Early Runescape Classic Pking Was Bananas

I go over some interesting facts about early runescape classic pking. From having only one login server before the wilderness, to the rune 2h sword being the king of melee pking for a while, and much more. This is my video on early runescape classic pking, it is not perfect but I feel like I got a lot of the key differences within this video.
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[@therunescapehistorian]

Discord server: discord.gg/GQWe6nq5 Left out wine pures, they would use the combat training dummies to avoid getting hitpoints up. This led to them being able to use items such as the rune 2h at lower combat than others, increasing the chance to 3 hit. They would use wines to lower their attack below 8 so that they could keep training on the dummies for xp. All videos used are in the description!

[@kulisismalls1724]

wine pures got to lvl 13 with 40 attk and could hit 9s with r2h which could more or less 2-3 hit most people that level, was a fun time.

[@therunescapehistorian]

@@kulisismalls1724 god damn lol, I could imagine that being hilarious

[@kulisismalls1724]

@@therunescapehistorian hahah yeah dude it was fun, however you still had the 10 hp but for the most part you would kill them before they even had a chance to react, I was taught that pressing f1 would increase your chances of "catching" due to the fact it would put it into a kind of low detail mode, also i remember lvl 5-8 magers being popular back in the day pking at varrock wild with iron leg plates a wizard robe and hat. fire striking each other. man this is bringing back some memories hahah sorry for the wall of text :)

[@King_Kristof]

f1 would make your computer only render half of the screen, so your bunk ass Gateway with 512mb of ram could handle your quick clicks. 👌

[@therunescapehistorian]

@@kulisismalls1724 lmao no worries for the wall of text, thats great info! I'm also playing an ultimate ironman on osrs so having something to read is great lol

[@jordan2735]

I remember when I was 11 I lost my r2h and cried. I messaged the guy who pk’d me and asked if I could have it back. He said no

[@tuckervfx]

Fuck that bought back some awful memories 😂

[@kierancreed2655]

lmao felt this brother.

[@hass89]

Man same thing happened to me but with a full rune to boot. Got baited into attacking first.

[@AbsolutelyCasual]

Same thing happened to me around age 11 😂 fished lobsters for months to get it and my dumb 11 year old ass let someone borrow it and they stole it 😂 I remember my uncle telling me I might as well just quit playing 😂

[@topzozzle6319]

that reminded me of when i was 10 or 11 and i grinded for weeks to get a bgs only to be lured at clan wars the day after i bought it.. begged the guy to have it back and he of course didn't give me it

[@MichaelBallif]

So many great memories playing RSC in my early teens. I remember skipping middle school/faking sick to stay home and play. PKing was such a rush. “Wars” were also a huge thing where clans (wearing certain color capes) would battle in the wilderness. Those days felt like a legitimate holiday. So many people were out PKing, it was crazy. Also, looked down upon at the time, but I remember learning how to “cheat” and set up my char to train all day long while I was at school. I’d come home to find that I had leveled up a handful of levels, then would spend the afternoon PKing. It was pretty impressive how versatile some of those autotraining interfaces were. They’d auto-eat, go to the bank, get more food, and walk all the way back to the training location. Good times.

[@grandcanyon2]

even better we would pick monday or friday to be sick, best was a snow day on a friday and you spent the morninig in a sweater with hot tea and food in your pajamas playing rsc killing lesser demons for a rune med.

[@pmort1768]

Man you brought me down memory lane. We lived the same childhood 🤣 so much nostalgia thank you !!

