F2P Tanking Guide

Welcome to my F2P tanking guide, this guide will show you all of the techniques used in non-member tanking (clan wars).

First let’s state what Tanking exactly is…
Tanking is basically taking all the enemy damage (used in big clan wars) it consists of wearing good magic + melee/ranged defence whilst running for your life…

Here is the recommended levels and gear for a good tank.

Helmet: Rune full helmet
Body: Green D’hide body/Switch from rune plate body
Legs: Rune plateskirt
Boots: Fighter/Fancy Boots
Amulet: Amulet of power
Shield: Rune berserker
Weapon: Gravite Staff>Talisman staff>Elemental staff
Cape: Team cape
Gloves: Rune gauntlets
Ring: Explorer ring (run replenish)

STATS
90+ defence
90+ Constitution
70+ Prayer
High magic is a benefit as it gives magic defence.

Everyone on the team should be tanking when piled, despite your stats.
NOTE: These stats are just based on being a successful tank.

Tips

Anchovy Pizza’s are required for tanking, you should always enter the war with pizzas.

Clicking 5 different pizza’s rapidly heals more HP than just spam clicking one.

Amulet of power is because you will be attacking your teams pile as well as tanking.

Rune Plateskirt is better than rune plate legs because:
Skirt is cheaper than legs (Wildy wars/PKRI’s)
Skirt weighs less than the legs and they both have the exact same stats.

Team capes have stats, so wear them. Obviously make sure it’s your clans official team cape.

Use your explorers rings Run Replenish when your run energy is Between 0-50, the reason for this is that if you use it above 50% you’ve wasted some run because it gives +50 run, and if you wait till you’re at 0, it gives the enemy melee’s time to catch you up.

Doing the Lumbridge hard tasks allow you to get a hamper from the Lumbridge cook, it can be obtained once a day and it stores food in. it cannot be banked.

Quick turn prayers: Anti Magic+Steel Skin+Rapid heal+Mystic might (depending on your prayer level). Switch to Anti Melee Or Anti Ranged when binded, depending on which is attacking you

NEVER keep tanking around the same object (unless you are out of run), especially if it’s next to your clans pile, You should run WELL AWAY from your team and tank around different objects you encounter on your tanking journey.

NEVER have auto retaliate on whilst tanking, this will make you run towards them which is not a good thing.

ALWAYS turn background sound on when your in a war, this way you can hear yourself being attacked rather than waiting to see if your HP is going down.

F Keys should be used whilst tanking as it is quicker than clicking on inventory, then to prayer Etc. Here are a list of important F keys.
F1 = Inventory
F3 = Prayer
F5 = Combat styles (in case you forget to turn off auto retaliate or to switch to defensive attack style)

Hugging & Dragging

Used by tanker to get the pile off them, use objects such as the forest, walls, turrets, skeletons Etc to drag the opposition behind.

Below is a diagram on what Hugging/Dragging is.
(credit goes to whoever made it, taken from my clan’s old thread)

[Step One]
…………$$…………<— Opponents Piling You
…………##…………<— You
………¯¯¯¯¯……….<— Wall (Click the other side of the wall)
……………………….

[Step Two]
……………………….
…………$$…………<— Opponents Stuck Behind The Wall
………¯¯¯¯¯……….
…………##…………<– You (Now RUN straight away from them)
…………..|.………….
…………..|.………….
…………..|.………….
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