Experience

For a page listing experience needed to reach the next level, see /Table.

For augmented item experience, see Equipment level.

XP

A player levelling up

Experience, commonly abbreviated as XP or exp, is a measure of progress in a skill. It is generally gained by performing tasks related to that skill. After gaining a certain amount of experience, players will advance to the next level in that skill, which can result in unlocking new abilities, items, and other rewards. Experience can be earned by directly training skills, completing quests, miniquests, and Area Tasks achievements, handing in daily challenges, and participating in activities, such as events, minigames, and Distractions and Diversions.

The maximum level for most skills is level 99 which is achieved at 13,034,431 experience. Certain skills feature additional content up to level 120 at 104,273,167 experience. Virtual levelling can be enabled to visually display levels above 99 for all skills. Invention, an elite skill, follows a different experience curve.

The maximum experience that can be gained in a skill is 200 million experience. Once a player reaches this limit, they can continue using the skill but additional experience is not recorded.

Gaining experience

The Skills Advance menu after levelling a skill.

Experience in a skill is obtained by performing a task related to that skill. Experience can also be gained by completing quests, miniquests, and Area Tasks achievements, handing in daily challenges, and participating in activities, such as events, minigames, and Distractions and Diversions, among others.

For skills where failure is a possibility, experience is usually only granted on completion of a successful action. For example, if a player cooks a lobster rather than burning it, they will gain a minimum of 120 Cooking experience. Experience gains can be increased in a variety of ways, including bonus experience, experience-boosting outfits, and the effect of bonfires on Cooking and Firemaking.

Players who help others using the Assist System can earn a maximum of 30,000 total experience every 24 hours, although the experience may be shared among many skills. Some skills cannot be assisted, namely combat and gathering skills, such as Attack and Mining.

The experience gain rates a player may obtain varies very much between skills. For example, most Agility training methods give under 75,000 experience per hour, while making Summoning pouches can give over 800,000 Summoning experience per hour.

The maximum total experience possible is 5,800,000,000 when a player has 200 million experience in all 29 skills. The minimum experience needed to reach level 99 in all skills is 401,037,579 (or 993,015,138 when including level 120 in Dungeoneering, Slayer, Farming, Herblore, Archaeology, Necromancy and the elite skill Invention).

Combat experience

Combat experience earned after killing an enemy is split amongst the selected combat skills. Constitution is always 25% of the experience earned from a kill, 75% is split equally amongst the selected skills.

In other words, if the players are using necromancy attack and selecting Necromancy and Defence to gain experience, Necromancy will gain 37.5% experience and Defence will gain 37.5% experience. If the players are using necromancy attack and selecting Necromancy only to gain experience, Necromancy will gain 75% of the awarded experience. For melee combat with Attack, Strength and Defence selected, they will each earn 25% of the experience.

Setting targets

It is possible to set an individual level or experience target for each skill. Setting two different targets for two different skills will not affect each other.

Relationship with level

This section discusses regular skills: elite skills use a different formula.

Geometric growth

The amount of experience between levels rises by a factor $2^{1/7}\approx 1.10409$, or 10.4%, each level. In other words, the total experience required for a level approximately doubles every 7 levels (disregarding the first 20 levels), triples every 11 levels, quadruples every 14 levels, and increases almost ten-fold every 23 levels. This geometric growth means that level 99 requires about 13 million experience and level 120 requires about 104 million experience. 200 million experience in a skill would put the level between 126 and 127.

The increasing experience needed to get from one level to another has some surprising consequences; getting from level 98 to 99 requires approximately the same experience as from level 1 to level 75, while the experience between levels 119 and 120 is roughly equivalent to getting levels 1 to 96. Higher level activities award more experience than lower level ones, so going from level 98 to 99 is typically much quicker than going from level 1 to 75.

