Free-to-play PvP

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This article serves as an overview of the free-to-play guides on player-versus-player activities, account builds, and other related topics.

Guides

Overviews

Advanced topics

Account builds

Main article: Free-to-play account builds

One defence

Main article: One-defence pure (free-to-play)

One-defence combat pures sacrifice defensive capabilities to maximize the damage output within their respective combat level brackets. They are arguably the most common type of combat pures made specifically for PvP activities.

Build Skills Viability
Primary Secondary 1-vs-1 Multicombat
Ranged-melee pure Strength Ranged Attack Magic High. The most common build for arranged 1-vs-1 combat. High. Consistent damage output with both combat styles. Can tribrid with magic support spells like Snare and Tele Block.
Melee pure Strength Attack Medium to high. The second most common build on high levels. Commonly used for risk fighting. Low. With no ranged attacks, they are extremely vulnerable to binding spells and farcasting.
Magic pure Magic Medium to high early on, low afterwards. Combat spells can outdamage other combat styles early on, but due to their low speed and lack of knockout attacks they are difficult to combo with. Low speed and lack of damage progression past 59 magic level causes magic to be severely outdamaged by other combat styles, leaving magic pures rather ineffective in 1-vs-1 combat outside of the deep wilderness. High. Magic is the most common combat style in the ultra low level clan wars scene, and utility spells such as Snare and Tele Block are extremely useful on higher levels. Magic can also do severe damage to armoured opponents, especially when multiple mages focus on a single opponent.
Strength pure Strength Ranged High. High damage output early on with rune warhammers makes them a considerable threat on the low combat level scene. However, their low melee accuracy prevents them from consistently damaging opponents that train defence. Medium early on, low afterwards. Viable on low levels if using ranged and magic switches. However, they cannot overuse ranged and magic attacks without their combat level becoming ranged or magic-based. Lack of fast and accurate melee attacks makes them less viable on higher levels, and without ranged and magic they are even worse than regular melee pures.
Ranged-magic pure Ranged Magic Medium early on, low afterwards. They are somewhat viable with ranged-to-magic combo when combat spells are still competitive with melee attacks in terms of the damage output. However, their combos are easier to heal against than in the case of ranged-to-melee switches. High. The most common build in the ultra low level clan wars scene. Later on, they are usually converted to ranged-melee pures and used as tribrids.
Ranged pure Ranged Low. Lack of knockout weapons severely limits their ability to perform combos. While they do have high damage output, they might find it difficult to actually knock their opponents out without them running out of supplies first. Commonly used for activities such as ragging rather than legitimate combat. Medium. Somewhat viable due to the high damage output, but lack the flexibility of the hybrid builds.

Medium defence

Defence training does not unlock any major free-to-play weapons or other items that would significantly affect the output damage. Because of that, medium defence builds can be thought of as progressions of the common 1 defence builds such as ranged-melee pure, melee pure, or strength pure without much differences in the used combat techniques. With similar offensive capabilities to their low defence combat pure equivalents, they can have roughly the same damage output. However, their higher defensive skills do improve their survivability and allow employing riskier tactics in general.

Currently, the only free-to-play item with a defence requirement that has a strength bonus is the set of gold decorative boots from the Castle Wars minigame. With a strength bonus of +1, these boots are necessary to maximise damage with some melee weapons such as the rune scimitar or rune warhammer. Additionally, some ranged body armours with superior ranged accuracy bonuses have a defence requirement, although they do not affect the maximum ranged hits. These include the hardleather body, studded body, green d'hide body and gilded d'hide body.

With access to armours such as rune or green dragonhide, accounts with higher defence levels are especially viable in the deep wilderness and multicombat areas due to their notably higher defensive capabilities.

Build Defence Progression of
Rune pure Defence 40 Ranged-melee pure, melee pure
Adamant pure Defence 30 Ranged-melee pure, melee pure
Strength tank Defence 30, 40 Strength pure

Additionally, clan pures with unrestricted offensive combat skills are common among members of clans that require specific defence levels rather than overall combat levels. Rather than aiming for the lowest possible combat level, clan pures tend to train all combat skills without restriction with the exception of defence capped at a specific limit such as 25.

