Experience

XP

Experience, commonly abbreviated as Exp or XP, is a measure of progress in a certain skill. It is generally obtained by performing tasks related to that skill. After gaining a certain amount of experience, players will advance to the next level in that skill, which can result in new abilities, items, and other achievements. You can earn XP (experience) by training skills, completing quests, doing activities such as Penguin Hide and Seek, Mage Training Arena, and other Minigames and activities. The minimum XP needed to max (99 in all skills) is 325,860,775 or 417,099,511 with 120 Dungeoneering.

Gaining Experience

A level up message before an update in 2007.

The old style (prior to Level-up Messages update) of a player reaching level 70 in Mining.

The skills interface after the interface update.

The skills interface prior to the interface update.

How a level 99 in a skill appears after the interface update.

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Chatbox messages received when levelling

Experience in a skill is obtained by performing a task related to that skill. Experience can also be gained by performing a task unrelated to the skill, such as completing a quest, participating in a random event, or playing an activity or miniquest.

When a player successfully cooks a piece of food, they gain pre-determined amounts of Cooking experience. (E.g. if a player cooks a lobster, rather than burning it, the player gains 120 Cooking experience.)
When a player rubs a lamp from a random event gift, the player gains experience equal to the level of the skill they select times 10. (E.g. a player's Woodcutting level is 50; they rub the lamp, choose Woodcutting, and receive 500 Woodcutting experience.)
When a player reads the Book of knowledge from the Surprise Exam random event, they receive to their chosen skill their current level times 15. (E.g. if a player's Attack level is 50, they would receive 750 experience from reading the book if they chose Attack.)

Players who help others using the Assist System can earn a maximum of 30,000 total experience every 24 hours, although the experience may be shared among many skills. Some skills cannot be shared through the Assist System (namely gathering and combat skills, such as Attack and Mining).

Players can continue receiving experience after level 99 in a skill : up to a maximum of 200 million experience. Once a player reaches this limit, they can continue using the skill but receive no additional experience. The maximum total experience is possibly 5 billion (5,000,000,000) when a player has 200 million experience in all 25 skills.

Until the Skills Interface update (on 12 November 2007), players with a level 99 skill could view the experience it would take them to earn level 100. However, even when "level 100" was "reached", the actual level remained at 99.

The experience gain rates one may obtain varies very much between skills. For example, with 99 agility it is difficult to get much over 70k agility experience per hour without brawling gloves, while making summoning pouches can give over 800k summoning experience per hour.

Exponential Growth

The amount of experience needed for the next level increases by approximately 10% each level. In fact, as a player's level increases, the growth factor rapidly approaches $2^{1/7}$ , or approximately 1.10409 (which is an increase of 10.409%). Note that a 10.409% growth factor may seem slow, but, as with all exponential growth, it expands rapidly to a massive 13,034,431 for level 99, and then to 104,273,163 experience needed for level 120. This growth factor results in the experience required for a given level being approximately double the experience of 7 levels before.

The varying amount of experience needed to get from one level to another can cause some surprising experience rates to get from one level to another. For example, getting from level 98 to 99 requires approximately the same experience from level 1 to level 75. However, it is worth noting that higher level activities in many cases award more experience than lower level ones, so getting from level 98 to 99 will likely not take as long as getting from level 1 to 75. However, the experience per hour rates still usually increase linearly when moving to a faster training method.

In general, if the difference between two levels is x, then the experience at the higher level will be approximately $2^{x/7}$ times the experience at the lower level. In particular, the experience doubles every 7 levels, triples every 11 levels, quadruples every 14 levels, and increases 10-fold every 23 levels.

Setting Targets

It is possible to set an individual level target for each level. You can set a level target or a target experience for each level individually. Setting two different targets for two different skills will not affect either of the levels.

Combat Experience

Combat skills

Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged

To calculate the experience gain for combat skills above, a simple equation can be used:

Experience earned

={\frac {d}{2.5}}

where d = damage dealt to an opponent

The resulting experience for this equation, as well as for constitution and the damage section of the magic experience formula, is then multiplied by a number unique to each monster (which is usually 1, in which case the formulas can be used as is), which is why some monsters give different amounts of experience. For example, monsters in random events have an experience multiplier of 0, and thus yield no combat experience. On the other hand, some bosses have a multiplier of greater than 1, with Nex giving double the usual amount of combat experience.

Magic

To calculate the experience gain for the casting combat spells in Magic, another simple equation can be used:

Experience earned

=b\times n+{\frac {d}{5}}

where b = base experience of the combat spell cast

and n = number of spells cast

and d = damage dealt to an opponent in casting spells

For curses and other spells not dealing any damage, treat d as 0.

