RS3 Melee Guide, 1-99 and Beyond in All Melee Combat Stats

General Knowledge

Melee training involves 3 stats:

• Attack: Ability to hit more accurately and wield better weapons.
• Strength: Ability to hit higher.
• Defence: Ability to block damage and wear better gear.

You can train these stats individually by going into your combat options and choosing attack, strength or defence. Alternatively you can choose shared experience and train them slowly but at the same time.

Weaknesses

Almost every monster in Runescape 3 has a certain weakness. We will be focusing on the ones that have a weakness against melee attacks. These monsters are split into 3 categories:

• Weak to stab
• Weak to slash
• Weak to crush

You can easily see the weakness by looking at the monster's health bar interface. There you should see an icon indicating its weakness. You should always use the weapon that the monster is weak to. By doing so you will be hitting more, thus gaining more experience per hour.

Healing

In combat, you won't be the only one who is dealing damage. Over time you will accumulate damage and will need to heal. There are a few ways to go about negating this damage:

1. Using food: This is the most common way of dealing with damage. Bring some decent food into the fight and use it when necessary.
2. Using Rejuvenate and Regenerate: Rejuvenate is an ultimate skill that will heal you for 40% of your total health and regenerate is an ability which can be used outside of combat to convert your adrenaline into health. Alternatively you can use Guthix's Blessing if you have access to it.
3. Guthans: This is a mid tier armour set that grants a special effect to the player when worn.(You must wear the full set!) Your successful attacks have a 25% chance of healing you. The heal you recieve is the same as the damage you dealt when the ability triggered.
4. Soul split: This is high level prayer that requires you to have ancient curses unlocked. When turned on it heals you for 10% of the damage dealt. This is the ultimate way of healing yourself while casually training.
5. Saradomin Godsword: Saradomin godsword requires level 75 attack to wield. Base version of the sword has a special attack that consumes 50% adrenaline and deals 75-275% ability damage and restores life points by half of the damage dealt and prayer points by 2.5% of it.

You can use this godsword on the Saradomin altar in Commander Zilyana's boss room to gain a passive healing effect. This however removes the ability to use the special attack of the weapon and makes the weapon untradable. It gains the passive effect that heals the user 3% of their maximum health and prayer points with each successful hit. This effect has a 25% chance to activate.

6. Vampyrism Aura and Scrimshaw: You can activate a scrimshaw of vampyrism or vampyrism aura to gain a passive lifesteal effect on each successful hit.
7. Healing Familiars: Alternatively if you have the required Summoning level, you can summon a bunyip which heals you passively or a unicorn stallion which heals you whenever you use a scroll.

Potions

Potions are consumables that will greatly enhance your overall combat experience. They will boost your stats, which increases your damage and reduces the amount of damage you take. They are totally worth their cost and you should use the best ones available to you.

It is highly recommended to get 96 Herblore to create overloads. You can check out our Herblore guide here.

Relic Powers

These powers are unlocked through the Archaeology skill, and when activated, provide the player with a passive effect.

Equipment

Choosing the right equipment for the right task is pretty important and it changes massively depending on the state of your account and which activity you want to partake in.

Generally speaking you would want to have power armour sets, these armour sets provide a lower defensive bonus compared to their counterparts of the same tier but they provide a strength bonus which increases your damage overall. 

Here is the best in slot melee power armour and jewellery in game:

Wearing the armour and jewellery listed above will provide you with a total of 1759 armour, 25 prayer bonus and 236.7 bonus strength.

Now let's take a look at the best in slot tank armour in the game:

While levelling up, check your skill guide regularly to figure out what is the best gear for your account. Alternatively you can check this wiki page to see everything more clearly.

1-99 & Beyond Melee Combat Training

Levels 1-40

Levels 40-50

Levels 50-70

Levels 70-80+

Levels 80-90+

Levels 90-99

Slayer

Slayer is the most preferred method of training combat stats. It is recommended for you to start doing slayer after reaching base 70+ melee stats. 

With slayer you can craft a slayer helmet, which boosts your accuracy and damage greatly when doing slayer assignments. This helmet out performs any other helmet in the game when you are on a task. Furthermore in Anachronia, you can unlock the Tier 3 Slayer Lodge and place your helmet on a stand to always gain its passive effect on tasks without wearing the helmet.

EXP/H: Anywhere between 50K - 2M EXP

This is the end of our Melee guide, hope you found it useful and may you get your desired stats using it! Please leave feedback to help us improve.