High defence

High defence accounts sacrifice damage output to improve their defensive capabilities. They are often used as support accounts for scouting, luring, ragging, boxing, carrying supplies, and other secondary activities. While rarely used for 1-vs-1 PvP combat, there are some clans that specialize in these types of accounts.

Build Skills Comment
Primary Secondary
Tank Defence Attack Strength Ranged Accounts that maximise their defence levels while maintaining some offensive capabilities. Usually high level.
Magic tank Magic Defence Typically used for scouting, luring, and world hopping. Can cast supportive spells such as Snare and Tele Block.
Defence pure Defence Low level accounts that usually train only defence. While they are extremely weak offensively, they can be used for tasks such as scouting, luring, or carrying supplies.
Main Attack Strength Defence Ranged Magic Prayer Player accounts without any combat skill restrictions, typically used in PvP in the very last combat level brackets.

Activities

Dangerous

  • Wilderness: a large area north of the kingdoms of Asgarnia and Misthalin where players can engage in combat. Venturing further into the wilderness increases the maximum combat level difference between the opponents, allowing high level players to attack low level players, and vice versa.
  • PvP worlds: dedicated worlds where players can engage in combat in the majority of available locations with the exception of safe areas located near banks and respawn points. The maximum combat level difference between opponents is 15 in most of the dangerous areas, with the wilderness level increasing it even further.

Safe

  • Castle Wars: a capture-the-flag minigame where players are separated into two teams. Notable rewards include decorative armour, with the gold decorative boots being the best free-to-play item in the feet slot.
  • Clan Wars: a minigame where clans can arrange fights within a set of arenas. It also offers a free-for-all mode, popular for casual fights. Offers no rewards.
  • Emir's Arena: a minigame allowing players to engage in safe arranged duels under specific sets of rules. The legacy duel mode is available in the free-to-play worlds, while the core of the minigame remains members-only.
  • Last Man Standing: a battle royale minigame where players compete in 1-vs-1 duels to be the last remaining player. The items, prayers, and spells used during the minigame are typically only available to members; there is no game mode that resembles typical free-to-play conditions. Players can no longer earn points in free-to-play worlds, which limits their ability to buy the rewards.

Activity types

Activities involving player combat can be split into player-versus-player engagements between willing participants, and player killing with a hunter-versus-hunted dynamic.

Player-versus-player

Dangerous player-versus-player (PvP) activities between willing participants take place around the established hotspots such as Edgeville, Ferox Enclave, or the PvP world Lumbridge, as well as some multicombat areas within the wilderness or the PvP worlds during prearranged clan wars.

Safe player-versus-player activities include all existing free-to-play PvP minigames with a notable inclusion of Clan Wars. The Clan Wars free-for-all area in the wilderness-themed world 308 is usually rather active, allowing players to safely try out both 1-vs-1 and multicombat PvP.

Player killing

Hotspots where player killers often attack unwilling targets engaging in other activities include:

When attempting to kill other players that might be unwilling to engage in combat, player killers are advised to use utility spells such as Tele Block or Snare to prevent the targets from escaping the dangerous locations.

Unique mechanics

The following mechanics are unique to the dangerous PvP areas and PvP worlds:

  • Initiating combat with other players yields the skull status to the attacker.
  • Items lost on death are available to the player with the registered kill. Only selected untradeable items are transferred to the grave or left broken in the inventory.
    • Above the 20th level of the Wilderness, all untradeable items are destroyed upon death.
  • Autocast option is not remembered after removing the weapon and has to be set up every time a magic weapon is equipped.
  • Manual casting on a player target fires the spell 1 tick faster than autocasting on NPCs.
  • Food, including raw, is not visible to other players when dropped manually even after an initial delay. Other items such as weapons or armour are immediately visible to the other players.
  • Supplies, including potions and food, disappear faster from the ground than regular items.
  • Players cannot trade if they are or recently were in combat.
  • PJ timer is increased to 20 ticks, or roughly 12 seconds. There is an additional 20 tick grace period after a kill during which the player cannot be attacked in single-way combat areas.
  • Defeated players might yield loot keys instead of or in addition to dropped items if that option is turned on.
  • PID is swapped more often.
  • Items causing the player to perform certain animations or emotes, as well as the Runefest 2014 home teleport animation override, cannot be used.

Changes

Major updates

This section includes some notable updates that affected the free-to-play PvP scene.