[@dreamrat3]

The game was so fresh and new at the time. There were no guides, no "meta" just people exploring and finding out everything along the way. I didn't play classic for very long but i'll never forget when they announced members and the hype surrounding "first time ever sound effects" as f2p had no sound effects. In terms of pking, I was fortunate enough to experience even a fraction of that time period. As others have said - low level mage accounts using bolt spells to essentially 1 hit someone in varrock level 1 was ridiculous. The wine pures to lower your attack and train at dummiies was huge as well. I myself had a 40 attack r2h pure somewhere around the 40'ish combat area. During that time since there were no negative bonuses wearing rune armor it was a common thing to see lvl 26s, lvl 29s wearing full rune (with platebody) using charge & guthix claws hitting 30s on literally anyone while being hit 0s almost exclusively. If you were in a members world you could duel anyone anywhere. This made lumby a huge spot for stakers as when you died you arrived in lumby anyway. There were also accounts people made that were 20 or 30 attack, 40 def, and high strength and fought pures exclusively. These accounts didn't hit super high but couldn't be hit by pures and usually died from the 3-round rule. Auto-catching was also a thing believe it or not.

[@glennhawkins9908]

Bro I remember your pure dreamrat3 you was a mauler for ages! Like maybe 67-68 cmb? The name just took me back in time when I saw it

[@misterdam4204]

Yes I remember dueling anybody, anywhere. I would hide my d med and d battleaxe and put them on at the start of the fight. When I got hold of a d square shield I don’t think I ever lost a stake 😂 eventually got scammed for my phat collection trying to use an early day runelite client and obv had a keylogger in it 😞 catching somebody running diagonally was when I thought to myself I’m a pking god 😂😂😂

[@mikekoenig6467]

@@misterdam4204 2 clicks ahead on their tile 1 click to snag em. But if they get 2 tiles away from them you gotta follow them for a bit lmao. Castle pking....

[@morimoko]

It wasn't lummy was it? I thought it was drynor because there was no bank in lum

[@eddy_creative]

@@misterdam4204 Man those keyloggers....the amount of times i logged in and had all my stuff stolen..

[@asg32000]

I had a "black pure" that could wear black armor. I thought it was so BA. I did manage to PK a rune 2h which was a huge deal to me at the time. This was all on F2P. Must have been around 2001 or 2002.

[@Hoskera]

Seeing that R2H poking out in the loot pile was always an awesome feeling in classic. I pked my first r2h in classic when they were around 1M each due to scarcity. I was hooked and spent years of my life pking in classic.

[@beeman4266]

No doubt you were the coolest kid in class for at least a week.

[@GODJWilly]

The nostalgia and GREAT mechanics of the game during the 2D version of the game was flawless to me. I loved fighting against Black pures back then, I was a wine r2h pker, and a 1 def lvl 21 cb m2h pker back then. Part of the Raising Dragons pking clan. We were amazing! It was some of the most fun I’ve ever had on the game!

[@Fortherec0rd]

It was def 3 levels. I played like 6 hours a day back then and 12 hours a day as a kid during summer. This was my childhood. I remember being in the same clan as thestinger44 and m3alstr0m I use to have a 75 attack 60 def and 93 str account and would 3 hit people all the time but I use to wear full addy. As a kid you never wanted to loose your rune. One summer I stacked up almost 100 full sets pking it was my summers trophy. I wish this game still was alive and kicking I miss rsc

[@JosephWeidinger]

I started out as non-pker back in 2001 (pre-wilderness). But I saw someone with a chefs hat and really wanted it. Since he was a pker, I changed my setting to pker briefly to kill him. He was a few levels higher but I somehow managed to get the job done. I then switched back to non-pker after. I basically used all my switches on that alone. Wildy came out shortly after.

[@nostressstef8924]

Thats hilarious. Something I would of done too

[@emberpersephone]

Another great RSH video! I joined ~2007 so Classic kind of lies in obscurity. Super interesting to watch, can’t wait for more history.

