Introduction

Magic is a very multi functional skill, it can be used to make money, to kill other people or monsters and many more things. The spells you can do can be divided into 2 categories, each with with sub-categories. The two categories are harmful and non-harmful spells. The harmful spells are used to kill people or NPC's and the non-harmful ones to make your Runescape life easier. The harmful spells are divided into several categories; strikes, bolts, blasts, waves and some other special tricks. The non-harmful spells include teleport spells, alchemy spells, enchanting spells and some other sneaky things. What all these spells do, how to cast them and many more things about magic are all in this guide.

If you are just starting out in Magic you may want to pay a visit to Mikasi the Magic Tutor outside Lumbridge Castle to learn about the different kinds of runes and magical spells as well as various other tips.

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The runes

First we start with runes. In order to cast a spell, you need runes in your inventory which will be used to cast the spell. I'll start with a list of all the runes, where they respawn and what they look like:

The runes
Pic	Name	Description	Respawn location
	Fire Rune	This is one of the elemental runes.	The cave on Karamja and Scorpion pit.
	Air rune	This is one of the elemental runes.	Lumbridge swamps and Banana field on Karamja.
	Earth rune	This is one of the elemental runes.	Varrock sewers and forest north of Varrock castle.
	Water rune	This is one of the elemental runes.	Scorpion pit.
	Body rune	Required for curse spells.	Upstairs in the Al Kharid scimitar shop, Varrock sewers and west of Varrock castle.
	Mind rune	Required for strike spells.	Inside Lumbridge castle and Varrock sewers.
	Cosmic rune	Required for enchanting spells.	Top left corner of the wilderness (level 48), guarded by Ice giants and Ice warriors.
	Chaos rune	Required for bolt spells.	Level 37 wilderness, guarded by Moss giants; level 15 wilderness at the dark warriors' castle.
	Astral rune	Required for most Lunar spells.	-
	Nature rune	Required for alchemy spells.	Rellekka beach and Level 45 wilderness; you need to use telekinetic grab to get them.
	Death rune	Required for blast spells.	South of Yanille, in the Feldip Hills.
	Law rune	Required for teleportation spells.	-
	Blood rune	Required for wave spells.	Wilderness at the poison spiders south of Greaters.
	Soul rune	Required for high level curse spells.	Can only be bought from the magic guild, Ali's stall in Al Kharid, Baba Yaga on Lunar Isle, or from fellow players.

There are several ways to obtain runes in RuneScape. You can make them yourself using the runecrafting skill. You can buy them from fellow players. You can get them from killing certain monsters; if you want fire runes, for example, search that phrase in the Tip.It bestiary to see the monsters that drop them.

The other way is to buy them from one of the nine stores. Be aware that not all shops sell every type of rune. The rarer ones (cosmic and above) may not be in some shops. There are only two stores in the Free-to-Play world: one is Aubury's in Varrock, a bit behind the east bank; the second is Betty's in Port Sarim.

Pest Control island has a rune shop. Deep in the members-only wilderness near the Mage Arena, Lundail has a rune shop next to the bank. Yanille's Magic Guild has a rune shop with discounted rates (level 66 magic required to enter). Tutab's rune shop in Marim on the Ape Atoll requires a greegree, an amulet of monkeyspeak and completion of the Monkey Madness quest to use it. The Mage of Zamorak in level 5 Wilderness runs a rune shop. Ali Morrisane in Al Kharid has a rune shop, but you must do two steps of the Rogue Trader mini game (Rune shop and Sudoku) to gain access. Finally, Baba Yaga on Lunar Isle sells runes from her chicken legged house, but you must begin the Lunar Diplomacy quest to go there.

Here's a list that'll show you some prices in 3 of the shops:

Note: The rune prices depend on how many runes the owner has in stock. The more runes s/he has, the less they cost.