Date Changes
[[{{#explode:29 May 2024| |0}} {{#explode:29 May 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:29 May 2024| |2}}]]
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  • The minimum hit has been increased from 0 to 1, slightly increasing the average DPS. Every successful accuracy roll now results in at least 1 damage.
  • The damage of the air, water, and earth elemental spells including strikes, bolts, and blasts now scales up to 8, 12, or 16 respectively, matching the strongest unlocked spell in the tier. As such, Wind Blast should now be preferred over Fire Blast in PvP scenarios due to a lower cast cost.
  • Mystic Lore and Mystic Might now increase magic damage by 1% and 2% respectively. However, with no other magic damage bonuses available in free-to-play worlds, they have no effect on the maximum magic damage.
  • Prayer points drain rate of Thick Skin, Burst of Strength, Clarity of Thought, Sharp Eye, and Mystic Will was decreased from 5 to 1.67 points per minute. Effectively, they should drain at a third of the speed they used to.
  • Sharp Eye and Burst of Strength now boost the Ranged and Strength by at least 1 level respectively, even if those levels are lower than 20.
  • Attacking an NPC with the auto-cast enabled no longer incurs an extra 1 tick (0.6s) delay.
[[{{#explode:10 April 2024| |0}} {{#explode:10 April 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:10 April 2024| |2}}]]
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  • Raw food no longer appears to other players when dropped in the Wilderness. This prevents players from being able to transfer food mid-fight by cooking the picked up raw food.
  • Manually dropped food and potions now despawn faster in the Wilderness to prevent from stacking extra supplier prior to the fights and juggling the items during combat.
  • Aggression range of the selected Wilderness monsters including Ankou, Lesser Demons, Ice Giants, and Hill Giants was modified.
  • Unintended PJ timer interactions across single-way and multi-way combat borders were removed. This prevents from situations where a player exiting a multi-way combat area might have been safe from attacks if they attacked a different opponent that the last one that have hit them while still in the multi-way combat zone.
  • A bridge over the lava just south of the Wilderness Chaos Temple was added, yielding much faster access to the altar when approaching from the south.
  • A zombie pirate ship was added to the eastern shore of the Wilderness. It has little use in the free-to-play worlds, since the lockers cannot be opened, but the ladder there can possibly be used to escape a PKer when running from locations such as the nature runes spawn or the Demonic Ruins.
[[{{#explode:6 March 2024| |0}} {{#explode:6 March 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:6 March 2024| |2}}]]
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Previous PvP combat information is now wiped upon death. This prevents players who have just died from coming back to fight their opponent again without being skulled.

[[{{#explode:15 June 2022| |0}} {{#explode:15 June 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:15 June 2022| |2}}]]
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A Loot Chest has been added to the Lumbridge Castle courtyard on the PvP worlds.

[[{{#explode:11 May 2022| |0}} {{#explode:11 May 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:11 May 2022| |2}}]]
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Bryophyta's staff is a now a free-to-play item, becoming the best-in-slot free-to-play magic weapon with magic accuracy and defence bonuses at +15.

[[{{#explode:23 March 2022| |0}} {{#explode:23 March 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:23 March 2022| |2}}]]
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Players can no longer trade in the Wilderness if they are or recently were in combat, which prevents from transferring supplies mid-fight.

[[{{#explode:9 March 2022| |0}} {{#explode:9 March 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:9 March 2022| |2}}]]
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  • PJ timer was increased within the single-way combat areas of the Wilderness. Combat interruption prevention was added. This significantly affected multiplayer activities in and near single-way combat areas, and made techniques such as boxing or PJing obsolete.
  • Loot Chests were added to the Grand Exchange and the Edgeville bank, significantly increasing their utility on the free-to-play worlds.
  • The cost of unlocking the loot keys was decreased from 5,000,000 coins to 1,000,000 coins.
[[{{#explode:23 February 2022| |0}} {{#explode:23 February 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:23 February 2022| |2}}]]
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Loot keys were introduced as an opt-in feature. Players can unlock the option to enable loot keys by paying 5,000,000 coins to Skully. When enabled, items dropped by opponents killed by the player are not dropped into the ground, and the player receives a loot key instead. The loot can be retrieved from the loot chest in the Ferox Enclave. Players can hold up to 5 keys, and can modify whether food and other supplies or valuable items are stored in the loot chest or not. Due to the lack of reliable transportation methods to the Ferox Enclave, the utility of the loot keys remained limited to the areas around the enclave itself, as well as the deep Wilderness.