[@scottpanchot8760]

so idk who informed you but the wilderness was out long before rune plate bodies were out and there was a time before when there wasn't defense and attack levels needed to equip the rune long sword run med or rune chain (the only rune to exist at this time)

[@King_Kristof]

this is good, some things were slightly wrong, but you cover a lot of info and do it a lot of justice. thanks RH!Between my brother and I, we had about 30-40 pking/staking builds

[@therunescapehistorian]

Thanks! Yeah i'm no expert, especially when I didn't play back during this time. That's crazy lmao, I don't think I have that many accounts in total across like 15+ years of playing

[@KillerwinsGaming]

Used to love this game. Played it at the library haha. Old school

[@ri0t-Rick]

This was when I played when runescape was legend. My character was ri0t. 44 attack 40 defense plate pure 99 str 91 hp roughly, 99 range.

[@ronlivingstone1634]

I recognize 2 players were pking each other in the wilderness at edgevile, and a guard said the quote "Hey! No Fighting!"

[@Synli]

Oh man, when it comes to Classic RS History, there's no one that I trust more than the guy that was insane enough to play a Classic Ironman without botting.

[@Phattyasmo]

That would be me; I was free to play, though.

[@Lepardi]

there was no ironman o.O

[@RedZone0401]

@@Lepardi yea there was where do you think they got the idea for Ironman in the modern game? It was a self imposed limitation people would give themselves

[@Lepardi]

@@RedZone0401 ooh.. I was like 12-13yo when rs came out. Wasn't very into the meta gaming back then xD

[@KrazzyKlown]

You could use magic ontop of melee, as in, you didnt lose any melee hits by using a magic attack, it was just an extra attack. Magic was used heavily in pking for this reason.

[@grandcanyon2]

one reason in p2p magic god spell users dominated they could hit 25s with god spells and also get lucky staff melee hits at 99s strengh, super stre and prayer you could hit 15s.

[@Magikrappy]

i had this wine pure where u drank wine to keep ur attack down so u could use the punching bags in varrok to train all the way to 40 attack and not gaining hp. resulting in a level 13 with a rune2h

[@devilxking2]

Yep, this became a common strategy but it blew my mind seeing it. I got destroyed by a winer and it changed everything

[@ericbilling4735]

So much fun. I had a few of those. The dummies right across from the bank. Fun times

[@jimothyslim7332]

Plate pures existed because the map piece used to be tradeable. They existed only during RSC, as the conversion to RS2 brought with it the ability to pay 10k to the goblin for the map piece. That's why we used to see so many pkers in rune chain.

[@Winterreise189]

Good memories of playing classic, trying to do wildy fights 1 iteming with a R2H and monk robes, and always every single time I'd get a fight would get jumped by 3-4 mages/rangers adding tons of extra damage to me. Good times.

[@Cowsep]

Some of my favorite pure builds: Low level (like 10) Steel 2h pures with ranged (cuz ranged didn't level you up to a certain point based on str and atk.). Could play with friends and you just stack amulets in your bank. Level 12ish~ 30 defense 59 magic fire blast mage (absolutely demolished low level pvp, don't remember exact level), stacked tons of runes and amulets and adamant 2h cuz most people were using chaos runes instead of death runes. You wore full adamant armor and people could not hit you. Prayer 31 and 1-5 defense (with dial up internet sometimes you dc'd and logged in to exp cuz you one shot a mob you was training on with default controlled stance rip) 40 attack rest strength. Typically around level 40-50. Go into wild with prayer robes, ruby amulet, rune 2h, swap to f2p and just farm massssssive amounts of rune sets and rune 2h and your only risk was a ruby amulet. Absolutely insane build. Hp on attack and strength pures was also higher per level than people that trained defense so even with low defense your hp was high too. All these builds you just go to varrock or edgeville, swap to f2p servers, and just pvp right on the line between wild and town. Either kill someone in 3 hits or they run to safety and eat lol. That's the benefit of making a popular level range, you had so many people you could easily pvp with right on the edge of town. Such a good time, such good nostalgia. I'm trying osrs now and it's just not the same. PvP back then was such a rush. Do people even sit on the edge of varrock anymore? In hindsight I probably only enjoyed it because 95 percent of people didn't know how overpowered pures were and just let me 3 hit them and take all of their stuff. It wasn't super skill based except the catching so it was mostly about having a superior build. Would probably never fly in 2023 where every guide is on KZbin and stuff. Players would be better now.

