Sal's Realm of RuneScape
Classic Magic:
Runes & Staffs

Magic can come in handy for almost anyone, since there are many things that it can do. You can weaken monsters, change swords into gold, and even teleport around the world in seconds!

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The Magic Menuspellbook

All of your spells will be cast, or used, from the magic menu. You can see all of your magic spells by hovering over the red spell book on the in-game interface.

Things to Pay Attention tomagic spells

  • The magic level needed to cast the spell.
  • The name of the spell.
  • A short description of the spell, telling you what it will do.
  • How many runes you have, and the number needed to use the spell.

Whenever you hover over a spell, it will tell you what the spell does, and how many runes you need to cast the spell. In the picture, it shows how many runes I need to cast the spell, and how many of those runes I have. I'm holding 25 water, 75 air, and 5 death runes, which is more than enough.

Color-Coded Spells

  • Yellow - you can cast the spell
  • White - you are a high enough magic level, but don't have all the runes needed.
  • Black - you aren't a high enough magic level yet.

Runes

Runes are small stones filled with magical power, that let you cast spells when you have the correct amount, and are proficient enough at magic. They can be found throughout the land, or looted from enemies. Some can even be bought from magic shops.

Kinds of Runes
Description Rune Picture

Elemental Runes:

These runes can be found throughout RuneScape, and are used with all of the spells.

 Air air
Water water
Earth earth
Fire fire

Offensive Runes:

These runes are used for attack spells that either weaken or cause damage to your enemy. They range from low to high level runes, which are more rare. Blood and Soul runes are Members-only.

 Mind mind
Body body
Chaos chaos
Death death
Blood blood
Soul soul

Auxiliary Runes:

These runes let you teleport, use alchemy spells, or enchant amulets.

 Law law
Nature nature
Cosmic cosmic

Staffs

Staffs can be useful to you if you use a lot of elemental runes. Regular staffs (and staffs of magic) only raise your magic, but when you wield an elemental staff (i.e. Air), it will count as an infinite number of that kind of rune. Choose wisely, since you can only use 1 staff at a time.

Staffs
Picture Staff Power Aim Magic Price
staff Staff 3 7 6 15gp
magic Magic 8 13 15 200gp
air Air 4 8 20 1,500gp
water Water 5 9 20 1,500gp
earth Earth 6 11 20 1,500gp
fire Fire 7 12 20 1,500gp

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