
- It is highly suggested to have the
Multi-Tree upgrade by the time you reach
Redwood Trees as this allows you to level Woodcutting with the best XP rates while keeping the primary Firemaking resource (
Yew Logs) intact
- This means using
Multi-Tree to simultaneously cut
Redwood and
Yew logs.
- This means using
- Save any
Redwood Logs gained as these should be turned into
Dragon Javelins later, burning only up to and including
Yew Logs to achieve
Level 99.
- Although lighting bonfires will increase the
Firemaking Skill XP gained, this is very manual to maintain and uses significantly more logs per hour.
- Lighting bonfires automatically by using
Controlled Heat Potions is highly recommended if you are able to reach
Level 20 by creating only
Bird Nest Potions, requiring
Garum Herbs from
Farming and
Potato Seeds from
Bird Nests to create.
- Lighting bonfires automatically by using
- Having
- Purchase and equip the
Firemaking Skillcape
- It might be worth checking your
Firemaking
Mastery pool and seeing whether the 95% checkpoint is active. This provides an additional +5% Global Mastery XP - if not, go back and finish this this up now. Continuing on your moderately mastered
Yew Logs you should be getting a bit more than 1% pool per hour.
- Reaching maximum level in a skill increases the amount of pool provided per action from 25% to 50% of the Mastery XP.
- It might be worth checking your
- Train
Astrology once more, this time until
Level 99 is reached in order to unlock many more bonuses, including the
Astrology Skillcape, which - when equipped - further speeds up the rate at which you find both types of Dust.
- Go back to
Astrology and ensure all your constellations are at least
Mastery Level 40, and train those which are not.
Mastery Level 40 unlocks the 2nd tier of normal modifiers, which contain Skill XP or Mastery XP (or both) bonuses.
- Many
Mastery Level 60, 80 and 99 unlocks provide modifiers that are rarely seen elsewhere in the game, with some of them only being useful in edge cases, so it is suggested to only further master the constellations that you know you will be benefiting from. You can see the list of constellation modifiers on the
Astrology page.
At this point, you have both Ancient rings (providing +8% Skill or +7% Mastery XP, depending on which is equipped), the Firemaking Skillcape (providing +5% Skill XP to all skills), and a variety of other bonuses from
Astrology and
Agility.
The choices on what path to take next start to open up, some suggestions are:
Thieving for GP, and various Area unique & NPC unique items, a number of which provide various bonuses to other skills.
Mining,
Smithing, and
Fletching for the
Dragon Javelin money-making method, which is one of the best in the game. This is where any saved
Redwood Logs from Woodcutting will be used.
Agility to unlock further obstacles, providing additional bonuses. Reaching any further than obstacle 5 or 6 may be difficult initially however, due to the significant cost of obstacles and various level requirements.
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