[@almightylag8294]

The biggest bracket was level 20-40 and it was 10-20 attack pures bc rune 2h's were to expensive. Chefs hat leather body pink skirt (due to the ability to pick them up on the walk back to the bank and edge of the wilds bc pures didn't get teleports back then). P crossbow and Black battle axe or mithril 2hs. High levels didn't pk members would duel making Lumbridge and draynor bank the hot spots, but it was about making sure to get equal risk. The mage tanks were for dueling and basically were boss level when they had 1 attack 1 strength 60 def and 70+ magic at around combat 46ish. But that was back before the dragon square shield came out.

[@gibememoni]

yeah that was my preferred bracket because it was cheap and training without a bot on rsc was super hard for pures. We would be at varrock wild all day by the fence

[@StrategyJoe]

8:40 I can hear let the bodies hit the floor from the background footage lol

[@jbragg08655]

I love these I miss rsc between my wine pure and mage tank. the days of the mage wall when Mr garrison would own people in draynor. staking anywhere. times were good.

[@robertmcgarvy6977]

Took mr garrison for many phats back in the day and he took many from me haha

[@raybear2729]

Love these videos! Please make more...

[@cIeetz]

this game was still fun in 2009 on the re releases...hell its still decent on rscrevolution private server today The colors are so beautiful. Forever in my heart

[@magne7771]

God, I miss the good old days. The Clan Wars were the best part.

[@quinn3745]

I started in 2002, and the only pures then were basically like 40 attack and low def with high strength. I had a 40 att 10 def pure that I pk'd on myself. Magic was bad until ancients came out, and it was extremely hard to level up because there was no runecrafting and there was hardly any worlds to buy runes from. I'm also confused on why you heard that mains didn't pk, because from what I remember, it was mostly mains because it was so damn hard to level up then.. so I'm guessing this is based on the rerelease of classic and not actual classic from almost 20 years ago. I was in a really big clan back then, and it was all mains, and we fought other mains.

[@pppoopoo4514]

Some of my best times were on a level 30ish pure hanging out between Varrock level 1 and castle

[@ericbilling4735]

Haha we prob played together then

[@seesepp]

I was there Gandalf. I was there 3,000 years ago

[@matthewbennett9126]

In the beginning of classic, you also couldn't store items in banks, only coins. So if you were a pker with a skull you would be risking everything you owned. It wasn't until July of 2001 that they release item banks along with runeite items (Although only items sold in the champions guild, and med helms from lesser demons were available until Bluerose13x and eventually others were able to smith them). These were both added because players were saving lots of coins in anticipation of the release of player owner houses where they would be able to store items. Note that these were not the POHs we have today but actual house on the map in various cities (where the Falador party room and mining guild enterance is used to be just a bunch of little square houses). These were scrapped because Runescape had gotten too popular and they didn't have enough map to allow anyone who wanted one a house (instances were a thing until the Farming skill was released much much later).

[@g8tc712]

Me and a couple of buddies that used to practice catching in the wilderness figured out that if you clicked to follow a player, you could determine if you we able to catch them by the distance behind which you would follow. At the time only one of the 2 people in combat could catch.

[@darnit006]

5 combat mages with wind bolt were the most fun. get 100% fatigue when you get a hard powerspike and stay there forever and not gain xp.

[@therunescapehistorian]

Yeah its super interesting how the fatigue system allowed for the locked xp. Good thing too bc a lot of accounts would've been ruined without it lol

[@6500s1]

@@therunescapehistorian and every time you logged in, the attack styles did reset to 'controlled', lol...

