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Thoughts on RuneScape's Combat
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I'm no fan of hand-holding in games. But there's a difference between not hand-holding and just lazy design. They still need to design a combat system that actually works. They don't need to explicitly state
how
it works. But it still need to be based on something.
At the start of EoC, it really did feel like it was just random. Nowadays, maybe they put more thought into it. But since the foundation of it all is still not really any different than the original EoC, it still doesn't really work.
For a long time, I always alternated between the basic 3s ability (e.g. Slice, Wrack, etc) and some other basic. Then I threw in a Threshold at the start of every Slayer mob, etc. I didn't realize how bad that was until I complained to someone about how I couldn't kill the Giant Mimic quickly enough and they told me to stop using Wrack
. But it's easy to see why it's tempting to fall into the habit I did:
Cooldowns are not intuitive at all and at low levels without a lot of stuff unlocked there aren't even enough basics to rotate through. For example, the only decent basics I have for magic are Sonic Wave and Dragon Breath. Chain is barely better than Wrack but is better than nothing (though honestly an autoattack might do more...). Problem is it also aggros other mobs which isn't always desirable. Impact is also crap unless it's paired with Wrack to follow the stun/bind... which for some reason doesn't apply to mobs when playing with magic (even though ranged works just fine; I guess because they don't want mages to kite melee mobs forever). But yeah. I end up with nothing to cast so of course I fell into alternating with Wrack. Nowadays I know that once I build up to 50%+ adrenaline I can keep decent basics going 24/7 by adding thresholds to the mix. But for a total newbie it is SO unintuitive.
At the start of EoC, it really did feel like it was just random. Nowadays, maybe they put more thought into it. But since the foundation of it all is still not really any different than the original EoC, it still doesn't really work.
For a long time, I always alternated between the basic 3s ability (e.g. Slice, Wrack, etc) and some other basic. Then I threw in a Threshold at the start of every Slayer mob, etc. I didn't realize how bad that was until I complained to someone about how I couldn't kill the Giant Mimic quickly enough and they told me to stop using Wrack
. But it's easy to see why it's tempting to fall into the habit I did:
Cooldowns are not intuitive at all and at low levels without a lot of stuff unlocked there aren't even enough basics to rotate through. For example, the only decent basics I have for magic are Sonic Wave and Dragon Breath. Chain is barely better than Wrack but is better than nothing (though honestly an autoattack might do more...). Problem is it also aggros other mobs which isn't always desirable. Impact is also crap unless it's paired with Wrack to follow the stun/bind... which for some reason doesn't apply to mobs when playing with magic (even though ranged works just fine; I guess because they don't want mages to kite melee mobs forever). But yeah. I end up with nothing to cast so of course I fell into alternating with Wrack. Nowadays I know that once I build up to 50%+ adrenaline I can keep decent basics going 24/7 by adding thresholds to the mix. But for a total newbie it is SO unintuitive.
25-Sep-2022 06:29:10 - Last edited on 25-Sep-2022 06:37:23 by Sylvanheart
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