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OSRS Splashing Gear Guide

23.04.2024 - 15:46:08
Game Guides , Runescape

Splashing has been nerfed to the ground ever since it was introduced in OSRS. Despite the changes made to limit the Magic XP gain from splashing, it’s still widely accepted as one of the best Magic training techniques in OSRS. You can still make it work as long as you have the right tricks (and gear) under your sleeves.

How To Do Splashing in OSRS

Unlike most combat training techniques, splashing isn’t used against monsters. Instead, it’s used on NPCs. To put it simply, when you splash in OSRS, you cast low accuracy spells on NPC so it doesn’t actually heal them. Even if the attack doesn’t do any damage, you can still gain Magic XP. Since the NPCs don’t get hit or die, you essentially don’t have to move around to train Magic. This also means that there’s no risk of you dying, making it a perfect training method for Ironmen.

Although it’s fun and simple, there are a few things to consider here:

This trick can be AFK’d but you have to constantly interact with the game to avoid getting logged out. You just need to move your mouse or open a menu every 20 minutes or so.
It’s not important to have high-level gear for splashing. It’s important that your magic accuracy is as low as possible so your magic doesn’t land and do damage to NPCs.
Not every NPC in the game can be splashed. There are only a select few which we’ll list down below.
As there’s no risk of dying, you don’t have to worry about wearing high-end armor for defenses. Instead, you might want to save up your gold for runes which are vital for this training technique.

Best Splashing Gears For OSRS

You can start splashing at any level in OSRS. What’s important is that you have a Magic Bonus of -64. This guarantees that your magic spells are going to be a sure miss against NPCs. While it’s not exactly hard to reach this type of Magic Bonus, certain builds will make it more efficient. The simplest and cheapest way to do this is with this setup.

Full Helm
Platebody
Full Platelegs
Kiteshield
Any Elemental Staff (or Goblin Staff if you can’t wear the green vambraces.
Green d’hide Vambraces or Gilded Vambraces

You can choose any type of these armor. Bronze, Iron, dragon - it doesn’t matter because the negative bonus they have on Magic attack are all the same. Since you won’t be needing any defences at all, it’s best to go with the cheapest set which are the bronze armor. What’s great about it is that these pieces of armor

For splashing, the best weapon to use is any Elemental Staff. Unfortunately, all elemental staves in the game provide a 10 Magic Bonus. This means you’ll need to counteract the gear with another equipment that can drastically reduce your Magic Bonus.

Item		Attack Bonuses					Defence Bonuses					Other
Item		Stab	Slash	Crush	Magic	Ranged	Stab	Slash	Crush	Magic	Ranged	Strength	Magic Damage	Range Strength	Prayer	Weight
	Staff of air	0	-1	7	10	0	2	3	1	10	0	3	0%	0	0	2.267
	Staff of earth	1	-1	9	10	0	2	3	1	10	0	5	0%	0	0	2.267
	Staff of fire	3	-1	9	10	0	2	3	1	10	0	6	0%	0	0	2.267
	Staff of water	0	-1	7	10	0	2	3	1	10	0	3	0%	0	0	2.267

To counteract the Magic Bonus provided by your weapon, you can equip a Green d’hide Vambraces or Gilded Vambraces which both provide -10 Magic Bonus. This gear is again suitable with F2P players. If you can’t equip the vambraces yet because of its 40 Ranged requirement, you can opt to using the Goblin Staff instead of an Elemental Staff.

Splashing Locations OSRS

You can splash in various locations in the game but if you’re having trouble looking for some that you can quickly do, here’s a list of all splashable NPCs.

