Troyg2005 and GhostFoot's F2P PKer Guide

Special Thanks to: xxx 0hp xxx, Jmaster BCM, Dec3dus, Oh Bum.

This guide was made to help everyone who has a PKing account or would like to get into the fun world of Player Killing.

Now there are generally 2 types of PKers. There are the ones who get the kills and can make money from it, and the ones that help those people make a living. We are hoping that this guide will help you become one of those money makers. We will also list the stats you should have before PKing. This Guide will also tell you the perfect places to train your Pure's stats.

First things first, we will start with the most common type of PKer in the wild.

The Strength Pure.

How to spot them and what they have.

Most Strength Pures are easy to spot; they generally they wear monk robes or full iron. They will be wielding a scimitar of some sort, and may be wielding a Anti Dragon Fire shield because of the high defence against Magic Attacks. From around level 40 onwards they will be using a Rune Scimmy. In their inventory they will have a Strength Potion, Rune 2- hander, and the remainder of the inventory full of lobsters.

Tactics

A Strength Pure's PKing tactic is pretty simple. They will drink their strength potion and start attacking. They will be hitting pretty hard with their Rune Scimitar, but watch out when you're low on hit points, they will pull out a Rune 2-hander and generally hit more or near 20.

A Strength Pure's stats

Most Strength Pures should have at least these stats:

Attack: 40 can get more to hit your max more often (but this will increase your CMB lvl)
Strength: 60 or more
Defence: 1
Range: 1 or 40 for Green D'hide Chaps and Vamps.
Magic: 1 or 25 for Varrock Teleport or 59 for the Fire Blast (I highly suggest staying lvl 1 Magic)
Prayer: 1 or 31 For Ultimate Strength

Where to train Strength Pures

At first, a very common and easy place to train your strength and attack would be at the Monestary. You would train on monks, they are great to train on because they are fairly decent XP and they have the ability to heal you, so you don't require food for this part of the training.

When you feel that you are stronger and want to kill better monsters for better XP, then head off to the Edgeville Dungeon. There you will find a lot of Hill Giants to train on. This will require food because Hill Giants do hit well against people with 1 defense.

An alternative to the Hill Giants would be killing Zombies in the Stronghold of Security. This also would require food because they hit fairly well against 1 Defense Pures. Also in the stronghold, you could train on Flesh Crawlers, they have a max hit of 1 and they are very good XP.

What to use to beat them

Fighting a Strength Pure is a lot of hard work, They hit hard and fast. But it is possible to beat them. The best attacking styles to fight them with are Melee or Range. Melee because you are fighting someone just like you so it gives you a 50 - 50 chance of winning and Range because they don't have any defense so your arrows will hit them easier. Make sure that your HP doesn't get below their max hit otherwise your pretty much dead unless you get lucky and they miss.

Now we move onto a Pure Very Similar to the Strength Pure.

The Rune Pure.

How to spot them and what they have.

Rune Pures will be wearing full Rune Armour. If a Rune Pure has done all of the quests, then he/she would be wearing a Rune Platebody, but if they didn't bother to do any quests, then they would be wearing a Rune Chainbody. They would be wielding a Rune Scimmy and have a strength potion and the rest of the spaces filled with lobsters or swordfish in their inventory, They may also carry a Rune 2-hander for a quick KO.

A Rune Pure's tactics

Since they don’t normally have the Rune 2-hander for a KO they must out last their opponent. Rarely, you may encounter a Rune Pure with a 2-hander, so it would be wise not to take them lightly.

