We won't cover summoning here today. I think that if you will be able to get lvl 99 magic you will be able to get the lunar and ancient spellbooks.Therefore being able to conquer meleers and rangers alike. Magic always beats meleers so rangers are magicians only problems but with good robes and the ancient spellbook ,magicians will be able to freeze rangers then do heavy damage. The last arguement is that magicians can't support themselves moneywise. I personally am a magican so this was a real problem to me. I tried woodcutting,runecrafting,thieving,and minining. At lvl 30 in each one i found that mining was the most profitable skill ,also at lvl 40 you can mine gold and your wallet becomes huge. It's time for you to decide.

Even tho there are 300 rants about how magic is underpowered, it lets you teleport, ice burst, alch, cast spells for damage, freeze, and stop other players.

 

 

 

 

 

Magic

 

 

 

 

 

And wtf, magic people can support themselves, I made 1.5m getting to 70 magic, making the nats and the yew longbows for alching.

At the moment, I'd say range. Bolts can pretty much do everything. That includes Dragonfire and Armor Piercing. Magic can't do that. Melee can, with special armor parts.

Range. Between enchanted bolts, the Dark Bow spec, the crystal bow and the seercull, range can handle almost every situation. (Or it could be that it is my favorite... :-# )

 

 

 

 

 

And magic is not underpowered. The last time I remember it being underpowered at all was before the msb spec was nerfed. But I don't want to have to debate underpoweredness (Lol?), so I'm going to shut up now..

I'm going to have to go with Melee. You can wear any type of armor you want and it won't lower your Melee bonuses like it does for Magic and Ranged. Not even to mention what Piety, the God Swords, and super sets can do for you in battle..

melee, its the most universally used and has the highest hits

 

it also has the best weapons and armours and can be used for pretty much free,

Food has to be used with melee, usually. That would add up over time.

I'm sure runes and projectiles would add up too. Of course you can say that melee has degradable armor, but the same is true about Ranged and Magic too.

At most bosses, range is the preferred style, and even if it's better to use melee, ranged is still quite effective. The diamond (e) bolts hit almost everything, too.

 

 

 

Also, ranged has the dark bow in pvp, which can do a lot of damage.

 

 

 

I'd say ranged.

All are good in their own way.

 

Magic lets you do all manner of needed and useful things like teleporting and freezing etc. Range can be fast hits; like with the dark bow you can hit 50 for both of the two hits; and safe spots are really good. But the fact that you cant wear defensive armour lets them down; because to balance things out melee had to be high hitting on the two.

 

Melee; however; has the highest hits, as you can hit 110+; and you have a much bigger range of weapons and defensive armour.

 

 

 

- Rem.

 

:thumbsup:

melee because of highest hits.

If money is not a problem, magic. Ancients and lunar have all sorts of great and expensive spells.

 

 

 

 

 

If money is a problem, then melee.

I don't think there is a best. Alot of people train their combat skills differently than others. If you use good tactics, you could beat mages with melee,melee'ers with range and rangers with magic. If you train all of them equally, you could do really good instead of someone that has high melee stats with equal mage/range stats.

I have extremely high CB Stats, And I'd say Range, tied with melee. My setup is near invunrable.

 

 

 

Void with dfs, melee prayer in Pits is very annoying. :twisted:

Defense.

 

 

 

Hands down. Without it, you'd get ripped to shreds during most things (that I enjoy doing). With the other offensive skills, you could always go with a different one and do just fine. It's my favorite combat. With high defense, you get hit less, get to eat less, run less, and over all I feel, do more damage.

 

 

 

I love def.

I'd say defence too. You can survive in situations where you normally wouldn't, and improves the effectiveness of the other combat skills because you can keep fighting for longer. It also makes training so much easier and cheaper.

I think your wrong about what you say about mage beating range.

 

When wearing karils magers, no matter what level have difficulty hitting you, also the freezing doesnt matter when you can hit them.

 

 

 

If we say that the mager is wearing ahrims and no pray is involved, the ranger would win. No matter what spells the mager used, d bow spec + diamond (e)s will rip through ahrims, and the battle will be over.

 

 

 

I would still say range, although againts mele it is much harder contest. It is difficult to hit through good defence armour, however still possible.

 

Also with piety and godswords the meler will beat the ranger hands down.

 

 

 

So it all depends on the scenario. And if you look, the combat triange still applies.

it all depends on your levels, what your doing, eg. boss hunting, questing or pvp. Magic is definately not underpwoered, ancients own warriors and with the right strategy can still defeat rangers. I still like melee but all three atack styles have pretty much evened out over time with the introduction of things like ancients, better xbows and bolts which do insane damage.

 

Melee is still exeptionally powerful when you max out your stats.

 

All in all its how you use it that matters.

Range, by far.

in f2p, probably melee. in p2p, probably range

I think your wrong about what you say about mage beating range.

 

When wearing karils magers, no matter what level have difficulty hitting you, also the freezing doesnt matter when you can hit them.

 

 

 

If we say that the mager is wearing ahrims and no pray is involved, the ranger would win. No matter what spells the mager used, d bow spec + diamond (e)s will rip through ahrims, and the battle will be over.

 

 

 

I would still say range, although againts mele it is much harder contest. It is difficult to hit through good defence armour, however still possible.

 

Also with piety and godswords the meler will beat the ranger hands down.

 

 

 

So it all depends on the scenario. And if you look, the combat triange still applies.

 

 

 

Any range wep will rip through ahrims as it has 0 range def :thumbsup:

 

 

 

Now on topic I think Melle as really no matter what having 99 maxed can't in my thoughts be beat Void,Fury,Gs,Rune Def,Dfs,DDS,Whip,Ss,etc. and also you can't argue with no money loss(though barrows food lol but thats not a problem having 99 def I wish I had)also atleast im not losing like 2k gp(not much but adds over time) with mage or losing 100-500 gp if accumulator dosent work(again adds over time) so i think melle overall but if you're made of money sure give me some barrages and Gs after that so from that sentance I think magic is 2nd best with range a close 3rd