Runescape Melee Training Guide

F2P Pure Melee Training Guide

By: P00ner Mage

Pictures by: Peterlor3

What is a pure melee?

Pure Melee accounts in F2P are accounts that are generally low in combat level, and have ridiculously high strength levels. This stat build ensures that you can dish out optimal damage. And that ability to do high damages makes you good in PKing (player killing), will means you can kill people in the wilderness quite easily as a Pure Meleer and get piles of Rune Armor from PKing, which = PILES OF MONEY!

Want proof? This video should give you a taste of how much Pure Melee PKers make, quite nicely:

(Video and pictures for the page soon to come) [That means no proof for right now, sorry!]

As you just saw, making a pure melee file means that you can own the wilderness without having to Lure like mages, and you can dish out some heavy damage, which means a big chance of killing your opponent and getting their valuable armor that can make you RICH!!!

This guide will give you tips on how to train and own the wilderness with your very own Rune Armor Piling Pure Melee!

Guide Sections Include:

• I - Creating A Pure Melee


• II - Required Materials

I. Creating A Pure Melee

When you create a Pure Melee account, the first thing you do, such as the name, can make a big effect of what type of Melee PKer you want to be. There are two options:

• Respectable Names - If you want to be respected in the PKing world


• Newbie Names - Can lead to people underestimating you, giving you an advantage of

I personally prefer giving my PKer a newbie name like "pokemen2339" or "tinykid237", because then the people you are facing will underestimate your skill. That means you can whack them a few times with a Iron Scimitar, and they will think you're a noob because of your newbie name wont expect you to have 40 attack and 70 str. So then you can quickly whip out a Rune 2 Hander after doing some damage with an Iron Scimitar, and hit a 25 with the R2H and they're dead (as explained in a later section). So having a newbie name can give you a big advantage.

II. Goals For a Pure Melee File

Everyone Melee Pure file's main goal should be to dish out as much damage possible, while trying to keep the combat level low. That way, you wont have to face the higher level Rune wearing people who have super high defence thats hard to hit through. Instead, you can go up against the lower level people who still wear full rune, and you can hit high damage on them, I'm talking hitting damange in the mid 20's while having less than 60 combat level.

To do this, you must try to reach these goal levels for your Pure Melee account:

• 40 Attack


• 70 Strength


• 40 Range (for D Hide Chaps and Vambraces)


• 31 Prayer (Ultimate Stength Boost)


• 1 Defence


• 1 Magic

You dont want to exceed 40 Attack, because all you want to do is be able to wield Rune weapons. If you go over 40 attack, statistics show that your effectiveness at kill GREATLY decreases. Your defence should be left at one because its not going to help you hit higher, and it will raise your combat level, which means you will have to face the higher level people who have like 60 defence and are hard to hit.

Leveling range and prayer is up to you. Range level 40 makes training a whole lot easier, and it serves as good armor in PKing. Increasing range level wont raise your CB much since you will have already gained CB from Melee, so maybe a level increase from range, but its worth it in my opinion. Prayer is also an option, it serves as a shortcut to increasing your strength, and if you plan to stop training and just start making money from PKing, its a good idea to get 31 Prayer for Ultimate Strength (gives 15% stength boost = 15% more damage). You can either bury bones along the way if you are low on money, or you can learn how to make some money from the Runescape Millionaires Guide and just buy a bunch of big bones. Now you will learn how to reach these goals.

III. What You Need to Begin

To start on your path to making your new account a Pure Melee, get the following items onto your Pure Melee file:

• Full Iron Armor


• The Scimitars from Iron to Rune (Black is optional, because it takes too much time to find someone selling one)


• Strength Amulet


• 1k-2k Trouts for training


• 2K Iron Arrows and all bows (optional step - this is to get 40 range so you can wear Green D Hide chaps and vambs, making training a LOT easier!)


• Green D Hide Chaps and Vambs (for defence when training)


• Finish Stronghold Quest and get Stronghold Boots

Now that you have your gear from training, get ready to start leveling up. The goal to reach is 40 attack and 70 strength before you begin PKing.

1. 1-8 Attack

Start off at Varrok, and hit the dummies until you reach an attack level of 8.

2. 8-20 Attack

Slap on your Iron Full, Str Amulet, SS Boots, and your scimitar(s). Now head on over to the cows near the gnomecopters, taking with you trouts, or you can just cook the meat the cows drop, in which case you will need to bring along an axe and a tinderbox.

3. 1-40 Strength

Now, many people claim that getting both 40 attack and 40 strength on cows is the best idea, but since the release of the Stronghold of Security, its been found that training on the level 11 and 13 Goblins inside SS gives you more exp. per hour. So for optimal training, head on over to the lvl 11 goblins at SS. Try to bring trouts so you can stay down there longer. This part of the training is enjoyable, because you get to see yourself hitting higher and higher.

4. 20-40 Attack

Alright, now that you can hit higher than you use to on those cows at the begining, you can hope to get to 40 attack and wielding rune a lot quicker. Wear the same stuff from the last step, except change your scimitar to Mithril. Now head on back to the Golbins in SS, except this time, train on the level 13 goblins. Once your done, congratulations! You can now wield Rune weapons!

5. 1-40 Range (optional)

This step is optional, but I would HIGHLY recommend all Pure Meleers to have this. If you get 40 Range, then you can wear Green Dragon Hide Chaps and Vambraces. Increasing range while already having 40 attack and 40 strength will barely affect your combat level, if so, maybe by one level. Its a lot better than training defence which will increase your combat level by a lot, and remember, we are trying to keep our combat level low.

6. 40-70 Strength

Ah, you have finally reached the last step of your training. Well, I have good news for you. For this step, you finally dont have to click everytime you want to attack an enemy, these enemies attack your character for you! Now, this may sound bad, but not with the enemies you'll be training on. You will be facing Flesh Crawlers, and guess what their max damage is? 1 DAMAGE is their max hit! And they have a good ammount of HP, so you can train on each for a while without having to switch. These Fresh Crawlers can be found on the second floor of the Stronghold of Security on the south-east room. I would recommend you finish the SS minigame, that way everytime you want to go to the 2nd floor, you can just use the teleporter instead of having to go through all of the first level of the stronghold maze.

Wear Dragon Hide Chaps and Vambs (if you can wear them), the rest wear iron armor, your Rune Scimitar, Str. Ammy, and SS Boots. Bring 2-3 Str Pots and the rest of your inventory, fill up with lobsters (yes a bit on the pricy side, but its the best for your training). Pot up, and when your sip of str pot has just about run out with maybe only +2 strength bonus, take another sip of str pot.

These fresh crawlers will stop their auto attacking after 15 minutes, so if you want to restart their auto attacking, just go north until there is a "loading - please wait" on your screen, then just run back to the flesh crawlers to continue your training.

Now just sit back and let the fresh crawlers get you to 70 strength, once you are done, you are ready to learn how to PK and make some Millions! Read the PKing guide (coming soon).

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