Magic Guied 1-99
Levels 1-11
If your just from tutorial island, kill goblins east of lumbridge. You can use the fence as a safespot. The runes from tutorial island should be sufficient to get you to level 2 or 3. When you run out, talk to the magic tutor slightly north of Lumbridge Castle for 30 more of each. After casting 30 more times you should be about 5 or more magic. Every half and hour you can get more runes from the tutor, but most people will just buy the runes. Keep casting Wind Strike until level 11.
Levels 11-19
Casting Weaken you got to cast this about 310 times to get to level 19. This varies (because mage you get experience for casting the spell, AND the damage you do, so you may have more experience from when you were casting Wind Strike).
Levels 19-39
Recommended Method
Get an Earth Staff and a bunch of body runes and water runes (roughly 2000 body and 4000 water). Find an NPC who cannot attack you (such as the Zamorak Monk trapped underneath the stairs in the Varrock Castle, or the Lesser Demon in the wizard tower). Cast curse until level 39. Note: This takes a TON of concentration as you cannot autocast. This can be EXTREMELY boring. If you don't care about leveling quickly, or want a more fun method, use options B. or C.
19-39 Option B
Get yourself a fire staff and buy some air and mind runes. Cast Fire Strike on creatures. I recommend the Ardougne Zoo for P2P and the Port Sarim jail or Lesser Demon for F2P.
Levels 19-39 option C
Do the same thing as option B. but cast Wind Bolt instead of Fire Strike. At level 23 switch to water bolt. At level 29 switch to Earth Bolt. Finally at level 35 switch to Fire Bolt. This method is a lot more expensive that A or B, and A is faster (but this is only 19-39 so its pretty quick whichever method!) but if you hate having to click every time you want to cast or just hate curse, this method is the next best. This method is the best if your already a high(er) level and can afford to spare the cash for the chaos runes.
Levels 39-45 (39-55 for F2P): Crumbling Undeads
The spell Crumble Undead is great experience at this level. Obviously its only the fastest if you cast it on undeads.
Unfortunately, unless you have a void knight mace or a slayer's staff (55 slayer required). This will only take a few hours to get to 45 on P2P. Cast this on Experiments or Skeletons.
For F2P kill skeletons, there are some low leveled skeletons in the stronghold of security, or the basement outside draynor. The best place, however, is probably in the Varrock sewers. I have absolutely no idea how to map a dungeon so I'm swiping this image from Zybez .
If you are F2P you are going have a day or two of boring training, but take heart, this is easily the fastest way.
Easily.
Option B.
Warning. This option is VERY expensive compared to crumble undead. It is also a tiny bit slower but requires less concentration. Use the same method as 19-39 part c, except this time casting the "Blast" spells. You will have to cast crumble undead until level 41.
This option is better for F2P because they will end up having to cast Crumble Undead longer and its easier to get bored.
So, at 41, use wind blast, at 47, water blast, and at 53, Earth blast until 55. This method utilizes death runes so it'll cost you.
Levels 45-55 Members
Basically just cast Camelot Teleport over and over. Equip an air staff and then all you will need is laws. You will need to cast this almost 2000 times (if you are exactly level 45 and are going to exactly 55, you will need to cast it exactly 1895 times!).
If you can't afford the law runes, use Fast Free Laws! Fast Free Laws is a service in world 66 where you basically pay about 3000gp and get as many laws as you want, for free. As this is not a fast free laws guide, I will refer you to a guide as soon as I find one I like.
55-99 F2P
For the fastest experience possible your going to be High Alching until level 99. You will lose a lot of money off this and its going to be really boring.
Have fun!
(Or you could become a member, its only 5 bucks a month???)
55-75
Unfortunately, High Alching is probably the cheapest and best experience until 75. I have no idea how long it will take as I went 52-80 just a barrows (and lost tons of money but thats another story; don't try it you will be sorry) but I know its a long and boring haul.
If you don't want to lose any money, buy flax, yews, and nature runes and make all the flax into bow strings. Fletch all the yews into yew longs(u) and then string them. Then Alch them. This method sometimes makes you a few gp per alch and sometimes loses you money. Hard to predict due to the Grand Exchanges fluctuating prices.
