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

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

Herblore involves cleaning herbs which can be used to make potions using a secondary ingredient. These potions have a variety of effects. However, most of them are designed to be used in combat.

Starting Off

To start off you will need grimy herbs, they can be bought from the Herbloring Shop. However for Hardcore Ironmen these can be obtained from Farming them yourself would be a much cheaper method.

Herbloring Shop

The Herbloring Shop can be accessed by trading Lady Keli She can be found in three locations in Grinderscape, these are:

• In the building north-east of the bank on Neitznot (South).
• North-west of the Ardougne Marketplace.
• Directly outside the bank in the Donator Zone.

Cleaning Herbs

Cleaning herbs is by far the fastest method to 99. All you have to do to clean a herb is click on it. The table below shows all herbs and the required levels to clean it.

Herb	Name	Level to Clean	Ironman XP	Hardcore Ironman Xp
	Guam	1	41	17
	Marrentill	5	63	27
	Tarromin	11	83	36
	Harralander	20	105	45
	Ranarr	25	125	53
	Toadflax	30	933	400
	Irit	40	146	63
	Avantoe	48	500	214
	Kwuarm	54	565	242
	Snapdragon	59	1573	674
	Cadantine	65	625	268
	Lantadyme	67	1965	842
	Dwarf Weed	70	1150	493
	Torstol	75	1500	643

Making Potions

Making potions is also quite simple. All you need to do to make a potion is:

1) Use a clean herb with a Vial of Water (to make an unfinished potion).

2) Use a certain ingredient(s) with the unfinished potion.

Below you will see a table of potions, and which ingredients is used to make them.

Potion	Name	Herb used	Ingredient used	Level Required	Ironman XP	Hardcore Ironman Xp
	Attack Potion	Guam	Eye of Newt	3	83	36
	Strength Potion	Tarromin	Limpwurt Root	3	166	71
	Defense Potion	Ranarr	White Berries	30	250	107
	Super Attack	Irit	Eye of Newt	45	333	143
	Super Strength	Kwuarm	Limpwurt Root	55	416	178
	Super Defense	Cadantine	White Berries	66	500	214
	Ranging Potion	Dwarf Weed	Wine of Zamorak	72	540	231
	Magic Potion	Lantadyme	Potato Cactus	76	533	256
	Extreme Attack	Avantoe	Super Attack	88	733	314
	Extreme Strength	Dwarf Weed	Super Strength	89	766	328
	Extreme Defense	Lantadyme	Super Defense	90	800	343
	Extreme Magic	Ground Mud Runes	Magic Potion	91	833	357
	Extreme Range	Grenwall Spike	Range Potion	92	866	371
	Overload	None	One of each extreme	96	6666	2857
	Antifire	Lantadyme	Blue Dragon Scale Dust	85	523	224
	Super Antifire	Lantadyme	Antifire (3) + Phoenix Feather	85	700	300
	Prayer Potion	Ranarr	Snape Grass	38	290	124
	Super Energy	Avantoe	Mort Myre Fungi	52	390	167
	Super Restore	Snapdragon	Red Spiders' Eggs	63	433	203
	Super Prayer	None	Prayer Potion + Bonemeal	94	900	386
	Antipoison	Marrentill	Unicorn Horn Dust	5	123	58
	Super Antipoison	Irit	Unicorn Horn Dust	48	353	151
	Saradomin Brew	Toadflax	Crushed bird nest	81	600	257

Note: Some ingredients may need to be ground first. In order to do so, use a "Pestle and Mortar" with items such as: Unicorn Horn, Chocolate Bar, Blue Dragon Scale, Bird Nest and Mud Rune.

Useful Items and Boosts

Picture	Item/Boost	Effect	How to Obtain
N/A	Knowledge Effect	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 every day grants 200k Bonus Exp. Every 10th vote streak rewards you with 500k Bonus Exp.
N/A	Monthly Bonus	All experience gained is multiplied by 1.25	Play during the 1st to the 5th of every month.

The Skill Cape

If you reach level 99 in Herblore, 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 Herblore cape and hood give +9 bonus to all defense stats.

If you reach 350m experience in the Herblore skill you will also unlock the ability to buy the Master Herblore 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.