The Official Combat Beta Thread

I just might have to

As far as pures go, I believe that Jagex do wish to prevent people from creating accounts like that in the future, and want to focus instead on encouraging people to FULLY train their accounts in all aspects of combat - including their defence levels.

My prediction is that some of the current types of pures will die, or become useless (like the original 1 defence pures). But it won't be long before people find ways to exploit the new combat system again, and create new types of pures with specific purposes - particularly characters engineered to be PVP machines. There will likely always be a way to create characters that are designed to give the illusion of weaknesses or a low combat level, but are able to deliver extremely high amounts of damage in a short period of time.

 

Updated with the new Og Blog: http://services.runescape.com/m=news/og-blog-tradition-and-challenge

Looks like I'm going to be level 200 combat now.

 

The way this new combat system works seems weird to me. A fully maxed out pure, will be the same combat as a 99 Strenght pure with no other stats whatsoever. No way in hell, that that could ever be a fair fight.

 

It sounds like with the new formula, accounts like maxed ranged tanks (with no other 99's) are going to be the exact same combat as a maxed main (all 99's). Weird.

 

Is this new combat update really going to disadvantage pures at all? I don't see how really, they will only be an even lower combat considering Defence now plays a bigger role.

 

I think the way they are designing it will make it so that armour, weapons, and gear play a large roll in combat and in your strength and ability to fight other opponents.

Somebody posted this on the RS forums:

In the above scenario, the level 102 with no defence would shred the account with 50 defence up (with the current system, at least). But it will be interesting to see how the 2 characters would match up with the new system.

I've read that defence is supposed to come with certain types of "abilities", and that there may possibly be life boosting effects of different types of armours, etc. I am guessing that with the new system, the accounts with the lower stats (but with defence) might have some extra abilities or LP bonuses that will help it be able to hold its own in a fight with the pure account.

This is all speculation btw and based on things that I've "heard", but I am not really informed on these matters and have only been following them very lightly. Either way, I think it is going to be very interesting.

 

Sounds like they are trying to cover their butts by saying 'We're going to really screw up the market - just warning you now.'

 

MUCH WIN WILL BE HAD! (This pretty much opens up the door to more pking in the wilderness)

What do you guys think? What are you going to do with this new max combat level?

 

Quite the opposite. Hello maxed pures that will be fighting mains with 50's stats.

This is going to be soooooo much fun, now I can finally get Turmoil without worrying how it'll affect my combat level

 

Ye I chose a good time to get pray up atm, once the combat rework if its like this prayer might become more desirable as a pker.

It's going to be similar to other MMOs where at maxed combat your skill is more gear dependant.

 

So cool awesome thread man

 

I'm about to kill myself over it, I could have saved like 20m on d bones :/

 

As did I. I've been finishing up my prayer the past few days. 52-92 and should be 99 by Friday.

 

do you guys think they will somehow nerf the effects of divine/ely? what about nex armours?

 

Looks like Summoning Tanks will be more useful than previously. Also looks like Alching will be a lot less desirable way to train Magic as no HP training from it.
Also looks like Obby Maulers will be useless.

If anything they will increase the effectiveness of the nex armour as I'm pretty sure they stated previously that they are looking to have even more armours that boost HP

 

They are increasing the HP boost for all armours, there might be a chance they dont update the Nex armours. In this case, it will make nex armours less desirable

 

Thanks man!

I know Jagex has warned that this update would likely affect the price of many items. How badly has it affected Dragon/Frost dragon bones??

I haven't played RuneScape for 2 months, but right before I left I was in the middle of getting 99 prayer. I am like 500k from 98 at the moment I believe, and if Dragon bones are very cheap right now I just may take advantage of that right now while I can.

 

Wow so all 99's xept defense = 102 combat....

thats fucking epic..gg jagex

 

This is going to suck big time for the likes of Life Hated and all others who have combat level 1 accounts currently.

 

sooo level 1s and 9hp's are fucked?