Best Staking Guide [Not Mine] - Trik Forum

**.RoCkStaR** · **Best Staking Guide [Not Mine] -** 12-09-2007, 03:02 PM

[hide]Table Of Contents:

I. The art of Staking
II. Brands of stakers
III. Where to train/What to bring
IV. Procedure of Staking/Preparation
V. The Match/Aftermatch
VI. Staking -vs.- Pking, similarities and differences
VII. Good to know/Hints, Tips, Tricks
VIII. Terms & Phrases
IX. FAQ & Answers
X. Credits & Notes

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~ I. The Art of Staking ~

Staking is the best money-making opportunity that you can come to in RuneScape, if you just try and work. Staking is not much different than pking, not much different at all, only no running when you stake. And in pking, you will always get something, where as in staking, you will only get what the victim stakes. Staking is based on patience, skill, concentration, and luck. It is the hobby of many RuneScape players, such as myself, we go out and clash with one another for the prize, often money, staking is a very good business if you only have the patience.

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~ II. Brands of Stakers ~

There are many different types and ways that a staker will fight. Many stakers just take one skill and train it until they can no more, others may just train each skill to the same amount, thinking that each one has an equal value. And some, just take two stats and combine them equally, leaving the third trailing far behind. There are many different types of stakers, I will do my best to explain each one and you can see which you would think would be best for you.

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A. The Pure Defense Staker

The pure defense staker is the most trusted and popular staker in the game, she will have extraordinary defense, reasonably high attack, and a sparingly amount of strength.

Pros: You will not need to worry about prayer, you will be lasting a VERY long time in most stakes, you will close-to-never get hit. You will have high hit points.

Cons: Defense is really hard to train with such low strength, you should not stake someone with 34 prayer, as you may underestimate it?s ability.

Recommended Statistics:

Low Level: 60 Attack, 70 Defense, 40-50 Strength, 1 Prayer
High Level: 70 Attack, 80 Defense, 50-60 Strength, 1 -or- 34 Prayer
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B. The Pure Attack Staker

The pure attack staker is not very well known, but with its extreme attack and high hit points, this little staker can easily become underestimated.

Pros: High hit points to last long, the high attack can unleash itself on your opponents defense.

Cons: Other stakers with higher strength may have the advantage over you, and if your opponents defense is just too high, it may be fatal.

Recommended Statistics:

Low Level: 70 Attack 1 Defense 61 Strength and 34 prayer
High Level: 80 Attack 1 Defense 74 Strength and 34 prayer
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C. The Pure Strength Staker

Stakers are never really known for strength, and that may end up being a great disadvantage to defense stakers. Even though you cannot trust strength stakers to win many battles for you, they are good for boxing. But whenever you may need a good hit-number strength stakers are there for you.

Pros: Very high strength for very high numbers in the clutch. A lot of hit points to last long, strength stakers are very good box stakers as well.

Cons: You may never get past the beasts with an extraordinary amount of defense.

Recommended Statistics:

Low Level: 50 Attack 1 Defense 76 Strength and 32 Prayer
High Level: 65 Attack 1 Defense 84+ Strength and 34 Prayer
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D. The Strength/Defense Staker (Boxer)

These stakers are a combination of strength and defense. Why? Well, with stats like these you would be able to hit hard, and not get hit, these are also the primary stats for a boxing staker (A staker that uses no weapons or armor and fights with fists).

Pros: Very high hard-to-hit defense with high strength for some good high numbers. These are exceptional stats for a boxer.

Cons: Your low attack may not hit as often as you would hope.

Recommended Statistics:

Low Level: 50 Attack 65 Defense 67 Strength and 1 -or- 32 Prayer
High Level: 60 Attack 74 Defense 72 Strength and 1 -or- 32 Prayer
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E. The Magic Staker

These are the most powerful stakers in the game, they can ask anyone from levels 3-80 to stake them. They are extremely vicious with their power and show no mercy toward opponents. Most of these Mages have completed the Mage Arena mini-quest and have at least 60 Magic to use a god spell, beware, mages can hit often and high.

Pros: With the level 80 Charge Spell, mages can hit rare 30?s and lower 20?s. Their victims will always end up losing if you play right.

Cons: It is VERY expensive to complete the mage arena and the blood runes are very expensive. It may be hard to find someone who will stake you.

