Runescape Game Play

I don't believe I have mentioned the Duel Arena yet, im not going to pretend to be an expert at the place but I though its time it had some sort of mention.

I rarely go to duel arena now, there are not often any players high enough to give me a good fight, I only really go to test out new weapons or to fight friends to test theirs, I will however take on lower level players and give them an advantage, depending on their level I will either range them wear no armour or for the really low levels wear no armour and no weapons.

There is an unwritten rule that you don't use protect prayers and you don't eat. this is just a personal thing, if it is not selected as a condition when starting the duel then everything is allowed.

I am not a staker so I don't use the staker worlds, I guess there will be higher level players there but I play for fun not for money, staking can get you money but is pants for training skills, I have a friend who is always winning and losing loads of money there I hope he reads this and puts a staker guide as a comment.

I never pot when dueling, it only lasts for the game and there is no big deal if you lose, I do however use piety for evenly matched players this is replenished after every fight so is a free boost and if you trained it you might as well use it.

I don't use protect prayers, even if the other player does I personally think it looks nooby, this is my choice and unless the prayer option is removed when starting the duel then it is allowed and you should not feel ashamed in using it, you have trained for it so use it.

I never eat even if I have food, food costs time or money and unless staking you lose nothing if you die, but again if you are determined to win eat what you like.

Take armour for every eventuality, Veracs is very good for dueling but take torags whip or any combination of melee armour for a melee fight, also take Karils or dragon hide in case they turn to mage and start barraging you, any one with a half decent mage level can minimise damage from barrage just by wearing dragon hide, take a crystal bow or your preferred range weapon to attack them if they have frozen you.

Despite its reputation barrage is a pants spell fighting PVP you are very vulnerable most pkers use a body guard when fighting with ancients, barrage is very easy to counteract with dragon hide and a dds spec on mage pkers is almost guaranteed lumby tele, if its a mage pure then guaranteed lumby tele.

At the duel arena a DDS is your best friend, it can also be your most feared enemy, if a player puts no armour as a condition for the fight then he is likely to want to spec you to death with the DDS, in this situation you should be ready, before you accept the duel put your spec on, as soon as you enter the arena pot attack and strength if potting and use your best attack and strength prayer and most important of all hit him first, for evenly matched players the first person to attack unless unlucky will win.

If you enter the arena and the player just stands there letting you hit him and not fighting back the likely reason is they want to Dharok you to death, do not fear Dharoks is carp and is unlikely to win a duel unless they are very lucky, its not unusual to beat a player 20 levels higher than you using Dharoks, in this situation you should empty 3 of your 4 dds specs onto them then continue to get them down low, when you see them start to put their armour on use your last spec and hopefully this will finish them off, if not all is not lost Dharoks hits very rarely and even rarer hard, it is possible to take 30 zero hits off of a Dharoker before they hit you, this gives you plenty of time to finish them off, of course they may hit a 67 and destroy you in 1 hit but its so rare you can almost dismiss it.

You will often see players in carp armour, not carp enough that it looks out of place but for example full rune and dragon scimmy, you challenge them and in the arena they are wearing Veracs or torag and a whip, you can not defend against the Verac spec so you just accept your defeat or give them a good battle.

It has become customary to say GF when fighting, this can be when you are winning and slaughtering them with no damage to yourself or them slaughtering you or even if indeed it was a good evenly matched fight, in my eyes one person getting slaughtered is not a "good fight" its a pushover so I guess they mean "girl friend" in which case I say no thank you I already have 1.

Another thing I really love is when low level players start attacking, when you start to hit them they say can I train on you, don't hit me can I train on you, they expect you to stand there and have them hit you until you are dead, so there I am 99 defence and a level 50 wants to attack me until I'm dead, this is quite likely to take 2 hours at their level hitting the odd 1's and 2's on me that is going to be fun for me and great xp for them, they would get much more xp killing goblins for 2 hours.