Splashing/Guide

This article details how to splash. Splashing is the act of training magic by casting combat spells against a NPC while having too low magic accuracy to be able to actually hit. Although no damage is dealt, each Magic combat spell will still give the player a constant base amount of experience.

Despite the NPC remaining alive indefinitely, after 20 minutes the player will stop auto-retaliating. As a consequence, timely interaction with the game is needed to not be logged out due to inactivity.

Equipment required[edit | edit source]

It is necessary to wear items adding up to at most -64 Magic attack.

A typical example setup (40+ Range):

Full bronze/iron/steel/black/mithril/adamant/rune armour set (Platebody, Full Helm, Platelegs/Plateskirt and Kiteshield)
Bronze/iron/steel/black/mithril/adamant/rune/dragon boots, Fremennik sea boots, Snakeskin boots, or Fancy/Fighting boots
Any d'hide vambraces or Snakeskin vambraces if you are a member and use some Granite equipment
Any elemental staff to reduce runes needed and to enable autocast

Players without 40+ Range for d'hide vambraces can achieve the desired Magic attack by swapping the elemental staff for a Cursed goblin staff (obtained from Diango in Draynor). This precludes the rune savings of an elemental staff, but achieves -68 Magic attack.

If the user is a Member they may also seek to use certain pieces of the Granite equipment set (50 def/50 str) as Granite legs gives a -31 to Magic attack (-21 with Platelegs), and the Granite shield gives -12 instead of -8 with a Kiteshield.

The exceptions are the Granite body, as it gives -22 instead of -30 with a regular Platebody, and the Granite boots as they only give a -1 to magic attack.

Locations[edit | edit source]

Any monster that cannot deal damage sufficient to cumulate to a player's health going to zero can be used to splash (given the defensive bonuses of the splash equipment the player is wearing). Commonly used monsters are rats, seagulls, and spiders, though rats in member's worlds can be killed by unwanted cats.

Popular locations include seagulls in Port Sarim and in Port Piscarilius.

Players may also elect to check the Bestiary/Levels 1 to 10 and find a suitable creature/location themselves.

The only exception is the area in Lumbridge as shown in the map, including the castle basement. Here, spells yield no experience for casting if a player's magic accuracy is too low to deal damage. This was done because the large amount of players splashing on rats looked odd to new players. ^[1]

The lvl 1 chickens just east of East Ardougne east bank right next to Captain Barnaby are a good choice, as they are close to a bank and there will be few (if any) other players.

Should reaching -64 Magic attack prove difficult, attempting to splash on monks at the Edgeville Monastery is a viable alternative. This is due to their high health, relatively high defence for their level, and regular healing. As a result, low level strike spells are unlikely to kill them even when they connect. This will also provide slightly higher Magic XP per cast and some Hitpoints XP when damage is dealt.

Splashing rates by spell[edit | edit source]

Standard Spellbook[edit | edit source]

Lvl	Name	Runes	Base exp/cast	Exp/hr^*1	Exp/hr (Harmonised nightmare staff)^*2	Raw cost/cast^*3	Cost/cast (basic elemental staff^*4)	Cost/hr (basic elemental staff^*4)	Gp/exp (basic elemental staff^*4)	Cost/cast (combination elemental staff^*5)	Cost/hr (combination elemental staff^*5)	Gp/exp (combination elemental staff^*5)
1	Wind Strike	¹ ¹	5.5	6600	8250	8	3	3,600	0.55	3	3,600	0.55
5	Water Strike	¹ ¹ ¹	7.5	9000	11250	13	8	9,600	1.07	3	3,600	0.4
9	Earth Strike	¹ ² ¹	9.5	11400	14250	18	8	9,600	0.84	3	3,600	0.32
13	Fire Strike	² ³ ¹	11.5	13800	17250	28	13	15,600	1.13	3	3,600	0.26
17	Wind Bolt	² ¹	13.5	16200	20250	79	69	82,800	5.11	69	82,800	5.11
23	Water Bolt	² ² ¹	16.5	19800	24750	89	79	94,800	4.79	69	82,800	4.18
29	Earth Bolt	² ³ ¹	19.5	23400	29250	94	79	94,800	4.05	69	82,800	3.54
35	Fire Bolt	³ ⁴ ¹	22.5	27000	33750	104	84	100,800	3.73	69	82,800	3.07
41	Wind Blast	³ ¹	25.5	30600	38250	207	192	230,400	7.53	192	230,400	7.53
47	Water Blast	³ ³ ¹	28.5	34200	42750	222	207	248,400	7.26	192	230,400	6.74
53	Earth Blast	³ ⁴ ¹	31.5	37800	47250	227	207	248,400	6.57	192	230,400	6.1
59	Fire Blast	⁴ ⁵ ¹	34.5	41400	51750	237	212	254,400	6.14	192	230,400	5.57
62	Wind Wave	⁵ ¹	36	43200	54000	401	376	451,200	10.44	376	451,200	10.44
65	Water Wave	⁵ ⁷ ¹	37.5	45000	56250	436	401	481,200	10.69	376	451,200	10.03
70	Earth Wave	⁵ ⁷ ¹	40	48000	60000	436	401	481,200	10.03	376	451,200	9.4
75	Fire Wave	⁵ ⁷ ¹	42.5	51000	63750	436	401	481,200	9.44	376	451,200	8.85
81	Wind Surge	⁷ ¹	44.5	53400	66750	339	304	364,800	7.15	304	364,800	7.15
85	Water Surge	⁷ ¹⁰ ¹	46.5	55800	69750	389	339	406,800	7.29	304	364,800	6.54
90	Earth Surge	⁷ ¹⁰ ¹	48.5	58200	72750	389	339	406,800	6.99	304	364,800	6.27
95	Fire Surge	⁷ ¹⁰ ¹	50.5	60600	75750	389	339	406,800	6.71	304	364,800	6.02

^*1 Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast ("splash") 1200 combat spells.

