The Runescape Assist System

Controls - The Assist System

The Assist System is a game feature that lets you use someone else's skill levels temporarily to make items. In exchange, the person assisting you will earn the experience for standing around while you work. The advantage of this is that you will get to do things for yourself without items ever leaving your inventory.


If you want assistance

Previously, if you had a Smithing level of 42 and you wanted a steel platebody (requiring a Smithing level of 48) you could ask a friend with a high enough Smithing level to make it for you, giving them the steel bars and waiting for them to smith it and give you the armour. With the Assist System, on the other hand, you can simply ask your friend to assist you and do the job yourself.

To request assistance from another player, right-click on them to bring up the options (as shown to the left). Selecting the 'Req Assist' option will send them a request for assistance.


If you are assisting someone

If you are assisting someone, it allows you to relax and chat to friends while earning experience! Should you receive a request for assistance and wish to help out, simply click on the request in your chat window to begin. This will open a window showing your assist options:
The skills shown are those that you can choose to assist in. You'll notice that there are no options to assist with combat skills: this is for your own protection - while you are assisting you cannot move or work on skills yourself.

To begin assisting, select the skill or skills you wish to help the other player with by clicking on its name or icon. This will highlight them in the interface as shown below:

You will now assist the other player in those skills for as long as the skill is highlighted. They will be able to do anything in those skills that you can do provided they have the necessary tools and resources (e.g. willow logs and a knife for Fletching willow longbows). If you assist a player in a skill that they do not need help with (because they already have a high enough level), you will not receive experience for it.

Because you can control which of your skills you can assist someone with, you do not need to worry about getting experience in any skills you don't want to gain experience in.

Notes

You should be aware that there are a few exceptions and restrictions in the Assist System.

• You can earn a maximum of 30,000 experience in any 24-hour period by assisting people.
• You cannot assist someone with a quest, an Achievement Diary (they will not be able to mark a task complete if they were assisted in this way) or a minigame.
• When assisting someone with Magic, they will only be able to use the 'Enchant spells' and skill-based Lunar spells. They cannot use your level to teleport, fight, etc.

If you are being assisted, a convenient icon will display in the bottom-right corner of your game window.


To control who can ask for assistance, you can right-click on the Assist button. You can then set it to 'On', 'Friends' or 'Off'.

RS Psycological Trading..a New Way To Look At It

Well, all of you probably do some merchanting, but more likely ...sell/buy/trade. These are common acts of merchanting, but there is
another way to look at it. Psycology, which expains everything. Here are some common phrases that you can use to determine what they are intending to do/think/scam of you. Here are a few examples showing what the person is thinking.


"selling 500 freaking iron bars, just buy please!" This person is anxious and not very smart, because after a while his bars will go down and price, then you jump on him and buy for the low price.

"selling 500 iron bars contact me on private, a/w is 500 each(not accurate prices but who cares) This person is patient, yet it in a hurry. He wants to maximize in cash, yet will take the time however long it takes till he finds a high bidder 400 ea.
This is not the person you want to haggle with, and he is usually in the process of doing something such as alching\fletching. So this is not the right person to buy from.

"500 iron bars for sale 200 each" this person is obviously impatient and is desperate going low price. Just wait a few seconds, because he will get even more impatient as time passes.

These are 3 examples..1 and 3 are the ones you are aiming for on merchanting.


Psycological key words/phrases:

private: in a hurry, desperate and patient

sell to him rather than me: A scammer, don't even trade this person or the other, it just makes it more tempting and you could fall for it.

ex of this: I'll trade you for a nature reed for your dragon med lighthouse. Other guy trades me and puts up 10 mil. Pretty imtimidating, lol i saw ther log out tactic, didn't fool me..psycology ownz!

selling blah blah got 5 min!: desperate person probably(80%) lying, so he is definately gonna admit his disaster in 5 minutes. Well, at least you can psycologically 0wn him. He probably also will be a target said in example 1 and 3, don't say that he is a lier, or he most likely wont sell to you which is not the aim of this.

noob: if he says bank sale no noobs, this refers to no wimpy offers, which makes him want to spend less time, meaning that he has no time..making him a desperate buyer\seller.

not you!: means he has a better buyer, just a little impatient, nothing to be upset on..it just means you will have to take it to the next level if you want to buy it. So just a person trying to make you "bid" higher so its just a temptation, look at it that way if you haven't before.

person isn't (talking or anything): definately and most probably a scam. This means they are really happy just dont wanna show it out or blurt out any clues, yet by saying nothing they are giving out a clue. Also when they say "accept" it means they are impatient and you can say "no, thats a bad deal, but i'll do it for 10k more." And he'll blow his cap and accept.

Runescape Pking Tips

1. It isn't good to go into the wilderness if you are not a pure, only raising certain stats. A level 10 that raises everything will probably hit like a 4, but a level 10 Pure mage can probably hit around an 8 or a 9.

2. If your opponent can hit an 11, keep your HP around 6 higher than you've seen your opponent hit, or estimate if you know he can hit higher than what he has hitten. I think some people believe this is called "safing" but I am not sure. [Please post and tell me if it is called Safing] Some people call me a noob because I use it and they cannot kill me. I believe that it is an effective way of not being killed.

3. If you have less than 20 HP, and you have a combat level of around 17 or 18, and you are getting attacked by 2 or more Pure Mages, run! They can 2 hit you easily.

4. Do not leave your computer logged in, and when you have to log out in the wilderness, go to a secluded place so when you log in, you will not be attacked.

5. Be cautious when you are teaming with a large group of people that you do not know, they might turn and kill you fast.

6. Binds/Snares/Entangles can be very helpful. They can bind a runner that is almost dead, and they can hold people that can kill you in their tracks, giving you a chance to get away.

7. Lobsters and Swordfish are good pking food, but if you are in a members world, and are around level 80, you should bring Shark.

8. Do NOT bring a weapon that took you a very long time to get, because you can be teamed on, and killed, losing that item in a few seconds. Rune Scimitars are good pking weapons, and Dds' (Dragon Dagger (p++) ) are good members pking weapons.

9. If you are a mage or ranger, don't bring all of your runes or arrows. Bring enough runes for around 50 - 120 of your chosen spell or arrow. If you are low on arrows, head to low leveled wilderness and pick up the arrows of the rangers that ran deep to catch a foe.

10. The longer you PK and actually know what you're doing, the better you get. ~Nsane?

11.If you came to kill, bring your best gear. (30 Ranged = Maple Short and Addy Arrows, 47 Mage = Water Blast) People with your exact stats will be owned if you bring your best armor and weapons and they didn't. ~Oh Bum