Runescape Mini-Games: Barbarian Assault

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Barbarian Assault is a minigame in RuneScape that involves killing, collecting, healing, and defending of the Penance! This minigame is quite tricky, but can be mastered with lots of practice. This minigame requires teamwork, patience, and more.

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The Basics

Requirements

Nothing is 'required', but it is strongly recommended to have a fairly high combat level, hitpoint level, good armor, etc.

Getting There

The Barbarian Assault Arena is located north-west of Seers' Village.

The easiest way to get to the arena would be to use a Games Necklace (which can be made or bought from other players), and to rub it. Click 'Barbarian Outpost'. A handy banking option would be to use the games necklace to teleport to the Games Room, and use the Rogues Den bank. It's very handy.

You are now at the Barbarian Outpost Arena. Enter the building a few steps to the east.

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Beginners' Info

First, you should pick a world where the Barbarian Assault games will be fairly popular, to keep the game going smoothly. The best world (currently) is world 6.

Talk to Captain Cain. He will introduce you to the arena, then will prompt you to take a tutorial on how to take the game. You must complete this before you are allowed to play the minigame.



Tutorials in


Red


mean that you have to complete the tutorial(s) before it.

Tutorials in


Yellow


mean that this is the next tutorial.

Tutorials in


Green


mean that you have already finished this tutorial.

All of the tutorials will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. When you finish them, you can start getting prepared to play the game. It is recommended that you empty most of your inventory, except for the book that you got from Captain Cain. There is a bank deposit box in the north-east part of the building. You can deposit items, but cannot take them out.

If you're wearing a cape, then put it in the bank deposit box, because the barbarians won't let you wear it during the game. You should also note that if you are going to be a mage during the game, you cannot use runes that have been runecrafted, neither can rangers use arrows that have been fletched. Additionally, food cannot be brought into the game.

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Joining a Team

To enter the waiting room, where you can join a team, you have to descend down the ladder just in front of the bank deposit box. You will notice 10 numbered rooms, one for each wave. The rooms have a number in the floor that stands for what wave it is for. The wave 1 room is in the north-west corner of this dungeon.



There is a table in each waiting room with scrolls on it. If you would like to form your own team, then you should take a scroll. You have to use your scroll on other members in the waiting room, and you'll have to get their permission to be on your team. Alternatively, you can join someone else's team if they use their scroll on you. If you are using your own team, then you must write the job that you want to do by clicking 'Write-role' on the scroll. Each team must consist of at least: 1 attacker, 1 healer, 1 defender, and 1 collector. The fifth person gets to decide what role they'll have, so there will actually be a job with 2 people doing it. When your scroll has 4 other names on it, then descend down the ladder in the north-west of the room.



There is also an additionally larger room to the west, which you don't have to sign up in teams for. You just get randomly picked on what job to have, and when there is 5 people, the game will start.

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Playing the Game

Once the game has started, your task will depend on which role you have which will be explained later in this guide. Each role is provided with a different piece of information in their interface, and you will be responsible for telling someone from a different role information that they need to succeed with a blow horn, which is provided.

Attacker Role

When playing the game, an attacker can be easily identified by a red circle around them.

Attackers can use melee, magic, or ranged to kill the Penance Fighters and the Penance Rangers. Both of these monsters has a defensive system that enables them to protect against different types of attack. If you are using melee, then you'll have to use controlled, accurate, aggressive, or defensive. If you plan on using ranged, then you'll have to change between bronze, iron, steel, or mithril arrows. Mages will have to choose between air spells, earth spells, fire spells, or water spells.

The attack style that you'll use will be received from the collector, and will be displayed in the north-east corner of the screen. You are also responsible for telling the collector which type of egg to pick up with your blow horn. Shouting out information will update the collector's interface, and they need this information to successfully do their role. So make sure that the information is correct, and you say it as soon as possible.

Attackers also get their own machine, which will provide all the runes and arrows you'll ever need. You cannot keep these items when the game is over, though.

Collector Role

Collectors will have a yellow circle around them while playing the game, shown below.

