How each guide is laid out
Every guide follows the same idea: one recommended route from level 1 to 99 in bands, with realistic xp per hour at the start of each band, then the alternatives. Under the route you will find the fastest method, the cheapest, the one that makes money and the most AFK option, so you can trade speed for coins or attention. The interactive table on each page prices every method from today's Grand Exchange trades, so the cost per xp is current rather than whatever it was when a video was recorded.
Choosing what to train
Skills fall into rough groups, and each group pulls on the others.
| Group | Skills | Why it matters early |
|---|---|---|
| Combat | Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Magic, Slayer and the Prayer stat | Bossing, Slayer tasks and quest fights |
| Gathering | Fishing, Mining, Woodcutting, Hunter, Farming | Raw materials and steady income |
| Production | Herblore, Crafting, Smithing, Fletching, Cooking, Construction, Firemaking, Runecraft | Potions, gear, food and house teleports |
| Support | Agility, Thieving, Sailing | Shortcuts, run energy, coins and new areas at sea |
A few habits save hours whatever your goal:
- Do quests early. Many give large xp rewards and unlock better training spots, which makes the first levels of several skills much faster.
- Train Herblore and your Prayer level alongside combat. Potions and combat boosts do more for your kill speed than a few levels of Attack.
- Get Agility and Construction to useful levels sooner than feels necessary. Shortcuts, run energy and a house with portals speed up everything else.
- Start Farming runs early. They take minutes a day and the xp builds while you do something else.
Sailing
Sailing is the newest skill and the 24th overall. It has its own OSRS Sailing guide, and it ties into several older skills: some new fish, ores and cooking ingredients only come from the sea.
Pair any guide with its calculator. The skill calculator shows how many actions you need to a target level, the OSRS xp table shows how the xp per level climbs, and skill boosts can get you to a key unlock a few levels early.