Constitution

To calculate the experience gain for Constitution, the following simple equation can be used:

Experience earned

={\frac {d}{7.5}}

where d = damage dealt to an opponent

Monster Experience

An upper bound to the number of monsters required to level up a combat skill can be calculated as follows:

Number of monsters

=\left\lceil \displaystyle {\frac {E}{0.4\times L}}\right\rceil

where E = experience required to level up

and L = monster's number of life points

Note that this only gives an upper bound because monsters may recover some life points during the battle, in which case more than L life points are dealt.

This formula also assumes that you are the only one dealing damage to the monster in question.

Relationship with Level

Equations

The equation below calculates exactly the minimum experience needed for a given level:

Experience Required

=\left\lfloor {\frac {1}{4}}\displaystyle \sum _{n=1}^{L-1}\left\lfloor n+300\times 2^{n/7}\right\rfloor \right\rfloor

, where $L={\text{current skill level}}$

Note that $\lfloor x\rfloor$ means the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$ .

The above equation can be approximated with minimal rounding error as:

Approximate Experience Required

=\sum _{n=1}^{L-1}\left({\frac {n}{4}}+75\times 2^{n/7}\right)={\frac {L(L-1)}{8}}+75\cdot \left({\frac {2^{\frac {L}{7}}-2^{\frac {1}{7}}}{2^{\frac {1}{7}}-1}}\right)

, where $L={\text{skill level}}$

This approximation can then be used to find the maximum additional experience required to level up:

Additional Experience Required to Level Up

={\frac {L}{4}}+75\times 2^{L/7}

, where $L={\text{current level}}$

Example

You want to find the experience that it would take to level up from 28 Strength to 29 Strength:

Additional Experience Required to Level Up

={\frac {\left(28\right)}{4}}+75\times 2^{\left(28\right)/7}=7+75\times 2^{4}=7+75\times 16=1207

So it would take at most 1207 experience points to get from level 28 to level 29.

The following equation can be used for quickly approximating experience needed for a level:

Approximate Experience Required

=75\times {\frac {q^{L}-q}{q-1}}

, where $L={\text{skill level }}{\text{ and }}q={\sqrt[{7}]{2}}\approx 1.104089$ .

The following equation can be used for quickly approximating the level of any experience value:

Approximate Level

=\left\lfloor {7\times \log _{2}{\left({\frac {q-1}{75}}\times E+1\right)}}\right\rfloor

, where $E={\text{current experience}}{\text{ and }}q={\sqrt[{7}]{2}}\approx 1.104089$

Table

The following table shows the relationship between level, the experience required for that level, and the experience difference from the previous level:

Level	Exp.	Exp. Diff	Level	Exp.	Exp. Diff	Level	Exp.	Exp. Diff	Level	Exp.	Exp. Diff
1	0	N/A	26	8,740	898	51	111,945	10,612	76	1,336,443	126,022
2	83	83	27	9,730	990	52	123,660	11,715	77	1,475,581	139,138
3	174	91	28	10,824	1,094	53	136,594	12,934	78	1,629,200	153,619
4	276	102	29	12,031	1,207	54	150,872	14,278	79	1,798,808	169,608
5	388	112	30	13,363	1,332	55	166,636	15,764	80	1,986,068	187,260
6	512	124	31	14,833	1,470	56	184,040	17,404	81	2,192,818	206,750
7	650	138	32	16,456	1,623	57	203,254	19,214	82	2,421,087	228,269
8	801	151	33	18,247	1,791	58	224,466	21,212	83	2,673,114	252,027
9	969	168	34	20,224	1,977	59	247,886	23,420	84	2,951,373	278,259
10	1,154	185	35	22,406	2,182	60	273,742	25,856	85	3,258,594	307,221
11	1,358	204	36	24,815	2,409	61	302,288	28,546	86	3,597,792	339,198
12	1,584	226	37	27,473	2,658	62	333,804	31,516	87	3,972,294	374,502
13	1,833	249	38	30,408	2,935	63	368,599	34,795	88	4,385,776	413,482
14	2,107	274	39	33,648	3,240	64	407,015	38,416	89	4,842,295	456,519
15	2,411	304	40	37,224	3,576	65	449,428	42,413	90	5,346,332	504,037
16	2,746	335	41	41,171	3,947	66	496,254	46,826	91	5,902,831	556,499
17	3,115	369	42	45,529	4,358	67	547,953	51,699	92	6,517,253	614,422
18	3,523	408	43	50,339	4,810	68	605,032	57,079	93	7,195,629	678,376
19	3,973	450	44	55,649	5,310	69	668,051	63,019	94	7,944,614	748,985
20	4,470	497	45	61,512	5,863	70	737,627	69,576	95	8,771,558	826,944
21	5,018	548	46	67,983	6,471	71	814,445	76,818	96	9,684,577	913,019
22	5,624	606	47	75,127	7,144	72	899,257	84,812	97	10,692,629	1,008,052
23	6,291	667	48	83,014	7,887	73	992,895	93,638	98	11,805,606	1,112,977
24	7,028	737	49	91,721	8,707	74	1,096,278	103,383	99	13,034,431	1,228,825
25	7,842	814	50	101,333	9,612	75	1,210,421	114,143

Levels 100-120

On 12 April 2010, Jagex added the Dungeoneering skill, which has a maximum level of 120, rather than the maximum for previous skills, which is 99.

