Pay-to-play melee training

This melee training guide will help you raise your combat level, starting from when you get off of Tutorial Island all the way to the all-powerful combat level of 126. It will explain which are the best monsters to kill at your level, along with providing the advantages and disadvantages of training on each monster.

General Tips

 * Train attack, strength, and defense as you see fit - This preference is different for every player.  You may want a lot of strength to hit hard, but without attack you won't hit as often.  Fighting high level monsters with only steel armor may be tough if your defense is low.  This is a balance that every player has to decide on his own.
 * Find a good balance of food to bring. - Filling up with food sounds good when training, but where will you keep your drops? Bring mostly food, leaving some spots open to keep desired items.
 * If it works well, then stay with it - If you find a monster that you can kill easily, or a good area with few people, then stay there and kill away!
 * If you can, train slayer at the same time - This is for members. If you are going to train on Hill Giants, maybe you will be assigned them.
 * Bring a law rune (if you have a high enough magic to teleport) for quick getaways - sometimes you might not be paying attention, or a monster will get a lucky streak and hit you hard for multiple turns. You may find yourself having only a few hitpoints left. A method for a easy escape might be helpful.

The levels below refer to individual combat stat levels, not your overall combat level.

Level 1 to 15
1. Kill goblins across the bridge near Lumbridge.

Advantages:
 * Many goblins wandering around.
 * Fly-fishing spots nearby (source of food).
 * Players tend to leave bones lying around. Bury them for free Prayer experience!
 * General store nearby. Sell any unwanted goblin drops for coins!

Disadvantages:
 * May be crowded.

Tips:
 * Goblins sometimes drop goblin mail. Save three of these for the Goblin Diplomacy quest!
 * There is a broken-down shack near the fishing area. Inside this shack is an iron dagger respawn! People may be competing over it though.

2. Kill cows in the pasture north of the goblins.

Advantages:
 * Many bones may be lying around. Use this to your advantage!

Disadvantages:
 * May be crowded.

Tips:
 * Cowhides may not seem to be very useful at first, but they are! Save them for Crafting or sell them for around 100 coins each!

3. Kill chickens in the farm across from the cow pasture.

Advantages:
 * Chickens have very low attack; not much food is needed.
 * Another place where people forget about bones!

Disadvantages:
 * May be crowded.

Tips:
 * Gather the feathers that the chickens drop. You can sell them (they go for around 10 coins each), or save them for fly fishing or fletching arrows.

'''4. Kill men or women found anywhere in Runescape.

Tips:
 * Their drops are not bad. They drop herbs which can be saved for Herblore. If you are lucky they may just drop a level 1 Clue scroll!

5. Kill seagulls on the pier in Port Sarim.

Advantages:
 * The level 2 seagulls have a large amount of hitpoints for their level (6 hitpoints) and the level 3 seagull have 8!
 * This place is usually not vey crowded.
 * They can never hit you!

Disadvantages:
 * Pummeling seagulls for a longtime may get boring and repetitive.
 * Things can get lonely because it is not a very popular place.
 * They only drop bones.

Tips:
 * Collect their bones to gain prayer xp. Be careful though, prayer raises your combat level.
 * If you are a level 1-10, do not attack level 3 seagulls as they have a bit more defence then level 2 seagulls.

Level 16 to 30
By this point, you should have Steel armour (5 Defence) and a Steel weapon (5 Attack), or even Black armour if your Attack or Defence level is 10. If you're rich enough and have the right stats, go for Mithril armour!

It is recommended to still stick with killing goblins, cows, or chickens, but if you want more of a challenge, then...

'''1. Kill Crawling Hands in the Morytania Slayer Tower.

Advantages:
 * Good drops for their level.

Disadvantages:
 * Members only.
 * Slayer level 5 and Priest in Peril quest required.

Tips:
 * For such low level monsters, they have awesome drops! Examples are colored gloves, rings, and even dragon spears!

'''2. Kill barbarians in Barbarian Village.

Advantages:
 * Multicombat, so you can attack a barbarian that another player is attacking.

Disadvantages:
 * It is possible that you could accidentally get into a fight with multiple barbarians.

