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Hey guys, so skill guides aren't my strong point but we should get this EOC stuff done. This is a very rough guide and will need lots of help and additions will be made by me and hopefully you too over the course of this guide's progress.

 

Attack

Written by: TakerMayFire (Twist of Fate)

Original guide by: Skandal

Special thanks to: Sobend, Hunter, Wartoc1

Attack is an important aspect of combat, as it determines how accurate your hits will be on your opponents. As your Attack level increases, you'll be able to wield stronger weapons.

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Attack types

Attack classes

Weapons

Temporary bonuses

 

Attack type

Melee attack types involves slash, crush, and stab. Each weapon has one style of attack, a different strength, and each monster or other player has a weakness to them. For example, instead of selecting your attack style for each weapon, an abyssal whip is exclusively a slash weapon and you can choose what skill to gain experience in if you click on the combat interface (the two crossed swords to the top left of your inventory).

 

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When you use a certain weapon, you'll be able to choose where you gain experience when you cause damage to an enemy through the combat menu. You will always earn experience in Constitution. You can earn experience in attack, defense, or strength depending on what you select from the menu. Selecting "Attack, strength, and defense" will reward you shared experience in those three skills.

 

 

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You will also notice the Auto Retaliate button. Auto Retaliate basically tells your character what to do when you are attacked by another force. If you have this option on, then your character will instantly start fighting back. If this option is off, then your character will stand and do nothing, until you right click on the force and select the option to "Attack".

 

 

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Attack classes

 

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If you select the helmet icon (in the above picture), you'll see the equipment you are wearing. At the bottom of the body menu, you should find a button labeled "Show Equipment Stats".

 

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Clicking that button will pop up a box showing what you're wearing, an enlarged picture of yourself, and your stats. For now, we'll only discuss the Attack Bonuses, but you'll also see a number of other bonuses as well as stats for offhand weapons and armor.

 

 

Damage decides how high damage per hit is. The base damage is the bonus in the selected attack type skill. Accuracy shows the frequency of your damage. You also have a chance of making critical hits which is shown as a percentage. The type shows the weapon's attack type. Speed displays the rate of attack. The speeds are either average, fast, or fastest.

 

Here are the different types of attacks as well as strengths and weaknesses.

Stab - a penetrating attack, common with Daggers. Effective against chainmail.

Slash - a very common "swiping" attack. Effective against light armor like robes or Dragonhide.

Crush - a common attack with Maces, Hammers and Mauls. It's very effective against heavy armor like platemail.

Magic - often negated by armor and weapons, but can be increased with staffs. Allows you to hit harder with Magic.

Ranged - Often negated by full helmets and armor. It allows you to hit harder with ranged equipment.

Strength - This effects how hard you hit. Better metals will give higher strength bonuses.

 

Weapons

 

Stab Weapons

training_sword.gifTraining Short Sword

 

In Lumbridge, you'll come across an Attack Tutor, who will give you a free Training Short Sword. This item (like all other Training items) can't be dropped or traded to other players.

 

Types: Training

Advantage: Speed

Attack Styles:

 

Stab (Accurate)

Lunge (Aggressive)

Slash (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Styles: Stab

 

RqkGn.gifDaggers

The dagger is the most basic weapon in the game and is pretty fast. Its speed will give you an advantage over low Defence monsters and players. It is one handed.

 

Types: Daggers come in all metal. (Bronze-Dragon)

Advantage: Speed and the ability to be poisoned.

Attack Styles:

 

Stab (Accurate)

Lunge (Aggressive)

Slash (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Stab

 

gUY6n.gifShort Swords

 

The short sword is a fast weapon mainly used for stabbing. They deal a little more damage than daggers, but they're not quite as good as a Long Sword. Best to stick with Long Swords if you can afford them. 1 Handed.

 

Types: Short swords come in all metals except for dragon. (Bronze-Rune)

Advantage: Speed

Attack Styles:

 

Stab (Accurate)

Lunge (Aggressive)

Slash (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

 

dragon_longsword.gifLong Swords

 

Long swords are another popular weapon in the game. They too have a good compromise between speed and strength. A weapon popular with members the long sword is usually the choice of weapon to go in the wilderness while in a Members world. It is one handed.

 

Types: Long Swords come in all metals. (Bronze-Dragon)

Advantage: Moderate speed & Moderate strength.

Attack Styles:

 

Chop (Accurate)

Slash (Aggressive)

Lunge (Controlled)

Block (Defensive)

 

jS2Io.gifHatchets

 

Hatchets are fast but weak, as they are made for Woodcutting. They have lower bonuses than regular items or the sort. 1 Handed.

