RuneScape F2P and P2p Pvp/pking Guide

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You ever wanted to learn how to pk well? Maybe once you went to a pvp or bounty world and got owned as some noob near you level starts to quickly KO you. Watched a video of those legendary pkers such as Ranginghero4? Here’s a guide on how to do it in both free worlds and members’ worlds! In this guide, you will learn about pking and

As you’re very well aware, main accounts are better suited to killing monsters and getting all stats up rather than killing other players near their combat level who may have much higher offensive stats. These players, called pures, were specially created and trained to have low or no defence and high range, attack, and strength.

But we’re not going to create a new account and train everything but defence. Defence helps monsters hit you less, enabling you to eat less often, bank less often, and kill more monsters when training. So training a pure is harder than you think. They get hit a LOT with only 1 defence so they have a much harder time training than normal players with at least 70 defence.

But even though pures are theoretically more powerful as pkers, there are several reasons why you shouldn’t use one. The majority of pures tend to be low leveled, around the bare minimum of 20 combat up to 60-70. But just about EVERY pker out there in that level range is ALSO a pure, which means the only people you fight are pures. So basically you create a pure for the sake of fighting other pures. Since they’re low leveled in defence, they don’t (and can’t) wear any armor better than leather body and green d’hide chaps in both free-to-play and members. The loot is horrible. Everyone uses the same strategy to pk: range/2h in f2p, shoot enchanted diamond and dragon bolts in p2p. Seems pretty boring, huh?

As a result, the only good kind of pking is up in the 80+s on main accounts only. The majority of players there have at least 60-70 defence and do not drop bs when they die.

Free-to-play Pking

General Information

I don’t suggest pvp worlds at all for f2p pking; with the new bounty worlds, no one goes to pvp worlds anymore. Also never go to +1 bounty worlds because it’s full of 1 itemers and you wouldn’t want to deal with them just to protect a rune 2h. Besides, the less you’re risking, the worse your loot is.

Rune scims are not accurate or strong enough to hit high through full rune. All high level free players no arm, or wear monk robes and try to kill each other rather than battering pointlessly against rune armor. Wear monk robes, coif, leather gloves or green d’hide vambs, leather boots, any team cape, strength amulet, and a rune scim. In your inventory bring a rune 2h, strength potion, and the rest of the spots with swordfish and lobsters.  If you’re planning to pk a lot, keep several sets of weapons, monk robes, potions, and food to replenish if you die. Also have a set of full rune (use explained later). Set your quick prayers to incredible reflexes and ultimate strength.

Where you pk in bounty worlds is dependent on your combat level. 99% of people in a bounty world will be pking in the wilderness levels 1-5 north of edgeville and the monastery, where it is single combat and close to the bank and other players. Do not go east of River Lum or anywhere too far north of it, the multicombat areas mean you may get piled by teams of 10+ people. So the area north of Edgeville is where all pures pk. As a general rule of thumb, the lower level you are, the more east you go, with the lowest levels being right next to the river. You’ll see a lot of nooby pures there; the crowding might cause lag. 90+s are mostly north of the monastery. Most of them are not pures and have around 70 defence.

Pking

So hopefully you have some E.P., which stands for earned potential. 25% is gained by being in a pvp zone (anywhere with a flaming skull) for 30 minutes. It’s the factor that helps you get good drops. At 0 ep you will still get better drops from killing people risking at least 25k than you would from killing a 0 itemer but it’s stuff like green d’hide vambs so don’t pk and risk your money at 0 ep. Instead, get out your full rune and rest in a pvp zone until you gain ep. If you want to, you can do something productive while you wait, such as high alch or curse/wind strike one of the rams across the wilderness ditch.

Anyways, with some ep, right-click and walk around, find someone who isn’t wearing armor other than robes and is within 3 levels of you. Look them up on the high scores, and see if their strength or ranged level is unusually high for their level. If it’s around or lower than your strength level, then follow that person and ask “Fight?”. They may ask you for your strength level. In that case, quick chat it out. Do not lie about it! They will see through your lie and will probably be looking you up, then calling you a noob. So don’t lie. If they accept the fight, walk north enough so you can attack each other, drink a strength potion, and attack. If someone else challenges you look their strength up if they have a scim and range if they have a bow. Decide if you want to fight them.

