Skills

This article is about skills. For information on training skills, see Skill training guides.

The skills tab.

Skills are a player's attributes that can be advanced throughout the game. Skills are trained by repeating actions that give experience in the skill until enough experience is earned to advance to the next level. Skills range from cooking food, to chopping trees and to casting magic. Some skills are "interlaced", meaning that they can be used together. For example, logs obtained from Woodcutting can be lit for Firemaking, which can then be used to cook food for Cooking.

A player levels up a skill.

There are 22 different skills in Anarchy.

All skills start out at level 1 except for Hitpoints, which starts at level 10. Players can advance any skill to level 99. After that, they can increase their experience up to 1,000,000,000 but get no more levels for doing so. See the HiScores for the relative rankings of the different skills.

All players are currently displayed on the HiScores regardless of level attained.

Skills

Skill		Uses
	Attack	Wielding stronger melee weapons and hitting monsters more accurately in Melee.
	Strength	Dealing more melee damage and equipping certain weapons.
	Defence	Wearing stronger armour and decreasing chance of being hit.
	Ranged	Equipping stronger ranged weapons and armour. It also increases ranged accuracy.
	Prayer	Activating temporary aids to assist in combat.
	Magic	Casting various combat and utility spells.
	Runecraft	Creating runes used for casting Magic.
	Hunter	Capturing wild animals and creatures.
	Hitpoints	Amount of damage you can withstand.
	Agility	Traversing shortcuts and increases the rate at which energy recharges.
	Herblore	Cleaning and using herbs to create potions.
	Thieving	Stealing from market stalls and pickpocketing non-player characters.
	Crafting	Creating items such as jewellery and ranged armour.
	Fletching	Creating ranged weapons and ammunition.
	Slayer	Killing certain monsters that can't normally be defeated.
	Mining	Obtaining ores and minerals from rocks.
	Smithing	Smelting ores into bars and forging bars into armour and weapons.
	Fishing	Catching fish.
	Cooking	Making and cooking food.
	Firemaking	Lighting fires.
	Woodcutting	Chopping down trees.
	Farming	Planting and harvesting crops.

Experience increase

The amount of experience needed for every level-up increases approximately by 10% for every level. This is shown in the way that it is 83 experience between levels 1 and 2, but 91 experience between levels 2 and 3. (10% of 83 is roughly 8, therefore the next level-up would require 91 experience.) The required experience for each level-up grows exponentially; the growth of experience gaps between levels gets larger and larger at higher levels.

In addition, the experience required doubles approximately every seven levels. For example, the experience needed for level 92 in a skill is almost exactly half of that needed to reach level 99.