Rune Prices
Pic	Name	Aubury in Varrock	Betty in Port Sarim	Mage Arena shop
	Fire Rune	4-24gp	4-24gp	7-27gp
	Air rune	4-24gp	4-24gp	7-27gp
	Earth rune	4-24gp	4-24gp	7-27gp
	Water rune	4-24gp	4-24gp	7-27gp
	Body rune	3-18gp	3-18gp	upto 20gp
	Mind rune	3-18gp	3-18gp	upto 20gp
	Cosmic rune	-	-	28-58gp
	Chaos rune	90-112gp	90-112gp	upto 112gp
	Death rune	189-224gp	189-224gp	up to 224gp

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Combination runes

Combination runes are runes that have the abilities of 2 elemental runes put together. You can not buy these runes anywhere, the only way to get them is to buy from other players, or craft them yourself with the Runecrafting skill. The runes are hard to make and require a lot of time, therefore they aren't very good to train with! You'll be way better off with a staff... But for PK'ing, or during quests / KQ trips / barrow trips etc, they can come in handy since you will now only need 1 spot where you used to need 2!

Combination Runes
Pic	Name	Elements
	Mist rune	Air & Water
	Dust rune	Air & Earth
	Mud rune	Water & Earth
	Smoke rune	Air & Fire
	Steam rune	Water & Fire
	Lava rune	Earth & Fire

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The spells

Now that we know where to get our runes, we need to know what we can do with them. Here's a list of all the spells in Runescape, with their effect and the amount of runes they cost. Member spells are shown on grey rows. Offensive spells are shown in bold to locate them easily. The table also includes the base amount of experience you will receive for casting a spell, and the maximum hit for each offensive spell. Experience based on damage inflicated is explained in more detail in the Experience points section.

