OSRS Agility Guide 1–99: Fastest XP, Rooftops and Marks

Overview

Agility is a quality-of-life skill disguised as a grind. The XP itself does nothing for combat, but the shortcuts, the run energy improvements and the Graceful outfit change how every other skill feels to train.

Rooftop courses can take you all the way to 99 and pay out marks of grace for Graceful as you go. They are not the fastest XP, though. The wiki puts the Brimhaven Agility Arena on top from 20 to 47, the Wilderness Agility Course from there to 62, and the Hallowed Sepulchre from 62 to 99, and the Sepulchre is also the method that pays best.

The tables below give the wiki XP rate for every course, the hours each band takes, the summer pie levels that get you onto a course early, how marks of grace spawn and which shortcut levels are worth stopping at.

Pick Your Method

Every rate here is from the wiki's Agility training page or the course's own page. Profit figures come from the wiki's money-making pages at 14 October 2026 prices, so treat them as about figures.

Short version: quests to 33, Brimhaven to 47, the Wilderness course to 62 if you accept the PvP risk, then the Sepulchre. Swap in rooftops whenever you want marks of grace or a session that asks less of you.

Hours to 40, 62 and 99

XP needed comes from the wiki's experience table; hours are that XP divided by the wiki rate, rounded.

Put together, quests, Brimhaven, the Wilderness course and the Sepulchre come to roughly 150 hours from 1 to 99. Most of that is floor 5: the Sepulchre's 142 hours split into about 10 on floor 2 (62–72), 8 on floor 3 (72–77), 31 on floor 4 (77–87) and 92 on floor 5 (87–99).

Skipping the quests costs less than people think on Agility: about one extra hour to 40 if you go Draynor then Brimhaven. Skipping Brimhaven for rooftops costs about two hours. The real gap is 62–99, where the Sepulchre saves roughly 50–60 hours over rooftops.

Quest and Diary Unlocks That Change the Route

Agility has few hard quest gates, but a handful of unlocks change the route enough to be worth doing before you start grinding.

Recommended Equipment and Boosts

Agility gear is about weight and run energy, not stats. Every item here exists to keep you moving.

Level-by-Level Training Table

Rooftop courses are the backbone of Agility. Each one unlocks at a fixed level and gives more XP per lap than the last. The alternatives marked below are faster in their bands, and the table says where.

Brimhaven Agility Arena vs the Wilderness Course

This is the choice most accounts face between 40 and 62. Both beat the rooftops in that band; they differ on risk, rewards and how much you have to look at the screen. Numbers are from the wiki's Brimhaven Agility Arena and Wilderness Agility Course pages.

At Brimhaven, tag the lit dispenser, then go to the nearest floor spikes and jump them until the next one lights up, which happens about once a minute. Pressure pads used to be the spam obstacle, but since July 2024 they give XP twice and then nothing for 8 ticks, so the spikes are the ones to use. Logging out inside the arena throws you out, and you pay the 200 coins again.

On the Wilderness course, every obstacle must be passed in order or you lose the 498.9 XP finish bonus, which is most of the 571.4 XP a lap. If you fail the log balance, walk back past the stepping stones and cross it again. Bring only what you can lose, and an Ice Plateau teleport tablet is the quickest way in.

For the full arena route, Karamja gloves and the voucher shop, see our Brimhaven Agility Arena guide. For lap streaks, loot tiers and the logout penalty on the Wilderness course, see the Wilderness Agility money-making guide.

Agility Boosts and Marks of Grace

Boosts matter in Agility because every course and Sepulchre floor has a hard entry level, and the Sepulchre floor requirements are boostable. A summer pie is the standard answer.

Rooftop requirements are boostable according to the wiki's Rooftop Agility Courses page, and the summer pie page lists what is not: the Ape Atoll course, Dragon Slayer II and Saradomin's Encampment in the God Wars Dungeon. Failures are most common near a course's minimum level, so carry spare pies, and pray Preserve if you want each boost to last longer.

Marks of grace are untradeable, so you cannot buy them on the Grand Exchange. They spawn on rooftop courses and a few others, including the Gnome Stronghold, Shayzien, Barbarian Outpost, Ape Atoll, Werewolf and Dorgesh-Kaan courses. Most courses have a 3-minute cooldown, then each finished lap rolls for a mark: 2/3 on Canifis and Ardougne, 2/5 on Rellekka and 1/3 on most other rooftops.

If your unboosted level is 20 or more above a course's requirement, the spawn chance drops by 80%. Canifis is exempt because of a coding error, so it never drops to the reduced rate. Ardougne with the elite diary is the highest rate on any single course, at about 22 an hour. Below 90, the advanced Colossal Wyrm course gets marks faster indirectly: termites buy amylase packs, which Grace takes for 8 marks each.

