Runescape Pking
One of the most interesting and possibly the best aspect
of Runescape’s game play is its wilderness section and
Runescape Pking. So what is Runescape Pking? Well Pking
stands for Player Killing.
So basically it’s where you enter the Runescape
wilderness and attempt to kill other Runescape players. This
of course is much more interesting that killing the regular
NPC monsters of Runescape because you are fighting a living,
thinking and creative person on the other side.
Runescape Pking Tips – Wilderness Basics
So are there any pking tips one should know before they
go pking? Well I guess the obvious thing to mention is the
stronger you are the harder you are to kill and therefore it
is in your interests to be as strong as you can when you are
looking to fight in the wilderness. Does this mean that you
need to be level 126 before you enter the wilderness? Of
course not. There are players of all level wondering around
the wilderness, and one of the interesting things about the
wilderness and Runescape pking is that not just anyone can
attack anyone in the wilderness.
Basically the wilderness is divided up in to levels, in
free to play it’s levels 1 through to 50, and for each
levels of wilderness people that can attack you and that you
can attack must be within that level of wilderness of your
combat level. So if a level 70 player was in level 14
wilderness they could attack or be attacked by any player
that had a combat from 56 through to 84. Obviously the
deeper you go the greater the range of players you can
attack or be attacked by, this is something that should
definitely be weighed up before traveling too deep into the
wilderness.
Runescape Pking Combat Triangle
The premise behind a combat triangle is that there are
three classes of fighters in Runescape; warriors, mages, and
rangers. This combat triangle has a big influence on
Runescape pking. If you are a pking as a warrior you find
that when fighting a mage that they will hit you very hard
and very often, because in this Runescape pking combat
triangle they have the advantage over the warriors. Warriors
are slow and cumbersome with all their armor where as mages
are light because they essentially only need robes and runes.
This gives them quite a weight advantage and thus they can
run for quite awhile longer, and seeing mages can range from
distance this means that they can essentially run far away
enough from warriors that they can mage them without getting
into a melee fight, and therefore not take any damage during
the fight.
Of course whilst mages may be stronger against warriors
they cannot use their same advantages against rangers.
Rangers usually wear dragonhide armor which gives good
protection against mage’s spells and they also aren’t quite
as heavy as a warriors armor so they can run for quite a bit
longer which reduces the mage’s light weight advantage, and
on top of all this they are also able to fight from
distances which means that essentially the mage can’t get in
a position where there can deal damage without the damage
being dealt to them as well. So rangers have a distinct
advantage over mages in the Runescape pking, combat triangle.
hen the final side of this triangle is warriors against
rangers. Warriors have heavy armor and a ranger’s arrows
generally are not very effective against such armor whereas
on the other hand rangers have armor that is lighter weight
and whilst effective against mages is not good armor to be
wearing against well equipped warriors with good weapons. So
Runescape pking warriors deal greats amounts of damage
rangers and they hit frequently.
Runescape Pking Clans or Teams
Runescape Pking can be done solo but what is far more
popular is doing it as a team or with a Runescape Pking Clan.
Basically this is where a group of people get together to go
Pking rather than going Pking by oneself. There are many
benefits to this; the biggest being that there is safety in
numbers. The Runescape wilderness is quite a dangerous place
and running around by oneself can lead to being killed very
quickly if you are wondering in the wrong areas. There are
certain areas on the wilderness that are called multi zones
where more than one person can attack you at a time, and if
you are walking around the wilderness by yourself and a pack
of 5 people start attacking you all at once chances are you
are going to struggle to survive even if you are a higher
level than them (assuming of course that they are reasonably
high level players). So obviously there is also the benefit
of being in a group when you are in the multi zone as well
because you can gang up on individual players and bring them
down quite quickly.
Pking in Runescape Teams
It is also worthwhile having a good mixture of fighting
styles within the group as well. So if you are going out
into the wild with 8 or 9 players it is good to take 2 or so
mages and 2 or so rangers. It also helps a lot if everyone
has somewhat an idea of how engaging an enemy will proceed,
because efficient teams are extremely effective in the wild,
and building a tight team that you can trust and rely on
goes a long way to becoming successful in the wilderness and
at Runescape pking.
I hope you have enjoyed this brief little Runescape Pking
guide, best of luck in the wild.
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