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RuneScape Newcomer's Guide
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Sarodim's_Wrath, Twist of Fate
Special Thanks to Dark Light A, Venomblood, Arthurcourt, Golden Arm42, Damaged500, Moneylover, Roy, Dr Skull, Runescaper4, Roy, Flames, Donovan, Error404, Skeleton If you're new to RuneScape, you'll probably want to know what to start off with, such as which skills to train or which quests you should work on first. This guide will explain a bit about each skill and explain which quests you should do first.
If you are willing to take a risk and sacrifice some defense to cause some major hurt, try a 2-Handed Sword. They are slow and you won't be able to use shields. Also, try to level up Smithing, as you might be a good enough smithy to make your own weapons and armour. Try shops such as the axe shop in Port Sarim, or the sword shop in Varrock. If you have completed the Rune Mysteries Quest, grab a pickaxe, go mine some Rune Essence, and obtain mind and air talismans. Then craft some mind and air runes. If not, buy them from the Varrock magic store. Cast wind strike as much as preferred on rats in varrock sewers. Halve your rune essence that you mined and write that down. Keep taking 28 essence at a time to the air temple south of falador and craft air runes. Then repeat this with the other half of essence except this time do it at the mind temple, north of goblin village. Recommended to use these for magic.
There are quite a few quests in RuneScape, but there are a few that you should work on when you first start out in RuneScape, as they give some decent rewards such as cash or experience, which are both essential when you're a beginner. Adventurers
Warriors
Mages
Money & Treasure Freaks
General Quests
Trading with other players can be very helpful if you need something that they have. In the land of RuneScape, there used to be no limit to your trades, but Jagex has changed that. There is now a trade limit that restricts your trading based on how much the trade give you in profits or if it loses you money. The limit is dependable on your quest points, the points that are awarded after completion of any quest, and can greatly increase the current lowest limit of 3,000gp. Here's a table showing the relation of Quest Points to trade loses/gains:
Once you have received any kind of lose or gain with a trade, it will take 15 minutes for that limit to reset itself back to the previous limit (what your limit was before any trade happened). This limit also affects the Duel Arena staked duels and the bet in the mini-game, Rat Pits. The reason for this is to prevent Real-world trading from happening. This also prevents autoers from ruining the game for the players.
  
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This displays your objective after you have chosen it. 2. Clear Clicking this will clear the objective that you've put in. 3. Random Objectives 
When you click this, you will be taken to a screen which will allow you to click on any objectives that the game thinks might be useful for you to have. It is a bit more strict than the right click on the skill icon option because the random objective button will only track how much experience you need for the next level. 4. Advisor
5. Experience Percentage This tells you how far you are until you reach your goal. This starts counting experience from when you start tracking your goal, not in terms of experience from when you've just gained your last level. This is basically a description panel that will come up in the center of the interface after you've set your objective. It shows the skill icon, what your goal is, and whether or not you will unlock something upon completion. Since this is a feature aimed mostly at new players and like most updates, the best way to learn is by playing around with it while reading a guide. Oh, right. This is a guide, so you have one! You now know the features, now time to find out how they work. There are two ways to set an objective. You can select from the "Random Objective" panel, or you can right click on a skill icon and select "Set Objective". 
After you have selected your objective via the skill menu, you will have to enter your desired level. 
Just hit enter after, and you're done! You can do the same for quests. Right click on a quest that you have not yet started, and select "Set Objective". You cannot set a completed quest as an objective. Sadly, you are not able to set a skill that you have already gotten 99 in as an objective. 
This may or may not be changed in the future. If it is changed at all, you will most likely be able to type in the amount of experience that you desire in that particular skill. To clear your objective, simply click "Clear Objective". When you log out, your objective and experience percentage will not be lost. The experience percentage starts counting from when you first set the item as the objective. Lets say you have 10,000 experience to get 79 Slayer for example, it will start at 0% when you first put it as your objective. 
When you clear it, it will reset back to 0% the next time you set it as your objective.
From there, you will be given options to ask questions based on what is in your inventory. You can access the advisor via the Objectives interface or by clicking the other question mark located at the top right of your screen next to the Log-out button. Do you have a few tidbits of information that you'd like to have access to in game easily? Well delete it off your ignore list because as of July 8th, 2009, all players can now use the "Notes" feature. It is a very great way to keep yourself organized while playing. 
Abilities You can store any bit of information that you'd like in your notebook. Whether it be goals, achievement dates, a merchanting item you've been watching, or even events. In your notebook, you may only have a maximum of 30 notes each with a maximum of 50 characters. The maximum amount of characters would be 1500.
It is also possible to customize the colors of your notes. This is helpful to organize unfinished notes, notes not yet started, or achieved notes. You can do this by right clicking a note to highlight it, and then selecting "Color". 
