Defense

Defence is a combat skill on RuneScape Classic.

There's a simple formula to calculate the experience you gain, each time you land a hit with this skill on your weapon applied:
 * Experience earned $$ = 4 \times K $$
 * where K = the number you hit on your opponent.

This skill, when raised to higher levels, will decrease the chance of an attack being landed and hurting on the player. Defence does NOT decrease the amount of damage a player takes from attacks. To increase pure damage survivability, one should instead increase their Hitpoints.