Also, magic was hard to master. It was not a part of OSRS gold Runecrafting skills made it expensive. Although magic gained some credence with the advent of god spells magic was mostly a complement. Runescape Classic Attack, Strength and Magic were more popular in combat calculation than Ranged or Magic.

Runescape Classic's maximum combat level was 123. The calculation of combat did not change with the Runescape 2 change. Prayer was made a larger part of the calculation. This led to the combat level being raised to 122. Magic and ranged were not considered more or less when calculating. However, they were in the actual combat system.

They were given their own class, ranged and magic. After the release of buy RuneScape gold updates in the beginning of 2004 until the spring of 2005, both magic and ranged received armors of the highest tier, as well as new attack options (i.e. The Ancient Magicks Spell Book, that provides protection against melee prayer ), more access to runes, arrows, as well as other beneficial options. These classes gained more power and were able to compete against the melee classes.