Combat Academy

The Combat Academy, which is run by Lady Deathknell, is a tutorial for all information related to combat in the beta server. She offers 7 lessons for players to understand the basics of the new combat system.


 * 1) Introduction to Combat
 * 2) Combat Styles
 * 3) The Combat Triangle
 * 4) Targeting, Enemy Weaknesses and Damage Types
 * 5) Using the Ability Bar and Basic Abilities
 * 6) Adrenaline, Threshold Abilities and Ultimate Abilities
 * 7) Ability Effects

Basics
The academy is located at Lumbridge, west of the Smithing tutor and north of the General Store. To start the tutorial, you have to empty all your belongings in both inventory and equipment slots. There is a deposit box to deposit items into your bank. Afterwards, talk to Lady Deathknell. You can start with the beginning or any particular courses.

Courses
In each course, you act as a demonstration assistant to perform action on what Lady Deathknell says. The courses will proceed in different sessions. After you complete certain actions, you can proceed to the next session by talking to Lady Deathknell.

Your performance is graded according to certain outcomes in the form of Ranks: Champion, Hero, and Legend. The outcomes can be accessed from the interface when you right-click on Lady Deathknell and "start-tutorial".

Rank criteria

 * Champion - Kill the skeleton.
 * Hero - Kill the skeleton without too many prompts from Lady Deathknell.
 * Legend - Kill the skeleton with few or no prompts from Lady Deathknell.

Rank criteria

 * Champion - Attack the training dummy, rarely or never choosing the correct style.
 * Hero - Attack the training dummy, choosing the correct style most of the time.
 * Legend - Attack the training dummy, choosing the correct style all of the time.

Rank criteria

 * Champion - Attack the skeletons, rarely or never choosing the weakest skeleton.
 * Hero - Attack the weakest skeleton most of the time.
 * Legend - Attack the weakest skeleton first time most of the time.

4. Targeting, Enemy Weaknesses and Damage Types
In this section, the player will assist Lady Deathknell to identify and exploit opponent's weakness.

Rank criteria

 * Champion - Attack a skeleton, rarely or never picking the skeleton that is naturally weak to the weapon provided.
 * Hero - Attack the skeleton that is naturally weak to the weapon provided some of the time.
 * Legend - Attack the skeleton that is naturally weak to the weapon provided most of the time.''

Rank criteria

 * Champion - Kill all the skeletons.
 * Hero - Kill all the skeletons and use an ability.
 * Legend - Kill all the skeletons and using multiple abilities from the action bar.

Rank criteria

 * Champion - Kill the skeletal juggernaut.
 * Hero - Kill the skeletal juggernaut and use a threshold or an ultimate ability.
 * Legend - Kill the skeletal juggernaut and use a threshold and an ultimate ability.

Rank criteria

 * Champion - Kill all the skeletons.
 * Hero - Kill all the skeletons using an ability effect.
 * Legend - Kill all the skeletons using multiple ability effects.

Rewards
After finishing a section in the combat academy, the player can open the course interface and right-click on the rank and select Claim-Reward to claim the reward. A reward book will be granted to the player.

However, the reward book is currently not available in the beta server. However, the player will receive the reward book to the live account in a couple of weeks.

Trivia

 * When the player claims the reward, the game will mention that the reward will be given to the live account in a couple of weeks. This implies the beta may be released to the live game in a couple of weeks.