Everybody gets so panic-driven and passionate about defence levels. The point of being a "pure" is to specialize in one form of combat/Pking style within RS. You choose your stat, you focus on that one stat, and with the lowest possible combat level possible you exploit and utilize that stat to the best of your ability and to the degree that you wish to enjoy it with.
Of course, that's an impractical expectation from players these days, or in general, because as we all know people get bored of the same ole same old, and being limited in flexibility. Because of this, everybody now takes the term "pure" to mean totally offensive/attack within RS, with NO defence or with as little defence as possible (sorry but if you PK p2p only Turmoil is pretty ******* pure).
Now, because of that that now makes us COMBAT pures, rather than str pures, range pures, mage pures, etc etc, BECAUSE of the fact that we want flexibility in ourselves and together as clans. So, by saying this isn't a question of attack+def level averages and such, you're essentially saying that being a "pure" is in no relation at all to being similar in combat level and range. The whole point of limiting and combining your stats in different ways is to PK the way you want to PK, within the combat level range you want to PK... and theoretically therefore entire clans should be seeking to be within a combat range so in the WILDERNESS they can all attack alike players.
Because so many different people like different PK'ing ranges however, the combat gap has widened, expanded, and fluxuated to the point that people don't even consider that anymore. To me, if you're a Pure, and involved with a Pure clan, every single one of you should either be A) under combat 100 and over combat 75 or B) Under combat level 75 and over combat 50, for practicality purposes.
The only clan that even makes a note and enforces that concept is NME at this time. Those of you with ridiculous combat ranges and gaps, even with the "lower def avg", with levels that are 100+ and 70-80 Pking together, have NO room to be criticizing or debating the "morale" rights and wrongs of how different players build their accounts.
This is a GAME. You guys are lucky we have communities based around it and the gameplay within.
Quit making a ******* passion-case over every possible thread you can find.
-Kback2chinning;P