Main page/Guides/Ironman & Hardcore/Skilling Guides/ Strength

This is the Ironman/ Hardcore Ironman Strength Guide, the guide for regular players is found Here.

Strength is a player's power in melee combat. As a player raises their Strength level, they can deal more damage against opponents. A high Strength level is often favoured by player-killers over their Attack level because it raises max hit, helping to generate the burst damage necessary to kill other players faster than they can heal themselves.

Getting Weapons

As Ironmen have limited access to stores, obtaining weapons is far more difficult than a normal account. However, there are a lot of ways to obtain decent weapons.

Leaf Bladed Sword

The Leaf Bladed Sword is a very good starter weapon for both Ironman and Hardcore Ironmen. It can be obtained by trading any slayer master. The Leaf Bladed Sword should suffice until you find a stronger weapon.

Dragon Weapons

If you have 65 Slayer, you can kill Dust Devils. These NPC's drop both Dragon Daggers and Dragon Scimitars, which are a great improvement.

Strength Training Styles

Melee weapons vary in their attack styles. Some have four options, with a controlled option, while others have only three options. Players intending to remain a pure with no Defence need to take care when changing attack styles as you may gain unwanted Defence levels.

Numbers in brackets represent Hardcore Ironman experience

Aggressive

The Aggressive combat style is usually the top right option if there are 4 options, usually there is not a Aggressive option on weapons with 3 options. When using the accurate style for every point of damage a player deals, you gain 200(85) experience in Strength and 50(21) experience in Hitpoints. Using the agressive style provides an invisible +3 boost to your Strength level.

Controlled

The Controlled combat style is usually the bottom left option if there are 4 options, or the top right option if there are 3. When using the controlled style for every point of damage a player deals, they gain 66(28) experience in Attack, Strength, and Defence and 50(21) experience in Hitpoints. Using the controlled style provides an invisible +1 boost to your Attack, Strength and Defence levels. This attack style is only available in some melee weapons

Where to Train

Rock Crab

The best place to start training any combat skill at a low level is Rock crabs.

To get here click on the world map icon, beside the minimap.

Then select "Combat Training" for the category, and then "Rock Crabs Area"

Here you will find all the Rock crabs you will ever need to start leveling up your combat stats. Start killing these until you feel you have a high enough Strength level to move on to killing other monsters such as Hill Giants or yaks in Edgeville dungeon.

Bandits

For players with higher levels, the best place train would be at the Bandits Camp, in the desert.

To get here click on the world map icon, beside the minimap.

Then select "Combat Training" for the category, and then "Bandits Camp"

Here you will find a large amount of Bandits that will automatically attack you, allowing for easy AFK experience. However, you should still check in every now and then as they are still dangerous enough to kill you.

It is recommended to bring a bunyip summoning, as they heal you between 1-10 hp every 15 seconds.

Slayer

If you are planning on training all your skills, it might help to do slayer at the same time as training combat. You can find a Slayer guide Here.

Strength Boosts

Items that you may use to increase the Strength skill:

Picture	Item	Benefits
	Strength potion	Increase your Strength level by 1-13.
	Super strength	Increase your Strength level by 1-19.
	Extreme strength	Increase your Strength level by 1-25.
	Zamorak brew	Increase your Strength level by 1-19
	Overload	Increase your Strength level 5 + 15% of your Strength level (Deals 50 damage over time)

Useful Items and Boosts

Picture	Item/Boost	Effect	How to Obtain
N/A	Knowledge Totem	All experience gained will be increased for the next 10 minutes for normal donators and 20 minutes for super donators.	Go to the Donator Zone, in the building to the west of the bank and click on the Defence Totem(Knowledge effect).
N/A	Bonus Experience	All experience gained will be multiplied by 3 until the bonus experience runs out.	Logging in everyday grants 200k Bonus Exp. Every 10th vote streak rewards you with 500k Bonus Exp. Purchace 1m Bonus Exp for 5k premium points.
N/A	Monthly Bonus	All experience gained is multiplied by 1.25	Play during the 1st to the 5th of every month.
N/A	Double Exp Weekend	All combat experience is doubled.	Play during the weekend (Saturday/Sunday).
	Double XP ring	Doubles the experience received from killing a creature.	Bought from the agility ticket shop.

The Skill Cape

If you reach level 99 in Strength, you can talk to the Wise Old Man at home to obtain the Skill cape. He is located at home, in the building north of the bank.

The 99 cape costs 150K Gp and comes with a matching hood. Both the Strength cape and hood give +9 bonus to all defense stats.

If you reach 350m experience in the Strength skill you will also unlock the ability to buy the Master Strength Cape. It is exactly the same as the normal Skill cape. However, you can adjust the trim colour to whatever you like. This cape costs 2.5m Gp.