Skill pure

A skiller or skill pure is a player that develops non-combat skills while keeping combat skills low. Skillers are often criticized for being "pointless" as compared to building up the same level of supporting skills on a combat character, although the choice of a skill pure is a self-imposed challenge. It is often assumed by players that skill pures are not a player's first account, therefore they are commonly asked "What is your main account's level?" or similar questions. Certain skillers only attain one or two high levelled skill(s), while other skillers have higher overall levelled skills that have no relation to combat. For example, one skill pure may have level 80 Fishing and do nothing but that to make money, while another skill pure will have level 80 Fishing, Woodcutting, Firemaking, and Cooking. There are some cases where some skill pures are mistaken as a bot collecting resources using a macroing program, but as long as players do not infringe the Rules of Runescape, their accounts are safe.

Free-Play or Membership
When an account is made, it is usually in the free-to-play state. There are many free-to-play skillers that decide to stay in this state rather than pay money to become a member. Free-to-play skillers are considered more difficult to train because of limited resources and are restrained to train certain skills.

A member skiller has many more opportunities to train their non-combat skills. New mini-games, locations, quests, and clothing allow them to have acess to more recources. Subscribing skill pures have more ways to make money through training profitable skills such as Hunter or Farming.

Items
It's a trend among skillers to choose to wear clothing that players tend to think is impossible to get at level three. These items include Cape of Accomplishments or items of wealth if the skiller is rich. Items with which skillers are often seen include for a Rich skiller:
 * Black cavalier,
 * Obsidian cape,
 * Wizard robe (g),
 * Elegant clothing,
 * Cape of Accomplishment,
 * Rares such as Party hat, Santa hat and Halloween mask.

Non-rich Skiller
 * Fishbowl helmet
 * Diving apparatus
 * Beads of the dead
 * Bearhead
 * Khazard armour
 * Plague trousers
 * Mudskipper hat
 * Crab helmet
 * Crab claw
 * Darklight (usually a Silverlight with Black mushroom ink on it, but use of Poison and Rings of Recoil a level three can defeat Agrith Naar to obtain Darklight)
 * Mouse toy

NOTE: There is no difference between the rich and poor average skiller. Listed above is simply suggested or common outfits. Many skillers prefer to spend their gold on skills rather than fashion.

Adamant gloves
Adamant gloves - As of 17 March 2009, Daero can take players to the hangar without receiving the experience rewards after Monkey Madness. This is important for Skillers who want Adamant gloves from Recipe for Disaster. These gloves can be worn with Level 1 Defence. Note: these gloves cannot be obtained at level 3 combat.

Quests
These quests are possible to complete while being and remaining level 3 combat. Food and Rings of Recoil may be necessary to complete several of these quests.

Maximum Quest Points (Free-Play): 40 normally but due to the 2 holiday quests Swept Away and Myths of the White Lands that were available to non-members the maximum is 42.

Maximum Quest Points (Member):

* Notes:

 * In the Observatory quest, you are no longer able to change which constellation you receive. The reward could possibly be combat experience.


 * Only the first 3 parts of Recipe for Disaster are possible for skill pures to complete because of the combat, quest, and quest point requirements. It is good to note that during Pirate Pete's part, you will need to go into combat, but is possible with recoils.


 * Shilo Village has now been updated and your friend must have a bone key to enter the tomb with you.


 * Demon Slayer is possible, but it is also possible to gain combat experience from attacking Delrith (because he is a non-aggressive monster) if you do not hit a 0 with your Silverlight.
 * Tai Bwo Wannai Trio is possible, but you will gain combat experience if you speak to the brothers after the quest.
 * In the quest Ratcatchers, you may gain Hitpoints experience when your cat fights with the king rodent, mind your Hitpoints remainder.
 * In the quest Cold War, you may gain 40 attack experience when you kill the Icelord near the end of the quest.

Prayer Pure
Similar to a skiller, a prayer pure will raise only their prayer giving them minimal combat levels. With level 99 prayer and no other combat skills, a player will be combat level 15. There are many advantages to raising the prayer skill as a skill pure and many will do so just to distinguish themselves from all the level 3 skillers. Prayer is very useful for travelling through dangerous areas and fighting monsters for quests. A few more quests become available to those willing to raise prayer including The Restless Ghost, Priest In Peril, Creature of Fenkenstrain, Garden of Tranquillity, Ghosts Ahoy, Making History, and various others. One advantage that comes with the Creature of Fenkenstrain is the ability to play Werewolf Skullball which offers reasonable agility xp while not being dangerous at all.

Challenges

 * The low combat of a pure means that many monsters are more powerful than the skiller. Hence certain skill training areas can prove dangerous to them.
 * Certain quests are impossible as some carry combat skill rewards or involve killing a monster (which can be challenging).
 * Large quantities of ring of recoil are often used to kill some monsters without gaining combat experience. At one point, the word spread that an update by Jagex started giving users Attack experience. But, this was merely a rumor that had circulated the skiller community. It is believed the rumor began when someone attempted to kill the Icelord during the Cold War quest with rings of recoil, and assumed the glitched bonus attack exp from completing the quest came from the rings of recoil. It has since been proven that recoils do not give attack experience. Another method for using rings of recoil is to have the skiller damage a quest monster and then have a high level friend wear the ring of recoil and take the damage. The strategy behind this is that, to kill a monster and receive the reward, one must do the majority of the damage to the monster. Damaging a monster with a ring of recoil does not classify as dealing it damage. So, if the only "real" damage dealt to the monster is 1 damage by the skiller, then they will have killed the monster. This method can be used to complete Lost City and Shilo Village.
 * Skillers are unable to wield any weapons or armour requiring a combat-related skill of a level higher than one.
 * To avoid gaining combat levels accidentally, it is recommended for skillers to equip a ranged weapon that they can currently wield, such as a standard shortbow or training bow with no ammunition to prevent accidental combat experience. If you do not want to spend money on a bow, you can simply turn off auto-retaliate. A skiller should never need to go that screen so it should not be accidentally turned on.
 * Slayer is very difficult to level efficiently. Although slayer tasks can be completed using rings of recoil, methods such as using experience lamps and the rewards from penguin hide and seek and soul wars can be used to get experience without actually completing any slayer tasks.
 * It is very hard for a skiller to unlock the Air Guitar emote by unlocking 500 pieces of music, as many of these pieces require the player to enter areas with monsters to be unlocked.
 * It is hard for skillers to level agility because many of the courses have quest requirements. However, when failing (most) obstacles, a lower number of damage is dealt because of the naturally lower hitpoints level.
 * Another challenge for skillers is the fact that a lot of people don't like the idea of them. Many skillers have to put up with a lot of insulting and negativeness. Some skillers have gotten this so much that they have turned the arguing into a hobby, claiming that "The best part of being a skiller is fighting with people all the time."