Mage Boxing: With the lifting of the free trade restrictions on Runescape coming on February 1st, dueling is back! Mage Boxing refers to the use of only spells in the dueling arena.
Often times there will be no armor or equipment and movement is off.
The only practical spells in the arena are the Ancient Spells gained after the Desert Treasure quest.
In order to be able to use this as a viable form of dueling you must have a magic level in the 90s, though many lower levels and pure accounts do use magic, many of the high risking duelers are using the high level Barrage spells which will generally hit 200-300 at a time.
Once you set up your duel, making sure you always check that the rules are as you agreed and the stake or bet is fair.
Never use ice spells in a duel with no movement as it will not allow you to cast the spell and you lose a valuable chance at both damaging your enemy and healing yourself.
Always use the highest possible blood spell that you are capable of using because this spell damages your opponent, and heals you for 2.
5% of what you hit on them.
Although it sounds minor, many of my duels have been won by a difference of 1 hit point.
Another small trick is to start out your fight with a smoke barrage spell because this first spell will damage your opponent and possibly poison them.
This is a viable time for the spell because you will have full health at the start of the fight and therefore your blood spell will only damage and not heal.
Again, this goes back to winning a fight with 1 hit point.
Some players believe that using a shadow spell to start is smarter because it is faster to cast then any others, but I believe the poison to be more effective.
Variations: Some people like to add in the option to use a singular piece of equipment.
This is generally a staff or other item to boost both magical defense and magical offense.
The best staff to use is the Master Wand won through the Mage Training Arena behind the dueling arena.
The wand has a magical attack bonus of +20, and is currently the strongest magical weapon in the game.
Other items that people may want to wear besides full armor include the shield slot, and this is for the Mage Book, also from the Mage Training Arena.
I hope you Mage box well and I will write another article on the subject once it has been re-released and any changes and updates in the game have changed the style of dueling.
Best of luck making all your riches.
Remember, there is high risk involved and you can lose everything.
See you at the Arena!
Often times there will be no armor or equipment and movement is off.
The only practical spells in the arena are the Ancient Spells gained after the Desert Treasure quest.
In order to be able to use this as a viable form of dueling you must have a magic level in the 90s, though many lower levels and pure accounts do use magic, many of the high risking duelers are using the high level Barrage spells which will generally hit 200-300 at a time.
Once you set up your duel, making sure you always check that the rules are as you agreed and the stake or bet is fair.
Never use ice spells in a duel with no movement as it will not allow you to cast the spell and you lose a valuable chance at both damaging your enemy and healing yourself.
Always use the highest possible blood spell that you are capable of using because this spell damages your opponent, and heals you for 2.
5% of what you hit on them.
Although it sounds minor, many of my duels have been won by a difference of 1 hit point.
Another small trick is to start out your fight with a smoke barrage spell because this first spell will damage your opponent and possibly poison them.
This is a viable time for the spell because you will have full health at the start of the fight and therefore your blood spell will only damage and not heal.
Again, this goes back to winning a fight with 1 hit point.
Some players believe that using a shadow spell to start is smarter because it is faster to cast then any others, but I believe the poison to be more effective.
Variations: Some people like to add in the option to use a singular piece of equipment.
This is generally a staff or other item to boost both magical defense and magical offense.
The best staff to use is the Master Wand won through the Mage Training Arena behind the dueling arena.
The wand has a magical attack bonus of +20, and is currently the strongest magical weapon in the game.
Other items that people may want to wear besides full armor include the shield slot, and this is for the Mage Book, also from the Mage Training Arena.
I hope you Mage box well and I will write another article on the subject once it has been re-released and any changes and updates in the game have changed the style of dueling.
Best of luck making all your riches.
Remember, there is high risk involved and you can lose everything.
See you at the Arena!