Herblore training

Herblore is the skill of mixing potions. This guide shows where and how to train it on Roat Pkz, what goes into every potion, how much experience each one gives and how Herblore earns skilling points. Every potion gives double experience in the Resource Area, around three Piles NPCs in the Wilderness and in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons. For what each potion does once you drink it, see Potions.

Quick guide

Levels	Potions	Where
1–34	Attack potions, then strength potions (level 9) and prayer potions (26)	Anywhere outside the Wilderness
34–70	Super attacks, then super strengths (42), super restores (54) and super defences (66)	Anywhere outside the Wilderness
70–82	Divine potions, then stamina potions (77) and bastion potions (80)	Anywhere outside the Wilderness
82–85	Super combat potions	Anywhere outside the Wilderness
85–99	Ancient brews or extended stamina potions	Anywhere; a double-experience spot for more
91–99	Forgotten brews	Resource Area, Piles spots, Royal and Divine skilling dungeons

Every potion takes the same time to make, so the potion with the most experience you can make is the fastest. The Herblore Tutor sells every ingredient, and making a potion pays back what its ingredients cost plus a profit; see Skilling points.

How Herblore works

• Making potions: use one ingredient on another, for example an eye of newt on a guam potion (unf), and choose how many to make, up to 27 at a time. Your character makes one potion every 2 ticks (1.2 seconds), and a potion never fails. Every potion is made with 4 doses.
• Ingredients: the Herblore Tutor (::herblore) sells every unfinished potion and secondary ingredient for skilling points, and the potions you need as a base, such as super attacks for divine super attack potions.
• Where you can make potions: anywhere outside the Wilderness, for example at a bank. In the Wilderness you can only make potions in the Resource Area and around three Piles NPCs: at the Bandit Camp, south of East Dragons and at Easts. Those four spots and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons give double experience, and the potions you make there come out as banknotes.
• Wilderness-only potions: the extended super antifire, the menaphite remedy and the forgotten brew can only be made at the four Wilderness spots and in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons.
• Overloads can only be made by Divine Donators, and you cannot use them in PvP combat.
• Super combat, bastion and battlemage potions that you make outside the Wilderness and the Royal and Divine dungeons are paid out in skilling points instead of the potion, because those potions are sold for PK points.
• Wilderness: you need a combat level of at least 100 to train Herblore in the Wilderness, and other players can attack you there. Hardcore PvP accounts can only train Herblore in the Wilderness.

Potions

Level	Potion	Ingredients	XP per potion	XP per potion (double experience)	Ingredients cost (SKP)
1	Attack potion	Guam potion (unf), eye of newt	25	50	20
9	Strength potion	Tarromin potion (unf), limpwurt root	50	100	30
26	Prayer potion	Ranarr potion (unf), snape grass	88	176	40
34	Super attack	Irit potion (unf), eye of newt	100	200	35
42	Super strength	Kwuarm potion (unf), limpwurt root	125	250	45
54	Super restore	Snapdragon potion (unf), red spiders' eggs	145	290	70
63	Sanfew serum	Super restore(4), unicorn horn dust	148	296	40
66	Super defence	Cadantine potion (unf), white berries	150	300	100
69	Antifire potion	Lantadyme potion (unf), dragon scale dust	158	316	90
70	Divine super attack	Super attack(4), crystal dust	160	320	25
70	Divine super strength	Super strength(4), crystal dust	160	320	25
70	Divine super defence	Super defence(4), crystal dust	160	320	25
72	Ranging potion	Dwarf weed potion (unf), wine of zamorak	162	324	100
74	Divine ranging potion	Ranging potion(4), crystal dust	165	330	25
76	Magic potion	Lantadyme potion (unf), potato cactus	172	344	100
77	Stamina potion	Super energy(4), amylase crystal	185	370	60
78	Divine magic potion	Magic potion(4), crystal dust	175	350	25
80	Bastion potion	Cadantine potion (unf), wine of zamorak	195	390	110
80	Battlemage potion	Cadantine potion (unf), potato cactus	195	390	115
81	Saradomin brew	Toadflax potion (unf), crushed nest	200	400	180
81	Divine bastion potion	Bastion potion(4), crystal dust	195	390	29
81	Divine battlemage potion	Battlemage potion(4), crystal dust	195	390	29
82	Surge potion	Torstol potion (unf), demonic tallow	205	410	2,050
82	Super combat potion	Super attack(4), super strength(4) and super defence(4), torstol	250	500	400
84	Super antifire potion	Antifire potion(4), crushed superior dragon bones	220	440	120
85	Ancient brew	Dwarf weed potion (unf), nihil dust	250	500	130
85	Extended stamina potion	Stamina potion(4), 4 marlin scales	250	500	90
85	Divine super combat potion	Super combat potion(4), crystal dust	220	440	35
86	Extended super antifire	Super antifire potion(4), 4 lava scale shards	–	600	150
88	Menaphite remedy	Dwarf weed potion (unf), lily of the sands	–	700	450
91	Forgotten brew	Ancient brew(4), 80 ancient essence	–	800	170
99	Overload	Super attack(4), super strength(4), super defence(4), ranging potion(4) and magic potion(4), torstol	500	1,000	400

