Beginners guide to clan wars

[Thegpguild2]

This is also in the Clan Discussion but i think it may be put to better use in Beginning Guides

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BASICS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

So, first off you need to have a clan, which you can join by pressing the button next to your ignore list and then choosing join clan. You then just put in the name of the owner of the clan and you're in. NOTE: Clans can only war in the clan wars area which is located in the wilderness where you can be killed. Only 3 ranks are alloud to start wars the Leader (of course), the Generals or sometimes known as warlords, and the Captains. When you want to start a war you right click on a person in another clan that is 1 of the 3 ranks and select challenge. You then have a screen show up with certain amounts of options. First there is the option to set the gametype to the default (knockout) in which you cannot rejoin a game after you die or have it set to a score which you reach for every kill. You can also time the game. To win a game with a score you must kill the other clan until you reach the amount of kills shown at the top right corner of the screen or you kill the whole team before they can re-enter. Next is the least used option, items. You can set the items to either keep on death or lose your items when you die. When the option items are kept on death is active you will NOT lose anything when you die. There are also the options active during war such as melee on or food off. You can have wars that are melee only with no prayer, spells, food, ranged, summoning, potions or other combat based things. You also get to choose the map type you will play on. I can't go to much detail on the maps without ruining the fun for everybody that hasn't played in clan was and im too lazy to play them all but I will give some detail on them later. When the war begins you will start at a portal to the north or south of the arena. can stay there or go to the middle where a barrier is blocking your way to the other side where the enemy team is. When 2 minutes are up the war will begin and the barrier will disappear for you to attack the other team.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~DEFINITIONS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When your in the war you need to know what your warlord or leader is telling you.

 

Fall/Falls - Follow the leader or warlord that is saying this.

 

Death dot / DD - Everybody at the war stand in 1 spot so there is only 1 dot on the minimap.

 

All in - Everybody in the clan enter the portal for war.

 

Pile - Everybody attack a certain person.

 

Tank - A player with good defense, prayer, and food that distracts the enemy team while the rest kills people.

 

Sniper - A player that kills mages and other snipers.

 

Binder - A player that binds the enemy that is being piled.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~EQUIPMENT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Equipment is a very important part of winning a clan war. I will only tell you what F2P clans would use for equipment as i am an F2P player.

 

@#@#@TANKS@#@#@

Full rune armour, Amulet of Power, Leather Boots, Leather Gloves/Rune Gauntlets/Green D'Hide Vambraces, and a Team Cape.

Food should be either Swordfish or Anchovy Pizza.

DO NOT USE FANCY/FIGHTING BOOTS OR SAFETY GLOVES THESE LOWER DEFENSE AGAINST MAGE AND LOWER ATTACK IN MAGE AND RANGE.

 

@#@#@SNIPER@#@#@

Rune full helm, Green D'hide Body, Rune Platelegs, Arrow type of your choice, Maple Shortbow/Longbow, Amulet of Power/Amulet of Accuracy, Leather Boots, Leather Vambraces/Green D'hide Vambraces, and a Team Cape.

Food should be Lobsters, Swordfish or Anchovy Pizza.

DO NOT USE FANCY/FIGHTING BOOTS OR SAFETY GLOVES THESE LOWER DEFENSE AGAINST MAGE AND LOWER ATTACK IN MAGE AND RANGE.

 

@#@#@BINDER@#@#@

Full druidic robes, runes to cast bind, staff of your choice, Anti Dragonfire Shield, Leather Boots, Leather Gloves, and a Team Cape.

Food should be the same as a tank because you will take much more damage.

DO NOT USE FANCY/FIGHTING BOOTS OR SAFETY GLOVES THESE LOWER DEFENSE AGAINST MAGE AND LOWER ATTACK IN MAGE AND RANGE.

 

NOTE: DO NOT USE MEMBER OBJECTS!!!!!

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MAP DETAILS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

@#@#@CLASSIC@#@#@

This terrain is from the old clan wars, which was the one and only terrain you could choose from. It has lava pits, dead trees and a dull, erie sense about it. It is quite large.

