What is the best pure in RuneScape?

Answer 1

Let's stop for a second and define the word 'pure' in relevance to RuneScape.

Pure: One who concentrates on one attack style while keeping 1 Defence.

There's a quote that goes with making a pure. "The best defense is a good offense."

With that being said, you've got your basic three types of pures.

Strength Pure: 1 attack, 60+ strength, 1 def, 1 range, 1 mage

Range Pure: 1 attack, 1 strength, 1 def, 70+ range, 1 mage

Mage Pure: 1 attack, 1 strength, 1 def, 1 range, 80+ mage

Now, the most COMMON type of 1 defence account is going to be your hybrid. Hybrids have the following stats, and it's based on your attack preferences.

Hybrid Strength Pure: 60 attack, 75 strength, 1 def, 70+ range, 70+ mage

Hybrid Range Pure: 50 attack, 60 strength, 1 def, 80+ range, 70+ mage

Hybrid Mage Pure: 50 attack, 60 strength, 1 def, 60+ range, 94+ mage

I recommend a hybrid range pure. In most cases, range hybrids are unstoppable because they combine the quick damage of range with the high hits of strength. I'm currently working on a hybrid range pure and my stats will look like this when I start to pk -

50 attack, 60 strength, 1 def, 55 range, 1-55 mage

If you want, you could make what's called a range tank, which is even more deadly than a range hybrid. Reason being is that range tanks deal high damage quickly with range while remaining undamaged themselves.

Range Tank: 60 attack (for dds) 70-75 strength, 80+ def, 85+ range, 1-85 mage.

Obviously your range tank is going to take the longest to make, but the trade-off is high combos and low damage taken.

Hope this helped,

Chris

Answer 2

"Pure" means intentionally keeping certain skills low. This can be almost anything; you can classify it however you like. However, it is quite common to concentrate on one combat skill (for example, only attack but no strength, or the other way, or concentrate on defense), only non-combat skills, etc. My son concentrated on "money-only", i.e., without getting experience in ANY skill (and got some 20 million or so), but that is not a very common goal, as far as I know.