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Question

What stats effect your over all combat lvl? i thought it was attack, defense, strength,prayer, and hitpoints. Others have told me it is all of those and magic and range which is correct?

Answer 1

The way Combat Level is calculated, they take only the highest of melee(attk/str), range, or magic to determine your "offensive power". Defense, HP, and Prayer always affect your combat level, but only your "most powerful" offensive combat skill is used to figure out your combat level.

So, if you are trying to get to lvl 126 combat, you don't ever need to train range or mage if you don't want.

On the other hand, if you're trying to make a "pure" with low combat level, you can train mage as a side skill to range or strength without raising your combat level.

See the link for a combat level calculator:

Answer 2

It depends. For people with magic and ranging reasonably worse than strength and attack, it is attack, strength, defense, hitpoints and prayer. For cases when maging is better, it is the same as melee except mage instead of attack and strength. For cases when range is best, it is still the same except range instead of mage or attack and strengh.

P.S. I am a meleer.

Answer 3

It's all of them. The more potential you have for any kind of offense - stats, skills, magic, archery, swords; they all increase your level of combat. It's like that so nobody can be everything, lvl 100 mage, lvl 100 swords, lvl 100 range, that would just be incomprehensibly difficult, like 50 billion exp points or something crazy ;p

My runescape terminology might be a bit off, I quit playing it when they made the new 3d engine, but I remember that. (nobody email me asking for my account, cause I already gave it away)

Answer 4

Attack,Strength,defense,prayer,hit points,magic,range and Soon Summoning.Slayer dose also but thats 2 skills and you are affecting your combat.

Answer 5

The most combat lvl raising skill would be strength, attack, and defense.

Answer 6

Not really 99 in str,att and hp will get you high. And every time u train them more u get higher in combat..i know a friend he is 126 and his ranging is only 87, magic 86

Answer 7

The stats with most level affect the combat level; not stats with low level

Answer 8

dude if you want to be a lvl 126 you have to get 99 in every stat know if you just want to be lvl 100 its def,att,str,mage,range,not prayer

Answer 9

All of the above. Any skill that has to do with combat will affect your combat level.

Answer 10

when u wanna become an archer, u have to increase att and def. when u wanna become a swordsman, which is me, u have to increase ur att, def, and str. the pure one only does str and att. magician needs mage....and stuff like that...well, thats for combat, but prayer is needed to protect and help urself while ur in a fite. hahahahahah!