Smart OSRS Tricks That Make You a Better Player

Old School RuneScape is packed with obscure mechanics, niche optimisations, and small quality-of-life tricks that most players never learn. With so many new players joining OSRS every year, knowing these lesser-known tips can save you dozens of hours and millions of cheap OSRS GP over the life of your account. This beginner-friendly guide highlights some of the most useful facts and methods that can significantly improve your efficiency across skilling, combat, and general gameplay.

Faster Marks of Grace With Rooftops and the Worm Course

Most players grind Marks of Grace by endlessly looping rooftop agility courses, but there’s a better way. After a Mark of Grace spawns on a rooftop course, that course enters a three-minute cooldown where no additional marks can appear. Instead of wasting that downtime, you can teleport to Civitas Illa Fortis and run the worm agility course.

While completing one or two worm laps during the cooldown, you’ll collect termites, which can later be traded for Amylase packs. Those packs can then be sold back to Grace for Marks of Grace. This method sacrifices a small amount of agility XP but increases marks per hour by roughly 25%. It also breaks up the monotony of traditional rooftop training. Over an hour, this method can net over 25 Marks of Grace alongside solid agility XP and a small bonus in Prayer and Magic experience.

Blighted Supplies Aren’t Just for the Wilderness

Blighted food and potions work in Castle Wars and Ferox Enclave, making them extremely cheap pre-PvM preparation tools. For example, blighted anglerfish can be eaten in the Castle Wars lobby to gain an overheal without stepping into the Wilderness.

A common setup involves restoring stats at your POH pool, teleporting to Castle Wars via a jewellery box, and pre-buffing with blighted food and combat potions. Blighted super restores are especially useful for accounts without an ornate pool, costing only a fraction of regular potions. Ferox Enclave offers similar benefits, allowing budget players to restore stats and overheal using minimal supplies.

Ring of Returning: Underrated and Extremely Useful

The Ring of Returning teleports your character to their respawn point, which can be changed to various locations throughout the game. This makes it a powerful and cheap teleport option early on.

You can set your spawn to Lumbridge, Varrock, Camelot, Ardougne, or even more advanced locations like Great Kourend Castle, Prifddinas, or Civitas Illa Fortis. For accounts with extra GP, Edgeville and Ferox Enclave spawns are also options. With five charges per ring and extremely low cost, it’s one of the most overlooked teleport items in OSRS.

Ring of Pursuit Makes Hunter Ridiculously Fast

The Ring of Pursuit received a massive buff, changing kebbit tracking entirely. It now reveals the full track 100% of the time, eliminating guesswork and downtime. At level 49 Hunter, players can achieve over 125,000 XP per hour using this method.

Each kebbit provides a large chunk of experience, and additional items like a bonecrusher and chisel add passive Prayer XP and profit through kebbit spikes. What was once a block-worthy Hunter task is now one of the fastest training methods from levels 50–60.

Flat Armour Changed Early Combat Training

Flat armour bonuses dramatically increase damage output against certain monsters. Creatures with negative flat armour take extra damage on every successful hit, making fast weapons extremely effective.

Shades in the Catacombs of Kourend have -3 flat armour and can be safespotted with ranged, making them excellent early training targets. Grimy lizards in the Moons of Peril dungeon are even better for lower-level players, with low Defence, -2 flat armour, and access to free food and potions inside the dungeon. They also drop valuable farming seeds, including teak and mahogany.

Free Ranged XP While Training Melee

While killing scurrius with melee, small rats spawn that can be one-shot with any throwing weapon. Using even bronze knives grants passive ranged XP without slowing melee training. Over time, this adds up to thousands of ranged experience per hour, allowing players to reach level 50 Ranged almost entirely passively.

Gem Stalls Are Now Top-Tier Thieving XP

Gem stalls in Varlamore were heavily buffed, with reduced downtime and improved efficiency. Players with 75 Thieving can steal gems at a 100% success rate using safespots, earning up to 200,000 XP per hour and over 150,000 GP in gems.

World-hopping between two stalls eliminates waiting entirely, and using a gem bag increases efficiency even further. Compared to pickpocketing NPCs, this method has zero damage, zero downtime, and consistent profit.

Bonus Thieving Tricks and Fast Tips

Rogue chests pair well with blighted ancient sacks, allowing players to cast Ice spells during downtime for free Magic XP. Forestry rations restore run energy when chopping trees, making them excellent for early-game mobility. They can also be crafted for profit or compost.

At Gemstone Crab, strength matters far more than attack, making strength boosts like dragon battleaxe specials superior. Black warlocks nearby act as free super strength boosts. Fairy rings no longer need repairing in Arceuus, and players who previously paid can reclaim their OSRS GP. Small optimisations like inventory tagging herbs, safer Chaos Altar teleports, and minecart shortcuts in Kourend all add up over time.