RS3 Ranged Guide,1-99 and Beyond Ranged Training Guide
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Fighting from afar is always a good option, especially when considering all the dangers in RS3. And to fight effectively, you need to max out your Ranged skill in the game.
Luckily, we've come up with a guide that will help you reach max level in Ranged as efficiently and as quickly as possible. But before we take you on that trip, make sure to visit our RS store. If you're looking for RS gold, items, or services, we've got everything that you need.
What Is Ranged In RS3
Ranged is one of the primary combat skills in the game. Under it, you can use bows, crossbows, and even thrown weapons. While not as powerful as melee combat, the main benefit of Ranged is that you're able to deal with enemies from a safer distance.
With the right strategy and setup, it's even possible to kill certain monsters without ever being hurt.
Training Ranged benefits you in many ways. Some bosses are weak to Ranged for instance. Additionally, you'll definitely want to max this out if you want to 100% your account in RS
Ranged Equipment In RS3
Armour
For armour you should always wear the best armour set available at your level if you can. At later levels there will be differences between power armours and tank armours. Obviously as the name suggests you should try to pick power armours as they will provide range bonuses that will make you hit more accurately and harder. Here are some notable armours for Ranged:
Armour | Type | Required Level | Bonus |
Soft leather armour | Tank | 1 | +1 |
Spined Armour | Power | 50 Defence | +59 |
Demon Slayer armour | Power | 60 Ranged & Defence | +72 |
Royal dragonhide armour | Tank | 65 Defence | +10 |
Armadyl armour | Power | 70 Defence | +87 |
Pernix armour | Power | 80 Defence & Health | +99 |
Achto tempest armour | Tank | 90 Defence | 0 |
Elite sirenic armour | Power | 92 Defence | +91 |
Weapons
There are a lot of weapons that you can use for Ranged, here is a list of recommended weapons for you to use:
Levels | Arrow weapon | Bolt weapon |
1-10 | Kayle's chargebow. | Bronze crossbow or bronze 2h crossbow with bronze bolts. |
10-20 | Oak shortbow with Iron arrows. | Iron regular or 2h crossbow with Iron bolts. |
20-30 | Willow shortbow with steel arrows. | Steel regular or 2h crossbow with steel bolts. |
30-40 | Maple shortbow with mithril arrows. | Mithril regular or 2h crossbow with mithril bolts. |
40-50 | Yew shortbow with adamant arrows. | Adamant regular or 2h crossbow with adamant bolts. |
50-60 | Magic shortbow with rune arrows. | Rune regular or 2h crossbow with rune bolts. |
60-70 | Elder shortbow with dragon arrows. | Dragon regular or 2h crossbow with dragon bolts. |
70-75 | Crystal bow. | Karil's crossbow or Karil's pistol crossbow with bolt racks. |
75-80 | - | Hand cannon with hand cannon shots or Armadyl crossbow with diamond bolts (e). |
80-90 | Zaryte bow or Attuned crystal bow | Chaotic crossbow or Royal crossbow with royal bolts. |
85-90 | Decimation | Wyvern crossbow. |
90-99 | Noxious longbow | Ascension crossbow with ascension bolts. |
92-99 | Seren godbow | Blightbound crossbow. |
95-99 | Bow of the Last Guardian | - |
Neck Slot
Required Level | Item | Bonus |
Level 1 | Amulet of accuracy | +15 |
Level 1 | Amulet of power | +15 |
Level 1 | Amulet of glory | +26 |
Level 1 | Amulet of ranging | +32 |
Level 1 | Amulet of fury | +32 |
Level 1 | Amulet of fury (t) | +34 |
Level 1 | Reaper necklace | +36 |
Level 70 | Saradomin's murmur | +36 |
Level 1 | Reaper necklace (or) | +38 |
Level 80 | Farsight sniper necklace | +44 |
Level 80 | Farsight blood necklace | +44 |
Level 1 | Amulet of souls | +46 |
Level 1 | Amulet of souls (or) | +48 |
Level 1 | Essence of Finality | +56 |
Level 1 | Essence of Finality (or) | +59 |
Ring Slot
Required Level | Item | Bonus |
Level 1 | Explorer's ring 4 | +10 |
Level 1 | Archers' ring | +17 |
Level 1 | Archers' ring (i) | +25 |
Level 1 | Stalker's ring | +30.4 |
Pocket Slot Items
Illuminated god book is the best one to use for the passive bonuses and no upkeep cost.
