Ultimate Ironman Guide/Magic

Magic is one of the most useful skills for Ultimate Ironman players, as it is often the fastest way to travel, is crucial to a number of training methods, and is a powerful option in many high and low-level combat situations. Early Magic training can be somewhat slow, due to low-level spells giving little experience per cast, but later on the skill can be passively trained through use in other training methods or general travel or using high alchemy for making money.

For more information about Magic equipment, see Ultimate Ironman Guide/Equipment.

Early levels can be skipped by completing quests rewarding Magic experience. The following quests, when completed in order, have minimal requirements and reward enough experience to get to level 34 Magic. Additionally, all quest fights below are safe-spottable and all skill requirements are boostable.

Casting combat spells at early levels can be a good way to train Magic, Hitpoints, and optionally, Defence. Players who are able to give full attention are highly recommended to use these early levels to train Slayer. Use an elemental staff, purchasable from Zaff's Staffs. Early money for runes can be obtained by for example by collecting the 10,000 coins from the Stronghold of Security, or picking up items that spawn on the ground and selling these to vendors (Eclipse red, Steel platebodies in wilderness...). More methods can be found at the Ironman money making guide for early money.

If you have trouble getting money for runes at rune shops in the very early game it is recommended to primarily use strike spells for combat as mind runes are very cheap compared to chaos or death runes. It is also possible to claim every 30minutes 30 air & mind runes from the magic combat tutor in Lumbridge.

Also note that certain monsters are weak to a certain element, you may want to look up these monsters or cast monster inspect (later monster examine) on it. This increases the accuracy and max hit of elemental spells like for example strike, blast & wave spells tremendously which in turn increases your time per kill and exp gain by a large amount.

While expensive, splashing does not require a lot of attention and early on provides a decent AFK experience. For this method, it's recommended to use the best/highest strike spells available, as the runes used are cheap, obtainable from shops, and early-on provide the most efficient damage per money spent. The following locations can be used to splash with minimal attention:

The Gemstone Crab is located in Varlamore and available for a great AFK experience. The quest Children of the Sun is required to be completed in order to access Varlamore.

With Autocast, a player will be able to AFK for up to 10 minutes at a time. The Gemstone Crab occasionally may attack players if they are within melee range but will be completely safe outside of it. Players will earn slightly less experience (1 damage = 3.5 experience rather than 4), but will typically earn higher experience rates due to lack of downtime and overkill. Compared to splashing on (for example) rats, players will also receive Hitpoints experience and bonus magic experience for damaging the crab.

Finding books for the customers in the Arceuus Library can be one of the fastest methods of gaining free Magic experience, especially at lower levels. Each book turned in grants 15 times your current Magic level in experience which is why it is not recommended to start this method at level 1. This requires marking and tracking the locations of books, the RuneLite plugin "Kourend Library" trivialises this step some what. Collect as many books as possible and turn them in by speaking with the customers. Keep talking to the customers until they request a book not currently in your possession and recollect books along the way. Biblia on the top floor may help you find a certain book if you find and ask her.

Approximately 120 Books of arcane knowledge can be obtained per hour without energy-replenishing items. With energy replenishment, rates of approximately 150 can be obtained.
Estimated experience rates (without accounting for levels gained while training) are shown in the table below:

Slayer training gives a lot of passive and active Magic experience. Ancient Magicks are commonly used to burst or barrage multiple monsters for fast Slayer experience. Not only is this efficient for Slayer training, but casting burst or barrage spells also gives relatively high Magic experience rates in itself. The downside is that the spells cost a lot of money to cast, however on most tasks enough money is made back from drops to have only minor losses, break even or even profit slightly.

Ancient Magicks are typically used on dust devil, nechryael and smoke devil tasks. With practice, players can also use Ancient Magicks on dagannoth, abyssal demon, and TzHaar tasks as well, however they are much more expensive to do as those monsters barely give any money back from drops.

From level 70 to 94 Magic, it is recommended to use Ice Burst when training Slayer, as the spell is relatively cheap to cast and it has a decent max hit. Once the player reaches level 94 Magic, it is recommended to use Ice Barrage for better damage output, however it is more expensive to use than Ice Burst. Players can mitigate the extra cost by crafting the blood runes themselves, as they are very expensive when bought from a magic shop. On abyssal demon tasks the player should use Smoke Barrage.

Passively a lot of experience is gained through teleports around the world to the slayer master and target destinations, alching items or even casting reanimation or offering spells for prayer experience.

For more information, see Ultimate Ironman Guide/Slayer.

Training Crafting through glassblowing offers a small amount of passive Magic experience from casting Superglass Make. The exact experience rates will depend on the method and the player's attention, but generally players can expect to gain around 5,000–6,000 Magic experience per hour.

For more information, see Ultimate Ironman Guide/Crafting.

Smithing platebodies at the Blast Furnace offers some passive Magic experience from alching the platebodies for profit.

For more information, see Ultimate Ironman Guide/Smithing.

Having a wide variety of useful alchemy spells, enchantment spells, and teleportation spells, Magic is a skill where experience will often accumulate during all sorts of other activities and training methods. High Alchemy is often used to process drops from Slayer, or turn items crafted through Fletching, Smithing, or Crafting into useful coins. On the Lunar spellbook, Humidify is useful for making Jugs of wine for Cooking training, and Cure Plant and Fertile Soil are both useful for Farming training. The Arceuus spellbook has the Resurrect Crops spell for Farming, as well as the various reanimation or offering (with 95 Runecrafting for Wrath runes) spells for occasional Prayer training.

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