Introduction
RuneScape isn't just about getting your skills up and accumulating wealth, or going on grand quests and playing minigames, sometimes it's all about proving yourself to be the mightiest warrior, most powerful sorcerer or the most keen-eyed of the rangers.
PvP Worlds are whole worlds in which you can sate your desire to fight against the most deadly of foes: other players.
Requirements
You must have a Combat level of 20 (not including Summoning) to enter a PvP World.
Getting Started
While you are logging into a PvP world, you will be presented with a warning and given the option to go back to the log-in screen to select a different world.
As much as you may want to jump right in and start the carnage, you should be aware of a few points:
The first time you enter a PvP world, you will be teleported to Lumbridge Castle, allowing you a chance to read over the handy guide that will appear in your inventory. If you lose the book, you can get a new one from the Doomsayer, who is also able to turn off the warning interface telling you how much wealth you are carrying when you log in.
You cannot take any borrowed items onto a PvP world.
You will have a period of time to prepare yourself after you log into the world. During this time, you are immune to player attacks. Your immunity will end if you attack another player.
You will also receive a similar immunity when you teleport or travel (using a boat, for example), but if you do it too frequently, you will cease receiving this bonus for a short period of time.
The drops you receive from your enemies are random, but the greater the value of your items, and the longer you survive, the better the rewards you will win. Click here to read more about how drops are calculated.
You can attack anyone whose Combat level is within a certain range of yours. This range is calculated as 10% of your Combat level + 5 levels. Wilderness levels are added to this range, making it an even deadlier place.
Note that you can fight someone whose Combat level is outside your range if your Combat level is within their range. Basically, if someone can attack you, you can attack them.
If you can attack a player, their Combat level will be displayed in green, yellow or red, just like a monster's Combat level. If you cannot attack them, their Combat level will be white.
Safe Zones
Within PvP worlds there are a number of 'safe zones'. These are areas where players are prevented from attacking each other entirely. You can identify these areas by spotting the icon to the left. Safe areas include:
Banks
The Grand Exchange
Entrana
Respawn points (note that the Falador and Camelot respawn points have moved to the nearest banks on PvP worlds)
Skill Guilds with entry requirements
The beach you wash up on if the Fishing Trawler sinks
Safe minigames still allow PvP, but if you are slain you will lose nothing and simply be transported to the starting area.
If you are in combat and flee into a safe zone, you will see a ten second timer appear. During this time, you can still be attacked and killed, even though you are in a safe zone.
Some areas are considered exceptionally dangerous, because they are popular areas for players to go or because of the combined danger of monsters and other players. These are called 'hot zones', and are marked by the flaming skull icon to the left. There are advantages to being in these areas, however - the amount you win from kills will increase more rapidly.
Death
If you are slain on a PvP world, you will respawn as normal, retaining your three most valuable items if you are not skulled, or no items at all if you have been skulled. As usual, you can use the Protect Item prayer to retain an extra item.
If you are the victor in your combat, you will discover that your enemies drop items. These items are randomly generated by the game based on how much your opponent was carrying, how much you are carrying, the difference between your Combat level and your opponent's, how long you have survived outside safe zones on the PvP world, and how many other players you have killed recently. If you frequently enter safe zones, your drops will certainly not be as impressive as if you had spent the whole time in a hot zone.
Most of time, the items your opponent drops will be normal equipment such as you might find or make on an ordinary, non-PvP RuneScape world, but sometimes you will be the lucky recipient of special PvP world equipment.
Special Drops
There are several types of PvP world equipment, each designed to improve your chances of defeating your enemies, or simply to help you earn even more experience if you dare to train your skills there.
Corrupt Dragon Equipment
If you are lucky, you may come across some severely damaged dragon equipment. These have all of the same equipment bonuses as ordinary dragon equipment, but can be distinguished by the faded colours. You can wear these for 30 minutes before they crumble to dust. Corrupt dragon equipment cannot be repaired. The following dragon items are available in a corrupted state:
Chainbody, Medium helm, Platelegs, Plateskirt, Square shield, Battleaxe, Dagger, Longsword, Mace, Scimitar, Spear, Brawling Gloves (Members Only)
Brawling gloves are especially designed to temporarily increase the experience you earn while training on a PvP world. While wearing them, you will receive a 50% bonus to any experience you earn in the relevant skill while on a PvP world. If you use them in the Wilderness on a PvP world, you will receive even more quadrupling the amount you would normally receive.
Brawling gloves don't last forever, and will disintegrate after a certain amount of time spent earning the relevant experience.
Brawling gloves are available for the following skills:
Melee, Magic, Ranged, Agility, Cooking, Firemaking, Fishing, Hunter, Mining, Prayer, Smithing, Thieving, Woodcutting
Ancient Warriors' Equipment (Members Only)
RuneScape isn't just about getting your skills up and accumulating wealth, or going on grand quests and playing minigames, sometimes it's all about proving yourself to be the mightiest warrior, most powerful sorcerer or the most keen-eyed of the rangers.
