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This article details how to splash. Splashing is the act of training magic by casting combat spells against an enemy while having too low magic accuracy to be able to actually hit. Although no damage is dealt, each Magic combat spell will still give the player a constant base amount of experience.

Despite the enemy remaining alive indefinitely, after 20 minutes the player will stop auto-retaliating. As a consequence, timely interaction with the game is needed to not be logged out due to inactivity.

1 Equipment
2 Splashing rates by spell
- 2.1 Standard Spellbook
- 2.2 Ancient Magicks
- 2.3 Arceuus spellbook
3 30 to 99 strategies
4 Locations
5 References

Equipment

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It is necessary to wear items negating Magic Attack bonus to -64 or lower.
A Magic Attack bonus of -63 (or higher) provides the chance of dealing damage of 1 Hitpoint or more.

Free-to-play

Members

Attack bonusStab: +0Slash: +0Crush: +0Magic: -81Range: -24Defence bonusStab: +34Slash: +37Crush: +29Magic: -10Range: +31Other bonusesMelee strength: +0Ranged strength: +0Magic damage: -80Prayer: +0

29.8 kg

Attack bonusStab: +0Slash: -1Crush: +7Magic: -83Range: -24Defence bonusStab: +212Slash: +215Crush: +197Magic: +4Range: +206Other bonusesMelee strength: +4Ranged strength: +0Magic damage: -80Prayer: +0

32.8 kg

For free-to-play players:

A full plate armour set consists of any full helm, platebody, platelegs/plateskirt, and kiteshield. Platelegs and plateskirts confer the same bonuses.
- Plate armour of any metal can be substituted for another, e.g. a Bronze platebody and a Rune platebody both have a -30 Magic attack bonus.
Green d'hide vambraces or Gilded d'hide vambraces require Level 40 Ranged to equip.
Fancy or fighting boots can be substituted with Decorative boots.
Any elemental staff to reduce runes needed and to enable autocast. Note that elemental staves have a +10 Magic attack bonus.
- The elemental staff can be swapped for a Cursed goblin staff (obtained from Diango in Draynor). This precludes the rune savings of an elemental staff, but achieves -68 Magic attack without the need to equip Green d'hide vambraces.
  - Alternatively, a Cursed amulet of magic can be worn. This item allows an elemental staff to be used for splashing in Castle Wars, if the player wears full splashing gear (Platebody, legs, Stronghold Boots, d'hide vambraces and a kiteshield) to achieve -64 Magic attack bonus.

For members:

The mixed hide cape offers -15 magic attack, requiring only 60 Ranged and 50 Defence to equip.
Any blessed d'hide boots, snakeskin boots (pictured), or mixed hide boots can be used for a -10 Magic attack bonus. Snakeskin boots have the lowest requirements of the three, at only 30 Ranged and 30 Defence to equip.

Splashing rates by spell

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Standard Spellbook

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Lvl	Name	Runes	Base XP/cast	XP/h [a]	XP/h (Harmonised nightmare staff) [b]	Raw Cost/cast [c]	Cost/cast (basic elemental staff) [d]	Cost/h (basic elemental staff) [d]	GP/XP (basic elemental staff) [d]	Cost/cast (combination elemental staff) [e]	Cost/h (combination elemental staff) [e]	GP/XP (combination elemental staff) [e]
1	Wind Strike	1 1	5.5	6,600	8,250	8	3	3,600	0.55	3	3,600	0.55
5	Water Strike	1 1 1	7.5	9,000	11,250	13	8	9,600	1.07	3	3,600	0.40
9	Earth Strike	1 2 1	9.5	11,400	14,250	18	8	9,600	0.84	3	3,600	0.32
13	Fire Strike	2 3 1	11.5	13,800	17,250	28	13	15,600	1.13	3	3,600	0.26
17	Wind Bolt	2 1	13.5	16,200	20,250	95	85	102,000	6.30	85	102,000	6.30
23	Water Bolt	2 2 1	16.5	19,800	24,750	105	95	114,000	5.76	85	102,000	5.15
29	Earth Bolt	2 3 1	19.5	23,400	29,250	110	95	114,000	4.87	85	102,000	4.36
35	Fire Bolt	3 4 1	22.5	27,000	33,750	120	100	120,000	4.44	85	102,000	3.78
41	Wind Blast	3 1	25.5	30,600	38,250	194	179	214,800	7.02	179	214,800	7.02
47	Water Blast	3 3 1	28.5	34,200	42,750	209	194	232,800	6.81	179	214,800	6.28
53	Earth Blast	3 4 1	31.5	37,800	47,250	214	194	232,800	6.16	179	214,800	5.68
59	Fire Blast	4 5 1	34.5	41,400	51,750	224	199	238,800	5.77	179	214,800	5.19
62	Wind Wave	5 1	36	43,200	54,000	265	240	288,000	6.67	240	288,000	6.67
65	Water Wave	5 7 1	37.5	45,000	56,250	300	265	318,000	7.07	240	288,000	6.40
70	Earth Wave	5 7 1	40	48,000	60,000	300	265	318,000	6.63	240	288,000	6.00
75	Fire Wave	5 7 1	42.5	51,000	63,750	300	265	318,000	6.24	240	288,000	5.65
81	Wind Surge	7 1	44.5	53,400	66,750	333	298	357,600	7.01	298	357,600	7.01
85	Water Surge	7 10 1	46.5	55,800	69,750	383	333	399,600	7.16	298	357,600	6.41
90	Earth Surge	7 10 1	48.5	58,200	72,750	383	333	399,600	6.87	298	357,600	6.14
95	Fire Surge	7 10 1	50.5	60,600	75,750	383	333	399,600	6.59	298	357,600	5.90

^ Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast (splash) 1,200 combat spells.
^ Using a harmonised nightmare staff (241,506,550), which autocasts with a speed of 4 ticks.
^ Raw cost assumes that all runes needed are bought.
^ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Cost assumes that the basic elemental staff is used for the core elemental runes and air runes are also used for non-Wind spells (no requirements to wield).
^ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Cost assumes that mist battlestaff (83,801), dust battlestaff (10,561), smoke battlestaff (2,636,924) or their mystic variants are used for Water, Earth, Fire spells respectively to completely cover the core elemental runes. (This requires at least 30 Magic which is quickly obtained).

Ancient Magicks

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Lvl	Name	Runes	Base XP/cast	Raw cost/cast [a]	Cost/cast [b]	XP/h [c]	Cost/h [b]	GP/XP [b]	GP/XP [d]
50	Smoke Rush	1 1 2 2	30	548	548	36,000	657,600	18.27
52	Shadow Rush	1 2 2 1	31	941	941	37,200	1,129,200	30.35
56	Blood Rush	1 2 2	33	768	768	39,600	921,600	23.27
58	Ice Rush	2 2 2	34	538	528	40,800	633,600	15.53	7.82
62	Smoke Burst	2 2 4 2	36	733	733	43,200	879,600	20.36
64	Shadow Burst	1 4 2 2	37	1,509	1,509	44,400	1,810,800	40.78
68	Blood Burst	2 4 2	39	1,178	1,178	46,800	1,413,600	30.21
70	Ice Burst	4 4 2	40	718	698	48,000	837,600	17.45	6.65
74	Smoke Blitz	2 2 2 2	42	873	873	50,400	1,047,600	20.79
76	Shadow Blitz	2 2 2 2	43	1,659	1,659	51,600	1,990,800	38.58
80	Blood Blitz	4 2	45	1,318	1,318	54,000	1,581,600	29.29
82	Ice Blitz	3 2 2	46	853	838	55,200	1,005,600	18.22	5.78
86	Smoke Barrage	4 4 2 4	48	1,261	1,261	57,600	1,513,200	26.27
88	Shadow Barrage	4 2 4 3	49	2,435	2,435	58,800	2,922,000	49.69
92	Blood Barrage	4 4 1	51	2,074	2,074	61,200	2,488,800	40.67
94	Ice Barrage	6 2 4	52	1,226	1,196	62,400	1,435,200	23.00	5.12

^ Raw cost assumes that all runes needed are bought.
^ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cost assumes that a kodai wand (86,102,796) is used, which supplies infinite water runes. Elemental staves cannot be used as they do not provide auto-cast for ancient spells.
^ Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast ("splash") 1,200 combat spells.
^ Assumes the price of blighted ancient ice sacks (266), use of which is restricted to certain areas or worlds.

Arceuus spellbook

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The demonbane spells of the Arceuus spellbook can only be cast on demonic monsters. Magic attack bonus needs to be -64 or lower to always splash, and equipping a tome of fire or skull sceptre will make that more difficult to reach while saving runes. Weaker demonic monsters such as icefiends and pyrefiends are ideal given their low stats, however armour will need to maximise Magical melee while keeping Magic accuracy low enough to splash. Players can also reanimate an Ensouled imp head to splash at the Dark Altar to take less damage. Unlike regular imps, reanimated ones will not teleport away.