If you want to edit your note, simply highlight it and select edit. 
As a tip for security reasons, DO NOT store your bank pin, password, or recovery questions in your notes. Special Features Jagex has also put in a few little Easter eggs for you to find when you type in certain messages. They are mostly references to movie lines or Internet jokes. Players are still finding more but here are just a few.
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Melee Combat: Now you would probably want to start off with a weapon that can kill anything in one shot. That's not going to happen, but the next best thing is a Scimitar or Battle Axe. Each time you are able to wield a new metal type of weapon, go for the next type of Battle Axe or Scimitar. 
Ranged: Start by getting around 100-200gp. Then go to the Ranging shop in 
Prayer: Put everything in the bank and switch to a world (server) that has a small amount of people and head to Varrock. Using your map, head into the Wilderness and head to the chaos temple surrounded by lava. When I went, there was no one around. There are around 20-30 continuous bone spawns, which will provide a fair amount of Prayer experience when buried.
Magic: Magic can be expensive to start with, but when combined with Runecrafting (see below), it should be ok. Head to the Wizard's Tower south of 
Runecrafting: You must have completed the Rune Mysteries Quest before starting this skill. Go to Varrock with a pickaxe, head to the magic store and ask to be teleported by the shop owner to be teleported to the Rune Essence. Mine 28, head out, bank it, then repeat until you have around 200-300. Head to 
Agility: Unarmored, go to the Tree Gnome Stronghold and do the Gnome Agility course. There's not much else to do until level 35 agility, when you can start training (once you've done the 
Herblore:
To start herblore, you need to have finished the 
Thieving: To start, there are quite a lot of easy quests that could get you well on your way to master thievery.See the 
Crafting: Pottery is the easiest and possibly most effective way of obtaining that valuable crafting experience. Get a pickaxe, go south of varrock, and start mining clay. Get 1 bucket, fill it up, and use it with the clay. Get 28 ready clay and head to 
Fletching: The good thing about fletching is that you gain woodcutting exp whilst fletching. Grab an axe and a knife and go cut down 28 regular trees or evergreens. Cut them using the knife into arrow shafts until level 10 fletching, then cut them into bows. String the bows if you wish and use 1 of them for ranged combat if desired. Fletching can be a valuable skill.
Slayer: Head to 
Mining: Mining is easy to start off with. Mine 28 tin and bank them. Mine 28 copper and bank those too. Repeat this as many times as wished, then head to Falador (or another place with a furnace) and smith bronze bars. Then mine again, and again, and again. Mining exp goes up fairly quickly, and when you can mine coal you can sell it for good money. 
Smithing Well it's fairly obvious to start with bronze. Make sure to have a hammer to use at the anvils. I suggest completing 
Fishing: Start by fishing Shrimp using a net. I started using a rod as soon as i had the required level, but if you can't afford the bait, keep netting shrimps. Fish are good to cook and good to eat and can sell for good cash to fishy friends and baiting buyers.
Cooking: Chickens and Shrimps provide the same amount of early experience, but its your choice: if you want combat exp, kill chickens and cook the raw chicken, and if you want fishing exp, catch shrimp and cook them. Cooking is a good skill because it provides the opportunity to cook foods that can heal lost hitpoints. 
Firemaking: Cut logs and burn them until you can cut the next best type of tree, then burn them. But wait... when you get to cutting magic logs (which will take a while, trust me!) don't burn them; sell them! They can sell for 1,000gp (1k) each. 
Woodcutting: This is even more self explanatory than firemaking. Because all you can use woodcutting for is, well, woodcutting. Sell Yews and Magic logs when you have the ability to cut them. Otherwise, burn or fletch all other cut logs. 
The Objective System was introduced in order to help training your skills and completing quests more organized. It works as kind of a skill focus, allowing you to see exactly how far you are to your goal. This feature was made mostly for newcomers who are a bit fascinated by the amount of things that you can do in-game, and offers them a more organized way of training their skills. However, due to how helpful the Objective System actually is, this feature is great for players of any level! To start, just click the little arrow icon at the bottom left of your inventory interface.
The little question mark at the top of the interface is for contact with the advisor. You will learn more about him later on in the guide.
The Advisor, or Roddeck, is a helpful NPC who you can talk to by clicking the question mark located at the top right part of your objectives panel. It is marked on the interface feature map shown earlier. This part is probably mostly for newer members. When you click it, you will be given a box like this.
This feature can be accessed by clicking on the icon on the bottom side of your inventory interface.
To write a note, click "Add" at the top left corner of the interface. 
To delete it, either right click and select delete, or highlight it and click "Delete" at the bottom right corner.