Magic

“Spellcasting: every cast spends runes from the bank, and a good staff makes the spells hit harder. Your stance keeps the lesson for Magic or shares part with Defence, and Hitpoints grows alongside.”

Every skill uses the same XP table: 951,207,314 XP for level 99. Past 99 the XP keeps counting.

How it works

Pick Magic as your skill and a monster to fight. Every input is one attack: there is no attack speed, one press is one swing or cast. A hit that lands gives XP for the damage it did, shared out by your stance, and Hitpoints always gets its own share. A miss gives nothing. The full rules are on Combat.

Stances

Stances only decide where the XP goes; they don't change your hits.

Salamanders

A caught salamander is a weapon for all three styles at once. It needs Attack, Ranged and Magic at its level, burns one tar per attack instead of arrows or runes, and fights with different stats in each style. See Black Salamander, Cobalt Salamander, Orange Salamander, Red Salamander, Swamp Salamander.

Spells

Each cast uses the spell's runes from your bank, hit or miss, but 30% of casts cost nothing. A staff adds its attack bonus to your accuracy and its strength bonus to the spell's max hit. Your Magic level only raises accuracy, except for Magic Dart, whose max hit grows with it. A battlestaff wielded in your Magic loadout stands in for two runes on every spell, Spellcraft included: Dust Battlestaff, Mist Battlestaff.

Level	Spell	Runes	Max hit
1	Wind Strike	Air RuneMind Rune	3
5	Water Strike	Water RuneAir RuneMind Rune	5
9	Earth Strike	Earth Rune ×2Air RuneMind Rune	7
13	Fire Strike	Fire Rune ×3Air Rune ×2Mind Rune	9
17	Wind Bolt	Air Rune ×2Chaos Rune	10
23	Water Bolt	Water Rune ×2Air Rune ×2Chaos Rune	11
29	Earth Bolt	Earth Rune ×3Air Rune ×2Chaos Rune	12
35	Fire Bolt	Fire Rune ×4Air Rune ×3Chaos Rune	13
41	Wind Blast	Air Rune ×3Cosmic Rune	15
47	Water Blast	Water Rune ×3Air Rune ×3Cosmic Rune	17
50	Magic Dart	Mind RuneCosmic Rune	Magic ÷ 10 + 10
53	Earth Blast	Earth Rune ×4Air Rune ×3Cosmic Rune	19
59	Fire Blast	Fire Rune ×5Air Rune ×4Cosmic Rune	21
62	Wind Wave	Air Rune ×5Nature Rune	24
65	Water Wave	Water Rune ×7Air Rune ×5Nature Rune	26
70	Earth Wave	Earth Rune ×7Air Rune ×5Nature Rune	29
75	Fire Wave	Fire Rune ×7Air Rune ×5Nature Rune	32
80	Shadow Wave	Death RuneAir Rune ×4Fire Rune ×3	38
88	Blood Barrage	Blood RuneDeath RuneFire Rune ×4	45heals 20% of damage
95	Spirit Storm	Soul Rune ×2Blood RuneAir Rune ×5	54

Passive spells

A passive spell runs alongside whatever you fight with: Melee, Ranged or Magic. It costs its runes on every combat input (with no free casts) and gives +3 Magic XP each time; when the runes run out it switches off.

Level	Spell	Runes per input	Effect
20	Confuse	Body RuneMind Rune	The monster's defence counts as ×0.67 when you attack, in any style.
40	Empower	Body RuneFire Rune	Your max hit ×1.25, in any style.
54	Vengeance	Astral Rune	When a monster hurts you, it takes 50% of the damage back.
60	Siphon	Soul Rune	Heals you 7 HP every combat input.

Spellcraft

Away from combat, Magic has a crafting side. Pick one of these and every Magic input works on it like any other recipe: enchanting jewellery and bolts, alchemy (an item into gold: Low Alchemy pays what the shop would buy it for, High Alchemy one and a half times that, but never more than the shop's own price for an item you can buy), Superheat (smelts a bar without a furnace: the same ore, coal and Smithing level, and you get its Smithing XP too) and turning bones into fruit.

Level	Makes	Materials	Inputs	XP	XP / input
7	Enchant Topaz	Cosmic RuneWater Rune	5	200	40
15	Banana	BonesWater Rune ×2Earth Rune ×2Nature Rune	3	171	57
17	Enchant Jade	Cosmic RuneAir Rune ×3	5	425	85
21	Low Alchemy	Fire Rune ×3Nature Rune	5	355	71
27	Enchant Sapphire	Cosmic RuneFire Rune ×5	5	680	136
43	Enchant Emerald	Cosmic RuneEarth Rune ×10	5	770	154
43	Superheat Ore	Fire Rune ×4Nature Rune	3	183	61
55	High Alchemy	Fire Rune ×5Nature Rune	5	750	150
57	Enchant Ruby	Cosmic RuneEarth Rune ×15Water Rune ×15	5	895	179
60	Peach	BonesWater Rune ×4Earth Rune ×4Nature Rune ×2	3	450	150
72	Enchant Diamond	Cosmic RuneFire Rune ×20Earth Rune ×20	5	1,115	223
76	Bowstring ×5	Flax ×5Astral RuneNature RuneAir Rune ×5	5	1,000	200
77	Molten Glass ×13	Sand ×10Seaweed ×10Astral Rune ×2Fire Rune ×6Air Rune ×10	5	1,050	210
83	Supercompost	CompostAstral Rune ×3Nature Rune ×2Earth Rune ×15	5	1,150	230
86	Plank Make	Astral Rune ×2Nature RuneEarth Rune ×15	5	1,225	245
87	Enchant Onyx	Cosmic RuneBlood Rune ×20Soul Rune ×20	5	1,265	253

Staves

Staff	Magic	Accuracy	Max hit
Oak Staff	1	+5	+4
Willow Staff	15	+9	+7
Maple Staff	30	+15	+10
Marrow Staff	30	+35	+24
Yew Staff	50	+24	+16
Magic Staff	70	+35	+24
Elder Staff	85	+50	+35