RS3 Divination Guide
21.06.2025 - 18:08:00
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Divination is often an overlooked skill in RS3, but it's definitely something that you're going to spend time on. If you're struggling to train this skill, we've got you covered.
This guide will assume that you have a pretty good understanding of Runescape's mechanics and items, so it will not extensively cover everything. Please let us know if you want more extensive guides or short-format guides.
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What Is Divination In RS3?
This is a gathering skill in RS3 that lets you harvest energy from wisps, which you can use to create springs. You can then take out energy and memories from these springs. The resources you get from springs can be used to create things like divine locations.
We've said that this guide will be focused on leveling but here's a quick summary of how you can start Divination training:
1. Getting Started
- Speak to Orla Fairweather at the Divination Camp near Draynor Jail to begin.
- Learn about wisps, which appear across Gielinor and are harvested for memories and divine energy.
- Players convert memories at energy rifts into XP, energy, or both, used to craft signs and portents.
2. Harvesting Wisps
- Activate a wisp by clicking it, which turns it into a spring.
- Players gather memories (XP source) and energy (resource).
- Critical chance determines if an enriched memory appears. These give:
- Double XP when harvested and converted
- More divine energy
- Spring duration increases with:
- More players (up to 5)
- Divination cape or Ethereal Connection (adds +30s once)
3. Energy Yields by Level
- Lv 1-54: 1 energy per harvest
- Lv 55-74: 2 energies per harvest
- Lv 75+: 3 energies per harvest
4. Chronicle Fragments
- Rare spawn while gathering from springs.
- Can be used in three ways:
- Empower energy rift (Divination XP)
- Offer at Guthix's shrine (XP, title unlock)
- Give to May Stormbrewer/Eilwynn (75% XP)
- Enhanced chronicle fragments (double progress) from:
- Capturing in 6s
- Using Chronicle Attraction or spirit attraction potions
- Maximum held: 30 (unless Memorial to Guthix tutorial completed)
- Buffs:
- Memory Overflow (on rift charge completion):
- +1 base energy from deposits
- +5% XP from deposits
- +10% crit chance
- Spawns enriched wisp (auto +100% crit when harvesting)
5. Increasing Critical Chance
Ways to increase crit chance when harvesting:
- Enriched wisp: +100%
- Fading memory (item): +20%
- Prism of Dowsing: +10%
- Memory Overflow buff: +10%
- Enrichment auras: +3%-15%
- Full diviner outfit: +5% chance of +100% crit
- Elder divination outfit: +7% chance of +100% crit
Crit chance can exceed 100%. At 150%, you always get 1 enriched memory and have a 50% chance at another.
6. Converting Memories at Rifts
Three options:
- Memories to Energy - resource-focused, low XP.
- Memories to Experience - XP-focused, ignores energy.
- Memories + Energy to Experience - XP-optimized, consumes energy (5 per standard, 10 per enriched).
- Enriched memories always used first.
- When out of energy, conversion downgrades to normal XP.
Best Gear For Divination Training In RS3
In RS3, there are a lot of Items that will actually boost your experience per hour or provide all kinds of benefit when you are training a skill, here are the most important ones for Divination:
Diviner's Outfit
Diviner's outfit gives a flat experience boost when worn. You can obtain the set by completing Guthix Caches, winning them from treasure hunter or they can be bought with Thaler.
- Diviner's headwear - 1% Experience boost
- Diviner's robe - 1% Experience boost
- Diviner's legwear - 1% Experience boost
- Diviner's handwear - 1% Experience boost
- Diviner's footwear - 1% Experience boost
- Set bonus - 1% Experience boost
Wearing the full set will grant you a 6% experience boost while training Divination. You can also obtain the diviner's headwear add-on and combine it with the diviner's headwear to get modified diviner's headwear. In addition to the experience boosting effect the modified version also provides 3 daily teleports to Guthix's Cave and grants the player chronicle fragments once a day.
Divination outfits
This outfit can be crafted from the Divination fragments that are gathered automatically while training Divination. You need level 80 divination and 20 Invention to craft these outfits. There are 3 regular, divination chronicle outfit, divination energy outfit, divination memory outfit and 1 ultimate outfit, Elder divination outfit. The elder outfit is made by combining 3 of the regular outfits together.
Regular Outfit Bonuses
- 5% chance to temporarily gain +100% enriched memory drop chance.
- 5% chance to get 2 chronicle fragments at once when harvesting a chronicle fragment.
- Unlimited teleports to May Stormbrewer, Guthix's Cave.
- If you own a modified diviner's headwear it gains its benefits.
- A full set yields the same experience boosting effect as Diviner's outfit. However for this effect you need to own the full Diviner's outfit.
Elder Divination Outfit
- 7% chance to temporarily gain +100% enriched memory drop chance.
- 7% chance to get 2 chronicle fragments at once when harvesting a chronicle fragment.
- Unlimited teleports to May Stormbrewer, Guthix's Cave.
- If you own a modified diviner's headwear it gains its benefits.
- A full set yields the same experience boosting effect as Diviner's outfit. However for this effect you need to own the full Diviner's outfit.
