Level 3 Defender here.. tried it last night. Out about 6 to 7 hours of it.. this is my opinion on it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attacker - The EASIEST class to play. Attack stuff and use the horn when neccessary to update the healer.. it can't be any much simpler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collector - Second to easiest. Has to collect eggs, fill them in a cannon and let others/or himself pound stuff to hell. One of the more vital roles in the game, however, because the cannon can take out any creature. Without it, you would only have healers killing peneance healers and defenders killing runners. Nice to have a cannon as backup when others are already finished with their role.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healer - Third place in management. Pretty hard to manage though. You have to Heal your party members, not to mention find them first. Keep your vial filled at all times and call out information to the defender and take out the penance healers. I believe Jagex put alot at stake on here.. but at the same time, the penance healers can be killed last.. so there is no rush to kill them. So if you consider that, you only have to heal and call out information, and then when all monsters are dead, tackle the penance healers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Defender - The hardest mangament and most unenjoyable roles. Lure Runers, Fixing Traps, and Barricades. This is the hardest role to play, but I am starting to enjoy it strangely. Lure Runers is not easy. They don't follow your drops items 100% of the time, its more like 50-50. The trap breaks only after 2 kills so you find yourself running for more wood/logs. Then you have to update the healer and barricade the walls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On a personal note, I stop barricading because they are "timed" barricades. After you put them up, they are destroyed automaticly after 30 seconds and a monster spawns instantly, making it quite useless. There should be "phases" in which the barricade is about to break and you can strengthin it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So out of all the roles, it seems that its a 2 way catch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attacker Informs Collector and Collector informs Attack.

 

 

 

Healer Informs Defender and Defender informs Healer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attacker and Collectors has it easiest. They do not have heavy management as a Healer or a Defender.. yet most teams consist of having 2 Attackers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is not a time based game. You do not lose points for finish 1 hour later or gain points for finishing too fast. So its best to have 1 extra person take off management in the healer or defender class instead of attacker or collector.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my personal opinion, I believe most games except the very last one should consist of 2 Defenders at all times. I say this because the Healer is not at a lost. All he has to do the whole round is heal people.. and then kill the penance healers last with updates from the Defender.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Defender however.. has a hard role. He must get constant feed back from the Healer or he cannot successfully lure.. You may think this is not a hard thing right? Wrong. Even when you use the correct bait to lure.. they don't always take it. They walk closer and closer to the exit while your screaming and pulling out your hair saying "TAKE IT YOU STUPID RUNNER MORN!! AGHGHH".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then there is times when you do lure them successfuly close to the traps.. only for the bait to change and the healer not to update the information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now try doing this with only 1 Defender and 4 Runners on the field.. your team is going to lose points!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So it is my suggestion that all teams get 2 defenders. They can either both lure together.. or 1 can barricade up while the other lures, making sure that not to many runers are present.. or 1 can fix stuff while the other lures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talk about your BA experiences and your role here.. and what difficulities you find with your task or others!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Defender~

Healer is the easiest then Attacker than collecter than defender. Imo

How can the healer be easier than a attacker?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attacker has to kill stuff and update the collector.. thats 2 roles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healer has to kill Penance Healers, Heal People, Update Defender which is 3 roles. Not to mention the trouble actually finding the people to heal them and running back and forth filling up viles. They have a much more management role than a attacker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Defender~

I'm good at any role other then healer :lol: . Trojann can tell you all about that :wink: .

i too am a defender... proud lvl 3!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it is sooooooo hard to lure those runners.... between yelling to the healers and fixing the traps and getting more bait... i dont have any time to fix the baricades, thus swamping me with even more work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the only exception to the 2 defenders part is the queen... on the queen, there needs to be 2 healers... this is a must... even at lvl 90+.... it seems the queen hits with a magic attack, similar to that of the evil chicken that almost always hits for some damage....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so... your rating stands to reason in my book.

Collector is easier than attacker. Collectors aren't even needed.

I thought of a idea.. but its so well thought out, it voids out 90% of the RS Population and can only be used by Guilds and TeamPlayers who work well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I say this simpley because you can only imagine how to explain this to someone..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I call this role the "Communicator". The communicator can play any role.. Attacker, Defender, Collector.. or Healer, but only because he or she will not be playing that role.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead, they go to the Horn of Glory, and their position is to give all 4 positions the details on what they are suppose to do. This leaves the 4 guys in the battlefield constantly updated.. and no need to blow their own horn because the communicator is handling that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Defender~

Aha, I agree wholeheartedly about Defender being the hardest position to play, especially when you have a bad healer who doesn't call out the things I need to drop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of the times, whenever I'm playing as Defender, I'll be left standing right by a trap with 2-3 Runners doing nothing right besides me, waiting for my durn Healer to tell me what to drop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bah, but despite all that, I still love being a Defender :XD:

