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Total level (also called skill total) is the sum of the levels of all of a player's skills. The current maximum for members is 3,211, and the maximum for free players is 1,951. Total level is a common way for players to compare their stats. It is displayed at the bottom of the skills tab. The minimum experience to achieve a total level of 3,211 is 1,629,131,428.
Virtual levelling is a feature that a player can enable in Settings. It allows players to see how far they have progressed past skill mastery (level 99), towards true skill mastery (level 120 for the most skills, 150 for elite skills), for skills that do not otherwise progress past 99 or 110. The maximum virtual total level is 3,510 for members and 2,126 for free players.
The opening page on the HiScores ranks players by their total level, then by experience. Other than when new skills have been recently released, the top ranked players in the HiScores are generally listed in order of experience rather than rank. At the very top of the HiScores, where multiple players have the maximum experience possible (5,800,000,000), they are ranked by order of achieving it, with the earliest on top. The current minimum requirement to be ranked (at approximately rank 1,998,535) on the HiScores for Overall is level 42.
When a player's weapons are sheathed, the player displays their total level when right-clicked or moused-over; when weapons are unsheathed, player shows their combat level instead.
Effects
[edit | edit source]Current
[edit | edit source]- Total level, up to 2,871, determines total experience given by advanced pulse cores and bonus experience given by cinder cores.
- Total level of 2,600 or 2,000 or 1,500 or 1,000 is required to access certain worlds.
- Total level, up to 2,500, determines how many resources a player may claim from Divine locations per day.
- Total level of 1,000 unlocks access to War's Retreat (if not combat level of 60).
- Total level of 1,000 or 500 or 100 determines the default minimum item value that triggers a Loot beam.
- Total level of 500 unlocks Strange Rocks.
- Total level determines the difficulty of the free sealed clue scroll (easy, medium, hard, or elite) given by Zaida.
- Total level affects the reward from:
Free-to-play
[edit | edit source]- Total level of 150 is required for free players to use Friends chat.
Ironman Mode
[edit | edit source]- Total level of 1,000 and 1,600 are required to unlock a Divine coin for purchase, which grant extra lives for Hardcore ironman.
- Total level of 1,000 is required for a Hardcore ironman's final death to generate a broadcast.
Past
[edit | edit source]- Total level of 350 was required for free players to use the RuneScape Forums before its closure.
- Total level of 150 were required to enter Balthazar's Big Raffle.
- Total level of 100 were one of the requirements to claim the Steam valve.
- Total level of 100 were one of the requirements to edit the Jagex Runescape Wiki.
- Total level of 60 to leave the Starting area without being asked if they wished to continue.
- Total level determined the difficulty of clue scroll given by Gilly Willikers.
- The Motherlode maw used to have a total level requirement to use.
- Total level determined the total experience given by Pulse cores.
- Total level affected the reward from:
- Total level affected the reward that Ironman mode players received from:
Development history
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After 21 May 2008, players would be informed when their total levels reached important milestones. When players receive this message there is also a short animation with six large fireworks shooting out from the player.
On 9 November 2009, Jagex released two skill total worlds, one for free players and one for members. Only players with a total level of 1,000 or over may play on those servers. Jagex later added two additional skill total worlds for members, requiring a total level of over 2,000 and 2,400. On 3 March 2010, Jagex changed the minimum total level world for members from 1,000 to 1,500. The minimum total level requirement for the free total level world remained at 1,000 but was later removed by an update on 18 February 2013. On 10 April 2017, the total level world requiring 2,400 skill total was increased to 2,600.
First players to achieve landmark total levels
[edit | edit source]Members
[edit | edit source]| Achievement | Date achieved | Player |
|---|---|---|
500  overall
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January 2001 | Lightning |
| 600 overall
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January 2001 | Lightning |
| 700 overall
|
February 2001 | Lightning |
| 800 overall
|
April 2001 | Lightning |
| 900 overall
|
June 2001 | Mysticsmagic |
| 1000 overall
|
2001 | Tiwi |
| 1100 overall
|
February 2002 | L6vi |
| 1200 overall
|
March 2002 | L6vi |
| 1300 overall
|
April 2002 | L6vi |
| 1400 overall
|
June 2002 | Tks |
| 1500 overall
|
before February 2003 | Tks |
| 1600 overall
|
October 2003 | Bonebreaker6 |
| 1980 overall
|
9 July 2005 | Zezima |
| 2079 overall
|
4 October 2005 | Zezima |
| 2178 overall
|
11 June 2006 | N0valyfe |
| 2277 overall
|
12 December 2006 | thehate |
| 2376 overall
|
12 February 2008 | Kingduffy |
| 2475 overall
|
7 May 2010 | Skiller 703 |
| 2496 overall
|
22 August 2010 | Telmomarques |
| 2595 overall
|
29 August 2013 | Im Choice |
| 2694 overall
|
25 January 2016 | Scuzzy |
| 2715 overall
|
27 January 2016 | Scuzzy |
| 2898 overall
|
10 April 2020 | le me |
| 3018 overall
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9 August 2023 | Its Dave |
Free-to-play
[edit | edit source]| Achievement | Date achieved | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 1494 overall
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28 January 2008 | Syzygy |
| 1593 overall
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11 June 2010 | S Diamant Y |
| 1614 overall
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9 October 2010 | El Popo1 |
| 1750 overall
|
9 October 2017 | Meneer Naab |
| 1770 overall
|
30 March 2020 | Karuizawa |
Transcript
[edit | edit source]Update history
[edit | edit source]- patch 15 December 2025 (Update):
- Strange Rocks are now awarded only when a player has a total level of 500 or more.
- patch 10 February 2025 (Update):
- Corrected the messaging upon hitting level 99 that you've reached the max level in that skill for skills that reach 110 or 120.
- hotfix 14 March 2017 (Update):
- Prevented players with less than 250 total skill levels from changing their display name in game.
Trivia
[edit | edit source]- The minimum total level for players which have not gained any experience is 38. Rare circumstances can allow for total levels as low as 29.
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