Gameplay and getting going

This is a tricky skill to raise in the fact that there are few ways to train it independently of your other skills.

There are 2 ways to train hit points easily both are using the Pest Control Minigame, at any level over 65 combat you can kill monsters and use the points given for training hp, in my eyes this is a waste of xp.

If you do your training at pest control and use your points for hp your hp will go up, that is fine having good hp will keep you alive longer but that is it, if you train another combat stat, attack you can hit more often so you get more xp for combat and hp, strength you hit harder and get more xp for combat and hp, defence you can stay fighting for longer you get more xp for combat and hp, Mage and Range are the same.

When you get 99 hp and have 90 attack, strength, defence, ramge and mage all your extra hp xp is going to waste as you are getting no benefit.

Now the bestest way to get HP xp that is a win win situation you need to be 94 mage, soz its only for the big boys, go to pest control and attack the portals using any means you want I use scimmy at the mo because im training strength, when spinners appear you normally have a pile of monsters under them use Ice Barrage on the spinner, you will get xp for all of the monsters in a large area, I often get xp in excess of 2k per game.

This in my eyes is the only way I can justify the cost of the runes for Ice Barrage, it costs a lot of money but the xp at Pest Control is so great it is well worth it.

When you Barrage it is very loud very cold and causes lag for many players, the comments of WOW or cool ancients or omg wat was that is really funny, players keep saying who's doing the ancients I just keep quiet and leave them guessing, I did answer once when someone asked me what spell it was I told him it was wind wave.

I wear dragon hide when doing PC even when maging, I can still hit multiple 30's with it on and you need some protection from the monsters, when my health gets low I switch to full Dharoks and have hit a max of 61 no pots or prayer so far which gets a few comments as well.

This is really just a way to highlight the benefit of using the Black Mask when training meele on Runescape. its just a topic created to fit in the melee combat training category.

Slayer is a good skill to train in fact most of my money has come from there so it makes sense to train slayer when you are training combat, I take a slayer task and the monster I get decides what style of attack I will use, without Kurasks and Turoth my range would be embarrassingly low its only 90 at the moment but I am training strengh for now.

The Black Mask spells are pointless so you can forget about them and concentrate on the other benefits, you hit better with the Black Mask you hit harder and more often, for example when attacking Abyssal Demons I can hit 29 with a D scimmy at current level 97 strength this is fully potted and for a small while after, when I wear the Black Mask I can hit 35 with the scimmy.

This is a lot of difference and you can imagine how much quicker slayer tasks are completed and the extra xp for killing the monsters and getting on to new ones, you get combat xp, hp xp and slayer xp all in one go and extra fast.

I have always been one for making the most of my training times and this combination works well for me.

The Black Mask only benefits when training slayer