Stupid newbie pure question......

[Kanati]

I have been working on a range pure when I get tired of the mondain rutine with my melee character. I have only gotten to about 14 range and when I was talking to someone about having 10 defense, he told me that i messed upmy pure. That I should not have trained deffence at all. Now I don't understand this because the armor list shows that you need a defense of 10 just to wear hard leather chest. It also says you need a defense of 40 to wear dragon leather.

 

 

 

So what's the deal with pures? Why would someone say it is a mistake to train defense when it seems that some defense is needed to wear ranger clothes? Am I doing the right thing or not?

[glasscube]

Most pures dont train defence because you dont need defence for vambraces nor chaps. Usually, rangers are insanely accurate without the body help... Esspecially aganist other 1 defence pures and can be quite tiresome to fight when they have ancients and are blitzing you and running away and specing you and it justs mkaes you wanna run up drain your spec bar and laugh at them !!!

 

 

 

Anyway.. To sum it up, they dont need the defence for the extra bonuses from the body..

[Kanati]

I'm still f2p so won't have very good equipment for bow nor will I have any specials.

[glasscube]

You still wont need it, unless you plan on taking this pure to the max (Ie, level 90+ range) So i'd advise you level your attack to 40 and your strengh to something higher(55+) And use a r2h to ko.

 

 

 

And if you do plan on taking your pure past level 90 range, then id advise you getting members for it instead..

[Kanati]

You still wont need it, unless you plan on taking this pure to the max (Ie, level 90+ range) So i'd advise you level your attack to 40 and your strengh to something higher(55+) And use a r2h to ko.

 

 

 

And if you do plan on taking your pure past level 90 range, then id advise you getting members for it instead..

 

 

 

Okay, I don't think I understand your post. On a range pure wouldn't I only train range and not str or attack as they wouldn't effect my bow attacks? Also I would be using a bow and not a rune two hander. Unless I am completely missing something, that post just confussed the heck out of me.

 

 

 

My main character is probably the one I will take members. I have not made up my mind if I will take my range pure members or not. I guess it depends on the availability of money. I was pretty much set to only take one char to members. Maybe I will just take my main to members and then when he is all maxed out, retire him and take range pure members.

[glasscube]

Well, at 70 range you hit 12's with adamant arrows. Lobsters heal 12 hp. If you keep hitting 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12... Your never going to kill them unless they lag. Level 90 is 14's with adamant arrows, and the mental anguish it would take to level that on f2p on the pure no less would be extreme.

 

 

 

Now, when they're low on hp you'd need to KnockOut them. So you'd level attack to 40 to wear rune, and then you'd level strengh to like 55 or 60. Before the fight you'd drink a strengh pot. You'd do this because you want to kill them, and you cant kill them with 12's.. Unless they lag or are using trout.. But if they're using trout they are probably not pking seriously.

[Kanati]

So what is the sense of making a pure range if you have to go with sword and plate armor to make the kill?

[Joltia]

That is the point of being a 'pure', having higher hitpoints than combat. If you get defense your combat gains alot of levels, usually making it higher than your hits. Tank rangers (high def and high range, low everything else) are quite a deadly force if used correctly, you should try to make one of them.

[glasscube]

You dont go with plate armor. Honestly imo if your not gonna ko with a r2h, then mage is your only option. And most pures in f2p and p2p wildy have dhide so thats quite a waste imo.

 

 

 

And if you dont want to kill anyone and is just there to have fun(You wont really make much profit low level pure pking in edgeville) Then of course you can forget everything I said. Rangers work well in teams though, two rangers in higher level wilderness (where your enemy cant teleport) and having them constantly binded is good.

 

 

 

But if you want to kill people solo, range without koing is not the way. Pures were RSC, hybrids are RS2.