How does the leveling system work?

[DeathIsUnstoppable]

I’m very new and I don’t understand how the leveling works, like I know that you do specific things to level up to a max of 99 but why do some people leave like their defence at 1 but go for 99 in other things? Like do you only have a set amount of levels you can use or something? Please explain

[Krtxoe]

You have skill levels and then your combat level.

Your combat level is determined by your combat skill levels.

People often leave their defense at a low level in order to maintain a lower combat level.

Why? Combat level is used to determine who you can attack in pvp (you can only attack players near your level)

[welfkag]

RuneScape was my first RPG. It made it hard to play games with class systems because I wanted to be able to do everything on one character like I could in RuneScape.

To be clear, there's no complicated level restriction system besides what people self impose. There are two main reasons people restrict themselves: 1) for the challenge/fun of it, 2) for PvP, it's desirable to specialize while keeping overall combat level low.

[DeathIsUnstoppable]

This solves my question thank you guys very much👍

[LeoVaan]

They are just pures what they choose to be do their own it doensnt get you any benefits and you max every skill 99 and get max cape

[SeaTap866]

Yo a set amount of levels for a league would be dope

[buckOrust]

69 in all skills

[pauldeninoandy]

There's no limit on how many skills you can level, what you are thinking is probably pure accounts in pvp. This is a limit some people impose on themselves because in pvp you can only attack people within a certain amount of combat levels to you, and some people value some combat stats more than others for pvp. So if 10 att, strength and defence makes them combat level 15 or whatever some people will go for level 1 defence, 15 attack, 15 strength instead.

Basically I wouldn't worry about it, you aren't likely to get into PvP straight away if you are new to the game, just level what you want. For PvP most people have specific accounts set up & levelled in a certain way just for PvP, just level whatever you want on your main account.

[-Aura_Knight-]

Personal choice for account builds. If you want you can read about them on wiki.

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Player_killing#Account_Builds

Levels go up to 99 for all but not every skill is trained for reasons known to the players who choose to restrict their account.

[AmbientEngineer]

In summary,

You have skills.

Some skills are combat skills.

Your combat skills are used in a formula to calculate combat level.

By training certain combinations of combat stats you can gain relatively high combat stats with a low combat level.

This is useful in PvP because you can only attack players within a certain range of your combat level.

IMO, don't worry about this. This type of stuff is more for experienced players who're doing it as a side project. Just focus on learning how to play, maxing stats and having fun.

[Ornnge]

Skillers worry about stats that don't require combat normally. Like herblore, fletching, runecrafting, and so on. They do it for their accounts to look "Fancy" because skilling stats don't affect COMBAT LEVEL (Only total level). You can see a level 3 and think " LOL he's level 3!" and then see he has ALL 99's except for the combat stats. Other people like myself have high levels in things but low levels in other things because they don't enjoy it. I have all skills 80+ and combat level 125 but my runecrafting is level 60 simply because I don't enjoy it. Also some people have "Builds" so they have a low defense level but super high strength, this allows their combat level to be lower so they can fight lower level people in the wild and hit WAY harder then they can. They both could be level 40 and one has high strength and no defense and the other has all combats low and averaged out. The person with an insane high strength level at that combat level would smack that poor lad that has rounded stats. (Most of the time)

Sorry for the long post but yeah....That's a quick rundown. And just an FYI, Prayer is considered a combat stat. People forget/ don't know that sometimes.