Combat Academy

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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.

The Combat Academy.

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. You can also leave the session in the middle, but you need to go through the whole courses again next time.

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".

1. Introduction to Combat

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.

2. Combat Styles

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.

3. The Combat Triangle

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.

5. Using the Ability Bar and Basic Abilities

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.

6. Adrenaline, Threshold Abilities and Ultimate Abilities

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.

Tips

• The juggernaut reheals itself whenever it is out of combat. For players who can knock it down before having enough adrenaline, run away from the arena. When the hitpoint bar of juggernaut disappears, attack again to gather enough adrenaline for the abilities.
• Insert and use the range or mage abilities for instant movement in your ability bar to increase your adrenaline levels without inflicting additional damage.

7. Ability Effects

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.

Rank

Rank is achieved by completing particular outcomes in the courses. The outcomes can be examined from hovering the icons on the interfaces.

They are in three-tiers: Champion (a throne), Hero (a star), and Legend (a dragon).

If you achieved higher rank, the lower ranks would also be unlocked.

Rewards

Immediately after completing the Academy tutorial, the option to complete a survey should open up. Open this survey and complete it for the reward of Live-game XP.

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.

You can claim your reward book on right clicking Lady Deathknell and clicking on claim reward.

If unfortunately the survey is closed before it can be finished, by accessing the interface with icon next to interface, the system will prompt the player to start the survey again.

Trivia

• If the character does not have the levels to use the mage spells (9 for Earth) then the training cannot be completed.
• The training does not function properly on lower or medium resolutions.