Are you the person who likes to have a lot of fun while playing games? Runescape has the answer to this – player killing. Runescape features a special area in the game, where player-to-player combat is allowed – it’s called “The Wilderness”. The Wilderness, to put it in place, is the exciting part of Runescape.

When player killing, there are certain rules that are applied to the wilderness. For example, you are stopped from attacking or being attacked by certain combat level characters dependant on the level of The Wilderness your in. The further you venture into The Wilderness, the more The Wilderness level is, the greater the gap of combat for PKing. If you don’t understand that very well, here is an example.

Zezima is level 54 combat,
Goerg is level 53 combat,

Zezima and Goerg can fight each other in Wilderness Level 1.
Zezima moves to Wilderness Level 2.

They both are no longer able to combat each other as the Wilderness Level is 2. The range between the two characters combat level is 1, and so they are denied combat. If however, Zezima was level 55, or Goerg was level 52, then they would be able to fight in Wilderness Level 2 also. Get it?

There’s also another little trick in successful player-killing. Many people group together in order to kill a single player and/or group. The reason for this is,
a) If multiple people attack one player he can be killed quicker,
b) Certain combat abilities are stronger over others.

Let me explain reason b).
There’s a circle of combat – where different combat types are more effective at combating others. This is how it goes:

Fighter > Ranger
Ranger > Mage
Mage > Fighter

So basically, a fighter has a better chance of killing a ranger.
A ranger has a better chance of killing a mage.
A mage has a better chance of killing a fighter.

This allows groups of all three to become really effective when fighting in the Wilderness – although there are also disadvantages with grouping. Sometimes you team mate my go against you, and kill you in battle, or, when you do kill someone in group, you can’t seem to share the loot equally.

There’s also another rule of PKing. If you are in The Wilderness, and you attack someone (not if they attack you) you gain a skull above your head. This means that you’ve aggressed on someone, meaning you’ve attacked them. If you then die with the skull on your head, you lose all of the items in your inventory (bar one).

If someone attacks you, and you die, you’ll keep the three most valuable items in your inventory.

There are some cool things about The Wilderness too, for example the strong monsters you can find in it. The Wilderness contains some of the wildest, most fierce some monsters in the game, for example, Green Dragons, and Giants etc. It is arguable one of the best places for combat training.

Overall, The Wilderness is a very exciting part of Runescape, and should be tried by all (even the pacifists of you all!) You can risk losing items, but it doesn’t matter, it’s worth it for the fun!

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