Combat Level =/= Total Level

[Cinos]

because it's just "click here, win."

 

 

 

"You swing your pick at the rock"

 

" you recieve a coal ore"

 

 

 

"You start cutting the tree"

 

"you recieve yew logs" :shame:

[Aneron]

Well total level does show in a sense how many different aspects of the game you have tried... if you prefer combat though, there is nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Neither combat nor skilling is superior to the other.

[ilovecuttingyews]

Like what Aneron said, with a high total it means you have tried more parts of them game. (There are 8 CB related skills and 16 non-combat)

 

 

 

I have nothing against people with low cb/total, but it is a peeve of mine when people say:

 

A) That a skill(s) is useless and not worth training or,

 

B) That the point of RS is to kill monsters and not skill

 

 

 

I actually had someone come up to me and make fun of me because I am more of a skiller. He told me that the only point for skills was to make lame requirements on quests and make them hard. He also said you should be able to do anything ( cut any tree etc ) without the needed lvls because requirements to do things is lame.

[Ximigda]

 

I actually had someone come up to me and make fun of me because I am more of a skiller. He told me that the only point for skills was to make lame requirements on quests and make them hard. He also said you should be able to do anything ( cut any tree etc ) without the needed lvls because requirements to do things is lame.

People like those just make me sad :roll:

[BlueLancer]

Heh, it was exactly the opposite back in the day, like 2002 and before that. Everyone just looked at your combat level and judged you by that, even after hiscores for total level were implemented, not many people cared about who has the highest 'total skills'.

 

 

 

People who call you bad for having a high/low level at something should just be ignored. You have nothing to gain from listening to immature insults.

[nightzero]

Go on the official forums. Then look for people POSTING IN ALL CAPS or lyk sayn stuf lyk ths, u no, u c? Then look them up on the high scores. Just today I found that almost EVERY one of those idiots focused on combat, and not skills. Why? Non-combat skills take a certain type of person: a patient one. You're probably saying something like "but it's all the same amount of xp," and you'd be right, if it weren't for the strangest thing. You see, there's a reason why kids like pvp, it's easy to understand, and you can see who is the best. There is no gray area. It's either yes, or no. Non-combat skills, on the other hand, require comprehension. There is no best way to level them, nor is there a "best" skiller. No one can make potions better than anyone else. They can make more potions, but not "better" really.

 

 

 

Again, look at the posts, you'll see all the idiots that type with horrible grammar and English are either not native to the English language, or they are complete morons. In that case, they probably prefer combat, because it's just "click here, win."

 

 

 

So mining,woodcutting, firemaking, fishing, cooking, fletching, smithing...etc,etc arent just click here, win? Actually cooking/fletching are easier cause it's click here, wait 30 seconds, 30 wins :)

[dusky]

One reason people tend not to lie people with high cb but low total is because their often arogant.(not saying everyone with high cb and low total is like that)

[coenvg]

Ahh, I'm back to discuss(rant?) about another common insult that is kinda baseless. Why is it that many people are like omg nub you're 115 cb and you're total is only 1732. And then people will praise someone if they have (insert high total) and (insert low combat). Why should your total level be compared to combat :wall:? Some people like to do combat and not really noncombat skills(especially useless ones like fm which are only used to bring up totals :wall: ). Some people like to level up non-combat skills and not do much fighting. Why should either be better than the other?

 

 

 

Discuss :

 

 

 

Why should you comapre yourself to a "noob-caller",

 

some people like acting like little kids others don't \ .

 

 

 

I just meant to say, who cares?

[Great_one]

People bash other people for any reason possible. It's just a technique they use to boost their own self-esteem. The best thing to do is to not let them get to you. I view a level 138 as a highly respectable account, no matter what the total level is. I also admire those with high totals no matter what their combat is. They're both nice achievements in my eyes.

 

 

 

+1 [/thread]

 

 

 

no really i am seriously confused how you ppl continued to argue after this

[evil_mumm_ra]

well let's put it this way. i am 114 cmb, 1 def/hp away from 115cmb. i will get 98 defence as my next level brining my cmb to 115 and my total to 1540. doing the guthix skill thing, i am 13.5 average. none of this matters to me at all. i don't level the skills i hate. if you look up my scores, you can clearly tell the skills i hate, as they are mostly under level 50. sure, i'll get the up eventually but right now i have more important and fun things that i play this game for. i'm not going to level up skills that i view as crappy, no matter how much money they can make me. nor am i going to do quests, no matter how many cities i have access to or whatever. i don't play this game to have a big cash pile, to have a high total level, or to finish quests. i play this game to have fun and hang out with friends. that is the only point of this game, people just have different ways of having fun.

[Yomyth105]

They are all just jealous. They r kind of stupid for discriminating u on wat skills u like to level. some ppl prefer combat skills over skills that rnt enjoyable like runecrafting.

[WildxYak]

I have a 15.27 total to combat ratio. I a combat player that raises skills, just I choose to mainly raise Slayer which comes with a lot of combat levels.

 

I usually raise skills for something useful like Construction I raised only for portal rooms, my house is rubbish otherwise. Hunter I used to catch a few chins for a bit of cash so it's gone up but I set small goals too.

 

 

 

I don't really see the argument these people put across, you play the game how you want to play it, don't let them get to you and ignore them :P

[Jimmyw3000]

I find that people who say things like that are really stupid and should be ignored. Its a person's personnal choice to train combat skills or non-combat skills and you have no right to call them of noobs because of that. Especially when it comes to skills like Firemaking or Fletching, i remember some skiller calling me of noob because my fletching level was only 53 and my combat was 102, well sorry for not wasting my time on fletching and instead working on getting rich by kiling dragons for a visage!

