Skills are a player's abilities that may be developed throughout the game. Any given skill can be trained by various actions that relate to the skill. Performing any action that requires a certain level in a given skill will give experience in the skill. Using items like experience lamps, which give various amounts of experience in a skill of your choice, can increase your experience points. Some skills allow players to cook, chop down trees, make fires, use magic, make runes, and so on. Some skills support each other. For example, logs obtained from Woodcutting can be used for Firemaking, and fires from Firemaking can be used for Cookingfood, and food can be used to replenish life points to help inCombat. The higher your level is in a skill, the more of the skill you will have access to.
With the release of Dungeoneering, there are now 25 skills in Runescape. Members have access to all 25 skills, while free-to-play can only access 16 skills, with less content and advantages (especially towards the higher levels).
Those are the skills:
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Grants players using melee weapons higher accuracy and increases their average damage per second. Stronger weapons also require higher levels to equip. |
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Increases a player's maximum potential damage with melee. Stronger member's weapons may also require higher levels to equip. Gives access to various agility shortcuts. |
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Allows players to wear stronger armour and decrease their chance of being hit. A common misconception is that high Defence reduces an opponent's maximum damage - for example, a player with 10 defence may take up to 80 damage from a hit from a Lesser demon, while a player with 1 defence may take up to 90 damage in one hit. This, however, is completely false. In the case a Mage is against a Mage in battle only 30% of the Defence is used as the rest of the defence is 70% of the Mage's Magic level. |
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Allows players to progress further down the dungeons of Daemonheim, unlocking access to exclusive weapons, treasures and monsters. Relies on all non-member skills in F2P and all skills in P2P. Gives rewards only accessible through Dungeoneering. |
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Allows players to fight with arrows and other projectiles from a distance and increases a player's chance to hit when using ranged. Ranged weapons, armour and some other items require a certain ranged level. Gives members access to various agility shortcuts. |
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Allows players to pray for assistance in combat, such as for stat boosts and immunity from attacks. Effects last until the player runs out of prayer points, or turns their prayers off. Can also be used to repair or bless gravestones. With a higher level you can also wear Prayer Robes and Temple Knight armor. |
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Allows players to cast spells, including teleports and enchantments, through the use of different types of runes. Increases magic-based attack accuracy and reduces the chance for magic-based attacks to hit you. |
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Allows players to make runes in special altars using tiaras, talisman staffs, or talismans, aiding in the Magic skill. |
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Allows players to sustain more damage without dying. Your Life Points are ten times your Constitution level. All combat skills train Constitution at a rate of 1.33 experience per 10 damage done (with a few exceptions). |
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Allows players to craft items from raw materials, such as pottery, ranged armour, jewellery etc. |
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Allows players to obtain ores and gems from rocks found in some specific places. Ores can be used with the Smithing skill. Gems can be used with the Crafting skill. |
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Allows players to smelt ores into bars and smith bars into armour, weapons, and other useful items. |
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Allows players to catch certain fish. The fish can then be sold or cooked and eaten. |
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Allows players to cook food. The food can then be consumed to heal a player's life points. The higher the cooking level, the less chances of burning food. |
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Allows players to light fires, lanterns, etc. Players can cook on these fires. |
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Allows players to cut down trees for logs, and to carve out canoes for transportation. |
Attack
Defence
Dungeoneering 
Ranged
Prayer
Magic
Runecrafing
Constitucion
Crafting
Mining
Smithing
Fishing
Cookking
Firemaking
Woodcutting
Member skills
Members have access to all 25 skills, including the 16 free-to-play skills, and 9 additional skills.
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Skill |
Description |
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Agility |
Allows players to use shortcuts and increases the rate at which energy recharges. Certain pieces of equipment such as the Crystal bow also requires certain agility levels to wield. |
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Herblore |
Allows players to clean grimy herbs and to make potionswhich can be used to boost/restore skills. Certain potions also have other uses that can be very handy to players (such as poison prevention and protection from dragonfire without an Anti-dragon shield, but these last only for a set amount of time.) and are sometimes necessary for survival. |
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Thiefing |
Allows players to steal from market stalls, chests and certainnon-player characters (and other players in Stealing Creation.) |
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Fletching |
Allows players to create projectiles (arrows, bolts) andbows/crossbows which can be used for Ranged. |
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Slayer |
Allows players to kill certain monsters using tactics not used in normal combat. Useful in raising combat skills. Can give very rewarding drops. (Helpful in the minigame Soul Wars) |
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Farming |
Allows players to grow plants (fruits, vegetables, herbs, trees, etc.) in certain patches across the world of RuneScape. Farming is notably very useful for collecting many common and rare herbs for Herblore. |
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Construction |
Allows players to build a house and its contents, such as chairs, tables, workshops, dungeons, and more. Every players house is located inside it's own instance, separated from the rest of the game. Portals around the world are used to gain entry into the player's own house, and to gain access to other players houses, allowing anyone to gain access to some of the very useful, high level rooms and furniture. Some very popular and useful house features include Teleport Tabs and Portals, storing of many costumes, play-fighting other players, Gilded Altars for huge prayer training bonuses, and much more. |
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Hunter |
Allows players to track, net, deadfall, snare, and trap animals for their hides, abilities and treasures. Some of the animals caught can be used in other skills. Example: Red Chinchompa used for range) |
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Summoning |
Allows players to summon familiars and pets to enhance gameplay in both combat and non-combat skills. Certain familiars can also hold additional items, allowing players to hold more than 28 items, and allows for quite the expanded pet list. |
Runescape Tabel of skills and their levels
Skills types
There are four types of skills in RuneScape: Combat, Resource, Production, and Character Development.
Combat: - These skills involve fighting in Combat.
Attack, Defence, Strength, Magic[1], Ranged, Summoning[2], Slayer[3], Prayer, and Constitution.
Resource: - These skills involve gathering raw materials directly from the source.
Woodcutting, Mining, Fishing, Farming, and Hunter.
Production: - These skills involve using Resource items to create other, generally more useful items.
Smithing, Cooking, Fletching, Firemaking, Crafting, Herblore, Runecrafting, and Construction.
Character Development: - These skills help the player in various different ways:
Thieving - Looting money and other various miscellaneous - and sometimes rare - items.
Agility - Shortcut obstacle access all throughout the game, decreased run energy restore time, allows the use of certain weight-reducing clothing and select combat equipment.
Dungeoneering- Great training used in all the games skills, and access to very useful and unique items and equipment not available through any other means.