Mage boxing thoughts

Random rambling on mage boxing:

So, I've been doing some mage boxing lately, and it has become clear that people use different ancients spells due to different accuracy and at different points in the duel.

Let's assume level 138s are dueling (All 99 stats). The only stats which matter for this duel will be Constitution, Magic, and Defense. Ideally, you could have these stats and be only level 97, but we'll use the maxed 138s in this example.

So, the duel starts. Which is the ideal spell to use?

There seem to be two obvious choices: Shadow Barrage & Smoke Barrage.

Shadow: Hits high and is accurate.
Smoke barrage: Hits medium, is very accurate, and has a chance to poison.

The reason you don't cast blood barrage first is because it's not accurate and you're already at max constitution.

But which of these is better? The question could be solved by some mathematics. One could in principle go to the duel arena, cast both spells 200-300 times on a target with 99 defense and magic, measure accuracy and damage rate of both spells, and factor in poison rate and poison damage. This should be tested to give a better idea of which spell really has the edge.

The duel continues. Which spell is ideal to use in the duration of the duel?

It seems like it might be blood barrage, because that restores HP. But blood barrage isn't very accurate. Would using blood blitz be better? After all blood blitz also restores health, and appears to be more accurate than blood barrage.

My hypothesis would be that using blood blitz when you are ahead in HP during the duel would allow you to secure a victory more easily. Why? Because when you're ahead in HP, you have to focus on maintaining your lead. The best way to do this would be to accurately recover HP and hit your opponent accurately. Perhaps my reasoning isn't correct here, but again some testing of damage rates and HP recovery at the duel arena would help to prove which spell is better.

Why go through all this? Because a mathematical formulation of the ideal theoretical spell to use in the duel arena would give you a slight edge over your opponents. And perhaps that could make the difference between being cleaned and earning billions.

Anyway, sorry for rambling. Was just curious to hear other people's opinions on this.

 

well obviously yea that makes sense but who's gonna go into duel arena and cast each spell 500 times and record data? I'm sure someone will...... lol

 

Always Shadow Barrage first.
Smoke Barrage to get K0s.
Blood Barrage for anything else.

 

Shadow barrage to open, when far ahead shadow barrage.

Blood barrage rest.

 

thanks mate, i am just starting out mage boxing on my pure myself. Same process for pures yeah?

 

I assume so; its best if you find your own method but always start out with shadow.

 

Hmm, this is a great example on how to mage box. I might try this out soon. Hope I can win alot of money

 

Nice guide, and yes I belive that blood blitz is more acurate and still heals a nice ammount, I've won a ton of rsgp this way while mage boxing using shadow barrage at first then blood blitzing the rest untill i know i have a nice lead then i might throw in another one or two shadow or smoke barrage then start blood blitzing again to gain hp for the ammount I had lost.

 

Mage boxing sounds interesting now.