Spend the first 260 marks on Graceful: hood 35, top 55, legs 60, gloves 30, boots 40, cape 40. After that, amylase packs cost 10 marks for 100 amylase crystals, which turn super energy potions into stamina potions.

Alch-gility: High Alchemy Between Obstacles

Rooftops leave gaps between clicks, and the wiki's Ironman Agility guide notes that alching between obstacles does not lower your Agility rate on the rooftops. That turns a course into two skills at once.

High Level Alchemy needs 55 Magic and gives 65 Magic XP a cast. It can repeat every 5 ticks, so 1,200 casts (78,000 Magic XP) an hour is the ceiling standing still. On a course you will cast fewer than that.

• Keep the alchables noted in one slot. Alchemy works on noted items, so one stack lasts the whole session and the spell and the item stay in the same place.
• Rooftops are the natural fit. At Brimhaven you can alch in the downtime between dispensers instead of jumping spikes, which the wiki says costs some Agility XP.
• Wilderness course laps drop noted alchables from the dispenser if you pay the fee, which gives an ironman a steady alch stock.
• It does not work on the Ape Atoll course, because you are a monkey there, and the Hallowed Sepulchre needs your full attention anyway.
• No Magic level for it yet? Adding feathers to dart tips fits the same gaps on a rooftop.

Which items to alch, and when it makes or loses money, is in our alching guide.

Fastest Route

The fastest route leaves the rooftops at 20 and only comes back to them if you want marks. It follows the wiki's fastest method for each band.

1. 1

   Do The Tourist Trap, Recruitment Drive, The Depths of Despair and The Grand Tree for 19,700 XP, which is level 33. Death on the Isle adds 7,500 more and takes you to 36.

2. 2

   If you skip the quests, run Draynor Village rooftops from level 1 to 20 (about half an hour).

3. 3

   From 20 to 47, train in the Brimhaven Agility Arena:

   tag each dispenser and cross the floor spikes between activations. About 2 hours from 20, or 1.5–2 from 33.

4. 4

   From 47 with a summer pie, or 52 without, run the Wilderness Agility Course and bring only what you can lose. About 4.5–5 hours to 62.

5. 5

   At 62, move to the Hallowed Sepulchre and take each new floor as it opens at 72, 77 and 87.

   Looting coffins needs 66 Thieving. About 142 hours to 99 at the wiki's practised rates.

6. 6

   Use rooftops when you want marks of grace or a lower-effort session:

   Canifis from 40, Seers' with the hard Kandarin Diary, Ardougne from 90.

7. 7

   Carry stamina potions and keep your inventory otherwise empty.

Cheapest and Most Affordable Route

• Rooftop courses are already free. The only cost is the food you eat after failures, and that drops as your level rises.
• Skip stamina potions and rest at banks or fountains instead; slower per hour, free per hour.
• Buy boots of lightness and a spotted cape as interim weight reduction rather than rushing full Graceful.
• Do the Agility quest rewards before grinding; quest XP is the cheapest XP in the skill.
• Brimhaven costs 200 coins per entry. Trap damage there scales with your current Hitpoints, so keeping them low keeps the hits small.
• The Colossal Wyrm course in Varlamore never fails you, so it costs no food at all.
• Buy Graceful piece by piece with marks as you earn them rather than waiting to afford a set.

AFK and Low-Intensity Route

• Agility has no genuinely AFK method. Every option needs regular clicks; some just need fewer of them.
• The advanced Colossal Wyrm course (62, Children of the Sun) gives up to 42,000 XP an hour from 6 clicks a lap, and since the August 2026 Summer Sweep Up a lap takes about 83 seconds. The wiki says two sections give about 20 seconds of downtime each, and its obstacles cannot be failed.
• Rooftop courses run on a short, repetitive click pattern. You lose XP per hour running them slowly, but you still collect marks of grace.
• The Prifddinas course (75, Song of the Elves) is less click-intensive, though rates drop if you idle.
• Crossing only the Brimhaven floor spikes (level 20) is the wiki's lowest-focus option at about 36,000 XP an hour; tagging dispensers for the full rate is what makes Brimhaven busy.
• For the spikes on any client: zoom all the way out, face north, cross the spikes once, then keep clicking beyond the arena's east wall so you run back and forth over them. RuneLite's Detached Camera plugin lets you click a single tile instead.
• Avoid the Hallowed Sepulchre when you want low attention. It is the most mechanically demanding Agility content in the game.

