99 range guide

 Levels 1-5

Nonmembers:

For levels 1-5 you have a few options, each of which will cost you virtually nothing. I suggest getting 3 range at tutorial island (you cannot level any skill above 3 there), then when you complete tutorial, you'll have 25 arrows and a shortbow. Head a bit north of the Lumbridge Castle main gate, and talk to the Range Tutor, who will give you a training bow and 25 training arrows. You now have 50 arrows which can easily get you from 3-5 range, or perhaps even higher. Where I suggest this training is done is at the Chicken Farm a bit north of Lumbridge on the Eastern side of the river.

Levels 5-20

Nonmembers:

Make sure you have an Oak Shortbow, it is also wise to invest in some Range Stat-boosting armor. Your only option at this point is leather armor, which consists of vambraces, a soft-leather body, leather chaps, a and a leather cowl. You can also buy an Amulet of Accuracy which will boost you Range bonus +4, or an Amulet of Power, which gives +6 to all bonuses except prayer, and is a very wise investment because you can use it to train any combat skill while boosting your defensive bonuses. Head up north to the Monestary west of Edgeville. Kill Monks until 20 Range. This is the best option for pures and other low combat level players, because the monks can heal you if you talk to them when they aren't fighting you, and ask for them to heal you. You can kill them right afterwards (which I find quite funny).

Another option would be cows, at either the Lumbridge or Falador farms, mentioned in the section above. Cows have a slighly higher defense level than Monks, and they will not heal you. However, they drop Raw Beef, Bones, and Cowhides. Cowhides have always been over 100 gp each, and bones are over 70 gp each, making each cow a profitable kill at a low level.

Levels 20-40

Nonmembers:

Once you get 20 Range you've completed the most boring (in my opinion) part of training range. You no longer hit more 0's than anything else. You're ready to move on to something a bit harder, because you can hit 3-5 fairly consistently. The best place to train at this point is in the Stronghold of Security. This place will be your best friend for a long time, especially if you never plan on becoming a member. The stronghold contains a wide variety of monsters, from low leveled goblins suitable for even the lowest combat levels to ankous, a skeleton-ghost like creature whose combat level is above 80 and is quite difficult, but rewarding to fight. Many of the monsters in the stronghold have very good drops, and it's usually possible to find a world that is not very crowded.

Now as far as where you will train from 20 to 40 range. Make your way to the stronghold and go down to the first floor. Here, you will be fighting Minotaurs. The best room to fight them in is in the Southeastern most room. In this room there is a large wall that you can shoot over, which minotaurs spawn on either side of. Minotaurs are never aggressive, even to someone who is level 3 combat, so it doesn't matter if they come near you or not. However, you can use this wall as an obstacle to prevent the Minotaur you are attacking from hitting you. A benefit of Minotaurs is their drops; they drop Noted Rune Essence, Noted Copper Ore, Noted Tin Ore, and best of all Iron Arrows. When I trained at the Minotaurs Recently on a rather new account of mine, I noticed two things about their drops. For every 1000 bronze arrows I used (picking arrows up) I'd get about 600-800 Iron arrows. Also, their Tin Ore drop rate is significantly higher than their Copper Ore drop rate, so if you're like me and try to get the most out of every single thing you do, you're going to get frustrated when you find that you have way more tin than copper, and can't make a nice number of bronze bars without mining extra.

It will take approximately 2-4 hours to go from 20-40 range here. It seems like a long time for very little experience, but I promise that things will really speed up eventually, and your experience rate won't always be around 10,000 an hour.



Levels 40-60

Welcome to being able to wear green dragonhide! You've completed the first major part of your journey to 99 range, or any range level for that matter. Now, member or not, you can wear green dragonhide. If you're a nonmember, you're stuck with the same old bow you unlocked at 30 range, the maple shortbow, and your best head gear option is either the green d'hide coif from Fist of Guthix or just a regular old coif. Members, you're a bit more lucky here. You're still stuck with green dragonhide if you take the normal route, but you can use a yew shortbow instead of maple, and you can also get some fancy ranged armor, such as Spined Armor or the Fremenik Archer helm.

Nonmembers:

But now, the real question, where do you train? Well for nonmembers, your best choice would be to return to the Stronghold of Security. This time, you're going to the second floor. Here you will find Zombies, Rats, and your new best friend; the Flesh Crawler. These little critters have 25 hp, giving you exactly 100 xp per kill, and their max hit is only 1. The best part of all is that they stay aggressive towards you no matter what your combat level is for about 20 minutes. This means that you don't have to keep clicking, and training becomes something you don't have to focus on as closely. If your combat level is under 89 you will be limited to the southeastern room of this floor, unless you don't mind fighting the zombies (which I don't reccomend since they hit harder and have a higher defense), as it is the only room where only Flesh Crawlers spawn. Unfortunately, this room is usually the most packed out of all the rooms in the entire stronghold, however since there's about 8 Flesh Crawlers in that room, and their respawn rate is very quick, you'll find one or even two other people will usually not disturb your training.

