Mage (combat class)


 * See also: Combat classes

Mages, or wizards, are players in RuneScape who mainly use magic for combat. Their magic can also be used for alchemy, smithing, and other skills. A mage generally wears robes and carries a magical staff with them. Mages are strong against warriors, as warriors' armour conducts magic, but are weak against rangers, whose dragonhide armour can absorb magic attacks, and whose arrows can easily pierce mages' robes.

When casting spells, mages use different kinds of runes, which are magically-charged stones that are used up when a spell is cast. There is also a kind of mage referred to as a pure mage - mages that only raise their magic level - but in 2008 this became less popular as runes became more expensive.

Mage's armour includes, but is not limited to:
 * Wizard robes - This is the most popular robes for Free-to-play.
 * Combat robes - This is a popular degradable set of Free-to-play robes and is often used by higher level mages in those worlds.
 * Druidic mage robes - This is another popular set of Free-to-play robes and has slightly weaker stats as the Combat Robes yet it looks different and is cheaper than the Combat robes in the Grand Exchange and is also used be higher level mages in F2P worlds.
 * Anti-dragon shield - Colour matches Warlock/Witch robes and the shield also has a magic bonus, often used in Free-to-play.
 * Warlock/Witch set - Given to the player in a during the 2008 Halloween event. Warlock set is for male player characters, Witch set is for female player characters. Often used in Free-to-play. Note that the sets give no stat bonuses whatsoever, they are purely for looks.
 * Mystic robes - Popular with medium- to high-level mages, due to its relatively low cost.
 * Ahrim's robes - Popular with high-level mages, especially in Player-Verses-Player combat.
 * Splitbark armour - Useful for medium-level mages who like to use close combat mixed with magic, as this armour gives improved defence to melee attacks, but gives no defence to ranged attacks.
 * Arcane spirit shield - Gives the highest magic attack bonus of any shield slot item.
 * Runecrafting robes - Gives less bonuses then Fist of Guthix items but they do not degrade over time and are available for f2p

Mage's weaponry includes, but is not limited to:
 * Staff - A basic staff.
 * Magic staff - Popular for amateur mages.
 * Elemental staves - Very popular, due to the ability to provide infinite runes of its type.
 * Elemental Battlestaves and Mystic staves - Battlestaves give improved melee combat abilities, and also give infinite runes of their type. Mystic staves give even better melee combat abilities.
 * God staves - Very popular due to the fact that they're the only staves that can cast the God spells, save the Void knight mace.
 * Void knight mace - Not as popular as other staves, since players prefer to buy the armour for its bonuses. The mace is good in melee (roughly the same as a Rune mace), but can autocast spells including Claws of Guthix.
 * Wands - Popular among mages striving for the highest magic attack bonus.