Talk:Combat Stats

Merge

I disagree. If you read the articles, they are entirely different things. Armour and weapons give bonuses and penalties to attack types, not attack styles. The attack style you use determines your exp and what attack type your weapon uses. Your bonus to a certain attack type is compared against your opponents defence bonus against that attack type to determine how much damage you deal and if you hit. -- Couchpotato99 (talk) (contribs) 21:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

FOR I think the problem is in the terminology. We need to make sure that we are using the official RS terminology for these two different articles. Then the question is, if a user is searching for Attack Styles (aggressive, accurate, defence) will he/she really know which to search for, attack TYPES vs attack STYLES. I wouldn't think so. My gut tells me it's just too ambiguous. Endasil 00:41, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

For - I believe that they are the same thing, even if currently the articles are different. When merged they would cover the topic in a far more rounded fashion. Yleron - ^(Talk)_(Contribs) 10:38, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

i believe they are the same thing although i think the whole title should be changed to "Combat Styles" to incorporate the use or armors and making the title more broad to more information

FOR-Definitely merge them, i don't even understand why there should be 2 articles.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Heres John E (talk) on 01:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC).

Attack style and Attack type should NOT be merged! Attack style refers to the way you attack - aggressively, accurately, defensively, etc. This can be changed in the attack style interface (the crossed swords) and determines what combat skills you receive experience in, as well as helps determine how hard and often you hit and get hit. Our article on attack type refers to the equipment bonuses shown in the equipment menu!!! These attack and defense bonuses (and prayer and strength) help determine a large amount of the calculations gone into combat - how hard and often you hit and get hit, how quickly your prayer points drain, etc. These bonuses can't be changed simply by switching attack styles - they're the sum of the bonuses given by the items you have equipped! Put on a warriors ring and your slash attack and slash defense bonuses go up by 4, but your current attack style stays the same! These are two completely different parts of combat, and they're not hard to understand. The bonuses article was simply written at the wrong title. Move it to 'Equipment bonuses' make redirects from 'attack bonuses' 'attack bonus' 'defense bonus' 'defence bonus' 'defense bonuses' 'equipment bonus'... etc., change Attack types to redirect to Attack style, make some more redirects, and that should straighten things out and avoid any future confusion. In fact, I'll start on it (bored atm).  Gangsterls  _talk01:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

After reading the Attack type page more thoroughly, I realized that the way it was written made it difficult to understand that it was about bonuses, and only talked about Attack bonuses. I'll start on splitting it into two sections with a small introduction and writing a basic defense bonuses section.  Gangsterls  _talk01:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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Equipment bonuses are NOT the same as attack styles! Chiafriend12Loon is best buttlord 01:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Attack/Defense

In the section attack bonuses it says "lowers the chance of being hit by an NPC or player's (whatever bonus it is here)" in the descriptions for all of the attack bonuses. Surely this should be in the defence bonuses section?

I would have normally edited this without saying, but because its under construction i thought i'd better say. -Gaz Lloyd 19:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

It's either vandalism or a contributor copying from Defense and forgetting to change.

File:Snapdragon detail.png Doomedrusher^{|Talk||Contributions||Edit Count|} 00:07, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

I've done some work on it now

I tidied up a few things and split some of the information into attack types. Plus I put the defensive information where it should be. However, someone with knowledge of Summoning needs to confirm the information in the Summoning section, as well as calculate and add in the maximum Summoning defence. --Andorin Kato This That 08:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the maximum bonuses are constantly changing due to the updates. I have removed them.

Doomedrusher^{|Talk||Contributions||Edit Count|} 22:38, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Update!

The Equipment Stats screen has been updated with the new hairstyles - the bonuses now appear on the left side. I don't really have anything good to wear, so perhaps someone could take a screenshot soon.

Randommelon ^{MORE COWBELL!} 20:33, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Updated Picture

I just updated the picture of the Equipment Status Screen to reflect the recent changes that Jagex made to it. I also edited the caption to fit my picture.

Kazel01 21:13, 9 December 2008 (UTC)