[@mikekoenig6467]

@@therunescapehistorian accidentally getting 2 defense on a pure was so heartbreaking

[@samihaahtikivi6203]

That does bring back some good memories! Mastering the art of catching ppl trying to run away. Still remember some names, not mentioned in the vids; ravoz, cpolgara, kuriz, ssjgoku, spotlight.. and so many more but most are forgotten tho. Good times!

[@Flamerocket42069]

Mmmmm coffee and rs historian = good morning

[@therunescapehistorian]

The coffee sounds good but that runescape historian guy is kinda meh

[@Beckwourth]

@@therunescapehistorian no way, i like your comedy and informative videos!

[@Scriptulator]

@Jacob yes a great combo

[@Juggerrnautt]

You’re on point with the rsc history got me as a subscriber

[@LeevesFPS]

Dude yes you are back!!! Please keep uploading!

[@Sicaughtik]

This is such an underrated channel. Love your videos.

[@mindgoblin6486]

Its fun to see my language used in those clips! I have allways known that osrs is very popular in Finland but still its nice to see Finnish used in clips :D

[@matthewdelano1755]

Shit, i remember sitting at the wildy gate north of Varrock pking in classic. There was basically a market at wildy edge. People selling lobs and pking shit.

[@chantelrhine8965]

I miss pking in varrock:(

[@srs8367]

Hell yeah man love you videos. Runescape pking was wack. Excited for this one

[@therunescapehistorian]

[@crybaby870]

Man I miss how simple pking use to be, even up til 2011 id go dh pking with no veng and I’d still get more kills than deaths, it’s so fast now 😂

[@therunescapehistorian]

Yeah its crazy how good most of the pking community is now, makes it hard to learn for newer/returning players to a certain extent.

[@gibememoni]

I always preffered RSC to RS2, the pking and staking were more fair to me. I never was able to get any high stats in rsc because training was actually hard. I think my best account was 40 attack, 71 strength, 3 accident defence, 13 prayer. Good times at edge and castle. In the members world we used to do little r2h/amulet stakes in lumbridge all day. Low level mage pking (lv 8 - lv 13) was also very addicting, it was hard because you had to manually click the spell then click your opponent. But they would all easily 3 hit each other if the spell hit lol

[@grandcanyon2]

rsc pvp and stacking was better, because it was more balanced meaning a lvl 100 had decent chance to kill a lvl 123. In rs2 its almost impossible for a lvl 126 to lose to a lvl 103 even more so in f2p.

[@palos537]

I remember when the mage arena came. Low level mages like level 30 could own a level 60-100 main. Alot of people got scammed thinking they could win, me as well😅

[@grandcanyon2]

not really at lvl 30 they couldnt be lvl 80+ magic and have high defense, the max hit was a 18 with the spells, 25 with charge and at lvl 30 a player would most likely only have about 28 hp. killing a lvl 40-60 ye but killing lvl 70-100s very unlikely as lvl 70-100s would hit 18s to 30 with dragon b ace/dragon long

[@willygc9143]

Awesome video ! Never got to experience classic so it’s cool to see what it was all about

[@KnOwNTooWeLL]

you can write about it but if you weren't there it just doesn't do you any justice. great times good vid

[@Honestrsps]

Your country voice "they're gonna get on and we're get em made me laugh so hard. Subbed

[@decaay]

damn! Just saw my name pop up(Generalish) on this video. Flashbacks DELUXE! This was a good time and thanks for bringing back some old memories!!!

