DKBananaSlamma posted... So what changed between the old and new arena in Al-Kharid? I heard the old one was super toxic and like 33% of bans were from that PvP arena lol.
That sounds amazing >_>
Haven't been to the new one yet but it seems like jagex got rid of the entire gambling aspect of it based on the wiki.
Before 2022 you can 1v1 other players and contribute to a prize pool for the winning player. Most players just put the same amount as their opponent. So it initially was doubling money for the winning player. Later on there'd be a tax added by jagex as a goldsink.
Most people just participated in naked tentacle whip staking. So tentacle whip equipped, no armour, no food/potions, no movement, no prayer, no obstacles, etc... so 100% rng based. The person who attacks first (which is random) has a slightly higher chance of winning. After 10,000 stakes one can have a k/d of like 4999 wins 5001 losses or some shit like that.
Main thing to watch out for were scammers who'd try to turn on some options on the sly to get an advantage. I got almost scammed by a guy who turned on movement + obstacles to try to confuse me. But I won and earned 100m
Screenshot of my streamer friend who staked for me. Oh yeah he started streaming on YouTube after his twitch got banned..I supplied him with this GP:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bfa9889f.jpg
Only reason why his Win is much higher than his Losses was because he did non-gambling related stakes against lower levels.
This was from like 2018. I don't got all this gp anymore since we went on a huge loss streak
most i had at a time:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d80e2c97.jpg
we prob lost way more than ever earned tho. We mainly did small stakes like 10m-100m tbh. We only went big when we lost too much gp