Thieving training

Training for the Thieving skill.

Worn equipment

 * Gloves of Silence - Requires level 54 Hunter
 * Boots of lightness
 * Agile Top/Agile legs - Requires level 90 Agility
 * Spottier cape/spotted cape /Ardougne cloak 1/2/3/4
 * Maple blackjack (o)
 * A wielded bow without ammo, unless you are doing Pyramid Plunder/Menaphite thug/Pollnivnian Bandit/Master Farmer/Sorceress's Garden. This helps to prevent accidentally harming your pickpocketing victim.
 * The Ardougne Cloak 3 is helpful if you are thieving anywhere in RuneScape, 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.
 * Enhanced Excalibur may be helpful as its special attack heals the player 40 life points every 2 seconds for 10 seconds for a total of 200 life points and 400 life points if you have finished the elite tasks that go with it.

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
 * Vial of stench (a) for selling stolen goods back to stall owners instead of dropping one by one if not banking them

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 generally considered more interesting and rewarding.

NOTE: Your proximity to a guard while stealing from stalls determines if you are successful or not. The farther away a guard is, the more likely you will be successful at your attempt to steal.

Level 1-5
Pickpocket Men/Women, or do the Sorceress's Garden activity (Winter).

Alternatively, you can do the quest Buyers and Cellars, which has you train on a dummy to level 5. It takes only a few minutes, and can open doors to other possibilities later on.

Level 5-20
Steal from baker's stalls. (16xp per successful attempt - watch out for the level 20 Guards. One attacks you when you are unsuccessful.) Ardougne Square is good for this as there are 2 Baker's Stalls and the Guards are centred closer to the middle of the square, and are more likely to target other players or be used as training.

Alternatively, steal from tea stalls at Varrock, this is much safer if you stand across the stall from the tea seller.

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. If unsuccessful, a level 20 Guard or a level 46 Knight of Ardougne will attack. You can simply close the door on the Knight of Ardougne in a house to avoid combat with them. Alternatively, from level 21 players can begin attempting Pyramid Plunder. At level 22, players can thieve from the wine stall in Draynor Village Market, and at level 26, pick the locks in the Thieves' Guild on the north wall of cages for 210 XP.

Level 25-45
Players can access the spring garden in the Sorceress's Garden activity. Using this method, it is possible to receive over 25k XP per hour for skilled players. This method can be significantly less tedious than others, but can be very difficult with players with large amounts of lag on their connection.

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 35-55/35-70
Picking the advanced chests in the Thieves' Guild is an extremely efficient and fast way of training the skill. The 3 southern chests respawn every 30 seconds and grant 180 XP each. It is highly recommended to bring a lockpick along, because the doors to the chests need it to be opened. This is one of—if not the—best way to train thieving at level 35. An alternative way that gains a lot of experience in Thieving is to bring a lockpick to the Thieves' Guild, then open all the chest doors. The doors on the North side give 210xp while doors on the Southern side give 280xp. You can then hop world's and the doors will be reset. An efficient way of training this is to start by unlocking all six doors, then picking the locks on the three southern chests and one or two of the northern chests to allow for continuous exp gain. The doors will close again every five minutes, so the last method will easily gain about 60k exp. With every level you will find that you unlock chests and doors faster, so at level 65+ you can get 80k-90k exp an hour.

Level 37-38
Steal from the Baker's stall* in Ardougne. Due to a faster respawn time and smaller amount of guards in the area, this proves to be faster experience than the fur stall. The food stolen can be consumed when damage is taken from guards. It should be noted that the Hero in the area will not attack unless it is attacked or if you talk to someone whose stall you just robbed and he is nearest.


 * The Tea Stall is a safer alternative.

Level 38-45
Pickpocketing master farmers can yield up to 15,000 experience per hour, but be prepared to fail about 2/3 of the time at the lower level range, each time taking 30 life points. 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. You are likely to keep the Explorer's Ring over the seeds, as most seeds are of low value, so when you die, you can simply use the cabbage-port to get very close to Draynor. If you are going to thieve from Master farmers, it is a good idea to go and pre buy high level seeds and then fill your inventory with cheap food, such as Trouts or Salmon. This eliminates getting low level, useless seeds. Most players like to do this because, firstly, it helps with Farming and, secondly, people sell some of the expensive seeds. Trapping the Master farmer near East Adrougne can significantly raise your exp/hour.

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 25 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, unlike with seed stalls. You can, of course, still fail with a full inventory.

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) are recommended. However, the success rate is an average 1/4.

Another good way is unlocking the doors in the Thieves' Guild on the blue side (once available),which gives you 210 exp per door. Switching worlds can easily earn 36k exp/hr.

Level 41-99
Requirements: The Feud, Buyers and Cellars, Lost Her Marbles

Lure Coshing volunteers or the Advanced pickpocketing trainer into the general store and blackjack them. With each knockout, you can steal 2-4 times (with practice) giving you varied experience depending on your level. This is more than Menaphite Thugs and you will only take 1 point of damage, but only if you pickpocket them before you've KO'ed the trainer. You can't be stunned by them. You can have another shot at knocking them out after they daze you but it has to be quick. The downside is that you do not get money from it. You can also gain Thieving experience from the Hanky Points obtained from every successful loot, but the amount of Hanky points you can receive depends on your Thieving level and resets once a week.

At level 90 Thieving this method grants approximately 110-150k XP/H.

At level 77 Thieving this method grants approximately 90-120k XP/H.

At level 46 Thieving this method grants approximately 70k XP/H.

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 the 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 is fairly cost-effective. As a side effect, however, your attack level is going to be reduced to 0, but you do not have any reason to keep it high there.

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

Level 45-55
Go to Pollnivneach, and lure and knock out Bearded Pollnivnian Bandits 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 the technique and stamina.

