Pure melee guide

Pure melee accounts are the commonest type of account for new players to use and are very easy to use. This is a guide on how to make them.

Advantages

 * Pure melees are cheap to maintain, only needing a weapon and armour, and not needing to restock arrows or runes.
 * Pure melees can hit very high when they have high enough levels

Disadvantages

 * Mages, possibly the most powerful combat class are often better than them in the combat triangle until they can use the Protect from Magic prayer. Even after this, magics such as Ancient Magicks can be used fairly effectively.

Money and levels
Follow the road out of Lumbridge to the north-west, then go north round Draynor Manor and Barbarian Village and you should see a building with students and Professor Henry in it. Walk round the back to a jail entrance and complete the Stronghold of Player Safety. When you are given antique lamps, use them for two of the following, or the same skill twice: Click here for more information.
 * Attack (not recommended until you have used the dummies.
 * Strength
 * Defence (although not actually a melee skill, it is useful for all Combat classes.
 * Hitpoints (this skill is slow to train by fighting)
 * Prayer (as mentioned in Disadvantes, Prayer can be used to block magic, as well as melee and ranged

Levels 1-8 Attack
Head up to Varrock and look for a building near the east bank with dummies in it. Keep clicking on dummies until you have 8 Attack. You can then not gain any experience from them.