[@RealSlackerJon]

Random things I noted watching this from an old guy who played. Flats is actually 99 99 99, meaning max melee. A 70 70 70 for example is just a main/flats in progress. Best pk build was: 40 att 1 def 99 str 69 mage (69 to have +10 above 59 so never fail cast) Typically low prayer to keep combat low. Range was very useful, and did NOT impact hitpoint level whatsoever. So could have a 99 range 10hp sniper multilogged. Could have many of these with an assortment of defense/hp levels to cover multiple bracket ranges. Catching is indeed what sets the good and best pkers apart. Jukes, diags, straights, and timing hp bar vanish to reattack avoiding delay. Chase and seting up a catch all while eating, casting, repotting was a rush. Real way to catch: after 3 rounds when they run to eat, you chase them by clicking tiles (NOT clicking attack). You only reattack AFTER their hp bar goes away. If you attack while their hp bar is still visible you will stop moving get a delay and they will walk away from you gaining a gap. Regarding klanks.. the pros would bring a plate and klanks, and swap during combat. Also amulet swapping was a big thing too. Bringing an assortment gave an edge in duels/staking big time. Thanks for the nostalgic video, I feel old :)

[@ivanmilat6775]

Love the vids ❤️

[@therunescapehistorian]

[@TheDirtymikenation]

Magic was slept on in rsc for pking, the spells to drop attack and defense and strength were op

[@grandcanyon2]

yup those spells fhked up melee pkers alot. Even worse is if you were in a fight and you had multiple mages attacking you.

[@robincalson587]

Awesome video, enjoy listening to these! Keep up the great work!

[@TheSpeedyTouch]

I still remember watching Kelly's videos and being amazed.

[@blunttank]

Pking back then was alot of fun I made mage builds and ranger builds hit and un away or on the other side of the fence lol

[@dantedeloden]

it was within 4 combats levels, the first level someone turns dark orange to you, you could still fight them. thats how u know its 4 combat levels away and not 3.

[@taber911]

Amazing how ingrained pking builds from rsc remain today despite how drastic the combat mechanics changed in 03/04, with the beta and full release of rs2. Prayer beasts (1 defence pures) were easily the most overpowered in rsc for their combat level and risked next to nothing with next to zero skill involved besides trying to preserve your prayer and eating quickly. Defence mage pures were also popular at the time since armour didn’t hinder your ability to cast spells

[@bamf6603]

Rs History Channel are you going to play Deadman Reborn?

[@therunescapehistorian]

Dunno, I would get wiped in the first few hours haha. I'm extremelyyy rusty when it comes to pvp on osrs.

[@bamf6603]

@@therunescapehistorian I think you have immunity for few hours. Anyways this time rules are way friendlier with all combat caps. But anyways the only difference there is you have to have an escape plan for whatever you train.

[@Cognitoman]

you could switch to shield in between attacks and back too sword if you were good, and I would use range as well, I would shoot them right before that attacked me so I could get an extra 2 hits in before the 3 rounds started. I would also pretend that I was a pure ranger and shoot at a guy and not pull out my sword until 5x 3rounds or so, This would cause a player to get over confident and not eat before the next round of 3 rounds and have like 2/3 to 3/4 life then they would have if they ate before rounds. Another strategy, was trapping people in castle with closing doors :). I been playing since spring of 2001

[@GraveLordTito]

The time periods where I didn't play RuneScape (back in the day) I find the most interesting. I missed out on RSC and stopped before RuneScapeHD.

[@theanonymousmrgrape5911]

Did you ever see any pking going on when you played a few years ago? I couldn’t imagine it being very fun with how prolific bots and macros were.

[@therunescapehistorian]

I didn't, although in all my hours training up some combat in the wildy I did get chased once at the axe hut! lol

[@King_Kristof]

no one botted pking. and we would arrange pking events at times when we all could be online.

[@chasesmith4819]

I was just too young for rsc (born in 99) but this literally sounds so fun, video games were more fun when they were less polished and more glitchy unlike they are now. Is there anyway to place this today?

[@donaldslayer]

Pretty sure there are rs classic private servers

[@kiptaylor3567]

"you are too tired to gain experience. Go to bed first..." That's a wild line to see in a videogame

[@Djp1989]

Also you said mage wasn’t used on pkin but it was very very useful in duels. Especially swapping to a Zamorak staff. Would be interested to see you do an episode about being baited by low level max mages with zammy staff

[@sg5184]

My account started as a prayer beast can confirm 1 item I use to hide in the black knight fort. Combat was alot more simple then.