The spells
Pic	Level	Name	Description	Runes required	Exp	Max Hit
	0	Home Teleport	Teleports you back to Lumbridge	none (see notes*)	0	-
	1	Wind Strike	A basic Air missile	1 Air, 1 Mind	5.5+	2
	3	Confuse	Reduces your opponents attack by 5%	3 Water, 2 Earth, 1 Body	13	-
	4	Bolt Enchantment	See bolts section below	(see below)	See below	-
	5	Water Strike	A basic Water missile	1 Water, 1 Air, 1 Mind	7.5+	4
	7	Enchant Level 1 Jewelry	Enchants a sapphire amulet, bracelet, necklace, or ring	1 Water, 1 Cosmic	17.5	-
	9	Earth Strike	A basic Earth missile	2 Earth, 1 Air, 1 Mind	9.5+	6
	11	Weaken	Reduces your opponents strength by 5%	3 Water, 2 Earth, 1 Body	20.5	-
	13	Fire Strike	A basic Fire missile	2 Air, 3 Fire, 1 Mind	11.5+	8
	15	Bones to Bananas	Changes all held bones into bananas	2 Earth, 2 Water, 1 Nature	25	-
	17	Wind Bolt	A low level Air missile	2 Air, 1 Chaos	13.5+	9
	19	Curse	Reduces your opponents defence by 5%	2 Water, 3 Earth, 1 Body	29	-
	20	Bind	Makes your opponent be unable to move for 5 seconds	3 Earth, 3 Water, 2 Nature	30	-
	21	Low Level Alchemy	Converts an item into gold	3 Fire, 1 Nature	31	-
	23	Water Bolt	A low level Water missile	2 Air, 2 Water, 1 Chaos	16.5+	10
	25	Varrock Teleport	Teleports you to Varrock	3 Air, 1 Fire, 1 Law	35	-
	27	Enchant Level 2 Jewelry	Enchants an emerald amulet, bracelet, necklace, or ring	3 Air, 1 Cosmic	37	-
	29	Earth Bolt	A low level Earth missile	2 Air, 3 Earth, 1 Chaos	19.5+	11
	31	Lumbridge Teleport	Teleports you to Lumbridge	3 Air, 1 Earth, 1 Law	41	-
	33	Telekinetic grab	Take an item you can see but can't reach	1 Air, 1 Law	43	-
	35	Fire Bolt	A low level Fire missile	3 Air, 4 Fire, 1 Chaos	22.5+	12
	37	Falador Teleport	Teleports you to Falador	3 Air, 1 Water, 1 Law	48	-
	39	Crumble Undead	Hits skeletons, ghosts & zombies hard	2 Air, 2 Earth, 1 Chaos	24.5+	15
	40	House teleport	Teleports you to your house portal	1 Air, 1 Earth, 1 Law	30	-
	41	Wind Blast	A medium level Air missile	3 Air, 1 Death	25.5+	13
	43	Superheat Item	Smelt 1 ore without furnace	4 Fire, 1 Nature	53	-
	45	Camelot Teleport	Teleports you to Camelot	5 Air, 1 Law	55.5	-
	47	Water Blast	A medium level Water missile	3 Air, 3 Water, 1 Death	28.5+	14
	49	Enchant Level 3 Jewelry	Enchants a ruby amulet, bracelet, necklace, or ring	5 Fire, 1 Cosmic	59	-
	50	Iban Blast	Missile attack that can do up to 25 damage. Can only be cast when wielding Iban's Staff, obtained from the Underground Pass Quest.	5 fire, 1 Death, Iban staff	42.5+	25
	50	Snare	Makes your opponent unable to move for 10 seconds	4 Earth, 4 Water, 3 Nature	60.5+	2
	50	Magic Dart	A magic dart of slaying	Slayer Staff, 1 Death, 4 Mind	30+	19**
	51	Ardougne teleport	Teleports you to Ardougne (must do the Plague City quest first)	2 Water, 2 Law	61	-
	53	Earth Blast	A medium level Earth missile	3 Air, 4 Earth, 1 Death	31.5+	15
	55	High Level Alchemy	Convert an item into more gold	5 Fire, 1 Nature	65	-
	56	Charge Water Orb	Needs to be cast on the water Obelisk	30 water, 3 cosmic, 1 Glass Orb	66	-
	57	Enchant Level 4 Jewelry	Enchants a diamond amulet, bracelet, necklace, or ring	10 Earth, 1 Cosmic	67	-
	58	Watchtower Teleport	Teleports you to the watchtower (must do the Watch Tower quest first)	2 earth, 2 law	68	-
	59	Fire Blast	A medium level Fire missile	4 Air, 5 Fire, 1 Death	34.5+	16
	60	Bones to Peaches	Changes all held bones into peaches (must buy it from the Mage Training Arena first).	4 Earth, 4 Water, 2 Nature	35.5	-
	60	Charge Earth Orb	Needs to be cast on the Earth Obelisk	30 Earth, 3 Cosmic, 1 Glass Orb	70	-
	60	Claws of Guthix	Summons the power of Guthix (must learn in Mage Arena)	4 Air, 1 Fire, 2 Blood, staff of Guthix	35+	30
	60	Saradomin Strike	Summons the power of Saradomin (must learn in Mage Arena)	4 Air, 2 Fire, 2 Blood, staff of Saradomin	35+	30
	60	Flames of Zamorak	Summons the power of Zamorak (must learn in Mage Arena)	1 Air, 4 Fire, 2 Blood, staff of Zamorak	35+	30
	61	Trollheim Teleport	Teleports you to Trollheim (must do Eadgar's Ruse quest first)	2 Fire, 2 Law	68	-
	62	Wind Wave	A high level Air missile	5 Air, 1 Blood	36+	17
	63	Charge Fire Orb	Needs to be cast on the Fire Obelisk	30 Fire, 3 Cosmic, 1 Glass Orb	73	-
	64	Ape Atoll teleport	Teleports you to the Ape Atoll (requires Awowogei portion of Recipe for Disaster quest)	1 Banana, 2 Fires, 2 Waters, 2 Laws	74	-
	65	Water Wave	A high level Water missile	7 Water, 5 Air, 1 Blood	37.5+	18
	66	Charge Air Orb	Needs to be cast on the Air Obelisk	30 Air, 3 Cosmic, 1 Glass Orb	76	-
	66	Vulnerability	Reduces your opponent's defence by 10%	5 Earth, 5 Water, 1 Soul	76	-
	68	Enchant Level 5 Jewelry	Enchants a dragonstone amulet, bracelet, necklace, or ring	15 Earth, 15 Water, 1 Cosmic	78	-
	70	Earth Wave	A high level Earth missile	7 Earth, 5 Air, 1 Blood	40+	19
	73	Enfeeble	Reduces your opponent's strength by 10%	8 Earth, 8 Water, 1 Soul	83	-
	74	Teleother Lumbridge	Teleports target player to Lumbridge	1 Soul, 1 Law, 1 Earth	84	-
	75	Fire Wave	A high level Fire missile	7 Fire, 5 Air, 1 Blood	42.5+	20
	79	Entangle	Makes your opponent be unable to move for 15 seconds	5 Earth, 5 Water, 4 Nature	91+	4
	80	Stun	Reduces your opponent's attack by 10%	12 Earth, 12 Water, 1 Soul	90	-
	80	Charge	Temporarily increases the power of the three Mage Arena spells	3 Air, 3 Fire, 3 Blood	180	-
	82	Teleother Falador	Teleports target player to Falador	1 Soul, 1 Law, 1 Water	92	-
	85	Tele Block	Stops your target from teleporting	1 Law, 1 Chaos, 1 Death	80	-
	87	Enchant Level 6 Jewelry	Enchants an onyx amulet, bracelet, necklace, or ring	1 Cosmic, 20 Earth, 20 Fire	97	-
	90	Teleother Camelot	Teleports target player to Camelot	2 Soul, 1 Law,	100	-