 

@#@#@BLASTED FOREST@#@#@

This terrain is covered in dead trees, making it difficult to follow your opponents. There isn't much else to see. It is fairly normal in size.

 

@#@#@BARREN PLAINS@#@#@

This is by far the easiest terrain, although, it give no help to rangers or mages whatsoever. There are barely any obstacles, and it is fairly normal/small.

 

@#@#@FORSAKEN QUARRY@#@#@

This terrain is an abandoned mine, complete with stray ores scattered among the dirt. It is normal in size.

 

@#@#@TURRETS@#@#@

This terrain is worthy for a real battle, considering all the Turrets and passageways. This is by far the biggest terrain.

 

NOTICE: I did not go into much detail like i said i wouldn't because it would ruin the experience for new players.

 

EDITED Friday, May 07, 2010

[red_Fat1]

Here is an old guide i wrote if you want to use some of the info.(if you do add us to the credits)

 

Ultimate Clan War Guide

 

Index and updates

 

Updates

 

01/7/08- Updated Ancient Mace special

29/6/08- Added new sections and fixed errors.

28/6/08- Updated format,Added index,Changed pictures.

1. What is a clan war?
   
2. Different types of clan wars.
   
3. What is done in a clan war?
   
4. What do I bring and why?
   4.1 Melee
   4.2 Range/Melee Hybrid
   
5. Hybriding.
   
6. Examples
   
7. Leading Wars
   
8. The fastest way to get supplies
   
9. Warring Strategies
   9.1 Ancient Mace
   
10. Credits
    

1. What is a clan war?

 

A clan war is a battle between two clans to see who is better warring wise. It can be described as a group of pkers (player killers) verse another group of pkers. The clans fight for pride, victory and sometimes honour. Many times, these wars take place for leisure and ranks. Clan wars used to take place in the Wilderness but due to the Wilderness Changes, Bounty Hunter and Clan Wars! update, they shifted to Bounty Hunter and the Clan Wars arena. After Jagex removed multi combat from Bounty Hunter in the Bounty Hunter Combat Changes and Rewards update, the main location for clan wars now lie in the Clan Wars arena.

 

2. Different types of Clan Wars

 

Many different forms of clan wars occur. Below are some definitions.

 

Full Out Wars A standard clan war where everyone in both clans can participate within certain rules. The rules are set before the clan accepts the war and vary from levels, numbers, and types of attack styles. In a clan war, once you are dead you are out of the war, so it is based on organization and individual effort.

 

Mini Wars This is a war where there is a short preparation, such as 30 minutes to 3 days. These wars resemble full outs in the way that the rules are set: the levels/numbers and types of attack styles can be capped by the ranked members setting up the war

 

Matched Options This a war where the two clans bring an equal number of people to war. These wars, like all others, are also able to have rules that cap certain things (ie. only rune/binds, etc). However, even if one clan brings more members than the other, they must go into war with the same number of people. Ex. Team A brings 20 people and team B brings 15 people. Team A will have to drop 5 people to make it a 15 V 15

3. What is done in a clan war?

 

Clan wars are made up of many tactics such as spamming, piling, hugging, dragging and many more. Below are descriptions & explanations on each tactic.

 

Piling-Piling is when a clan orders an attack on an enemy and everyone attacks the specified person. For example, if I say, VVV on Red fat1 everyone would attack Red fat1.

 

Fake pile- This is a technique used to cause confusion for the enemy. A fake pile is just how it sounds, a clan spams one player's name but attack another. An example of this is would be spamming "VVV Red" but VVV would really attack Killulater82.

 

Switch Pile- Switching piling is when a clan switch's piles, the leader notifies them they are going to switch piles, when they are within range they all swap to that enemy and hopefully kills them.

Example-

 

 

Spamming-Spamming is when you continuously repeat the words or phrase which a rank calls. For example, if a leader says VVV on Kyak68, everyone will repeat it and it will crease a tower shape.

