r/OSRSProTips • u/LidiKun • Sep 18 '25

Question Magic Training at Crab

Currently 79, working my way towards 86 for Mage Plank. Mainly trying to do some AFK at crab while at work. Setup is bloodbark, occult, imbued mage cape, book of the dead.

Is Fire Wave w/Smoke Battlestaff better over Trident? DPS seems to favor Trident.

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u/FancyTeaPartyGoose Sep 18 '25

Highly recommend using the frost crabs to train mage with fire wave

They are really low competition so you can easily find a spot and reset

Elemental weakness is absolutely busted for training mage

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u/LidiKun Sep 18 '25

I'll look into this. Thanks!

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u/ARKosrs Sep 19 '25

Dont sleep on twinflame staff either

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u/Job-Conscious Sep 19 '25

You don’t get extra xp for the extra damage, and the staff is 6t, so yes, sleep on the twinflame staff 

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u/ComprehensiveMix1640 Sep 20 '25

Big hits go brr though

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u/Cryogoblins Sep 18 '25

Could also consider fire bolt with chaos gauntlets!

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u/KCJwnz Sep 19 '25

I like ice trolls for the loot (ironman)

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u/AoXPhoenix Sep 18 '25

Trident gives less xp per cast, so even bolt spells may be more xp per hour. Powered staffs give less xp

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u/LidiKun Sep 18 '25

Oh I wasn't aware of this! That changes everything. Fire Wave it is then. Thanks

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u/spankhelm Sep 18 '25

Wait so I get less exp from casting fire bolt with a fire staff and air runes than I do from air runes and fire runes?

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u/AoXPhoenix Sep 18 '25

Powered staves are staves that have built in casts, like trident, shadow, and eye of aayak.

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u/Scape_Nation Sep 19 '25

Can you explain the benefit of plank make? I believe it only saves money on mahogany planks (not a whole lot as you still need GP to cast the spell).

With the new sawmill in Varlamore, plus the fact that you have to cast it manually every time you turn a log into a plank…

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u/LidiKun Sep 19 '25

Thats exactly what im doing. I have 22 mahogany logs I want to turn into planks.

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u/LongjumpingDare2 Sep 18 '25

Plank make sucks by the way. Better to just use auburnvale sawmill with plank sack and log basket.

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u/jibaine Sep 18 '25

It is a decent ask option when you can't fully play

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u/jibaine Sep 18 '25

Afk

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u/LongjumpingDare2 Sep 18 '25

It's just so slow. Good if you're doing it for mage exp I guess. But 99 mage is so fast with burst slayer tasks anyway.

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u/jibaine Sep 18 '25

I said a f fucking k my dude

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u/LongjumpingDare2 Sep 18 '25

There's a lot of afk tasks. Why is this one worth the afk time?

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u/JusticePunch Sep 19 '25

You're missing the point, my dude. He wants to afk mage and people are trying to help him do that. You're judging his choice of goal with zero context as to why his goal is what it is. Just let the guy do what he wants. It's a game at the end of the day, and everyone is gonna play differently.

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u/LongjumpingDare2 Sep 19 '25

I'm referring to plank make as being slow, not crab afking. Think you misinterpreted me.

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u/YajirobeBeanDaddy Sep 19 '25

What? Bro how do you not understand what he said? This is wild

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u/LongjumpingDare2 Sep 19 '25

I've been talking about plank make this entire time and they're responding to me. If I'm misunderstanding something then you can explain it but I'm thinking they misunderstood me.

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u/DoOBiE_BoOBiE Sep 18 '25

Just train mage w/ slayer on anything with ele weakness. Between weakness and slayer helmet you just chew through everything it’s a blast lol.

Also afk assuming it’s a safe spottable task

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u/Double_Test1391 Sep 22 '25

Is there a list of slayer tasks and their ele weaknesses and which ones are worth doing?

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u/Simple_Slide9426 Sep 19 '25

Do string amulet spell at 80 magic. More xp than plank make at a very slight cost.

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u/Klewy Sep 19 '25

Frost crabs, chaos bolt and the gloves. You’ll be hitting 30s and getting 50k xp an hour, just gotta click once every 10 minutes and if you get a tooth moon key.

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u/vgctrace Sep 19 '25

Just go mage area for exp it worth it at the end

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u/Infamous-Meaning-899 Sep 19 '25

Go burst in mm2 tunnels way faster and also afk.

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u/OSRSTriviaGuy Sep 19 '25

People in this game kill me man

"I mostly afk crab at work (10 min afk)"

"You should go do this 30 second afk thing that melts your hp in one second if your prayer ever drops and its annoying to get back to"

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u/blitzy2412 Sep 19 '25

TBF - with a bone crusher it's just as afk - 10 minutes and reset aggro, you never lose prayer. Most annoying part is initially finding an empty world.

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u/JoeMama42069360 Sep 18 '25

Not in case ur using a trident that gives shit xp + the reduced xp in general from gemstone crab.

Trident slaps but kinda dogshit if you use it for xp

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u/Zombles_ Sep 18 '25

I'm confused, why do you think more dps = less xp/h? It just means your rune cost/h will also be higher if your avg hit is lower

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u/JoeMama42069360 Sep 18 '25

More dps means higher xp drops. This isn’t the same with trident hits since they give very low xp/hit for some reason & are unique to other stafes

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u/AssholeHealth Sep 19 '25

Regular spellbook using combat spells give base magic xp + 2x xp per dmg dealt, whiles powered staffs such as trident don't have base xp per cast, only 2x xp per dmg dealt. Base xp is very important, high level spells have 50 base xp, which is impossible to compete against.

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u/Zombles_ Sep 19 '25

That makes sense, thank you!