Location	Levels	Membership Required?	Spawns
House west of the Grand Exchange	1	No	3
South of Slepe	1	Yes	9
Lovakengj	1	Yes	19
Ruins (east)	1	No	3
Ferox Enclave	1	No	9
Port Piscarilius	1	Yes	24
House west of McGrubor's Wood	1	Yes	3
Port Sarim Jail	1	No	5
Draynor Village	1	No	2
South-east of Mount Quidamortem	1	Yes	18
Farm south of Falador	1	No	2
South-east of the Farming Guild	1	Yes	2
Arceuus	1	Yes	1
North of the Chaos Temple (Wilderness)	1	No	6
Gertrude's House	1	No	1
Fire Altar	1	No	1
Port Phasmatys	1	Yes	2
South of Kourend Castle	1	Yes	4
Mos Le'Harmless	1	Yes	2
Lunar Isle Ship	1	Yes	2
Rimmington	1	No	4
Burgh De Rott	1	Yes	13
Brimhaven	1	Yes	2
West Ruins	1	No	16
Sinclair Mansion	1	Yes	5
Lunar Island	1	Yes	1
South of the Farming Guild	1	Yes	5
Draynor Manor	1	No	2
North-west of Hosidius Town Square	1	Yes	4
Melzar's Maze	1	No	5
South of Gu'Tanoth	1	Yes	3
Fishing Guild	1	Yes	1
Tree Gnome Village Maze	1	Yes	9
Varrock	1	No	1
West Ardougne	1	Yes	74
Port Phasmatys Ship	1	Yes	1
Port Piscarilius (1st Floor Buildings)	1	Yes	5
Lunar Island Dock	1	Yes	1
Melzar's Maze (1st Floor)	1	No	2
Mos Le'Harmless Ship	1	Yes	1
Port Piscarilius (2nd Floor Buildings)	1	Yes	3
Melzar's Maze (2nd Floor)	1	No	2
Ardougne Sewers	1	Yes	23
Goblin Cave	1	Yes	19
Clock Tower Basement	1	Yes	26
Rat Pits	1	Yes	3
Melzar's Maze Basement	1	No	3
Dwarven Mines	1	No	4
Crandor and Karamja Dungeon	1	No	2
Draynor Sewers	1	No	10
Varrock Sewers	1	No	29
Draynor Manor Basement	1	No	9
Edgeville Dungeon	1	No	2
Sisterhood Sanctuary	1	Yes	6
Stronghold of Security: Catacomb of Famine	1	No	60
Stronghold of security: Vault of War	1	No	56
Grand Tree Mine	1	Yes	21
Taverley Dungeon	1	Yes	4
The Warrens	1	Yes	16
Abandoned Mine (Level 2)	1	Yes	9
Abandoned Mine (Level 4)	1	Yes	3
Keldagrim Rat Pits	1	Yes	8
Kings Ransom Jail	1	Yes	4
Meiyerditch Laboratories	1	Yes	6
The Hollows	1	Yes	17
Meiyerditch Hideout (Myreque Hideout)	1	Yes	2
Observatory Dungeon	1	Yes	4
Rashiliyia's Tomb	1	Yes	3
Shadow Dungeon	1	Yes	12
Skavid Caves	1	Yes	18
Underground Pass (Level 2)	1	Yes	27
Waterfall Dungeon	1	No	9
Cabin Fever Boats	1	No	6
Cabin Fever Boats, 2nd floor	1	No	3
Waterfall Dungeon (Flooded during quest)	1	No	1
Isle of Souls	1	No	4
Corsair Cove	2, 3	No	9
Port Sarim	2, 3	No	10
Port Piscarilius	2, 3	No	7
Icyene Graveyard	3	No	1
Ruins of Unkah	3	No	5
Hosidius	1	No	6
Lovakengj	1	No	41
Arceuus, outside the Tower of Magic	1	No	8
Port Piscarilius	1	No	10
Varrock	1	No	1
Al-Kharid	1	No	3
East of Yanille	1	No	2
Ruins (west), in the Wilderness	1	No	6
Wilderness spider nest holding a Sapphire spawn	1	No	17
Gnome Maze	1	No	9
Melzar's Maze, Basement Floor	1	No	3
Varrock Sewers	1	No	9
Draynor Manor, Basement	1	No	4
Sisterhood Sanctuary	1	No	11
Stronghold of Security, Pit of Pestilence (level 3)	51, 24	No	35
Taverley Dungeon	1	No	3
Ogre Enclave	1	No	10
Underground Pass (dungeon)	1	No	49
Underground Pass (dungeon) (During Song of the Elves)	1	No	49
Rashiliyia's Tomb	1	No	1
Isle of Souls - Crumbling Tower basement	1	No	3

Splashing XP Rates Per Spell

Now that you’re suited up for splashing, it’s time to check out the best spells to use for the job. Not all spells are compatible with splashing so you must know which ones to use at a certain point in your Magic training. Below is a table showing all of the splashing XP you can get per spell.

