RuneScape/Skills

Classes
There are no solid classes in RuneScape. Character development is based on how each player develops his skills. For example, if you want to be a fighting character, you should develop your combat skills.

Skills
In Runescape there are things called "skills" which are tasks players can level up. For example, one of these skills is cooking. When a player wants to cook, they will have to do a task, such as getting meat to cook on a fire. When the player finishes the task, they recieve get 'xp', or 'experience', towards that skill. For example, for cooking meat, players get 30 xp towards the cooking skills for successfully cooking the piece of meat. Players also have to reach a certain amount of experience to reach the next level. For example, at level 1, players need 83 xp to reach level 2.

The maximum xp that players can earn in each skill is 200,000,000. So far, only 3 players have reached this mark.

There are 21 skills that players can raise in Runescape. However, only 15 of these skills are available for free players, which are listed below. Combat (melee) has 4 skills that players can raise.

Experience Table
Below is the link to the experience table. This table shows players how much experience they need to reach to get to the next level, as well as the experience difference from the last level they were at.
 * Experience Table

Attributes

 * Attack : This skill determines how often your melee attacks hit. Also, the higher your attack is, the better melee weapons you can wield.
 * Strength : This skill determines the amount of damage your melee attacks do.
 * Defense : This skill determines how well you deflect your opponent's melee attacks. Also, the better your defense is, the better melee armor you can wield.
 * Hitpoints : This isn't really a skill; your hitpoints gradually increase based on the amount of experience you have in all of your combat skills. When your hitpoints reach 0, you are KO'd and are returned to your current spawning point.
 * Ranged : This skill determines the accuracy and power of your ranged attacks. With higher ranged levels, you are able to wield better ranged weapons and armor.
 * Magic : This skill determines the accuracy and high-hit rate of the various spells in RuneScape. The higher your magic level is, the more powerful spells you are able to cast and the better magic enchancing armor and weapons you are able to wield.
 * Prayer : This skill determines your devotion to RuneScape's various gods. The higher your prayer level is, the more useful protective and stat-enhancing prayers you can use and the longer you can pray.

Free Skills
These are skills that all players can raise, both members and non-members.
 * Combat (Melee) - This skill involves players fighting with their fists and weapons. This one of the three combat styles.
 * Cooking - This skill involves players baking and cooking food, such as fish and pies. Eating these foods will heal a player's hitpoints, which is involved with combat.
 * Crafting - This skill involves players creating items, such as tiaras and pots.
 * Firemaking - This skill involves players lighting logs and lamps. Many players do not raise this skill, as no money can be gained from it.
 * Fishing - This skill involves players fishing at rivers and seas. It is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
 * Magic - This skill involves players fighting with magical spells. This is one of the three combat styles.
 * Mining - This skill involves players hitting rocks with pickaxes to obtain ores. This is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
 * Prayer - This skill involves players burying bones which are dropped when a player defeats an enemy. This is the slowest skill to raise in all of RuneScape.
 * Ranged - This skill invovles players fighting with projectiles from a distance. It is one of the three combat styles.
 * Runecrafting - This skill involves players creating runes which are used for magic.
 * Smithing - This skill involves players creating weapons and armour which can be worn when fighting. It is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
 * Woodcutting - This skill involves players cutting trees. This is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.

Members Skills
These are skills that members can raise.


 * Agility - This skill involves players taking shortcuts to arrive at destinations quicker. This is a slow skill to raise.
 * Construction - This brand-new skill involves players creating their own home, adding interactive features to it, and creating architectural wonders.
 * Farming - This skill involves players growing their own vegetables and fruits. Many players do not like this skill as it takes a long time to grow the vegetation.
 * Fletching - This skill involves players creating items which can be used for ranged. This is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
 * Herblore - This skill involves players creating potions which can be used on them to help them.
 * Slayer - This skill involves players killing certain monsters.
 * Thieving - This skill involves players stealing from stalls and monsters.