dmcboi

the stats im going for: 99 str (75/99) 99 range (97/99) 94 mage (61/94) 44 pray (achieved) 1 def 50 attack (achieved) my hp is 72 atm combat is 70, i max out at 78 combat when i get 99 hp - but obv 99 str/range and 94 mage will be got around 75 combat which will be sweet

since the birth of runescape defence can also mean offence. not just due to the offensive bonuses from armour, but the fact that you do not have to eat as often/as much as a 1 defencer would, then you can throw in more damage to compensate for your lack of nomnomnom. this still doesnt make it acceptable to gain defence in my opinion, the whole point in being a pure is to own anyone with your low defence level - in particular people your own level, to prove the point that no matter how good the offensive bonuses your high level armour gives, training up your offensive stats rather than your defence for offensive gear, is always better. (:

lol at implying runescape isnt a drug xD

it would be if most of a server (ie. "world") wasnt level 80 =/ its probably the same time and effort as hitting 138 for runescape but its a lot more funner and between the levels of 70-80 your heavily addicted (i found anyways)

Ah thanks for finding one good aspect of it, +1 internet for you! ;D

i then go on to discuss how the higher your secondary stats are, regardless if your keypointing (for example, 95 defence for jewkilling armour) then the more identical you are to a main in a fight. At 75 defence you are obv going to be like a main when fighting, even though your stat is keypointed (Albeit, very highly keypointed)

thanks mate (: yeah defence is a secondary stat, magic is also a secondary stat in RSC which makes pures there even more interesting

as someone that has had countless pures over the past five years, and has some degree of knowledge over how the runescape combat formula works I will post my opinion. In runescape you have two types of combat skills, primary and secondary. primary - Attack, strength, range, mage secondary - defence, hitpoints, summoning, prayer primary skills have no set formula as such, and grant combat levels dependant on how high each one of them is separately. with the exception of strength and attack counting as one skill as far as the combat formula is concerned. if for example you train for 99 range, with your other two primary combat stats being low then it will take a great amount of levels to grant you another combat level, as there is direct correlation between how high your "account type" (range/mage/melee) stats is to the number of levels from the other two combat types needed to combat level. this opens the doors for pures that select only one type of combat type and stick to it, and tbh that's what a true pure is but of course isn't very versatile and fail soloing at higher combat levels. secondary skills ALWAYS have a set formula preset to combat level - for example your GUARANTEED a combat level every 8 prayer levels. Due to the ability to control your combat level directly from whatever your secondary skills are regardless of any other combat stats (primary or secondary) you - players tend to have these stats at "keypoints" (for example - 40 defence for rune, 52 prayer for smite etc.) as they have no other use other than what keypoints they give (defence being a slight exception, but let's face a 1 def vs. a 99 def both in no armour with other stats identical won't be an obvious win for the 99 defer). mains don't care what any of their stats are exactly, they just want to train them all. however pures will either manipulate their secondary skills in such a way that they gain an advantage from low levelled keypoints but don't acquire a great deal of combat levels (for example, getting 20 def for the keypoints of mith/in). So basically, if you are controlling your secondary skills (With the exception of HP ofc) then you are of a certain degree a pure of sorts. if you are not keypointing your secondary skills because you do not care, you are a main. the more pure you are depends on how low your secondary skills are. with the obvious purest pure being someone with 1-1-1-10 (which now due to desert treasure and the appeals of defence, is uncommon), with "real pures" also training there hitpoints (i.e. EVERYONE. the purest pures are obviously only for show as the second you start pking your going to gain hitpoints). the purer you are depends on how low your secondary stats are. even if you have 45 defence you are still a pure as you are keypointing. however the second you lose your significant offensive advantage against mains your level (Which happens depending on how high your secondary stats are) you are also not a pure even if all your secondary stats are keypoint - albeit severely high keypointed.