AFK Combat

Lately I have not spent much time sitting at the pc, which isnt a problem if you are doing most skills as you can just come back and do botchecks when needed. With combat/fighting its not so simple...

Currently my combat level is 31, im wearing a full steel suit of armour and my individual stats are as follows.

Defence 26
Attack 26
Strength 24
Health 29 (giving me 34 hit points)

At this level you can fight fairly high level creatures as long as you have plenty of food (and your health bars are more than the creatures maximum hit). But fighting while away from keyboard is another story.

Do you just fight someone you are 100% sure you will be safe until a botcheck? How would you know when to move on? Watching combat in a new location and seeing how much health you lose between botchecks is not a gurantee as to wether you can survive there. Random creatures and critical hits make it hard to be sure.

Having fought gnomes for what seems like forever, I decided to move on to Lemo woods as valera is always so busy and the long timers means you could only get 10xp per minute. Lemo woods is great for afk'ing. The most health I lost between botchecks there was 10, most of the time it was just 2 or 3hp.

At times Lemo woods gets busy too, which means slow xp gains per hour of fighting there.

Deep Lemo is very tempting being close to Lemo woods. But alas, even though my CL is 31 and im wearing steel, I cannot fight afk there!! After watching my fights there for 10 minutes I noticed that I often got 2, 3, or sometimes 4 bears in a row. These bears were stripping me of my health at a rate of up to 10hp per bear. Check out comments for a few combat reports against bears.

My next stop will be jungles edge. While the xp per creature killed is a lot less there, im hoping I can afk without having to worry!!