OSRS Splashing Calculator

Splashing experience by spell

Splashing is casting combat spells at a monster with a magic attack bonus so low that every spell misses. Each cast still pays the spell's base experience, and the monster never dies, so you keep casting. At one cast every 5 ticks that is 1,200 casts an hour.

A ~ marks a spell you click every cast or cast with its own staff, timed at its 5 ticks. Bind pays 30 when it splashes and 31 when it lands, Snare 60 and 61, and Entangle 70 and 89. The curses pay the same either way. The Ancient Magicks need Desert Treasure I, and the demonbane spells can only be cast on demons, such as icefiends and pyrefiends.

The gear: -64 magic attack or lower

Every spell misses once your magic attack bonus is -64 or lower. At -63 a spell can still hit for 1 and kill the monster in time. Plate armour of any metal has the same bonus, so bronze works as well as rune.

An elemental staff adds +10 and a battlestaff +12, so the free-to-play set above reaches -71 with a staff of air. Green d'hide vambraces need 40 Ranged; without them an elemental staff leaves you at -61, so wield the cursed goblin staff (0) instead for -71. Bryophyta's staff adds +15 and a harmonised Nightmare staff +16, which the set still covers. A Kodai wand adds +28, and a tome is +8 in place of the kiteshield's -8, so either needs the members cape and boots. The calculator checks your own staff and tome under the totals.

The 20-minute rule

After 20 minutes without a click your character stops attacking, so turn on Auto Retaliate and click the game every 20 minutes. At 5 ticks a cast that is 400 casts a session. Curses and binds cannot be autocast, so they need a click on every cast and are not an AFK method.

Where to splash

Rats, seagulls and spiders are the usual targets: the seagulls at Port Sarim and Port Piscarilius, or the chickens near Captain Barnaby close to the bank. Cats kill rats on members' worlds. In and around Lumbridge, including the castle basement, a spell that cannot hit pays no experience once you have 10 Magic. If the monster can hit back, wear enough defence that it cannot kill you while you are away.

Splashing questions

What is the cheapest spell to splash? It depends on your staff and today's rune prices, so the calculator works it out for your level. With a staff of air, Wind Strike costs one mind rune a cast, and Wind Bolt, Wind Blast and Wind Wave one chaos, death or blood rune.

Does splashing give Hitpoints experience? No. Nothing is hit, so only Magic experience is paid, which is why accounts that keep a low Hitpoints level splash.

What else trains Magic? The Magic calculator has every spell in all four spellbooks, including alchemy, enchanting and teleports.