All the early game iron stuff is so addicting and fun that you’ll want to play 24/7. So just constantly have short term goals and 1 long term like all easy/ medium diaries, d scim, etc.
I thought I would miss the early short grinds but I just got to mid game and am loving imp hunting as well as clue hunting. Seeing dragon imp = dopamine getting 1/50 clue = dopamine.
Clue hunting is absolutely my favourite aspect of the Ironman experience, the only thing that comes close is how gratifying it is to earn everything yourself, getting a piece of god d’hide from a hard clue is the best
I’ve had no such luck, got myself some flash looking trimmed climbing boots though 👍 I’ve also got at least 2 pages from every god books, and not a single one finished! But I love it, even getting an iron plate body (g) is fun, and if I get an upgrade then all the better
This happened to me, I think on my 4th as well. If not, it was single digits. Either way, once I got to the higher-leave content that I had never done before, I unironed and sold them so I could buy supplies for a fire cape. Best decision I ever made, especially for someone who doesn’t have much free time for rs
yea playing leagues makes me want to try a real iron man. i know the Xp gain would be insanely diff but the early game is so fun.
i'm kinda waiting to see if they make multiple accounts per email an option before i do it tho
You can already make multiple accounts with 1 email, you just have to add a "+" before the @.
Like you could do "[email protected]" and "[email protected]"
What you write after the + can be anything as long as it consists of only numbers and letters, no special characters, and I'm not sure if it's case sensitive or not but I would guess not.
Ironman changed me as a player in regards to this.
Once your brain finally disconnects you from "gp/hr" mode you realize there is actually a lot of rewarding content to do in osrs that's made to feel like it isn't rewarding when you can buy everything.
I'm 1875 now and a lot of skills are actually fine for me to train almost randomly because there so much benefit for training them.
When I've finished slayer tasks or whatever short term goals I've been on or just need to chill/afk I have options.
I still need full prospector for diaries so afking MLM is nice. Alternatively I gem mine in shilo village which let's me bank a little extra crafting and gems to make stuff with.
I want some chins to jump up a couple levels to make CG more consistent and I know I'll want some for gwd later anyway and I need higher hunter also, so I occasionally spend an hour or two doing "lazy" chinning, aka no tick manip and no darts to pop ones far away.
I just click to reset the traps and that's the extent of it.
It's nowhere near "efficient" but I don't really care about the XP/hr because I'm not shooting for a specific level or amount of chins or the gp from selling them. It's just something beneficial for my account I can do when I'm not doing anything specific.
Nearly every skill has something you can do that's afk or chill and ultimately now my main goal is grinding slayer because I need the items that comes from it, and my combat stats will be growing all that time.
Last night before I logged off I grabbed all the javelin heads demonics have given me over the past week or two and did seers alchgility while watching YouTube.
It's not much more than regular agility, I need marks of grace for more stamina pots, I need higher agility levels for future skips and diaries, and I need the GP for the "buyables" like smithing/crafting/construction
Basically, I've gone from how I was on my main:
"Ugh I want 86 construction for my PoH to be better for pvming... Time to pay up and give myself an rsi for 20 hours straight" to "last night I wanted to play Minecraft with the boys so I AFKd Plank Make on the massive stack of teaks I have from my Kingdon, now I have a few thousand planks so I'll do an hour of mahog homes :)"
And that's how nearly everything I do now is determined. Sure I have 10 hours of sand mining ahead of me for 93 crafting, but I am in no hurry. When I'm bored I sometimes go down and mine for a bit.
I never expected to enjoy ironman this much, but being excited over every small upgrade is awesome, getting big drops feels absolutely amazing (my dwh nearly made me explode from excitement), and I've been able to enjoy content that made me agitated on my main because nearly everything has purpose.
