Splashing/Guide

This article details how to splash. Splashing is the act of training magic by casting combat spells against an enemy while having too low magic accuracy to be able to actually hit. Although no damage is dealt, each Magic combat spell will still give the player a constant base amount of experience.

Despite the enemy remaining alive indefinitely, after 20 minutes of inactivity the player will stop attacking. As a consequence, interaction with the game is needed to continue splashing; otherwise, you will remain logged in without gaining any experience until a forced disconnection happens or the enemy stops attacking (typically due to other players' interference). Although usually simply moving the cursor over the client is enough to reset the logout timer, even when the window is inactive, in the case of splashing, having Auto Retaliate on and clicking somewhere on the client or pressing a key are needed.

• It is necessary to wear items negating Magic Attack bonus to -64 or lower.
• A Magic Attack bonus of -63 (or higher) provides the chance of dealing damage of 1 Hitpoint or more.

Free-to-play

Members

Attack bonusStab: +0Slash: +0Crush: +0Magic: -81Range: -24Defence bonusStab: +34Slash: +37Crush: +29Magic: -10Range: +31Other bonusesMelee strength: +0Ranged strength: +0Magic damage: -80Prayer: +0 29.8 kg Items KEPT if not SKULLED: Items KEPT if using PROTECT ITEM: Items sent to your GRAVESTONE or LOST to the player who killed you: Data in this list is based purely on exchange or item value. See Items Kept on Death for info. The interface and items kept on death may vary in-game; general disclaimers apply.

Attack bonusStab: +0Slash: -1Crush: +7Magic: -83Range: -24Defence bonusStab: +212Slash: +215Crush: +197Magic: +4Range: +206Other bonusesMelee strength: +4Ranged strength: +0Magic damage: -80Prayer: +0 32.8 kg Items KEPT if not SKULLED: Items KEPT if using PROTECT ITEM: Items sent to your GRAVESTONE or LOST to the player who killed you: Data in this list is based purely on exchange or item value. See Items Kept on Death for info. The interface and items kept on death may vary in-game; general disclaimers apply.

For free-to-play players:

• A full plate armour set consists of any full helm, platebody, platelegs/plateskirt, and kiteshield. Platelegs and plateskirts confer the same bonuses.
  • Plate armour of any metal can be substituted for another, e.g. a Bronze platebody and a Rune platebody both have a -30 Magic attack bonus.
• Green d'hide vambraces or Gilded d'hide vambraces require Level 40 Ranged to equip.
• Fancy or fighting boots can be substituted with Decorative boots.
• Any elemental staff to reduce runes needed and to enable autocast. Note that elemental staves have a +10 Magic attack bonus.
  • The elemental staff can be swapped for a Cursed goblin staff (obtained from Diango in Draynor). This precludes the rune savings of an elemental staff, but achieves -68 Magic attack without the need to equip Green d'hide vambraces.
    • Alternatively, a Cursed amulet of magic can be worn. This item allows an elemental staff to be used for splashing in Castle Wars, if the player wears full splashing gear (Platebody, legs, Stronghold Boots, d'hide vambraces and a kiteshield) to achieve -64 Magic attack bonus.

For members:

• The mixed hide cape offers -15 magic attack, requiring only 60 Ranged and 50 Defence to equip.
• Any blessed d'hide boots, snakeskin boots (pictured), or mixed hide boots can be used for a -10 Magic attack bonus. Snakeskin boots have the lowest requirements of the three, at only 30 Ranged and 30 Defence to equip.