Illuminated god book is the best one to use for the passive bonuses and no upkeep cost.
Item | Requirements | Bonus |
God book | Horror from the Deep, fix the books by combining the pages with the books. | +2 Prayer, +5 Ranged |
Illuminated god book | Horror from the Deep, One piercing Note, 60 Crafting and 60 Prayer | +4 Prayer, +7 Ranged |
Attacker's insignia | Barbarian Assault, level 5 Attacker, five penance king kills, and 500 attacker points. | A bleed for 50 damage (uncharged) or 500 damage (charged) that hits 4 times. |
Scrimshaw of cruelty | 80 Ranged | 5% Ranged damage. |
Superior scrimshaw of cruelty | 80 Ranged, 92 Fletching, 10 Ancient bones in your player-owned port. | 6.66% Ranged damage. |
Scrimshaw of ranging | 85 Ranged | 2% Ranged accuracy. |
Superior scrimshaw of ranging | 85 Ranged,95 Fletching, 10 Ancient bonus in your player-owned port. | 4% Ranged accuracy. |
Auras
Auras are buffs that can be purchased by using loyalty points. You can activate them to gain a buff for a period of time. After the period has ended they go into cooldown and can be reactivated once the cooldown is over.
Item | Bonus |
Reckless aura | Increases Ranged by 10% and reduces Defence by 15%. |
Sharpshooter aura | Increases Ranged accuracy by 3% to 10%. |
Abilities
Some abilities are unlocked just by levelling up and some has additional requirements here are the most important ones to unlock:
Ability | Requirement |
Death's Swiftness | 85 Ranged, Completion of the quest "The World Wakes". |
Corruption Shot | 70 Ranged, Corruption shot ability codex or Mazcab ability codex. |
Greater Dazing Shot | 8 Ranged, 63M Shattered Worlds anima. |
Salt the Wound | 60 Ranged, 63M Shattered Worlds anima. |
Shadow Tendrils | 75 Ranged, Completion of the quest "The Dig Site". |
Tuska's Wrath | 50 Hitpoints, 4K Anima Islands reward points. |
Devotion | 1 Defence, 3.5K Anima Island reward points. |
Sacrifice | 10 Hitpoints, 3.5K Anime Island reward points. |
Onslaught | 90 Hitpoints, Onslaught Ability Codex or Mazcab Ability Codex. |
Relic Powers
These powers are unlocked through the Archaeology skill, and when activated, provide the player with a passive effect.
Relic Power | Effect | Archeology Level |
Font of Life | Increases maximum health by 500. | 5 |
Berserker's Fury | Increases your damage, the lower your health is. This effect can go up to +5.5% damage increase. This does not stack with Dharok's armour set. | 56 |
Death Ward | Reduces the damage you take by 5% when your life points are below 50%, this effect increases to 10% damage reduction when your health is below 25%. | 81 |
Fury of the Small | All of your basic abilities generate 1% more adrenaline. | 97 |
Persistent Rage | Your adrenaline will not drain outside of combat. | 98 |
Heightened Senses | Your maximum adrenaline is increased by 10%. | 105 |
Conservation of Energy | After using an ultimate ability, regain 10% of your adrenaline back. | 118 |
Inspire Awe | 2% exp boost to your combat skills. | 119 |
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1-99 and Beyond Ranged Training
Levels | Monster | EXP | Notes |
1-20 | Chicken | 25 | Requires constant attention. |
20-40 | Chaos druid | 66 | Weak to arrows and good herb drops. |
20-40 | Giant bat | 95 | Semi-Afkable. |
40-49 | Green dragon | 198 | Very good drops for its level. Requires dragon breath protection which might hinder experience rates. |
40-49 | Pyrefiends | 151 | Requires level 30 Slayer. Weak to bolts. |
50-70 | Blue dragon | 367 | Very good drops. Weak to bolts and also affected by bane ammunition. Requires dragon breath protection. |
50-70 | Abyssal demon | 661 | Requires level 85 Slayer. Very good drops. Affected by bane ammunition. |
50-70 | Black demon | 661 | Good alch drops. Weak to bolts. Can use dwarf multicannon in Taverley Dungeon. |
