This is the same for your character. It is no longer possible to old school runescape gold melee in d'hide. To show how bad this is, the statistics are similar to this: wearing a rang top or bottom, along with a helm meleeing can reduce your accuracy by 27 percent. Wearing MAGE's top and bottom while meleeing reduce your accuracy by 45 percent. However, gloves and boots do not seem to be able to make a big difference though.

The two last reasons are the reason you should make use of the weaknesses that the beast has. If you're fighting Dark Beasts (which can now be a threat to you) and you exhibit a lack of range and you decide to attack then you'll notice two things. One is that you can barely strike.

The other is that the magic damage actually increases due to your armor. (A way around this last element is to wear Hybrid equipment, like the Warpriest of Armadyl gear obtainable as a drop from Aviansies, and other creatures found in the GWD) Oh, and it is a must to get an Royal C'bow. Ammo is cheap and costing less than 1M to make, and it surpasses CCB.

Last but not least, Make use of your abilities as often you are able to. If I'm casting Fire Surge on an glacor and apply a magic spell, I DO NOT USE any arrows at all. The same applies to arrows that are within range. For slayer tasks, you'd want to avoid ultimates, and focus on basics and thresholds, until you can use Guthix' Blessing to heal, or Berserk/Metamorphosis for some crazy damage.

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