Splashing/Guide

This article details how to splash. Splashing is the act of training magic by casting combat spells against an enemy 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 enemy 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

It is necessary to wear items negating Magic Attack bonus to -64 or lower.
A Magic Attack bonus of -63 (or higher) provides the chance of dealing damage of 1 Hitpoint or more.

Free-to-play

Members

Attack bonusStab: +0Slash: +0Crush: +0Magic: -81Range: -24Defence bonusStab: +34Slash: +37Crush: +29Magic: -10Range: +31Other bonusesMelee strength: +0Ranged strength: +0Magic damage: -80Prayer: +0

29.8 kg

Attack bonusStab: +0Slash: -1Crush: +7Magic: -83Range: -24Defence bonusStab: +212Slash: +215Crush: +197Magic: +4Range: +206Other bonusesMelee strength: +4Ranged strength: +0Magic damage: -80Prayer: +0

32.8 kg

For free-to-play players:

A full plate armour set consists of any full helm, platebody, platelegs/plateskirt, and kiteshield. Platelegs and plateskirts confer the same bonuses.
- Plate armour of any metal can be substituted for another, e.g. a Bronze platebody and a Rune platebody both have a -30 Magic attack bonus.
Green d'hide vambraces or Gilded d'hide vambraces require Level 40 Ranged to equip.
Fancy or fighting boots can be substituted with Decorative boots.
Any elemental staff to reduce runes needed and to enable autocast. Note that elemental staves have a +10 Magic attack bonus.
- The elemental staff can be swapped for a Cursed goblin staff (obtained from Diango in Draynor). This precludes the rune savings of an elemental staff, but achieves -68 Magic attack without the need to equip Green d'hide vambraces.
  - Alternatively, a Cursed amulet of magic can be worn. This item allows an elemental staff to be used for splashing in Castle Wars, if the player wears full splashing gear (Platebody, legs, Stronghold Boots, d'hide vambraces and a kiteshield) to achieve -64 Magic attack bonus.

For members:

The mixed hide cape offers -15 magic attack, requiring only 60 Ranged and 50 Defence to equip.
Any blessed d'hide boots, snakeskin boots (pictured), or mixed hide boots can be used for a -10 Magic attack bonus. Snakeskin boots have the lowest requirements of the three, at only 30 Ranged and 30 Defence to equip.

Splashing rates by spell

Standard Spellbook

Lvl	Name	Runes	Base XP/cast	XP/h ^[a]	XP/h (Harmonised nightmare staff) ^[b]	Raw Cost/cast ^[c]	Cost/cast (basic elemental staff) ^[d]	Cost/h (basic elemental staff) ^[d]	GP/XP (basic elemental staff) ^[d]	Cost/cast (combination elemental staff) ^[e]	Cost/h (combination elemental staff) ^[e]	GP/XP (combination elemental staff) ^[e]
1	Wind Strike	¹ ¹	5.5	6,600	8,250	8	3	3,600	0.55	3	3,600	0.55
5	Water Strike	¹ ¹ ¹	7.5	9,000	11,250	13	8	9,600	1.07	3	3,600	0.40
9	Earth Strike	¹ ² ¹	9.5	11,400	14,250	18	8	9,600	0.84	3	3,600	0.32
13	Fire Strike	² ³ ¹	11.5	13,800	17,250	28	13	15,600	1.13	3	3,600	0.26
17	Wind Bolt	² ¹	13.5	16,200	20,250	121	111	133,200	8.22	111	133,200	8.22
23	Water Bolt	² ² ¹	16.5	19,800	24,750	131	121	145,200	7.33	111	133,200	6.73
29	Earth Bolt	² ³ ¹	19.5	23,400	29,250	136	121	145,200	6.21	111	133,200	5.69
35	Fire Bolt	³ ⁴ ¹	22.5	27,000	33,750	146	126	151,200	5.60	111	133,200	4.93
41	Wind Blast	³ ¹	25.5	30,600	38,250	200	185	222,000	7.25	185	222,000	7.25
47	Water Blast	³ ³ ¹	28.5	34,200	42,750	215	200	240,000	7.02	185	222,000	6.49
53	Earth Blast	³ ⁴ ¹	31.5	37,800	47,250	220	200	240,000	6.35	185	222,000	5.87
59	Fire Blast	⁴ ⁵ ¹	34.5	41,400	51,750	230	205	246,000	5.94	185	222,000	5.36
62	Wind Wave	⁵ ¹	36	43,200	54,000	298	273	327,600	7.58	273	327,600	7.58
65	Water Wave	⁵ ⁷ ¹	37.5	45,000	56,250	333	298	357,600	7.95	273	327,600	7.28
70	Earth Wave	⁵ ⁷ ¹	40	48,000	60,000	333	298	357,600	7.45	273	327,600	6.83
75	Fire Wave	⁵ ⁷ ¹	42.5	51,000	63,750	333	298	357,600	7.01	273	327,600	6.42
81	Wind Surge	⁷ ¹	44.5	53,400	66,750	346	311	373,200	7.32	311	373,200	7.32
85	Water Surge	⁷ ¹⁰ ¹	46.5	55,800	69,750	396	346	415,200	7.44	311	373,200	6.69
90	Earth Surge	⁷ ¹⁰ ¹	48.5	58,200	72,750	396	346	415,200	7.13	311	373,200	6.41
95	Fire Surge	⁷ ¹⁰ ¹	50.5	60,600	75,750	396	346	415,200	6.85	311	373,200	6.16

^ Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast (splash) 1,200 combat spells.
^ Using a harmonised nightmare staff (241,641,559), which autocasts with a speed of 4 ticks.
^ Raw cost assumes that all runes needed are bought.
^ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 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).
^ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Cost assumes that mist battlestaff (66,663), dust battlestaff (10,574), smoke battlestaff (2,020,852) or their mystic variants are used for Water, Earth, Fire spells respectively to completely cover the core elemental runes. (This requires at least 30 Magic which is quickly obtained).

Ancient Magicks

Lvl	Name	Runes	Base XP/cast	Raw cost/cast ^[a]	Cost/cast ^[b]	XP/h ^[c]	Cost/h ^[b]	GP/XP ^[b]	GP/XP ^[d]
50	Smoke Rush	¹ ¹ ² ²	30	612	612	36,000	734,400	20.40
52	Shadow Rush	¹ ² ² ¹	31	1,014	1,014	37,200	1,216,800	32.71
56	Blood Rush	¹ ² ²	33	865	865	39,600	1,038,000	26.21
58	Ice Rush	² ² ²	34	602	592	40,800	710,400	17.41	7.88
62	Smoke Burst	² ² ⁴ ²	36	849	849	43,200	1,018,800	23.58
64	Shadow Burst	¹ ⁴ ² ²	37	1,643	1,643	44,400	1,971,600	44.41
68	Blood Burst	² ⁴ ²	39	1,360	1,360	46,800	1,632,000	34.87
70	Ice Burst	⁴ ⁴ ²	40	834	814	48,000	976,800	20.35	6.70
74	Smoke Blitz	² ² ² ²	42	951	951	50,400	1,141,200	22.64
76	Shadow Blitz	² ² ² ²	43	1,755	1,755	51,600	2,106,000	40.81
80	Blood Blitz	⁴ ²	45	1,462	1,462	54,000	1,754,400	32.49
82	Ice Blitz	³ ² ²	46	931	916	55,200	1,099,200	19.91	5.83
86	Smoke Barrage	⁴ ⁴ ² ⁴	48	1,351	1,351	57,600	1,621,200	28.15
88	Shadow Barrage	⁴ ² ⁴ ³	49	2,552	2,552	58,800	3,062,400	52.08
92	Blood Barrage	⁴ ⁴ ¹	51	2,239	2,239	61,200	2,686,800	43.90
94	Ice Barrage	⁶ ² ⁴	52	1,316	1,286	62,400	1,543,200	24.73	5.15

^ Raw cost assumes that all runes needed are bought.
^ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Cost assumes that a kodai wand (71,847,644) is used, which supplies infinite water runes. Elemental staves cannot be used as they do not provide auto-cast for ancient spells.
^ Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast ("splash") 1,200 combat spells.
^ Assumes the price of blighted ancient ice sacks (268), use of which is restricted to certain areas or worlds.

Arceuus spellbook

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. Players can also reanimate an Ensouled imp head to splash at the Dark Altar to take less damage. Unlike regular imps, reanimated ones will not teleport away.

