| Everyone who starts playing the game eventually | | | | even if they have more Hit Points, it might be |
| wants to know the same thing: how to increase | | | | taking you a lot longer to do the damage it takes |
| your Runescape Accounts combat level fast. | | | | to kill them. What counts is not the Hit Points per |
| After all, all the best stuff happens when you | | | | kill, but the Hit Points per hour that you are doing. |
| have the right combat level! | | | | After all, you measure the time you play in |
| You can wear better armour, use better | | | | minutes and hours, and not kills. |
| weapons, finish more elite quests, and get access | | | | When I was on my last few levels before maxing |
| to better areas. Most certainly, you can make | | | | out my combat skills, I did a lot of slayer tasks to |
| more money by killing bigger beasts, and killing | | | | keep myself motivated. One thing that I did |
| them faster. | | | | differently from everyone else was to turn in the |
| The common misconception about leveling in | | | | tasks that would take too long to accomplish. This |
| Runescape is that you should work on the highest | | | | meant that I never bothered slaying metal |
| possible level of monsters that you can kill in | | | | dragons, even though there were some nice |
| decent quantities. Since XP is based on the | | | | potential drops there. I know for a fact that if I |
| amount of damage you do, and that damage is | | | | had kept all those slower tasks that I would still |
| based on the number of hit points the monster | | | | be waiting to get my first 99 skill. As it is I have |
| has, it is natural to conclude that it is better to | | | | 4 now (you can check my character Erikfrombc |
| fight the monsters with the higher combat level. | | | | on the high scores for proof). |
| But this is wrong, for at least two reasons. | | | | So what does this mean for the beginning player? |
| First, higher combat in NPCs does not mean | | | | Simply put, start low and work your way up. |
| higher Hit Points. Many times it reflects higher | | | | Whenever I make a new character I start out |
| Defence or ability to do damage to you, so not | | | | with chickens and stay there for a while. Not only |
| only are you not doing more damage, but you | | | | do I get fast levels, but I also get prayer XP for |
| are actually taking more too. This means more | | | | burying bones, feathers that stack and which I |
| trips for food or prayer potions, and that is not | | | | can sell for decent money and better weapons |
| the way to faster leveling. | | | | quickly, and cooking XP from the raw chickens |
| Second, tougher monsters take longer to kill, and | | | | that I can cook in the nearby cooking pot. |