Me and a few friends (who have all long ago retired from runescape) have decided to all start from scratch, train for one week and then brawl! We will be doing one on one battles round robin no food or anything like that either, whoever wins the most wins the contest.

 

 

 

So my question is what build should I use? I am pretty sure most of them will be making pure melees and prolly have some defense... At least one person I'm sure will use an archer, and I don't think anyone will use a mage. It safe to say they aren't the most educated about fighting and pures and such but they do have some basic idea.

 

 

 

I was thinking about using a prayer beast for this...Prayer beasts would be able to deliver the most damage quickly for melee and since we wont be running or eating my prayer will prolly not run out. But I have no idea how it would fair against archers...since I would have incredibly low defense and they will have incredibly fast attack.

 

 

 

So assuming that my friends will pick the above types what build do you think I should pursue?

Range tank with prayer.

Range tank with prayer.

 

 

 

what exactly would be the equipment setup and skills for that? Sorry its been a few years and wouldn't a ranger have a difficult time with melees?

I agree range tank with prayer. Only stats you should care about are Range, Defense, and Prayer. HP...just comes. I'm not going to talk about getting magic because 1 week isn't enough to become an ancients range tank.

 

 

 

If you can set up a obstacle arena, you pretty much win. Of course, providing that you know how to Range hug AKA hit and run tactics.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know how fast you can train in a week but it's typically good to be able to wear at least Green Dhides and have enough prayer to get the ranger buffs.

 

 

 

 

 

Oh and if you guys are planning to P2P it, you will win even more because Crossbows+Shields own. If it's F2P, stick with the shortbows.

 

 

 

If it's face to face and it's P2P... Crossbows just has so much accuracy, it's ridiculous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you need a demonstration of what Range hugging is, I have a "PvP" video and a short "for fun" soul wars video in which I pick off people with range using obstacles. Keep in mind, that if you fight a complete melee noob or a person who cares about "honor" (AKA who spent the most time on their Pokemon) over reaction skills then you can effectively safespot them while they are mindlessly trapped by obstacles.

Well, assuming you'll be f2p you should get a few attack and strength levels so you can get 40 defense and then just get as high range as possible within one week.

 

 

 

Equipment should be:

 

Rune full helm

 

Green dhide body / rune chain

 

Green dhide legs

 

Maple short

 

Adamant arrows

 

Fighter boots

 

Any cape

ok thank you guys nice video btw...but I'm kinda bummed tho my last guy I made was a ranger and Im kinda wanting something different to use. But if the stakes are high enough I guess Ill just make another ranger