Taskmaster Guide: From Your First Task to Endgame

Taskmaster is Apex's seasonal, self-sufficient progression mode. You build a fresh account by completing objectives across combat, skilling and miscellaneous activities, unlock equipment packages, and eventually move into a rotating endgame task board. You can play for the campaign reward, push the full reward ladder, or compete for a seasonal leaderboard place.

Getting started

Update Apex through the launcher, create a fresh character and choose Taskmaster during account setup. Your existing main remains separate.
Taskmasters use Zezima/Extreme, the second-hardest difficulty. The difficulty changer cannot be used to select an easier rate.
Type ::taskmaster. The Tasks tab shows your objectives, Rewards shows milestone packages, and Scores shows the competition.
Start with available easy tasks. Switch between combat, skilling and miscellaneous categories to find activities that suit your current gear.
Keep bank space available. Campaign task items are delivered to your bank, and a full bank can stop a completed task from being claimed.

Registration is limited to one Taskmaster account per IP/device. If a legitimate shared household prevents registration, contact staff rather than trying to bypass it.

Taskmaster skilling campaign objectives and progress bars

The Taskmaster board shows the activity, progress, Taskmaster XP and points for each task.

Understand the three kinds of progress

Normal skill XP: trains your ordinary skills, such as Smithing or Slayer.
Taskmaster XP: comes from completing Taskmaster objectives. It raises your Taskmaster level, unlocks task difficulties and grants account/Slayer perks. It also counts toward reward-package XP requirements.
Taskmaster points: come from completed objectives and advance your lifetime reward ladder and seasonal score. They are not the same as Taskmaster XP or weekly Quest Points.

For example, chopping 100 oak logs gives 8 Taskmaster XP and 4 points. Killing 40 sand crabs gives 10 Taskmaster XP and 5 points. The ordinary Woodcutting or combat XP earned while doing those activities is separate.

The reward ladder uses lifetime points earned, not just your current spendable balance. Where points are spent in the Taskmaster shop, that does not undo your lifetime milestone progress.

Taskmaster levels and automatic perks

You start at level 1. Medium tasks unlock at level 3; hard tasks unlock at level 6. Level 10 is the maximum Taskmaster level, reached at 2,000 total Taskmaster XP. XP is cumulative, not an amount you pay for each level. Earning more XP after level 10 does not create level 11.

Level	Total XP	Perks granted
1	0	Easy tasks available.
2	50	Blood Signed Slayer path; Efficient Chop; One With the Runes.
3	125	Medium tasks; Task Focus; A Slaying Experience; Speed Fisher.
4	250	Butcher's Pace; Master Thief; Arts 'n' Crafts.
5	450	Blood Purse; Kitchen Expert; The Arsonist.
6	700	Hard tasks; Tower Acolyte; Smithing Dynasty; Fletching Dreams.
7	1,000	Branch Rights; Bob the Builder; Hunting in Its True Form.
8	1,300	Hunter I; Raiding Restorations; Wilderness Hunter.
9	1,650	Hunter II; The Dragon Slayer; The Pet Hunter.
10	2,000	Hunter III; Experience Enhancer; Skilled Ranger.

These are existing Apex perk unlocks, applied automatically as you qualify. You do not spend XP to buy them. Check each perk's in-game description for its actual effect and conditions; owning a perk does not mean every activity receives the same bonus.

The campaign

The catalogue currently has 136 task definitions. Of these, 135 form the campaign; the five-shiny-pet challenge is excluded from the campaign completion requirement.

Campaign objectives are completed once per campaign. Higher-level tasks must be unlocked before they can award their completion. Some objectives read existing account counters, so qualifying prior activity can already be reflected when a task unlocks. Other activities use Taskmaster-specific tracking. Do not assume an activity done before a task was available will always be banked.

Early combat: kill 40 sand crabs, finish three Slayer tasks, open two Brimstone chests or loot five Barrows chests.
Early skilling: chop 100 oak logs, burn 75 oak logs, mine 150 iron ore or cook 120 pieces of food.
Miscellaneous: open clue caskets, search bird nests, offer bones, open Slayer chests, reanimate dragon heads and complete achievement objectives.
Larger goals: spend two hours in NPC combat, deal 200,000 actual damage to NPCs, complete boss objectives and work through raids.

Achievement objectives exist in the campaign, so completing the entire campaign includes those requirements. You do not need to complete every achievement in Apex. Weekly quests are a separate system and their Quest Points do not substitute for Taskmaster points or XP.

Reward packages: you need points AND XP

There are 24 reward milestones, starting at 300 lifetime points and finishing at 8,000. Each requires both the listed lifetime points and total Taskmaster XP. For example, having 300 points but only 70 XP does not unlock the first package: you also need 80 XP.

These are cumulative unlocks, not a payment. Packages contain multiple items, including equipment sets, weapons, sigils, ornament kits and boxes. The campaign and the 8,000-point ladder are different goals: the ladder is designed to continue into repeatable tasks after the campaign.

Taskmaster multi-item reward sets and their point and XP requirements

Each reward row is a package, not a choice of one item. Use the in-game panel to inspect its contents.

