Power ammy vs. str ammy (f2p)

[un4given]

Which is better to use when melee training/pking on f2p?

[Intriguing]

I'd go power, but it depends on what you're after. If you're fighting something really easy but with lots of hp, strength, otherwise, probably power.

[jemathonical]

pking strength ammy

 

 

 

training power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It depends though, if your training strength, use strength

[yuaskk]

i'd go with power all the times. they give all 3 boost a little. thats better than getting only 1 stat a huge boost, isn't it?

[ddaanniiellh]

well depending what you're training on, if you can kill the thing 1 hit, then use the strength amulet, for higher level creatures the power amulets.

 

 

 

~Ddaanniiellh

[aznmidget448]

It depends a lot on what your defense is and what you're killing when you're training. I usually go with strength ammy though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For pking, definitely strength ammy.

[TheAncient]

I'm surprised; most people are to some degree wrong here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It should be PKing/Power, Training/Ruby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For PKing on F2P, it makes a huge difference to be hitting often instead of hitting high. +6 attack may get you an extra hit on your opponent. An extra +4 (Ruby str bonus compared to Power str bonus) will only deal, on average, .5 extra damage per hit (you're not hitting much anyway). The +6 defense is also important while PKing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For training, let us use the following example.

 

 

 

You're testing out both ammies for 100 damage-rounds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With power: Assume you hit 93% of the time. Also assume your maximum damage is 16. Therefore your average hit will be 8.

 

 

 

With strength: Assume you hit 90% of the time. Also assume your maximum damage is 17. Therefore your average hit will be 8.5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With power: 93%(100) = 93 hits. 93 hits x 8 damage/hit = 744 damage.

 

 

 

With strength: 90%(100) = 90 hits. 90 x 8.5/hit = 765.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:)

[Lunar_Drifter]

Actually, for training I would say a defense amulet if you have a 1-defense pure. I tried both ways on my melee pure, and the defense won me over by far. With a strength amulet, I would go through all my food before I had a full load of herbs (against thugs). With defense, I ended up having to eat my food to make room... so I'd say defense for training, and what you use whilst PKing is up to you.

[Goobore]

Which is better to use when melee training/pking on f2p?

 

 

 

For training I normally use a Power ammy along with the

 

 

 

4 dose F2P Strength potion that you can have made for 5 gp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Give red spider eggs (ground spawn in Varrock sewers and under the Karamja volcano)

 

 

 

and Limpwort root (drop from Hobgoblins and others)

 

 

 

along with 5 gp to the apothecary in Varrock to get the potion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope this helps.