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Best Skills To Improve Early In RuneScape: Dragonwilds
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is a completely different experience from the MMO games that have solely been driving the RuneScape franchise for over two decades. However, the two versions of RuneScape do share several similarities, and perhaps the biggest one is the skills. Just like the MMOs, Dragonwilds features distinct skills that you can level up by performing specific actions that are related to the skill itself. In exchange for putting in effort and leveling up the skill, you gain access to new gear, spells, and bonuses.Currently, Dragonwilds offers nine skills, but only seven of them can be leveled up in the initial early access build. Both Ranged and Magic are two skills coming later with a future update. As for the other seven skills, they're all useful in some shape or form. However, you'll want to prioritize a few of them during the early game in RuneScape: Dragonwilds if you want to make your life much simpler.Below, we'll list the four skills you should level up first in Dragonwilds and what benefits the skills offer. Consider this one of or many RuneScape: Dragonwilds tips. RunecraftingStarting us off is Runecrafting, which is everyone's "favorite" skill from the MMO versions of RuneScape. Fortunately, Dragonwilds has made Runecrafting much easier to level up, as you can easily mine Rune Essence and use it at a Rune Altar to craft hundreds and hundreds of runes at a single time.Runecrafting is the only reliable way you're able to acquire runes in Dragonwilds, and you need to reach level 18 to craft all six available runes in the game right now. However, you can currently progress to level 27 and unlock a couple of additional skills, one of which is a spell that's able to give you a torch, and the other is a passive ability that reduces the weight of Rune Essence.Of course, the main reason you want to level up Runecrafting as quickly as possible is so you can craft all the runes in the game. This allows you to cast any spell you unlock and fast travel using Lodestones. WoodcuttingWoodcutting is a classic RuneScape skill that comes in especially handy in Dragonwilds. Whether you need wood to construct the foundation of your base, craft some new gear, or brew some potions, you need to be able to chop and loot wood effectively. As you progress your Woodcutting skill, the stamina cost to chop is reduced, and you unlock a slew of useful spells and abilities. Perhaps the most useful spell in Dragonwilds is called Axtral Projection, which allows you to chop down one to a few trees instantly. Leveling up Woodcutting also grants you the ability to chop down Thorny Vines, which is great for exploration purposes, and unlocks a structure you can build that stores excess wood logs at your base. You need to level up Woodcutting to level 40 to unlock all of its abilities, but the max level you can reach is 49. While you don't have to reach level 49 straight away, chopping down trees and harvesting logs is going to save you time in the long run, and this, in turn, advances the Woodcutting skill. Having a high Woodcutting level makes your base building easier, allows you to have access to more wood, and aids you in your exploration across the map. So, get out your logging axe, and start going to work chopping down the forest in Dragonwilds. ConstructionNext up is Construction, which is another RuneScape skill that's become much easier to level up in Dragonwilds compared to the MMOs. Construction is primarily leveled up by placing down new structures while you're in Build Mode, so you'll mainly level it up during your base-building time.Construction has several abilities and spells that make both your base life and exploration time much simpler. For starters, a higher Construction gives you access to new materials you can use in base building. At level 18, you can start using Oak wood, which makes for a much sturdier foundation than the default Ash wood.You can also unlock two unique spells, Eye of the Oculus and Summon Shelter. Eye of the Oculus allows you to use a free camera while base building, so you can get a better perspective of where structures should go. Summon Shelter allows you to immediately construct a small base that even includes a bed, which is an absolute lifesaver during long exploration treks. You can use the spell at night, sleep in a bed, and wake up the next day fully rested for the rest of your journey. AttackFinally, we're rounding out the list with perhaps the most basic skill in RuneScape: Attack. In Dragonwilds, the Attack skill encompasses all forms of melee attacking and defense, so using any melee weapon or shield will level up the skill. As you might expect, Attack is solely leveled up by fighting and killing enemies you find out in the world. As you progress the skill, you'll unlock new spells and abilities that aid you during combat. One of the first abilities allows you to parry enemy attacks, while at level 23, you unlock Adaptability, making it so your blocks and p
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is a completely different experience from the MMO games that have solely been driving the RuneScape franchise for over two decades. However, the two versions of RuneScape do share several similarities, and perhaps the biggest one is the skills. Just like the MMOs, Dragonwilds features distinct skills that you can level up by performing specific actions that are related to the skill itself. In exchange for putting in effort and leveling up the skill, you gain access to new gear, spells, and bonuses.