- 5% chance of getting five times the energy gain.
- 3 daily teleports to any wisp colony that you have the required quests and Divination level to use.
1-99 and Beyond Divination Training
Boons
Boons are untradable items that can be crafted from divine energy. When one is used it grants a permanent 10% experience and energy boost to a specific type of memory. Boons are available for all types of energy except pale energy.
Level | Boon | Energy Required | Cost |
10 | Boon of flickering energy | 100 pale or flickering energy | 22,100 or 26,400 gold |
20 | Boon of bright energy | 300 flickering or bright energy | 79,200 or 111,300 gold |
30 | Boon of glowing energy | 500 bright or glowing energy | 185,500 or 179,500 gold |
40 | Boon of sparkling energy | 600 glowing or sparkling energy | 215,400 or 220,800 gold |
50 | Boon of gleaming energy | 800 sparkling or gleaming energy | 294,400 or 213,600 gold |
60 | Boon of vibrant energy | 1000 gleaming or vibrant energy | 267,000 or 350,000 gold |
70 | Boon of lustrous energy | 1250 vibrant or lustrous energy | 437,500 or 452,500 gold |
75 | Boon of elder energy | 1375 lustrous or elder energy | 497,750 or 185,625 gold |
80 | Boon of brilliant energy | 1500 lustrous, brilliant or elder energy | 543,000 or 250,500 or 202,500 gold |
85 | Boon of radiant energy | 1750 brilliant or radiant energy | 292,250 or 526,750 gold |
90 | Boon of luminous energy | 2000 radiant or luminous energy | 602,000 or 544,000 gold |
95 | Boon of incandescent energy | 2250 luminous or incandescent energy | 612,000 or 722,250 gold |
Leveling Guide
Once you have your Boons and other XP bonuses set up, it's now time to start leveling up. To make things easier, here's a table featuring all of what you can do to get to level 99.
Levels | Technique | XP earned | Notes |
01-10 | Pale Wisps | 5K (with energy), 4K (without energy) | These wisp are located south-east of Draynor Village, west of Lumbridge crater. |
10-20 | Flickering Wisps | 10K (with energy), 8K (without energy) | These wisps are located east of the Falador lodestone. |
20-30 | Bright Wisps | 14K (with energy), 12K (without energy) | These wisps can be found east of Varrock loadstone, south-west of the Varrock dig site and north-west of the Archaeology guild. |
30-40 | Glowing Wisps | 19K (with energy), 17.5K (without energy) | These wisps can be found south of Seers Village, east of the Sorcerer’s Tower. |
40-50 | Sparkling Wisps | 28K (with energy), 23K (without energy) | These wisps can be found south-west of the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon. |
50-60 | Gleaming Wisps | 33K (with energy), 27K (without energy) | This wisp colony can be found in the centre of Karamja jungle, north-east of the nature altar. |
60-65 | Vibrant Wisps | 41K (with energy), 35K (without energy) | This wisp colony can be found just north-west of South Feldip Hills. |
65-75 | Senntisten Crystal | 65K | At level 65 you can start training at The Empty Throne Room, located south-east of Varrock dig site. This method of training is much faster than doing wisps. |
75-80 | Lustrous Wisps | 52K (with energy), 43K (without energy) | This wisp colony can be found east of the Slayer tower. |
70-99+ | Hall of Memories | 110K (Lustrous), 135K (Brilliant), 165K (Radiant), 200K (Luminous), 225K (Incandescent) | This place is located beneath the Memorial of Guthix. In this minigame you will be filling jars with memories and you should always use the best memory type that you can harvest. You can increase these experience rates by 1.5x if you utilise 2-tick divination technique. This makes this method a lot more click intensive. If you combine this 2-tick method with the elite skilling outfit and the energy-gathering scrimshaw, you can get 400K+ EXP/H at level 99 Divination. |
75-80 | Elder Wisps | 66K (with energy), 54K (without energy) | If you want a less intensive method of training you can continue with wisp training. After completing the Fate of the Gods quest, you can start collecting elder wisps which are located within the Elder Halls. |
80-85 | Brilliant Wisps | 73K (with energy), 60K (without energy) | This colony can be found just east of the Mage Training Arena. |
85-90 | Radiant Wisps | 79K (with energy), 65K (without energy) | This colony can be found on Dragontooth Island. |
90-95 | Luminous Wisps | 83K (with energy), 71K (without energy) | This wisp colony is located south of Sophanem. Partial compilation of the quest Icthlarin’s Little Helper is required to access the city. |
90-95 | Positive & Negative Energy | 68K | Alternatively you can visit the Islands That Once Were Turtles in The Arc and harvest positive or negative energy. |
95-99+ | Incandescent Wisps | 97K (with energy), 82K (without energy) | This colony can be found west of Castle Wars and south of the Poison Waste. To increase your experience rates you can use Divine Conversion power to get 290K experience per hour (unenhanced). Around 398K experience can be obtained if you add in, energy-gathering scrimshaw with enhanced conversion. This can also be further increased to 500K experience per hour if you buy additional energy. |
95-99 | Ancestral Energy | 107K | Alternatively if you have access to Uncharted Isles in The Arc, you can train on ancestral energy. To do this you must find dead moai on the island which are leaking ancestral energy and collect it. You can do contracts to enhance your experience per hour. |
Quests That Reward Divination XP
Divination can get very tedious at some point but it's unavoidable. If it really gets too tedious for you, then you might want to do these quests for some extra Divination XP.