A Rune Pure's stats

Most Rune Pures Should have these stats:

Attack: 40 can get more to hit your max more often (but this will increase your CMB lvl)
Strength: 60 or more...again, the more the better
Defence: 40
Range: 40 for Hp and for the Green D'hide chaps. (Not a must, but pretty Helpful)
Magic: 1 or Whatever you feel like, But I really do suggest you keep away from magic...your wearing full rune and wont hit with magic spells.
Prayer: 1 or 43 (Up to you really, Prayer wont last too long, gives extra Cmb lvls too)

Where to train a Rune Pure

Well, first with your Rune Pure, you should get 40 attack and 40 strength first. You should train those stats at the Monestary on monks, The Hill Giants or in the StrongHold against Zombies and Fleshcrawlers. After you get those stats, get 40 defense. Now that you have 40 attack, 40 strength, and 40 defense Go score yourself some Rune Armour and train at the Hill Giants, sell the bones to make some cash.

What to use to beat them

Rune Pures will not hit as hard as their cousins (Strength Pures). But their Defence and Armour makes it hard for other Pures to hit them. The best attacking styles to use what fighting a Rune Pure are Melee and Magic. while using Melee is an ok way to fight these Pures (use a Rune Mace or War Hammer since armour crumbles under crush type attacks), by far the best way is to attack them with magic. Their Armour is very weak against magic and using it will kill them very fast indeed.

The Pure Ranger

How to spot them and what they have.

Pure Rangers will be wearing dragon hide vamps and chaps, they wear a coif and a leather body. They equip the best arrows and best Bow available to them.

Tactics

Pure Rangers, will stand at maximum distance from there prey and begin attacking. This gives them the upper hand from the first arrow they let loose. If their Range level is high enough, they can hit consistent 12's on their opponent.

Their Stats
Most Pure Rangers will have these stats:

Attack: 1
Strength: 1
Defence: 1
Range: 60 or more
Magic: 1 or ... Magic isnt really useful since you are wearing items that have a negative bonus on Magic Attacks
Prayer: 1 or 44 for Eagle Eye Range Bonus (Up to you really, Prayer wont last too long, gives extra Cmb lvls too)

Where to train your Pure Ranger

First, train on cows until you are able to equip a Willow bow. You can use either accurate or rapid. Accurate is slower, but has a better chance of hitting, and Rapid hits faster, but has less of a chance of hitting. Then when you get the willow bow, head over to Hill Giants. Train there until you have at least 50 Range. Then you can either pk, or you can keep training there until 60 Range.

An alternative would be to buy a lot of bronze arrows, and go to Varrok sewers. Look around for a while and you will see a place where you are on one side, and the zombies are on the other and they cannot hit you. Now train range there, but you will not be able to pick up your arrows, but it is very quick XP. This also works with skeletons in the sewers.

What to use to beat them

Since Pure Rangers will be wearing D 'hide the worst possible way to attack them is by using Magic, Their armour makes magic almost useless for fighting them. There armour also gives a very nice Range defence as well. The best way to attack them is by using Melee. By using a stabbing weapon and stabbing their armour you will do more damage.

The Tank Ranger

How to spot them and what they have.

Tank Rangers will be wearing full green dragon hide or will be wearing a Rune Chain body instead of the green dragon hide body and also will wear a Rune full helmet.

Tactics

Tank Rangers, will stand at maximum distance from there prey and begin attacking. This gives them the upper hand from the first arrow they let loose. They will not use magic to KO you because of there armour making it so hard to hit with magic, instead they will just out last you.

Their Stats

Most Tank Rangers will have these stats:

Attack: 1
Strength: 1
Defence: 40 or more (More is better Defence...but more Comb lvls)
Range: 60 or more
Magic: 1
Prayer: 1 or 44 for Eagle Eye Range Bonus(Up to you really, Prayer wont last too long, gives extra Cmb lvls too)

Where to train your Tank Ranger

You are going to have to train defense without training attack or strength. This may be a little tedious, but it is worth it. You can either train defense with an Iron Scimmy or you can train it using the long Range option on your bow. If you choose the scimmy, then train on chickens and cows, then train on monks the rest of the way. If you use long range, then train on cows untill 40 range.

