Anonymous Feedback about Runescape PK at newbie levels

Excellent, I got a few responses from folks who seem to be more experienced in PK than I am. One comment about how Range can own Melee at the Range 70+ w/ Rune Arrows level but since this blog is aimed towards newbie non-members, I'll just leave that comment alone for now, for the advance readers to ponder on.

An anonymous player left this message, which I've cleaned up a bit for grammar and punctuation:

"Rangers and Mages are the best PKers. IF YOU ARE GONNA PK DONT DO MELEE. YOU WILL GET OWNED. Once you get to high lvls melee is ok but from 3-50 rangers and mages own the wild.

And your advice about advancing prayer I think is wrong if you want to be a succesful pker. Prayer raises your combat lvl and if you are fighting mages and rangers who hit a lot on you, you dont have the time to turn on prayer. By the time you do that you're dead because you couldnt eat. Take my word for it PRAYER IS HORRIBLE FOR PKERS.

Also if you get to wild and someone is higher lvl that could attack you ask "team?" if they say yes dont let them take you farther in wild cause they just wanna kill you, and if they say "No" run for your life."

Personally, I don't completely agree that melee is bad in PK at low levels - there are still weak Rangers coming back from deeper in the wilderness that you can catch unawares - I almost killed one myself, he was a lvl 30 ranger hanging out with a lvl 52, and the higher player couldn't attack me and all the ranger could do was run from lvl 11 wilderness to lvl 1 wilderness where I could no longer attack him due to level differential. If he didn't have enough run to have run all the way I would have killed him.

I do agree that prayer at low levels is useless because you have to get to high prayer levels to be able to use good prayer spells in combat that block things like range or mage or melee attacks, and raising your prayer DOES raise your combat level, which doesn't help at low levels either.

Personally, I wouldn't recommend teaming with complete strangers if you're a newbie PKer, because it's just another thing to have to worry about. Find some players you chat with for a couple of weeks first and get to know a little, and put your trust in them. It's not a guarantee but you'll end up dead at the hand of your "teammate" much less often.

Of course, if you can get into a CLAN, that would be the ultimate because then you have clanmates you can trust even more fully not to turn on you in combat, because they don't want to be tossed from the clan either.

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http://www.rskillers.info