OSRS Melee Training Calculator

How melee experience works

Every point of damage you deal gives experience. On an accurate style it is 4 Attack experience a damage, on an aggressive style 4 Strength, on a defensive style 4 Defence, and on a controlled style 1.33 to each of the three. Hitpoints gets 1.33 a damage whatever the style. Some monsters give a bonus on top, set by their stats, and a few give less. The calculator reads that bonus for every monster and shows it under the fight.

Accurate adds 3 hidden levels to Attack, aggressive 3 to Strength, defensive 3 to Defence and controlled 1 to each. That is why a style can raise your max hit or your accuracy while it trains another skill, and why the table of attack styles shows a different max hit on each line. The max hit calculator walks through every step of that sum, and the DPS calculator takes the same loadout against any monster with every special effect spelled out.

Overkill and the time between kills

A hit of 20 on a monster with 3 Hitpoints left gives the experience for 3. Against monsters with few Hitpoints a big hitter loses more to this than a fast one, so the fastest kill is not always the most experience. The calculator works out the average number of attacks a kill takes from your exact chance of each hit, then adds the time to find the next target. Where several monsters share a spot you rarely wait for a respawn; at a single spawn you wait for every one. Set the ticks between kills and the monsters in reach to match how you play.

Boosts, prayers and special attacks

A potion boost falls back a level every minute, so the hour is worked out from every boosted level you spend time on, until you drink again. Divine potions and overloads hold their boost and then end. The boosts calculator lists what each one gives at your level. Piety opens up once you finish King's Ransom and then the Knight Waves training, and Zeal replaces it once you hand in the Horn of Bran. A special attack weapon adds a hit each time your energy refills, and a lightbearer refills it twice as fast.

Game modes and Deadman

Ironmen and Hardcore Worlds earn experience at the normal rate; an ironman cannot buy gear on the Grand Exchange, so the gear search shows the best gear your levels and quests let you wear. On the permanent Deadman world, 345, experience is multiplied by 20 at level 1 down to 10 from level 50 during your first 12 hours of protection, and by 10 down to 5 after it, at most 2x inside an instance. Nigel can turn off combat or Hitpoints experience. Ironmen cannot fight other players, so the second account row is for main accounts.

Where to train

The Gemstone Crab calculator covers the crab in full, with the gems from its shell, and the Nightmare Zone calculator plans points, potions and imbues as well as the experience. On a task, the Slayer calculator shows how long it takes and what it pays. To set your gear, the gear calculator finds the best setup for any budget, and the XP calculator compares melee with every other skill.