A Ranged Tank account aims to have the lowest possible combat level while maintaining high Ranged and Magic stats. In this guide, we'll learn how to build a Ranged Tank account from scratch, covering everything from quests and diaries to the skills you'll need to level up in the most optimal and easiest way to create a powerful account that few dare to build for PKing and dominating the Bounty Hunter.
Ideally, these types of accounts shouldn't exceed 100 Combat Level. Once they go above this level, you'll mostly be fighting mains instead of pures and zerkers, which will obviously make getting kills more difficult. To stay around Combat Level 98–100, you need to be careful. The goal is to maximize your damage while minimizing "useless" combat stats for this build, like Attack and Strength.
Ranged: 99 (Your primary source of damage).
Magic: 94+ (Essential for Vengeance).
Prayer: 77 (Unlocks Rigour)
Defence: 75 (For tank gear like Elysian or Armadyl)
Attack/Strength: Quest-only (~40–50). Do not train these manually!Leveling up all your skills and completing quests can take hundreds of hours. If you'd like to skip all the hard work, our professional team can help. Check out our OSRS Services page for all the services that we offer. We also sell premade unrecoverable OSRS accounts, which you can buy directly and skip an enormous part of the grind with.
1-99 Magic and Ranged training
Minigame Services
Quests/Skilling ServicesLets continue:
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Skill Reward |
QP |
Why? |
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The Knight's Sword |
12,725 Smithing |
1 |
Requirement for later quests. |
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Waterfall Quest |
13,750 Attack & Strength |
1 |
Skips the early melee grind instantly. |
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Dragon Slayer I |
18,650 Defence & Strength |
2 |
Core requirement for DS2. |
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Monkey Madness I |
20,000-35,000 Combat XP |
3 |
Select the Defence reward. |
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Holy Grail |
15,300 Defence, 11,000 Prayer |
2 |
Massive boost to Defense and Prayer. |
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The Fremennik Trials |
2,800 Attack, Strength, Defence |
3 |
Unlocks Fremennik gear. |
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Nature Spirit |
2,000 Defence, 2000 Prayer |
2 |
Requirement for Fairy Tales. |
Once your early questing is done, it’s time to power-level and quest.
There are several minigames and diaries you need to complete to get the most out of your Ranged Tank account. Below is a list of untradeable items that we recommend obtaining before continuing to train, as they will help you in the process, such as:
To obtain a full set of Void armor, we require 1250 points, and 1650 points if we want to use the Void Elite armor with the completed Western Diaries. However, we could subtract the Melee Helm, since there's no need to buy it, reducing the cost by 200 points.
It is obtained by defeating Sol Heredit in the Fortis Colosseum. If you require our services to obtain your Quiver, check out this page here.
An Ava's Assembler is obtained by using a Vorkath's Head on an Ava's Attractor. A Vorkath's Head is obtained by killing Vorkath; it has a drop rate of 1/50.
These diaries are necessary to unlock the ability to obtain Elite Void Equipment for 200 extra points per piece (400 points total). Although they require several skills, they are truly worthwhile for the boost they provide in the end.
A Ranged Tank account can't be considered good if it hasn't completed two essential quests: Monkey Madness 2 and Dragon Slayer 2. I recommend using the RuneLite Quest Helper plugin, as it will show you all the requirements your specific account is missing, so it will be different for everyone.
One of the most difficult requirements for completing either of these two quests is reaching 200 quest points, so we'll focus on achieving this first (Barrow Gloves). Once we have all these quests completed, we'll also have several boosted skills thanks to the rewards we earn along the way.
Let's first complete RFD, the quest that gives you the Barrow Gloves. Follow our Efficient Guide to obtain Barrow Gloves. Once you've completed it, you'll be very close to 200 quest points, and from there you'll just need to complete a few more quests.
Skills Requirements
75 Magic
70 Smithing
68 Mining
62 Crafting
60 Agility
50 Construction
69 Slayer
70 Crafting
60 Hunter
60 Thieving
60 FiremakingRecommended Quest List
200 Quest PointsThese are the mandatory quests required by Dragon Slayer 2 and Monkey Madness 2, so you can use them as a starting guide. Once you have them all completed, see how many quest points you're missing and finish them off with quests that have high quest point rewards. Remember that all these quests will require you to kill bosses or fight several NPCs. Always prioritize using Ranged/Magic and never use Melee. The idea is to keep this as low as possible and only gain combat EXP when it's necessary.
Having these 2 quests completed will allow us to access the fastest EXP in Ranged and Magic.
This article has much more to cover. Check our detailed OSRS Chinning guide.
You can also combine these combat styles to raise your defense simultaneously, bringing it up to 75. After that, say goodbye to that skill, as it will be the last time you gain any EXP on it.
This article has much more to cover. Check our detailed OSRS Ice Bursting guide.
Once you have
99 Ranged 94 Magic 75 Defence 77 Prayer Dragon Slayer 2 Monkey Madness 2 Your Ranged Tanker account is now ready for battle. Below, we'll show you three different outfits, and you can choose the one that best suits your budget and preferences. Keep in mind that when you are skulled you will risk some of these items potentially.
Inventory
The only thing left is for you to take the risk and start fighting to learn various PvP skills. We recommend watching some YouTube videos of more advanced players before you take the risk, so you know what to expect. It was a pleasure to help you, and I hope you have your account ready soon. Good luck!
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