Pure melee guide

Obsidian Pure
The Obsidian pure usually wears Iron platebody, black d'hide chaps, berserker necklace, obsidian cape, obsidian maul, any boots and any gloves. Their strength level usually varies from 60-99 so they can easily cause a lot of damage! These pures have a obsidian maul, and are commonly found in Pvp worlds and bounty worlds.



1 Defence Pure
Here the name speaks for itself, 1 defence and the attack level varies from 1-99. There are many different combinations of this type of character.


 * 40 attack pures: Any rune weapon or a brine sabre.


 * 50 attack pures: Granite maul pures or "maulers".


 * 60 attack pures: Dragon weapons.


 * 70 attack pures: Abyssal whip.


 * 75 attack pures: Godsword.

Initiate Pure
All from 1 attack to 99 here also they have 20 defence and use initiate armour which gives a bonus to your prayer. There are also a 30 defence version a proselyte pure which uses the proselyte set of armour.

Rune Pure
Attack level varies here also and there are many versions of this type of pure. Either they have 40 defence and use regular rune armour or they can have 45 defence and use a berserker helmet and barrow gloves if they have completed recipe for disaster, some people think it's not worth the time or have levelled their defence up without doing the quests needed to stay at 45 defence and settles for gloves which are easier to require.

Barrows Pure
Some people do not count these characters as pures, but they usually have a high attack level and 70 defence with a high strength level. They usually wear Dharok's/Torags with a rune weapon - a godsword depending on attack level.

Which type of pure to choose
It is not always easy to know which type of pure you want to have but to start out with a 1 defence pure is never wrong since then you can always get defence up later if you are not satisfied, which you cannot if you for example made a rune pure.

Things to remember

 * Some pures do require questing your defence up for example, most berserker pures quest up their defence from the Recipe for Disaster quests and other quests such as Holy Grail and Dragon Slayer


 * To get the maximum strength bonus on a Zerker Pure you will have to complete Recipe for Disaster in order to get a pair of Barrows gloves which are the gloves that provide the highest Strength bonus in-game.


 * To be able to complete the quest you will have to do a lot of different quests before you can complete the actual quest fully, and some of these quests do give defence experience.

Training your pure
Training 1 defence pures is very different from training an account with 30+ defence since 1 defence pures most often require quite a bit of food.

But there are ways to avoid wasting food such as doing Soul Wars or Pest Control

Levels 1-10 Attack and Strength
All right, so your a beginner pure and your looking for a place to train. (Note: The beginning of this guide is the same for members and free-to-play players.) The best places for these levels would be the chickens or the cows. You can find the chickens at the chicken coops in Lumbridge and cows in Lumbridge by the Al Kharid toll gate. If you are collecting cowhides, kill the cows by where the gnomecopters used to be. There is a deposit box so you can bank all of the cowhides you get. These are probably the best places to train a pure at this level.

Another less known spot to kill cows is by the crafting guild.

Alternatively, you can train on the Varrock Dummies until level 8 attack, receiving no hitpoints exp.

Levels 10-30 Attack and Strength
If you are F2P go to a cow field in Lumbridge and get your strength and attack up to 30. If you are P2P you can head to the rock crabs next to Rellekka and find a pretty empty server. To get them to auto-attack you just have to walk next to them and they will attack you. If there is a person with a cannon don't get angry, just switch worlds, the time you spend yelling your head off at them could be spent trying to train. There are many of monsters to train on on this level such as goblins, spiders, you name it. Check out the bestiary to find something you think seems fun to kill.

Levels 30-40 Attack and Strength
F2p should now go to the monastery and start eliminating the monks that reside there. P2p should continue killing rock crabs or if you have finished Creature of Fenkenstrain you could go kill experiments which have 100 hp! That's 400 experience for one kill!

Levels 40-99 Strength only
The rest of your journey is pretty much up to you now. P2p should continue hammering at rock crabs and experiments, while f2p players should now start killing Hill giants until level 60 strength. At 60 strength f2p players should say goodbye to their trusty hill giants and move on to flesh crawlers, but if you get bored from flesh crawlers F.O.G (Fist of Guthix) is always a good place to train.

Monsters to kill for a pure
In the bestiary there are many of monsters for you to check out. See which one you would like to kill, try to keep to the low level monsters unless you are going to use protect from melee since you can end up losing quite a bit of food while training at high levelled monsters.