When ranging flesh crawlers, you have two options. If you're using the southeastern room, you can stand by either of the gates as a safespot, or you can just stand in the middle of the room and let them automatically attack you.

Levels 60-70

Nonmembers:

Once you hit 60 range you have a few options to continue training. As far as for nonmembers, one thing is you can continue to stay at flesh crawlers. Some people train at flesh crawlers all the way until 99 range. In members, you can also train at flesh crawlers, and they will have some much better drops than they do in nonmembers. They will drop noted Iron Ore, tons of Fire Runes, and a lot of herbs, including Ranarrs. It is very easy to train at flesh crawlers as a member and easily profit. As a nonmember, the only things that the flesh crawlers drop are body runes (about 5-12 at a time), and all four of the uncut gems (sapphire, emerald, ruby, diamond). The body runes are only worth picking up if you plan on training magic with them, while the gems are worth picking up to help pay for the expense of the arrows. Oftentimes, other people will leave some runes or gems on the ground, which you can look out for.

Levels 70-85

Nonmembers:

As a nonmember, there aren't many new options for continuing training. However, one new thing that you can try is ranging Greater Demons at the old Bounty Hunter volcano. The volcano now has Greater Demons and Ankous that roam it. Fighting Ankous there is not effective because all of the safespots you cannot shoot over, and the Ankous can enter. However, Greater Demons are large monsters, so you can get them stuck behind the safespots. Safespots include rocks, skeletons, and crevices with lava coming through them. The advantage of doing this is that the Greater Demons drop pieces of rune armor and rune weapons, runes, and some alchable armor like pieces of mithril and adamant. Arrows are also easily retrievable and doing so recommended here.

The other primary training options in nonmembers would be to continue training at Flesh Crawlers or Ankous in the Stronghold of Security.

Members:

As a member, you can take virtually any medium-high level monster and train on it now. This can be anything from Blue Dragons to Greater Demons in Taverly to, as far as lower level monsters go, Ogres in the King Luthas Training Ground, or Yaks on Neitizot. For the higher level monsters I recommend a Rune Crossbow with Broad Bolts, and for the lower level monsters, Bronze Knives are best. Also, training with full Void Knight Armor as well as using Ranging Potions will significantly speed up training.

Another great way for members to train at this level is through Slayer. Simply doing all the tasks that you can using Slayer will rack up a lot of Range experience, money, and Slayer experience.

Levels 85-99

Once you've hit level 85 in range, you can consider yourself to be fairly "high leveled" in my opinion. This high leveled-ness is not in relation to other players, but instead, to the functionality of range at this level. You can use range for basically any type of task that requires a combat skill at this point. Whereas other players will be meleeing in a certain situation, after 85 range, you can almost always use range as an alternative.

But you've hit 85. Now what? Well, it really depends on your status in RuneScape (either a member or a nonmember).

Nonmembers:

Nonmembers training at this point truthfully does not differ much from levels 70-85 or even 60-70 in many cases. Heck, you may even end up killing Flesh Crawlers, which you could have easily started as soon as you put on your first set of green d'hide at 40 range. Your options are fairly limited, but you have to ask yourself what your primary goal is. Do you want the fastest xp per hour? Do you want some fairly decent drops? Do you want to just try something new? Well here's what I suggest for each:

Fastest xp per hour: The fastest xp per hour for training as a nonmember is undoubtedly either Flesh Crawlers or Spiders. When I say Flesh Crawlers or Spiders, I mean that both offer very similar amounts of experience per hour. The question is, which is more appropriate for you.

Flesh Crawlers would be more appropriate for you if you have an average or low defense level (1-80). You've undoubtedly probably killed them before, but the best way to go about killing them is simply to stand in the center of the southeastern room of the second level of the Stronghold of Security, with auto retaliate on, and not picking up your arrows. The outfit I suggest is a Rune Full Helm, full Green D'hide armor, a maple bow, and an Amulet of Power, using Bronze Arrows. The food I suggest is just Salmon.

On the other hand, choosing to do Spiders is an option you have if your defense level is relatively high (80+). They are on the third level of the stronghold, and found in multiple rooms. They hit much more often and harder than Flesh Crawlers, so the defense level is a must. However, the advantage to Spiders over Flesh Crawlers is the fact that they are much less crowded. The trade off, however, is that training here will force you to go to the bank for food more often. The outfit I suggest here is the same as above, with the exception of your legs. Instead of Green D'hide chaps, wear either a Rune Plateskirt or a set of Rune Platelegs. This will give you much more defense for only a slightly lower range bonus, letting you conserve more health.