Lvl	Icon	Name	Runes	Base XP/cast	XP/h [a]	XP/h (Harmonised nightmare staff) [b]	Raw Cost/cast [c]	Cost/cast (basic elemental staff) [d]	Cost/h (basic elemental staff) [d]	GP/XP (basic elemental staff) [d]	Cost/cast (combination elemental staff) [e]	Cost/h (combination elemental staff) [e]	GP/XP (combination elemental staff) [e]
1		Wind Strike	1 1	5.5	6,600	8,250	7	2	2,400	0.36	2	2,400	0.36
5		Water Strike	1 1 1	7.5	9,000	11,250	12	7	8,400	0.93	2	2,400	0.27
9		Earth Strike	1 2 1	9.5	11,400	14,250	17	7	8,400	0.74	2	2,400	0.21
13		Fire Strike	2 3 1	11.5	13,800	17,250	27	12	14,400	1.04	2	2,400	0.17
17		Wind Bolt	2 1	13.5	16,200	20,250	116	106	127,200	7.85	106	127,200	7.85
23		Water Bolt	2 2 1	16.5	19,800	24,750	126	116	139,200	7.03	106	127,200	6.42
29		Earth Bolt	2 3 1	19.5	23,400	29,250	131	116	139,200	5.95	106	127,200	5.44
35		Fire Bolt	3 4 1	22.5	27,000	33,750	141	121	145,200	5.38	106	127,200	4.71
41		Wind Blast	3 1	25.5	30,600	38,250	200	185	222,000	7.25	185	222,000	7.25
47		Water Blast	3 3 1	28.5	34,200	42,750	215	200	240,000	7.02	185	222,000	6.49
53		Earth Blast	3 4 1	31.5	37,800	47,250	220	200	240,000	6.35	185	222,000	5.87
59		Fire Blast	4 5 1	34.5	41,400	51,750	230	205	246,000	5.94	185	222,000	5.36
62		Wind Wave	5 1	36	43,200	54,000	399	374	448,800	10.39	374	448,800	10.39
65		Water Wave	5 7 1	37.5	45,000	56,250	434	399	478,800	10.64	374	448,800	9.97
70		Earth Wave	5 7 1	40	48,000	60,000	434	399	478,800	9.98	374	448,800	9.35
75		Fire Wave	5 7 1	42.5	51,000	63,750	434	399	478,800	9.39	374	448,800	8.80
81		Wind Surge	7 1	44.5	53,400	66,750	371	336	403,200	7.91	336	403,200	7.91
85		Water Surge	7 10 1	46.5	55,800	69,750	421	371	445,200	7.98	336	403,200	7.23
90		Earth Surge	7 10 1	48.5	58,200	72,750	421	371	445,200	7.65	336	403,200	6.93
95		Fire Surge	7 10 1	50.5	60,600	75,750	421	371	445,200	7.35	336	403,200	6.65

Lvl	Icon	Name	Runes	Base XP/cast	Raw cost/cast [a]	Cost/cast [b]	XP/h [c]	Cost/h [b]	GP/XP [b]	GP/XP [d]
50		Smoke Rush	1 1 2 2	30	602	602	36,000	722,400	20.07
52		Shadow Rush	1 2 2 1	31	977	977	37,200	1,172,400	31.52
56		Blood Rush	1 2 2	33	956	956	39,600	1,147,200	28.97
58		Ice Rush	2 2 2	34	592	582	40,800	698,400	17.12	10.24
62		Smoke Burst	2 2 4 2	36	829	829	43,200	994,800	23.03
64		Shadow Burst	1 4 2 2	37	1,569	1,569	44,400	1,882,800	42.41
68		Blood Burst	2 4 2	39	1,542	1,542	46,800	1,850,400	39.54
70		Ice Burst	4 4 2	40	814	794	48,000	952,800	19.85	8.70
74		Smoke Blitz	2 2 2 2	42	1,153	1,153	50,400	1,383,600	27.45
76		Shadow Blitz	2 2 2 2	43	1,903	1,903	51,600	2,283,600	44.26
80		Blood Blitz	4 2	45	1,866	1,866	54,000	2,239,200	41.47
82		Ice Blitz	3 2 2	46	1,133	1,118	55,200	1,341,600	24.30	7.57
86		Smoke Barrage	4 4 2 4	48	1,553	1,553	57,600	1,863,600	32.35
88		Shadow Barrage	4 2 4 3	49	2,673	2,673	58,800	3,207,600	54.55
92		Blood Barrage	4 4 1	51	2,616	2,616	61,200	3,139,200	51.29
94		Ice Barrage	6 2 4	52	1,518	1,488	62,400	1,785,600	28.62	6.69

The demonbane spells of the Arceuus spellbook can only be cast on demonic monsters. Magic attack bonus needs to be -64 or lower to always splash, and equipping a tome of fire or skull sceptre will make that more difficult to reach while saving runes. Weaker demonic monsters such as icefiends and pyrefiends are ideal given their low stats, however armour will need to maximise Magical melee while keeping Magic accuracy low enough to splash. Players can also reanimate an Ensouled imp head to splash at the Dark Altar to take less damage. Unlike regular imps, reanimated ones will not teleport away.