Lvl	Name	Runes	Base XP/cast	XP/h ^[a]	Raw cost/cast ^[b]	Cost/cast (Tome of Fire) ^[c]	Raw Cost/h ^[b]	Cost/h (Tome of Fire) ^[c]	GP/XP ^[b]	GP/XP (Tome of Fire) ^[c]
35	Ghostly Grasp	⁴ ¹	22.5	27,000	131	N/A	157,200	N/A	5.82	N/A
44	Inferior Demonbane	³ ¹	27	32,400	131	111	157,200	133,200	4.85	4.11
56	Skeletal Grasp ^[d]	⁸ ¹	33	39,600	225	N/A	270,000	N/A	6.21	N/A
62	Superior Demonbane ^[d]	⁵ ¹	36	43,200	447	407	536,400	488,400	12.42	11.31
79	Undead Grasp ^[d]	¹² ¹	46.5	55,800	333	273	399,600	327,600	7.16	5.87
82	Dark Demonbane ^[d]	⁷ ²	43.5	52,200	874	814	1,048,800	976,800	20.09	18.71

^ Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast (splash) 1,200 combat spells.
^ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Includes the cost of fire runes.
^ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 The tome of fire does not consume pages when autocasting Arceuus Spells. Therefore, the cost of burnt pages is ignored.
^ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 Requires completion of the quest A Kingdom Divided.

30 to 99 strategies

Total experience required: 13,021,068 Magic experience.

Strategy	# of splashes	Time (hr)	Cost - Combination Staff	Cost - Elemental Staff (F2P)
	2,367,467	1,973.0	7,102,400.73	7,102,400.73
	1,736,143	1,446.9	5,208,427.20	13,889,139.20
	1,370,639	1,142.3	4,111,916.21	10,965,109.89
	1,132,267	943.6	3,396,800.35	14,719,468.17
$\to$	579,314	482.8	64,171,340.34	72,854,915.23
$\to$ $\to$	381,648	318.1	69,656,582.83	77,228,284.25
$\to$ $\to$ $\to$	317,135	264.3	82,204,347.23	Members Only Spells
$\to$ $\to$ $\to$ $\to$	301,246	251.1	81,074,201.75	Members Only Spells

Locations

If the monster you are splashing on can attack you, make sure that your defensive bonuses are sufficiently high so it won't slowly kill you over time. Commonly used monsters are rats, seagulls, and spiders, though rats in member's worlds can be killed by cats.

Popular locations include the seagulls in Port Sarim and Port Piscarilius. The chickens near Captain Barnaby may also be a good choice, as they are close to a bank and usually not too crowded.

Players may also elect to check the bestiary to find a suitable creature & location themselves.

The only exception is the area in and surrounding Lumbridge, 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]

