Runescape Wilderness Stealth

Stealth in the runescape wilderness is not commonly used by individuals, however, it can be employed to both gain the element of surprise on someone or to evade a group of people and hence protect items from being lost easily.

The runescape mini map normally displays your location for all to see, consequently, stealth is a task that is extremely difficult to master for an individual and many argue it has very few, if any, benefits to improving overall chances of survival in the wildy. It is true, it will only have a limited chance of helping, but it some locations it can give you the opportunity to evade people or to gain important information on numbers of people on a pk trip.

Stealth in the wilderness of runescape is normally utilised by clans whereby a PK Leader will have all people fallen in behind them and lead them around during a pk trip. It is strictly not stealth tactics that are being used as it is out in the open, although the stealth is employed in the sense that the true number of combatants get shielded from spys out to gather intelligence.

For individiual players who wish to benefit from using stealth tactics in the wilderness, they will need to rely on a lot of luck and being nearby to buildings. Generally they can hide themselves a bit if they can get right into the corners of buildings so their white dot on the map doesn't show clearly and gets mixed in with the white pixels of the building walls.

It may be a tactic best used by mage and rangers as opposed to melee based players, as melee players can only be effective in close combat. Consequently, many individuals who have scouts in the game will normally also choose to be range or mage... it gives them a little chance to take advantage of isolated people without being caught and gives them a decent opportuntity to gather up some intelligence on groups of people, or clans, who may happen to be wondering in the runescape wilderness.

Overall, runescape wilderness survival is normally down to circumstances other than stealth tactics as players who are out on pk trips will normally always be checking both the mini map and scanning the horizon for any signs of pixel movement.