Defensive Magics?

koil163 · **Posted:** March 26th, 2011, 10:47 am

Hey Guys! I've been thinking. The magic spells are all combat based or teleports, or alchamy....ect. So, why don't we have defensive magic?

Therefore, Jagex should make magic that protects the player from harm. There can be many types of defense, such as a magic plating, which could use body runes, or to protect an item.

Players can get new spells by looking and reading a book in a library, such as Varock's.

Koil163

Adbot · **Posted:** March 26th, 2011, 10:47 am

1 Stone Pwn · **Posted:** March 26th, 2011, 11:19 am

I think that's what prayer is for.

Pennstate315 · Runite Member 5-25-10

Yuh, Prayer is all defensive stuff, Magic is offensive... Don't know if it could work unless the add in offensive prayers too.

koil163 · **Posted:** March 26th, 2011, 2:15 pm

Prayers are passive, exept for protection, and run out. Mage is just how many runes. Also, mage armour sucks.

1 Stone Pwn · **Posted:** March 26th, 2011, 2:48 pm

koil163 wrote:

Also, mage armour sucks.

That's because magic has powerful offensive effects (healing, freezing, vengeance, etc.). It balances out the triangle.

Killjoy · **Posted:** March 26th, 2011, 4:11 pm

Pennstate315 wrote:

Don't know if it could work unless the add in offensive prayers too.

Ultimate Strength 31 Increases a player's Strength by 15%
Incredible Reflexes 34 Increases a player's Attack by 15%
Hawk Eye 26 Increases a player's Ranged by 10%
Mystic Lore 27 Increases a player's Magic by 10%

ect.

Yes there are already is my point.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 26th, 2011, 4:11 pm

Blue October · **Posted:** March 26th, 2011, 10:40 pm

Yeah that's covered by prayer. And those aren't really offensive prayers since they don't do damage by themselves.

koil163 · **Posted:** March 27th, 2011, 9:41 am

With magic, you can keep on casting, but your Prayer runs out.

Two101 · **Posted:** March 27th, 2011, 12:25 pm

I don't agree for the same reason I wouldn't want defensive attack, strength or ranged. We already have the defence skill and a number of defensive tactics (e.g. the Staff of Life special attack which halves all melee damage taken). Also, Vengeance can be considered a form of defensive magic as it either forces your opponent to use a weaker weapon or take damage, usually the latter.

Mages in games are generally "glass cannons"; a good offence can sometimes be the best defence, especially if you can freeze a melee user.

Prayer basically is defensive magic and even uses elements of the original Good Magic and Evil Magic skills in the early days of RuneScape Classic. I don't believe there should be spells which boost defense or reduce damage in a similar way to prayers, but miscellaneous affects similar to Vengeance could be interesting if implemented well.