What do you like and dislike about the beta? What are your thoughts about the overall experience? For several reasons, I don't like the update to RuneScape Gold combat. The first is that it slows the process of dungeoneering. It takes longer for enemies to kill, and it is usually necessary to fight non-gd creatures to keep your adrenaline levels from falling.

It seems that the party has a variety of combat styles, which can make it difficult to bring teams to work together. (Even even though I'm spending more time trying and bring teams of dg together than I do on real world, having multiple combat styles can only make things more difficult). Since prayers are no longer blocked, armor is now a requirement.

Also, I'm not happy with the way they've diminished the effectiveness of prayer in the pvm. I'd be fine with the pvp world, but when you can't make use of prayers to protect yourself at 100 certain bosses are more difficult (and dungeoneering, see above). Prayer-boosting equipment was also taken away. This causes soul separation and turmoil to be much more costly and slows down slayer's progress if you don't use them.

There are a few choices they made with the armour/weapon system that I do not like. Shields lose all offensive statistics, and I'm not certain how defender works. All offensive statistics are gone in boots and gloves. 

All offensive boosts are now only a percentage and not absolute (i.e. +2 percent instead of +8. It seems that the critical hit chance is the sole weapon of offense that can be increased. This is a huge problem for faster, weaker weapons like the rapier. Rapier, in particular, is now reduced in Buy Old School RS Gold speed and is just an CLS that has stab instead of slash.