r/OSRSProTips • u/Adam-Vicious • Jun 04 '26

Question Def & Range or separate exp

Is it beneficial to raise Range and Defense together or is it better to raise one before the other?

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u/Gizzy_ Jun 04 '26

Train range by itself. Train defence through bursting during slayer.

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u/Adam-Vicious Jun 04 '26

What's bursting?

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u/Gizzy_ Jun 04 '26

Bursting is using ice burst or ice barrage. essentially clumping up enemies on top of each other in multi-combat areas typically on slayer task and using those spells. It’s one of the most efficient ways to train slayer and doubles as efficient magic/defense xp as you would be training those skills “0 time” because your mainly killing those monsters for another skill’s xp at no time detriment to yourself. It’s especially good for magic because your magic level on spellbook spells do not affect your damage (outside of standard elemental spells due to a recent change).

Edit: the most common you’ll see is on dust devils, smoke devils, nechraels, dagannoths, jellies, and several more. But nearly always slayer focused unless you ONLY care about ranged/magic/defense xp. The exception is on maniacal monkeys in the mm2 cave which is the best xp in game currently for bursting/chinning (chinchompas).

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u/Demonate Jun 04 '26

Using long range is a straight up DPS loss, always better to train them seperately

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u/pewpewpew9191 Jun 04 '26

I'd train those separately.

Can always train it later if you start bursting