How should I max?

[Zackeri]

So I want to max... Should I focus on one skill and train to 99 or should I level up all skills gradually, going from all 80 to 90 to 95 to 99 to finish?

[Barney.S]

Personally I don't think it really matter. It just seems like maxxing only 1 skill or a few at a time is a lot easier than trying to max all.

 

Personally I never had no intention of Maxxing, but as I wanted slay 99, in the proccess I got all comb stats 99, for monster hunting and dg I got summ and pray up, Now I am going for all 80 and then all 90+

 

At the moment I got constr and smith banked to get to 90+ and then I got disgusting skills like hunter and thiev left. So all in all, just do your favourite skills first, then slowly get others up gradually, make sure you switch it up betwene skills, otherwise it is easy to burn out.

[Quyneax]

For some skills, it's somewhat crucial that you don't grind them to 99 if you want to max. For example, grinding 99 defence is a really bad idea if you're low slayer.

 

Other skills, like prayer, don't gather as much collateral xp so you can get 99 in them fast without losing much time.

 

In general, for every skill there is some potential to gather free xp from SoF etc. so it's best to leave them at 98 until you're 98 base (but don't put any effort into keeping them low either). Exceptions include summoning (cause steel titan is just that good) and dungeoneering (goes up to 120, of course).

[Platinum_Myr]

I personally prefer to try to spread out my effort as grinding specific skills is how I get bored. I suggest that you do all the skills which give collateral xp first (slayer is probably the biggest one, but there are others) I also suggest doing slower skills first, rather than last. In this way you won't really feel it as such a grind because you won't be used to the super fast xp rates of some skills.

 

Best advice though is to learn what you are capable of and do that.

[Fallstar]

1. Get to a decent base such as 80+ all, at that point your training methods won't change much till 99.

2. Get the gp for buyables. Investing and flipping whilst you do your non buyables will easily pay for your buyables, and will leave you several billion for afterwards if you're already experienced with the RS markets.

3. Don't be afraid to just stop playing for a couple of months. You're looking at a time investment of 100 days +, not many people can do that all in one go.

[Zackeri]

Thanks guys! I have 3 more skills for 80+ and one of them is slayer which I don't how to train efficiently

[country devil]

until Q posts the slayer pro guide.. use a rapier/turm/overloads(or extremes)/cannon(where it will let you) on every task.. iirc hedgehog has a really good efficiency list of tasks to block/skip and to slay "efficiently" there will be little or no profit to be made

[Quyneax]

The base slayer gear is as follows (alternatives in brackets):

• [For all slayer monsters except those mentioned under other weapons] Chaotic rapier (whip)
  
• Bandos body + legs (Verac's skirt with either fighter torso or proselyte top)
  
• [Depending on prayer/accuracy needs] Tokhaar cape > Fire cape/Soul Wars cape/Ardougne cloak 3
  
• Barrows gloves (your best rfd gloves, at least rune)
  
• Steadfast/Dragon boots (rune boots)
  
• Saradomin's whisper (Amulet of fury, glory)
  
• Dragon defender (rune defender)
  
• Berserker ring (i)/ferocious ring if slaying in Kuradal's Dungeon (berserker ring, warrior ring)
  
• [Most important] Full slayer helmet (Slayer helmet, black mask)
  
• [For magic defence on waterfiends/aquanites] Karil's top and elite void skirt (black dragonhide body and chaps)
  
• [Crush attacks to use on waterfiends] Goliath gloves > Chaotic maul (Saradomin sword, Zamorakian spear)
  
• [stab attacks for higher-levelled dragons, when not using rapier] Korasi's sword (Zamorakian spear, leaf-bladed sword)
  
• Task-specific items such as mirror shields, antifire shields/potions, elemental shields, rock hammers, crystal chimes
  
• Cannon (optional, up to personal preference)
  

Slayer setups generally emphasise strength bonus, which increases the average damage of each succesful hit (slayer monsters usually having rather low defence, hitting is not a problem). Secondly, prayer bonus is important to keep the cost of prayer potions down (as you slay with piety on, to increase the speed of your kills. This is cost-effective and highly recommended). As a rule of thumb, +10 prayer bonus or above is good, but don't overdo it (anything above +20 is a waste). Defence and accuracy bonus are usually not fretted over (any defence bonus over 200 will do; if you get hit too often you should be using a protection prayer). Dagganoth, black demon, black dragon, lesser demon, hellhound, bloodveld and spectre tasks should be cannoned, as it dramatically increases xp rates (although it costs a bit).