Decent Drops: If you'd like to get some good drops while training range, the spot I suggest is Ankous, on the fourth level of the stronghold. You'll be able to kill them very quickly now, and they drop Adamant Arrows as well as Law Runes quite frequently. There is a safespot to kill them, which I describe above in the level 60-70 section of this guide.

Trying something new: Well, you've gotten a couple million xp in range and now you want to try something new eh? Lucky for you, there are now a few new things you could try to train range on (which weren't always there).

First, you may like to try Cockroach Soldiers beneath the Stronghold of Player Safety. These relatively high leveled monsters are plentiful there for you to train on. They do attack with melee as well as range (they will only use range if they cannot melee you and they will not melee you aren't standing right next to them). This means that you will need to bring along food with you, as well as replace your Green D'hide Chaps with a Rune Plateskirt/Platelegs. They drop a lot of noted ore (mithril and adamantite), Rune Scimitars, Rune Sq Shields, as well as Death, Law, and Fire runes. The drops will definitely pay for the food that you have to use, and probably your arrows as well.

Another option you have to try something new is killing Greater Demons in the old Bounty Hunter Volcano. They have good drops, have a safespot, and are relatively new to the game as an option which can be easily accessed. You can find a description on how to kill the Greater Demons in the nonmember part of the level 70-85 section of this guide.

Members:

Oh boy. You're probably scratching your head right now, saying, what the heck should I do? At this ranged level, being a member leaves you with literally hundreds of spots to train, the task you are left with, is weeding out the ineffective or boring spots and boiling the list down to things worth your time.

To add to the befuddlement, unlike being a nonmember, where you'd have two factors to worry about (Xp per hour vs Drops), you now have three (Xp per hour vs Drops vs Cost of training). Categorizing training spots for members isn't as easy. So instead of doing this, I'll list off a few spots or methods that I would personally recommend, and it will be up to you to balance how you want to train.

First, let's start with the classic options. You can try doing Yaks, which you may have already been doing at much earlier levels. I describe how to train on Yaks in the members part of the level 60-70 section of this guide.

Another popular yet effective option is Fire Giants. Fire Giants are at the top of the hierarchy of the giants (which goes Hill Giants --> Moss Giants --> Ice Giants --> Fire Giants). They are the highest leveled giants, and not surprisingly, have the most health (most xp per kill), and best drops (money making potential). I describe how to train on Fire Giants right below the Yaks portion of the level 60-70 section of this guide.

As far as classic spots go, with standard training methods, the two I listed above are the most popular. At such high levels, the advantage of using these spots it to be able to kill a lot of these monsters very quickly.

Now, moving on to some more modern spots, the next spot I would suggest would be to train at Aviansies in the God Wars Dungeon. These monsters follow Armadyl and cannot be meleed because they fly. The thing that sets Aviansies apart from other monsters is the fact that they are an extremely good way to make money. They Aviansies regularly will drop noted adamantite bars, as well as Rune Daggers and Runite Limbs (which can be alched on the spot). These two drops from them make the one of the most profitable training monsters in the game. One perk about training in the God Wars Dungeon is the fact that there is a counter showing the number of monsters you've killed while in the dungeon. Personally, at Aviansies, for every 100 I kill I never have less than 100 adamantite bars and 50,000 gp from alching the Rune Daggers and Limbs they drop. I won't personally be posting a guide on how to kill Aviansies, because it can get a little complicated, especially for someone who has never done it before. However, I very strongly suggest finding a guide for Aviansies before going there. This can be done by searching either these forums, Youtube, or Google for a guide.

The fastest, and undoubtedly the most expensive way to train range in RuneScape is undoubtedly to use Red Chinchompas (which you got a little hint at if you read the Equipment Section of this guide). All you need to know about Red Chinchompas before deciding whether or not you wish to train with them is two things. Red Chincompas are fast. Very, very fast. You can get as much as 300,000 range xp per hour using them. The second thing you need to know is that Red Chinchompas are expensive. Extremely expensive. You can spend well over 500,000 gp per hour using them. As with Aviansies, training using Red Chinchompas can be really confusing for someone who hasn't done it before. So, because I also won't be writing an entire guide within a guide for Red Chinompas, I again suggest searching either these forums, Youtube, or Google for a guide. Make sure you find a guide on how to use Red Chinchompas, not hunt them, or you'll be looking at how to train a totally different skill (Hunter).

The last great way I'll suggest to train range at these levels is once again, with Slayer. Simply using range to complete as many Slayer tasks as you can will result in a good amount of Range xp (albeit, more slowly acquired than with other methods), Slayer xp, and good drops which will help you profit a good deal from you training.