Thieving training

Helpful equipment

 * Gloves of Silence
 * Boots of lightness
 * Agile Top/Agile legs - Requires 90 Agility
 * Spottier cape/spotted cape /Ardougne cloak 1/2/3
 * Maple blackjack (o)
 * A wielded bow-unless you are doing Pyramid Plunder/Menaphite thug/Pollnivian Bandit/Master Farmer/Sorceress's Garden
 * The Ardougne Cloak 3 is helpful if you are thieving anywhere in the world, even if you only have the cloaks Ardougne cloak 1 or Ardougne cloak 2, these cloaks are still helpful when thieving in Ardougne.
 * Brawling gloves (thieving) Gloves will last for about 100,000 experience points before disintegrating.

Inventory

 * Astral runes (for casting Dream spell)
 * Body runes (for casting Dream spell)
 * Cosmic runes (for casting Dream spell)
 * Cakes or better (Jugs of wine are recommended, these are cheap and restore 110 life points)
 * Enhanced excalibur
 * Bunyip pouch or void spinner pouch

NOTE: These are thought to be the fastest methods, but many players consider them tedious and boring. When you have the appropriate level, Pyramid Plunder and Sorceress's Garden are recommended, as they provide nearly the same amount of experience and are a lot more interesting and rewarding.

Level 1-5
Pickpocket Man/Woman or do Sorceress's Garden minigame (Winter)

Level 5-20
Steal from baker's stalls. (16xp per successful attempt -- watch out for the lvl 20 Guards. One attacks you when you are unsuccessful)

Alternatively, steal from tea's stalls at Varrock

Alternatively, pickpocket Female H.A.M. members at level 15 and Male H.A.M. members at level 20.

Level 20-30
Steal from the silk stall in Ardougne. OR from level 21 players can begin attempting Pyramid Plunder. From level 25 players can attempt the Spring area of Sorceress's Garden.

Level 30-37
Completing The Feud, will give the player enough experience to get them from 30 to 37 Thieving and opens access to blackjacking.

Level 37-38
Steal from the fur stall in Ardougne.

Level 38-45
Pickpocketing master farmers can yield up to 10,000 experience per hour, but be prepared to fail about 2/3 of the time, each time taking 30 life points, so bring food. You can use the food you got from the baker's stalls. Alternately, if you respawn in Lumbridge, then a decent-level gravestone will preserve your items long enough for you to get back and retrieve them. An Explorer's ring will allow you to cabbage-port closer to Draynor Village. If you are going to thieve at Master Farmers it is a good idea to go and pre buy high level seeds and then fill your inventory with junk (such as pots). This eliminates getting low level useless seeds. At level 43 players may choose to loot the nature rune chest on the second floor of the house east of the Ardougne marketplace for 125 experience. While waiting for it to respawn, loot the coins chest beside it. A good way to tell if a chest is ready to be looted again is to watch the colour of the chest carefully. Right after you loot a chest, it will take on a slightly lighter colour than before. If you see the colour turn a shade darker all of a sudden, then the chest is ready to be looted again. This will provide a significant profit and up to 12,000 experience per hour.

Note that if you do not have room in your inventory for the seeds you obtain, you WILL get experience. You may still fail though.

Level 40-45
Pickpocket from guards. Thieving from guards in Ardougne is great because you can steal from the Bakery Stall whenever you run out of food. Using this method can get up to 15k exp/hr.

Another good place is in Varrock Castle. Go to the far north-west corner of the castle and up the stairs, to the small bedroom with four guards. Pickpocket them here, as they are in a tight space and cannot wander far. Also, one guard may walk in between beds; if he does, quickly trap him in by walking in front of him. If you manage to trap a guard, you can get about 18-24k exp an hour. The downside is that you must have your own food, so good multi-click food like chocolate cakes or strawberries (5) is recommended. However the success rate is an average 1/4.

Level 45-91
Requirements: The Feud.

Inventory - You should bring a stack of noted Food (Cakes are good), a stack of gold (Around 10k), 1 open slot for Shantay Pass, and 25 unnoted food (Cakes). All you need equipped is a blackjack. Maple (o) has the best chance.

