Skills

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The RuneScape Classic Wiki
Stats	Quests
Skills	Fletching
Attack	Fishing
Defense	Firemaking
Strength	Crafting
Hits	Smithing
Ranged	Mining
Prayer	Herblaw
Magic	Agility
Cooking	Thieving
Woodcut	Quest Points
Fatigue
Equipment Status
Armour	Magic
WeaponAim	Prayer
WeaponPower
Overall levels
Skill total
Combat level

For the pre-release planning manual, see Prerelease Skills plan

Skills are levels of abilities for a player to perform a given task. Skills can increase a player's ability in combat, gathering resources, processing materials, or performing other tasks.

List of skills

There are 18 skills in RuneScape Classic:

Skill	Ability
Attack	The ability to inflict damage more often in combat. As you level attack higher, you are able to use better weapons.
Defense	The ability to block attacks and be hit with less damage more often in combat. As you level defense higher, you are able to use better armour.
Strength	The ability to inflict higher amounts of damage in combat as you level strength higher.
Hits	The amount of damage you can be inflicted with before you die.
Ranged	The ability to hit an enemy with projectile weapons (such as a bow and arrow) from long range.
Prayer	The ability to use prayers that enhance other skills or provide additional protection during combat.
Magic	The ability to cast spells, using runes, to inflict damage, impair an enemy, enchant items, transmute items, or teleport.
Cooking	The ability to cook meat, fish, pies, and other foods that will provide healing of Hits when eaten.
Woodcutting	The ability to use an axe to cut a tree and obtain logs.
Fletching	The ability to make bow, arrows, and other projectile weapons.
Fishing	The ability to obtain raw fish from fishing spots along the shore.
Firemaking	The ability to light logs on fire with a tinderbox.
Crafting	The ability to produce pottery, jewellery, glassware, and other processed goods.
Smithing	The ability to smelt ores into metal bars and to smith those bars into weapons and armour.
Mining	The ability to mine ores from rocks using a pickaxe.
Herblaw	The ability to identify herbs and to mix them with other ingredients to create potions that will give boosts in various skills.
Agility	The ability to navigate through various shortcuts.
Thieving	The ability to pickpocket from NPCs and to steal from stalls.

Each skill has a maximum of 536,870,911 experience points which may be gained before experience goes negative. Each skill requires 13,034,431 experience points to achieve level 99. The maximum level you can reach in a skill is 99. Attack, Strength, Defense, Hits, Prayer, Ranged and Magic also count towards your Combat level.

Removed skills

Skill	Ability	Removal Date
EvilMagic	The ability to use runes cast spells that inflict damage, impair an enemy, or increase the player's defense.	10 May 2001
GoodMagic	The ability to use runes cast spells that inflict damage or increase the player's defense, strength, or hiding bonus.	10 May 2001
Influence	The ability more cheaply buy silk from the silk trader in Al Kharid. The skill was intended to be a way to barter with and persuade non-player characters.	10 May 2001
PrayEvil	This skill lacked any prayers, but it was meant to be the antithesis of PrayGood.	10 May 2001
PrayGood	This skill lacked any prayers, but it was meant to be the antithesis of PrayEvil.	10 May 2001
Tailoring	The skill was intended as a way for players to tan and craft leather items, but there was no way to train it.	10 May 2001
Carpentry	The intended function of Carpentry is unknown, though some speculate it would have been related to the proposed idea of player-owned houses.	12 December 2002

Skill total

Your total level is based on the sum of all of your skill levels. The maximum skill total in Runescape Classic is 1782.

Skill total	Average skill level	Total experience, minimum
720	40	670,032
900	50	1,823,994
1080	60	4,927,356
1260	70	13,277,286
1440	80	35,749,224
1620	90	96,233,976
1782	99	234,619,758

Trivia

• Tailoring
  

  The Skills screen during the first weeks of RSC.
  was never fully implemented into the game, and it was later merged into Crafting.
• Influence is thought to have followed an experience curve and was displayed as a former skill. It was abandoned in favour of Quest points, which were more consistent.
• Carpentry was never fully implemented in the game. It was later released in RuneScape 2 as the Construction skill.
• Summoning spells were a planned expansion to the Magic skill which would have allowed players to summon monsters. Summoning wouldn't have been a skill, but just would have been a set of spells utilizing the Life-Rune. Later, the idea was reworked and released in RuneScape 2 as a full skill.
• Along with the other equipment status, there used to be a hiding stat, though no equipable item gave a 'hiding' bonus.
• Prayer is the only skill in which no player ever maxed while RuneScape Classic was the main game. However, Lilyuffie88 was the first to pass 10M experience in the skill.