Equations

The minimum total experience needed for a given level, $L$, is given by:

$\text{xp}(L)=\lfloor \frac{1}{4}\sum _{n=1}^{L-1}\lfloor n+300\times 2^{n/7}\rfloor \rfloor$

Note: $\lfloor x\rfloor$ means the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$. This is also known as the 'floor' function.

This equation can be rewritten as:

$\begin{array}{ll}\text{xp}(L)& =\frac{1}{4}\sum _{n=1}^{L-1}n+75\sum _{n=1}^{L-1}{2}^{n/7}+\text{error}\\ & =\frac{1}{8}L(L-1)+75\frac{2^{L/7}-2^{1/7}}{2^{1/7}-1}+\text{error}\\ & =\frac{75}{2^{1/7}-1}{2}^{L/7}+\frac{1}{8}L(L-1)-75\frac{2^{1/7}}{2^{1/7}-1}+\text{error}\\ & \approx 720\times 2^{L/7}+\frac{1}{8}L(L-1)-795+\text{error}\end{array}$

The error term is the made by not rounding each term of the sum down. The rounding error is at most 1 for each term of the sum, so a good estimate is $\text{error}\le aL$, where $a$ is some number between 0 and 1. Using $a=0.109$ gives an error less than 1 experience for any level between 1 and 120. Omitting the term gives an error of at most 13 experience. Omitting the $\frac{1}{8}L(L-1)$ term gives an error of at most 2% (peaking at around level 16).

The middle term always dominates. The total experience between consecutive levels is therefore

$\text{xp}(L+1)-\text{xp}(L)\approx 75\times 2^{L/7}\approx 75\times 1.10409^L$

The experience to next level increases by 10.4% from the previous experience to next level.

For all levels above about 20 (i.e. for levels where 83 experience is negligible), doubling experience after reaching a given level will result in rising seven levels, since $2^{(L+7)/7}=2\times 2^{L/7}$.

Table

Main article: Experience/Table

Graphs

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  Level vs. Experience Needed and Experience to Next Level, zoomed in from levels 1 - 50

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  Level vs. Experience Needed for elite and standard skills, zoomed in from levels 1 - 20

Gaining experience summary

While the main method of gaining experience is practice in the skill (including combat) substantial amounts of experience are available from other sources.

One-off

• Quests and related one-off events award several million experience.
• Area Tasks achievements offer a total of 2,385,500 experience.
• Opening the balloon system up gives 8,000 Firemaking experience.
• After killing 4,000 chompy birds, the player is awarded 30,000 Ranged experience.
• Resource dungeons give 247,600 Dungeoneering experience after entering them all at least once.
• Showing Wizard Elriss talismans or tiaras to obtain the omni-talisman gives a total of 13,605 Runecrafting experience.

Daily events

• The Jack of Trades aura gives the player an experience reward book if they can gain experience in any 10 skills within 3 hours. It can be used every 24 hours. Upgraded versions of the Jack of Trades gives greater experience rewards when training 15 or 20 skills within 3 hours.

Distractions and Diversions

• The maximum experience possible from the circus per week is 105,967—around 17,710 Ranged, 25,006 Magic, 10,531 Agility, 38,460 Firemaking, and 14,260 Thieving experience.
• From Shattered Heart up to 9,703 per non-combat skill per build for an absolute maximum of 145,545 experience per build and 4,366,350 experience over the time to build a full statue.
• From Tears of Guthix, the maximum seen was about 70,000 per seven days, based on the previous highest amount seen and the capacity of the Ornate bowl.
• From Penguin Points, 21 skill points can be obtained and used per week. The maximum amount of experience possible is 57,000 experience if used on level 120 Dungeoneering. More penguin points can be gained per week upon the completion of Cold War, The Hunt for Red Raktuber, and Some Like it Cold.
• From the Troll Invasion distraction and diversion.
• Hanky Points in the Thieves' Guild gives weekly Thieving experience.
• From Wilderness Warbands.
• From God Statues, up to 5x the experience of a large XP lamp in Construction, and up to 5x the experience of a medium XP lamp in Prayer or Slayer (players can choose when selecting the statue to build).

