Part of this reason Old School Runescape is so bad at explaining itself comes down to its own heritage. There was only Runescape. But following a significant update completely overhauled Runescape and turned it into what is now colloquially called Runescape 3, Jagex ran a survey to determine if players wanted independent servers in osrs buy gold which they might play Runescape as it had been back in the afternoon.

Nearly 500,000 people said yes, and Old School Runescape was born. So, the threadbare tutorial is much more than sufficient for those who've played Runescape earlier (such as myself). That said, Old School could stand to guide new players a bit better, since it is totally unlike other MMOs.

Everyone has the exact same 23 skills, which could be grouped into battle skills like Strength and Ranged, crafting abilities such as Herblore and Fletching, and collecting skills such as Fishing and Mining. All skills start at level one and go around 99 as you gain expertise by dealing damage, crafting potions, catching fish and so on.

To put it differently, you are not a mage, you have buy osrs gold high Magic. You are not a warrior, you have high Attack, Power, and Defence. Your abilities reflect your playstyle, however there isn't a difficult division between character types. Everybody is invited to level all of their skills, and the end goal for the majority of players is to get all them to 99.