Activate your quick prayers so you hit harder. Even when no arming, you still miss an opponent with 70 def a lot. Let the fight go on, watching as your character deals and receives lots of damage. When your character hits hard and brings your opponent’s health bar to about 1/8 (the less bar left, the better), click on the rune 2h and click on your opponent. If you’re lucky, the 2h will also hit hard and your opponent will die. But pking isn’t that easy. More likely, your opponent won’t die and will continue eating until they aren’t in danger anymore, then resume attacking you. In that case, if the 2h didn’t kill them, immediately switch your quick prayers off to conserve prayer and change your weapon back to the scim. When the scim is about to attack again switch your quick prayers on.

Now a good rule of thumb regarding when YOU eat is dependent on your opponent’s max hit. Eat at or below their max hit with 2h. At 85 strength it’s 26, 91 str is 29, etc. If you appear to eat at too high hp (such as 1/3 of the hp bar) other people will start calling you a safer and start eating at high hp themselves or running from the fight. You would generally eat at higher hp on a strength pure because they can hit up to 31, and level 99 rangers can range/2h, with the 2h being a near-instant hit. For example, if you’re at 35 hp, you wouldn’t eat. But the ranger hits a 15 and you’re down to 20 hp, and they hit a 20 with 2h before you’ve had a chance to eat. You need good reflexes to survive range/2hers. Another case is if some melee person keeps hitting high 20s with their scim. When their 2h fails to kill you, and you’re left at like 3 hp, keep eating until your hp is back up to 30 and attack them again. Also, when eating, make sure you turn your quick prayers off because you won’t be attacking your opponent as you eat.

Sometimes, during the heat of battle, you may want to take risks. Both of you might hit hard and bring each other down to around 10 hp. Instead of eating, you may want to pull out the 2h and try to finish them off because they won’t be able to hurt you if they die. If they also take the 2h out, and they had hit you first with the scim, then you can either take the risk and let them hit you first (hoping that they don’t kill you) and then hit them, or eat instead and go back to a scim. But if you had hit first and both of you take out 2h, then you will also strike first with the 2h and possibly kill them. It’s possible to eat instantly after you strike by clicking on food right when you see the 2h animation. This is useful when you didn’t kill your opponent and they 2h you. You’ll have a better chance of surviving.

One example of such a risk is when I was fighting Ranginghero4. I didn’t have a video of it, but we both hit hard, I got him to 10 hp, I was at 24. We both took out the 2h, but he struck first, hitting a 20. I hoped to hit him for a 10 and kill him but that noob unfairly ate anyways (like I described above) and I hit a 24, killing him. Talk about an epic fight!

Here’s a video of my first kill of Ranginghero4. If you don’t know him, look up his channel on Youtube. I know I safed a bit but you can’t blame me, he’s got 99 strength and attack! He killed me a total of 3 times later as revenge.

So if you manage to kill someone, congratulations! As they’re falling to the ground, type “Gf” or if they were being a noob then “gf noob”. Gf stands for good fight. If no one else did more damage to them before you fought them, and they didn’t get glitched (you only see bones as your loot, opponent can run back and pick up ALL of their lost items off the ground), you get the loot and lose some EP. It’s composed of rune armor/weapons, runes, strength potions, food, ancient artifacts, and some other items that were in your opponent’s inventory.

Rune Pures

The only possible pure (other than 1 def, 99 everything else) at level 90+ is a rune pure. They have 40 defence and invest the rest of their time into high range, 99 strength, and high attack and are very deadly. The purpose of the 40 defence, as their name suggests, is to wear rune armor so they don’t get owned by everyone, and because getting 40 defence increases their combat level up to a point where other pures are obsolete and only 60-70 defence accounts exist.

Members’ Pking

Most of the time members fight with at least rune armor on. Their weapons (such as dragon scimitar, whip, and godswords) are accurate enough to hit often through full rune. Members are higher level than f2pers so where you fight in bounty worlds is different. Most of the time you can find anyone near you level spread out the entire single combat zone north of monastery and edgeville, wilderness level 1-5.

Pvp worlds are a good option for members. Many skilling areas, such as trees, are extremely populated on normal worlds and it’s hard to train well. Some people who are confident will go to pvp worlds to train on the resources, because most people are scared of dying. So you can go to places you think people might go to get resources, such as the yew and magic trees near Camelot and the Sorcerer’s Tower, and attack anyone skilling there. I didn’t suggest this for f2p worlds because most skillers are wearing full rune and it’s hard to hurt them.