* No runes are required for the Lumbridge Home Teleport spell, but you have to wait 30 minutes before casting it again. The 30 minute limit counts if you have used the Edgville or Lunar home teleports (while on Ancient or Lunar spellbook) recently as well. The spell animation takes some time, so it cannot be used to leave combat. However, it is very useful for low-level players who are lost and need to get back to familiar ground.

 

** With 99 Magic, the Magic Dart Spell can increase to a maximum of 20 damage.

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Experience points

Each spell will earn you a certain number of experience points towards your magic skill when cast. These are in the table above. However, with Strikes, Bolts, Blasts and Waves it isn't as simple as that, because you can also inflict damage. There is a base amount of xp you will always receive when you cast the spell, even if you fail it and see a splash, and this is the value quoted in the table above. But you also receive extra magic xp and Hits xp depending on how much damage you inflict. For those spells that give xp over the base you will see a "+" beside the xp value.

For these spells, there is also a maximum on how much damage you can inflict - and this number is on the last column of the above table. However, please note that after the completion of Family Crest quest, members can wear chaos gauntlets that increase the damage of bolt spells (those using chaos runes).

• For every damage point you hit your opponent, you receive 2 magic xp.
• You also receive 1.33 Hits xp for every damage point you inflict.

Note: When using a staff to autocast, if you put your attack style to defensive, you get 1 point xp in magic and 1 point xp in defence for every damage point you inflict.

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High Alchemy Spell

This spell can be cast once you have achieved level 55 magic and plays an important role in the RuneScape economy. Players often use this spell with valuable objects to convert them to gold (aka gp) to make significant profits. The best examples would be smithers high alching their final products (usually steel plate mail) and fletchers high alching Magic Bows. The strategy to use with this idea is - if you can make or purchase an item cheaper than it's High Alch value and the cost of a nature rune, then you will make a profit.

The most efficient system would be to make items from scratch yourself. Taking the example of Magic Bows - you would pick and spin the flax yourself, then chop a tree and fletch the log yourself, and finally runecraft the nature runes to use to High Alch the bow. Of course this analogy can be used for other items which you can smith, craft and so on. Some players will buy some of the resources in order to save time and yet still make a profit. In our example, the player might buy the nature runes instead of crafting them himself. Our High Alchemy Calculator lists High Alch values to help you out.

