Skills and rates
How fast skills level up on PrivatePS, how long 99 takes and which skill content is in the game.
The pace
Your character's XP mode sets the pace for every skill, including combat: Easy 15x, Normal 10x (the default), Medium 5x or Hard 1x. Each is a plain multiple of the Old School RuneScape experience per action, so Hard is exactly the original rate. No skill has a private multiplier on top.
Farming also needs real time: crops grow on a shortened scale (the fastest crop takes 15 minutes, the slowest 24 hours).
Skills in the game
| Area | Skills |
|---|---|
| Gathering | Woodcutting, Mining, Fishing, Hunter, Farming |
| Production | Smithing, Cooking, Firemaking, Crafting, Fletching, Herblore, Runecrafting |
| Support | Thieving, Agility, Slayer, Prayer, Magic |
| Combat | Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Hitpoints |
| Building | Construction (first version) |
Differences from Old School RuneScape
- Smithing: every bar that needs coal needs only one coal.
- Agility: many more marks of grace than the original game, and a trade-in menu at the Rogues' Den.
- Runecrafting: the coal bag and the essence pouches are in the game.
- Skilling minigames can train faster than the plain skill. See Minigames and bosses.
- Sailing is not in the game yet, see Coming soon.
Highscores
The highscores list every skill and the total level per game mode. Bots are not counted. Your profile page shows your levels and game mode.