[[{{#explode:22 September 2021| |0}} {{#explode:22 September 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:22 September 2021| |2}}]]
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The defence bonuses of the items from the green dragonhide armour set and its trimmed variants were significantly lowered. Note that the gilded dragonhide armour was unaffected, becoming the best-in-slot ranged equipment in terms of defensive capabilities.

[[{{#explode:26 May 2021| |0}} {{#explode:26 May 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:26 May 2021| |2}}]]
(update)

The clan system was overhauled and fully launched. The classic clan chats are now available as chat-channels.

[[{{#explode:21 April 2021| |0}} {{#explode:21 April 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:21 April 2021| |2}}]]
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This update made strength pures a viable build common among low level players.

[[{{#explode:2 December 2020| |0}} {{#explode:2 December 2020| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:2 December 2020| |2}}]]
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[[{{#explode:23 July 2020| |0}} {{#explode:23 July 2020| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:23 July 2020| |2}}]]
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The Ferox Enclave respawn can now be unlocked and used by the free-to-play players by paying 5,000,000 coins to Ferox.

[[{{#explode:16 July 2020| |0}} {{#explode:16 July 2020| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:16 July 2020| |2}}]]
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The Ferox Enclave was introduced to the Wilderness. It is the first settlement with a bank within the free-to-play Wilderness bounds. The town now contains the lobbies of the Clan Wars and the Last Man Standing minigames that were moved there from Al-Kharid, as well as a portal to the Castle Wars lobby. Notable features also include the Pool of Refreshment that can heal players' hitpoints, prayer points, run energy and skill changes.

[[{{#explode:5 September 2019| |0}} {{#explode:5 September 2019| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:5 September 2019| |2}}]]
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[[{{#explode:6 June 2019| |0}} {{#explode:6 June 2019| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:6 June 2019| |2}}]]
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[[{{#explode:17 August 2017| |0}} {{#explode:17 August 2017| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:17 August 2017| |2}}]]
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Players can now toggle whether the arrows are placed in the inventory or automatically added to the ammunition slot upon picking up by talking to the ranged combat tutor.

[[{{#explode:10 August 2017| |0}} {{#explode:10 August 2017| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:10 August 2017| |2}}]]
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Castle wars bracelet can now be traded on free-to-play worlds, which increased the viability of the Castle Wars minigame for training by significantly increasing the DPS as well as the number of hitpoints healed by the bandages.

[[{{#explode:20 July 2017| |0}} {{#explode:20 July 2017| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:20 July 2017| |2}}]]
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[[{{#explode:19 February 2015| |0}} {{#explode:19 February 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:19 February 2015| |2}}]]
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The free-to-play mode was permanently added to the Old School RuneScape.

[[{{#explode:27 March 2014| |0}} {{#explode:27 March 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:27 March 2014| |2}}]]
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Rune god armour now gives a +1 prayer bonus per piece, becoming the best-in-slot melee equipment surpassing regular and gilded rune armour.

[[{{#explode:26 July 2013| |0}} {{#explode:26 July 2013| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:26 July 2013| |2}}]]
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The Edgeville respawn can be unlocked by paying 5,000,000 coins to Krystilia and now works on free-to-play style worlds.

[[{{#explode:9 May 2013| |0}} {{#explode:9 May 2013| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:9 May 2013| |2}}]]
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"F2p-style" worlds were added for subscribers that wished to play without the members' features.

Minor updates

This section lists less impactful changes related to items used in PvP activities, or mechanics affecting PvP combat.

Date Changes
[[{{#explode:25 September 2024| |0}} {{#explode:25 September 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:25 September 2024| |2}}]]
(update)

A new "Energy threshold to re-enable running" setting was added. When set to a non-zero value, it will re-enable run after the player runs out of energy and then regenerates it to a specified threshold.