Read the next 2 sections below for information on what to wear and strategy. Like f2p, gain some EP, find someone near your level to fight, look them up, decide if you want to fight them, and if yes then ask them politely. Drink your potions and fight.

Since members are so much deadlier, they tend to eat at higher hp too so don’t be worried if you opponent safes by the f2p definition cause that’s probably not safing to members. Anyways, once you’ve killed your opponent congratulations! The loot you get from members’ pvp is usually MUCH worse than what they lost. Sometimes it’s as bad as a few rune thrownaxes and potatoes with cheese. It’s probably a trade-off to balance the special corrupt stuff you get 1 in a million kills.

Melee

What to wear: helm of neitiznot (or rune full helm or sacred clay helm), amulet of glory, rune platebody (or sacred body), rune platelegs (or sacred clay legs), rune boots (or climbing), recipe for disaster gloves, ring of life, a team cape to left click other people (or legends cape if you have one), rune kiteshield, and a weapon of your choice, preferably dragon scimitar if you’re in a 0 item world or whip/godsword if you’re in 1 item world.

In your inventory bring a dragon dagger (p++), but if you have dragon claws then go to a 1 item world and bring the claws, but for your main weapon use a dragon scim, not a whip or godsword. Also bring 3 super potions: strength, attack, and defence. If you want, include a prayer potion. For food bring sharks. The new rockfish are way too expensive. Set your quick prayers to ultimate strength and incredible reflexes. If your prayer is high enough and you have done the required quests, you can set your prayers to chivalry or piety.

When fighting, turn on your quick prayers. There are several strategies to fight with. Most methods involve switching weapons and using its special attack to finish. To make sure you can spec as your next hit after switching the weapon, and not accidentally hit your opponent with the normal attack, right-click and switch to the desired finisher weapon, press F5 on your keyboard while simultaneously moving your mouse down to the special attack bar, and click it.

Vengeance is a high leveled lunar spell that inflicts 75% of one of your opponent’s hits back at them. If you have high enough magic to cast it, it will activate as soon as your opponent hits more than 0 damage on you and you will shout “Taste vengeance!”. A good use for it, like in some high leveled members’ pk vids, is when you and your opponent are on low hp. You cast vengeance and continue to attack them, and both of you hit hard. But your opponent gets an extra hit 75% of how much they hit on you, and that’s a good chance to take out your finisher weapon if they haven’t died yet.

Strategies:

• In a 0 item world, fight with a dragon scimitar and when their health is low, switch to a dragon dagger (p++) and spec them 4 times using the method above.
• For 1 item worlds, get a whip and a dds and use the whip to hurt them and the dds to finish them. If the specs don’t kill them, keep whipping them to death.
• Another strategy is dragon scimitar and dragon claws in 1 item world, with the claws as a finisher.
• Godswords: you can use a dragon scimitar to deal most of the damage in a 1 item world, and surprise them with a godsword as a finisher. Kind of like f2p melee fighting, except with much stronger weapons. Or most people just take a godsword and whack their opponent to death, because the godsword itself is so strong and accurate. If you’re using bandos godsword, activate the spec as soon as the fight starts and hope it hits, decreasing your opponent’s defence by the amount hit. With Saradomin’s godsword all the spec does is heal you, which does help a bit. Use Zamorak’s godsword normally until your opponent tries to run because they’re out of food. Activate its free ice barrage, and try to kill your opponent in the next 20 seconds. Armadyl’s godsword is the best and most expensive because its spec is useful to finish your opponent after you’re done getting them to low health. The spec hits 25% more, a large amount.

Ranged

Rangers should wear black d’hide armor, replacing vambs with rfd gloves if the gloves are better, magic shortbow/rune crossbow, a melee helm, amulet of glory, ava’s accumulator, a prayer book or melee shield, any good boots, ring of life, and rune arrows for magic shortbow and enchanted diamond and dragon bolts for rune crossbow. If you’re bringing dragon bolts, only bring like 5 because those dudes are EXPENSIVE!

Their inventory should contain ranging potion, super defence potion, and sharks. Rangers can try to finish opponents off with a dds or claws, if they have high melee stats too. In that case, omit 3 sharks from the inventory and add super strength potion, super attack, and a dds or dragon claws.