You are also training Range when you use Long Range, so once you get 40 defense, switch to Rapid or Accurate. The difference is accurate is slower, but hits more, and rapid is faster, but hits less. So train Range until you can equip a willow bow, then head over to hill giants and train Range to your desired level there.

What to use to beat them

Tank Rangers are often hard to beat since they have a good Defense level and their range attack hits fast and hard. Using Magic against these Pures is only going to get you to one place... Lumbridge. The best way to kill them is by using Melee and using a stabbing weapon like when fighting Pure Rangers. By using a stabbing type of attack you have a better chance of getting through there armour.


The Range/2h

How to spot them and what they have.

They will be wearing Green D'hide items and any top and hat they want

Tactics

Range/2h people will begin ranging until you are low on health then pull out their 2-hander for a deadly combo.

Their Stats

Most Range/2hders will have these stats:

Attack: 40
Strength: 60 or more
Defence: 1
Range: 65 or more
Magic: 1
Prayer: 1 or 44 (Up to you really, Prayer wont last too long, gives extra Cmb lvls too)

Where to train your Range/2h pure

You can train Attack and Strength to 40 each starting at chickens and cows until 20 each, then head to monks and train until 40 there. Now train Range until 65 using the methods used in the "Pure Ranger" section. Now train your strength to 60 at hill giants or zombies in stronghold of security.

What to use to beat them

While fighting Range/2hd Pures they best tactics to use when fighting them are the same as Pure Rangers and Tank Rangers. Using Melee and a stabbing weapon and attacking style will hurt them the most. Again Magic is useless against all forms of Rangers that wear D 'Hide.

The Pure Mage

How to spot them and what they have

These Pures will be wearing full Mage clothes and they will have certain Runes and lobsters in their inventory. They mostly carry Teleport Runes also.

Tactics

Pure Mages, will stand at maximum distance from their prey and begin attacking. This gives them an advantage from the first spell the cast on you. Also, they may occasionally bind their opponent to stop them from moving for 5 seconds.

Their Stats

Pure Mages will have these stats:

Attack: 1
Strength: 1
Defence: 1
Range: 1
Magic: Up to 59
Prayer: 1 or 45 for Mystic Might Magic Bonus

Where to train your Pure Mage

There are a number of ways to train magic, but we will tell you the most used ways. The most used way is to first use air strike on any monster until you can cast fire strike. Then you should go to hill giants and train magic using fire strike until your desired level. You can also train magic using fire strike at the wizard's tower on the top floor. There is a lesser demon in a cage, and you can train magic very quickly here.

A much faster way would be using Varrock teleport to train Mage. Now you would train magic until 25 mage, then get the runes for Varrock teleport, and then just teleport until your desired level. This is a very expensive way, this will cost you a lot of money. This dosen't train hit points, it just trains magic.

There are 2 more fast ways also. You can cast curse spells on any monster until your desired level. Also you can low alch a high quantity of items to get some extra money, and some magic experience. These 2 ways are pretty fast but they do not train hit points. Using curse is pretty cheap and average to fast speed, Alching items is expensive in the long run but extremely fast.

What to use to beat them

While fighting a Mage do not wear any form of plate armour. The best Defense against these Pures is D 'Hide or nothing at all. All Attacking styles will work fine against Mages but the best ones are Melee and Range. These will do the most damage since they wear no armour.

The Hybrid

How to spot them and what they have.

These type of Un-Pures are very hard to spot in the wild. They generally wear whatever gives them the best defense against all other pures, while still have attacking bonuses in all the combat styles. They will carry weapons, Bows and Arrows and also Runes for Magic, But will also carry the different armours they need to fight all the different Pures.

Tactics

There tactics will change for who they are fighting, These Un-Pures are meant to be flexible against all other Pures, So when against Strength Pures with no Armour they will use Melee or Range, Against Rune Pures they will use Magic, And against Rangers they will use Melee.