Level 45-55
Pickpocket Fremennik Citizens in Rellekka. It is suggested to pickpocket Lensa or Pontak, both who live near the entrance to Rellekka. You must have done the quest The Fremennik Trials.

Level 50-65 (With 50 Agility)
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. Presuming no failures it results around 500 experience per minute resulting in 35k experience per hour, but this rate would be significantly lowered by failures. Also, one cracking attempt often takes longer. On the other hand, it is a good (and maybe the fastest) way to obtain uncut gems from sapphire to diamond.

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(Success rate 2/5). Best way: find a knight in the southwest or southeast corner of Ardougne marketplace, hit him once, run into a nearby building with stairs (west or south of marketplace). Close the door, go upstairs, and come down again. You now have a trapped and peaceful knight to rob.

Another method would be to play the Pyramid Plunder activity at level 55.

Level 55-65
Blackjack the non-bearded Pollnivnian Bandits in the same manner as before. These are the level 56 ones wielding steel scimitars.

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

NOTE: You must have completed the quest Rocking Out.

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. After completing Contact!, a bank becomes available in Sophanem.

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

At level 78 Thieving, using a maple blackjack (o), salmon as food, and denoting at the general store, this method grants approximately 225k xp/hr and 50k gp/hr. This method also makes you lose about 3900 LP/h. (Calculated by measuring the time and LP spent earning 50k xp + time and money spent denoting salmons) This is possibly the fastest method for training thieving apart from Pyramid Plunder at level 91.

Level 70-91/99
After completing Do No Evil, players are able to return to Ape Atoll and pickpocket from Monkey knife fighters. They are located in the building just east of the Monkey Child from Monkey Madness. You must be using the Gorilla greegree to use this method. While holding the greegree, right click and punch the fighter; if it is successful, proceed to pickpocketing it twice. Pickpocketing for a third or fourth time has its risks of being stunned which will over time slow down your experience gain. A successful punch grants 20 Thieving experience, and each pickpocket after grants 150 experience, for a total possible of 320 experience each. A failed attempt will result in 60 damage and stun. The possible loot includes lobsters, which may make food at higher levels unnecessary. The Dragon scimitar and Black knives are also a possible loot, adding some earnings to the experience. A player with a high Thieving level could theoretically earn rates of around 300k experience/hour using this method, though more testing may need to be done to know for sure.The real experience/hour is much lower, around 150k-220k experience/hour. If the player is caught too many times trying to pickpocket the monkeys, the monkeys will send you to monkey jail. It should also be noted that one may wish to switch to pyramid plunder at 91 to mix it up and get a different training method in, as pyramid plunder yields similar, if not better, experience at level 91 and can be a welcome change to the repetitious nature of looting monkeys.

Go to Ardougne Markets and pickpocket Paladins. There are 2 Baker's Stalls so you won't have to worry about food. It is recommended that a player attacks a paladin briefly, in order to lure him into one of the houses surrounding the market. If a player can get the paladin in the house, they simply need to shut the door and quickly go up and then down the stairs to stop the paladin being aggressive towards them. This prevents the paladin from moving around the market, allowing for easier pickpocketing.

A fast, but non-profitable means of training at this level is repeatedly knocking out and pickpocketing the advanced pickpocketing trainer in the Thieves' Guild. Each time the trainer is knocked down, the player can quickly pickpocket him three times, allowing for 510xp to be gained in about 10.5 seconds. This equates to a maximum of 175,857xp an hour, a wealthy amount of experience for a player looking to quickly level their thieving skill, as players can also cash in hanky points collected from the trainer on a weekly basis for additional xp.

Another benefit of this training method is that the advanced pickpocketing trainer never deals any damage when a knock out attempt fails, removing the need for any form of food, making training very straight-forward.

Level 65-99
The Summer garden of the Sorceress's Garden activity is now accessible and, with a proper strategy, can be one-clicked, allowing for decent experience rates. It should also be noted that this grants a fair amount of Farming experience as well. After a while, when you get used to the movement of the Summer Elementals, you can do it in about 45 seconds, which is 80 runs an hour and 120k exp an hour.

Level 90-99
Pickpocketing dwarf traders can yield between 30,000 and 45,000 experience over the course of one ten minute bribe period, or between 150,000 and 225,000 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 are fairly profitable.

Level 90-99
After the completion of Do No Evil, pickpocketing Monkey Knife Fighters has the HIGHEST experience per hour in the game. They can give anywhere 200k to 280k experience per hour with a bonus of 100k to 300k gold per hour from the Black Knives as well as the Mithril to Dragon Scimitars from the fighters. You will need a gorilla greegree as well as a few runes for high alching the Rune Scimitars to make your trip longer. The best way to maximise experience is to punch, pick, pick method. Simply knock out the fighter and quickly pickpocket him two times quickly and repeat. A few Bunyip pouches with summoning potions will make your trips a little easier but you can also just use the lobsters that you loot from the monkeys for healing as well.

Level 91-99
At 91 Thieving, Pyramid Plunder provides about the same experience per hour as Menaphite Thugs. Players who have chosen to thieve Menaphite Thugs often switch to Pyramid Plunder at 91 as it usually perceived as less monotonous. Pyramid Plunder provides approximately 200K experience per hour at 91, assuming you bank every 11 trips. Void Spinners, Bunyips, Titans and Unicorn stallions can greatly increase xp rates. There's a possibility that the player may find a Pharaoh's Sceptre while training, which sell for coins each.

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 gp an hour. Trapping the Master farmer near East Adrougne can significantly raise your exp/hour.

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

Tips

 * When pickpocketing NPCs, 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 the Rogues' Castle, located in the Wilderness, to access the 4x bonus experience, or use them in the final chamber of Pyramid Plunder.