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mscardone

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Registered: 2026-08-29

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Loadout Advisor - the best gear your account can use, with GE prices

Loadout Advisor is a free Alt1 app for RuneScape 3.

The app answers one question: what is the best equipment that my account can use now?

What the app does

• Type your RuneScape name one time. The app remembers it.

• The app reads your skill levels from the hiscores. It reads your completed quests from RuneMetrics.

• Select a tab: Melee, Ranged, Magic, Necromancy, Mining, Woodcutting, Archaeology, or Slayer helmet.

• The app shows the best item for each equipment slot. This includes weapons, armour, shield, ammo, neck, ring, cape, and pocket.

• The app shows the live Grand Exchange price for each tradeable item. It shows the total cost of the loadout.

• A Power/Tank switch changes the armour recommendations.

Upgrade advice

The app lists the better items that only a quest or a one-time unlock blocks. Each blocked item shows its gates as chips. A quest chip links to the wiki. The app does not list items that your levels block. Levels are training, not advice. One muted line shows your next unlock by level.

Some unlocks have no API. Examples: the Fight Kiln, achievement sets, player-owned ports. Tick these one time, on the chip or in Settings.

Install

Paste this link into the Alt1 browser address bar:

alt1://addapp/https://projects.scottcardone.com/loadout-advisor/appconfig.json

The app also works in a normal browser: https://projects.scottcardone.com/loadout-advisor/

How the app works

• The app is a static page. It has no build step and no account system.

• The app does not read the game screen. It works while the Alt1 text reader is broken.

• Jagex does not send CORS headers on RuneMetrics or the hiscores. A small Cloudflare Worker relays these two endpoints, adds CORS headers, and caches each response for five minutes. The same worker serves my DailyScape Advisor app.

• Prices come from the wiki's Weird Gloop API. The app requests prices in small batches and caches them for 15 minutes.

• Your name, your unlock ticks, and the caches stay in localStorage. An export token moves them between Alt1 and a browser.

• A private RuneMetrics profile hides quest data. The app then gates by levels only and marks quest chips with "?".

The data

The gear ladders are a September 2026 snapshot of the RuneScape Wiki. The snapshot includes the March 2026 Combat Style Modernisation changes: the 120 caps, the re-tiered items, and the tier-100 masterwork lines. A test suite with 4,673 checks validates the data and the recommendation logic on each change.

Known limits

• The ranking is tier-based. Special effects are notes on the item, not part of the ranking.

• Degradable items show a "degrades" tag. Repair costs are not in the totals.

• Game updates can change the ladders. I refresh the snapshot after large updates.

Source and credits

The source is public: https://github.com/mscardone/loadout-advisor
Gear data: the RuneScape Wiki (CC BY-NC-SA). Prices: Weird Gloop. Thanks to Skillbert for Alt1.
This is a fan project. It is not affiliated with Jagex.

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