"Double experience" is the experience in the Resource Area, at the three Piles spots and in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons. The extended super antifire, menaphite remedy and forgotten brew can only be made there, so their experience already includes the bonus. All experience is before the bonuses in Experience bonuses. "Ingredients cost" is what the ingredients cost in the Herblore shop: the base potions (super attack, super strength, super defence, ranging, magic, super restore and super energy) are free there, and torstol costs 400 skilling points in the Herblore and Farming shops. The overload is for Divine Donators only.

Rates per hour

The table below shows what every potion gives per hour, so you can compare them:

• The hourly amounts are what an efficient player gets in real play: every inventory takes about 8 seconds to restock at the Herblore Tutor or a Piles NPC on top of the potion making itself. When the secondary ingredient stacks (crystal dust, amylase crystals, nihil dust, marlin scales, lava scale shards and ancient essence), an inventory makes 26 potions, about 2,390 an hour. Potions whose two ingredients do not stack make 13 an inventory (about 1,980 an hour), super combat potions 6 (about 1,420) and overloads 4 (about 1,130). You get less if you restock slower or take breaks.
• Boosts: pick the boosts you have in the bar above each table: a Double XP or Double Harvest scroll (or the Well of Goodwill perk), the Holy water, the Alchemist outfit, the Herblore XP clan perk and your vote streak. Every table on the page then shows your rates with them, and your browser remembers what you picked. With nothing picked the tables show base rates. How the boosts add up is under Experience bonuses.
• XP/h is the experience you get an hour. XP/h Resource Area is the same in the Resource Area, around the three Piles NPCs in the Wilderness and in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons, where every potion gives double experience. The extended super antifire, menaphite remedy and forgotten brew can only be made there, so they have no normal XP/h.
• SKP/h is your profit in skilling points: what making the potions pays you, plus what the Herblore Tutor pays for the potions he buys back, minus what the ingredients cost in the Herblore shop. Potions the tutor does not buy count as nothing, and you keep them. It is the same everywhere. Double Harvest doubles the profit of every potion.
• PKP/h is that profit in PK points: right-click your skilling points and choose Claim-PKP to get 1 PK point for every 2 skilling points.

Level	Potion	SKP per potion	Potions/h	XP/h	XP/h Resource Area	SKP/h	PKP/h
1	Attack potion	8	1,983	49,575	99,150	15,864	7,932
9	Strength potion	8	1,983	99,150	198,300	15,864	7,932
26	Prayer potion	10	1,983	174,504	349,008	19,830	9,915
34	Super attack	10	1,983	198,300	396,600	19,830	9,915
42	Super strength	12	1,983	247,875	495,750	23,796	11,898
54	Super restore	12	1,983	287,535	575,070	23,796	11,898
63	Sanfew serum	12	1,983	293,484	586,968	23,796	11,898
66	Super defence	14	1,983	297,450	594,900	27,762	13,881
69	Antifire potion	16	1,983	313,314	626,628	31,728	15,864
70	Divine super attack	24	2,387	381,920	763,840	57,288	28,644
70	Divine super strength	24	2,387	381,920	763,840	57,288	28,644
70	Divine super defence	24	2,387	381,920	763,840	57,288	28,644
72	Ranging potion	18	1,983	321,246	642,492	35,694	17,847
74	Divine ranging potion	24	2,387	393,855	787,710	57,288	28,644
76	Magic potion	20	1,983	341,076	682,152	39,660	19,830
77	Stamina potion	22	2,387	441,595	883,190	52,514	26,257
78	Divine magic potion	24	2,387	417,725	835,450	57,288	28,644
80	Bastion potion	24	1,983	386,685	773,370	47,592	23,796
80	Battlemage potion	26	1,983	386,685	773,370	51,558	25,779
81	Saradomin brew	26	1,983	396,600	793,200	51,558	25,779
81	Divine bastion potion	16	2,387	465,465	930,930	38,192	19,096
81	Divine battlemage potion	16	2,387	465,465	930,930	38,192	19,096
82	Surge potion	−1,972	1,983	406,515	813,030	−3,910,476	−1,955,238
82	Super combat potion	30	1,421	355,250	710,500	42,630	21,315
84	Super antifire potion	32	1,983	436,260	872,520	63,456	31,728
85	Ancient brew	160	2,387	596,750	1,193,500	381,920	190,960
85	Extended stamina potion	160	2,387	596,750	1,193,500	381,920	190,960
85	Divine super combat potion	14	2,387	525,140	1,050,280	33,418	16,709
86	Extended super antifire	172	2,368	–	1,420,800	407,296	203,648
88	Menaphite remedy	194	1,983	–	1,388,100	384,702	192,351
91	Forgotten brew	216	2,368	–	1,894,400	511,488	255,744
99	Overload (Divine Donators)	36	1,125	562,500	1,125,000	40,500	20,250

