Ranged

Early levels can be skipped by completing quests that give Ranged experience. Completing Shadow of the Storm (putting the experience reward on Ranged), Death to the Dorgeshuun, and Horror from the Deep grants a total of 16,662.5 experience, which will get the player from level 1 to 32. The level 40 Ranged requirement for Temple of Ikov can be bypassed by wielding knives or darts whilst wielding ice arrows, allowing for a further 10,500 experience. This will get the player up to level 36.

Using the dwarf multicannon, once assembled, offers the fastest experience up to level 45. Players must have completed Dwarf Cannon quest to use and assemble their own dwarf multicannon, but there are no level requirements to assemble and use one. The cannon offers much higher damage output compared to other options at low levels, as it has a max hit of 30 with regular steel cannonballs regardless of the player's Ranged level. The accuracy of the multicannon is affected by the accuracy of the player's selected attack style, either ranged or melee, taking into account the attack bonus for that particular style.

Cannoning can be fairly expensive, however. At level 45, chinning becomes a lot faster and is usually a cheaper alternative.

For more information, see Gemstone Crab/Strategies.

The Gemstone Crab is the premier idle training method for Ranged. The crab has unlimited Hitpoints, no defensive stats, stands still, only burrows once every 10 minutes and can be reengaged with two clicks.

Using the rapid attack style will offer the highest damage output and the fastest experience rates. For chinchompas, the rapid attack style is called 'Medium fuse'. Longrange should only be used to train Defence while throwing chinchompas. Use the best ranged armour available to maximise damage output.

Ava's devices return a percentage of certain ammunition fired. They are obtained from Ava after completing Animal Magnetism, which requires level 30 Ranged. Wearing one of the devices will save a lot of money and time when using certain Ranged weapons (such as darts or shortbows), as the player does not need as much ammunition or to pick it up as often. Ammunition recovery will not work if wearing a metallic body.

If picking up ammunition, speak to the Ranged combat tutor to toggle whether or not the ammunition will automatically be equipped.

Darts are the best weapon to use for damage output and cost, especially with a wooden blowpipe or an offhand item with ranged strength (such as a twisted buckler or odium ward). Either use the highest-level darts available up to amethyst (with an hourly cost of 114,600 coins), or use adamant darts or mithril darts as a more budget option (with an hourly cost of 20,160 coins and 5,880 coins respectively). Other options include:

Equipment should be geared towards ranged strength if possible, such as void Knight equipment or masori armour. If those aren't available, focus on prayer bonus to make offensive prayers cheaper/more convenient; ranged accuracy is unnecessary against the zero defense crab.

Items will be listed in order of how much they increase general ranged damage per second. In nearly all cases, optimising for offensive stats is more effective than optimising for defensive or balanced stats, especially when fighting low-offence, high hp monsters. In addition, optimising for ranged strength is usually better than optimising for accuracy except against high-defence monsters.

Note: This doesn't include elite void knight equipment or void knight equipment which in many cases can be best-in-slot for training, providing the player uses the set. It also doesn't include the salve amulet(ei) or the slayer helmet (i) which can both be best-in-slot in specific use cases. The Wiki's DPS calculator can be used to determine which gear provides the highest DPS for a specific monster.