Barbarian Assault

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.

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.

Getting Started

To get started, speak to Captain Cain at the entrance to the mini-game arena, and he will inform you of the ins and outs of the game, giving you a basic tutorial on each of the roles available and monsters that you must slay. To become familiar with the game, listen to Captain Cain closely as he explains everything you need to know. You'll soon find out some good news - there are no items required! Also the mini-game has rewards to go with it,

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.

1. Go to the room marked with a '1'. Either, make a team, or join a team. To make a team grab a scroll from the table in the room. Use the scroll on other players you want in your team and pick a role for yourself by using the 'Write-role' option on the scroll. Once you have 5 teammates (one role will consist of two members). Go down the ladder to start the mini-game.
2. Go into the larger room marked with an arrow. Once you go in you will be asked to choose a role. The game will start once each role is occupied.

The Roles

There are four roles in the mini game, with two people taking one role each. The four roles are: Attacker, Defender, Healer, and Collector, each being designated their own special tasks, and each having their own distinctive colour and logo. Once you start the game you will have a ring that displays your role around you and a interface with a 'mouth', 'ear', 'penance creature', and a 'horn'. The 'mouth' tells what to shout from your horn, the 'ear' tells you what type you should use, the 'penance creature' tells what wave you are on, the 'horn' tells who you should shout your horn to. Once you've entered the game you'll be given a horn, which tells the other roles what they need to be doing.

• » The Defender's horn will tell the healer what poison to use, and the Healer's horn will tell the defender what bait to use.
• » The Attacker's horn will tell what colour egg the collector should pick up, and the Collector's horn tells what type of combat style the attacker should do.

Attacker	Defender	Collector	Healer

Another option if your role in the minigame is done, is to use the Great Horn, located in the South of the cavern. The horn has the ability to tell your team what things they must drop, use or what attack style to fight with.

Each role is crucial to the other. It's good to keep in touch with the role that tells you what to do. For a more in depth look at using each role to their maximum potential,

Attacker

As an attacker, your goal is to attack the Penance Fighters and Rangers, using any form of combat you so desire. If you decide to use range or magic, you will have to use the arrows/runes supplied to you. You also give and receive instructions to the Collector. As an attacker you can receive four options from the collector, they are:

• » Controlled, Wind, Bronze
• » Accurate, Water, Iron
• » Aggressive, Earth, Steel
• » Defensive, Fire, Mithril,

If you do not use the right attacking method, you won't be able to damage the Fighters and Rangers at all. Instead, you will be hit with recoil damage, which ranges from 1 to 5hp. This also deducts points from your final score, so you should refrain from guessing the correct attack type. Always keep your menu in the attack type selection menu and keep auto retaliate off. When the type switches change your attack style and your character will stop attacking until ordered. While you wait for the collector to shout what type of attack to use, go ahead and shout his egg color. This prevents your character from making you lose points 99% of the time.

As an attacker, you will be fighting the most and will require the most healing. It is a very good idea to stay near the healer at all times if you wish to survive and not lose the game for your team.

Attackers lose points by using the wrong fighting style.

Defender

The defender role is similar to luring with their main opponent being the Penance Runner. The Defender will use the blue coloured machine, which gives Worms, Tofu and Crackers. You lure the Runners by:

• » Getting instructions from the Healer.
• » Laying the bait instructed in a trail to the trap, keep the Penance Runner there for until the trap does the dirty work.

The bait will change, so keep in constant touch with the Healer. Sometimes the Runners will ignore you completely and run for the exit; don't worry if one or two gets away.

The Defender can also lay barricades with logs and a hammer (supplied in the room), in front of the Penance's cave, which will prevent them from coming in. Note that the barricades only last for awhile.

Defenders lose points by letting runners escape to the cave.

Collector

As a collector, the main job is to pick up the Penance eggs, and load them into the egg launcher. These eggs come in three colours: blue, red and green, each with their own special effect. If you need to change the type of egg use the egg converter (Picture) located by the other machines (Note: not all the eggs will survive this process). The eggs can be fired using the Egg Launcher (Picture). The egg launcher is used to kill the Penance Queen on the final wave. It also can be used on any of the penance creatures. The following table shows each egg and its effect when fired at the Penance:

	Picture	Name	Effect
		Green Egg	Poisons the Penance. This poison damages over time.
		Red Egg	Does damage to the Penance, between 3 and 4.
		Blue Egg	Stuns the Penance for a couple seconds.

The Collector receives information on what egg to pick up from the Attacker. The Collector also relays information to the Attacker of what style to use when attacking the Penance. The Collector is the only one who can pick up eggs and if you pick up the wrong one, you will be dealt some damage. The collector loads the eggs into an Egg Launcher.

Collectors lose points by selecting the wrong egg.

Healer

The Healer is very important in the game, their main foe being the Penance Healers. Their job consists of healing other players, so that no one dies during the game, and poisoning Penance healers. To heal a fellow member, use the green machine to obtain a vial (limit one vial). Use 'Take from' on the green pool in the west part of arena to fill the vial; you will obtain a filled vial that can heal other players. The green pool can also be used to heal yourself if you're the healer. The healer also has a unique interface that tells the Healer each team members health.

The Defender will tell the Healer what poisoned food to use; tofu, crackers, or worms. The Healer will use the instructed poisoned food on the Penance Healers.

Healers lose points by using the wrong posion on the penance healers.

The Queen

Half way through the 10th wave, the Penance Queen will arrive through a trapdoor in the floor. She can attack several units at once with a ranged attack that can be very deadly for the unprepared. At first her ranged attack will be slow, but powerful. The more and more her health goes down the faster her attack will get. This attack can hit anyone, anywhere; so a good healer will be wary of everybody's health, including yours. To defeat the Penance Queen, your team must acquire an omega egg, which is the only way of damaging the Queen. A large number of eggs prepared beforehand is recommended. Each member of your team will need to contribute in some way:

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.

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