If you always want to make money, you can do the old fashioned pick your own flax, cut yer own bows, craft yer own runes, and then fletch your bows, then alch them. VERY SLOW and you only make 731gp per longbow.
Tip for Alching. Always withdraw your items in notes. Drag the note into the number 17 slot (5th row, first slot on the left). When you click high alchemy your mouse will already be on the noted items, therefore a lot less moving of the mouse, which will end up saving you seconds per alch, which will eventually translate into (an) hour(s).
75-99 Magic
Pleased with your 75 magic? You've got a long way to go....
Magic is only coming into its own at 75. Its easy to quit before even getting to 75 and a lot easier to quit after 75. I will try and detail the best methods.
The-"Cheap"-Pretty-Fast-Pretty-Boring Method
Basically, your going to alch yew longs until 99. You lose about 95gp per alch, which is 9.5m per 100k alchs. You will have to cast High Alchemy 181, 908 times to get to 99. This is going to be very boring but will only end up costing $17, 281, 260 (17.2m). This is pretty cheap as far as 99 magic goes.
The EXTREMELY-EXPENSIVE-Very-Fast-Experience Method
First of all, do Desert Treasure. Get your Ancient Staff and switch to Ancients. Next head to Pest Control. Cast the highest multi-attack spell you can (either Burst or Barrage). Then use the Pest Points on magic experience. This method will cost you a large fortune but is probably the fastest way to 99. This method is the equivalent of Red Chinchompas
for ranged, except that this is invariably more expensive. I recommend the Battle Robes, and I will cover what they do later in the guide.
Fast-And-Moderately-Expensive Method
Buy a Mystic Mud Staff and buy yourself a lot of Soul Runes. Find yourself an NPC that can't fight back (like the Zamorak Mage under the stairs) and cast Enfeeble on it until 80 magic. At 80, switch to stun. Do this until 99, its expensive (30-70m, prices on soul runes fluctuate a LOT), but its faster than Alching. Very boring and requires a lot of concentration
If your just from tutorial island, kill goblins east of lumbridge. You can use the fence as a safespot. The runes from tutorial island should be sufficient to get you to level 2 or 3. When you run out, talk to the magic tutor slightly north of Lumbridge Castle for 30 more of each. After casting 30 more times you should be about 5 or more magic. Every half and hour you can get more runes from the tutor, but most people will just buy the runes. Keep casting Wind Strike until level 11.
Levels 11-19
Casting Weaken you got to cast this about 310 times to get to level 19. This varies (because mage you get experience for casting the spell, AND the damage you do, so you may have more experience from when you were casting Wind Strike).
Levels 19-39
Recommended Method
Get an Earth Staff and a bunch of body runes and water runes (roughly 2000 body and 4000 water). Find an NPC who cannot attack you (such as the Zamorak Monk trapped underneath the stairs in the Varrock Castle, or the Lesser Demon in the wizard tower). Cast curse until level 39. Note: This takes a TON of concentration as you cannot autocast. This can be EXTREMELY boring. If you don't care about leveling quickly, or want a more fun method, use options B. or C.
19-39 Option B
Get yourself a fire staff and buy some air and mind runes. Cast Fire Strike on creatures. I recommend the Ardougne Zoo for P2P and the Port Sarim jail or Lesser Demon for F2P.
Levels 19-39 option C
Do the same thing as option B. but cast Wind Bolt instead of Fire Strike. At level 23 switch to water bolt. At level 29 switch to Earth Bolt. Finally at level 35 switch to Fire Bolt. This method is a lot more expensive that A or B, and A is faster (but this is only 19-39 so its pretty quick whichever method!) but if you hate having to click every time you want to cast or just hate curse, this method is the next best. This method is the best if your already a high(er) level and can afford to spare the cash for the chaos runes.
Levels 39-45 (39-55 for F2P): Crumbling Undeads
The spell Crumble Undead is great experience at this level. Obviously its only the fastest if you cast it on undeads.