Their Stats


Attack: 40
Strength: 60 or more
Defence: 1 or 40
Range: 65 or more
Magic: Up to 59
Prayer: 1 or 45 for all Protection Prayers and Attack bonuses

Where to train your Hybrid

Training a Hybrid is a mixture of how to train all the other Pures, Please read the other Pure training sections to find out how.

What to use to beat them

Fighting a true Hybrid Pker will be very hard, they will change their armour with your attacking style, Making you hit less and making them hit harder. There is no real way to explain how to beat one of these Un-Pures other than when they change their armour change your attacking style. If they put on D 'Hide don't use Magic, If they put on armour use Magic and if they take everything off use Melee.

Range/Mage Pure

How to spot them and what they have.

These Pures usually wear a Wizard hat, Wizard top, Green d'hide chaps, and they Weild a bow. They have runes for certain spells in their inventory.

Tactics

They will stand far away from you and they will range you at first. Once that your health seems low to them, they will attack you with a magic spell, preferably fire blast. The magic spell is used to try to KO their opponent.

A Range/Mage's stats

A Range/Mage pure will have these stats:

Attack: 1
Strength: 1
Defense: 1
Mage: up to 59
Range: 65+
Prayer: 1

Where to train your Range/Mage pure

Well since you are not training attack and strength, you will not need any combat equipment. You will only be training magic and range. First off, train range at chicken until you can equip a willow bow. Now, head over to the Hill Giants in the Edgevill dungeon, and train Range to 50. Now, it is time to train magic to 50. Follow the magic training methods used in the "Pure Mage" guide mentioned earlier. Now that your magic is 50, Train Range to 65. Now since your Range is 65, time to get the powerful fire blast. It hits a max of 16 in f2p. Now, train your magic to 59 and don't train is any higher. Now, you can go into the wilderness and start PKing.

Now, you can pk in the wild before getting these stats. But I would suggest at least having 40 Range, and 41 Mage before starting to pk.

What to use to beat them

While fighting a Range/Mage PKer use Melee as much as you can. Fighting these Pures is just like fighting any other Range Pure. Using a stabbing attack will work best, Try not to get caught with your Armour on when they Start using Magic to bring down your health. When they are Ranging you leave all your Armour on, When they use magic against you take off all of your plate Armour (i.e Iron through to Rune items). If you have D 'Hide on do not take it off at any point.

Thanks for Reading, If you need more help just PM Myself or Ghostfoot. We are both experienced PKers and know a lot about that dangerous land to the north.

hard to hit not impossible to hit and tank rangers will wear a rune full helm aswell

Those mistakes are fixed now, Ty for pointing them out. Its my first Guide so there will be alot of mistakes

I think your guide is great so far! Just add that it is possible for tanke ranges to K0 with mage if they can throw a staff on. Also try to add stategys on how to beat the types of pkers, Such as armors or weapons used against them.

Tankers have prayer: 44 atk: 40 str: 60+ theyre not exactly pures, they need the atk and str for d slayer, and some tankers have 40, 45, or 70 def, they also train mage for teles, and pray for "focus" or somtin, and tankers are made to trick ppl

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Ok, there are a few grammar mistakes, and you left out some information in the guide, but it looks great so far. I'll rewrite it here so you know what it looks like. You said that you were going to write and I would fix it up with stuff so I added my name to the title

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Another suggestion is to add areas of where to PK. Or also take screenshots of wat the types of pkers look like.

^We are going to get screenshots of them soon.

I added areas on where to train. Mabye i'll add more soon.

This guide is good, but I don't think I will ever be using it. Why do people think the wilderness is only about pures? What about mains? Full rune PKing at rune rocks or with a clan in F2P is more fun than you would think.

Keep it up, though.

at the rune pure guide, you're missing a great place to train strength. Flesh Crawlers-level 28 or Flesh Crawlers-Level 35 (Be sure to get at least 20 fishing and cooking, so you can easily fish for food outside the stronghold)

Flesh Crawlers (Level 28) location- Room immediately south of the Second Floor Ladder

Flesh Crawlers (Level 35) location- South East corner room


Happy Training!

