Best way to level?

[Furcas]

Hi EGO,

I used to play Runescape several years ago, and have decided to join again recently.

I still remember the basics, and how to make money. Currently mining rune essence for profit and a good mining level (35)

I wish to be an efficient mage however. Any ideas on what i should do to efficiently level my character up?

 

[Anchor]

Welcome to eGO, but

I think maybe spending a few days to get Rune essence to get a bit of money for runes for spells would be good. Unless you like making runes yourself then that's the way to go.

 

[Kinetik]

First make sure to have a Long Sword or Scimitar. Go to chickens in lumbridge which are across the bridge east of home, and north of goblins, west of the cows.

Make sure your attack style is on accurate (gives only attack xp) and kill chickens until you are 20 attack. Make sure you pick up feathers (and bones if you want prayer xp). Implying you have 1 attack, you will need to kill 373 chickens, yielding 5595 feathers. Sell these feathers in grand exchange for market price and you will now have about 83k gp.

Buy a mithril weapon, and then proceed to train your strength and/or defense at cows picking up the hide. Do this until you have 20 strength and 20 defense. You will have about 280 cow hides, sell these in grand exchange for 74k gp total.

Buy full mithril in grand exchange and some trout or salmon (cooked). Bring 27 food and go to barbarian village (west of varrock across the bridge) in the middle of this is a mining spot surrounding a hole. Climb down the hole and you are now in the stronghold security. Go through the doors untill you find minotaurs. Attack these training whichever skill you would like, and pick up the iron arrows. I suggest not selling these arrows and use them to train range later.

Hope that gets you started =)

*note these may not be the absolute fastest ways to train but are the most profitable for beginners

 

[Sequel Sentry]

It all depends on how much money you want to spend. Training mage can be very tedious and expensive, or it can be virtually costless and effective.

If you wanna go the super costly route, buy all of your runes and go for the most efficient spells for your lvl.

I do believe you're a freeeplayer, try training magic on cows and selling the hides for profit.

You could also craft your rune essence into the runes you need.

Or you could dungeoneer and be a mage in the dungeon, it's less xp but it's free.

It would help if you tell us what your mage lvl is.