Example-

 

 

Death Dot (Dd)-This is where all players stand in one spot. On the mini map it appears that there is only one person; however when the DD is right-clicked, one will discover there are many people standing on the same location. The best way to Death Dot is by simply clicking the dot on the mini map; it is much easier than clicking on the dot, which may cause you to attack a fellow clan member.

Example-

 

Hugging- Hugging is a technique used to get players off of you if you are the player being piled (or attacked). You run around an object such as a rock or tree and get the attacking players stuck on the object so they cannot hit you as often. How to do this will be posted in more depth later in the guide.

Example-

 

Tanking-Tanking is a form of hugging and dragging (explained later on) combined. Tanking allows one to survive for long periods of time. People who are called tanks are experienced in the technique and can even tank thirty or more players

 

Anti Tanking-Anti Tanking is a advanced tactic used by experienced clanners. This prevents the enemy from hugging. It can backfire if the enemy runs straight instead of hugging, so it should be practiced heavily before being used in a real war.

Example-

 

Snipe- Sniping is when one or more selected players leave the main pile to attack random enemies in order to drain their food and/or prayer. To do this, continuously attack (Binders, Blasters or rangers mainly) enemies. If the enemy isn't paying attention to his or her health, the sniper may get a kill.

 

Dragging- Dragging is a technique used to drain the run from the enemies. When being piled, one runs from one obstacle to the other in hopes of wasting the opposing clans' run energy. You should never drag if you do not have enough run. To do this, run while the enemy is being hugged so they will not attack you while running.

Example-

 

Food Muling- Food Muling is when players not in the war bring food to the warzone and drop it for warring players to pick up. This is strictly prohibited! However, you may pick up food that was dropped by someone in the war who died. (However, picking up food from dead players is not possible in the current Clan Wars arena.)

 

Luring- Luring tricks another player into going to an area so the clan may kill him or her. Although this was mainly used in the old Wilderness, it can be used effectively in Clan Wars.

 

Pot Up- No, this does not mean to smoke pot! This simply means take a drink of your potion.

 

 

4. What do I bring and why?

 

There are many types of inventories. It all depends on the person and what you become comfortable with, but here are the ones I advise:

 

4.1 Melee

 

Explanation of Melee and strategies

 

The meleers are the brute force of the clan. Meleers spam so people can find their piles, can tank longer, and is used as a cover for the binders.

 

Explanation of Melee Inventories

Rune Full Helm- High melee and range defensive bonus

Rune Plate Body- High melee and range defensive bonus

Rune Plate Skirt- High melee and range defensive bonus and 2 less weight than rune legs

Amulet of Power Best free to play amulet which gives a good defensive and offensive bonus

Colorfull Boots/Fighting Boots- High melee and range defensive bonus

Rune Gloves- Highest defense bonus in free to play

Rune Scimitar- Best free to play melee weapon

Rune Berserker Kite Shield- High melee and range defense bonus with a added strength bonus

Team 50 Cape- Your Clans Teamcape

 

Strength potion- So you deal more damage to the enemies

Green Dragonhide Body- When your dragging you can use this so magic splashes more often and when your binded you can put your rune platebody on to take the damage.

Magic Staff(1st pic)(tank staff/jaja stick)- Use this while your being piled because it has a higher defense bonus

Rune Mace(2nd pic)- This gives you a prayer bonus so you can tank longer

Swordfish- Heals 14hp

Anchovie Pizza- Heals 9hp per slice

 

4.2 Range/melee

This is a very effective method of doing damage because your target prays melee, you pull out a bow and do damage. If they pray range pull out your scimmy and kill them, also if you run out of arrows you can melee.

 

 

Rune Full Helm- High melee and range defensive bonus

Rune Plate Body- High melee and range defensive bonus

Rune Plate Skirt- High melee and range defensive bonus and 2 less weight than rune legs

Amulet of Power Best free to play amulet which gives a good defensive and offensive bonus

Colorfull Boots/Fighting Boots- High melee and range defensive bonus

Green Vambrances- High magic defensive bonus and a higher melee+range defensive bonus than leather gloves

Rune Scimitar- Best free to play melee weapon

Rune Kiteshield- High melee and range defense bonus

Team 50 Cape- Your clans teamcape can be here.