Lvl	Name	Runes	Base XP/cast	XP/h [a]	Raw cost/cast [b]	Cost/cast (Tome of Fire) [c]	Raw Cost/h [b]	Cost/h (Tome of Fire) [c]	GP/XP [b]	GP/XP (Tome of Fire) [c]
35	Ghostly Grasp	4 1	22.5	27,000	105	N/A	126,000	N/A	4.67	N/A
44	Inferior Demonbane	3 1	27	32,400	105	85	126,000	102,000	3.89	3.15
56	Skeletal Grasp [d]	8 1	33	39,600	219	N/A	262,800	N/A	6.03	N/A
62	Superior Demonbane [d]	5 1	36	43,200	438	398	525,600	477,600	12.17	11.06
79	Undead Grasp [d]	12 1	46.5	55,800	300	240	360,000	288,000	6.45	5.16
82	Dark Demonbane [d]	7 2	43.5	52,200	856	796	1,027,200	955,200	19.68	18.30

^ Each game tick is 0.6s, a magic combat spell takes 5 ticks, so in 1 hour a player can cast (splash) 1,200 combat spells.
^ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Includes the cost of fire runes.
^ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The tome of fire does not consume pages when autocasting Arceuus Spells. Therefore, the cost of burnt pages is ignored.
^ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Requires completion of the quest A Kingdom Divided.

30 to 99 strategies

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Total experience required: 13,021,068 Magic experience.

Strategy	# of splashes	Time (hr)	Cost - Combination Staff	Cost - Elemental Staff (F2P)
	2,367,467	1,973.0	7,102,400.73	7,102,400.73
	1,736,143	1,446.9	5,208,427.20	13,889,139.20
	1,370,639	1,142.3	4,111,916.21	10,965,109.89
	1,132,267	943.6	3,396,800.35	14,719,468.17
→	579,314	482.8	49,141,077.76	57,824,652.66
→ →	381,648	318.1	67,178,136.41	74,749,837.83
→ → →	317,135	264.3	72,601,254.38	Members Only Spells
→ → → →	301,246	251.1	73,683,731.15	Members Only Spells

Locations

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If the monster you are splashing on can attack you, make sure that your defensive bonuses are sufficiently high so it won't slowly kill you over time. Commonly used monsters are rats, seagulls, and spiders, though rats in member's worlds can be killed by cats.

Popular locations include the seagulls in Port Sarim and Port Piscarilius. The chickens near Captain Barnaby may also be a good choice, as they are close to a bank and usually not too crowded.

Players may also elect to check the bestiary to find a suitable creature & location themselves.

The only exception is the area in and surrounding Lumbridge, including the castle basement. Here, spells yield no experience for casting if a player's magic accuracy is too low to deal damage. This was done because the large amount of players splashing on rats looked odd to new players.[1]

