Every rooftop lap you run has a chance of leaving a small golden token behind on the course, and those tokens quietly add up to one of the most useful untradeable currencies in the game. This marks of grace OSRS guide covers what I wish someone had told me at level 30: how spawns actually work, which courses pay out the most marks per hour, what the graceful outfit really costs, and why converting spare marks into amylase is usually the smartest thing you can do with them.
What Marks of Grace Are and How Spawns Work
Marks of grace only spawn on rooftop agility courses. Not the Gnome Stronghold, not the Wilderness course, not Hallowed Sepulchre. Rooftops only, from Draynor Village at level 10 up to Ardougne at level 90.
As you complete obstacles, the game rolls a chance for a mark to appear at set spots along the course. Spawns are personal: your marks are visible only to you, so a crowded world costs you nothing. Each mark sits there for ten minutes before despawning, which is plenty of time to finish your current lap and collect it on the way past rather than breaking your rhythm.
There is one mechanic that catches almost everyone out. Once your Agility level is 20 or more levels above a course's requirement, that course spawns marks at roughly a fifth of the normal rate. Ardougne is the only rooftop exempt from this penalty. In practice this means outlevelling a course quietly kills your mark income, and it is the main reason people who camp Canifis into their 70s wonder where all their marks went.
Marks of Grace OSRS Rates for Every Rooftop Course
These are the rates I would actually plan around, assuming steady laps and reasonably clean runs. Treat them as averages rather than guarantees, because mark spawns are random and a sloppy hour is a slow hour.
Course | Agility level | Avg marks per hour | Worth camping for marks? |
|---|---|---|---|
Draynor Village | 10 | ~12 | Fine while you level through it |
Al Kharid | 20 | ~9 | No, worst rate of the early courses |
Varrock | 30 | ~12 | Decent, short stay |
Canifis | 40 | ~19 | Yes, the classic marks course |
Falador | 50 | ~13 | Only if you want the XP anyway |
Seers' Village | 60 | ~12 | Yes with the hard diary teleport |
Pollnivneach | 70 | ~15 | Reasonable middle ground |
Rellekka | 80 | ~14 | XP-focused, marks are a bonus |
Ardougne | 90 | ~20, around 25 with the elite diary | Yes, best in the game |
Two things stand out from that table. Canifis at level 40 pays nearly as well as Ardougne at 90, which is absurd value for a mid-level course, and it is why the standard advice is to sit at Canifis until your graceful set is bought. The second is that Ardougne with the elite diary boost is the only place where marks keep flowing at full rate forever, no matter your level.
The Graceful Outfit: What 260 Marks Actually Buys
Grace, in the Rogues' Den under the Toad and Chicken in Burthorpe, sells the full graceful set for 260 marks: hood 35, cape 40, top 55, legs 60, gloves 30 and boots 40. The full set knocks 25 kg off your weight and restores run energy 30 percent faster, which is 20 percent from the pieces plus a 10 percent set bonus for wearing all six.
My honest take on buy order: grab the boots and hood first for the early weight reduction, then work towards the top and legs. At Canifis rates, 260 marks is roughly 13 to 14 hours of laps, and most players finish the set somewhere in their low 50s if they started rooftops on time.
Once you own the set, Osten in Shayzien will recolour it for 15 marks per piece, or 90 marks for the full set. Purely cosmetic, but if you are going to live in this outfit for a thousand hours you may as well like the colour.
Amylase Is the Real Endgame for Marks
Here is the part a surprising number of players never do the maths on. After graceful, every mark you earn can be spent at Grace's shop on amylase packs, at ten amylase crystals per mark. Amylase is the secondary ingredient for stamina potions, one crystal per dose, and it is in permanent demand.
At recent prices of roughly 1,300 to 1,500 gp per crystal, a single mark converts to somewhere between 13,000 and 15,000 gp. Run that against the course table above and Ardougne laps at 20 to 25 marks per hour are paying you 250,000 to 350,000 gp per hour in amylase on top of your Agility XP. For a skill famous for paying you nothing, that is a genuinely respectable side income.
The one warning: amylase prices move around with stamina potion demand. Check the price on the day rather than assuming, and sell the crystals themselves, since the packs only exist inside the shop interface.
Where I Would Farm Marks at Each Level
From 10 to 40, just progress through the courses as you unlock them. None of them are worth camping, and the marks you pick up along the way are a bonus rather than a plan.
From 40 to 60, Canifis is the answer. It is the best marks per hour you will see until Ardougne, the laps are short and forgiving, and the XP is acceptable for the level range. This is where the graceful set gets bought. If you want the full lap-by-lap XP breakdown rather than just the marks angle, the agility training guide covers the complete 1 to 99 route including the quest XP that lets you skip the worst early courses entirely.
From 60 onwards you have a real choice to make. Seers' Village with the Kandarin hard diary teleport is better XP, while staying at Canifis holds better marks until the level 60 penalty kicks in and cuts the spawn rate to a fifth. My rule: if graceful is finished, follow the XP; if not, stay at Canifis until it is.
At 90 the decision disappears. Ardougne is the best XP and the best marks, it never suffers the outlevelling penalty, and the elite diary pushes it to around 25 marks per hour. Per the OSRS Wiki's mark of grace page, it is the only course designed to stay rewarding at 99, and it shows.
For a visual walkthrough of the full rooftop progression, Theoatrix's 1 to 99 Agility guide on YouTube is the one I would send a newer player to.
Marks of Grace FAQ
How long do marks of grace take to despawn? Ten minutes from the moment they appear. Finish your lap and collect them on the next pass rather than backtracking mid-course.
Can you trade marks of grace? No, marks are fully untradeable. The amylase crystals you buy with them are tradeable though, which is what makes marks worth real gp in practice.
Do you still get marks of grace after 99 Agility? Yes. Every rooftop still spawns them, but only Ardougne spawns them at the full rate for a level 99, since every other course is hit by the 20-level penalty.
One Last Lap Tip
Do not stop laps to grab a mark the moment it spawns. The ten-minute despawn timer means a mark will always survive until your current lap brings you back past it, and keeping your lap rhythm intact is worth more marks per hour than any amount of scrambling. Set a lap counter in RuneLite, pick the right course for your level, and let the marks pile up while you watch something on the second monitor.
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