70-99 | Aviansie | 491 | This creature resides in the God Wars Dungeon, so you need to wear an item from all four factions to prevent aggression. Weak to bolts. Drops food so you don't have to resupply. |
70-99 | Exiled kalphite marauder | 661 | Drops a lot of alchables so a spring cleaner is recommended. Weak to arrows. Always aggressive, up to 300K EXP/H. Can be AFK'd with soul split. |
70-99 | Rorarius | 404 | Requires level 81 Slayer. Fast experience. Very profitable drops. Weak to Ranged. |
70-99 | Waterfiend | 934 | Good source of crimson charms. Weak to bolts. |
70-99 | Mature grotworm | 661 | High experience rates. Good alchable drops. Drops sharks and brews. Weak to bolts. |
Alternative Methods
Slayer
Instead of camping a monster till you get a specific level, you can choose to do Slayer all the way up to 99. It is recommended that you start this method starting at level 60 Ranged. You can use a Slayer helmet when you are killing a monster on task, which greatly boosts your damage and accuracy, increasing your experience rates.
AFK Waterfiends
This is a high level method which requires level 92 Prayer for Soul Split and level 96 Herblore for overloads. You will need at least tier 70 armour and tier 80 weapons and if possible the use of a Geyser titan is quite useful. Here is what you need to bring per trip:
- 20 Prayer potions
- 4 Overloads
- 2 Geyser titan pouches
- 2 Sharks
You can AFK these monsters at Ghorrock. Monster aggression timer is 10 minutes so when they become unagressive towards you run away from them and come back to reset the timer.
EXP/H: 450K - Not AFKing
EXP/H: 350K - Total AFKing
Abyssal Training
This is the best way to gain AFK Ranged experience in the game. The south-west and south-east corners of the abyss have 15+ creatures that are aggressive.
For items, use red chincompas alongside an off hand Armadyl crossbow, blood amulet, power armour and a grand ranging potion or better.
To gain the full benefits use Revolution++ with the following bar:
- Corruption Shot
- Death's Swiftness
- Bombardment
- Deadshot
- Fragmentation Shot
- Needle Strike
- Binding Shot
EXP/H: 700K
Quests That Reward Ranged XP
Sick and tired of fighting? Since you're eventually going to want to do all of the quests in the game, you might as well go through some that reward Ranged XP. Check these quests out below:
Quest | Members | XP reward (Ranged) | Ranged Requirement | Other Requirements |
The Blood Pact | Free-to-play | 100 | N/A | N/A |
Big Chompy Bird Hunting | Members | 735 | 30 Ranged | 30 Cooking, 5 Fletching |
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Skrach Uglogwee | Members | 1,500 | 30 Ranged | 41 Cooking, 20 Firemaking |
Zogre Flesh Eaters | Members | 2,000 | 30 Ranged | N/A |
Heroes' Quest | Members | 2,075 | N/A | 53 Cooking, 53 Fishing, 25 Herblore, 25 Defence (Black Arm gang only), 50 Mining |
Horror from the Deep | Members | 4,662 | N/A | 35 Agility |
The Curse of Arrav | Members | 9,000 | 64 Ranged | 37 Slayer, 41 Summoning, 61 Agility, 64 Strength, 64 Mining, 66 Thieving |
Dimension of Disaster: Curse of Arrav | Members | 9,000 | 64 Ranged | 61 Agility, 64 Strength |
Temple of Ikov | Members | 10,500 | 40 Ranged | 42 Thieving |
Within the Light | Members | 20,000 | 75 Ranged | 69 Agility, 70 Fletching, 75 Woodcutting |
Plague's End | Members | 50,000 | 75 Ranged | 75 Agility, 75 Construction, 75 Crafting, 75 Dungeoneering, 75 Herblore, 75 Mining, 75 Prayer, 75 Summoning, 75 Woodcutting |
Total | — | 109,572 |
Max Out Ranged In RS3
Training your Ranged in RS3 can take a considerable amount of time. But hopefully, our guide has made it that much easier to become a master ranger in the game. If you want a break from all of the fighting in the game, then check out our RS3 fishing guide next!