Recommended Statistics:

Lower Level: 1 Attack 40 Defense 1 Strength 77 Magic
Higher Level: 1-10 Attack 60+ Defense 1-10 Strength 80 Magic
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F. The Average Staker

These stakers will have about the same Defense as their Strength and Attack, they do, however, have considerably low Hit Points.

Pros: Equally high Strength for high hitting, with the same attack and defense for an equal fight.

Cons: Lower Hit Points than the pure stakers.

Recommended Statistics:

Lower Level: 60 60 60 and 1 -or- 34 Prayer
Higher Level: 76 75 75 and 34 Prayer

I have just explained every staker known to me, if you have another idea, please reply and I will be sure to acknowledge you.

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~ III. Where to train/What to Bring ~

Most people actually have no idea how hard a defense staker is to train. Defense is one of the hardest skills to train in the game, high strength is a must have when training defense. You will also have to ask yourself a critical question before creating a staker. Should I get a membership now, so it will be easier to train? Or shall I get a membership once I get my goal stats so there is more time to stake? I would, in my opinion of course, choose to create a character, transfer some armor + weapons onto him, then get membership. This is my opinion, mainly because I train so constantly, I can afford to lose time off my membership. So here is a guide which should certainly help you.

First, we must decide what to bring. Always bring your best armor when training outside of the wilderness, and only 3 items when training inside the wilderness. For most defense beasts, food is not needed, as they will hardly get hit by the weak monsters. Always remember what is the greatest armor and weapons you can bring.

Armor/Weapon ----------------- Defense/Attack Level Required

Bronze & Iron 1
Steel 5
Black 10
Mithril 20
Adamantite 30
Runite 40
Dragon 60

Once you know the strongest type of armor you can get, its time to go shopping. You will be able to get most armor (Mithril and lower) from Horviks Armor Shop in East Varrock. You can get Adamantite from the Champions guild and the Al Kharid Leg shops. You can also get most runite from the Champions Guild. Or you can always buy and sell stuff from here at the Community. Now lets see what to bring to your training sessions. Remember the best swords are 2 handed swords and you should always use chest plates and large helmets instead of chain mail and medium helmet. (Unless you are pure and are forced to use Rune Chain.)

Plate
Legs
Helmet
Ruby/Diamond/Dragon Amulet
(Note: Charged Dragon Amulets are helpful to get out of training and to a bank quickly.)
2 Handed Sword/Dragon Long
Sleeping Bag
Klanks Gauntlets (You will be forced to use Chain)
Cape
Sharks or Cakes

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Let us say you want to create a pure defense staker, you have tried training, but training with extremely low strength on the defense setting is harsh, here is a list of training spots for defense pures:

Let us say your goal stats will be..

60 Attack 65 Defense 30 Strength

For P2P Training Spots:

You should always go to gnomes, get at least 30-30-30 on them, this will not even take a day, maybe a few hours, remember, with only 30 strength you will not be hitting very high or very hard. After Gnomes, I would recommend going under the fishing guild to the goblins at the very end, they are very fast training to get from 30-30-30 to 60-60-30, there are so many of them and they are easy to kill. Training from 60 to 65 defense is where the game gets tough. You may stick with goblins if you wish, they still are good, you may also try dungeon rats under the clock tower, or rats inside of Melzars Maze. These are the primary training spots for duelers with low strength.

For F2P Training Spots:

Chickens will be nice, at least until 30-20-30, you can also get 20-20-20 at rats in Draynor or Rimmington. After that, Rats inside Melzars Maze will be excellent for 60-65-30, Cows may also enter the picture.
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Pure Strength/Attack Stakers will be much easier. They will be hitting higher and more efficiently. Let us start out with 60 1 60.

You can easily get 40 1 40 off of gnomes. Then go under the fishing Guild where you can easily get 60 1 60 without breaking a sweat. Now if you wish to get higher strength, like around 75, you may either stick with Goblins, go to dungeon rats, or if you have good connection stick with gnomes (There are so many of them!)..