Calculation

It's unknown at which steps experience is rounded. The wiki calculator currently assumes no rounding occurs until the end of calculation, and then rounds to the first digit after the decimal. This might result in slight inaccuracies.

The majority of experience boosts are additive, which means they increase the total experience gain by a percentage of the base experience value. In other words, most experience buffs do not increase each other.

General boosts

Item experience buffs

Some boosts from this category are additive, while select few might be multiplicative.

Buff type	Buff amount
Portables	10%
Torstol incense sticks	0.5-2%
Furnace perk	5%
Voice of Seren	20%
Crystallise	50-87.5%

Other experience buffs

The majority of buffs in the game fall under this category and are additive with each other.

Buff type	Buff amount
Double XP	100%
Experience-boosting set	1-6%
Clan avatar	3-6%
Advanced pulse core boost	2-10%
Advanced pulse core worn	50%
Wise perk	1-4%
Brawling gloves	50%-75%
Sceptre of enchantment Slam	2-4%
Coin of enchantment Flip	1-2%
Stone of Meditation	2-4%
Rock of Resilience	2-4%
Relic powers	2%
Premier artefact	10%
Wisdom of Scabaras effect from Desert pantheon aura	10%
Wisdom aura	2.5%

Bonus experience buffs

The only buff that goes in this category is bonus experience. It provides a 100% experience boost, calculated from the base value.

Item gather rate

Boosts thought to affect items processed or collected per hour:

Buff type	Buff amount
Luminite injector	100%
Perfect juju smithing potion	1-6%
Varrock armour	1-4%
Rapid perk	1.67-5%

Specific boosts

Main articles: Bonus experience and Bonus XP items

• Various experience-boosting outfit sets give 5% or 6% additional experience.
• A penance Horn from Barbarian Assault can be charged by playing and used to get double experience in either Agility, Firemaking, or Mining.
• Using firelighters from clue scrolls will grant an extra 10 experience per log. They can only be used with normal logs.
• With a pyrelord or forge regent summoned, lighting logs grants 10 additional Firemaking experience. However, this bonus does not apply to bonfires.
• Runecrafting gloves obtained from Fist of Guthix provide double experience when crafting air runes, water runes, or earth runes.
• Swordfish gloves provide 100 extra experience when fishing swordfish.
• Shark gloves provide 100 extra experience when fishing shark.
• Dragon slayer gloves provide 15% extra Slayer experience when killing a dragon on a Slayer task.
• Wearing a Seer's headband 2, 3, or 4 gives 10 extra experience per log when chopping maple trees.
• Saradomin's blessing, Guthix's gift, and Zamorak's favour provide 10% experience boosts to Farming, Herblore, and Hunter, respectively, when participating in the Herblore Habitat.
• Urns provide bonus experience while training Cooking, Divination, Farming, Fishing, Hunter, Mining, Prayer, Runecrafting, Smithing, and Woodcutting.
• The corruption, harmony, and salvation series of auras boost the experience a player gains in Prayer for as long as the aura is active. The percent of experience gained depends on the level of the aura.
• The wisdom aura boosts all experience earned by 2.5%.
• Wielding a Dwarven army axe will grant a small amount of additional experience in various skills after completing Troll Warzone.
• Cooking food on a bonfire grants 10% additional Cooking experience, while burning logs on a Bonfire will grant additional experience based on Firemaking level and other players burning also using the bonfire.
• Worshipping the Ectofuntus provides an additional 300% Prayer experience for any ground bone or ash used.
• Use of an altar will provide up to an additional 250% Prayer experience, for any bone of ash used upon it.