Quest | Members | XP reward (Divination) | Divination Requirement | Other Requirements |
One of a Kind | Members | 5,000 | 40 Divination | 67 Dungeoneering, 74 Summoning, 81 Magic |
Hero's Welcome | Members | 10,000 | 60 Divination | 67 Mining, 62 Slayer, 67 Smithing |
Back to the Freezer | Members | 25,000 | 50 Divination | 37 Slayer, 45 Runecrafting |
Azzanadra's Quest | Members | 25,000 | 70 Divination | 58 Agility, 58 Prayer, 58 Archaeology |
Daughter of Chaos | Members | 30,000 | 40 Divination | 40 Archaeology |
Twilight of the Gods | Members | 30,000 | 80 Divination | 60 Thieving |
Ode of the Devourer | Members | 50,000 | 60 Divination | N/A |
The Light Within | Members | 90,000 | 80 Divination | 80 Agility, 80 Crafting, 80 Herblore, 80 Prayer, 80 Slayer, 80 Woodcutting |
Fate of the Gods | Members | 100,000 | 75 Divination | 67 Summoning, 73 Agility, 76 Slayer, 79 Magic |
Children of Mah | Members | 100,000 | 80 Divination | N/A |
Mahjarrat Memories (miniquest) | Members | 375,000 | 60 Divination | N/A |
Total | — | 840,000 |
Train Divination Now
With that, you can easily get to the max level of Divination on your account. From holy skills, we're going to the opposite end and check out some neat ways to max out the Necromancy skill in RS3.
FAQs
What's the fastest way to train Divination in RS3?
The fastest method to train Divination is to skip wisp gathering entirely and go straight to Hall of Memories and converted energy turn-ins:
- 1-70: Train at wisp colonies (Chronicle Fragments for boosts).
- 70-99: Hall of Memories — insane XP/hour, especially with DXP and BXP.
- 99-120: Continue Hall of Memories or turn in converted energy at Incandescent Wisp Colony using enhanced enriches.
XP boosters to use:
- Divination Outfit: +6% XP.
- Memory Crux Boost: One-time free XP.
- Enriched Memories: More XP when banked.
- Chronicle Fragments: 10% bonus XP once collected.
- Wisp Abilities: Toggle to deposit memories faster (after 85).
What is the Hall of Memories and why is it so good for training Divination?
The Hall of Memories is unlocked after completing Sliske's Endgame. It's the best Divination XP/hour in RS3.
Key mechanics:
- Harvest memory strands from moving nodes.
- Fill your memory storage bot for extra XP.
- Use enhanced pulse cores, Wise aura, and bonus XP for maximum effect.
- Bonus XP scales with your level and action rate — so stay active!
Expected XP/hr:
- 300k-500k at 99+ with boosts.
- Even higher during Double XP Live.
Hall of Memories is also semi-AFK, making it perfect for long sessions or passive gains.
What's the most AFK way to train Divination in RS3?
If you're after chill training, these are your best bets:
- Wisp Colonies: AFK at high-tier wisps (Elder/Incandescent).
- Divine Locations: Place your own and harvest others'.
- Anachronia Totems + BXP: Use passive totem XP (like Totem of Introspection).
- Crystallise on Hall of Memories bots: Slows progress but boosts XP per action.
Tips:
- Use deposit XP toggle to auto-store memories.
- Stack Chronicle Fragment buffs, portables, and training dummies.
- Combine with scrimshaws of sacrifice or corruption if doing combat-based div.
AFK XP/hr: ~150k-250k depending on level and setup.
How do you train Divination as an Ironman or on a budget?
Ironman-friendly and budget Divination paths rely on gathering and careful XP planning:
- Wisp Gathering: Stick to your level range — no shortcuts.
- Use Energy Efficiently: Save for invention/summoning not just XP.
- Convert Enriched Memories for better XP: unlocks at 70+.
- Hall of Memories still works — just gather memory strands slowly.
Extra tips:
- Chronicles give free XP and unlock Boons (10% faster XP).
- Boons should always be crafted when hitting new tiers.
- Familiar boosts and aura stacking are even more important for solo players.
What boosts and items increase Divination XP gains?
Maximizing XP/hour requires stacking multiple buffs. Best ones include:
- Divination Outfit: +6% set bonus, includes energy-saving perks.
- Bonus XP + Double XP Live: Multiplies everything — save your energy!
- Wise Aura: 2.5-3% more XP/hr.
- Enhanced Pulse Core: +2-10% depending on proximity and timing.
- Memory-Crushing Scrimshaw: Faster memory turn-ins.
- Portable Deposit Box (Daemonsheim): Faster conversions at colonies.
- Chronicle Fragments: Collect for up to 10% bonus XP burst.
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