^*2 Using a Harmonised nightmare staff (584,629,443), which autocasts with a speed of 4 ticks.

^*3 The "raw cost" assumes that all runes needed are bought.

^*4 The "cost" assumes that the Basic elemental staff is used for the core elemental runes and air runes are also used for non-Wind spells. (No requirements to wield)

^*5 The "cost" assumes that Mist Battlestaff (39,475), Dust Battlestaff (17,542), Smoke Battlestaff (1,847,277) or their Mystic variants are used for Water, Earth, Fire spells respectively to completely cover the core elemental runes. (This requires at least level 30 Magic , which is quickly obtained).

Ancient Magicks[edit | edit source]

Lvl	Name	Runes	Base exp/cast	Raw cost/cast^*5	Cost/cast^*6	Exp/hr^*7	Cost/hr^*6	Gp/exp^*6
50	Smoke Rush	¹ ¹ ² ²	30	542	542	36000	650,400	18.07
52	Shadow Rush	¹ ² ² ¹	31	717	717	37200	860,400	23.13
56	Blood Rush	¹ ² ²	33	898	898	39600	1,077,600	27.21
58	Ice Rush	² ² ²	34	532	522	40800	626,400	15.35
62	Smoke Burst	² ² ⁴ ²	36	695	695	43200	834,000	19.31
64	Shadow Burst	¹ ⁴ ² ²	37	1,035	1,035	44400	1,242,000	27.97
68	Blood Burst	² ⁴ ²	39	1,412	1,412	46800	1,694,400	36.21
70	Ice Burst	⁴ ⁴ ²	40	680	660	48000	792,000	16.5
74	Smoke Blitz	² ² ² ²	42	1,171	1,171	50400	1,405,200	27.88
76	Shadow Blitz	² ² ² ²	43	1,521	1,521	51600	1,825,200	35.37
80	Blood Blitz	⁴ ²	45	1,888	1,888	54000	2,265,600	41.96
82	Ice Blitz	³ ² ²	46	1,151	1,136	55200	1,363,200	24.7
86	Smoke Barrage	⁴ ⁴ ² ⁴	48	1,585	1,585	57600	1,902,000	33.02
88	Shadow Barrage	⁴ ² ⁴ ³	49	2,105	2,105	58800	2,526,000	42.96
92	Blood Barrage	⁴ ⁴ ¹	51	2,452	2,452	61200	2,942,400	48.08
94	Ice Barrage	⁶ ² ⁴	52	1,550	1,520	62400	1,824,000	29.23

^*5 The "raw cost" assumes that all runes needed are bought.

^*6 The "cost" assumes that a Kodai Wand (112,525,024) is used, which supplies infinite water runes. Elemental staves cannot be used as they do not provide auto-cast for ancient spells.

^*7 Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast ("splash") 1200 combat spells.

Arceuus spellbook[edit | edit source]

The demonbane spells of the Arceuus spellbook can only be cast on demonic monsters. Magic attack bonus needs to be -64 or lower to always splash, and equipping a tome of fire or skull sceptre will make that more difficult to reach while saving runes. Weaker demonic monsters such as icefiends and pyrefiends are ideal given their low stats, however armour will need to maximise Magical melee while keeping Magic accuracy low enough to splash.

Lvl	Name	Runes	Base exp/cast	Exp/hr^*8	Raw cost/cast^*9	Cost/cast (Tome of Fire^*10)	Raw Cost/hr^*9	Cost/hr (Tome of Fire^*10)	gp/xp^*9	gp/xp (Tome of Fire^*10)
44	Inferior Demonbane	⁴ ¹	27	32400	89	69	106,800	82,800	3.3	2.56
62	Superior Demonbane^*11	⁸ ¹	36	43200	220	180	264,000	216,000	6.11	5
82	Dark Demonbane^*11	¹² ²	43.5	52200	420	360	504,000	432,000	9.66	8.28

^*8 Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast ("splash") 1200 combat spells.

^*9 Includes the cost of Fire Runes.

^*10 Tome of fire does not consume pages when autocasting Arceuus Spells. Therefore the cost of burnt pages is ignored.

^*11 Requires completion of the quest A Kingdom Divided.

30 to 99 strategies[edit | edit source]

Total experience required: 13021068.

Strategy	# of splashes	Time (hr)	Cost - Combination Staff	Cost - Elemental Staff (F2P)
	2367467	1973.0	7,102,400.73	7,102,400.73
	1736143	1446.9	5,208,427.2	13,889,139.2
	1370639	1142.3	4,111,916.21	10,965,109.89
	1132267	943.6	3,396,800.35	14,719,468.17
$\rightarrow$	579314	482.8	39,891,685.4	48,575,260.3
$\rightarrow$ $\rightarrow$	381648	318.1	71,839,516.68	79,411,218.1
$\rightarrow$ $\rightarrow$ $\rightarrow$	317135	264.3	110,644,042.59	Members Only Spells
$\rightarrow$ $\rightarrow$ $\rightarrow$ $\rightarrow$	301246	251.1	98,591,805.73	Members Only Spells

References[edit | edit source]

^ Jagex. "Last Man Standing Beta and Splashing Restrictions". 11 July 2019. (Archived from the original.) Old School RuneScape News.

[1] Jagex. "Last Man Standing Beta and Splashing Restrictions". 11 July 2019. (Archived from the original.) Old School RuneScape News.

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Splashing/Guide

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Equipment required[edit | edit source]

Locations[edit | edit source]