F2P: Chickens for 30 1 30, then cows for 40 1 40. Afterwards, go for Melzars Maze rats until 40 1 50+, then you may either stay with rats until 60 1 60, or you can go for Dark Wizards as well. Afterwards, either stick with Dark Wizards until 60 1 70+ or you can try dwarves, warriors in Al Kharid, and Guards at Black Knight castle until 60 1 80+!!
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Now for Tank Mages, training is quite simple. As long as your spell is successful, you will gain experience. So the only places you will need to train, is where there is always going to be something to cast a spell upon. For instance, training magic at chickens would be no good, because you will have to wait for long periods each time you kill one. Some good places would be gnomes, or the jail at Port Sarim. Just wherever there are a lot of monsters, and always something to shoot, you will get magic experience easily. The really hard part of training a mage is getting very high defense with very low strength. A good place to train to 30-40 Defense would be Rats in Rimmington, or gnomes for P2P. Afetrwards, you may want to get 10 strength so you would be able to train much faster.
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For more information on where to train.. Check out Logns Training Guide.

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~ IV. Procedure of Staking/Preparation ~

So, you have your staker all trained and you have your armor and are ready to stake! First you must get potions. Go to world 8. (The largest staking world, this world may be different on RuneScape 2) And check around Draynor Village (Al Kharid for Rs2), there should be people selling super sets, the custom price is 20k each, make sure they have 3 doses and get ready. Now if you cannot find anybody to stake at Draynor, try Lumbride. (Al Kharid for Rs2) Once you find someone around your level that you will feel comfortable staking, look at him a bit, you can check a lot about a staker by his appearance. There are many things to look for:

1) See if he has gloves, if he does not you know he does not have gauntlets.
2) In Rs2, look at the color of the amulet he is wearing, if it is green, be aware that he will use it and you may not hit as much as you expect.
3) See if he has a helmet on or not, if he has no helmet on, for example maybe a party hat or special item, he may have a dragon med, so beware of that.
4) He has no weapon on, if the guy has no weapon, but full rune on, he will not be expecting to box someone. He may be hiding a powerful weapon.
5) Look for Chain or Plate, if he has rune plate, he will most likely have high magic. Chains symbolize pureness.

Then before you send, look up his prayer, hit points, and magic in the highscores. You should ask him to send, once you see that he offered to duel with you, drink all three potions, put your prayer tab in front of you, and duel. There is another effective, but untrustworthy way to get some good stakes. You can always lie, you may not have a good reputation with many people, but it is very effective. Let us say you are level 60, and you want to fight a level 55, but he does not want to. You can always hide some armor and pretend you have lower defense, or you can say things that may get them to change their mind, such as: Wow I have low hp. and Geez 40 Defense stinks!

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~ V. The Match/Aftermatch ~

Once you are fighting, turn on you attack and strength prayers if you are a strength/attack staker, or turn on your defense and attack prayers if you are a defense/attack pure. Keep at least one prayer off for the sake of time. If you are winning, and they have considerably low health and if your prayer points are still high, (at least 5 or higher) switch on your strength prayer. Dont forget to keep switching between the settings of accurate and defensive depending on whos turn it is to hit the opponent. Or you can do the r2h/kite switch if you do not have a long sword or battle axe. Also, the gnome amulet/dragon amulet is effective.

Aftermatch:

Did you win? If so by how much? If you won by a considerable amount, why not ask to restake? Just make sure to be nice and give kind comments such as: Nice job, want to go again? and Wow you hit me good, I can not believe I won. or if you are on the dark side, you can get them aggravated, by saying things such as: Haha you no0b you stink! and Lololol!! You could not slice your way out of a paper bag! It may get them aggravated and cause them to want revenge. (Trust me, it works, I have lost much Rune due to this) Now go get more potions and stake someone again!

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~ VI. Staking -vs.- Pking, similarities and differences ~

The two greatest money-makers and probably the most popular hobbies of most players. But what is the difference? And what will get you more money? It all depends on you level and stats.

Staking: The thing about staking that has nothing to do with pking is getting rich, and fast. You can stake up to your life savings in one stake, but no one would be stupid enough to bring that kind of stuff into the wild. But, on the other hand, you can also lose big. Pking takes skill, Staking takes stats.

Pros: Good Stats = Good/Fast Winnings, cheap, no need for food, potions, or a good internet connection.

Cons: Pretty boring, there really is no thrill in staking as there is in pking, most people believe pking is a lot more fun. You can lose a lot in one stake. It may also be expensive to buy what you are going to stake.

