Melee training

Melee is one of three attack styles, enabling players to fight in close-combat using handheld weaponry such as battleaxes, longswords, and daggers. Unlike Ranged, melee increases your level in Hits while training. This is a guide on how to train using Melee, enabling more efficient use of Attack, Strength, and Defense during combat.

Weaponry Choice

 * Two-handed swords give the highest damage per second of any melee weapon in RuneScape Classic, but thus sacrifice a large amount of Armour bonus provided from use of a shield. These are useful in areas where defense is unnecessary at your level, or when using Prayer to train melee. Some monsters which you might train with a two-handed sword on include lesser demons or black knights.
 * Battleaxes provide damage per second similar to Two-handed swords and allow use of shields, but significantly reduce WeaponAim. The Dragon Battleaxe is the highest hitting weapon in the game, however the Rune Two-handed sword and the Dragon sword both provide higher offensive capability. These are best used on enemies that have high power but low defense, such as fire giants.
 * Longswords give WeaponAim exceeding that of a battleaxe and are one-handed, however a large amount of WeaponPower is sacrificed. These are best used on enemies which have high defense but hit significant amounts of damage, such as green dragons.
 * Most other weapons are seldom used, as they are often considered unsuperior compared to the weapons listed above.

1. Kill chickens in various farms located throughout Lumbridge.
Pros: Cons:
 * Low defense, easy to kill
 * Drop feathers which can be sold to other players for a good source of wealth
 * Drop bones which can be used to train prayer (3.75 experience per set of bones buried)
 * Raw chicken drops can be cooked for cooking experience
 * No food is necessary
 * Sometimes crowded, one player can be capable of killing off large amounts of chickens in one area, reducing your experience gain
 * After reduced to around to 1 hitpoint, chickens will procede to run away, and thus you must reclick on them to kill them.