Divine potions and overloads pay a little less than their profit, because the tutor does not buy them back; you keep the potions. Surge potions cost 2,050 skilling points of ingredients and pay back 78, so they cost you skilling points; you keep the surge potion, which the PK Point shop buys for 700 PK points.

Equipment

Holy water and the Alchemist outfit

Main articles: Alchemist outfit and Other experience items

The Holy water (10%) goes in your weapon slot and gives 10% more Herblore experience. The Prescription goggles, Alchemist labcoat, Alchemist pants, Alchemist gloves and Alchemist's amulet give 2% each, 10% for all five. Together they give 20%. The Herblore Tutor sells the Holy water for 100,000 skilling points, the goggles for 20,000, the labcoat for 40,000, the pants for 30,000, the gloves for 5,000 and the amulet for 10,000. None of them have a level requirement, and none of them can be traded.

Experience bonuses

Every potion gives the experience in the tables above, raised by these bonuses. Pick them in the bar above any rate table to see your rates with them.

Bonus	Effect
Holy water (10%)	+10%
Alchemist outfit	+2% per piece, +10% for all five
Resource Area, the three Piles spots in the Wilderness, Royal and Divine skilling dungeons	+100%: double experience
Vote streak	+1% for every day in a row you have voted, up to +50% (::votestreak shows yours)
Herblore XP (10%) clan perk	The total is multiplied by 1.1
Double XP scroll or the Well of Goodwill's Double XP perk	The total is doubled

The Holy water, outfit, Wilderness and vote streak bonuses are added together first, and the clan perk and double experience multiply the result. For example, a super combat potion gives 250 experience. At a double-experience spot it gives 500, with the Holy water 525 (250 × 2.1), with all five Alchemist pieces as well 550 (× 2.2) and with a 50-day vote streak as well 675 (× 2.7). The clan perk raises that to 742 and double experience to 1,485.

Level boosts

Your boosted Herblore level counts for the level requirements:

• An Indomitable Skiller scroll sets your Herblore level to 99 for an hour, so you can make every potion at any level. A Skill Boost scroll raises it by 25 levels for an hour. Both are on the Scrolls page.
• The Royal skilling dungeon boosts your skills by 15 levels and the Divine Skilling Zone by 25 levels, up to 99, while you are inside.

Other scrolls

• The Double Harvest scroll and the Well of Goodwill's Double Harvest perk double the profit of every potion you make (pick Double Harvest in the bar above the tables to see your profit with it).

Where to train

Location	Getting there	XP	Notes
Skilling Zone	::herblore	Normal	Safe. The Herblore Tutor sells every ingredient, and a bank stands next to him. You can also make potions anywhere else outside the Wilderness.
Resource Area	Wilderness level 51–54, see Getting there	Double	Herblore Tutor and Piles. Entry fee.
Bandit Camp	Wilderness level 23–25, north-west of ::revs	Double	Around the Piles NPC. The closest double-experience spot to home.
South of East Dragons	Wilderness level 15–17, south of ::east	Double	Around the Piles NPC.
Easts	Wilderness level 35–37, far north of ::east	Double	Around the Piles NPC.
Royal skilling dungeon	Teleport interface (Royal Skilling Zone)	Double, +15 levels	Herblore Tutor and Piles. Royal Donators only; other players there can attack you.
Divine Skilling Zone	Teleport interface	Double, +25 levels	Herblore Tutor and Piles. Divine Donators only; other players there can attack you.
AFK Skilling zone	::afkskilling	–	AFK chemistry table; see AFK Herblore.