[@lukedixon2747]

i remember duelling 10 def 40 attack and high strength. wearing black armour and staking rune 2H swords in duels. remember winning like 5 in one night

[@BobMarley-yq3wi]

I had an addy pure lvl 63 and a plate pure ranger lvl 56 back in the day. Great days indeed. Also, it was 3 levels in the early days.

[@longdong3972]

i got rich back in 2002-2003 from staking rune 2 handed swords, i had an account 40 att 1 def 60 str, id duel other pures around my level, alot back in the day had 10-20 def because they thought black armour looked cool, and id have an advantage over them with my str lvl most of the time. I remember staking r2hs and getting my bank upto 30m, which was a ton back then, id say comparable to seeing someone these days with 30bil. It was a fun time in my life for sure ahha, i miss the classic days.

[@AlphaCrucis]

PK videos were a thing on the Runescape Community forums. I recall some of the music used being Iron Maiden and Linkin Park, haha.

[@MarshDwellin]

I think at those times there was also pure build with full black armor and 2H rune sword

[@MrConrad1993]

@runescape historian Is it worth a vid on how classic players received the release of RS2? Interested to know whether they liked it

[@devilxking2]

I have so many fond memories of building a Prayer Beast and hounding around the deepest parts of the wilderness for any fight I could start. I was probably a giant shithead too lol.

[@ralphmaldo3023]

New sub here. Enjoying all your content

[@str82lumbridge36]

I played on 1 server in 6th grade, it sucked trying to get to the bank in varock as a kid because the messiah gang clan would always kill you with ranged using crossbows on the way to the bank and if you made it to the bank if they killed all the guards they could attack you in the bank too. if you attacked someone in the bank the guards would attacked you.

[@SupItsJ]

Your discord link doesnt work

[@roldyrs3409]

Lol one of the most underrated changes from rsc to rs2: renaming plate mail body to platebody....what a mouthful 🤣

[@therunescapehistorian]

lol! Very true

[@6500s1]

and then renaming rs2 to rs... what a total epic major failure, LOL :D

[@zachary3603]

I miss RuneScape classic. Remember dragon long being released. Was the best day ever haha. Managed to finally get a p hat but got scammed. Oh man, it was glorious.

[@lukea9873]

started playing this game in 2001 i was 11. Santa hats had just dropped. I remember leveling my character up to 11 and spelt chaos "choas" because i was a kid and had to delete and start again lol

[@Hoskera]

One thing that you might be interested to know is that PID was very very important in RSC PKing. There were actually cheat clients that would log you in and out constantly until you got a PID within the range you set. Catching was very important as you said, but you could not catch someone reliably if the other player had a lower PID. You could follow them accurately, click attack but you would just stall and they’d get away.

[@prasg1186]

The key is to wait for the healthbar to disappear..

[@ABRestoration]

Around 2004 the catching in pking changed not in the way jagex changed the code but someone found out in catching if your player ID to the server was lower than your opponent you would be able to catch them ie 1500 players in a server if you logged in and got ID 1000 and someone was trying to catch you with ID 900 they could catch you, visa versa you couldn't catch them it would just stop instead of attacking them. Bots made it possible to see your ID so people would be logging in and out outside edgy for ages until they got like a lower ID say like below 20 so they could catch most people. Andrew said himself that he didn't intend to include catching it's just the way the code worked and they left it in.

[@Guardian7x]

The leveling system on rs classic took so much more time compared to osrs. They Introduced a fatigue system with sleeping bags

[@christophergreen1801]

Does anyone have a client/server of RSC to play offline single player?

[@zzzarkka]

Classic look like South Park characters when they move. I wonder if that's how where they got the inspiration. Less movement probably made it easier back when "modern" computers were still new

[@6500s1]

2.5D graphics: 3D world, but 2D characters. Epic stuff. :D

[@ashtonpotter4366]

prayer beast? I remember it as monk pkers. also diag running would still get you caught by the better pkers.but good video . brought back some good memories.

