Warning!
PvP worlds are dangerous and gravestones do not appear. If you die in a PvP world you will lose your items, so only bring items you are willing to lose.
Introduction
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And Lumbridge used to be such a nice place…
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. The rules are few and the battlefield is vast; great glory can be won and items of power recovered from your victims’ corpses; with almost the entirety of the world open to you, where will you choose to hunt?
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 (for example, if you have Combat level 90, you can attack someone 14 levels above or below you). 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 (not including the Champions’, Heroes’, Legends’ or Warriors’ Guilds)
- 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 (click here to see a list of its bonuses), 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)
In the ancient days of RuneScape, several great warriors walked the land. With all of the bloodshed in the PvP worlds, their equipment is heeding the call and returning to the surface…
These items all come in two states - one with full requirements that will last an hour of combat; the other with level 20 requirements that will last only fifteen minutes. Unlike Barrows equipment, none of these items can be repaired.
Every weapon except Zuriel’s staff has a special attack, which you can read about here.
Zuriel’s staff is capable of autocasting elemental attack spells as well as Ancient Magick spells. In addition to this, it gives mages using Ancient Magicks access to a further branch of the spellbook. You can read about these extra spells here.
Statius’s Equipment
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Vesta’s Equipment
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Zuriel’s Equipment
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FAQ
Which areas of RuneScape are closed in a PvP world?
The following areas have been disabled on PvP worlds:
- Barbarian Assault
- Bounty Hunter
- Castle Wars
- Duel Arena
- Fist of Guthix
- Tears of Guthix
- Trouble Brewing
- TzHaar Fight Pit
- Falador Party Room
In addition, you cannot use the Item Lending feature on PvP worlds.
How can I increase my chances of getting good drops?
Several factors determine the value of the drops you can receive. These include, but are not limited to:
- Your Combat level.
- Your opponents’ Combat level.
- The value of items you would lose on death.
- The value of items your opponent lost.
- How long you have survived in a dangerous area on the PvP world (continuously re-entering a safe area has a negative effect on your drop potential).
- How many players you have killed on the PvP world recently (if you kill several players in a short amount of time, the quality of your drops will go down).
- Whether you are in a hot zone.
Drops will improve if you are carrying at least 75,000 coins’ worth of items (or 25,000 coins’ worth on a free world) that you will lose if you die - your three most valuable items are not included in this. To get better drops, your victim must also lose at least 25,000 coins’ worth of equipment.
Note that if you risk significantly more than 75,000 coins in items, your drops will not improve further, nor will they improve if your opponent loses 25 million coins’ worth of items - the values are minimum boundaries.
In general, the most important factors are the value of items you are risking, the amount your opponent drops and how long you have survived (ideally in a hot zone). A good tactic is to let your drop value build up by training in a hot zone for a while (which will be especially beneficial if you have some brawling gloves), then try to get a kill or two for a better chance of some good drops. Then you can go back to training to let your drop value increase again.
Note that if you die, your drop value will temporarily increase to compensate you for your loss, but it won’t get you the value of your lost items - it’s not a sensible way to get good drops!