It isin't all about pures, but it is mostly used by pures. This guide is about pures only, not mains.

Yes i know, f2p clan fights at rune rocks are much fun.

@aznf--They are called "flesh crawlers", and I didn't include them in the rune pure part because when you are a rune pure, you can fight better monsters because he would have better defense.

Rune pures somtimes have 45 def and range tanks sometimes have 25 or 59 mage to K0 rune pures

HELLO u forgot wat prayer lvl u need for str and rune pures.

I recommend 31 for ultimate strength

That is only for member rune pures.

Range tanks have 25 mage for teleport, they don't have 59 mage to use fire blast because if they are wearing a rune chain then the magic won't hit well.

you forgot the tank range 2h. Nice guide btw

^O thanks. I forgot that one

I am also adding a defense pure to the guide.

This guide will have more information added and all that sort of stuff, I just made the basic example of it so that myself and ghostfoot could add more information in time. Thank you to everyone who has helped so far.

Theres two types of strength pures, the ones who wear monk robes (usually 31+ prayer) and the ones who wear full iron + Dragon hide chaps. Or just full iron (1 prayer) I think the monk robes should have it's own up there, prayer beast. Atleast that's what they where called in RSC.

Well there arn't 2 types of strength pures, its just that they wear different things, and I have added information about prayer for all the pures in there. And the only difference between a str pure and one with prayer is well... prayer, there is no reason for adding a whole new section for a str pure with prayer. How ever I will add a section on what a real prayer beast it (45 prayer and all combat styles).


The very first (original) post of this guide has been edited with all the new information. I will keep adding things to it.

You have forgotten Range Mage
They usually have a very high range level and a high magic level.
To spot them they probably wear some wizards robes and d hide chaps and magic amulate or defence amulate, they can have a very high prayer level too because most mage pures don't train defence therefore they have very high prayer levels to fix that.

-Ming

No Pures have been Forgotten, just not all of them have been added yet.

And could everyone who posted and quoted my guide please edit your posts so that the quote is removed, It is making a lot of junk on this post and making it Uber long, Plus I think I know what I wrote.. so you don't need to quote me ok?

But feel free to post your suggestions and things to add.

Shouldn't u add hybrids as well?

All i know is the following stats:

Attack:40
Strenght: 60+
Defence:40
Range:60+
Mage:59
Prayer:45? (or 43)

We spelled "Tactics" wrong in the rune pure and the pure ranger part.

Add this part to the guide.

Range/Mage Pure

How to spot them and what they look like

These pures usually wear a wizard hat, wizard top, green d'hide chaps, and they weild a bow. They have runes for certain spells in their inventory.

Tactics

They will stand far away from you and they will range you at first. Once that your health seems low to them, they will attack you with a magic spell, preferably fire blast. The magic spell is used to try to KO their opponent.

A Range/Mage's stats

A Range/Mage pure will have these stats:

Attack: 1
Strength: 1
Defense: 1
Mage:59
Range: 60+
Prayer: 1

Where to train your Range/Mage pure

Well since you are not training attack and strength, you will not need any combat equipment. You will only be training magic and range. First off, train range at chicken until you can weild a willow bow. Now, head over to the hill giants in the edgevill dungeon, and train range to 50. Now, it is time to train magic to 50. Follow the magic training methods used in the "Pure Mage" guide mentioned earlier. Now that your magic is 50, train range to 60. Now since your range is 60, time to get the powerful fire blast. It hits a max of 16 in f2p. Now, train your magic to 59 and don't train is any higher. Now, you can go into the wilderness and start pking.

Now, you can pk in the wild before getting these stats. But I would suggest at least having 40 range, and 41 mage before starting to pk.

my bad, hehe

edit: i fixed it now

I was thinking of maybe a warrior/mage with the following stats:

Attack:40
Strenght:60+
Defence:1
Mage:60+
Range:1
Prayer:1 or (25 to protect rune scimmy)

I dont know how they will own but u might fugure out a way.