Lvl	Icon	Name	Runes	Base XP/cast	XP/h [a]	Raw cost/cast [b]	Cost/cast (Tome of Fire) [c]	Raw Cost/h [b]	Cost/h (Tome of Fire) [c]	GP/XP [b]	GP/XP (Tome of Fire) [c]
35		Ghostly Grasp	4 1	22.5	27,000	126	N/A	151,200	N/A	5.60	N/A
44		Inferior Demonbane	3 1	27	32,400	126	106	151,200	127,200	4.67	3.93
56		Skeletal Grasp [d]	8 1	33	39,600	225	N/A	270,000	N/A	6.21	N/A
62		Superior Demonbane [d]	5 1	36	43,200	420	380	504,000	456,000	11.67	10.56
79		Undead Grasp [d]	12 1	46.5	55,800	434	374	520,800	448,800	9.33	8.04
82		Dark Demonbane [d]	7 2	43.5	52,200	820	760	984,000	912,000	18.85	17.47

Total experience required: 13,021,068 Magic experience.

Strategy	# of splashes	Time (hr)	Cost - Combination Staff	Cost - Elemental Staff (F2P)
	2,367,467	1,973.0	4,734,933.82	4,734,933.82
	1,736,143	1,446.9	3,472,284.80	12,152,996.80
	1,370,639	1,142.3	2,741,277.47	9,594,471.16
	1,132,267	943.6	2,264,533.57	13,587,201.39
	579,314	482.8	61,279,678.27	69,963,253.17
	381,648	318.1	69,606,375.21	77,178,076.63
	317,135	264.3	110,253,551.61	Members Only Spells
	301,246	251.1	101,103,146.99	Members Only Spells

If the monster you are splashing on can attack you, make sure that your defensive bonuses are sufficiently high so it won't slowly kill you over time. Commonly used monsters are rats, seagulls, and spiders, though rats in member's worlds can be killed by cats.

Popular locations include the seagulls in Port Sarim and Port Piscarilius. The chickens near Captain Barnaby may also be a good choice, as they are close to a bank and usually not too crowded. The Sailors' amulet provides an instant teleport directly to a seagull using the Red Rock teleport provided you have completed The Red Reef quest.

Players may also elect to check the bestiary to find a suitable creature & location themselves.

The only exception is the area in and surrounding Lumbridge, including the castle basement. Here, spells yield no experience for casting if a player's magic accuracy is too low to deal damage. This was done because the large amount of players splashing on rats looked odd to new players.^[1]