Location	Levels	Spawns	Map	League region
House west of the Grand Exchange	1	3	Show map	N/A
South of Slepe	1	9	Show map	N/A
Lovakengj	1	19	Show map	N/A
Ruins (east)	1	3	Show map	N/A
Ferox Enclave	1	9	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius	1	24	Show map	N/A
House west of McGrubor's Wood	1	3	Show map	N/A
Port Sarim jail	1	5	Show map	N/A
Draynor Village	1	2	Show map	N/A
South-east of Mount Quidamortem	1	18	Show map	N/A
Farm south of Falador	1	2	Show map	N/A
South-east of the Farming Guild	1	2	Show map	N/A
Arceuus	1	1	Show map	N/A
North of the Chaos Temple (Wilderness)	1	6	Show map	N/A
Gertrude's House	1	1	Show map	N/A
Fire Altar	1	1	Show map	N/A
Port Phasmatys	1	2	Show map	N/A
South of Kourend Castle	1	4	Show map	N/A
Mos Le'Harmless	1	2	Show map	N/A
Lunar Isle Ship	1	2	Show map	N/A
Rimmington	1	4	Show map	N/A
Burgh De Rott	1	13	Show map	N/A
Brimhaven	1	2	Show map	N/A
West Ruins	1	16	Show map	N/A
Sinclair Mansion	1	5	Show map	N/A
Lunar Isle	1	1	Show map	N/A
South of the Farming Guild	1	5	Show map	N/A
Draynor Manor	1	2	Show map	N/A
North-west of Hosidius Town Square	1	4	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze	1	5	Show map	N/A
South of Gu'Tanoth	1	3	Show map	N/A
Fishing Guild	1	1	Show map	N/A
Gnome maze	1	9	Show map	N/A
Varrock	1	1	Show map	N/A
West Ardougne	1	74	Show map	N/A
Port Phasmatys Ship	1	1	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius (1st Floor Buildings)	1	5	Show map	N/A
Lunar Isle Dock	1	1	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze (1st Floor)	1	2	Show map	N/A
Mos Le'Harmless Ship	1	1	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius (2nd Floor Buildings)	1	3	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze (2nd Floor)	1	2	Show map	N/A
Ardougne Sewers	1	23	Show map	N/A
Goblin Cave	1	19	Show map	N/A
Clock Tower Basement	1	26	Show map	N/A
Rat Pits	1	3	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze Basement	1	3	Show map	N/A
Dwarven Mines	1	4	Show map	N/A
Crandor and Karamja Dungeon	1	2	Show map	N/A
Draynor Sewers	1	10	Show map	N/A
Varrock Sewers	1	29	Show map	N/A
Draynor Manor Basement	1	9	Show map	N/A
Edgeville Dungeon	1	2	Show map	N/A
Sisterhood Sanctuary	1	6	Show map	N/A
Stronghold of Security: Catacomb of Famine	1	60	Show map	N/A
Stronghold of Security: Vault of War	1	56	Show map	N/A
Grand Tree Mine	1	21	Show map	N/A
Taverley Dungeon	1	4	Show map	N/A
The Warrens	1	16	Show map	N/A
Abandoned Mine (Level 2)	1	9	Show map	N/A
Abandoned Mine (Level 4)	1	3	Show map	N/A
Keldagrim Rat Pits	1	8	Show map	N/A
King's Ransom jail	1	4	Show map	N/A
Meiyerditch Laboratories	1	6	Show map	N/A
The Hollows	1	17	Show map	N/A
Meiyerditch Hideout (Myreque Hideout)	1	2	Show map	N/A
Observatory Dungeon	1	4	Show map	N/A
Rashiliyia's Tomb	1	3	Show map	N/A
Shadow Dungeon	1	12	Show map	N/A
Skavid Caves	1	18	Show map	N/A
Underground Pass (Level 2)	1	27	Show map	N/A
Waterfall Dungeon	1	9	Show map	N/A
Cabin Fever Boats	1	6	Show map	N/A
Cabin Fever Boats, 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US]	1	3	Show map	N/A
Waterfall Dungeon (Flooded during quest)	1	1	Show map	N/A
Isle of Souls	1	4	Show map	N/A
Corsair Cove	2, 3	9	Show map	N/A
Port Sarim	2, 3	10	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius	2, 3	7	Show map	N/A
Icyene Graveyard	3	1	Show map	N/A
Ruins of Unkah	3	5	Show map	N/A
Hosidius	1	6	Show map	N/A
Lovakengj	1	41	Show map	N/A
Arceuus, outside the Tower of Magic	1	8	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius	1	10	Show map	N/A
Varrock	1	1	Show map	N/A
Al Kharid	1	3	Show map	N/A
East of Yanille	1	2	Show map	N/A
Ruins (west), in the Wilderness	1	6	Show map	N/A
Wilderness spider nest holding a Sapphire spawn	1	17	Show map	N/A
Gnome Maze	1	9	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze, Basement Floor	1	3	Show map	N/A
Varrock Sewers	1	9	Show map	N/A
Draynor Manor, Basement	1	4	Show map	N/A
Sisterhood Sanctuary	1	11	Show map	N/A
Stronghold of Security, Pit of Pestilence (level 3)	51, 24	35	Show map	N/A
Taverley Dungeon	1	3	Show map	N/A
Ogre Enclave	1	10	Show map	N/A
Underground Pass	1	49	Show map	N/A
Underground Pass (During Song of the Elves)	1	49	Show map	N/A
Rashiliyia's Tomb	1	1	Show map	N/A
Isle of Souls - Crumbling Tower basement	1	3	Show map	N/A

References

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

[1] Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast (splash) 1,200 combat spells.

[2] Using a harmonised nightmare staff (241,641,559), which autocasts with a speed of 4 ticks.

[3] Raw cost assumes that all runes needed are bought.

[fnBES-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 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).

[fnCES-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Cost assumes that mist battlestaff (66,663), dust battlestaff (10,574), smoke battlestaff (2,020,852) or their mystic variants are used for Water, Earth, Fire spells respectively to completely cover the core elemental runes. (This requires at least 30 Magic which is quickly obtained).

[6] Raw cost assumes that all runes needed are bought.

[fnAncCost-7] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Cost assumes that a kodai wand (71,847,644) is used, which supplies infinite water runes. Elemental staves cannot be used as they do not provide auto-cast for ancient spells.

[8] Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast ("splash") 1,200 combat spells.

[9] Assumes the price of blighted ancient ice sacks (268), use of which is restricted to certain areas or worlds.

[10] Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast (splash) 1,200 combat spells.

[fnArcFireRune-11] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Includes the cost of fire runes.

[fnArcTome-12] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 The tome of fire does not consume pages when autocasting Arceuus Spells. Therefore, the cost of burnt pages is ignored.

[fnAKD-13] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 Requires completion of the quest A Kingdom Divided.

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

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