Vengeance Group

Vengeance Group
Release date	4 April 2011 (Update)
Members	Yes
Level	95
Spellbook	Lunar, Daemonheim
Type	Combat
Experience	120
Runes	3411
Quest	Lunar Diplomacy
Cooldown	30 seconds
Description	The next time any nearby player receives damage, 75% of the damage received is instead dealt to the attacker
Advanced data
Struct ID	14871
Links	Struct14871
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Vengeance Group is a Lunar spell that was released along with Livid Farm. When activated, it applies the effect of Vengeance on up to 50 players within a 4 square radius of the caster (7x7 square centred on the caster), with the caster having the top priority and players already under the effects of vengeance with the lowest priority. The Vengeance effect allows the players affected by it to rebound 75% of the damage taken on the next hit to their opponent.Vengeance can hit up to a maximum of 8000 damage, and is affected by the Vulnerability spell.

Upon casting the spell, the player is informed how many players received the vengeance effect with a message in the chatbox. It has a shared cooldown of 30 seconds as with the other vengeance spells upon casting, in which time the caster won't be allowed to cast it again.

Input	Cost
4311	4,852
Combo runes
4311	24,278
4311	18,096
4311	9,758
Staves
43	4,522
43	4,522
43	4,522
43	4,522
43	4,522

This is the fourth to last spell unlocked at Livid Farm, requiring 330,000 Produce Points to unlock. Players will now need to accumulate 430,000 Produce Points to unlock Borrowed Power before they may spend them on Wishes.

It takes roughly 17 hours of Livid Farming at maximum efficiency to unlock this spell.

This spell is very useful in team activities such as Dungeoneering and bosses.

Vengeance Group is currently the fifth highest level spell, tied with Fire Surge and Heal Group, behind Spellbook Swap and Ghorrock Teleport at 96, and Borrowed Power at 99. It has been confirmed that Vengeance Group works in PvP situations (although in PvP minigames such as Clan Wars, it would also Vengeance enemy players), against the Corporeal Beast, and in the God Wars Dungeon. It is also the highest level spell in the Dungeoneering spellbook, tied with Fire Surge.

Anti-Barraging

With the release of Vengeance Group, a new PvP strategy most commonly known as Anti-Barraging came to exist. The strategy normally involves a team of about 4+ players that all stand within a one square distance of a particular player. This player must then cast Group Vengeance. The team then wait for an enemy player to Barrage or Burst them. As all of the players in the team have Vengeance activated, and Barrage and Burst spells hit everyone in a 3 x 3 grid, all of the team's Vengeances are executed at once, triggering up to nine hits on the original caster.

This is particularly useful in Soul Wars, against high level barragers camping outside the team's graveyard. However, it should be noted that the caster would only be able to get two to three casts before being forced to go out and fight to replenish the activity bar.

See also

• Vengeance
• Vengeance Other

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• patch 24 October 2022 (Update):
  • The icons for Spiritual Healing, Disruption Shield and Vengeance Group were fixed.

• ninja 1 March 2021 (Update):
  • The Vengeance Group spell can now be used even when no one will benefit from it, to make it consistent with the other Vengeance spells.

• ninja 26 March 2018 (Update):
  • Vengeance spells & Disruption shield will no longer be affected by global cooldown.

• patch 4 December 2017 (Update):
  • A buff icon will display when Vengeance is active, and when it's been used a debuff icon will display showing the time remaining until it can be used again.

• patch 11 April 2012 (Update):
  • Group vengeance/heal/boost spells now respect what team the player is on in Castle Wars, Stealing Creation, Soul Wars, Rated Clan Wars, Clan Wars and Citadel Battlefields.

• patch 26 July 2011 (Update):
  • Group Vengeance does not give XP in activities where free runes are provided.

• patch 3 May 2011 (Update):
  • This spell can now be sorted by category on the magic spellbook interface.

• update 4 April 2011 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Unlike Vengeance, Vengeance Group works in Player-owned Houses. You used to be able to cast it on other players in areas that are not multi-combat, unlike vengeance other. However, after the Evolution of Combat, this is now obsolete.
• Vengeance Group used to give the full base experience in Dungeoneering, before it was changed to 12 experience.
• The amount of experience you gain from casting the spell Vengeance Group is always the base amount, and is not affected by how many people receive the power of vengeance.
• This spell is often used in Soul Wars, Pest Control, Castle Wars, Stealing Creation and Dungeoneering. In Soul Wars, lobbies and graveyards are best to cast upon. In Pest Control, the beginning of the game is best to cast upon. In Castle Wars, the lobby and the top floor are best to cast upon.
• The description of Vengeance spells says "75% of the damage received is instead dealt to the attacker", but this is misleading as damage is not actually reduced. The player takes 100% damage of that hit and their attacker takes 75%.
• Using it on an Ironman player results in: <player> cannot be boosted as (s)he is playing in Ironman mode.
  • Using it if only a single user was affected results in: The spell only affected one person. No one else benefited from it."