Strategy - Lure a guard into a house, the best one is the house with the cloth and a ladder in it. Close the curtains and make sure there are no other NPCs inside. Knock him out and after the animation, right click again and click pickpocket. Immediately right click again. When you hear the little noise for a successful pickpocket, click pickpocket again. This may take some time to perfect. If you fail during the knock-out, either climb up the ladder and come down, or quickly right click and try to knock him out again. Knocking him out again might not work but it saves time. Picking his pocket immediately after a failed knockout attempt will also cancel combat at the cost of 50 life points, regardless of success. You can also use the bar for buying vodka/brandy/whiskey to use as food. It costs 5, and heals 50, so it's fairly cost-effective. As a side effect, however, your attack level is going to be reduced to 0, but you don't have any reason to keep it high there.

Alternative - Pickpocket the Master Farmer in Draynor or near the windmill north of Ardounge

Level 45-55
Go to Pollnivneach, and lure and knock out Bearded Pollnivnian Bandit until 55. These are the level 41 ones wielding Blackjacks.

OR from level 45 players can attempt the Autumn area of Sorceress's Garden. This is considered by many players to be a lot more fun, and can give much more XP per hour than blackjacking, depending on technique.

Level 45-55
Pickpocketing Fremennik Citizen in Relleka. It is suggested to pickpocket Lensa, who is in the house at the entrance to Relleka.

Level 55-99
Pickpocketing Knights of Ardougne from 55-99 is considered to be a fast and easy way for players to train Thieving to 99. Another method would be to play the Pyramid Plunder minigame at level 55.

Level 50-65
Cracking the wall safes in Rogue's Den is a good way to train. Use a Stethoscope to increase your chances. Each success gives 70 experience with some loot, failure yielding into 20-60 life points received. Player needs about 3 seconds for successful crack. Presumming no failures it means around 1500 experience per minute resulting into 90K experience per hour, but this rate should be significantly lowered by failures. Also one cracking attempt often takes longer. On the other hand it is a good (and maybe fastest) way how to obtain uncut gems from Sapphire to Diamond.

Level 55-65
Blackjack the non-bearded Pollnivian Bandits in the same manner as before. These are the level 56 ones wielding Steel Scimitar.

Level 63-99
Custom evidence files are a great way to train for 70+ combat level players. From these you can obtain sapphire-diamond, cooked sharks, mithril bars and best of all rune scimitars which sell for 36,000.

Level 65-91/99
Go to Pollnivneach, and lure and knock out Menaphite thugs until 99, or play Pyramid Plunder at 91. Bring NOTED food. You can sell them at the general store and buy them back. Be sure to bring some extra money just in case.

A Maple blackjack (o) is most effective while training on Menaphite thugs.

Level 70-99
Go to Ardougne Markets and pickpocket Paladins. There are 2 Baker's Stalls so you won't have to worry about food. This is considered the fastest way to get 99 Thieving.

Level 65-99 The summer garden of the Sorceress's Garden minigame is now accessible and with proper strategy can be one-clicked, allowing for decent experience rates.

Level 90-99
Pickpocketing dwarf traders can yield between 30,000 and 40,000 experience over the course of one ten minute bribe period, or between 150,000 and 200,000 experience per hour with 10 minutes given for banking and renewing the bribe. An Ardougne cloak 3 and gloves of silence are highly recommended for this, otherwise experience rates will not be as high. This requires less attention than Pyramid Plunder or Menaphites, as traders can be pickpocketed with a simple left click, and is fairly profitable.

Level 91-99
At 91 Thieving Pyramid Plunder provides about the same experience per hour as Menaphites. Players who have chosen to thieve Menaphites often switch to Pyramid Plunder at 91 as it usually perceived as less monotonous.

Level 95-99
In order to make a decent profit and moderate experience while Thieving, you may return to a Master Farmer at level 95. At this level, while equipped with an Ardougne cloak 3 and Gloves of Silence, failing will become so rare, that you can get approximately 70k-100k experience, while making about 500k-700k an hour.

It is a good idea to pre-buy the more expensive seed while thieving so you won't have to bank or drop the less expensive ones.

Tips

 * When pickpocketing NPC's, quickly press the pickpocketing button over and over, this will (if successful) remove the pickpocketing animation.
 * If you have Thieving Brawling gloves use them in Rogues' Castle located in the wilderness to access the 4x bonus experience, or use them in the final chamber of pyramid plunder.