Magic

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Magic is a skill that allows players to cast spells using runes for multiple purposes such as teleportation, alchemy, enchanting and combat. Magic is a combat skill and a skilling skill. It offers heavy damage and debuffs in combat and allows fighting mobs at a distance. For skilling, magic offers faster movement via teleportation and some utility spells.

Runecrafting and magic work well together as runecrafting allows creation of runes. This can reduce cost of magic significantly as runes can be made instead of bought. Runes can be bought either from a magic shop or from other players. Runes may also be obtained as drops from mobs or by pickpocketing.

Rune pouch can be used to store up to five different kinds of runes to save inventory space. The runes are automatically used from the pouch as spells are cast. Magic cape shares the effect of rune pouch and the pouch's contents too so they can not be used together to hold more runes. The magic cape does however offer a defensive boost.

Training

Magic is primarily trained through combat by killing mobs. Magic has pure magic and balanced combat mode. In magic mode, 100% of the awarded experience goes to magic. In balanced mode, 50% of the experience goes to magic and the other 50% goes to defence. Experience is awarded for successful hits and from casting a spell. The experience from casting is merely token xp and vast majority comes from the hits themselves. To cast combat spells, a wand or staff must be equipped and all appropriate runes required by the spell must be in the inventory in sufficient quantities.

Casting utility and teleport spells also grants magic experience but they are far slower ways of training than combat. Unlike combat spells, these spells do not require a staff or wand and also can not benefit from their effects.

Runes

Runes are split into two categories: elemental and non-elemental runes. The elemental runes are air, water, earth and fire. All spells require at least one type of elemental rune to be cast. Non-elemental runes are runes that empower the elemental rune in different ways to form a spell. Mind, chaos and death runes are used to cast combat spells. Body and cosmic runes are used in debuff spells. Nature runes primarily find use in utility spells. Lastly law runes are used in teleport spells.

Air rune

Mind rune

Water rune

Earth rune

Fire rune

Body rune

Cosmic rune

Chaos rune

Nature rune

Law rune

Death rune

Blood rune

Wrath rune

Weapons

There are two kinds of weapons for magic: wands and staves. Wands being one handed weapons and staves two handed respectively. Generally wands are better than staves in terms of damage. Although the elemental staves do provide unlimited runes of their element, their offensive stats are highly lacking. They also only work for combat spells so utility spells can not benefit from their effect.

Wands

	Wand	Level	Base damage
	Apprentice wand	1	1
	Beginner's wand	10	10
	Master's wand	25	20
	Wizard's wand	50	30
	Cursed apocalypse wand	85	40
	Apocalypse wand	85	40
	3rd age wand	85	50

Staves

	Staff	Level	Base damage	Effect
	Air staff	1	1	Provides unlimited air runes for combat spells.
	Caitlin's staff	1	3	Provides unlimited air runes for combat spells.
	Earth staff	1	1	Provides unlimited earth runes for combat spells.
	Water staff	1	1	Provides unlimited water runes for combat spells.
	Fire staff	1	1	Provides unlimited fire runes for combat spells.
	Staff of bob the cat	1	1
	Air battlestaff	30	10	Provides unlimited air runes for combat spells.
	Earth battlestaff	30	10	Provides unlimited earth runes for combat spells.
	Water battlestaff	30	10	Provides unlimited water runes for combat spells.
	Fire battlestaff	30	10	Provides unlimited fire runes for combat spells.
	Mud battlestaff	30	20	Provides unlimited fire runes and earth runes for combat spells.
	Lava battlestaff	30	20	Provides unlimited fire runes and earth runes for combat spells.
	Ahrim's staff	75	35	Lasts for 5000 uses

Armour

Magic armour provides defensive boosts while having only little impact in magic damage boosts. They are strong against melee and weak against ranged styles. Standard armour is what players usually use when using magic. Special armour is rarer and harder to obtain and generally more powerful as well.

Standard armour

Armour	Defence level
Blue wizard robes	1
Black wizard robes	10
Spider silk robes	20
Batwing robes	30
Mystic robes	40
Infinity robes	50
Druidic robes	60

Special armour

Armour	Defence level	Prayer level	Magic level
Wizard boots	20	-	-
Robes of darkness	20	-	40
Enchanted robes	40	-	-
Dagon'hai robes	70	-	-
Ahrim's armour	75	-	-
3rd age magic robes	85	-	-

Spells

There are four types of spells: combat, debuff, teleport and utility spells. Combat and debuff spells are used when fighting mobs or other players. Combat spells are the ones that deal damage. Higher level spells deal more damage than lower level ones. Debuff spells are spells that can affect the target's stats such as defensive and offensive values. It is also possible to "splash cast" combat spells by not looking at a target but doing so grant very little experience.

Teleport spells are used to travel to key locations without having to travel there by foot. They can also be used to get out of tight combat situations. Teleport spells are not the only mean of teleportation as other items also offer teleports. The teleports offered by items do not require runes or magic level to be used.

Utility spells are spells that offer conveniences or enchants and are primarily meant to be used outside of combat.