Skilling Island (safe zone)

The Skilling Zone herb patches (::herblore), where herbs for Herblore are grown, in the Herblore cape
Safe area

Royal & Divine Donators

The Royal skilling dungeon Herblore Tutor by the herblore table
Not in the Wilderness, but a donator PvP dungeon: other players can attack you

Piles is an NPC who turns banknotes back into items and items into banknotes, so you can carry noted ingredients to a Wilderness spot. Every Wilderness spot and the Royal and Divine dungeons are dangerous: you lose your items when you die, as described on Items Kept on Death.

Skilling points

Every potion you make gives you skilling points: what its ingredients cost in the Herblore shop plus the potion's profit, minus what the finished potion is worth, because you keep the potion. For most potions the finished potion is worth little, so you get back almost everything you paid for the ingredients plus the profit. For example, a super combat potion uses a torstol that costs 400 skilling points, and you get about 430 back.

• The profit is the same everywhere; Wilderness spots double the experience, not the skilling points.
• The best profit comes from the level 85+ potions: 160 skilling points for an ancient brew or extended stamina potion, 172 for an extended super antifire, 194 for a menaphite remedy and 216 for a forgotten brew.
• Ingredients you buy with the Buy-X option in amounts of 100 or more come as banknotes; a Piles NPC turns them back into items.
• You can turn skilling points into PK points at 2 skilling points for 1 PK point.
• The SKP/h column in the rate table counts what you end up with in skilling points, including what the Herblore Tutor pays for the potions he buys back.

Training by level

The numbers of potions below use the experience in the table, without the Holy water or other bonuses. At a double-experience spot you need half as many.

Mixing a potion in the herblore cape and hood at the Edgeville home area, beside the Skilling Tutor

Levels 1–34: attack, strength and prayer potions

Make attack potions (25 experience) to level 9, strength potions (50) to level 26 and prayer potions (88) to level 34. That is about 40 attack, 160 strength and 130 prayer potions.

Levels 34–70: super potions

Make super attacks (100) from level 34, super strengths (125) from 42, super restores (145) from 54 and super defences (150) from 66. From 34 to 70 you need about 5,090 potions.

Levels 70–82: divine potions, stamina and bastion potions

Divine super attack, strength and defence potions give 160 experience each and only cost a crystal dust (25 skilling points), because the base potion is free; you also make 26 skilling points of profit on each. Switch to stamina potions (185) at 77 and bastion or battlemage potions (195) at 80. From 70 to 82 that is about 4,610 divine potions, 2,760 stamina potions and 2,230 bastion potions.

Levels 82–85: super combat potions

Super combat potions give 250 experience. Each uses a torstol, which costs 400 skilling points, and pays it back plus 30. From 82 to 85 you need about 3,350.

Levels 85–99: ancient brews and extended stamina potions

Ancient brews and extended stamina potions give the same 250 experience as super combat potions, but their ingredients are much cheaper and each one makes 160 skilling points of profit. From 85 to 99 you need about 39,100 of them, or about 19,550 at a double-experience spot.

At the four Wilderness spots and in the Royal and Divine dungeons, forgotten brews from level 91 give 800 experience each, the most of any potion you can make without the Divine Donator rank, and 216 skilling points of profit. From 91 to 99 you need about 8,920 forgotten brews.

Level 99: overloads

Divine Donators can make overloads at level 99: 500 experience each, 1,000 at a double-experience spot.

Best rates

Most experience

Potion	Level	XP/h	XP/h Resource Area	SKP/h
Forgotten brew	91	–	1,894,400	511,488
Extended super antifire	86	–	1,420,800	407,296
Menaphite remedy	88	–	1,388,100	384,702
Ancient brew	85	596,750	1,193,500	381,920
Extended stamina potion	85	596,750	1,193,500	381,920
Overload (Divine Donators)	99	562,500	1,125,000	40,500
Divine super combat potion	85	525,140	1,050,280	33,418
Divine bastion potion	81	465,465	930,930	38,192
Divine battlemage potion	81	465,465	930,930	38,192
Stamina potion	77	441,595	883,190	52,514
Super antifire potion	84	436,260	872,520	63,456
Divine magic potion	78	417,725	835,450	57,288
Surge potion	82	406,515	813,030	−3,910,476
Saradomin brew	81	396,600	793,200	51,558
Divine ranging potion	74	393,855	787,710	57,288
Bastion potion	80	386,685	773,370	47,592
Battlemage potion	80	386,685	773,370	51,558
Divine super attack	70	381,920	763,840	57,288
Divine super strength	70	381,920	763,840	57,288
Divine super defence	70	381,920	763,840	57,288
Super combat potion	82	355,250	710,500	42,630
Magic potion	76	341,076	682,152	39,660
Ranging potion	72	321,246	642,492	35,694
Antifire potion	69	313,314	626,628	31,728
Super defence	66	297,450	594,900	27,762
Sanfew serum	63	293,484	586,968	23,796
Super restore	54	287,535	575,070	23,796
Super strength	42	247,875	495,750	23,796
Super attack	34	198,300	396,600	19,830
Prayer potion	26	174,504	349,008	19,830
Strength potion	9	99,150	198,300	15,864
Attack potion	1	49,575	99,150	15,864

