Power levelling

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Power levelling or grinding is the term used when a player is trying to raise their level in a certain skill in as short a time as possible, without worrying about making a loss or gaining other resources. This may involve using almost every possible resource available, making up for the loss when the target level has been achieved.

A good example is when a player trains Mining, dropping ores instead of banking or selling them. This saves traveling time, which makes levelling faster, but no monetary profit is gained. Gaining a cash pile from training won't matter during power-levelling, because your main goal is the fastest experience possible.

Commonly power-levelled skills

Melee

Main articles: Free-to-play melee training and pay-to-play melee training

Players often train their melee skills by:

Killing Ape Atoll gorillas next to the altar
Killing bandits
Killing experiments
Killing Flesh Crawlers
Killing fire giants
Killing giant spiders
Killing hill giants
Killing rock crabs
Killing yaks
Killing ghoul
Killing Varrock guards
Killing deadly red spiders
Killing Sand Crabs

Construction

Main article: Construction training

Players often train their construction by:

Building and destroying oak larders
Building and destroying oak doors
Flatpacking mahogany tables

Cooking

Main articles: Free-to-play Cooking training and pay-to-play Cooking training

Players often train their cooking by:

Cooking lobster
Cooking swordfish
Cooking monkfish
Cooking shark
Cooking tuna
Making jug of wine

Crafting

Main articles: Free-to-play Crafting training and pay-to-play Crafting training

Players often train their crafting by:

Crafting gold amulets
Crafting hardleather, green dragonhide, blue dragonhide, red dragonhide, or black dragonhide bodies
Cutting gems
Glassblowing (commonly unpowered orbs)
Crafting elemental battlestaves, eg. air battlestaff

Farming

Main article: Farming training

Players often train their farming by:

Planting and uprooting wood and fruit trees
Planting and uprooting spirit trees

Firemaking

Main articles: Free-to-play Firemaking training and pay-to-play Firemaking training

Players often train their firemaking by:

Firemaking with willow logs
Firemaking with maple logs
Firemaking with mahogany logs
Firemaking with yew logs
Firemaking with magic logs
Subduing the wintertodt

Fishing

Main articles: Free-to-play Fishing training and pay-to-play Fishing training

Players often train their fishing by:

Fly fishing in Lumbridge, Barbarian Village or Shilo Village
Barbarian fishing at Otto's Grotto

Fletching

Main article: Fletching training

Players often train fletching by:

Cutting maple longbows
Cutting yew longbows
Cutting magic longbows
Stringing bows
Making darts

Herblore

Main article: Herblore training

Players often train their herblore by:

Making prayer potions
Making serum 207

Hunter

Main article: Hunter training

Players often train their hunter by:

Catching and releasing red, orange, or black salamanders
Catching stackable chinchompas or carnivorous chinchompas

Magic

Main articles: Free-to-play Magic training and pay-to-play Magic training

Players often train magic by casting:

High Level Alchemy
Ice Burst or Ice Barrage on bandits or skeletons in the Ape Atoll Dungeon
Stun repeatedly on an elemental balance in a player-owned house
Camelot Teleport repeatedly with a staff of air
Casting String Jewellery
Bolt spells with chaos gauntlets

Mining

Main article: Mining training

Players often train their mining by:

Mining and dropping granite or iron ore
Mining pay-dirt in the Motherlode Mine

Prayer

Main articles: Free-to-play Prayer training and pay-to-play Prayer training

Players often train their prayer by:

Killing hill giants and burying big bones
Offering dragon bones to a gilded altar
Using dragon bones on the ectofuntus

Ranged

Main articles: Free-to-play Ranged training and pay-to-play Ranged training

Players often train their ranged by:

Throwing red chinchompas at skeletons in the Ape Atoll Dungeon
Using iron knives or steel darts on yaks or giant spiders
Using the dwarf multicannon on ogres in the Combat Training Camp
Using the toxic blowpipe whilst training slayer

Runecrafting

Main articles: Free-to-play Runecrafting training and Pay-to-play Runecrafting training

Players often train their runecrafting by:

Crafting nature runes via the Abyss
Crafting astral runes on the Lunar Isle
Crafting lava runes
Using the Ourania Altar

Smithing

Main articles: Free-to-play Smithing training and pay-to-play Smithing training

Players often train their smithing by:

Smelting gold ore with goldsmith gauntlets
Smithing iron knives
Smithing adamant platebodies

Thieving

Main article: Thieving training

Players often train their thieving by:

Stealing cakes from bakery stalls
Pickpocketing master farmers
Pickpocketing knights of Ardougne
Blackjacking and pickpocketing Menaphite Thugs
Playing Sorceress's Garden
Playing Pyramid Plunder

Woodcutting

Main articles: Free-to-play Woodcutting training and pay-to-play Woodcutting training

Players often train their woodcutting by:

Chopping willow trees, banking at Draynor Village or Barbarian Assault
Chopping teak trees at Ape Atoll, Tai Bwo Wannai, or Castle Wars
Chopping Arctic Pines at Neitiznot

Cost of power levelling

Because power levelling is focused on speed rather than profit, it can be fairly expensive to power level, or may forgo potential profit, depending on the method. Power levelling often sees items being dropped in favour of saving time to bank them. However, in some cases (such as cutting maple trees at Seers' Village), it might be more efficient to bank the logs instead of dropping them as it can be faster as the bank is fairly close, and therefore, more profitable.