Runescaped

Pures got jagexed again.

"Damage Soaking and New Hit Splats

We have recognised an imbalance between the potential damage per minute (DPM) and damage capacity (DC) of higher-level players. The rate of damage that you can deal at high levels is far greater than the rate of damage you can withstand, especially when in a multiplayer environment. NPCs and boss monsters can deal with this issue because their life points can reach far beyond 990, but players' life points cannot. Dealing with this imbalance will be done in several ways, with the first of those ways being introduced this month in the form of damage soaking.

In what will be a huge addition to the Defence skill and defensive equipment, we're aiming to add damage soaking stats (currently only applied to the chaotic, eagle-eye and farseer kiteshields) to the majority of head, body, leg and shield slot equipment. Damage soaking will help reduce all incoming damage values over 200 life points, with higher grades of equipment offering a greater percentage of 'soak', and with members' equipment offering the greatest percentage of all.

We'll also looking forward to releasing a brand new set of hit splats to give you better information about any combat you're in. We’ve had some great conversations in the forums after the dev blog about hit splats a few months ago and have changed our approach thanks to your excellent feedback"

tl:dr Basicly if u have high def, and if i use a ags spec and hit a 650, and ur wearing lets say torag. ur armour will reduce the hit to a lets say 400. not if i hit a 650 on some1 in iron, i would actually hit like a 630 cause of iron.

Lets see how this turns out.

no itemerzs #1

Gonna be the end of pures imo

I think turmoilpures will have a really high hand after that happens, something tells me that adamant will probably "soak" as much as rune

This should be reduced in pvp zones tbh. I hate jagex theyre always fuckin with pures because they cant make one them selves "mains ftw" not.

prolly wont be in effect in pvp worlds. if it is, massive quitting will insue

If its true ill probably be getting 30-35 def again for sure lol

It probably will happen in pvp/bh worlds since all jagex cares about are the retards who skill all day. Theres like 3k players who pvp at a time and 130k players on... So jagex could care less... Theyve done everything else to ruin pures, why not another...? Lul failures

If jagex is smart enough..and to lose lets say 15k players in alll....as 15k times by $7 in avr for memb...is like 105 grand a month of loss.
And since jagex uses 50 grand a month for lighting their nerd cave studio they have to be smart about this.
This rule should only apply to non risking worlds...Like anythnig thats not Bh/PvP/Red portal Cwars..
Otherwise its extremely unfair.
Even if i have 2 def and rune armour mgiht decrease quite an amount..its damn unfair as you have a 10m risk w/ 50% "soak" will guarantee you wont die.
It just aint fair.
The "what your getting hit by" is quite worth tho, casue in Dung at times you dont know what bosses attack w/..
But "soak" is bull

you guys the soak will be very marginal

look at what the chaotic shields which are lvl 80 defence do,

they will not make anything comparable to the soak effect of those shields, i think the soak will all be under 5% at most

so i could be wrong but i dont think it'll be that big

tl;dr get def

yay might just get def now....

Ugh, I really don't like where this is headed.

pk und3ro4th wrote:

yay might just get def now....

dont get until ready tbh..even if jagex is nerfing the game again, dont do until ready..
never train def..just quest it!

Yeah lol i'm happy for my turm in making pure now

tbh pking makes the game work economywise... pkers use food,pots,armour,and runes. Pking ties into all skills/ways of income, If jagex ruins pking(anymore then they already have) the economy will surely go downhill.

if i get def im just going tank i already got rigour

WTf! Does this ruin Ranging with Crossbows aswell? :/