 

Some notes on gear: You'll want a fury and a berserker ring before you get bandos plate, and get that before tassets. You'll want accuracy bonus on higher-levelled dragons; if using stab attacks (which you should) you can use the Ardougne cloak 3 which provides you with +6 stab and +6 prayer bonus. Torso + sw cape and fire cape + proselyte are common cheap top/cape combinations; the former is better.

 

Some levels to get for slayer (in approximate order but I'm not sure on the summoning):

• 70 prayer and King's Ransom - piety
  
• 68 summoning - bunyip
  
• 81 dungeoneering (you need 2 million xp, which takes you to level 80, but allowing some tokens for the scroll of life) - rapier
  
• 89 herblore (85 with a +4 stew boost) - extreme potions, superantifires
  
• 95 prayer - turmoil and soul split
  
• 88 summoning - unicorn
  
• 96 herblore (91 with a +5 stew boost) - overload
  
• 99 summoning - steel titan
  

I'm sure I missed something but this is most of it.

Edited November 3, 2012 by Quyneax

[Aten]

by gaining xp - true story

[Rizhou]

The base slayer gear is as follows (alternatives in brackets):

• [For all slayer monsters except those mentioned under other weapons] Chaotic rapier (whip)
  
• Bandos body + legs (Verac's skirt with either fighter torso or proselyte top)
  
• [Depending on prayer/accuracy needs] Tokhaar cape > Fire cape/Soul Wars cape/Ardougne cloak 3
  
• Barrows gloves (your best rfd gloves, at least rune)
  
• Steadfast/Dragon boots (rune boots)
  
• Amulet of fury (glory)
  
• Dragon defender (rune defender)
  
• Berserker ring (i)/ferocious ring if slaying in Kuradal's Dungeon (berserker ring, warrior ring)
  
• [Most important] Full slayer helmet (Slayer helmet, black mask)
  
• [For magic defence on waterfiends/aquanites] Karil's top and elite void skirt (black dragonhide body and chaps)
  
• [Crush attacks to use on waterfiends] Goliath gloves > Chaotic maul (Saradomin sword, Zamorakian spear)
  
• [stab attacks for higher-levelled dragons, when not using rapier] Korasi's sword (Zamorakian spear, leaf-bladed sword)
  
• Task-specific items such as mirror shields, antifire shields/potions, elemental shields, rock hammers, crystal chimes
  
• Cannon (optional, up to personal preference)
  

Slayer setups generally emphasise strength bonus, which increases the average damage of each succesful hit (slayer monsters usually having rather low defence, hitting is not a problem). Secondly, prayer bonus is important to keep the cost of prayer potions down (as you slay with piety on, to increase the speed of your kills. This is cost-effective and highly recommended). As a rule of thumb, +10 prayer bonus or above is good, but don't overdo it (anything above +20 is a waste). Defence and accuracy bonus are usually not fretted over (any defence bonus over 200 will do; if you get hit too often you should be using a protection prayer). Dagganoth, black demon, black dragon, lesser demon, hellhound, bloodveld and spectre tasks should be cannoned, as it dramatically increases xp rates (although it costs a bit).

 

Some notes on gear: You'll want a fury and a berserker ring before you get bandos plate, and get that before tassets. You'll want accuracy bonus on higher-levelled dragons; if using stab attacks (which you should) you can use the Ardougne cloak 3 which provides you with +6 stab and +6 prayer bonus. Torso + sw cape and fire cape + proselyte are common cheap top/cape combinations; the former is better.

 

Some levels to get for slayer (in approximate order but I'm not sure on the summoning):

• 70 prayer and King's Ransom - piety
  
• 68 summoning - bunyip
  
• 81 dungeoneering (you need 2 million xp, which takes you to level 80, but allowing some tokens for the scroll of life) - rapier
  
• 89 herblore (85 with a +4 stew boost) - extreme potions, superantifires
  
• 95 prayer - turmoil and soul split
  
• 88 summoning - unicorn
  
• 96 herblore (91 with a +5 stew boost) - overload
  
• 99 summoning - steel titan
  

I'm sure I missed something but this is most of it.

 

Saradomin's Whisper over an Amulet of Fury.

Good post none the less, Q.

[Quyneax]

Right, right, I knew there was an update I forgot! That post is ancient XD. Anyway, fixed.