Tips:
 * Do not underestimate these guys. They are pretty tough opponents and vary in level. Stick with the barbarian women; they are usually level 9.

'''3. Kill Al-Kharid Warriors in the Al-Kharid palace.

Tips:
 * Careful...this is a multi-combat area! When you attack a warrior, any other warriors nearby will shout and run to his aid, so you may be attacked by 3 enemies at once! This is dangerous if your level is in the 20s. It is good experience though if you are over level 30.

'''4. Kill Minotaurs in the 1st level of the Stronghold of Security.

Advantages:
 * Frequent Iron arrow drops

Disadvantages:
 * Low hitpoints levels

Tips:
 * Stick with the level 12 ones. There are level 27 Minotaurs further in the Stronghold and are notably stronger then the level 12s. None of them are aggressive, however.
 * Minotaurs constantly drop iron arrows, around 7 to 14 at a time. Save them for Ranging!

'''5. Kill rock crabs in the northern Fremmenik Province (completion of Fremmenik Trials quest recommended for a better training area.

Tips:
 * If you can, make these your first choice training monster. They are only level 13 but have 50 HITPOINTS!!! Unfortunately, many players train on rock crabs so it may be quite crowded.

Level 31 to 40
Make sure that you are well prepared with food before training on any of these monsters.

1. Kill hill giants in edgeville dungeon.

Advantages:
 * Hill giants always drop big bones, for either selling (they cost 300-400 each in bulk) or training prayer.
 * They also drop limpwurt root for either selling or making strength potion.

Disadvantages:
 * Rangers will hide behind a rock and range hill giants, making it difficult for getting a kill.
 * For level 35s, hill giants may be a bit harder to kill, make sure you prepare a lot of food.
 * This place may get unbelievably crowded.

Tips:
 * Memorise a hill giant respawn point and you may get a kill 70% of the time.
 * It may be hard to get a kill, so be patient.
 * This may be old but: never underestimate your opponent.

Level 41 to 50
Make sure to bring food and put auto-retaliate on so you will automatically attack the monsters. 1. Kill Flesh Crawlers in the Stronghold of Security.

Advantages:
 * No matter what level you are, Flesh Crawlers will attack you when you enter the area they are in.
 * Not many people train at the Flesh Crawlers, so there isn't much competition.

Disadvantages:
 * Although the Flesh Crawlers are quick experience, they only have 25 health, which means only 100 experience per kill.

Tips:
 * Since the Flesh Crawlers will only be aggressive for a limited time, leave the area and go to the next nearest area where there are more Flesh Crawlers. By doing this, you can continually switch back and forth between areas, so they will always attack you.
 * Wear melee armour, preferably Adamant Armour or Rune Armour for best defense.

2. Kill Experiments in the Experiment Cave.

Advantages:
 * Experiments are level 25 with 100 hitpoints, which means you get a whopping 400 exp. per monster.
 * The Experiments max hit is 1, so unless you want to, you don't need to wear any armor whatsovever!

Disadvantages:
 * The Experiments area is crowded most of the time which means lots of competition for monsters.
 * In order to access the Experiments you must have worked through the Creature of Fenkenstrain quest up to the part where you get the Star amulet.
 * Their only drop is bones so don't expect anything good.

Tips:
 * Bring Strength potions (or any strength boosting items) if you want to kill the Experiments fast.
 * Bring a fast attacking weapon, such as a Dragon dagger or Abyssal whip.
 * killing experiments gives you average of 33 000 experience points per hour

3. Kill Moss Giants in Crandor.

Advantages:
 * Moss Giants drop Big Bones for Prayer
 * Most of the time the moss giants there aren't crowded because people go to fight lessers that are nearby.

Disadvantages:
 * Must have done Dragon Slayer to access Crandor.
 * Can get crowded at peak times,like in the afternoon eastern and western players are there, but other then that there pretty good training.

Level 51 to 70
1. Kill Ogres, Jogres, or Mogres (42 Slayer required).