 

Types: Hatchets come in all metals. (Bronze-Dragon)

Advantage: High Speed, Cuts wood

Attack Styles:

 

Chop (Accurate)

Hack (Aggressive)

Smash (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Chop

 

307pa51.pngSpears

 

Spears are rarely used in the game. The spear is both slow and weak but has all styles of attack. It is members only and is 2 handed, except for the Bone Spear. They are the only weapon classes that can be poisoned with Karambwan Poison (KP).

 

Types: Spears come in all metals. (Bronze-Dragon)

Advantage: All attack styles.

Attack Styles:

 

Lunge (Controlled)

Swipe (Controlled)

Pound (Controlled)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Lunge

 

Slash Weapons

 

ehkmfk.png2-Handed Swords

 

Questionably the most powerful weapon in RuneScape, but not the most widely used. Due to their size, you must hold a 2 Handed sword with, yes, both hands, so you cannot use a shield. Despite this, the 2 Handed sword was considered by most to be the "Best" weapon in RuneScape Classic, due to its general power. This changed when the newer RuneScape was launched, and the speed of the 2 handed sword became a problem. Always a good weapon to use when showing off your Maximum Hit, but now rather neglected otherwise. Also, when a 2-Handed Sword is equipped and the character is wearing a cape, the bottom of the cape moves back and forth.

 

Types: 2 handed swords come in all metals, from Bronze to Dragon.

Advantage: Very high damage.

Attack Styles:

 

Chop (Accurate)

Slash (Aggressive)

Smash (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Any, against platemail.

 

cCzps.gifScimitars

 

The scimitar is a weapon most used throughout the F2P worlds. A good compromise between speed and strength the scimitar proves to be a very popular weapon with most players. This weapon will give you an advantage over low Defence monsters and players. It is one handed.

 

Types: Scimitars come in all metals. (Bronze-Dragon)

Advantage: Fast speed & Moderate strength.

Attack Styles:

 

Chop (Accurate)

Slash (Aggressive)

Lunge (Controlled)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Slash

 

dragon_halberd.gifHalberds

 

Slow but strong, the halberd is one of the more popular weapons. Despite it being slow many players use it as it has a great advantage of being able to attack two square distances away and even over some obstacles. They are Members-Only, hard to obtain and 2 Handed.

 

Types: Halberds come in all metals. (Bronze-Dragon)

Advantage: High damage, Attack from 2 Squares

Attack Styles:

 

Jab (Controlled)

Swipe (Aggressive)

Fend (Defensive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Swipe

 

dragon_claws.gifClaws

 

Claws are nearly the same as daggers, and they are just as fast as them. They cannot be poisoned. They are 2 Handed and Members only. You must complete theDeath Plateau Quest to make them.

 

Types: Claws come in all metals, from Bronze to Dragon.

Advantage: Speed

Attack Styles:

 

Chop (Accurate)

Slash (Aggressive)

Lunge (Controlled)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Slash

 

abyssal_whip.pngAbyssal Whip

 

The Abyssal Whip is most probably the best weapon in the game. The abyssal whip is both fast and strong. It is a one handed weapon and is the weapon of choice for all those who can afford it. It can be obtained by slaying Abyssal Demons. It requires

70 attack to wield and is called a whip for short.

 

Advantage: Deals high damage and fast.

Attack Styles:

 

Flick (Accurate)

Lash (Controlled)

Deflect (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Slash

 

The only real disadvantage of the Abyssal Whip is the fact that you can't train Strength with it, unless you use the "Controlled" style which also trains your other combat stats.

 

Crush Weapons

 

2my6g7.pngPickaxes

 

Pickaxes are very weak and are not considered good weapon, as they are slow and cumbersome... they are 1 handed. They're general purpose is Mining, not combat

 

Types: Pickaxes come in all metals, except black and dragon. (Bronze-Dragon)

Advantage: Mining, Smashing Attack

Attack Styles:

 

Spike (Accurate)

Impale (Aggressive)

Smash (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Impale Or Smash

 

Z3uda.gifMaces

 

The mace is a crushing weapon used mainly by monks or prayer beasts due to its slight prayer bonus. Rarely used because of it's low max hit, which makes them relatively cheap. This weapon is good against platemail. It is one handed.

 

Types: Maces come in all metals. (Bronze-Dragon)

Advantage: Slight prayer bonus & good against platemail.

Attack Styles:

 

Pound (Accurate)

Pummel (Aggressive)

Spike (Controlled)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Spike

 

2lw7jgg.pngBattle Axes

 

Battle axes are slow but strong. They are used commonly in the game and acts as way of dealing high damage without compromising your Defence by removing your shield. They are good against high and low Defence monsters and players

because of its attack styles. 1 Handed.

 

Types: Battle axes come in all metals. (Bronze-Dragon)

Advantage: High damage without compromising Defence

Attack Styles:

 

Chop (Accurate)

Hack (Aggressive)

Smash (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Smash on platemail, Hack on robes and dragon hide.

