OSRS Hitpoints (HP) Training 1–99: Fastest HP XP Methods

How Hitpoints Training Works in OSRS

You cannot train Hitpoints on its own in OSRS. Every point of damage you deal with melee, Ranged or Magic gives 1.33 Hitpoints XP, so the fastest HP training is whichever combat method deals the most damage per hour. Melee and Ranged give 4 XP per damage to the combat skill, which means your Hitpoints XP is always a third of what you earn there.

Hitpoints is the only skill you start with XP in: 1,154, which is exactly level 10. Witch's House adds 6,325 Hitpoints XP, and a few other quests and XP lamps can go into it, but combat supplies nearly all of the 13,034,431 XP you need for 99. Magic is the one style where the ratio shifts. Spells give 2 Magic XP per damage plus a fixed casting XP, while Hitpoints still gets 1.33 per damage.

Hitpoints 1–99 Level Path

Because Hitpoints follows your other combat skills, a plan for 99 HP is really a plan for Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged and Magic. This is the order most mains end up following.

1. 1

   Level 10 to 24: Witch's House (6,325 HP XP) takes you from 1,154 to 7,479 XP.

   The early melee quests after it give Attack, Strength and Defence XP but no Hitpoints, so do them for the unlocks; HP only moves once you fight.

2. 2

   30 to 70: the Gemstone Crab in the Tlati Rainforest (Children of the Sun required) or Slayer tasks.

   Hitpoints climbs at a third of the rate of whatever you are training.

3. 3

   70: Zamorak's Fortress in the God Wars Dungeon opens, since it needs 70 Hitpoints.

4. 4

   75 to 99: Slayer, bossing, chinning or bursting maniacal monkeys.

   At this stage HP rises without any plan of its own.

5. 5

   Skip anything sold as HP-only training.

   No combat method gives Hitpoints XP without also training a combat skill, so pick the skill you want and let HP follow.

Hitpoints Unlocks by Level

Hitpoints gates fewer items than the other combat skills, but the ones it does gate are some of the best in the game.

Anglerfish and Saradomin brews also heal more as the level rises. An anglerfish heals 3 at 10 Hitpoints and 22 from 93 upward, so high HP saves food at bosses as well as giving you a bigger buffer.

Fastest Hitpoints XP Methods

Since Hitpoints XP is a third of your melee or Ranged XP, the fastest HP comes from the fastest damage in the game. On the wiki's figures, black chinchompas at maniacal monkeys in Kruk's Dungeon reach about 1,030,000 Ranged XP an hour at 99 Ranged (with two extra accounts stacking monkeys), which is roughly 340,000 Hitpoints XP. Grey chins (45 Ranged) and red chins (55) are slower, cheaper versions of the same method. You need to have started chapter II of Monkey Madness II to get in.

Bursting and barraging the same monkeys is the Magic version. Ice Burst at 70 Magic reaches about 310,000 Magic XP an hour played actively, and Ice Barrage at 94 about 400,000. Magic gets 2 XP per damage plus the spell's casting XP, and Hitpoints gets 1.33 per damage, so HP comes to a little under two-thirds of the damage XP.

For melee, the wiki lists maniacal monkeys at 200,000 Strength XP an hour or more with crystal halberd specials, plus about 67,000 Hitpoints XP on top. Sulphur naguas in Neypotzli, reached partway through Perilous Moons, give up to 130,000 XP an hour at 75 Strength with a full Blood Moon set and Piety.

Cheapest / Budget Approach

Hitpoints costs whatever your combat method costs. Chinning uses up every chinchompa you throw, since they cannot be picked back up, and every burst and barrage spell uses death runes.

Melee on the Gemstone Crab costs nothing at all. Its max hit is 1 and it attacks once every 7 ticks, so do not buy sharks to grind HP there. Cheap food is enough for crabs and Nightmare Zone.

On tasks that do hit back, protection prayers usually save more food than a small Strength upgrade, and food is where most of the cost of combat training goes.

AFK Hitpoints Training

Nightmare Zone, north of Yanille, is the most AFK combat training in the game. The normal rumble with absorption potions lets you go about 20 minutes between clicks. You need at least 5 of the quests it draws its bosses from, and each dream has a coin fee.

The Gemstone Crab is the other idle option. Your damage does not lower its health, it stays put for about 10 minutes before burrowing to its next spot, and the 16 players who dealt the most damage can mine it for three uncut gems. XP per hit is 87.5% of normal, made up for by having no downtime between kills. Our Gemstone Crab guide covers the three spawn spots.

Never AFK anything that can kill you. Natural regeneration is 1 HP a minute, 2 with Rapid Heal or the Hitpoints cape (the two do not stack), and 4 when you add a regen bracelet to either.

Hitpoints Training Tips

• If you train Attack, Strength and Defence evenly with melee, Hitpoints keeps pace with them: each melee skill only gets XP while its style is selected, and HP gets 1.33 on every hit. Ranged and Magic push HP ahead.
• Rapid Heal and a regen bracelet together give 4 HP a minute, which matters on long AFK sessions without food.
• Quest rewards and lamps put into Attack, Strength or Defence give no Hitpoints XP, which is the usual reason HP lags behind melee stats on a quest-heavy account. It catches up once you fight.

Ironman Notes

On an Ironman, Hitpoints comes from every other combat skill at 1.33 XP per damage, so it needs no plan of its own.

The only planning worth doing is around food. An iron with high Hitpoints and no shark stock is less survivable than one with lower Hitpoints and a full bank, so keep Fishing and Cooking in step with your combat.

When Paid Training Makes Sense

The Hitpoints levels worth paying for are 70 for Zamorak's Fortress, 75 for zenyte jewellery and 90 for the rupture, rancour and confliction tier. If one of those is your goal, paid training closes the gap faster than waiting for HP to follow your other stats.

If you do order it, specify the route as well as the level range. Chinning, bursting and AFK melee are different jobs on this skill, with different timelines and different supply bills for the same 99. Our Hitpoints page lists what we need from you, and the work is played rather than botted.

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