Combat (Pre-Refactor)

Combat UI

Combat is a game-play mechanic where players fight enemies located within increasingly more difficult zones. A beginner guide on combat can be found in the combat guide.

There are 4 skills to level in combat; constitution, attack, strength, and defense.

Zones

There are currently 7 zones; Farm, Caves, City, Lava Maze, Valley of Giants, Living Forest, and Deep Pit.

Locations

Zone	Lowest Recommended Combat Lvls	Lowest Recommended Gear
Farm	1 - 20	None - Bronze
Caves	10 - 30	Bronze - Iron
City	20 - 60	Iron - Adamantite
Deep Pit *	50 - 60	Adamantite - Runite
Living Forest *	50 - 60	Adamantite - Runite
Lava Maze	60 - 80	Adamantite - Runite
Valley of Giants	80 - 99	Runite - Stygian

Zones marked with * are special combat areas

Encounter table

Zones	Monster	Encounter Rate	HP
Deep Pit	Greater Demon	100%	89
Living Forest	Spriggan	100%	75
Farm	Chicken	30%	3
	Rat	30%	2
	Cow	30%	8
	Goblin	10%	5
Caves	Goblin	45%	5
Caves	Imp / Greater Imp	55%	10
City	Guard	80%	22
City	Black Knight	20%	42
Lava Maze	Deadly Red Spider	40%	35
Lava Maze	Lesser demon	60%	81
Valley of Giants	Fire Giant	33%	130
	Moss Giant	33%	150
	Ice Giant	33%	160

Special combat areas include the Foraging zone Living Forest, and the Mining zone Deep Pit, where you may randomly encounter Spriggans or Greater Demons respectively. Players may not run from these encounters, and failing results in a 15 minute lockout timer before they can access that zone again.

Combat Experience

Players gain combat skill experience when dealing damage; 2 experience in the selected combat skill and 1 experience in Constitution per damage dealt. When fighting in a balanced stance, each skill gains 2/3 of an experience per point of damage.

Death

Death occurs when a player's Hitpoints reach zero. The preceding action will be cancelled and the player returns to idling.

Health slowly regenerates on its own. Dying will not result in the loss of exp/items/gold etc.

Skills

Constitution

Constitution is the skill that determines a player's maximum hitpoints (HP). The amount of health left can be seen next to the heart icon in the combat page.

Food can restore health inside or outside of battle, and can provide buffs to combat for a short time. It is not recommended to use high healing food at a low constitution level because auto-eat will not trigger.

Attack

Attack is the skill that determines a player's hit chance.

Strength

Strength is the skill that contributes to your maximum damage per hit, along with a player's melee strength bonus.

Defense

Defense is the skill that determines a player's dodge chance.

Stats

There are various stats that can affect combat. These stats are determined by a player's equipment (armor and weapon), though do note that player levels contribute to stats far more than equipment.

Accuracy

Accuracy from equipment determines the hit rate along with attack level. Keep in mind that the hit chance is also determined by an enemy's defense toward your attack type.

Strength

Strength from equipment determines the maximum damage you can deal along with strength level. The damage you deal can also be affected by enchantments such as critical strike, patience, and recklessness. Keep in mind that patience and recklessness adds to both the minimum and maximum damage while strength only adds to the maximum damage.

Max hit can be calculated with the following formula:

$MaxHit={\Biggl \lfloor }1.3+{\frac {StrengthLevel}{10}}+{\frac {StrengthBonus}{80}}+{\frac {StrengthLevel\times StrengthBonus}{640}}{\Biggr \rfloor }$

Defense

Defense from equipment and bonuses determine the dodge rate along with defense level. Keep in mind that dodge chance is also determined by enemy's attack and your defense to their attack type.

Attack Type

There are three attack types (slash, stab, crush) which is determined by the weapon you use (bare hands are considered crush). Attack type determines the type of defense the enemy uses. This can be important since some enemies are weak to one type of attack, making it easier to hit if that type of attack is used. E.g. all giants are weak to crush, making battleaxes effective weapons to use.

Attack Speed

Attack speed is a stat that determines the amount of time between attacks. The attack speed differs with every weapon type, with the exception of Zero Edge which has a 2s attack speed instead of 2.4s. A faster attack speed isn't necessarily better because of the patience enchantment, which makes slow weapons hit harder.

Enchantments


Enchantment	Applicable to	Effect
Nimble	Food	Increases defense for a short time. Each level of Nimble increases your effective defense level by 3. Eating food with spider legs as an ingredient will grant this buff; a popular recipe is 5 spider legs.
Demon Skin	Food	Reduces all damage taken in combat by the level of the demon skin. This only affects combat, so if consumed while out of combat there will be no effect. If you stop fighting, the buff disappears. It can be created by cooking food with Ichor; an example is 4 apples and 1 Ichor. Stacks are not consumed if the monster hits a 0.
Overhealing	Weapon	Heals 1% per level of overkill damage dealt, rounded down. It is best used on a higher hitting weapon since greater overkill provides more healing.
Critical Strike	Weapon	Increases critical strike chance by 5%, which multiplies the damage dealt on hit by 1.4. It is best used on a higher hitting weapon since it's multiplicative and not addative.
Accuracy	Weapon	Increases weapon accuracy. Recommended for higher combat zones for players with a low attack level.
Recklessness	Helmet, Body, Legs	Increases damage dealt by 1 per level. This is added last. You will still be able to hit zeroes.
Patience	Body, Legs	Increases maximum damage. The lower the attack speed of the weapon, the higher the increase. Max damage is still increased on weapons with a 2s attack speed. This damage is added after critical strike, but before recklessness.
Healing	Shield	Increases health regeneration rate.
Weakening	Everything	Decreases the level requirements of equipment by 5 per enchantment level. This should only be added to high level equipment, since it would be more effective to simply gain levels instead of using them on lower level equipment.
Reinforcement	Armor	Decreases enemy accuracy by 5% per enchantment level. This enchantment is stronger than Protection.
Protection	Armor	Reduces all damage taken by 4% per enchantment level.