I want to ask why gloves degrade after 2 hour of combat rather than 4 said on wiki ? Was there any update or something ? Also does after EoC they got any special effects ( visible or invisible ) ?

I'm quite sure that they last for four hours :-\

 

The only effect they have is that they deflect a little bit of damage (1% I think) of the style they're strong against.

They certainly last at least four hours, mine seem to take forever to degrade; you have to remember with degrading items multi-combat makes them die faster.

 

eg

Spend 1 minute in combat with a dragon = 1 minute of degrade.

Spend 1 minute with 5 dagganoths on you = 5 minutes of degrade.

Well was doing ganodermic recently, and after 2 unicorns used they were like 98% degrade. The yellow splat attack is pretty quick, but ... its typeless damage, strange it count to this rule.

 

 

So how about special "things" provided by gloves ? Wish it isnt only those silly particles.

As Tiigon said their only special is that they reflect a little bit of damage of the type they are strong against.

 

Goliath does ranged

Spellcaster does melee

Swift does mage

 

Though of course they are the best gloves in-game stat wise, being slightly ahead of Torva/Virtus/Pernix, so unless you have many mils to get those three you wanna use dom tower gloves or face a massive downgrade.

Ok thanks for info. So they are useless on high attack rate monsters. Time then back to use subjegation gloves, +1 prayer sounds better than puny damage reflect.

The rate of attack of a single monster on you doesn't matter, so a PP scarab wont degrade if faster than say, a PP mummy. However if you have multiple enemies on you at once, thats when the gloves start to degrade faster in line with the number of enemies attacking you.

 

Still, for gloves that're basically free they're great, even without a useful effect

The rate of attack of a single monster on you doesn't matter, so a PP scarab wont degrade if faster than say, a PP mummy. However if you have multiple enemies on you at once, thats when the gloves start to degrade faster in line with the number of enemies attacking you.

 

Still, for gloves that're basically free they're great, even without a useful effect

 

Quoted for re-emphasis.

It is NOT to do with attack rate. It IS to do with how many monsters attack you.

 

The way Rs works counts each monster attacking you as an individual session of combat.

So two monsters attacking for 1 minute becomes 2 minutes of combat for the purpose of degradation.

 

If you fought Gargoyles say and it took you a minute to kill 1.

If you just fought one and killed it you'd have used up 1minute of the gloves.

If you hit 2 so they are both attacking you, took 1 minute to kill the first and a further minute to kill the second. Rs would count you as being in combat for 1 minute with the first gargoyle and 2 minutes with the second gargoyle resulting in 3 minutes of combat (1+2) for the 2 minutes you spent fighting.

Say you did the same as above but with 5 gargoyles. You would spend 5 minutes fighting them, but gargoyle one would be 1 minute of combat, 2nd 2 mins and 3, 4 and 5 minutes for the 3rd 4th and 5th. This would mean 15 minutes of combat are taken from your gloves (1+2+3+4+5) for the 5 minutes of real time.

 

Its just a case of remembering 1 monster = 1 combat session and each combat session counts time independently even if they overlap meaning several 'combat minutes' can pass in a single real time minute.

 

You can substitute Gargoyle for any monster you like, regardless of their attack speed; it is specifically having multiple monsters attack you at once that eats up a lot of time.