Advantages:
 * Ogres are all over RuneScape, including Karamja, Castle Wars, and Port Sarim.
 * Drops big bones and various seeds. The ranarr seed that the ogres sometimes drop can be sold for 20-30k.
 * High HP and low defence.

Disadvantages:
 * Spots colse to a bank can get crowded in largely populated worlds during peak hours.

'''2. Kill monsters in the Dungeon of Tolna.

Advantages:
 * They are almost always abandoned, and they have 50 HP each with low offense and defense stats. Many spawns present.
 * Gnome Glider spot nearby.

Disadvantages:
 * Must complete A Soul's Bane.
 * No safespots.
 * They drop absolutely nothing.

'''3. Kill Kalphite Soldiers in the Kalphite Dungeon.

Advantages:
 * They have low defense and Keris can be used on them for massive hits.
 * Overlooked by many players.
 * Potato Cacti spawn there, they sell for 4K each, meaning that each time you leave to bank you can earn around 100K if you can carry 25 of them.

Disadvantages:
 * They poison frequently, although Superantipoison Potions take care of that.
 * It is multi-combat and they are aggressive, so you must stay with singular spawns to be safe.
 * They have bad drops.

'''4. Kill Ice Giants and Ice Warriors in the Ice cave near Port Sarim.

Advantages:
 * They are aggressive, and it is single combat so you can be a bit lazy with clicking.
 * They have decent drops.
 * They have a high HP level.

Disadvantages:
 * Far from a bank.
 * Crowded at peak times.
 * Can damage you rapidly without good armor.

Level 71-80
'''1. Kill TzHaar-Kets or TzHaar-Xils in Tzhaar City.

Advantages:
 * Good for halberdiers as there are a lot of rocks to hide behind.
 * Excellent drops that can be sold for money or worn.
 * Right next to a bank in case you need supplies.
 * It is a multi-combat area, meaning your friends can team up.
 * They are all Non-aggressive despite their combat level.

Disadvantages:
 * They can hit up to 16's, so either wear very strong armour such as Dragon or Barrows, wear Proselyte armour to boost prayer and use Protect from Melee, or attack them with a halberd.
 * They may drop nothing.
 * Very far from a common teleport; although a fairy ring and a Glory telespot are nearby.
 * There is not a single altar on the entire island so you will need to die in one of the nearby minigames in order to recharge your prayer. Some players use Nitroglycerin or Rock Cakes to die instantly in Fight Caves.
 * Some of the Tzhaar-Xil use ranged attacks that hit very often; watch out for the ones wielding Obsidian Rings.

'''2. Kill Bloodvelds in the Slayer Tower at Morytania.

Advantages:
 * They have very high HP but very low defense, meaning that you are able to do your maximum damage often.
 * Drops are similar to that of a lesser demon.
 * Close to a bank if you can use the agility shortcut.
 * They have low attack and low strength, meaning with food, bones to peaches, or full Guthans you can stay there for a very long period of time.
 * This spot can be used all the way up to level 99.

Disadvantages:
 * Their attacks are Magic based Melee, so regular melee armor will not work well. Wear dragonhide for best Defense, although it means you must have a decent ranged level to train efficiently there.
 * They constantly drop only Coins.
 * You must have a Slayer level of 50.
 * This is a very well known spot, thus it will get crowded.

'''3. Kill Ankous in the Stronghold of Security

Advantages:
 * They are undead, so a Salve Amulet can be used.
 * Frequent Blood Rune and Death Rune drops (Law runes for F2P) that can be sold for money or used to train Magic.
 * Close to Edgeville Bank.
 * Drops a piece of the Skull Sceptre.
 * Some safespots present.
 * They drop Cooked Bass, which can be used to heal.
 * Bones to peaches can be used here.

Disadvantages:
 * Must complete 3 levels of the Stronghold of Security to get into this area.
 * Crowded at times.
 * The safespots cannot be used until they stop being aggressive.

'''4. Kill Trolls in Trollheim

Advantages:
 * Close to Trollehim Teleport.
 * Frequent Seed drops.
 * High HP and low attack.
 * Usually isolated.

Disadvantages:
 * They can hit very hard due to their high strength.