Rangers also have several strategies. Keep your attack style to rapid; it increases the speed of your weapon by 1, so crossbows are as fast as longswords, shortbows as fast as knives on accurate, etc. Unless they have dragon claws or dark bow, they should stay in a 0 item world to avoid nasty 1 itemers and other people with strong weapons. Even the dark bow may be risked in a 0 item world if you’re careful because it isn’t worth way too much. If you’re just ranging, set your quick prayer to eagle eye, otherwise set it to incredible reflexes and ultimate strength (or chivalry/piety) to activate when you finish your opponent with melee.

Strategies:

• Use rune crossbow with enchanted diamond and dragon bolts. Wield the diamond bolts until opponent’s health is low, then switch to dragon bolts and hope for a good spec. Dragon bolts (e) will hit your opponent like a blast of dragonfire (which is very hard unless they have an anti-dragon shield). Do not switch to dragon bolts if they have an anti-dragon shield or dfs (although no one would bring a dfs into pvp). Another option to finish them off is to switch to a dds and spec.
• Use magic shortbow with rune arrows, when opponent’s health is low activate the spec, which shoots 2 arrows. If it fails to kill them then change to the above strategy, although you may only have 1 or 2 dds specs available.
• In a 1 item world, use either of the aforementioned strategies but finish with dragon claws or dark bow with dragon arrows instead of dds.
• Wear full void and attempt to 1-hit your opponent with a dark bow spec with dragon arrows. This can be attempted in either 0 or 1 item world, depending on how risky you are. Instantly run into a safe zone if they didn’t die to avoid someone else rushing you.
• Another strategy that can be employed in either type of world, you can wear range armor or full void and fight with rune knives and finish with dark bow spec with dragon arrows. This is more effective because you don’t have to change your ammo to dragon arrows and your opponent will be at lower health, meaning you have a better chance of finishing them off. Also, since knives at rapid are so fast, the dark bow attack may be instant if timed correctly.

Pvp Worlds

Like I said before, you can go to pvp worlds to ambush skillers busy trying to cut down magic trees or mine rune. It’s recommended that you have 85 magic, if not 94 for teleblock or ice blitz. 94 lets you use ice barrage. It’s ok to wear mystic robes because anyone you fight will be trying to run away rather than fighting back. So bring your potions, some food, and a dds. Pvp worlds are all 0 item so you don’t wanna risk that godsword or claws.

Good spots to find skillers include the yew and magic trees near Camelot and the Sorcerer’s Tower, rune rocks in the Heroes’ Guild and Neitiznot, other yew tree locations such as Varrock castle, and many other places. Use common sense: what resources are overpopulated? People getting resources in pvp worlds WILL have teleport tablets and food, so you need to teleblock them.

So find a place to kill people. If you completed Desert Treasure, ice blitz/barrage your target and finish off with dds specs or your preferred method of ranging. Blitz/barrage them again if they are still alive.

If you didn’t do Desert Treasure, just teleblock them, entangle them, and find a way to finish them off, whether it be dds or more magic.

Target Hunting

Every 7.5 minutes you spend in a bounty world pvp zone, 1/8 of your target bullseye in the upper right-hand corner of the screen will turn red. When at least half of the bullseye is red, you and someone else in the world who has all of their bullseye red and doesn’t have a target will become targets of each other. If everyone with a full bullseye has a target, then you won’t get one yet. When all of YOUR bullseye is red and you still don’t have a target, you’re guaranteed to be targets with someone else who has at least half of the bullseye filled in and isn’t a target yet. Your target will be within 5 combat levels of you but is mostly exactly your combat level, if not + or – 1. Once I got a target 2 levels higher and another time my target was 4 levels lower (but they were a pure).

A yellow flashing arrow on the minimap will point in the direction of your target. When your target is on the minimap, they will be indicated by an arrow pointing down, as well as when you can physically see the target. If the target isn’t anywhere in a single combat zone, they are probably with a team. In that case, don’t follow the arrow to them or you WILL get piled by their team and killed. Add them and if their private chat is on then ask them to come down to single combat zone and fight you. Be sure to no arm them if you’re doing f2p pking. If they don’t come then just wait in a pvp zone until they log off or come. Usually they log.