 

VTLwM.gifWarhammers

 

These bulky weapons are newer to the runescape world. They boast a very high strength, but have quite a slow attack speed. Some think their power overcomes this disadvantage. 1 Handed.

 

Types: Warhammers come in all metal except for dragon. (Bronze-Rune)

Advantage: Very high damage.

Attack Styles:

 

Pound (Accurate)

Pummel (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Any, against platemail.

 

willow_blackjack.gifBlackjacks & Clubs

 

Clubs have strong smashing bonus (Bone Clubs), Blackjacks can stun. They are one handed. Bone Clubs can be found in Lost Tribe Mines, and blackjacks in The Feud Quest.

 

Types: Bone Club/Oak & Willow Blackjacks

Advantage: Stun (Blackjacks)

Attack Styles:

 

Pound (Accurate)

Pummel (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Pound

 

granite_maul.pngGranite Maul

 

The granite maul deals more damage than a whip but is much slower and is two-handed. It can be obtained by slaying Nechryaels and Gargoyles.

 

Advantage: Deals high damage.

Attack Styles:

 

Pound (Accurate)

Pummel (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: Crush

 

Other

 

 

fqDDZ.gifStaves

 

Not very fast, and not really made for melee combat, these provide users additional magical focusing for attacking. You can set attacking spells to autocast, and some allow you to use some spells that you cannot use without the appropriate staff. More about staffs can be found in the Magic Guide.

 

Types: Plain, All elementals, Battlestaffs, Mystical Staffs, God Staffs, Slayer Staff

Advantage: Autocasting Spells, Elemental staffs stops you from wasting runes of a kind.

Attack Styles:

 

Bash(Accurate)

Pound (Aggressive)

Focus - Block (Defensive)

Attack With - (Choose Spell)

Recommended Attack Style: Attack With Spell

 

Also, the best style while casting an offensive spell and at the same time carry a staff with you is to choose focus-block, as it gives exp to Defence as well. So in whole, you will receive Magic, Constitution and Defence experience.

 

ahrim_staff.gifBarrows Weapons

See: Barrows Guide

 

There are several different kinds of Barrows weapons that belong to the brothers. They are actually part of the separate sets that give extra bonuses.

 

Types: Torag's Hammers, Verac's Flail, Guthan's Warspear, Dharock's Greataxe, Kharil's Crossbow, Ahrim's Staff, Akrisae's War Mace.

Advantage: very powerful; each set has specific bonuses.

Attack Styles:

 

Torag's Hammers

Crush

Controlled

 

Verac's Flail

Stab

Crush

Controlled

 

Guthan's Warspear

Stab

Slash

Crush

Controlled

 

Dharok's Greataxe

Slash

Crush

Controlled

 

Karil's Crossbow

Accurate

Rapid

Longrange

Staff

Slash

Crush

Stab

Recommended Attack Style: Unknown

 

Akrisae's War Mace

Recommended style: Crush

 

zamorak_mjolnir.pngMjolnirs

 

You can get these from completing the Enchanted Key Mini-Quest, and they are also known as God Spears.

 

Types: Saradomin, Zamorak and Guthix.

Advantages: None

Attack Styles:

 

Crush

Recommended Attack Style: Crush

 

tzhaar-ket-om_obsidian_maul.gifObsidian Equipment

 

Obsidian equipment includes the set of armor and weapons from the city of TzHaar. The wield any of the weapons, you must have 60 Attack, Strength, Magic, or Ranged. To wield any of the armor, you must have at least level 60 Defence.

 

Types: Maul, Mace, Sword, Knife, Staff.

Advantages: None

Attack Styles: ??

Recommended Attack Style: Varies

 

vo1y1g.png Godswords

Godswords are powerful two-handed weapons either brought or built by smithing 3 godsword shards into a blade and attaching a hilt to it.There are four different hilts that could create four different godswords: Armadyl, Bandos, Saradomin, and Zamorak. Each sword has it's own special ability.

 

flowers_yellow.gifFlowers

 

Flowers are one of the weakest weapons in the game, as they reduce attacks by 100, and are more for decorative purpose. They sprout from mithril seeds, Or Trollweiss is found during Troll Romance Quest. 1 Handed.

 

Types: Colors, Trollweiss

Advantage: None, Decorative

Attack Styles:

 

Pound (Accurate)

Pummel (Aggressive)

Block (Defensive)

Recommended Attack Style: None

 

Temporary Bonuses

Table HTML in spoiler.