The collector picks up the eggs that are dropped by the Penance monsters. They can only hold so many eggs at a time, but you can temporarily store them in a bag that is provided. The collectors then put the eggs in the egg hopper, located atop the podiums. When the egg launcher has eggs loaded in it, it can be used to inflict damage, poison, or stun the Penance monsters.

There are 3 different types of eggs, green (poison), blue (stun), and red (explode). Unfortunately, getting the eggs is not as easy as you think. The eggs have a defensive system, that will make them explode and inflict 5 points of damage on you. Therefore, you must listen to the attacker(s) so they'll tell you what egg you can pick up at the time. You also are responsible to tell the attackers which attack styles to use with your blow horn.

Healer Role

By choosing to be a healer, you will have a green circle around your feet, shown below.

Your job is to cure damage that may have been inflicted by the monsters and poison the Penance healers. To cure other players, you must take a vial from the machine (explained later in the guide), and fill it up with the water from the special healing spring, shown below. Note that you can only have one vial at a time.

Now you have a special healing potion with 4 doses, and can be used on other players to raise their hitpoints, cure poison, and give run energy. If the healer needs a hitpoint boost, they can't drink the potion, but instead they can just drink from the healing spring. Healers also get a special list of the names of everyone on their team, and their hitpoint levels so they know who needs medic.

Healers are also responsible for poisoning Penance Healers. Penance Healers poison members on your team, and heal the other penance monsters.

To stop them, the healers must poison them by using poisoned foods that are obtained from the healer machine. There are poisoned worms, poisoned tofu, and poisoned meat. Only one type of food is able to poison the Penance Healers (which changes regularly). The defender will tell you what type of food will work, and in return, you must tell the defender what food they should drop on the traps with your blow horn.

Healers also get their own machine that dispenses items that they need to succeed. The healer machine contains vials (you can only have one at a time), poison meat, poison tofu, and poison worms.

Defender Role

While performing their role, a defender has a blue circle around them, shown below.

As a defender, your main goal is to stop the Penance Runners, shown below.

Penance Runners start at the very north end of the arena, and run to the south. If they manage to get to the south side of the arena, your team loses many 'honour points' (explained later). They are attracted to certain smells of food, including crackers, tofu, and worms. You must drop this food at the traps. The defender traps are located on the west and east edges of the arena. The type of food that you are have to use is communicated to you by the healer. In return, you tell the healer what food to use to poison the Penance Healers with your blow horn.

Occasionally, the traps will break. The north part of the arena has some logs and a hammer, which can be used to repair a broken trap. The logs and hammer can also be used to make a barricade, so the Penance Runners will come out less often.

Horn of Glory

The Horn of Glory is a larger version of the blow horn. You can give out information to other players. It is found at the south-east of the arena. Since it is quite out of the way, it isn't recommended to use.

To use it, simply click on it, and you will see a large interface. The left side has what everyone should be doing. On the right, you have an option to call out things for each role. Be sure to call out what's on the left!

Egg Shooter

The egg shooter is a device that fires eggs at the monsters in the arena. It can either stun, poison, or explode the monsters. Red eggs explode, green eggs poison, and blue eggs stun. Eggs are collected by the collector. The egg shooter is also used to defeat the Penance Queen, which is explained next.

Penance Queen

The Penance Queen is the final battle. She is very hard to defeat, and comes on wave 10. She uses magic-based attacks and can hit up to 15. It is strongly recommended to have 2 healers with a high healer level. She appears a few minutes after you start the tenth wave. When she appears, a few rocks fall on the horn of glory, and it becomes useless as you can't access it. To defeat the queen, you must use the egg shooter and shoot 'Omega Eggs'. These eggs hit around 30-45 damage each, but are very hard to make. It will take about 10 Omega Eggs to kill the Penance Queen.

This is how you make an omega egg:

The collector picks up a yellow egg, that spawns when the queen appears. Then they use it on a healer.

The healer takes the egg, and uses it on one of the poison pools, scattered around the edges of the arena. Then they use it on the attacker.

The attacker takes the egg and adds spikes to it. Spikes are found from the mushrooms around the edges of the arena, near the poison pools. Next, you use it on the defender.