Adamant Arrows- Best free to play arrows and you don't need 1500 but if your in clan wars bring all your arrows, if bounty hunter try bring 200+

 

Strength potion- So you deal more damage to the enemies

Green Dragonhide Body- When your dragging you can use this so magic splashes more often and when your binded you can put your rune platebody on to take the damage.

Rune Mace(2nd pic)- This gives you a prayer bonus so you can tank longer

Swordfish- Heals 14 hp

Anchovie Pizza- Heals 9hp per slice

 

5. Hybriding

Requirements

-High combat is a advantage

-Decent internet connections

-Know how to tank

-Must NOT get kod

-Must be able to cast bind

 

Gear

 

 

Items im wearing

Rune set - If you are piled YOU MUST wear this or you will be kod.

Order of gear advised for helmet-Rune full helmt

Order of gear advised for body-Rune platebody, Rune Chain

Order of gear advised for legs-Rune skirt(2 less weight than legs), Rune legs

Rune Scimitar - In between binds you will need to attack your enemies and what better weapon than a rune scimitar?.

Order of gear advised-Rune Scimitar

Rune Berserker Kiteshield - I advise this for defense which will give you time to swap to rune if attacked also gives a little strength bonus.

Order of gear advised-Rune Berserker Kiteshield, Rune kiteshield, heraldic kite shield or Rune sq (if desperate)

Power Amule t- I advise this for both the magic bonus,strength bonus and also the defense bonus.

Order of gear advised-Power Amulet, Strength Amulet or Magic Amulet (if desperate)

Rune gloves - I advise this for the defense bonus because you will be sniped alot while you are binding. It only gives a -1 magic bonus but the druid robes make up for that.

Order of gear advised-Rune Gloves, Safety Gloves, Leather Vambraces or gloves

Stronghold boots - That little extra defense bonus the magic reduction is recovered by the druid robes.

Order of gear advised-Stronghold Boots, Boots

Team 50 cape - Your teamcape so you do not attack a ally.

Order of gear advised-teamcape, normal cape

 

Inventory

 

Staff - You wield this while your being piled for the little defense bonus and magic bonus to help binds splash.

Order of gear advised-Staff, Rune mace(prayer bonus)

Druid Hat - This is for the magic bonus and for the set bonus.

Order of gear advised-Black wizard hat,blue wizard hat,rune helm

Druid robe- This is for the magic bonus and the set bonus.

Order of gear advised-Druid Robe,Black wizard robe,blue wizard robe, monk robe

Druid Bottom - This is for the extra magic bonus and set bonus.

Order of gear advised-Druid Bottom, Leather chaps, Monk bottom

Strength potion - To increase your strength level so you can do more damage and maybe get a ko.

Order of gear advised for legs-Their is no replacements

Runes - This is the amount for 100 binds my advised amount no lower than 50.

Order of gear advised for 100 bind's- More binds

Food - Self explanatory

Order of gear advised for food-swordfish, Some pizza, Lobsters

 

Strategy

 

-The goal for binding is for you to keep your target in one place without dieing. The less steps the target takes before you bind him the better. The hard part about binding is that you are a target for the other team to kill to stop you binding.

 

How do I stay alive?

 

To stay alive you must do the following:

-Stay in the pile, if you stay in the pile you will be covered by your fellow binders and non binders so their is a much less chance of you being caught.

-Not stand out on the open because its easy to spot you binding and will ko u since they can see you clearly.

-When there are a large amount of enemies beside you unless you are EXTREMELY confident that will not pile you put on your rune in case they switch piles.

 

 

How to bind efficiently

First, you cast the bind spell and attack them. Then you load up the bind spell page and right click and have bind on (nick)(level) and after 3-5 steps cast another spell and attack them. If the enemies are walking close, put your run on until you know who they are piling and continue (unless they pile you).