Top Tip: You can withdraw large amounts of an item as notes and alch them one by one, so you don't have to be in a bank all the time.

Below are some ideas for activities with built-in "break" times that you can fill by high alching:

• Mine ores from slow spawning ores, such as Runite in the Heroes' guild.
• Watch duels in the duelling Arena and throw the occasional tomato.
• Thieve from slow spawning stalls and chests. It's especially useful to steal from a nature chest.
• Buy stock that slowly spawns in certain shops. For example, buying runes in the Magic Guild store, or purchasing arrow heads in the Catherby archery store.
• Hang around in crowded merchanting hot spots and look out for good deals.
• Pick up and bury bones that spawn in the wilderness (death gorge - lvl 20 wild).
• Farm an important crop like Ranarr or other high level herbs that you want to watch carefully.

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Bolt Enchantments (members only)

Using a crossbow you can shoot enchanted crossbow bolts (see the Fletching guide for making them and the Ranging guide for using them.) Firing an enchanted bolt has a chance of having a particular effect on the enemy, listed in the table below.

Each different type of crossbow bolt uses a different enchantment. In order to enchant crossbow bolts, have the bolts in your pack and click on the crossbow icon (it is on the magic book page as a level 4 spell) to access the crossbow bolt enchantment page.

The spells
Bolt	Level	Name	Description	Runes required
Bronze with Opal tips	4	Lucky Lightning	Can cause a lightning bolt to hit your opponent inflicting damage.	1 Cosmic, 2 Air
Mithril with Sapphire tips	7	Clear Mind	Can lower your opponents Prayer points and give them to you. Only works on human controlled players.	1 Cosmic, 1 Water, 1 Mind
Blurite with Jade tips	14	Earth's Fury	Can cause your opponent to be knocked down, stunning them.	1 Cosmic, 2 Earth
Iron with Pearl tips	24	Sea Curse	Causes water to fall on your opponent, inflicting damage. Water staves prevent this, fire opponents are vulnerable to it.	1 Cosmic, 2 Water
Mithril with Emerald tips	27	Magical Poison	Makes bolts super poisoned, with greater chance of poisoning than using a potion.	1 Cosmic, 3 Air, 1 Nature
Steel with Red Topaz tips	29	Down to Earth	Can lower your opponents magic level. Only works on human controlled players.	1 Cosmic, 2 Fire
Adamantite with Ruby tips	49	Blood Forfeit	Can cause opponent to lose 20% of their hitpoints. In return, you lose 10% of yours.	1 Cosmic, 5 Fire, 1 Blood
Adamantite with Diamond tips	57	Armour Piercing	Can ignore a part of your opponent's Ranged Defence.	1 Cosmic, 10 Earth, 2 Law
Runite with Dragonstone tips	68	Dragon's Breath	Can hit with the power of dragon breath. Power is lost when fighting someone with a anti-dragonbreath shield or a monster that can use fire breath.	1 Cosmic, 15 Earth, 1 Soul
Runite with Onyx tips	87	Life Leech	Can inflict extra damage to the opponent. A portion of this extra damage heals the shooter of the bolt.	1 Cosmic, 20 Fire, 1 Death

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Staves

There are actually two kinds of staves, the staves that everyone can use and the staves that are members only. The staves that everyone can use can be bought in Varrock square from Zaff's staff shop, and are also sometimes obtained as monster drops. Typically, the magic offence and defence stat bonus is the same.

For free to play, first there's the ordinary staff. For only 15gp, it doesn't add much to your magic skill, pretty useless. Then there's the magical staff, which boosts your magic a bit and that's it. So it's not really of any interest. Then, the staves of air, water, earth and fire. That's what we need! Each of these staves boosts your magic and when you wield one, it'll serve as an unlimited supply of that certain rune. So a fire staff will let you use spells where you need fire runes, without having the fire runes! And the same goes for the other elemental staves.