Location	Levels	Spawns	Map	League region
House west of the Grand Exchange	1	3	Show map	Misthalin✓
South of Slepe	1	9	Show map	Morytania✓
Lovakengj	1	19	Show map	Kourend✓
Ruins (east)	1	3	Show map	Wilderness✓
Ferox Enclave	1	9	Show map	Wilderness✓
Port Piscarilius	1	24	Show map	Kourend✓
House west of McGrubor's Wood	1	3	Show map	Kandarin✓
Port Sarim jail	1	5	Show map	Asgarnia✓
Draynor Village	1	2	Show map	Misthalin✓
South-east of Mount Quidamortem	1	18	Show map	Kourend✓
Farm south of Falador	1	2	Show map	Asgarnia✓
South-east of the Farming Guild	1	2	Show map	Kourend✓
Arceuus	1	1	Show map	Kourend✓
North of the Chaos Temple (Wilderness)	1	6	Show map	Wilderness✓
Gertrude's House	1	1	Show map	Misthalin✓
Fire Altar	1	1	Show map	Desert✓
Port Phasmatys	1	2	Show map	Morytania✓
South of Kourend Castle	1	4	Show map	Kourend✓
Mos Le'Harmless	1	2	Show map	Morytania✓
Lunar Isle Ship	1	2	Show map	Fremennik✓
Rimmington	1	4	Show map	Asgarnia✓
Burgh De Rott	1	13	Show map	Morytania✓
Brimhaven	1	2	Show map	Karamja✓
West Ruins	1	16	Show map	Wilderness✓
Sinclair Mansion	1	5	Show map	Kandarin✓
Lunar Isle	1	1	Show map	Fremennik✓
South of the Farming Guild	1	5	Show map	Kourend✓
Draynor Manor	1	2	Show map	Misthalin✓
North-west of Hosidius Town Square	1	4	Show map	Kourend✓
Melzar's Maze	1	5	Show map	Asgarnia✓
South of Gu'Tanoth	1	3	Show map	Kandarin✓
Fishing Guild	1	1	Show map	Kandarin✓
Gnome maze	1	9	Show map	Kandarin✓
Varrock	1	1	Show map	Misthalin✓
West Ardougne	1	74	Show map	Kandarin✓
Port Phasmatys Ship	1	1	Show map	Morytania✓
Port Piscarilius (1st Floor Buildings)	1	5	Show map	Kourend✓
Lunar Isle Dock	1	1	Show map	Fremennik✓
Melzar's Maze (1st Floor)	1	2	Show map	Asgarnia✓
Mos Le'Harmless Ship	1	1	Show map	Morytania✓
Port Piscarilius (2nd Floor Buildings)	1	3	Show map	Kourend✓
Melzar's Maze (2nd Floor)	1	2	Show map	Asgarnia✓
Ardougne Sewers	1	23	Show map	Kandarin✓
Goblin Cave	1	19	Show map	Kandarin✓
Clock Tower Basement	1	26	Show map	Kandarin✓
Rat Pits	1	3	Show map	N/A
Melzar's Maze Basement	1	3	Show map	Asgarnia✓
Dwarven Mines	1	4	Show map	Asgarnia✓
Crandor and Karamja Dungeon	1	2	Show map	Karamja✓
Draynor Sewers	1	10	Show map	Misthalin✓
Varrock Sewers	1	29	Show map	Misthalin✓
Draynor Manor Basement	1	9	Show map	Misthalin✓
Edgeville Dungeon	1	2	Show map	Misthalin✓
Sisterhood Sanctuary	1	6	Show map	Morytania✓
Stronghold of Security: Catacomb of Famine	1	60	Show map	Misthalin✓
Stronghold of Security: Vault of War	1	56	Show map	Misthalin✓
Grand Tree Mine	1	21	Show map	Kandarin✓
Taverley Dungeon	1	4	Show map	Asgarnia✓
The Warrens	1	16	Show map	Kourend✓
Abandoned Mine (Level 2)	1	9	Show map	Morytania✓
Abandoned Mine (Level 4)	1	3	Show map	Morytania✓
Keldagrim Rat Pits	1	8	Show map	N/A
King's Ransom jail	1	4	Show map	Kandarin✓
Meiyerditch Laboratories	1	6	Show map	Morytania✓
The Hollows	1	17	Show map	Morytania✓
Meiyerditch Hideout (Myreque Hideout)	1	2	Show map	Morytania✓
Observatory Dungeon	1	4	Show map	Kandarin✓
Rashiliyia's Tomb	1	3	Show map	Karamja✓
Shadow Dungeon	1	12	Show map	Kandarin✓
Skavid Caves	1	18	Show map	Kandarin✓
Underground Pass (Level 2)	1	27	Show map	Tirannwn✓
Waterfall Dungeon	1	9	Show map	Kandarin✓
Cabin Fever Boats	1	6	Show map	Morytania✓
Cabin Fever Boats, 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US]	1	3	Show map	Morytania✓
Waterfall Dungeon (Flooded during quest)	1	1	Show map	Kandarin✓
Isle of Souls	1	4	Show map	Misthalin✓
Corsair Cove	2, 3	9	Show map	Kandarin✓
Port Sarim	2, 3	10	Show map	Asgarnia✓
Port Piscarilius	2, 3	7	Show map	Kourend✓
Icyene Graveyard	3	1	Show map	Morytania✓
Ruins of Unkah	3	5	Show map	Desert✓
Hosidius	1	6	Show map	Kourend✓
Lovakengj	1	41	Show map	Kourend✓
Arceuus, outside the Tower of Magic	1	8	Show map	Kourend✓
Port Piscarilius	1	10	Show map	Kourend✓
Varrock	1	1	Show map	Misthalin✓
Al Kharid	1	3	Show map	Desert✓
East of Yanille	1	2	Show map	Kandarin✓
Ruins (west), in the Wilderness	1	6	Show map	Wilderness✓
Wilderness spider nest holding a Sapphire spawn	1	17	Show map	Wilderness✓
Gnome Maze	1	9	Show map	Kandarin✓
Melzar's Maze, Basement Floor	1	3	Show map	Asgarnia✓
Varrock Sewers	1	9	Show map	Misthalin✓
Draynor Manor, Basement	1	4	Show map	Misthalin✓
Sisterhood Sanctuary	1	11	Show map	Morytania✓
Stronghold of Security, Pit of Pestilence (level 3)	51, 24	35	Show map	Misthalin✓
Taverley Dungeon	1	3	Show map	Asgarnia✓
Ogre Enclave	1	10	Show map	Kandarin✓
Underground Pass	1	49	Show map	Tirannwn✓
Underground Pass (During Song of the Elves)	1	49	Show map	N/A
Rashiliyia's Tomb	1	1	Show map	Karamja✓
Isle of Souls - Crumbling Tower basement	1	3	Show map	Misthalin✓