Fatigue training

Fatigue training ("fatiguing") is a technique for gaining melee experience without Hits experience. It is usually done by players who want to use their accounts for staking but do not want to get 99 in all melee stats and stake others with the same stats. Players stake by Hits level in order to work around Magic always raising the player's combat level in RuneScape Classic, regardless of their level in other skills.

Attack/defence/strength XP is added before hits XP when training with melee combat, and if the player's fatigue is suitably high, only attack/defence/strength XP will be added. Players will usually mine, cut trees and make fires, arrow shafts, make arrows, or use a magic spell such as High level alchemy in order to raise their fatigue to the necessary percentage for fatigue training. This makes the process of getting experience very slow, but some players consider the PvP advantage to be worth it.

Players will generally hide that they have fatigued in order to have a low hits level. This is frowned upon, but has become less of a problem due to the majority of staking in recent times taking place on "flats" accounts (with 99 in all melee skills).