Duelling

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For more information, see Duel Arena. This article is about one-on-one fighting in the Duel Arena. For the enchanted emerald ring, see Ring of duelling.

Duelling is a way for players to fight each other (with certain agreements). In RuneScape Classic, players can duel each other anywhere. Many players used this as a cheap method of "teleporting" to Lumbridge without losing any items or using any runes (Lumbridge Home Teleport largely replaces its role now). However, they often had to be aware of scammers who duel them to low health and hope that they die in a dangerous area.

In modern-day RuneScape, players can only duel in the Duel Arena in Al-Kharid, but with many more options.

Players can stake items while duelling; the losing player will forfeit the items over to the winner.

The Duel Arena is one of the most popular mini-games in RuneScape to date, players being able to safely fight friends or other players for fun, to test their skills.

[edit] Details of a duel

A player can choose to have an empty arena or an arena with "obstacles", this is more popular amongst rangers and mages, who can fire over the obstacles to hit their opponent from afar. Players can also choose to disable the following for the length of the duel:

• Prayer
• Special attacks
• Potions
• Food
• Movement
• Ranged attacks
• Magic attacks
• Melee attacks
• Forfeit
• Obstacles

More complex options are available, enabling a player to prevent certain items of armour or weaponry being used in the duel, or if the player chooses they can fight their opponent without any armour or weapons being used at all. There is also a "fun weapons" option can be used where the only weapons allowed are the Rubber chicken, flowers and the scythe, as well as other weapons that usually have a negative combat bonus.

Players often use the Duel Arena to settle disputes, and used to earn money by staking items or money prior to the Duel Arena changes. At the end of the duel, players are teleported out of the arena and have all their stats restored. Some ranged ammunition is also returned. If players staked items or coins, the winner receives them. The special bar is also restored. If the player who won had boosted his stats with a potion, or with the dragon battleaxe special, then those stats will remain boosted after the fight. However, the player who lost will get his stats returned to normal.

At the door is a scoreboard where players can see the last 50 duels to take place in the world, including the players levels, and the result.