Pking: The greatest hobby of most players of RuneScape, most people go pking because it is fun, more fun than making money. You will never get as much loot as staking when you are pking as long as you have the right stats. Pking is most all skill.

Pros: More fun than staking. It always feels good to get that catch or 3 hit a guy for full rune.

Cons: Costs a lot. (Lobster Certificates are expensive) Most pkers will not lose much if they die. Not as much money being made.

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~ VII. Good to know/Hints, Tips, Tricks ~

My favorite part of the guide, I will explain the secrets of staking, the hints and tips that have led me to become a great staker, even with bad stats, you can do almost anything.

--- Tricks ---

The Prayer Trick:

Keep on Ultimate Reflex and Steel Skin when they attack you
Take off Steel Skin when you attack them
This should only be used when you are having a very long match
Your opponent?s prayer will run out faster giving you the advantage

The Rune 2 Hander, Rune Kite Shield switch:

This works for any 2 handed sword and any type of shield
Have the 2 handed sword out when you attack them
Have the kite shield out when they attack you
Try and make the switch EVERY round, never stop
Rune Battle Axe will also work if you have lag

The Defensive/Accurate Combat setting switch:

Should have Dragon Long + Kite for this
Have Accurate setting on when you attack them
Have Defensive setting on when they attack you
Keep motivated, never stop

The Gnome Amulet/Dragon Amulet switch:

Should have Dragon Long + Kite for this
Have Gnome Amulet on when they attack you
Have Dragon Amulet on when you attack them
Ruby Amulet will also work for Strength Pures
Must have completed the Tree Gnome Village Quest

--- Recommended ---

If you want to do all of these, than this is the greatest combination I can come up with. You should at first have Dragon Long, so that will cancel out the Rune 2 Hander/Kite Trick, then, having gnome amulet and Dragon amulet would be second best, so keep doing that while keeping your setting on Accurate.

This is just my advice, you can either take it or not.

--- Hints/Tips ---

DO Underground Passage and Tree Gnome Village, and get the Gauntlets and the Gnome Amulet, and use them to your advantage.
Always wear a cape.
Always try to have them send the duel request to you.
Get your opponent to start low if you want an advantage, or if he is a higher level.
ALWAYS look up your opponents Hit points, Prayer, and Magic (And Ranged in Rs2) Level. If they have high Hp, then beware they may have pure defense.
NEVER fight with Prayer off if you have Prayer.
ALWAYS fight with Prayer off if you do not have Prayer.
NEVER fight a mage if you have no magic.
You can also ask to fun duel someone, when doing this, do NOT turn on your prayers, or drink a potion at the beginning, try to make your opponent win when you are fun dueling. If you lose, and you did not try, they may ask to stake you, try this time. You can also use these fun duels to sense your opponents stats.
You should ask to buy your opponents gloves before you stake, if they put them up in the trade window, you know he will not have gauntlets.
If your opponent does not have gloves or a cape, it is just more advantage to you.
When your opponent sends the duel request, you can stall for time and waste his potions.

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~ VIII. Terms & Phrases ~

Just some basic staking talk phrases to help you understand their childish vocabulary.

Start(ing) Low: When either you or your opponent are asked to start low, this means that you want them or they want you to take off some armor or a weapon, giving the other person the advantage, or by making it seem fair because of Combat Level disadvantages.

Potting/Pots/Sipping: Potting, simply when someone either has to, or does drink potions in order to win. Sipping is when someone asks you or you ask someone to borrow their potions so you/him can drink a dose, BEWARE that there are some scammers that will just take your potions. They may ask to sip because they ran out and want to stake you.

Hider: Someone who hides good armor/a good weapon. When the fight commences they will equip it.

Defense Ch00b: Someone with incredibly high defense and will not get hit often.

Pot Waster: Someone who stalls for time in order to waste the potions that were drank by the opponent.

Fun Duel: A no-retreating fight that has no purpose. You can use these to your advantage to sense your opponents stats.

No-Pot Stake: A fight request that has no dinking potions allowed.

Magic Duel: A fight with Magic allowed.

Prayer Duel: A fight with Prayer allowed.

Retreat Duel: A fight where nobody is allowed to retreat from the fight. (Run away)

Boxing Duel: A fight with no weapons or armor.

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