Damage Guide

See your own numbers#

Open your worn equipment tab and press Show Equipment Stats. The Combat box shows your Bonus Damage, DR Bonus (drop rate), Dmg Redu (damage reduction), attack speed, Gear Score and Power. For the full breakdown, press Bonuses in the top corner.

The Bonuses panel shows six headline tiles - Damage, Crit Chance, Crit Damage, Attack Speed, Drop Rate, Damage Reduction - then a tab for each, including Pets. Every row says what the bonus is, where it applies (everywhere, on task, while carried, while prayed...) and how much it adds, for where you are standing right now. It refreshes as you play, so drink a potion or swap a prayer and watch the total move.

How bonuses stack#

There are a few kinds of damage bonus, and they behave differently:

• Combat level boosts raise your stats. The Max Potion, Tidal Amphora, Superior Potion and the Infinite Overload push your Attack, Strength, Ranged and Magic past 150 - a higher level means a higher base max hit before any percentage touches it.
• Max-hit bonuses add together. Prayers, your slayer helm's max-hit bonus, the Void set and Task Slayer raise your max hit. These add up into one percentage on your base max hit.
• Damage multipliers multiply. Everything on the panel's Damage tab - your class, rank, prestige, Discord, elixirs, relics, cosmetics, Hymnal prayers - multiplies the others. Ten sources of +10% is not +100%, it's about +159%.
• Then talents, enchants and crits land on top: Onslaught or Zeal stacks, your worn enchants, and finally the critical-hit roll.

So stacking a little of everything beats piling one kind of bonus.

Combat level boosts#

Your base max hit comes from your levels, so lifting them is a damage bonus in its own right. These don't stack - you get whichever is highest, and a weaker one never drags a stronger one down.

The Max Potion is the one most players live on: once you have it, it sits in your inventory and holds every combat stat at 350 for good. It replaces the Amphora and Infinite Overload outright.

Gear#

Cosmetic overrides#

Some cosmetics pay damage even though they have no combat stats - and you don't have to give up a gear slot to get it. Bind the piece with Mnemosyne's Key and apply it from ::keepsake: everyone sees the cosmetic, your real gear stays equipped underneath, and the bonus still counts. Each slot only counts once, so wearing a piece and overriding with it at the same time doesn't pay twice.

Potions and consumables#

Prayers#

Normal prayers raise your levels: Piety (+20% attack, +23% strength), Turmoil, Rigour and Augury.

The Olympian Hymnal adds Titan prayers on top, and they all stack - each extra prayer doubles the drain:

Radiance of Helios and Reaper of Thanatos also power up your class abilities, ultimates and summons, not just your weapon.

Enchants#

Enchant scrolls add an effect to a worn item, five tiers each. The damage ones: Keen Edge and Sun (+8%), Radiance and Selene (+5%), Rend (+15% on the target it marks), True Shot (+10% crit chance), Iron Grip (+15% crit damage), and Crest (+10% accuracy - the only accuracy bonus on gear). Plus procs like Cinders, Tides and Oblivion. See Enchanting.

Your class#

Your class is one of the biggest multipliers you have. See Classes and class talents for the full trees.

Fight in your class's style. Off-style hits deal only a fifth of normal damage - a Mage swinging a sword barely scratches anything.

Class level#

Your class levels from 1 to 50 by dealing damage as that class. Every level adds a little, with a bigger bump every 5th and 10th level. At level 50:

Specs and talents#

• Class talents (::ctalents) - 51 points across three spec trees, with an ultimate at the bottom of each. Many talents add damage, crit chance, crit damage or attack speed directly.
• Your main spec (the tree with the most points, at least 11) sets your role. Damage specs hit hardest; tank and healer specs trade damage for survival and healing.
• Ultimates fire on their own and are some of the biggest hits in the game - the Carnage Berserker's Deathblow opens every Frenzy with a guaranteed 700% crit, the Marksmanship Ranger's Deadeye lands a 400% crit every 30 seconds.

Class-specific bonuses#

Every hit also has a 5% base crit chance for 1.25× damage. Class levels, talents, prayers, relics and enchants raise both the chance and the size.

Account talents#

Account talents (::talents, points from Talent Sigils) work for every class - see Talents:

• Onslaught: +1% per hit on the same target, up to +20% with Relentless.
• Zeal: up to +25% at five stacks, with Ferocity and Vehemence for crits.
• Hunter's Mark / Raidbreaker / Delver: +25% on task, in raids or in delves. Only the best one applies.
• Precision (+10% crit chance), Savage Blows (+50% crit damage), Execute (+30% under 20% health).

Pets, companions and spells#

Your pets add damage of their own on top of yours - the damage meter lists each one separately.

Pokemon battle pets#

Catch a Pokemon on a Pokemon Slayer task and it fights beside you as a battle pet. Its hits are sized from your own max hit with your account bonuses, so as you get stronger, so does your pet - then scaled by the Pokemon itself:

• Rarity: Common pets hit for 75% of a Mythical's share, rising 5% a step - Uncommon 80%, Rare 85%, Epic 90%, Legendary 95%, Mythical 100%.
• Its stats and level: each point of its attack stat adds a little.
• Attack speed matters most of all: a 2-tick Pokemon hits half again as often as a 3-tick one.

As a rough guide, a strong Mythical pet adds around 10% to a geared player's damage, a mid pet 5-7% and a Common one 2-3%. Pets only fight monsters, never players. ::pokepet shows your pet's numbers, and Reins of Poseidon gives it +40%.

Familiars and boss pets#

• Familiars fight beside you - about 18% of your damage on top at full level. See Summoning.
• Boss pets - Klotho's spiderling and the Wilderness boss pets - give +10% damage against monsters (plus +5% drop rate) while summoned. They never count against players.

Divinity spells#

Fury of Ares ×1.25 for 30 seconds, Might ×1.40 for 10 hits. Both also boost your class abilities. See Divinity.

Slayer#

• Task Slayer (rewards panel): +10% max hit on task.
• Slayer helm: see Gear above. Both count only on your assignment. See the Slayer guide.

Account bonuses#

Seasons and delves#

• Season talents and weekly affixes add damage only inside the live season's areas - they never touch anything else. See Seasons.
• Delve objectives in the Horror Delv add a damage bonus for the rest of that run.

PvP#

PvP in the Eremos, the Duel Arena, LMS and the arenas runs on OSRS-style combat: your gear and levels decide fights, and most of the PvM bonuses on this page - pets, boss pets, vote blessings, off-hands - don't apply to hits on players. See PKing.