 

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<td>Image</td>

<td>Name</td>

<td>Effect</td>

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<td>Attack potion or mix</td>

<td>+1 and 8% of your attack level</td>

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<td>Cup of tea</td>

<td>+3%</td>

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<td>Chivalry Prayer (Level 60)</td>

<td>+15% </td>

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<td>Clarity of Thought Prayer (Level 7)</td>

<td>+5%</td>

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<td>Improved Reflexes Prayer (Level 16)</td>

<td>+10%</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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<td>Incredible Reflexes Prayer (Level 34)</td>

<td>+10%</td>

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<td>Piety Prayer (Level 70)</td>

<td>+20%</td>

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<td>Super Attack Potion or mix</td>

<td>+2 and 12% of your level</td>

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<td>Leech Attack (Ancient Curse level 74)</td>

<td>Boosts Attack by 5%, increasing to 10% over time, draining enemy's by 10%, increasing to 25% over time.</td>

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<td>Turmoil (Ancient Curse level 95)</td>

<td>Boosts attack by 15% plus 15% of enemy's attack level</td>

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<td>Extreme Attack Potion</td>

<td>+3 and 15% of your level</td>

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<td>Overload</td>

<td>Boost of +3 and 15% of your level for five minutes</td>

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<td>Zamorak Brew</td>

<td>+20% and 2 levels</td>

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<td>Combat potion</td>

<td>+10% and 3 levels</td>

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<td>Cavefish </td>

<td>+2 Levels</td>

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Yeah I definitely agree with that, They both go hand in hand, two sides of the same coin. Let's wait for santafishy. I won't be online for about 24 hours though after tonight.

I'm not sure. Attack and Strength are really two separate skills, having two different uses in melee combat. Each one has its own bonuses, temp boosters and uses in game too (for example, Strength: barehanded fishing, Attack: wielding weapons). It could get a bit messy combining the two.

 

I'm not opposed to it, though. If you think it'd be better combined, go for it. You'd know better than I would! :P

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Since they're two separate skills by nature I think they're better with two smaller guides, combining them really can get confusing as much as I'd like the idea of doing it so I may leave it separate. I think the new readers on the site will appreciate it

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I believe your guide should have been posted here, seems Sal forgot to mention he created a new submission subforum just for this competition. :P

It's not a big deal, I don't have powers to move topics here but I'm sure Sal will check this topic again soon and will move the topic to the appropriate section.

 

Guide looks great so far, keep up the great work. ^_^

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Thanks man! Woops. And guys, just some thoughts: I'm going to be adding new weapon types that haven't been added to the attack guide. If you think something should be added or I missed something I'd like to know.

 

I am a combat noob (even though I'm maxed combat) and like I said skill guides are my weak spot so I'd appreciate additions!

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You need to group weapons better. It seems a little random at the moment.

 

Just my thoughts - perhaps group em as Stab/Slash/Crush? Then go from there, list metal weapons > medium level drop weapons > high level drop weapons > "other" or something?

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I was confused too. I actually removed some of them, such as the rubber chicken and stuff. I can understand the staves because they have melee potential but yeah you guys are right.

 

I think I'll do it that way, slash/stab/crush and then group based on their bonuses or required level perhaps and then to "other". At first I have the grouping from the original guide and was wondering what to do about it. It did need a change though

 

Edit: How does it look? What more do we need, etc

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Yeah it'd be nearly impossible for me to code but if the information is organized in a way where you could easily transfer it to a table I could see it happening. It would look much more condensed and enjoyable and of course separated by slash/stab/crush/other. The strength guide looks fantastic like that and when I do the strength guide I'll leave the tables as they are.

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Edit: How does it look? What more do we need, etc

Do you want me to try get some updated transparencies of the weapons seeing as most (if not all) of those have received a graphical update?

Sure that helps and it's appreciated much, thank you!

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Edit: How does it look? What more do we need, etc

Do you want me to try get some updated transparencies of the weapons seeing as most (if not all) of those have received a graphical update?

Sure that helps and it's appreciated much, thank you!

 

I'll get onto it now :) Also,

The dagger is the most basic weapon in the game. A fast and versatile weapon, the dagger is most useful when poisoned. Its speed will give you an advantage over low Defence monsters and players. It is one handed.

Poison was removed from daggers

 

 

 

RqkGn.gifDragon Dagger

 

Z3uda.gifDragon Mace

 

 

cCzps.gifDragon Scimitar

 

gUY6n.gif Rune Sword

 

VTLwM.gif Rune Warhammer

 

jS2Io.gif Dragon Hatchet

 

fqDDZ.gif Staff of air

 

 

 

 

 

Was unable to actually make transparencies of some Rune items :( and the hilt of the Dragon longsword went all weird on me

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Those will be fine thank you :3 In fact, for the rune ones you couldn't do I added their dragon counterparts. Been a while since I did transparencies but they're as updated as it gets. .

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