Is it necessary to learn all combat skills?

[Lymark]

Say I'm a melee main, will I miss anything for ignoring ranged and magic skills?

[Slayer Slayerson]

Many quests have skill requirements, like 30 attack or magic or range or something.
Lvl up whatever you like.
Magic got utility spells that you would probably like to use when killing monsters anyway.

[Runy]

You'll miss a lot if you completely ignore ranged/magic. There's a lot of content where it's much better than melee, and there are many pieces of content, shortcuts, and spells locked behind having certain levels in ranged/magic.

Stick to melee for awhile and focus your gear investments into it mostly, that will do you no harm, but also don't be afraid to branch out over time - you lose absolutely nothing by training your ranged/magic at some point and EXP rates are fast enough that you won't even need to do it too much anyway.

[Ticma]

There is combat triangle. Melee over ranged over magic over melee. Monsters have style they are weak to.

[Heavyoak]

its mostly a 100% requirement that you learn and master all forms of combat, not just for quests but most no combat skills involve a combat skill at one point or another.

[Riewaldi]

i'd say focus on what you want. If you notice you need magic for something you can always level it up when you need it. might be nice for a first-time player (or main account) to use all the 3 styles.

[Sally]

it won't matter until you begin tackling bosses/high level monsters.... if you are just doing slayer or killing things for $$, you'll be fine with melee.

[Guardian of the Blind]

Originally posted by Sally:

it won't matter until you begin tackling bosses/high level monsters.... if you are just doing slayer or killing things for $$, you'll be fine with melee.

the magic slayer monsters are a complete pain in the arse as a melee fighter. you will ned much more food and you will hit zeroes all the time.