PvP Worlds are whole worlds in which you can sate your desire to fight against the most deadly of foes: other players.
Requirements
You must have a Combat level of 20 (not including Summoning) to enter a PvP World.
Getting Started
While you are logging into a PvP world, you will be presented with a warning and given the option to go back to the log-in screen to select a different world.
As much as you may want to jump right in and start the carnage, you should be aware of a few points:
The first time you enter a PvP world, you will be teleported to Lumbridge Castle, allowing you a chance to read over the handy guide that will appear in your inventory. If you lose the book, you can get a new one from the Doomsayer, who is also able to turn off the warning interface telling you how much wealth you are carrying when you log in.
You cannot take any borrowed items onto a PvP world.
You will have a period of time to prepare yourself after you log into the world. During this time, you are immune to player attacks. Your immunity will end if you attack another player.
You will also receive a similar immunity when you teleport or travel (using a boat, for example), but if you do it too frequently, you will cease receiving this bonus for a short period of time.
The drops you receive from your enemies are random, but the greater the value of your items, and the longer you survive, the better the rewards you will win. Click here to read more about how drops are calculated.
You can attack anyone whose Combat level is within a certain range of yours. This range is calculated as 10% of your Combat level + 5 levels. Wilderness levels are added to this range, making it an even deadlier place.
Note that you can fight someone whose Combat level is outside your range if your Combat level is within their range. Basically, if someone can attack you, you can attack them.
If you can attack a player, their Combat level will be displayed in green, yellow or red, just like a monster's Combat level. If you cannot attack them, their Combat level will be white.
Safe Zones
Within PvP worlds there are a number of 'safe zones'. These are areas where players are prevented from attacking each other entirely. You can identify these areas by spotting the icon to the left. Safe areas include:
Banks
The Grand Exchange
Entrana
Respawn points (note that the Falador and Camelot respawn points have moved to the nearest banks on PvP worlds)
Skill Guilds with entry requirements
The beach you wash up on if the Fishing Trawler sinks
Safe minigames still allow PvP, but if you are slain you will lose nothing and simply be transported to the starting area.
If you are in combat and flee into a safe zone, you will see a ten second timer appear. During this time, you can still be attacked and killed, even though you are in a safe zone.
Some areas are considered exceptionally dangerous, because they are popular areas for players to go or because of the combined danger of monsters and other players. These are called 'hot zones', and are marked by the flaming skull icon to the left. There are advantages to being in these areas, however - the amount you win from kills will increase more rapidly.
Death
If you are slain on a PvP world, you will respawn as normal, retaining your three most valuable items if you are not skulled, or no items at all if you have been skulled. As usual, you can use the Protect Item prayer to retain an extra item.
If you are the victor in your combat, you will discover that your enemies drop items. These items are randomly generated by the game based on how much your opponent was carrying, how much you are carrying, the difference between your Combat level and your opponent's, how long you have survived outside safe zones on the PvP world, and how many other players you have killed recently. If you frequently enter safe zones, your drops will certainly not be as impressive as if you had spent the whole time in a hot zone.
Most of time, the items your opponent drops will be normal equipment such as you might find or make on an ordinary, non-PvP RuneScape world, but sometimes you will be the lucky recipient of special PvP world equipment.
Special Drops
There are several types of PvP world equipment, each designed to improve your chances of defeating your enemies, or simply to help you earn even more experience if you dare to train your skills there.
Corrupt Dragon Equipment
If you are lucky, you may come across some severely damaged dragon equipment. These have all of the same equipment bonuses as ordinary dragon equipment, but can be distinguished by the faded colours. You can wear these for 30 minutes before they crumble to dust. Corrupt dragon equipment cannot be repaired. The following dragon items are available in a corrupted state:
Chainbody, Medium helm, Platelegs, Plateskirt, Square shield, Battleaxe, Dagger, Longsword, Mace, Scimitar, Spear, Brawling Gloves (Members Only)
Brawling gloves are especially designed to temporarily increase the experience you earn while training on a PvP world. While wearing them, you will receive a 50% bonus to any experience you earn in the relevant skill while on a PvP world. If you use them in the Wilderness on a PvP world, you will receive even more quadrupling the amount you would normally receive.
Brawling gloves don't last forever, and will disintegrate after a certain amount of time spent earning the relevant experience.
Brawling gloves are available for the following skills:
Melee, Magic, Ranged, Agility, Cooking, Firemaking, Fishing, Hunter, Mining, Prayer, Smithing, Thieving, Woodcutting
Ancient Warriors' Equipment (Members Only)