Level	Exp.	Exp. Diff	Level	Exp.	Exp. Diff	Level	Exp.	Exp. Diff
100	14,391,160	1,356,729	107	28,782,069	2,713,437	114	57,563,718	5,426,849
101	15,889,109	1,497,949	108	31,777,943	2,995,874	115	63,555,443	5,991,725
102	17,542,976	1,653,867	109	35,085,654	3,307,711	116	70,170,840	6,615,397
103	19,368,992	1,826,016	110	38,737,661	3,652,007	117	77,474,828	7,303,988
104	21,385,073	2,016,081	111	42,769,801	4,032,140	118	85,539,082	8,064,254
105	23,611,006	2,225,933	112	47,221,641	4,451,840	119	94,442,737	8,903,655
106	26,068,632	2,457,626	113	52,136,869	4,915,228	120	104,273,167	9,830,430

Levels 121-126

Although one cannot level up higher than level 120, the remaining levels up to 200 million experience can be calculated otherwise.

Level	Exp.	Exp. Diff
121	115,126,838	10,853,671
122	127,110,260	11,983,422
123	140,341,028	13,230,768
124	154,948,977	14,607,949
125	171,077,457	16,128,480
126	188,884,740	17,807,283
Max	200,000,000	11,115,260

Graph

For higher levels, to raise 23 levels, about 10 times the original experience is needed.

Also, 200,000,000 experience would put the level at approximately 56.535% between level 126 and level 127 in any skill.

A graph of Level vs. Experience Needed and Experience to Next Level, zoomed in from levels 1 - 50

Gaining experience summary

While the main method of gaining XP is practice in the skill (including combat) substantial amounts of XP are available from other sources.

One off

Quests and related one off events award a total of Template:Quest XP total XP
Tasks offer a total of 645,500 XP and 200,000 XP for the Ardougne elite tasks alone.
Opening the balloon system up gives 8,000 firemaking XP
Chompy champion gives 30,000 Ranged XP
Resource dungeons give 86,600 Dungeoneering XP after entering them all at least once

Daily events

The Jack of Trades Aura give the player an xp reward book if they can gain xp in any 10 skills within 3 hours. It can be used every 24 hours.

Distractions and Diversions

The maximum experience you can gain from the circus per week is 86,737 (around 17,710 Ranged, 25,006 Magic, 10,531 Agility, 19,230 Firemaking and 14,260 Thieving experience).
From Shattered Heart up to 9,703 per non-combat skill per week for an absolute maximum of 145,545 XP per week, and 4,366,350 XP over the time to build a full statue.
From Tears of Guthix the maximum seen is about 12,000 per seven days
From Penguin Points points x 25 x skill level per week (maximum 57,000xp for finding all penguins and using the points on level 120 dungeoneering). (You can gain more penguin points per week upon the completion of the Cold War quest, The Hunt for Red Raktuber and Some Like it Cold.)
From the Troll Invasion distraction and diversion.
Hanky Points in the Thieves' Guild gives weekly Thieving xp