[[{{#explode:28 August 2024| |0}} {{#explode:28 August 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:28 August 2024| |2}}]]
(update)
  • Legacy Duels at the Emir's Arena are now restricted to the specific 'Legacy Duels' worlds.
  • Worlds 483 (east United States) and 571 (Australia) were marked as the designated Legacy Duels servers in addition to the existing world 379 (United Kingdom).
[[{{#explode:28 August 2024| |0}} {{#explode:28 August 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:28 August 2024| |2}}]]
(update)
  • Legacy Duels at the Emir's Arena are now restricted to the specific 'Legacy Duels' worlds.
  • Worlds 483 (east United States) and 571 (Australia) were marked as the designated Legacy Duels servers in addition to the existing world 379 (United Kingdom).
[[{{#explode:23 May 2024| |0}} {{#explode:23 May 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:23 May 2024| |2}}]]
(update)

The "Classic F2P" option was added to the "Magic" dropdown in the Clan Wars options with Bind being the only available freeze spell. This allows organizing PvP events with Snare being disabled.

[[{{#explode:1 November 2023| |0}} {{#explode:1 November 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:1 November 2023| |2}}]]
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  • Players may now own an unlimited number of fancy boots and fighting boots, including both at once.
  • Players who have a Jagex Account can now obtain fancier boots from the Cradle of Life with identical bonuses to both fancy and fighting boots.
  • All 3 types of boots rewarded from the Stronghold of Security are longer destroyed on death, and instead they are sent to the gravestone upon death below the 20 level of the Wilderness. They are now about as convenient to use as regular boots, which makes them a viable option for low Defence pures, especially at lower levels to counter low Attack opponents.
[[{{#explode:20 September 2023| |0}} {{#explode:20 September 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:20 September 2023| |2}}]]
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The cursed goblin hammer now has -100 melee accuracy bonuses, making the player wielding it always hit a 0 on their targets. This allows free boxing without the possibility to damage the target, locking both players in combat in single-way areas.

[[{{#explode:13 September 2023| |0}} {{#explode:13 September 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:13 September 2023| |2}}]]
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Bind and Snare now yield varying amounts of Magic experience depending on whether the projectile hits or splashes:

  • For Bind, a success now gives 31 XP, up from 30.
  • For Snare, a success now gives 61 XP (plus optional damage), up from 60.
[[{{#explode:23 March 2023| |0}} {{#explode:23 March 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:23 March 2023| |2}}]]
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Canifis boots are now tradeable on the free-to-play worlds similarly to the gloves. They offer the same bonuses as the leather boots.

[[{{#explode:10 August 2022| |0}} {{#explode:10 August 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:10 August 2022| |2}}]]
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  • NPCs attacking the players within PvP areas now work under a shorter 5 second PJ timer instead of the full 12 second grace period, matching the behaviour from before the PJ timer increase.
  • One-defence pure and zerker modes were added to the Last Man Standing minigame.
[[{{#explode:3 August 2022| |0}} {{#explode:3 August 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:3 August 2022| |2}}]]
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An optional golden trim for hitsplats was added. The trim is displayed when players deal their maximum hits in combat with the current weapon or spell and attack style. In free-to-play, the trim works for all combat styles including melee, ranged, and magic. It shows up both when the player deals maximum damage to an opponent, or if an opponent deals their maximum damage to the player. The effect is purely cosmetic and can be turned off in the settings.

[[{{#explode:6 July 2022| |0}} {{#explode:6 July 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:6 July 2022| |2}}]]
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Duel Arena was replaced with the Emir's Arena. Players are still able to challenge each other for safe PvP duels in the legacy mode, but coins can no longer be staked in fights.

[[{{#explode:14 April 2021| |0}} {{#explode:14 April 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:14 April 2021| |2}}]]
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Barronite mace was introduced as a reward from the activities within the Ruins of Camdozaal. With its 4-tick speed, crush-based attack, a strength bonus of +40 and a prayer bonus of +2, this mace can be an effective alternative to the rune scimitar.

[[{{#explode:17 February 2021| |0}} {{#explode:17 February 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:17 February 2021| |2}}]]
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The competitive mode of the Last Man Standing minigame can no longer be played on the free-to-play worlds, preventing free-to-play players from earning the reward points. A new map based on 4th Age Varrock was introduced.

[[{{#explode:29 August 2019| |0}} {{#explode:29 August 2019| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:29 August 2019| |2}}]]
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The Last Man Standing minigame was overhauled. The Justine's stuff for the Last Shopper Standing shop was introduced with notable free-to-play rewards including the swift blade, a 1-handed 3-tick melee weapon with no combat bonuses. The items from the shop can be bought with points earned through the competitive mode of the minigame.

