Summoning Tank: These kind of tanks are not really common because like the previous types are hard to create. This account is based on having the lowest combat possible with high summ and good def to tank. These accounts are basically for multi and are really fun.
There are many variants of this tank the best choice would be the 40 or 75 defence variant with 99 summ for titan.
Pros:
- Hability to summon steel titan and pk with it
- Really low lvl
- Kills others really quickly
Cons:
- Not good for boss killing
- Not good for questing
- Expensive to create
- It is mainly for multi purposes
Like I have said there are many other kinds of Tanks, but the ones I've explained are the most common.
How to choose the best tank for you?
To choose the best Tank for you. You have to ask yourself what you want, an account to bassiccally pvp? An account for pvm? An account for pvp and pvm?
If you want an account for pvp you have to choose what you prefer: solo pk, multi, or both.
For solo the best options are summ tank, 75 def tank and maul & drag tanks.
For multi any tank with high def and pray.
And for both I would choose augury/rigour tanks.
If you want to pvm go for a maxed out tank it's definitely the best choice
Then for pvm and pvp the best choice would be rigour/augury tanks, maxed out tank or maxed drag claws tank.
How ever it's your choice, you have to choose what you think that will be better for you or you will enjoy more
Low levels
Trainning
Now your outfit should be something like this:
Note:Kayle's Sling is recommended as it's good for xp and it doesn't need to spend money. Now it's time to get 70 ranged it would take 1 week, I reccomend you getting this on Dragith nurns (these are in the Blood pact dungeon). It's also reccommended to use Harry's Catacomb Grabber. After 70 ranged you should get 70 cooking (it's easy to do just cook trouts and salmons in Al kharid), 60 fishing (its reccommended to fly powerfish in barbarian village, 60 woodcutting (cut willows in Draynor), 60 firemaking. For these stats you can use the cript you like there are many of these and many good. After this, you should get membership and the real way to maxed tank starts here.
Money Making
Money making in low levels is a bit hard, but there are some ways to get it. The best are mining iron and depositing it, killing hill giants and selling the big bones,... But if you're going to use sling to train ranged you won't need much money just 300-600k for the equipment and food.
Med levels
Trainning
50+ 50+ 70+ 80+ 80+ 80+ 50+
And your equipment should look like this:
Broad-tipped bolts are recommended which need 55 slayer, if you haven't enough money for dragonfire shield get an obby shield.
Money Making
Well to make money for med levels the best options are drags like greens, blue, frosts (you need 85 dungeon). You can also kill aviansies which are in god wars dungeons for ranged xp and money.
Also you can collect mort myre funguis for money which is about 800-1m/h you can use S1N funguis
Here you should make about 25-35m to get dragonfire shield, quests, food,...
High levels
Trainning
Well here starts the hardest part and also the funnier, here you have to go for lvls such as 99 ranged, 99 mage, 77+ pray, 99 hp and 99 def.
Note:The levels may be different depending on the type of tank you want, but the trianning mehtods are the same.
Here to train ranged you can still kill yaks until lvl 99 or you can go for the quickest way which is red chinchompas it's an average of 200k ranged xp per hour. And it costs 30-50m, for these who doesn't know how it works, here is a quick good guide:
For prayer you will need around 150m, the best way to train is with drag bones on a gilded altar you can use S1NAltar script. I would reccommend you getting high summoning level because it will help you in many activites as money making and trainning, 67+ would be reccommended.
Money Making
Now is when you need and you will get more money. Here you can do boss killing which is a really good way to earn money, some bosses you should duo/solo are:
Another good way for money making is
Dagannoths killing.
There are many other ways formoney making such as the ones I said previously and others like merching, corp beast, pk... but these are the most common.
PVP
Well tanks for pvp must have some items/spells like:
Barrows gloves, you get those from completing recipe for disaster as I said previously.
Vengeance Spell which needs 94 magic and Lunar diplomacy completed
Ancient magicks which you get after completing desert treasure
If you have these you are in the good way to start pking. Well tanks usually use ranged attack in edge pk. They can hybrid too, but for solo pk the best is ranged + vengeance.
I would reccommend you an outfit like this for pking:
You can change the granite shield for a dragonfire shield, and the drag bolts for diamond or bakriminel
Note:This is for people who doesn't want to spend or haven't much money.
For people who has more money the equipment should be:
You can change the the drag bolts for diamond or bakriminel
The most common combos of rangers are using diamond bolts and switching to d bolts to ko. Against magers it's highly recommended use bakriminel bolts cause of it's special. Try to use as mage vengeance as you can and ever use prayers. Bring ever ranging pots, antifire pots if you havent dfs or antidragon equipped.
A d bow is ever useful for its special to KO. Morrigan's javs and throwing axes
For multi I would recommend you hybriding mage/ranged somethinglike attacking with brakiminel bolts and casting ice barrage.
For mage staking use blood and smoke barrages.
Note: It's not an in depth guide to tank pk, it's just an introduction with some tips. More information will be added.
Here you have some good tanks pk vids:
Pictures from runescape wiki
FAQ
Are Tank goods in PVP? Tanks in low levels are really good and in higher levels with the improved bows they're are very good too now
What att & str levels should I get? It deppends on your style if you want to pk with melee 60 att and 88 str are a good choice, but my favourite is 75 attack and 70 str which is good for questing and task making...
Should I be tank?Well if you love melee pking not, if you want a kind of account that can kill mains and go to mb without worries definetly yes!
Is void knight outfit worth? Yes it's really useful for trianning and for pk.
Will more things be added on the guide? Yes, I've just added this guide. I will be adding more things in a near future