Boosts

Various sacred clay and other degradable items will give experience boosts, generally they require more time to earn than is saved, but might make financial sense.
A Penance Horn from Barbarian Assault can be charged by playing and used to get double experience in either Agility, Firemaking or Mining.
Smelting gold bars with the goldsmithing gauntlets gives 33.7 extra Smithing experience per bar, for a total of 56.2 experience.
Up to 5% extra Woodcutting experience can be earned by wearing the lumberjack clothing.
Up to 5% extra Mining experience can be earned by wearing the golden mining suit.
Up to 5% extra Thieving experience can be earned by wearing the Black Ibis outfit.
Up to 5% extra Construction experience can be earned by wearing the constructor's outfit.
Up to 5% extra Fishing experience can be earned by wearing the Fishing outfit .
Up to 5% (or 700xp per action) extra Runecrafting experience can be earned by wearing the master runecrafter robes.
Extra Firemaking experience can be earned by wearing the flame gloves and ring of fire. If you wear one of them on its own, you get 2% extra xp, but if you wear both of them together, you get 5% extra xp instead of the expected 4%.
Using Firelighters from clue scrolls will grant an extra 10 experience per log. They can only be used with normal logs.
With a Pyrelord or Forge Regent summoned, lighting logs grants 10 additional Firemaking experience. However, this bonus does not apply to bonfires.
Runecrafting gloves obtained from Fist of Guthix provide double experience when crafting air runes, water runes or earth runes.
Swordfish gloves provide 100 extra experience when fishing swordfish.
Shark gloves provide 100 extra experience when fishing shark.
Dragon slayer gloves provide 15% extra Slayer experience when killing a dragon on a Slayer task.
Wearing a Seer's headband 2, 3, or 4 gives 10 extra experience per log when chopping maple trees.
Saradomin's blessing, Guthix's gift, and Zamorak's favour provide 10% experience boosts to Farming, Herblore, and Hunter, respectively, when participating in the Herblore Habitat.
Urns provide bonus experience while training Cooking, Fishing, Mining, Prayer, Smithing, and Woodcutting.
The Harmony, Salvation, and Corruption series of Auras boost the experience a player gains in Prayer for as long as the aura is active. The percent of experience gained depends on the level of the aura.
The Wisdom aura boosts all experience earned by 2.5%.
Wielding a Dwarven Army Axe will grant a small amount of additional experience in various skills after completing Troll Warzone.
Cooking food on a Bonfire grants 10% additional Cooking experience, while burning logs on a Bonfire will grant additional experience based on Firemaking level and other players burning with you.

Special events

Bonus XP weekend was active during the following dates:
- 12 March to 15 March 2010
- 3 September to 6 September 2010
- 11 March to 13 March 2011
- 9 September to 12 September 2011
- 16 March to 19 March 2012
- 27 October to 29 October 2012
The Hati paws, available for a limited time in the beginning of 2011 and 2012, give additional combat experience to the wearer.
On 25 October 2011 an event was held in celebration of the release of Clusterflutter which gave players triple Slayer experience.
From 12 November to 14 November 2011, double Dungeoneering experience and tokens were awarded "to celebrate [the] continued success in the war against bots." <ref>http://services.runescape.com/m=news/more-loot--more-w00t</ref>
On 31 August 2012, 350,000 xp was given to players who had been a member all month.
On 30 September 2012, 700,000 xp was given to players who had been a member all month, and all the previous month. The combined award of 1.05 million XP would get a new character to around level 41 in all skills, but is not enough to go from level 98 to 99 in one skill.

Trivia

If levels were capped at the point where 2,147,483,647 experience was reached in that skill, you could get up to level 150, needing ~2,034million experience, at which point you would be ~54% of the way to level 151 (from 150), which you would need ~2,245million experience to acquire. The current maximum experience per skill (200,000,000) would allow a maximum skill level of 126.
Experience is capped at 200,000,000 because experience is handled with an invisible tenths place, which means the real experience would look like 200,000,000.0 and is stored as 2,000,000,000 (2 billion). Since the max a 32 Bit integer can hold is 2.14 billion, it was cleaner to round it down to 2 billion (shown as 200m after the invisible decimal place) for the cap. However if an unsigned integer were used the amount could double.
The equation for the maximum integer size in RuneScape is 2³¹ - 1, which equals 2,147,483,647. Because Runescape uses 32 Bit (java standard integer) integers at the moment, if RuneScape was to switch to 64 bit integers (java long) the maximum value would be 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 (9.2 quintillion on the short scale, or 9.2 trillion on the long scale). Should this happen, having such an amount of exp would be equivalent to that of level 374. Having every combat skill at level 374 would result in a combat level of about 476+47, or 523.
While attacking, you can see the experience gain from your attack (by hovering your mouse over the skill) before the hitsplat occurred allowing you to predict the amount of damaged done before the animation is seen. It is also possible to do this if you have the Experience Counter open.
The total amount of experience in any given skill approximately doubles every seven levels (This doesn't remain accurate for skills below level 20, since starting with 0 experience takes a while to adjust).
The amount of experience between levels 119 and 120 is roughly the same as the amount between levels 1 and 96.

Experience boosting sets
All Fired Up rewards	Ring of fire • Flame gloves
Artisan's outfit	Bandana • Top • Legs • Boots • Gloves
Blacksmith's outfit	Helmet • Top • Apron • Boots • Gloves
Black Ibis outfit	Mask • Body • Legs • Boots
Botanist's outfit	Mask • Top • Trousers • Boots • Gloves
Constructor's outfit	Hat • Garb • Trousers • Gloves • Boots
Fishing outfit	Hat • Jacket • Waders • Boots
Golden mining suit	Helmet • Top • Trousers • Gloves • Boots
Master runecrafter robes	Hat • Body • Skirt • Boots
Sous chef's outfit	Toque • Jacket • Trousers • Shoes • Mitts
Lumberjack clothing	Hat • Top • Legs • Boots

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