Lifetime points	Total Taskmaster XP
300	80
500	120
800	180
1,100	250
1,400	300
1,750	375
2,100	450
2,450	550
2,800	650
3,150	750
3,500	850
3,850	950
4,200	1,050
4,550	1,150
4,900	1,250
5,250	1,350
5,600	1,450
6,000	1,550
6,400	1,650
6,800	1,750
7,200	1,850
7,600	1,900
7,800	1,950
8,000	2,000

Progression includes Bandos and Infinity equipment, Void with all three combat helms, later Masori and Ancestral sets, a Twisted bow, custom upgrade equipment and Radiant packages. Supplemental milestones fill the gaps with equipment, sigils, usable ornament kits and chests. The Rewards panel is the reference for the exact items in each package.

Finishing the campaign: Warped Apexian

Finish all campaign objectives to unlock the repeatable board and receive Warped Apexian, the campaign-completion pet reward. This does not require finishing all 24 point milestones or claiming 20 endgame payouts.

The reward is delivered to your bank, falling back to your inventory. Keep at least one space available. It is untradeable through ordinary trading, but its special item-on-player action allows one transfer. After that transfer it is locked; you cannot pass it along repeatedly.

After the campaign: six rotating assignments

The board changes to six active repeatable assignments. Complete an assignment and it is replaced. A task can return later with a fresh requirement, so the catalogue is not a lifetime task cap.

Repeatable progress starts from assignment. If you had 100 qualifying kills when a new 20-kill assignment appeared, it needs 20 more kills, not the 20 kills you did yesterday. Completed assignments keep awarding Taskmaster XP and points, letting you continue the reward ladder and seasonal score.

Premium endgame payouts: a separate 20-reward limit

Eligible hard assignments after campaign completion can carry an additional endgame reward. The assignment shows its reward; you do not choose it at hand-in. A payout is $200 in donated scrolls OR one assigned box, not scrolls plus a box.

$200 in donated scrolls.
Tamer's Blood Box.
Tamer's Sacred Box.
Tamer's Soul Box.
Catalyst mystery box.

Reward sequencing avoids paying the same reward type back-to-back. The limit is 20 premium endgame payouts per season, not 20 total repeatable completions. After using those payouts, repeatable tasks can still contribute their normal points and XP.

Examples include 20 Chambers of Xeric completions, counting full raids or Olm-only, 35 Trials of Echoes runs, a dedicated 25 Olm-only objective and catching five shiny pets. These only earn an endgame payout when assigned as an eligible endgame task; completing the campaign version does not retroactively award that extra payout.

Playing a self-sufficient account

Taskmasters cannot trade or use the Player Owned Store.
Items manually dropped by a Taskmaster are destroyed rather than fed into the normal economy.
You cannot pick up ordinary items dropped by other players. Taskmaster-versus-Taskmaster PvP loot is a separate exception, not a way to receive a main account's items.
Home teleporting is not a free heal for Taskmasters.
Skill-XP lamps are restricted. The existing Party Pete exchange provides the supported alternative for eligible lamps.
Other players cannot use bonds or donated scrolls on a Taskmaster. A Taskmaster must finish the main campaign before gifting eligible bonds or scrolls outward.

Seasons and competition

Taskmaster is designed around two-month seasons. There is a campaign participation reward, and the top three points positions also receive separate prizes to be announced by the owner. Do not confuse campaign completion, the 8,000-point reward ladder and a podium finish: they are separate goals.

The competition separates F2P and Donator Taskmasters. Successfully receiving a paid store order through ::claim moves a Taskmaster into the Donator competition bracket. An empty claim is not a paid purchase. Check the seasonal announcement for dates and final prize details.

Taskmaster Boxes and loot previews

The Taskmaster Box is an optional box restricted to Taskmaster accounts, separate from the free campaign reward ladder. Its pool includes useful progression supplies and chase pets. Use the quest-tab Loots Viewer to inspect the Taskmaster Box and Fatebound Box reward pools before opening them. Fatebound Boxes can be opened by all gamemodes; a Taskmaster Box cannot.

Buying a box does not complete campaign objectives, replace Taskmaster XP or bypass the campaign requirement for the completion pet. Receiving a paid order also matters for your competition bracket, so decide whether you want to compete as F2P before claiming it.

Weekly quests are separate

Type ::quests to access the weekly quest system. It has its own objectives, Quest Points, rewards and personal reset cycle. Those points do not count toward the Taskmaster ladder, and Taskmaster level does not replace weekly quest requirements. You can use both systems on the same account.

Common questions

My XP is high but I cannot get the next set. Check its lifetime-point requirement too.
I reached level 10. Am I finished? No. You may still have campaign tasks, reward milestones or repeatable endgame goals left.
The board says 135 completed. Is that the limit? No. Finishing the campaign opens repeatable assignments.
I killed this boss before getting a repeatable task. Repeatables use a fresh assignment baseline; do the required additional kills.
A completed campaign task has not paid. Make bank space and reopen the board. If it still fails, report the exact task, activity and account through ::bugs.
What should I do first? Mix easy combat and skilling tasks, reach 50 XP for your first perks, then 125 XP to open medium objectives. Work toward both 300 points and 80 XP for the first equipment package.