There are 3 types of targets that SUCK hard:

1. Noobs in f2p that won’t no arm you and insist on fighting with armor on. They will safe and you never hit them. They just like to waste your food and probably don’t have a very high strength level.
2. Noobs in a multicombat zone, have a team, and refuse to come and fight you face to face like a man.
3. Noobs that safe a lot, run away from you, or stand in a safe zone for 9 min doing emotes to pass the time and log off for 10 min, wasting you at least 19 minutes until you get a new targ.

It’s especially annoying when YOU’RE the one with a full target bar and you get one of the above described targets. Hopefully your targets don’t behave like that.

So what’s so special about targets? They can instantly PJ you from a fight, forcing you to fight them. If they’re not your combat level, they can still attack you in any level of the wilderness, including the 10 second timer when you run away. If you manage to kill your target, you will be rewarded with a much better drop than normal kills, the loot being a lot more than what they lost on death. Even if your target didn’t risk 25/75k, they will still drop rune stuff or better, and you don’t lose EP. After one of you wins a fight, both of your target bullseyes will reset.

You can only spend 10 minutes in a safe zone and 10 minutes logged out of the world before you lose your target and your bullseye resets, so try to stay in a pvp zone whenever possible. For example, if you’re in Edgeville and your target is north of the monastery, walk north and cross the ditch so you are in the wilderness and the 10-minutes-in-safe-zone-timer pauses. Then rest if needed and walk west, making sure you stay in the pvp zone. If you need to rest at all, go to a pvp zone to do it.

While you’re waiting for your target to come to you, make sure you decline fights from anyone else who asks and tell them that you have a target. What’s especially annoying is those noobs that drink a strength potion and attack you, expecting you to play along and fight. They’re called rushers and you especially don’t want one when you have a target because they waste your food.

Due to an update, it’s now possible to access the Grand Exchange from a bounty world. Before, it was annoying because you had to log off and hop worlds to go to the ge and buy more supplies. In the Edgeville bank in bounty worlds, people were often selling food and weapons for noobishly high prices. Now, it’s stopped in members’ worlds because most members can just use the extremely convenient (my favorite in normal member worlds) level 21 agility shortcut to get to the Grand Exchange. There’s still some merchanting going on in free worlds because they have to walk all the way around the western border of the ge, past the border guards, the southern border, and finally north. Fortunately the return route is easier: just a simple teleport (any will do).

Knowing this is useful. If you get a target and you’re low on supplies, you can log off and buy your supplies in the ge from another world, then return to Edgeville and go back to the bounty world. This means the time you spent getting supplies is taken off from your 10-minutes-while-logged-out-timer, saving your time for 10 minutes in a safe zone.

More about E.P.

E.P. stands for earned potential. It’s displayed in the lower right-hand corner of the screen below as a percentage out of 100. When you kill someone risking at least 25/75k, your EP gives you a “good” drop. The more you have, the better your drop is. It decreases each time you get a good drop and increases by 25% for every 30 minutes you spend in a pvp zone and risk 25k in free worlds and 75k in members’.

For the best guide on gaining EP click my RuneScape Ultimate E.P. Guide.

When you have 0 EP and you kill someone risking 25/75k, your drop is gonna be a lot worse than if you did have EP, but it’s a bit better than that of someone who wasn’t risking anything at all. I killed someone and they lost a rune scim and rune 2h but I had no EP, so my drop was green d’hide vambs and a strength potion. Better than killing 0 itemers.

Members’ EP is worth more than f2p ep. If you have 100% EP in a f2p pvp/bounty world, and you hop to a members’ world, that EP converts to about 48%. It also works vice-versa: having 25% in members’ worlds will convert to slightly more than twice as much in a free world. This means you should gain EP in a members’ world and use it for f2p pking.

This difference in the amount of EP is probably because 1) members’ drops are better than f2p and 2) there’s lots of people in member worlds that are deadlier than f2pers because in f2p you can just sit there in full rune and no one’s gonna hit you but you can’t do that in members.

Other Stuff

So now you know ALL about modern RuneScape pking. It’s gonna take a while to kill people but you won’t be more pleased when you do.

By the way, my RuneScape username is Bwok Im Pb. I changed it after the Display Names update so it resembles the name of a pro pker called Bwuk Im Pb (he has videos on youtube). That dude has 99 in everything and dragon claws that he takes into the old bounty hunter with a team. He even risks the claws when he has a pickup penalty and most of the time he’s being piled by another team and getting hit 0s at 1 hp.

To show what pking is, here’s a video of Ranginghero4’s solo pking. Watch how much he’s owning everyone.

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