Currently, Dragonwilds offers nine skills, but only seven of them can be leveled up in the initial early access build. Both Ranged and Magic are two skills coming later with a future update. As for the other seven skills, they're all useful in some shape or form. However, you'll want to prioritize a few of them during the early game in RuneScape: Dragonwilds if you want to make your life much simpler.
Below, we'll list the four skills you should level up first in Dragonwilds and what benefits the skills offer. Consider this one of or many RuneScape: Dragonwilds tips.
Runecrafting
Starting us off is Runecrafting, which is everyone's "favorite" skill from the MMO versions of RuneScape. Fortunately, Dragonwilds has made Runecrafting much easier to level up, as you can easily mine Rune Essence and use it at a Rune Altar to craft hundreds and hundreds of runes at a single time.
Runecrafting is the only reliable way you're able to acquire runes in Dragonwilds, and you need to reach level 18 to craft all six available runes in the game right now. However, you can currently progress to level 27 and unlock a couple of additional skills, one of which is a spell that's able to give you a torch, and the other is a passive ability that reduces the weight of Rune Essence.
Of course, the main reason you want to level up Runecrafting as quickly as possible is so you can craft all the runes in the game. This allows you to cast any spell you unlock and fast travel using Lodestones.
Woodcutting
Woodcutting is a classic RuneScape skill that comes in especially handy in Dragonwilds. Whether you need wood to construct the foundation of your base, craft some new gear, or brew some potions, you need to be able to chop and loot wood effectively.
As you progress your Woodcutting skill, the stamina cost to chop is reduced, and you unlock a slew of useful spells and abilities. Perhaps the most useful spell in Dragonwilds is called Axtral Projection, which allows you to chop down one to a few trees instantly. Leveling up Woodcutting also grants you the ability to chop down Thorny Vines, which is great for exploration purposes, and unlocks a structure you can build that stores excess wood logs at your base. You need to level up Woodcutting to level 40 to unlock all of its abilities, but the max level you can reach is 49.
While you don't have to reach level 49 straight away, chopping down trees and harvesting logs is going to save you time in the long run, and this, in turn, advances the Woodcutting skill. Having a high Woodcutting level makes your base building easier, allows you to have access to more wood, and aids you in your exploration across the map. So, get out your logging axe, and start going to work chopping down the forest in Dragonwilds.
Construction
Next up is Construction, which is another RuneScape skill that's become much easier to level up in Dragonwilds compared to the MMOs. Construction is primarily leveled up by placing down new structures while you're in Build Mode, so you'll mainly level it up during your base-building time.
Construction has several abilities and spells that make both your base life and exploration time much simpler. For starters, a higher Construction gives you access to new materials you can use in base building. At level 18, you can start using Oak wood, which makes for a much sturdier foundation than the default Ash wood.
You can also unlock two unique spells, Eye of the Oculus and Summon Shelter. Eye of the Oculus allows you to use a free camera while base building, so you can get a better perspective of where structures should go. Summon Shelter allows you to immediately construct a small base that even includes a bed, which is an absolute lifesaver during long exploration treks. You can use the spell at night, sleep in a bed, and wake up the next day fully rested for the rest of your journey.
Attack
Finally, we're rounding out the list with perhaps the most basic skill in RuneScape: Attack. In Dragonwilds, the Attack skill encompasses all forms of melee attacking and defense, so using any melee weapon or shield will level up the skill. As you might expect, Attack is solely leveled up by fighting and killing enemies you find out in the world.
As you progress the skill, you'll unlock new spells and abilities that aid you during combat. One of the first abilities allows you to parry enemy attacks, while at level 23, you unlock Adaptability, making it so your blocks and parries don't interrupt your attacks. There's also the Tempest Shield spell, which makes you impervious to all attacks you block for a few seconds and unleashes a wave of energy that damages nearby enemies.
Overall, Dragonwilds has plenty of combat, and you're likely going to be using a melee weapon for most of the encounters. Seeing as you currently can't level up Ranged and Magic, you might as well max out the Attack skill so you can have the best chance of success against enemies. If you're still in the early game and think enemies are pretty easy to beat, just wait until you start going through some dungeons, especially as a solo player.