The forgotten brew gives the most experience: about 1,890,000 an hour at a double-experience spot. Outside those spots ancient brews and extended stamina potions give the most, about 597,000 an hour. Overloads give the most experience per potion, but only 4 fit an inventory, so they give less for your time.

Most skilling points

Potion	Level	SKP/h	PKP/h	XP/h Resource Area
Forgotten brew	91	511,488	255,744	1,894,400
Extended super antifire	86	407,296	203,648	1,420,800
Menaphite remedy	88	384,702	192,351	1,388,100
Ancient brew	85	381,920	190,960	1,193,500
Extended stamina potion	85	381,920	190,960	1,193,500
Super antifire potion	84	63,456	31,728	872,520
Divine super attack	70	57,288	28,644	763,840
Divine super strength	70	57,288	28,644	763,840
Divine super defence	70	57,288	28,644	763,840
Divine ranging potion	74	57,288	28,644	787,710
Divine magic potion	78	57,288	28,644	835,450
Stamina potion	77	52,514	26,257	883,190
Battlemage potion	80	51,558	25,779	773,370
Saradomin brew	81	51,558	25,779	793,200
Bastion potion	80	47,592	23,796	773,370
Super combat potion	82	42,630	21,315	710,500
Overload (Divine Donators)	99	40,500	20,250	1,125,000
Magic potion	76	39,660	19,830	682,152
Divine bastion potion	81	38,192	19,096	930,930
Divine battlemage potion	81	38,192	19,096	930,930
Ranging potion	72	35,694	17,847	642,492
Divine super combat potion	85	33,418	16,709	1,050,280
Antifire potion	69	31,728	15,864	626,628
Super defence	66	27,762	13,881	594,900
Super strength	42	23,796	11,898	495,750
Super restore	54	23,796	11,898	575,070
Sanfew serum	63	23,796	11,898	586,968
Prayer potion	26	19,830	9,915	349,008
Super attack	34	19,830	9,915	396,600
Attack potion	1	15,864	7,932	99,150
Strength potion	9	15,864	7,932	198,300
Surge potion	82	−3,910,476	−1,955,238	813,030

The forgotten brew also earns the most skilling points, about 511,000 an hour, followed by the extended super antifire, the menaphite remedy, ancient brews and extended stamina potions.

AFK Herblore

Main article: AFK Skilling

In the AFK Skilling zone (::afkskilling) you can train Herblore at the AFK chemistry table without any ingredients once you have level 50 Herblore. You do not make any potions or skilling points, and the experience is lower than active Herblore, but your character keeps working while you are away and you earn AFK Tokens for the AFK Skilling Shop. The Holy water, the Alchemist outfit, vote streak, clan perk and double experience count there too. Divine Donators also have an AFK chemistry table in their own zone.

AFK herblore at the chemistry table in the AFK Skilling Zone (::afkskilling) - no herbs needed, earns AFK tokens
Safe area

Other rewards

• Pet: while you make potions you can receive the Herbi skilling pet. It comes more often in the Wilderness and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons.
• Clue scrolls and Skilling Crates: you can also receive clue scrolls and Skilling Crates while making potions.
• Achievements give skilling points for your Herblore level and experience, for the number of potions you make and for the number you make in the Wilderness and the Royal and Divine dungeons. Reaching level 99 also gives a Silver XP Lamp.
• Skillcapes: at level 99 you can wear the Herblore cape, which the Skilling Master in the Skilling Zone gives out for free. With 200 million Herblore experience you can buy the Herblore mastery cape from him for 200,000 PK points.

See also

• Potions
• Skilling outfits
• Farming training
• Resource Area
• AFK Skilling
• Skill training guides