Well first off i'd like to say that this is my first post, so if I did anything wrong, please point it out to me. On to my question. I've pked on a few f2p and p2p pures before, none being extremely successful, so i was wondering weather this tank is a good idea or not. I've seen many people and watched many fights that included range tanks and other pkers and the tank always won. I recently made a dark bow pure which i really didn't like, so I thought I would just train ranged and defence to make it a tank. I've read up on a few of the other guides out on the internet and they say different things. Some say that you should get your defence to 40 for rune while others suggest getting it to 99. Some suggest prayer, others do not. As of last night, my dark bow pure has 65 ranged and 54 constituition with all other levels at one. Should I focus on training ranged right now or defence? Also, I have about 3-4m to use on this account.

Are you using the dark bow the whole time, or just the spec?

I would usually use rune knifes until low-medium health and then spec with the dark bow. Got me a few kills but the only loot I was getting was magic shortbows. No other dark bow pure would be skulled.

Yeah, you'll find a lot of people will not skull. Really annoying tbh. You may want to look around on the internet at the different types of pure. Prayers are really useful imo, but be sure to not get useless cb levels from unnecessary pray.

Yeah, I mean, I skulled, I died a few times, lost a few dark bows, but I think it was more fair that way. IMO you cant pk unless you're willing to skull and lose everything. Kids just don't get that these days. But yeah, prayer is extremely useful but because i'm fairly new to pking, I just wanted to make sure.

It's mostly personal preference as to what defense level you want to get. Keep in mind the combat level you'll be getting when you're maxed.

 

I don't really consider 40 def range tank actual tanks. They're more-so rune pures with 99 range and poor melee stats.

 

I'd suggest 42 defense as a minimum so you can use void. But honestly i'd really suggest 80 - 99 so you can actually tank. But keep in mind that you'll be facing turmoil zerkers, and while they don't hit on you much, you don't have much K0 potential either. I've fought plenty of tanks on my turmoiler and it's basically just a stall battle until they run me out of food or i get a lucky rapier/maul+dds/gmaul combo.

 

Lastly, range is vastly under-powered past 80 - 90 combat. You're best calling yourself a mage tank and polyporing people.

My only problem with doing a mage tank is the cost. I only have like 4m to blow and I didn't think that would be anywhere near enough.