FAQs
What's the fastest way to train Ranged in RS3?
The fastest route to 99 Ranged involves high-level multitarget combat with aggressive setups:
- Levels 1-30: Troll Brutes or low-level Slayer tasks with bronze arrows or a training bow.
- 30-70: Use Dorgeshuun Crossbow or Karil's at Spiders, Chaos Druids, or Waterfiends.
- 70-99: Train at ED3 Trash Mobs, Abyssal Lords, Vyrewatch Sentinels, or do Slayer using Revolution++ with Snipe, Bombardment, and Snapshot.
For speed:
- Use Aggression potions, Chincompas, and Cinderbanes for AoE burst.
- Ranged Power Armor (Armadyl → Pernix → Elite Sirenic) boosts XP/hr.
- Bonus XP + Double XP + Pulse Cores = hundreds of thousands of XP per hour.
Can you train Ranged passively or with AFK methods in RS3?
Yes — Ranged is one of the best AFK-able combat styles:
- Abyssal Lords (with Animate Dead and Soul Split).
- Fungal Mages in Polypore.
- Vyrewatch Sentinels in Darkmeyer.
- Using Chinchompas on clustered mobs with Aggro potions.
AFK setups should focus on:
- Tier 80+ tank gear (like Pernix or Cryptbloom hybrid).
- Passive healing via Scrimshaw of Vampyrism or Blood Amulet.
- Ripper Demon familiar for damage boost.
- Revolution++ with good ability setup.
Expect 250k-500k XP/hr while safely AFK in optimal gear.
What are the best Ranged weapons and gear for training?
Your gear progression determines both XP speed and survival:
- 1-50: Oak → Maple Shortbows / Dorgeshuun Crossbow.
- 50-70: Karil's Crossbow, Royal Crossbow.
- 70-85: Armadyl armor, Zaryte Bow, or dual Chaotic Crossbows.
- 85-99: Ascension Crossbows, Death Lotus, Pernix, Elder God Arrows, Sirenic/Elite Sirenic.
- 100+: Dual Eldritch Crossbows or Bow of the Last Guardian (BiS).
Recommended Augments:
- Aftershock, Precise, Equilibrium, Biting, and Relentless.
Don't forget to bind Ranged abilities like Ricochet, Rapid Fire, and Deadshot for AoE and burst.
Is Slayer a good way to train Ranged in RuneScape 3?
Absolutely. Ranged Slayer offers huge XP and valuable drops:
- Unlock Broad Bolts, Ascension creatures, and Ranged-only tasks.
- Combine Slayer helm (ranged) with Aggression potions for fast XP.
- Use Vampyrism Aura and Blood Spells to sustain without food.
Best Slayer Masters for Ranged:
- Duradel, Morvran, and Laniakea.
Also consider:
- Reaper Tasks, Slayer Challenges, and Contract resets for fast-paced gains.
- Task-specific gear like Ava's Device + Slayer Helmet upgrades.
Slayer adds profit, Reaper points, and Combat XP in one efficient loop.
What XP boosts and consumables help with faster Ranged training?
Stacking bonuses is crucial for fast progress. Best options:
- Double XP Live: Max gain for bolts/chins/abilities.
- Bonus XP (BXP): Applies to combat styles and dummy use.
- Wisdom Aura: Flat XP buff.
- Penance Aura: Sustains Prayer during prolonged fights.
- Aggression Potions: Auto-aggro enemies to farm them fast.
- Ranging Potions/Overloads: Boost damage and XP per hour.
- Incense Sticks (Bloodweed): +2% Ranged XP at Tier 4.
- Chinchompas: Massive AoE burst XP when stacked mobs are present.
Use Combat Training Dummies in downtime for bonus Ranged XP while doing other tasks.
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