[[{{#explode:11 April 2019| |0}} {{#explode:11 April 2019| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:11 April 2019| |2}}]]
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Treasure Trails were expanded with a wide range of new decorative free-to-play items such as gilded dragonhide armour, ham joint, amulet of power (t), trimmed monk's robes, heraldic platebodies, gold-trimmed leather armour and rune scimitar ornament kits. While at the time of release a vast majority of the new rewards provided equal bonuses to the existing items, they can be useful for risk fighting.

[[{{#explode:6 October 2016| |0}} {{#explode:6 October 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:6 October 2016| |2}}]]
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Obor was introduced as the first free-to-play boss with the hill giant club as a rare drop. The club provides the same strength bonus as a rune 2h sword and similar accuracy bonuses, but uses crush instead of slash attacks, which makes it more accurate against players wearing plate armour.

[[{{#explode:4 August 2016| |0}} {{#explode:4 August 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:4 August 2016| |2}}]]
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The Last Man Standing minigame was added. At the time, the lobby of the minigame was located at Al-Kharid, near the Clan Wars lobby.

[[{{#explode:19 May 2016| |0}} {{#explode:19 May 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:19 May 2016| |2}}]]
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Gilded equipment is now available on the free-to-play worlds.

[[{{#explode:7 April 2016| |0}} {{#explode:7 April 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:7 April 2016| |2}}]]
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Additional rune god armours including Bandos, Armadyl, and Zaros are now available on the free-to-play worlds.

Comparison with RuneScape 2

Since the introduction of Old School RuneScape, a few notable updates affected the free-to-play PvP scene and the combat pure builds.

Items

Spells

  • Tele Block is now available on free-to-play worlds.
  • Snare is now available on free-to-play worlds.
  • The damage of the air, water, and earth elemental spells including strikes, bolts, and blasts now scales up to 8, 12, or 16 respectively, matching the strongest unlocked spell in the tier.
  • Bind and Snare binding effects are no longer shortened by the Protect from Magic prayer.
  • Bind and Snare offer varying amounts of Magic experience depending on whether they successfully hit the target or splash.
  • Snare can no longer be cast on an opponent currently immune to its binding effect.

Prayers

Locations

Minigames

Mechanics

  • Loot keys were introduced to the Wilderness and PvP worlds. After paying 1,000,000 coins to Skully, players can opt-in to receive the loot from the defeated opponents as loot keys. Instead of having to pick up the items off the ground, loot keys allow retrieving all items from a Loot Chest located at the Ferox Enclave, the Grand Exchange or the Edgeville bank, as well as the front of the Lumbridge castle in the PvP worlds.
  • The minimum hit has been increased from 0 to 1, slightly increasing the average DPS. Every successful accuracy roll now results in at least 1 damage.
  • Death mechanics were modified.
  • Clan system was expanded. Classic clan functionalities are now available as chat-channels.
  • Players can now toggle whether the arrows are placed in the inventory or automatically added to the ammunition slot upon picking up by talking to the ranged combat tutor.
  • Run can be automatically re-enabled after regenerating the energy to a threshold specified with the "Energy threshold to re-enable running" setting.

Accounts

  • Players in the Ironman Mode cannot trade with other players or pick up regular loot, and do not gain any combat experience when fighting players except for basic spell casting experience. This allows to create optimized combat pures for specific combat level brackets. Since they can receive loot keys, it allows them to transfer the loot between accounts.
  • New accounts are restricted from trading, joining chat channels, and entering PvP worlds.

Miscellaneous

  • Due to the changes made to warhammers, free-to-play strength pures are now a common combat pure build in low and early mid combat level brackets.
  • Third-party game clients that offer quality-of-life features such as estimating opponent's hitpoints, combat skills lookup, or maximum hit calculation are now commonly used by players participating in PvP activities. Note that using unapproved clients that automate or ease actions such as eating or prayer switching is against the game's rules and may result in a ban.

See also

v • e
Free-to-play PvP
Gameplay
Activities
Dangerous
Safe
Mechanics
Strategies
Account builds
1 defence builds
Other builds
Community
v • e
Free-to-play guides
Skills
Combat
Gathering
Processing
Achievements
Quests
Other
Account builds
Miscellaneous
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