Monday, November 20, 2006

Runescape Wilderness Team Capes

Jagex introduced Team Capes into Runescape in order to help friends avoid attacking each other easily. Players now have to right-click to attack someone wearing the same team cape as them.

Runescape merchants are located throughout the wilderness that sell different numbered capes. In total there are 50 different numbered capes available in 5 different colours with each cape having a different symbol visible on the back.

The statistics for all capes are the same regardless of the number. There are no offence bonuses applied to any of the capes and the defense bonus is minimal with a + 1 bonus applied to both slash and crush and a +2 bonus applied to range.

The cape sellers are well spread out and have easy to spot names such as William, Ian, Larry, Darren, Edward, Richard, Neil, Edmond, Simon and Sam. All of them wander a bit and should not prove too difficult to find, although with them being located in the runescape wilderness, players should be aware that they will be at the mercy of pkers, should they encounter any.

Overall, it is a little bit safer for players using team capes in the wilderness to prevent accidents, although offering no real protection it can make it a lot easier to identify friends and foes and therefore better organiztion on pking trips and wars can be achieved.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Mage Bank Pking in Runescape

Mage Bank Pking in Runescape is for members only. It is normally confined to single pking, however many players will tag and help out their clan members or friends. The clan community generally takes a dull view of tagging, but most people will do it.

Mage Bank Pking is also where players can gain or lose highly prized runescape items as it is located in the deep wilderness where any player around 70 combat or above should tread with extreme caution. It must be noted that players lower than 70 combat are not entirely safe as they can easily be attacked by players who have 100 combat - so it should still be a place where low level players should ensure they do not take any highly prized runescape items with them.

There is an escape route available for players who are able to get away and resist being teleblocked, and that route is through the Mage Bank lever. However, experience Mage Bank Pking teams will normally have 1 or more players that have the sole purpose of casting teleblock and effectively trapping the escape route.

Overall, although pking at the mage bank is normally in single combat zones, teams of mage bank pkers will ensure that it is very difficuly for the single adventurer to survive or escape so maximum caution should be heeded in order to stay alive and keep any runescape items that you are carrying.