 

6. Examples

 

Red fat1 3x pk-Fairly decent :P

Sog V DE-Pretty good

RSD V TMRD- Good once hes on piles

FT V W- U see me and good binder/tank

 

7. Guide to Leading Wars

 

You may say "wow i call a pile and thats all leading is", you are sadly mistaking because leading wars takes SO MUCH more than that. As a leader you will have to spot for binders, call pile swaps, call fall ins and much more.

 

What do i do?

 

Before the war

Make sure all clan members are aware of the event- This is vital because if they don't know about the event how could they attend it? Also this gives them more time to prepare.

Make sure they have the proper gear- Make sure they know what gear is required for what role so they can be ready fully and can make sure they have that gear ready.

Make them come-Make them come! 30 Minutes isn't very long to get ready and get their, forty five minutes - hour prior make sure they are ready and are prepared to leave what they are doing.

Having enough of each-When you are massing make sure everyone knows what you need or they won't bother, if you need binders make sure you get enough because you don't wanna run like a monkey.

Make sure your ready!-There's nothing more stupid in telling everyone else to get ready if you havn't got ready yourself.

 

During Massing

Check peoples inventory's-Make sure everyone knows what to bring so they don't go in with like trout instead of swordfish.(Mainly applies to new people)

Staying invisible-Try make your massing spot hard to find also make sure people are not wearing robes or range gear during massing or walking up because you want them to stay alive in the war.

Lag-If they are lagging try get them to fix it like quickly restart the computer or internet. Make sure you have time though!!.

Rules-Make sure that you have clarified the rules with the clan and make sure they don't break it.

Be prompt-Make sure you are on time to the war!! Leave like 10 minutes before the war so you are on time and they can't get a A/W(autowin) for you being late.

Adrenaline-Get that fluid pumping so you are excited and ready for the war

 

During the war

Targets-Look for possible targets like binders,people taking leadership,rangers,laggers or any easy Ko's.

Anti Snipe - If anyone is sniping get rid of them so they will stop pestering members.

Watching out for members -If anyone is low hp warn them so they won't get KO'd.

Keeping Organised - Make sure everyone is what their suppose to be doing no one going rogue.

Take Charge - Call fall in's after each kill(step out and say FI so they know where you are) so they know who to attack and may get a ko instead of 1 person attacking them so they are alerted that they are being piled.

 

8. The fastest way to get supplies

 

 

Anchovie Pizza

 

Buy the anchovie pizza's from the warriors guild in Burthrope, then you fish anchovies in Draynor village and cook them the use on each other and you have a anchovie pizza.

 

Strength potion(3)

 

Simply buy from the warrior guild in Burthrope

 

Swordfish

 

Buy from the second floor legend's guild

 

9. Warring Strategies

 

9.1 Ancient Mace

 

Requirements:

Membership

Completed part of the lost tribe quest

Goblin Mace

Salve Amulet(e) Recommended

 

The goblin ancient mace is a reward from the quest the lost tribe. The special attack of this weapon is to raise your prayer by how much you hit(it can go over max). The way i will teach you will get you over 3 specials per minute instead of waiting 5-10 minutes for a bar to refill.

 

An example is this

 

 

 

Here are the basic steps to power mace speccing

 

1.Get on a members bounty hunter world(i always use 18 i don't know if the world has to be open).

2.Withdraw the mace and your max strength gear and a non combat related item like a vial,attack+strength potions are optional.

3.Go down the steps and go east and get a zombie to attack you.

4.Tap on your attack+strength prayer and spcial it quickly and turn it off again

5.Run to your appropriate crator in bounty hunter and try to go in but it will give you a message that you can't go in.

6.Your special bar will be restore and run with be 100%, repeat until you have a good enough special.

10. Credits

 

Red Fat1- Creating the guide

Dbzruler72- Typo's+rephrasing

Camtasia-Making Gif's

[bedman]

rune chainbody + green d'hide chaps is cheaper and has better def (+ same offence) as green d'hide body + rune legs.

[Ruggig]

rune chainbody + green d'hide chaps is cheaper and has better def (+ same offence) as green d'hide body + rune legs.