Profitable Route

• The Hallowed Sepulchre is the profit route. It requires Sins of the Father, and floors unlock at 52, 62, 72, 77 and 87 Agility.
• Coffins pay hallowed marks and loot. Looting needs 66 Thieving, and the Grand Hallowed Coffin at the end of floor 5 needs 84 Thieving or 92 Agility.
• The wiki's floor 5 money-making page puts it at about 1.73M coins an hour alongside about 88,000 Agility XP, at 14 October 2026 prices.
• Hallowed marks buy the grapple, focus, symbol, hammer and sack (100 each), the hallowed ring (250), dark dye (300) and the dark acorn (3,000). The ring of endurance only comes from the Grand Hallowed Coffin.
• The Wilderness Agility Course pays noted alchables and blighted items per lap once you pay the 150,000-coin fee, plus a 1/40 chance of a medium clue. The wiki's money-making page puts a 61+ lap streak at about 1.96M an hour. You are in level 50–56 Wilderness, so PKers are part of the method.
• The Agility Pyramid in the desert gives coins alongside XP from level 30: each pyramid top is 10,000 coins, and the wiki puts it at about 200,000 an hour.
• Everything else in Agility is a pure cost. If profit matters, the Sepulchre is the answer.

Ironman Route

• Agility is one of the friendlier skills for an Ironman because rooftops cost nothing and marks of grace are untradeable for everyone.
• Prioritise Graceful early. Weight reduction and run energy affect every other grind on the account.
• Do the Agility quest rewards before grinding. Free levels matter more when you cannot buy stamina potions in bulk.
• Farm the Hallowed Sepulchre for coffin loot and, at floor 5, the ring of endurance.
• Spend spare marks on amylase packs so your own super energy potions become stamina potions.
• Train toward specific shortcuts you actually use rather than pushing straight for 99.

Ironman route by level

Ultimate Ironman

• After Monkey Madness II the Ape Atoll course needs 0–1 inventory slots and no prep; Zooknock at the Grand Tree gives the greegree for free, and obstacles stop failing at 75.
• Spend marks before you leave a rooftop session so they are not clogging your inventory on the next trip.
• The Wilderness course is weaker on a UIM: lap and ticket bonuses are hard to use while keeping deathpiles, and the loot is harder to use without a bank.
• The UIM guide covers storage; for Agility, always loot the Grand Hallowed Coffin for the ring of endurance.

Hardcore, F2P and pures

• Hardcore: the Wilderness course is the one place in this route where a PK can end your status. Brimhaven, the rooftops and the Colossal Wyrm course cover 47–62 with no PvP; see our Hardcore guide.
• F2P: Agility is members-only, so there is no F2P training. Your Agility level still speeds up run energy restoration on F2P worlds.
• Pures: Agility is not part of the combat level formula, so a pure can take it to 99 without moving combat level. See pure builds for the quests a pure should avoid.

Agility Milestone Levels Worth Stopping At

Agility pays off at specific levels, not only at 99. These are the stops most accounts notice, from the wiki's Shortcuts list and course pages.

Common Mistakes

1. 1

   Running rooftops from 20 to 47.

   Al Kharid and Varrock give 11,000–14,000 XP an hour; Brimhaven floor spikes give about 36,000. That is roughly three times the XP for the same band.

2. 2

   Farming marks on a course 20 or more levels below you.

   The spawn chance drops to 20% of normal once your unboosted level is 20 above the course. Canifis is the one exception.

3. 3

   Skipping or failing a Wilderness course obstacle and moving on.

   The 498.9 XP finish bonus only pays if you passed every obstacle in order, and it is most of the 571.4 XP a lap. Redo the failed obstacle before the rocks.

4. 4

   Running Seers' without the hard Kandarin Diary.

   The wiki gives 40,000–44,000 XP an hour without the bank teleport and 50,000–56,000 with it, plus a better mark rate.

5. 5

   Starting the Sepulchre at 52 or pushing floors you cannot finish yet.

   Floor 1 is about 45,000 an hour, under the Wilderness course, and the wiki only calls it fastest from 62. Runs lost to the timer on a floor above your practice cost more than the floor gives.

Useful Plugins

1. 1

   Agility

   : highlights the next obstacle and tracks marks of grace, which removes most rooftop misclicks.

2. 2

   Hallowed Sepulchre

   : overlays obstacle timings and loot locations; close to mandatory for Sepulchre runs.

3. 3

   Menu Entry Swapper

   : makes obstacle clicks consistent so you are not fighting the right-click menu.

4. 4

   Run Energy

   : shows exact energy and stamina state so you know when to drink.

5. 5

   XP Tracker

   : measures your real rate per course rather than the theoretical one.

6. 6

   Inventory Tags

   : keeps your food and stamina slots in the same place every trip.

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