We know about that one thanks. They own the most in f2p IMO.

(marc19) Hybrids were added before your post was made.

(ghostfoot) it has been added now

Okay, this is a great guide, but if you want it to be superglued you'll have to add some stuff to it. First of all, i don't really see this as a F2P PKing guide, but a guide to make F2P PKers. Secondly, each description of the pure should be more detailed. Explain the best defenses against them, when to just give up and teleport etc etc.

Overall, good guide, keep it up!

Red

All the info on how to beat them and other general things are slowly being added and typed up to be put into the guide. And also the name that we had has been changed. Your description was much better. Thank you for your input

It coming together nicley

Why thank you JMaster

The 'How to beat them' section has been added. It tells you whats the best way to fighting them the different Pures. Any more suggestions?

You think pictures should be included?

It would be nice, but we have a good descriptions already of what they look like.

I will try to put in pictures. Might take a while......wait it will take awhile, My Main doesn't have all that armour and items ATM but i can get them and take screenies. lol sal will have to compensate me for the cost of the armour and time taken to get it. I will send him a bill after this is done.

Well, I gotta say, this guide may have it's errors here and there, but it is excellent. Nice job Troyg and Ghostfoot.
One suggestion I have is to go on to a site with a combat calculator and gives some examples of combat levels for each type of pure.
Idk if I will remember/have time on my hands, but I could possibly take some pics tomorrow (I'll be gone all of next week).

Well, working out the combat levels would take way to long IMO, trying to work out the hp the different pures would have would be way to time consuming. And where are those errors that you said it has... I want to fix them, I thought I had all of them. And If you could get pictures of the different pures and what they should wear the pictures will be added and your name added to the thank you list. I'm trying to get pictures of the Stats Screen, showing the bonuses of the different items. I haven't got any yet. I'm to busy working on my latest Pure.

Check Signature for details and updates on its stats.

I meant errors grammar wise, like "[b]Most Range/2hders will have these stats:[/b]". Nothing big.

Anyways, I took this picture of a strength pure, I'll keep on adding more pictures, including (If I can) the multiple looks of the same sort of pker, i.e the 2 looks of the strength pure.

I could crop it some more if you want.

I gotta get some rest now, 2AM ftw .

Also, you're right about the hitpoints thing, I didn't think that one through very well.

That photo is perfect. I will add it once I have some more. I'm busy working on my str pure

this is excellent =O I think you should add the part about anti d shields for str pures, and that its good against magic.

Yes, that is a very good defense against magic, but...the thing is that if you hold a shield with a strength pure, then it would be a hassle to pull out a rune 2h for a KO and then put it away and then pull out a shield and a scimy. Also it takes up an extra food space.

But it should be used if you are pking in a big team.

edit--Troyg, in the range 2h part, where it says "Range/2hers should have these stats"....unbold that and get rid of the "[b]" that is before and after the sentance.

wearing a shield while pking even when you plan on Koing them doesnt take up space. since you are wearing it to start with and have your normal inventory set up with a rune 2hd in there. the reason it doesnt take up space is that you have to eat at one point. its 1 in a million chance that you wont have to eat during a fight before you KO them.

I think its finished now. Its got alot of great info now and is very helpful.

nice guide, I'm a hrbrid so that section gonna help!

if its helped someone than it was all worth it.

gr8 guide, makin 4 files now...lol, str pure,range pure, range tank, mage pure...hehe...thx 4 writing the guide!!!

Pictures would be nice You also forgot mass f2p pking (clans)

I never intended on having clans in the guide. Since there are no rules in having certain levels in clans nor is there any skill in Teaming other PKers.

Well, the guide looks finished.

i have sent a PM to sal asking what else it needs to be 'super glued'

r u going to include pics or not ?

I don't thint they are needed, because the descriptions are self-explanatory on what needs to be worn.