
So, which one is the best? That will depend on the number of runes you are going to save using it and how much these runes cost.įrom an overall utility and cost-saving point, the best magic staff in f2p is the staff of air. All elemental staves have the same magic attack bonus. The staff of air, the staff of water, the staff of earth, and the staff of fire.

What is the most potent f2p magic spell?.The best shield for mages in f2p – Dragonfire shield.The best f2p magic weapon – staff of air.Ranged works similarly where ammo would be scaled down to the weapon tier (e.g. If you want to use fire elemental spells, fire bolt already gets the job done. The best overall spell to use would be air blast due 1 inventory slot only required and being the cheapest.īecause of these rules, fire blast is considered one of the most useless F2P spells outside dungeoneering, as there are no magic weapons of tier 59+ to support it. There's no difference in damage in the given 4 spells but only a difference in their elemental type, which only affects accuracy with monster weakness. Earth blast and Fire blast are level 53 and 59 spells respective, and would be scaled down to 50 due the weapon tier. If you use mystic, only earth bolt, fire bolt, air blast and water blast are the useful spells as those are scaled up to level 50 (the tier of mystic). For instance, fire bolt can scale up to damage values of level 58, as from 59 you're advised to use fire blast. Spell damage is affected by spell damage scaling, and is based on the damage level of the spell, which is the minimum of the following three: Your magic level, your weapon tier and the level cap the spell can scale up to. Staves are not better than wands and orbs in terms of ability damage, although if you're looking for optimal dps I do believe 2h magic is generally better due to sonic wave.Īlso your ability damage is also determined by your magic level, so being level 74 magic is a significant boost over being level 50 magic. This means that in F2P, your ability damage will not be hindered by using different elemental combat spells. Even if you were using a gravite staff, which is tier 55, the weakest of the four blast spells (air blast) scales up to level 61 magic damage, so all the spells would be limited by their staff tier. This is within the scaling values for all four elemental spells, so your element will not affect your damage.

Because you are using a tier 50 magic weapon which has tier 50 accuracy, the max ability damage you will be able to achieve will be tier 50 damage.

Magic ability damage is certainly more confusing than melee (which is just determined by weapon) and ranged (which is determined by weapon and ammunition), because it is determined by weapons and spells which scale based on your magic level and weapon. Or, is spell damage also capped by the lower value between weapon tier and magic level? (Making a magic level of 74 only marginally better than a magic level of 50 based on the first value for magic damage) (Side question - would a bovistrangler staff then be better than a thigat wand + soulbell orb?) If this is how it works, doesn't it mean that staves are way better than wands and orbs? Even the law staff as a tier 45 would have a value of 648 (14.4 x tier 45), which would make earth blast the lowest level spell required to do max damage. Because they are all greater than 480, am I right to assume that the element I use will have no impact on my damage?ĭoes this same logic also apply to the off-hand damage, with an even lower threshold of 240 (4.8 x tier 50)? So theoretically I could use earth strike for my off-hand spell and still do max damage because it scales to 268? Then, with a magic level of 74, the damage from each spell would scale to the max values (585, 614, 662, 710 for air, water, earth, and fire blast respectively). So if I use the mystic wand, the second value for my main-hand damage will always be 480 (9.6 x tier 50) If I am understanding it correctly, my damage will be limited by the weapons I use. Using a mystic wand and orb with lvl 74 magic, does it matter which element I use for blast spells?
