Pay-to-play Magic training

This guide is for pay-to-play magic training and aims to help players find the most effective and efficient methods of Magic training. The cost of magic spells has been greatly reduced since the Evolution of Combat. However, Ancient Magicks spells may still be costly depending on the method.

Magic is a very useful combat skill and is used for many bosses and combat in general.

This guide aims to offer training methods for any level.

When training magic via combat, you can change it so you gain XP solely for magic, defence, or both magic and defence at once.

Training tips
Potions can be useful to players, as they can boost a player's experience per hour rates. There are several potions and spells that can boost a player's magic level: There are Super magic potions, as well as regular magic potions and extreme magic potions.

One can also use a vecna skull, which has an unlimited amount of uses and temporarily boosts your Magic level by 2 + 10% of your magic level (rounded down). The downside is that once it is used, the cooldown period is hardset to 6 minutes. The skull currently has a cost of coins, and it is up to the player whether or not this cost is justifiable.

Find the right training method for you. Some people get bored after minutes of one activity while others can stick at it until level 99. Try different methods to see which works best for you to get to your desired level.

When training magic with combat use the monster's elemental magic weakness to your advantage. It will work better than using a different elemental spell. It will also increase your experience rate as well, not to mention saving some runes.

Some spells can be trained at the same time. For instance, you can alternate between casts of stun and high alchemy. This can significantly increase training speed because you can cast the second spell immediately after the first, whereas when casting only 1 spell you must wait a certain amount of game ticks before casting it again. Note that the amount of game ticks must still pass before you cast either spell a second time. This click pattern will also be significantly more complicated, but helps to make more experience points.

If you intend to be a Magic pure, do not attempt any combat spells, which will give Constitution experience as well.

Prior to EoC, a popular training method would be to cast Stun (now known as Stagger) against the Skeletons on the other side of the wilderness ditch in Edgeville whilst wearing Sacred Clay armour for its double experience bonus. With the right camera angle setting, all a player would need to do is repeatedly click their mouse for large amounts of experience.

Activities at all levels
The below training ideas can be used at any Magic level, as they just require elemental spells to cast, also making these all combat type activities. As different elemental spells give different amounts of experience, it is impossible to say how much experience will be gained per hour.

Levels 1+
Wielding an air staff, you can kill cows south of the Burthorpe lodestone or at Lumbridge. Alternatively, you can kill rats outside Lumbridge Castle. They provide a decent amount of experience, are an almost guaranteed instant-kill and respawn extremely fast.

Additionally while wielding an air staff, you may go north after arriving in Burthorpe and enter the cave. There are three chambers of low level trolls. They provide 40 experience points each, are almost always a 1 hit kill and, depending on the world, respawn very quickly.

Levels 7-29
At level 7, enchant sapphire tablets can be made in a player-owned house. You will need soft clay and the specific runes depending on which spell you would like to create. For profit per tablet analysis, see Calculators/Tablet. It requires access to a player-owned house, so go to World 31 (House Party) if you do not own one. The Yanille house portal has the closest bank to a portal. If you don't want to take the hassle of buying often expensive soft clay, try blasting the lesser demon at the Wizards' Tower.

With the introduction of the Evolution of Combat, splashing Curse no longer provides any experience and is thusly, not a viable option for training.

Once level 20 or above has been reached, go to the Lumbridge Catacombs and use magic on the Skeletons there. This can use up a lot of runes very fast though, but it is an efficient way to level up.

Low Level Alchemy can be cast from level 21, giving a maximum of 62k experience per hour, making it the fastest experience by far until approximately level 40. Players should expect to pay roughly the cost of a nature rune for each cast, making it cost approximately 0g/xp. Players keen on efficiency may want to make these casts while training gathering skills such as Fishing or Woodcutting to minimise banking time involved with these skills.

Also for people of high combat level who are doing the Holy Grail quest, it's a good idea to train with the Black Knight Titan, from level 1-25.

Levels 29-39
At level 29, cast Earth Bolt to level 33. At level 33, you can use Telekinetic Grab in the basement of west Varrock bank and take the gold ore, the gold necklace, the gold bar, the brass necklace, and all of the coins. This method doesn't require combat and offers some things to sell. Alternatively, one may also choose to collect Wine of Zamorak, as this is highly valued by high-level herblorists. Again, you can use Telekinetic grab in the Telekinetic Theatre of the Mage Training Arena for Pizazz points, which can be traded for infinity robes if the player has also earned points in the other rooms. This can easily save you lots of time when you plan to earn pizazz points in the future, as this particular way of training involves lots of clicking and can be very long. Also, you can go to the top floor of the Wizards' Tower where people often train on the lesser demon trapped there and seldom bother with the loot. Use telegrab to grab some of the more valuable loot like ashes, herbs, chaos/death runes and some of the more expensive melee equipment. Alternatively, in the Edgeville Dungeon are Hill Giants which can be safe-spotted by numerous stalagmites. They are very easy to kill, especially when a Air Battlestaff or better is wielded.

Levels 40-69
At 40+ you may want to try Conquest if you do not want to sit and click and do the same thing for a while, you can try out your own setup to see what works best. You can also use the points you get for pieces of void armour and the void mace or level up Attack, Strength, Ranged, or Prayer along with Magic. You can also make money doing this by staking, though it is not recommended until you know what you're doing. Overall the nonrepetitive nature of the minigame makes the training seem to go by faster than with conventional methods.

Upon reaching level 43, you may try to purchase all ores required at the Grand Exchange to smith Steel, mithril, adamantite, or runite bars; equip a fire staff, or mindspike; and use the spell Superheat Item to smelt into bars. This is the fastest way to train Magic and Smithing simultaneously, with relatively little cost to a small profit. A profit can be made when smelting mithril/rune bars. This requires the smithing level needed to smith an ore, level 30 Smithing minimum is advised for making a steel Bar.

At level 45 you may want to try repeatedly cast Camelot Teleport. By using an air staff, only one law rune will be used for this popular training method. This spell can be cast at a relatively fast rate, with a gain of 55.5 Magic experience per spell for around 125k experience per hour (if you're clicking constantly). Alternatively, using a lectern in either your own or another player's house allows you to make camelot teleport tablets. Using the lectern method makes a considerable profit (200k+ per 1,000 tabs made) but is 25-33% slower than casting the spell repeatedly.

After reaching level 50, you may use the sacred clay robes and/or magic staff rewards obtained from Stealing Creation to double the experience received from casting any combat spell. This works with Ancient Magicks very well. However, each Stealing Creation game is 20 minutes, so this method could take some time.

At any levels from 62+, you may want to try ogres. They provide ~300 experience per kill. If killing them west of Yanille, there is a safespot behind the wall to the west. (Note: The ogres may start walking toward the water or woods to the east while your attacking, dragging your player out of the safespot) The ogres also have a weakness to air spells, so if you use a Staff Of Air you can train for free. You can get upwards of 150k Experience per hour.

At 65+ Giant Rock Crabs become a possibility, providing 530 experience per kill. Note that 60 defence is recommended and they are weak to fire spells.

Levels 60-70
At level 60 you should be able to kill giant rock crabs easily enough. They give 174 combat experience and constitution experience. They also drop three charms at a time and drop gold charms commonly so they are also a great way to gather charms. A defence level of 60+ is recommended though, as they can hit for over 200 damage. Wearing magic armour will reduce their chance to hit, so that is also recommended.