Special events

• Double XP is generally active four times a year.
• The Hati paws, available for a limited time in the beginning of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 gave additional combat experience to the wearer.
• On 25 October 2011 an event was held in celebration of the release of ClusterFlutterer, which gave players triple Slayer experience.
• From 12 November to 14 November 2011, double Dungeoneering experience and tokens were awarded "to celebrate [the] continued success in the war against bots."
• On 31 August 2012, 350,000 experience was given to players who had been a member all month.
• On 30 September 2012, 700,000 experience was given to players who had been a member all month, and all the previous month. The combined award of 1.05 million experience would get a new character to around level 41 in all skills, but is not enough to go from level 98 to 99 in one skill.
• From 15 December to 16 December 2012, double Dungeoneering experience was awarded during one of the Winter Weekends.
• The Song of Seren event provided a 50% boost to certain skills on a rotating 2 hourly basis, from 10 May 2019 to 13 May 2019.

Gallery

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  The old style (prior to Level-up Messages update) of a player reaching level 70 in Mining.

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  The level up interface before 16 January 2012

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  The Level Target view

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  The Experience Target view

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Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 20 September 2021 (Update):
  • The glowing effect on gained XP value has been removed.

• patch 13 September 2021 (Update):
  • Using 'Open all' on Geodes now correctly interrupts the Mining action - you'll still receive XP and ore.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Fire Urn spell from awarding Crafting XP if your level was less than 82.

• ninja 1 September 2020 (Update):
  • Broadcasts from 50 million and 150 million XP milestones no longer broadcast to the player's current world. They can still broadcast to the player's clan and friends.

• patch 18 May 2020 (Update):
  • Combat XP is now rewarded when an enemy's HP reaches zero, rather than at the end of their death animation.

• patch 2 March 2020 (Update):
  • Levelling up is now introduced the first time a new player gains a level in any skill, if guidance system hints are enabled.

• patch 4 November 2019 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue where lower level players were crashing upon receiving large amounts of experience.

• patch 28 November 2012 (Update):
  • Players now receive combat XP from Dominion Tower.
  • Creating a Fletching Potion (3) will now give the correct XP.
  • The King Black Dragon now awards drops and XP to groups correctly.
  • Group combat XP is now assigned correctly.

• patch 4 June 2013 (Update):
  • The Make-x interface no longer shows that you will get Crafting xp after teleporting any of the cooking urns.
  • The XP gained for crafting hide and magic shields in Dungeoneering has been corrected.

• patch 11 December 2012 (Update):
  • Making a Saradomin brew awards 180xp again.

• patch 7 September 2010 (Update):
  • Insufficient XP being given for pickpocketing certain bandits in Pollnivneach.

• patch 25 May 2010 (Update):
  • Reduced the XP given when thieving from certain chests in the Thieves’ Guild.

• update 13 August 2001 (Update):
  • Fixed a problem with the new stats menu where the XP indicator didn't update properly.
  • The stats menu now shows you the exact number of experience points you have in each skill, and the number you need to reach to advance a level.

Trivia

Free players are limited to gaining 388 experience in members' skills

• Experience gained in most members' skills while free-to-play is capped at 388 (level 5), while the cap for Archaeology and Necromancy is 4,470 (level 20).
• The sequence of amounts of experience needed to have a given level in a skill is recorded as sequence A111078 in the OEIS.
• Experience in a skill is capped at 200,000,000 because experience is handled with an invisible tenths place, which means the real experience value would look like 200,000,000.0 and is stored as 2,000,000,000 (2 billion). Since the maximum value a 32-bit integer variable can hold is 2.14 billion, it was rounded down to 2 billion (shown as 200 million after the invisible decimal place). 200 million experience would allow a maximum skill level of 126 if levels were uncapped.
• If a player has 200 million experience in all of their skills, content awarding experience to a player's lowest skill (such as Tears of Guthix, Guthixian butterflies, and butterfly jars) will always provide Cooking experience.
• Until the Skills Interface update on 12 November 2007, players with a level 99 skill could view the experience it would take them to earn level 100. However, even when "level 100" was "reached", the actual level remained at 99, and it would not show the experience required to achieve level 101.