Standard Playbook

Lvl	Name	Base XP per Cast	XP/hr	XP/hr (Harmonized nightmare staff)	Raw cost/cast	Cost/cast (basic elemental staff)	Cost/hr (basic elemental staff)	Gp/XP (basic elemental staff)	Cost/cast (combination elemental staff)	Cost/hr (combination elemental staff)	Gp/exp (combination elemental staff)
1	Wind Strike	5.5	6600	8250	6	2	2,400	0.36	2	2,400	0.36
5	Water Strike	7.5	9000	11250	10	6	7,200	0.80	2	2,400	0.27
9	Earth Strike	9.5	11400	14250	14	6	7,200	0.63	2	2,400	0.21
13	Fire Strike	11.5	13800	17250	22	10	12,000	0.87	2	2,400	0.17
17	Wind Bolt	13.5	16200	20250	92	84	100,800	6.22	84	100,800	6.22
23	Water Bolt	16.5	19800	24750	100	92	110,400	5.58	84	100,800	5.09
29	Earth Bolt	19.5	23400	29250	104	92	110,400	4.72	84	100,800	4.31
35	Fire Bolt	22.5	27000	33750	112	96	115,200	4.27	84	100,800	3.73
41	Wind Blast	25.5	30600	38250	153	141	169,200	5.53	141	169,200	5.53
47	Water Blast	28.5	34200	42750	165	153	183,600	5.37	141	169,200	4.95
53	Earth Blast	31.5	37800	47250	169	153	183,600	4.86	141	169,200	4.48
59	Fire Blast	34.5	41400	51750	177	157	188,400	4.55	141	169,200	4.09
62	Wind Wave	36	43200	54000	217	197	236,400	5.47	197	236,400	5.47
65	Water Wave	37.5	45000	56250	245	217	260,400	5.79	197	236,400	5.25
70	Earth Wave	40	48000	60000	245	217	260,400	5.43	197	236,400	4.93
75	Fire Wave	42.5	51000	63750	245	217	260,400	5.11	197	236,400	4.64
81	Wind Surge	44.5	53400	66750	253	225	270,000	5.29	225	270,000	5.29
85	Water Surge	46.5	55800	69750	293	253	303,600	5.44	225	270,000	4.84
90	Earth Surge	48.5	58200	72750	293	253	303,600	5.22	225	270,000	4.64
95	Fire Surge	50.5	60600	75750	293	253	303,600	5.01	225	270,000	4.46

Ancient Magicks

Lvl	Name	Base XP/cast	Raw cost/cast	Cost/cast	XP/hr	Cost/hr	Gp/XP
50	Smoke Rush	30	468	468	36000	561,600	15.60
52	Shadow Rush	31	673	673	37200	807,600	21.71
56	Blood Rush	33	647	647	39600	776,400	19.61
58	Ice Rush	34	458	450	40800	540,000	13.24
62	Smoke Burst	36	650	650	43200	780,000	18.06
64	Shadow Burst	37	1,050	1,050	44400	1,260,000	28.38
68	Blood Burst	39	1,012	1,012	46800	1,214,400	25.95
70	Ice Burst	40	634	618	48000	741,600	15.45
74	Smoke Blitz	42	708	708	50400	849,600	16.86
76	Shadow Blitz	43	1,118	1,118	51600	1,341,600	26.00
80	Blood Blitz	45	1,070	1,070	54000	1,284,000	23.78
82	Ice Blitz	46	688	676	55200	811,200	14.70
86	Smoke Barrage	48	1,018	1,018	57600	1,221,600	21.21
88	Shadow Barrage	49	1,629	1,629	58800	1,954,800	33.24
92	Blood Barrage	51	1,561	1,561	61200	1,873,200	30.61
94	Ice Barrage	52	982	958	62400	1,149,600	18.42

Arceuus Spellbook

Lvl	Name	Base exp/cast	XP/hr	Raw cost/cast	Cost/cast (Tome of Fire	Raw Cost/hr	Cost/hr (Tome of Fire)	gp/XP	gp/XP (Tome of Fire)
35	Ghostly Grasp	22.5	27000	100	N/A	120,000	N/A	4.44	N/A
44	Inferior Demonbane	27	32400	100	84	120,000	100,800	3.70	3.11
56	Skeletal Grasp	33	39600	173	N/A	207,600	N/A	4.76	N/A
62	Superior Demonbane	36	43200	241	209	289,200	250,800	6.69	5.81
79	Undead Grasp	46.5	55800	245	197	294,000	236,400	5.27	4.24
82	Dark Demonbane	43.5	52200	466	418	559,200	501,600	10.71	9.61

Get To 99 As Fast As Possible

Training Magic with splashing is still worth it but that’s only if you know what to do. It can take just as long as any other training method if you don’t have the right gear with you. Hopefully, our guide has made it easier for you to become one of the strongest mages in Gielinor.