[@rikvah9817]

Yeah the 38 combat was probably the most common build. 40 1 79 or 76 I can't remember and 40 prayer. Also there was some loop hole to be a lvl 1 magic pure (pure plate) and it was closed well before rs old school (rs2).

[@rikvah9817]

You used to be able to trade the map piece. That is how you could become a pure paste.

[@BobMarley-yq3wi]

The way the plate pure was created was much simpler… you could trade quest items back then.

[@pwill4real855]

I was a player back then.... And this video gives me so much anxiety. Each time im like "No! What're you doing!?".... because I was a noob back then and could barely afford mithril

[@SiMplyNoMeRcY]

I started with this runescape this runescape was so much fun I miss it so much 😭😢

[@grandcanyon2]

rune and items looked good in the game i loved the combat system, the wildnerss was dangerous and it prevented power creep. The pvp and combat was simple and i loved it.

[@MountainDaughter]

Black baxe(battleaxe) pkers. 10 1 30 the best build. Black baxes had higher str bonus than b2h.

[@gibememoni]

yup, hitting 5's and 6's while potted. also helped having a ranger on your team

[@funjunk2835]

When I was 8 I would lose my rune 2h my sister gave me, cry and she would give me another one. This happened probably like 5 times or more.

[@beingofstrange]

i was 13 cb with 50 mage in classic, dont remember pking though; i was like 10 or 11

[@justno8019]

lol kid

[@beingofstrange]

@@justno8019 im 31

[@justno8019]

@@beingofstrange lol old ass kiddo

[@chumshot1368]

I miss pking north of varrock....

[@Guardian7x]

Any of my old friends still left? Bigaboys, upkme, fear the queen, x God child x, riznstar, General Shop, food 4 mishu, kibby. Miss these days

[@Azletrack]

I sadly missed classic because of my age but when eoc came out it was my instant resort so glad 07 came out because it was so clunky

[@omegazerkalpha7056]

I just love your vids you do such a good job man you go out your way for extra knowledge you even through a nice way to the "know it alls" in the comments section of saying hey "I'm sure yall can know this better or I'm sure yall done more research on this" knowing damn well they didn't lol just to keep them from harassing your vids for no damn reason at all just to be little shit satins but yo when you said those crazy people waiting for them to log back in saying all that shit was funny as hell man and I cab belive that to but great job man

[@JavveRinne]

4:56 Nipsun Voima = Sniff's Power, Sniff is a character in the Moomins Nipsun Voima: Help me out a little S A L: Need help? ;) S A L: Too tough for me S A L: Just fucking take it

[@useitagain12]

My build was 30 att 1 def 60-65 str it would put your combat lvl around 30-32 and wouldn’t be that much of a grind before you could have fun. Sure you didn’t make bank due to low lvl items but it was still the most fun I could have. Oh yeah you could also get 55-60 range with this build without going up a combat lvl. Notable clans/groups at that level around the 1999-2000 days were the “azn boi” clan and the “I h8 my mum” clan. I really miss classic but don’t miss the click intensive grind.

[@g8tc712]

Me and and a couple of others all made the same character with identical names for instance using a 0 instead of an O and would go out PKing and trick people into skulling and the other would come out of low wildly and finish

[@TheZeagon]

this is exactly how i wished the game was now but also understand it would be shit even less risk when doing ANY content not just wildy

[@Andarius]

Early staking was interesting too. It was pretty much the exact opposite of PKing. You'd see 60/99/1 or some variant with high hitpoints.

[@OnyxOSRS]

I remember people using dragon longs to stake in lumby rather than pking.

[@ericvento4609]

I opted to go with 40 attack 99 str 10 defense I just thought the rune 2 h and black armor looked so dope I don’t remember my prayer burying bones sucked