Staves
Picture	Name	Price	Magic Stat Bonus
	Staff	15gp	+4
	Magic Staff	200gp	+10
	Staff of Air	1500gp	+10
	Staff of Water	1500gp	+10
	Staff of Earth	1500gp	+10
	Staff of Fire	1500gp	+10

Moving on to member items, first there's the Battlestaff. Plain battlestaves can be purchased in Varrock, or at the Magic Guild, or on Lunar Island. They are also dropped by monsters sometimes. However, they aren't so great at this stage, although they have improved attack combat stats and a +32 strength bonus. You must have 20 Magic and 20 Attack to wield all battlestaves.

Then there are elemental battlestaves, which cannot be bought in their full glory in shops (though they are sometimes dropped by monsters). Elemental battlestaves are made from battlestaves with a certain crafting skill; read more about that in the Crafting guide. As with the ordinary elemental staves, they give an infinite supply of the matching elemental rune.

Member Staves
Picture	Name	Price	Magic Stat Bonus
	Battlestaff	7140gp	+10
	Fire battlestaff	Player made or monster drop	+10
	Lava Battlestaff	Dropped by the Kalphite Queen, Aberrant Specters and Infernal Mages	+10
	Mud Battlestaff	Dropped by Dagannoth Prime	+10
	Mystic Fire Staff	Fire battlestaff and 40,000 gp (see notes below)	+10

The lava battlestaff gives you unlimited earth and fire runes. The mud battlestaff gives unlimited earth and water runes, which makes it extremely useful for spells like bind, curse, weaken and confuse.

Members who have completed the Scorpion Catcher quest can take an a elemental battlestaff to Thormac the Sorceror in his tower southeast of the Ranged Guild. For a 40,000 gp fee, he will enchant it into a Mystic fire/earth/water/air/lava/mud staff. Level 40 Magic and 40 Attack are required to wield a mystic staff, which has better attack combat stats and a +50 strength bonus. A mystic staff still serves the same purpose as the other staves: an unlimited source of fire/earth/water/air (or combination) runes, depending on which staff you have.

 

Additional unique staffs are available to members as their quest experience and skills increase.

Unique Staves
Pic	Name	Price / Origin	Magic Stat Bonus
	Dramen Staff	player made, Lost City quest	+10
	Ancient Staff	Desert Treasure quest, requires 50 magic and 50 attack	+15
	Lunar Staff	Lunar Diplomacy quest, requires 65 magic and 40 defence	+13
	Toktz-mej-tal	TzHaar, requires 60 magic and 60 attack	+15
	Ahrim's Staff	Barrows, requires 70 magic and 70 attack	+15

Some special staves that are required in order to cast certain spells are listed in the Special Spell Staves section of this guide.

Magic wands and a mages book, shown in the Magical Armour section of this guide, can be obtained from the Mage Training Arena mini game. Their magic attack and defence stat bonuses range from +5 to +20.

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Special Spell Staves (members only)

There are a few special spells that you need certain staves for; you might have seen them already in the spell list. They are the Iban Blast, Magic Dart, Claws of Guthix, Saradomin Strike, and Flames of Zamorak.

Let's start with the spell called Iban Blast. You need to complete the Underground Pass quest to get the special Iban staff required for this spell. You must have 50 magic to use it. This staff has 120 charges and then you'll need to recharge it in the Underground Pass. You can right-click the staff to check how many charges are left. Information on recharging it and getting another if you lose yours is available in the Iban's Staff items database record. The Iban staff has stats similar to mystic battlestaves (discussed under Staves in this guide). The Iban blast is obviously not a very effective spell to train your magic, but you could use it to duel other players.

Special Spell Staves
Pic	Name	Price / Origin	Magic Stat Bonus
	Iban's Staff	Underground Pass quest, requires 50 magic	+10
	Slayer's staff	21,000 gp from any Slayer master, requires 50 magic and 55 slayer	+12
	Staff of Guthix	Mage Arena mini game	+6
	Staff of Saradomin	Mage Arena mini game	+6
	Staff of Zamorak	Mage Arena mini game	+6
	Void Knight Mace	Pest Control mini game	+8

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