Unfortunately, unless you have a void knight mace or a slayer's staff (55 slayer required). This will only take a few hours to get to 45 on P2P. Cast this on Experiments or Skeletons.
For F2P kill skeletons, there are some low leveled skeletons in the stronghold of security, or the basement outside draynor. The best place, however, is probably in the Varrock sewers. I have absolutely no idea how to map a dungeon so I'm swiping this image from Zybez .
If you are F2P you are going have a day or two of boring training, but take heart, this is easily the fastest way.
Easily.
Option B.
Warning. This option is VERY expensive compared to crumble undead. It is also a tiny bit slower but requires less concentration. Use the same method as 19-39 part c, except this time casting the "Blast" spells. You will have to cast crumble undead until level 41.
This option is better for F2P because they will end up having to cast Crumble Undead longer and its easier to get bored.
So, at 41, use wind blast, at 47, water blast, and at 53, Earth blast until 55. This method utilizes death runes so it'll cost you.
Levels 45-55 Members
Basically just cast Camelot Teleport over and over. Equip an air staff and then all you will need is laws. You will need to cast this almost 2000 times (if you are exactly level 45 and are going to exactly 55, you will need to cast it exactly 1895 times!).
If you can't afford the law runes, use Fast Free Laws! Fast Free Laws is a service in world 66 where you basically pay about 3000gp and get as many laws as you want, for free. As this is not a fast free laws guide, I will refer you to a guide as soon as I find one I like.
55-99 F2P
For the fastest experience possible your going to be High Alching until level 99. You will lose a lot of money off this and its going to be really boring.
Have fun!
(Or you could become a member, its only 5 bucks a month???)
55-75
Unfortunately, High Alching is probably the cheapest and best experience until 75. I have no idea how long it will take as I went 52-80 just a barrows (and lost tons of money but thats another story; don't try it you will be sorry) but I know its a long and boring haul.
If you don't want to lose any money, buy flax, yews, and nature runes and make all the flax into bow strings. Fletch all the yews into yew longs(u) and then string them. Then Alch them. This method sometimes makes you a few gp per alch and sometimes loses you money. Hard to predict due to the Grand Exchanges fluctuating prices.
If you always want to make money, you can do the old fashioned pick your own flax, cut yer own bows, craft yer own runes, and then fletch your bows, then alch them. VERY SLOW and you only make 731gp per longbow.
Tip for Alching. Always withdraw your items in notes. Drag the note into the number 17 slot (5th row, first slot on the left). When you click high alchemy your mouse will already be on the noted items, therefore a lot less moving of the mouse, which will end up saving you seconds per alch, which will eventually translate into (an) hour(s).
75-99 Magic
Pleased with your 75 magic? You've got a long way to go....
Magic is only coming into its own at 75. Its easy to quit before even getting to 75 and a lot easier to quit after 75. I will try and detail the best methods.
The-"Cheap"-Pretty-Fast-Pretty-Boring Method
Basically, your going to alch yew longs until 99. You lose about 95gp per alch, which is 9.5m per 100k alchs. You will have to cast High Alchemy 181, 908 times to get to 99. This is going to be very boring but will only end up costing $17, 281, 260 (17.2m). This is pretty cheap as far as 99 magic goes.
The EXTREMELY-EXPENSIVE-Very-Fast-Experience Method
First of all, do Desert Treasure. Get your Ancient Staff and switch to Ancients. Next head to Pest Control. Cast the highest multi-attack spell you can (either Burst or Barrage). Then use the Pest Points on magic experience. This method will cost you a large fortune but is probably the fastest way to 99. This method is the equivalent of Red Chinchompas
for ranged, except that this is invariably more expensive. I recommend the Battle Robes, and I will cover what they do later in the guide.
Fast-And-Moderately-Expensive Method
Buy a Mystic Mud Staff and buy yourself a lot of Soul Runes. Find yourself an NPC that can't fight back (like the Zamorak Mage under the stairs) and cast Enfeeble on it until 80 magic. At 80, switch to stun. Do this until 99, its expensive (30-70m, prices on soul runes fluctuate a LOT), but its faster than Alching. Very boring and requires a lot of concentration