 

 

 

Take a look at ur siggy. You have no stats ranked :roll: .So unless you've been killing iron drags with around 65att/def/str, you're lying.

[KingJD]

I think it's mainly because people equate those who have higher combat levels (visible when you click on their name) to have achieved similar success in other areas of the game.

 

 

 

ie combat 125 should have access to doing most everything in the game which includes skills.. like at 125 someone expects you to have trained woodcutting past say... cutting oaks. Just because you've spent that amount of time in game means you should have tried to experience it more?

[zaybex]

Psh, nobody cares what my skill total is. It's just "lol 73 combat addy scimmy, noob"

 

I'm a ranger and I need my attack and strength up for certain quests, I don't feel like buying rune to train on guards. I'd like a ddp++ but I need more attack. How do you think I'm going to do that? Adamant scimitar, because I'm a noob.

[hellbellz]

Why even bother with some [cabbage]ty ratio? Y'know, if you brought your combat stats up using Slayer, your total level would become so much higher than just at a low combat level.

[Stephleref]

I have way more respect for a person that play to train their fav skill over somebody that train them for the sake of skill total.

 

 

 

Anybody that play this game should know that skill total doesnt really mean anything,somebody with my stats but with 99 firemaking instead of 80 and 73 runecrafting instead of 92 would be above me in the hiscore...

[RyderJ]

Why even bother with some [cabbage] ratio? Y'know, if you brought your combat stats up using Slayer, your total level would become so much higher than just at a low combat level.

 

Thus why all my combat is done through slayer.

[nightzero]

There was an article somewhere back walking about guthix skilling or something? I remember in the article they took your total level divided by your combat, and if you had 15-17 levels to every combat level you were pretty balanced (16-18 now.) This is mostly unrelated to the arguement, but try it out and see how good you guys are

 

 

 

Now something more pertinent, I think that it's harder to play the game with a low combat level because survival is harder. This is why most people consider someone with high combat and low total undesireable as they play the game the easy way, whilst skillers are more risk-taking. It could also be that combat is more enjoyable than other aspects, so skillers are seen as harder workers.

 

 

 

Personally, I think someone with a low combat and a largely green quest panel is the most impressive, because most quests rely on you having a higher combat to beat certain parts, however to have a lower total AND combat and have certain quests completed is the most impressive, becuase some quests are a lot tougher with lower skills

 

 

 

Well I agree with you about quests and low combat.. but about it being harder to play the game at a low combat..not really. If you are mainly a skiller than you arent going into places that require combat. Whats so dangerous about getting 99 wcing and lvl 3 combat? Also if combat is more enjoyable then do combat..this game is about fun not who works harder :wall:

[RyderJ]

For the longest time, I've had an awesome combat-total ratio. Somewhere in the 18 range. But in the past few months of playing, I've been doing a TON of combat. Be it GWD, DKs, Miths, Aviansies, or just slayer. Now my ratio has gone down to 16.64, and I do sort of regret going so all out in combat and getting to 117, but my main goal in RS is still skilling.

 

 

 

For now, I want a leet slayer level (85+), and a nice 100m base cash pile from GWD. Then I'll get back on track with skilling (99 agil, all stats 80+, 99 herb if I have enough cash, etc.)

 

 

 

Once a skiller, always a skiller. 8-)

[Wheels]

I think generally the people that get offended by this are people with lower total levels and those who are just obsessed with combat. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this, but from what I've seen people with higher total levels enjoy bashing on people of higher combat them with lower totals.

 

 

 

Ask any skiller, I'm sure they'll admit to having done it at least once, or thought to themselves, "Wow that guys total level sucks."

 

 

 

I'm guilty. :oops:

[nightzero]

I think generally the people that get offended by this are people with lower total levels and those who are just obsessed with combat. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this, but from what I've seen people with higher total levels enjoy bashing on people of higher combat them with lower totals.

 

 

 

Ask any skiller, I'm sure they'll admit to having done it at least once, or thought to themselves, "Wow that guys total level sucks."

 

 

 

I'm guilty. :oops:

 

 

 

But why??? Do they feel proud that theyve wasted millions on getting a 99 that doesnt help them in anyway?...cooking,fletching,firemaking? I feel that combat is the most useful skill by far. Besides my total isnt that bad. Is 1730 total bad for someone with 116 cb? (im 108 w/o summonng btw)

[Vincent]

he says ask any skiller. i dont think all "skillers" are going to have the same response. i dont put people into categories based on their total level. i do get annoyed when a very high lvl lacks the herblore lvl for making sara brews; if they're expecting me to pick up their slack, it's not going to happen. and in the past, for other potions.

 

 

 

i think this stems from the pures/stakers that drop traded from their mains and that form of cheating/unfair gameplay left a bad taste in ppl's mouths.

 

 

 

as for your stats threadstarter you have good stats so i dont know what the problem would be? and whatever the problem is it's not with you, it's on the part of people that are probably jealous of your combat abilities but who knows and i wouldnt let it bother you.

[Cha0sx]

I don't care how you play the game. The problem is that people like to compare with one another, and if one player is more oriented one way or the other it skews comparisons. People just need to stop comparing. Another reason that people do this is because the high scores are ranked on your total level, and not combat. I respect those that train the harder skills to a higher level, such as slayer, herblore, runecrafting, etc. This is because those skills are in a much different league than other skills. It is amazing sometimes the speed of some skills compared to others. You could get 1-99 cook in the time it takes to get 98-99 runecrafting, probably.

[extremefish]

i hate non combat, thats why im 138 cmb and total lvl 1912