Thats the dangerious thing about being a Defender.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healers are embewed with heavy mangament and easily forget to update the Defender.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Defenders is COMPLETELY useless inless you get the update information!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pennance healers can be killed as the last bosses but runners.. well.. make a run for it! And your only way of stopping them is luring with the right bait.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only thing you can do is when your healers are not updating you is try to lure them with bad food.. but if they eat it, they say "bluggh" and start to ignore your drops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Defender~

Ohmigosh, I now lost any reason for me to play this game, I think I'll stick to barrows, but the Healer role does sound interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Saruman44

i have only played attack so far ~level 4~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

healer is fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

collector is easy, he only needs to collect since the attcker and get the style right without instructions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

defender is insanely demanding

Defender really isn't that tough...you can try out food even if you don't get the info, it's really a 50/50 chance. And if you're doing it correctly they do usually go to the food. Usually. Sometimes I hate those stupid runners.

I've had annoyed healers tell me I fight too much and am overworking them. I suppose that means I am a good attacker!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just shout out the egg color to the collector and run out to fight as much as possible. I use a whip and a dragon dagger (p++) only.

Defender really isn't that tough...you can try out food even if you don't get the info, it's really a 50/50 chance. And if you're doing it correctly they do usually go to the food. Usually. Sometimes I hate those stupid runners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

seeing as there are 3 different bait drops... it would technically be a 33.33% chance to get it right... just pointing that out.

Well maybe the first time, but after the first time I'm assuming you figured out what the correct food was, so then it's one of the other two foods the next time.

No, actually its still a 50-50 Chance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Usually the healer when very first starting gives you the correct food. After the update, its not going to be the same food type, so you have 2 other choices, making it 50-50.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you find the correct one, "which you should, because if the monster says "bluggh" you know its the other food type", then its another 50-50 chance after the update again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Defender~

Im a very good healer though when it comes to wave 10 its the hardest job ever

almost every group i join says i'm an awsome collecter :

I'm good at any role other then healer :lol: . Trojann can tell you all about that :wink: .

 

 

 

I'm the opposite :lol: . I tried Attacker once, man was that a bad game. All the monsters were basically left at the end :lol: .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Defender, meh, not great at it. Havn't tried Collecter. I bet I could do that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As of now, I have lvl 5 healer, and 35 points in everything else because of queen kills :lol: .

From easy to hard:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attacker-Collector-Healer-Defender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As a collector I never stand still and rarely have to fire the cannons abd I also call the attack styles as fast as I can. I think this makes me a good collector 8-) .

i did the healer role fine till: someone lvl 33 joined (im not the captain)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in wave 10!! :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i sad then we need another healer and we had one lvl 1... stupid :XD:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then the second healer died i hate it...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but im also a good collector and atk but i hadnt got any good wapon :(

when comparing somethign atleast say the correct info...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the attacker informs the collector

 

 

 

the defender notifies the healer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

healer is easiest because being attacker you get penaltys for attacking using the wrong style and healer you only do with giving the food to enemy healers but you dont for healing people and healing people can get alot of points for high waves... collector 2nd easiest i believe because well its just that simple.....and then attacker and defender

Attacker isn't as easy as it sounds...

 

 

 

In later stages you are completely SWARMED by monsters, you have to switch attack styles every minute or else you get hit for 2 every time you attack, your poisoned almost the whole time, and on top of all this you have to give commands to the COLLECTER (Not healer, you obviously haven't even done this role). Please, don't say it's easy if you've never done it.

def <3 currently lvl 3 but soon to be lvl 5 played a couple games with mr s scope and timesoutmad and about 1000 other tifers play world 99 please!!!lots of tifers there \ :XD:

I like all the roles but def, i did def once... used cannon to finish off runners, prolly cuz healer didnt keep me updated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currently lvl3 healer lvl3 atacker lvl2 collector lvl1 def \ and thats only for playing for 2 days, beaten queen 5 times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i love doing healer and attacker, especially attacker because you get free runes to use! jsut bring an air staff and mage robes and mage the monsters ;) (free mage exp ftw). But what i find weird is if you melee or range you dont get exp for those... i think you should get exp like cws :-k.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dunno who said to have 2 def for wave 10... you definatly need 2 healers. I was on a team with 2 attackers 1 def 1 collector and me as a healer(was lvl3 healer) it did help i could heal 20 hitpoints for each dose of the vial.. But once everyone did there job we were by the pool. I had to kill 2 healers but i couldnt leave my teammates because of the queens attackes. i would run out and try to kill the penances healers... but... by the time i would get back for supplies everyone would be low on hp and i''d hv to mad heal. Lets just say we eventually got another healer :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collector is fun, run around get eggs, load cannon than shoot monsters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

well thats all just my opinion :P