I'm currently at 77 mage and I'm looking to level it up, I'd preter using combat spells to get the HP and Def xp verses the other common methods for leveling magic. Any suggestions on monsters to kill with magic would be greatly appreciated.

 

Also I'm dealing with a rather small budget so something like barraging is out of the question. I have access to all the spell books.

 

 

 

 

** Second Question***

 

For battle robes do you have to wear the hood? If you do is it worth using them instead of a Full Slayer Helm on slayer tasks?

 

** Third Quest :) **

 

I'm currently maging an Iron Dragon task, using fire bolt and gauntlets, would it be worth while to switch to say fire wave?

i guess you could mage metal dragons...

If you have the slayer level, Abyssal Demons are wonderful

From my experience metal dragons aren't fun. And I'm a little shy of Abyssal Demons.

If you have the slayer level, Abyssal Demons are wonderful

 

Huh. I'd never heard that, but some research says that 85 slayer would be worth getting for that reason alone.

How are Tormented Wraths for maging?

You could even try bursting, don't know if you are there yet but the crims are really nice. If you want money try killing metal drags long term, you will almost break even. Also barrows is OK for fun but extremely slow exp.

Blue dragons are good profit and reasonable mage exp, and their mage defense is quite low that I casted in dhides at 65-70 and hit consistently.

How are blue dragons good for mage? I thought you couldn't mage non metal dragons?

I've never heard of them being good to mage either, I think this is false.

Non metal dragons are supposed to have a high magic defense (at least compared to most other monsters), the only dragon he should really be maging are metals or greens, since greens are just plain weak anyways.

Greens have unusually high mage defense for their level.

Blues have unusually low mage defense for their level.

Reds are pretty average, but high level at that.

Blacks are resistant to pretty much everything.

Metals have very good resistance to everything, but mage and stab are still relative weaknesses for them.

 

EDIT: I'm doing a mage run on blues right now. One splash in like 100 casts. All I wear is a staff and a shield.

 

EDIT2: Good accuracy on greens too. Still significant misses but mostly hits. That's strange. Either they got changed or 99 mage actually makes a big difference.

 

My original results at around 70ish mage were mostly hits on blues at even +20 mage bonus and almost no hits on greens.

What spell do you use on them?

Dont try to get def xp from magic, you will get better xp if you just mage normally and train def with melee.

Does the def xp cut into the magic xp you get?

Does the def xp cut into the magic xp you get?

Yes, half the xp goes to def and the other half to mage

Does the def xp cut into the magic xp you get?

Yes, half the xp goes to def and the other half to mage

 

In that case I best go unclick that button :)

Half of the damage xp goes to defense, half to mage.

You still get the base xp for the spell all to magic.

What spell do you use on them?

Originally, I trained on blue dragons with fire bolt and chaos gauntlets, so they would hit as much as a blast. Nowadays, bloods are cheap and waves may be the way to go.

New Question Up at the top.

I say yes to the third question. I can use CoG on them and come out even with the bones and make a profit with everything else they drop, that was before the hex crest came out. Once you get 80 magic i would consider looking into that spell while using charge.

Do you bank all of the bones then? Because I used fire wave on them and so didn't break even on the cost of runes.

could try Barrowing using Slayer Dart, cheap, you get exp and a chance at a reward. Not the quickest exp however.

Yeah I don't mind barrows but I'm looking for something a little faster then that.

I haven't trained my mage since level 70ish, all I do is monster hunt with mage.

I find that soloing rex, barrowing and metal dragons are all great mage exp, along with defence (ALWAYS USE defensive exp)