Skills

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The skills interface.

Skills

Skill		Uses
Attack	Attack	Wielding stronger melee weapons and hitting monsters more accurately in Melee.
	Strength	Dealing more melee damage and equipping certain weapons.
	Defence	Wearing stronger armour and decreasing chance of being hit.
	Ranged	Equipping stronger ranged weapons and armour. It also increases ranged accuracy.
	Prayer	Activating temporary aids to assist in combat.
Magic	Magic	Casting various combat and utility spells.
	Runecraft	Creating runes used for casting Magic.
	Hitpoints	Amount of damage you can withstand.
	Crafting	Creating items such as jewellery, pottery, and ranged armour.
	Mining	Obtaining ores and minerals from rocks.
	Smithing	Smelting ores into bars and forging bars into armour and weapons.
	Fishing	Catching fish.
	Cooking	Making and cooking food.
	Firemaking	Lighting logs into fire.
	Woodcutting	Chopping down trees.
	Agility	Traversing shortcuts and increases the rate at which energy recharges.
	Herblore	Cleaning and using herbs to create potions.
	Thieving	Stealing from market stalls and chests and pickpocketing non-player characters.
	Fletching	Creating ranged weapons and ammunition.
	Slayer	Killing certain monsters that can't normally be defeated.
	Farming	Planting and harvesting crops.
	Hunter	Capturing wild animals and creatures.

Skill types

There are four types of skills: Combat, Gathering, Production and Utility.

Combat skills - A skill that directly integrates with the existing combat system and can improve your power in combat.

Attack Attack, Defence, Hitpoints, Magic Magic, Prayer, Ranged, and Strength.

Gathering skills - A skill that focuses on collecting resources generally to train Production skills.

Farming, Fishing, Hunter, Mining, and Woodcutting.

Production skills - A skill used to take raw resources and use them to make something useful. In Old School RuneScape, these tend to resemble real-life trades.

Cooking, Crafting, Fletching, Herblore, Runecraft, and Smithing.

Utility skills - A skill that enhances gameplay mechanics in a unique way. These tend to expand a player's tool-kit in a way that is difficult to describe.

Agility, Firemaking, Slayer, and Thieving.

Experience increase

The amount of experience needed for every level-up increases approximately by 10% for every level. This is shown in the way that it is 83 experience between levels 1 and 2, but 91 experience between levels 2 and 3. (10% of 83 is roughly 8, therefore the next level-up would require 91 experience.) The required experience for each level-up grows exponentially; the growth of experience gaps between levels gets larger and larger at higher levels. The experience table clearly indicates this.

In addition, the experience required doubles approximately every seven levels. For example, the experience needed for level 92 in a skill is almost exactly half of that needed to reach level 99.

The below equation directly gives the number of experience per level:

<math>\text{Total experience} = \left \lfloor \frac {\sum_{x = 1} ^ {L - 1} \left \lfloor x + 300 \times 2 ^ \frac {x} {7} \right \rfloor} {4} \right \rfloor</math>

This can be further derived into a closed-form function with a positive real variable L (standing for level), although this requires ignoring one floor function of the exact formula and thus contains an exceedingly minor error margin. The approximation rapidly approaches the original sum asymptotically. The function is as follows:

<math>\text{Total experience} \approx \left \lfloor \frac{1}{8} \cdot \left( {L}^{2} - L \right) + 75 \cdot \frac{{2}^{\frac{L-1}{7}}-1} {1 - \sqrt[7]{0.5}} \right \rfloor</math>