Herblore is one of the most expensive skills in Old School RuneScape. This is because the primary training method and the fastest route to 99 requires creating items, like potions from herbs, vials, or water, along with secondary ingredients, which can become quite expensive. There are secondary training methods that can be profitable but are very slow in comparison. However, those methods are mainly used if you want to make a profit or if you’re an Ironman.
Requirements
Besides being a members-only skill, to access Herblore, you'll need to first complete the quest, Druidic Ritual. The quest is relatively simple, and you'll only need raw beef, raw chicken, raw rat meat, and raw bear meat, as well as a few pieces of food if you’re doing it at a low combat level, since the creatures inside the Taverley dungeon will attack you.
OSRS Herblore Training Milestones
The Herblore Skill has several significant milestones. There are essential levels for upgrading your training method and gaining more XP per hour within the herblore skill and levels that will let you access various tiers of your achievement diary or quests.
Training Method Milestones
- Level 12: Strength Potions
- Level 26: Energy Potions
- Level 38: Prayer Potions
- Level 45: Super Attack Potions
- Level 48: Superantipoison
- Level 63: Super Restores
- Level 69: Anti-fire Potion
- Level 77: Stamina Potions
- Level 81: Saradomin Brews
- Level 90: Super Combat Potions
- Level 92: Super Antifire Potions
- Level 98: Extended Super Antifire Potions
Quest Milestones
- Level 5: Luna Diplomacy
- Level 8: Zogre Flesh Eaters
- Level 10: The Digsite
- Level 14: The Watchtower
- Level 15: Shades of Morton
- Level 18: One Small Favour
- Level 25: Heroes Quest
- Level 31: Edgar’s Ruse Quest
- Level 40: A Taste of Hope
- Level 45: Legends Quest
- Level 48: Land of the Goblins
- Level 50: A Kingdom Divide
- Level 52: Grim Tales
- Level 57: Fairytale II - Cure A Queen
- Level 62: Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire
- Level 70: Song of the Elves
Achievement Diary Milestones
- Level 12: Easy Kourend and Kebos Diary
- Level 22: Medium Morytania diary
- Level 36: Medium Desert Diary
- Level 48: Medium Kandarin Diary
- Level 66: Hard Fremennik Diary
- Level 81: Elite Falador Diary
- Level 86: Elite Kandarin Diary
- Level 87: Elite Karamja Diary
- Level 90: Elite Varrock Diary
Levels 1-12: Attack Potions
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 1-12 | Attack potion x57 |
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Ironman
If you’re an Ironman, getting the ingredients for the Attack potion is relatively easy compared to other Herblore recipes since you can simply buy Eyes of newt in packs from Betty's Magic Emporium in Port Sarim. You can get Guam by degriming it and obtaining the grimy version from low-level monsters such as cockatrice, man, goblins, cave bugs, goblins, chaos druids, or Al Kharid warriors. Alternatively, you can use your farming skills to plant Guam.
Levels 12-22: Strength Potions
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 12-22 | Strength potion x144 |
|
Ironman
Get Grimy tarromin from herb runs or monster drops, degrime them, and make the unfinished pots. The Limpwurt root is one of the easiest to obtain, as you can simply plant it in the flower patches during herb runs.
Levels 26-38: Energy Potions
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 26-28 | Energy potion x322 |
|
Ironman
You'll need to buy or collect Chocolate and grind it with a knife, pestle, and mortar to turn it into Chocolate dust. You can buy chocolate bars from a few shops around Gielinor, but the Ardougne and Nardah shops are the best since they are the closest to a bank.
Levels 38-45: Prayer Pots
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 38-45 | Prayer potion x356 |
|
🌿Note: Because both the ingredients and the finished product are more expensive, you'll need to invest more. However, they'll sell fast since they're a very popular item.
Ironman
As an Ironman, these potions are a must, so you'll significantly benefit from them. Get the Ranarr either from monster drops or more reliably from herb runs.
🌿Note: An excellent way to obtain Ranarr seeds is by pickpocketing master farmers.
Either collect the Snape grass from the various spawns around Gielinor or plant it in the allotment patches if you have the necessary farming level.
Levels 45-52: Super Attack
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 45-52 | Super attack x622 |
|
Ironman
If you’re an Ironman, you’ll need to plant or drop the Irit herbs and then use them on Vials of water. Alternatively, provided that you have completed the hard tier of the Desert diary, you can pay Zahur 200 coins to combine them, saving you a lot of time at a pretty pricey fee.
Levels 52-55: Super Energy
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 52-55 | Super energy x366 |
|
Ironman
By now, you’re most likely used to doing herb runs for the herbs. However, obtaining the second ingredient for the helpful Super energies will take your grind to the next level. Grab your blessed Silver sickle, which you get during the Nature Spirit quest, and head to the Mort Myre Swamp. Find some logs that are close together. For example, south of Ver Sinhaza, use the sickle’s bloom option to make the fungus appear so you can collect it. Bank it once you have a full inventory and repeat the process.
Levels 55-63: Super Strength
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 55-63 | Super strength x1,616 |
|
Levels 63-69: Super Restore
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 63-69 | Super restore x2,102 |
|
🌿Note: This is another of the more expensive potions to make, so you'll need to invest a good chunk of GP, and after selling the final products, you'll be at a loss of around 2 mil.
Ironman
As an Ironman, you'll first need to obtain the rare seeds from various monster drops, plant them during your herb runs, and degrime them to add them to a Vial of water later. The Red spiders' eggs can be collected, but you can also drop multiple from bosses such as Sarachnis.
Levels 69-72: Antifire potion
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 69-72 | Antifire potion x1,468 |
|
Ironman
As an Ironman, you'll need to first collect Blue dragon scales or Scaly blue dragonhide from Blue dragons and grind them with a Pestle and mortar to obtain the dust.
Levels 72-76: Ranging potion
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 72-76 | Ranging potion x2,691 |
|
Ironman
As an Ironman, the tedious part is collecting the Wine or making it with the recent tithe farm upgrade that will give you more blessings per point.
Levels 76-81: Magic potion
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 76-81 | Magic potion x4,965 |
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🌿Note: Depending on the current GE prices, it'll cost you under 10 mil. You will need much more to buy all of the needed Lantadyme potions (unf) and Potato Cactus in one go, and selling the obtained magic potions will bring down your loss to around 10 mil. Remember to decant the potions at the NPC at the GE before selling them to minimize the costs.
Ironman
As an Ironman, start planting Potato cacti inside the farming guild early to obtain the necessary amount effortlessly.
Levels 81-99 Saradomin Brew
| Levels | Item | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 81-99 | Saradomin brew x60,232 |
|
🌿Note: This long journey will cost you over 110 million!
Ironman
As an Ironman, you'll need to obtain the nests from Birdhouse runs or by killing the Giant mole and exchanging the mole parts for nests. The most reliable way to obtain Toadflax is by doing herb runs.
A Less Click-Intensive Option
Once you hit level 77, you can start making Stamina potions if you want to go for a less click-intensive route. This is because Stamina potions have a secondary ingredient, Amylase crystals, which are stackable, so you can make 27 potions instead of 14 before having to bank again. You'll also spend less since it'll only cost you around 90 mil to make it to 99, but you'll gain XP at a slower rate than if you were to take the fastest route.