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map	League region
House west of the Grand Exchange	1		3	Show map	N/A
South of Slepe	1		9	Show map	N/A
Lovakengj	1		19	Show map	N/A
Ruins (east)	1		3	Show map	N/A
Ferox Enclave	1		9	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius	1		24	Show map	N/A
House west of McGrubor's Wood	1		3	Show map	N/A
Port Sarim jail	1		5	Show map	N/A
Draynor Village	1		2	Show map	N/A
South-east of Mount Quidamortem	1		18	Show map	N/A
Farm south of Falador	1		2	Show map	N/A
South-east of the Farming Guild	1		2	Show map	N/A
Arceuus	1		1	Show map	N/A
North of the Chaos Temple (Wilderness)	1		6	Show map	N/A
Gertrude's House	1		1	Show map	N/A
Fire Altar	1		1	Show map	N/A
Port Phasmatys	1		2	Show map	N/A
South of Kourend Castle	1		4	Show map	N/A
Mos Le'Harmless	1		2	Show map	N/A
Lunar Isle Ship	1		2	Show map	N/A
Rimmington	1		4	Show map	N/A
Burgh De Rott	1		13	Show map	N/A
Brimhaven	1		2	Show map	N/A
West Ruins	1		16	Show map	N/A
Sinclair Mansion	1		5	Show map	N/A
Lunar Isle	1		1	Show map	N/A
South of the Farming Guild	1		5	Show map	N/A
Draynor Manor	1		2	Show map	N/A
North-west of Hosidius Town Square	1		4	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze	1		5	Show map	N/A
South of Gu'Tanoth	1		3	Show map	N/A
Fishing Guild	1		1	Show map	N/A
Gnome maze	1		9	Show map	N/A
Varrock	1		1	Show map	N/A
West Ardougne	1		74	Show map	N/A
Port Phasmatys Ship	1		1	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius (1st Floor Buildings)	1		5	Show map	N/A
Lunar Isle Dock	1		1	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze (1st Floor)	1		2	Show map	N/A
Mos Le'Harmless Ship	1		1	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius (2nd Floor Buildings)	1		3	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze (2nd Floor)	1		2	Show map	N/A
Ardougne Sewers	1		23	Show map	N/A
Goblin Cave	1		19	Show map	N/A
Clock Tower Basement	1		26	Show map	N/A
Rat Pits	1		3	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze Basement	1		3	Show map	N/A
Dwarven Mines	1		4	Show map	N/A
Crandor and Karamja Dungeon	1		2	Show map	N/A
Draynor Sewers	1		10	Show map	N/A
Varrock Sewers	1		29	Show map	N/A
Draynor Manor Basement	1		9	Show map	N/A
Edgeville Dungeon	1		2	Show map	N/A
Sisterhood Sanctuary	1		6	Show map	N/A
Stronghold of Security: Catacomb of Famine	1		60	Show map	N/A
Stronghold of Security: Vault of War	1		56	Show map	N/A
Grand Tree Mine	1		21	Show map	N/A
Taverley Dungeon	1		4	Show map	N/A
The Warrens	1		16	Show map	N/A
Abandoned Mine (Level 2)	1		9	Show map	N/A
Abandoned Mine (Level 4)	1		3	Show map	N/A
Keldagrim Rat Pits	1		8	Show map	N/A
King's Ransom jail	1		4	Show map	N/A
Meiyerditch Laboratories	1		6	Show map	N/A
The Hollows	1		17	Show map	N/A
Meiyerditch Hideout (Myreque Hideout)	1		2	Show map	N/A
Observatory Dungeon	1		4	Show map	N/A
Rashiliyia's Tomb	1		3	Show map	N/A
Shadow Dungeon	1		12	Show map	N/A
Skavid Caves	1		18	Show map	N/A
Underground Pass (Level 2)	1		27	Show map	N/A
Waterfall Dungeon	1		9	Show map	N/A
Cabin Fever Boats	1		6	Show map	N/A
Cabin Fever Boats, 1st floor	1		3	Show map	N/A
Waterfall Dungeon (Flooded during quest)	1		1	Show map	N/A
Isle of Souls	1		4	Show map	N/A
Corsair Cove	2, 3		9	Show map	N/A
Port Sarim	2, 3		10	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius	2, 3		7	Show map	N/A
Icyene Graveyard	3		1	Show map	N/A
Ruins of Unkah	3		5	Show map	N/A
Hosidius	1		6	Show map	N/A
Lovakengj	1		41	Show map	N/A
Arceuus, outside the Tower of Magic	1		8	Show map	N/A
Port Piscarilius	1		10	Show map	N/A
Varrock	1		1	Show map	N/A
Al Kharid	1		3	Show map	N/A
East of Yanille	1		2	Show map	N/A
Ruins (west), in the Wilderness	1		6	Show map	N/A
Wilderness spider nest holding a Sapphire spawn	1		17	Show map	N/A
Gnome Maze	1		9	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze, Basement Floor	1		3	Show map	N/A
Varrock Sewers	1		9	Show map	N/A
Draynor Manor, Basement	1		4	Show map	N/A
Sisterhood Sanctuary	1		11	Show map	N/A
Stronghold of Security, Pit of Pestilence (level 3)	51, 24		35	Show map	N/A
Taverley Dungeon	1		3	Show map	N/A
Ogre Enclave	1		10	Show map	N/A
Underground Pass	1		49	Show map	N/A
Underground Pass (During Song of the Elves)	1		49	Show map	N/A
Rashiliyia's Tomb	1		1	Show map	N/A
Isle of Souls - Crumbling Tower basement	1		3	Show map	N/A