Now, the defender takes the egg, and uses it on the lava pools, and then it's an omega egg. The defender must pass it to the collector.

The collector takes the egg, and uses it on the egg shooter. Now anyone can shoot the omega eggs at the queen, hitting 30+ until she is dead.

Tips for defeating the queen:

• Make sure auto retaliate is off when the queen arrives at queen stage.
  
• When the queen arrives tend to stay near the pool so the the healers don't have to move far.
  
• Your team should have two healers or at least one level 5.
  
• When handed your egg ( in process to omega ) make sure you have full health before you run away from the pool to add onto it.
  
• If you're low on health, go to the pool and stay still! It is extremely hard for the healer to click on you if you're moving.
  
• All the other Penance monsters must be killed before you are able to shoot an omega egg at the Penance Queen.
  
• When the queen comes don't bother giving orders with the horn any more unless told to do so. It's rather pointless as the queen is now your main priority and the other monsters are the only that require orders

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Rewards

To get your rewards for playing the game, talk to Commander Connad and select 'get-rewards'. Here will be a list of the things that you can achieve with your 'honour points'. Honour Points are rewarded at the end of each wave. The more effort you and your team puts into the game, the more honour points you and your team will receive.

Levels

You can trade in your honour points for levels in your role to receive extra abilities.

Attack Levels:

Level 1: +1 Damage on Penance - Costs 0 Points

Level 2: +2 Damage on Penance - Costs 200 Points

Level 3: +3 Damage on Penance - Costs 300 Points

Level 4: +4 Damage on Penance - Costs 400 Points

Level 5: +5 Damage on Penance - Costs 500 Points

Defender Levels:

Level 1: Increase range that Penance runners search for food - Costs 0 Points

Level 2: Increase range that Penance runners search for food - Costs 200 Points

Level 3: Increase range that Penance runners search for food - Costs 300 Points

Level 4: Increase range that Penance runners search for food - Costs 400 Points

Level 5: Increase range that Penance runners search for food - Costs 500 Points

Collector Levels:

Level 1: Bag holds 2 eggs - Costs 0 Points

Level 2: Bag holds 4 eggs - Costs 200 Points

Level 3: Bag holds 6 eggs - Costs 300 Points

Level 4: Bag holds 7 eggs - Costs 400 Points

Level 5: Bag holds 8 eggs - Costs 500 Points

Healer Levels:

Level 1: Ability to heal 10 hitpoints - Costs 0 Points

Level 2: Ability to heal 15 hitpoints - Costs 200 Points

Level 3: Ability to heal 20 hitpoints - Costs 300 Points

Level 4: Ability to heal 25 hitpoints - Costs 400 Points

Level 5: Ability to heal 35 hitpoints - Costs 500 Points

Armor

There are also many different pieces of armour available.

Equipment Stats
Picture	Defense	Points in Each Role	Defense Bonuses					Attack Bonuses
			Stab	Slash	Crush	Mage	Range	Stab	Slash	Crush	Mage	Range
Fighter Hat	45	275 & 1 Kill Queen Point	27	29	26	-3	28	5	5	5	-7	-7
Healer Hat	45	275 & 1 Kill Queen Point	6	8	10	7	0	-5	-5	-5	-5	7
Runner Hat	45	275 & 1 Kill Queen Point	30	32	37	1	30	0	0	0	0	0
Ranger Hat	45	275 & 1 Kill Queen Point	7	10	11	5	8	-5	-5	-5	-5	5
Fighter Torso	40	375 & 1 Kill Queen Point	62	85	62	-10	67	0	0	0	-40	0
Runner Boots	40	100	8	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Penance Gloves	40	150	0	3	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Penance Skirt	40 60 Ranged required	375 & 1 Kill Queen Point	36	21	28	19	26	0	0	0	-10	15
Granite Body	50 50 Strength required	95,000gp & 1 Kill Queen Point	87	84	79	-6	97	0	0	0	-22	-5

Gambling

It is also possible to gamble your points. You can win anything - from bronze arrows to a dragon chainmail (which is extremely rare).

• Low item gamble - 200 points
  
• Medium item gamble - 400 points
  
• High item gamble - 500 points and Kill Queen

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