Combat spells

	Spell	Level	XP	Damage	Runes
	Air strike	1	3	18	1x Air rune 1x Mind rune
	Water strike	5	4	22	1x Water rune 1x Mind rune
	Earth strike	9	5	26	1x Earth rune 1x Mind rune
	Fire strike	13	7	30	1x Fire rune 1x Mind rune
	Air bolt	17	9	37	2x Air rune 1x Chaos rune
	Water bolt	23	12	43	2x Water rune 1x Chaos rune
	Earth bolt	29	15	49	2x Earth rune 1x Chaos rune
	Fire bolt	35	19	55	2x Fire rune 1x Chaos rune
	Air blast	41	25	63	3x Air rune 1x Death rune
	Water blast	47	28	71	3x Water rune 1x Death rune
	Earth blast	53	35	79	3x Earth rune 1x Death rune
	Fire blast	59	42	87	3x Fire rune 1x Death rune
	Air wave	62	49	96	4x Air rune 1x Blood rune
	Water wave	65	57	104	4x Water rune 1x Blood rune
	Earth wave	70	63	112	4x Earth rune 1x Blood rune
	Fire wave	75	75	120	4x Fire rune 1x Blood rune
	Elemental force	90	100	140	1x Death rune 1x Wrath rune
	Dark elemental force	95	110	152	2x Death rune 1x Wrath rune
	Apocalypse	98	150		2x Death rune 2x Wrath rune

Debuff spells

	Spell	Level	XP	Damage	Effect	Runes
	Confuse	3		6	Reduces your opponent's attack by 5% for 7 seconds	2x Earth rune 3x Water rune 1x Body rune
	Weaken	11		10	Reduces your opponent's strength by 5% for 7 seconds	2x Earth rune 3x Water rune 1x Body rune
	Curse	19		15	Reduces your opponent's defence by 5% for 7 seconds	3x Earth rune 2x Water rune 1x Body rune
	Freeze	25	25	27	Prevents your opponent from moving for 3 seconds	1x Nature rune 1x Air rune 1x Water rune
	Vulnerability	66		40	Reduces your opponent's defence by 10% for 7 seconds	5x Earth rune 5x Water rune 1x Cosmic rune
	Enfeeble	73		50	Reduces your opponent's strength by 10% for 7 seconds	5x Earth rune 5x Water rune 1x Cosmic rune
	Stun	80				12x Earth rune 12x Water rune 1x Cosmic rune

Teleport spells

	Spell	Level	XP	Location	Runes
	Home teleport	1	0		None
	Teleport to Lumbridge	10	6	-337 / 69 / 180	3x Air rune 1x Law rune
	Teleport to Varrock	25	13	-368 / 70 / -454	3x Fire rune 1x Law rune
	Teleport to Island	40	10		1x Air rune 1x Earth rune 1x Law rune
	Teleport to Camelot's castle	45	18	-1739 / 69 / -631	5x Air rune 1x Law rune
	Teleport to Edgeville	48	18	-752 / 69 / -665	2x Law rune 2x Chaos rune
	Teleport to Falador	55	21	-1124 / 69 / -306	2x Law rune 2x Water rune
	Teleport to Taverley	60	22	-1372 / 78 / -440	5x Earth rune 3x Water rune 3x Law rune 1x Death rune
	Teleport to Canifis	70	25	489 / 73 / -634	5x Earth rune 1x Death rune 3x Law rune
	Teleport to Entrana	80	29		5x Water rune 2x Law rune
	Teleport to Crandor	85	30

Utility spells

	Spell	Level	XP	Effect	Runes
	Level 1 enchant	7		Enchants Sapphire jewelry	1x Cosmic rune 1x Water rune
	Bones to banana	15		Transforms all normal bones into bananas	2x Earth rune 2x Water rune 1x Nature rune
	Low alchemy	21	11	Turns an item into pile of coins worth 40% of its shops selling price	3x Fire rune 1x Nature rune
	Level 2 enchant	27		Enchants Emerald jewelry.	1x Cosmic rune 3x Air rune
	Superheat	43	18	Smelts ores into bars without a furnace	4x Fire rune 1x Nature rune
	Level 3 enchant	49		Enchants Ruby jewelry.	1x Cosmic rune 5x Fire rune
	High alchemy	55	22	Turns an item into pile of coins worth 60% of its shops selling price	5x Fire rune 1x Nature rune
	Level 4 enchant	57		Enchants Diamond jewelry.	1x Cosmic rune 10x Earth rune
	Level 5 enchant	68		Enchants Dragonstone jewelry.	1x Cosmic rune 15x Earth rune 15x Water rune
	Level 6 enchant	87		Enchants Onyx jewelry.	1x Cosmic rune 20x Earth rune 20x Fire rune

Boosts

Magic stats can be temporarily boosted with Herblore potions.

Tips & Notes

• Low alchemy is one of the various ways to make money in Minescape.
• High alchemy is one of the only current ways to estimate prices of different items.
• Since Magic is a companion skill to Runecrafting, It is recommended to bank your runes while training as it reduces the need to buy them later.

Updates

• As of the release of Elemental staves in the Season 2 Patch 11 Update, Wands are no longer required to cast spells. See more here.