SKILLS, QUESTS, AND MINI GAMES

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SKILLS

A player using the mining skill

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Skills

Main article: RuneScape skills

Skills are abilities that enable players to perform activities in the game. Some skills are available only to members and some skills are only present in newer versions of the game while yet some can only be utilised by completing a specific quest. Many of the high-level abilities in most skills are reserved for members only. Players gain experience in a skill when they perform activities that utilize that skill, for instance mining a rock would raise the mining skill. A player's level of experience determines the level of that skill. New abilities are given to the player when he reaches certain levels. Higher-level abilities in turn give more experience to compensate for the roughly quadratic increase in experience points needed to reach each new level. New skills are added to the game by Jagex periodically.

As in a number of games, some players chose to focus on improving themselves in a small number of skills. These players are called "pures" (eg: a player specialised in mining is called a mining pure).

In RuneScape there is no general level for player as such. Player must train each skill individually. In this game, there are 21 Skills including Extraction ones (such as: mining, woodcutting, thieving and fishing), secondary (processing) skills (such as smithing, cooking and fletching), combat skills (such as strength, magic and range) and others (such as agility). Unlike most other MMORPGs, every skill can be trained to maximum level (level 99) without extra barriers. However only the combat level is immediately visible to other players. The total level of a player partly symbolises the players' status in the game, the maximum total level being 2079.

However, there are two restrictions to training combat levels. The first one is "player status", which restricts what stats players can train based on whether they are paying members or not. For example, only paying members are allowed to train "herblore", "thieving", "agility", "farming", "slayer" and "fletching". The other restriction is quests. There are a few skills such as "herblore" and "runecrafting" that are locked when a player first starts the game, and are the reward for completing the appropriate quest where the player learns how to use them.

For a full list of skills and a description of each one, see RuneScape skills.

QUESTS

Quests in RuneScape are one-time adventures which serve a variety of purposes. The novice quests act as tutorials to acquaint new users with the various skills and abilities. All quests include some kind of reward such as money, rare/valuable items, or an increase in abilities. Some quests are part of an overlapping storyline. Each quest also awards a certain number of quest points. Thirty-two quest points will grant access to the Champions' Guild. The members-only Hero's (55 quest points required to start) and Legend's (107 required) quests grant access to their respective guilds upon completion. Quests can be found all over the map, in the game's three kingdoms of Misthalin, Asgarnia and Kandarin, as well as some even more distant lands.

MINI-GAMES

Main article: RuneScape Mini-Games

There are a few mini-games that can be played within RuneScape. These are available to paying members only. These may or may not provide a benefit to players, however they are fun and unique things to do within the game.