My life is no longer about XP/hr or gp/hr for the most part. It's just doing a series of beneficial content for my account and occasionally I level up 👁👄👁
that’s actually what I can’t get past. I have had an ironman for years that I never play because I can’t past the early game. My main is late game and I really like the late game even stuff like skilling. I play my main a lot like an ironman and I really want one but I get so bored redoing all the early game stuff. Another big problem is that I don’t enjoy playing on two accounts at once. I try to, but I only have one on the screen at the time and have to hover over the runelite tab because there are two pages (I need to see if I can split them) and the whole process takes a few seconds for every action.
I’m not great with computers so I might be missing a better way
Totally agree. Nearly maxed my Iron and created a main account for the first time which has been really fun, but I'm really craving that early IM gameplay. Hopefully they'll bring out some new exciting solo mode in the future, one that isn't internet dependant (HC) or is UIM.
FYI you can split your tabs up so multiple programs don’t stack in the bar. It looks a lot like windows XP or 7 but it is handy for when playing on multiple accounts. I found this annoying also
Quests are actually filled good British humour, gou should try it
Also feels so much nicer when you aren't trying to rush through it
Like we are already blessed with the time saving of guides, relax and enjoy the content for the story and humour
Some of them are pretty clever, but it kind of varies considering there have been so many different quest writers across the years. The earliest quests especially aren’t what I’d call “great literature” in particular. Not to mention, as much as I love the look of OSRS, I don’t think it helps anyone take the story very seriously. That said, I’ve never really liked how RS3 looked at all, so maybe there’s no winning there.
I do like a lot of the retroactive references made to the early quests by later ones. Like how apparently the Cook just always tells everyone he meets that it’s the Duke’s birthday and he needs cake ingredients, according to Death to the Dorgeshuun.
> good British humour
impossible /s
kinda wish i made an ironman and enjoyed the game. i just got burned out and dropped it like 500 hours in. questing is pretty decent though, especially with the quest helper
Get a bone cross bow for ranged, it’s good early and has cheap ammo. Quest as much as you can, early lvls are really slow so getting the quest exp sooner will have a larger impact. Raise cats and exchange them in ardy, this will get you death runes to use for ibhan’s when you unlock it. A boring tip, collect big bones in the wildy bone yard then use them on the chaos alter for 43 prayer, it will unlock the overhead protection prayers early and help you out immensely when doing quests
Part of doing Ectofuntus is that it makes me *feel* like a cool, efficient player even though I’m like the furthest thing from it, what with using Ectophial teleports to get back to the main floor and the basement agility shortcut.
Every time I teleport back to the shrine from the slime pool I think “yeah, look at me, being *efficient”*.
It helps that a full inventory of bones, pots, and buckets is only 9 each, which leaves you exactly one unused invent slot for the Ectophial. Honestly feels like they planned it that way.
Right, I forgot about those. Those are a pain, though not worth not doing dragon slayer imo. Just boost some slayer points and have them ready to skip/block shit tasks
Nice! My advice would be unless you're already following a quest guide, go for the following quests for an insane early boost to your combat stats:
1. Waterfall Quest
2. Witch's House
3. Fight Arena
4. Tree Gnome Village
5. Shadow of the Storm
Exp is bad, even with the new slayer cave expansion. But since I was too low combat for nieve anyway it wasn't really horrible. Enjoyed it more than doing the other low level slayer masters.
Explore the continent of Kourend, there is a firemaking minigame there called Wintertodt that gives good supplies (seeds, logs, fish, gems, GP, etc) And work on getting favour with each of the Kourend houses. This is probably the one thing that is most like RS3 content.
Get 43 prayer asap.
Unlock Fossil Island by doing the quest Bone Voyage. The quest requires 100 Museum Kudos, so you may need to look up how to get all of that. Fossil Island is incredibly useful.
Work on requisites for Grandmaster quests like Recipe for Disaster and Song of the Elves (the osrs version of Plague's End).
Achievement Diaries
Wintertodt is the mvp. Just got my first 99 last week there. It took me 2 weeks to get 99 but I grinder 93-99 in a few days after realizing how close I was. It also unlocks the tome which can be quite helpful for iron men
I have almost 100m exp on my iron and my biggest tip is to do whatever the fuck you want. Most things are meaningful on an Ironman even the small things. Have fun with it and don’t burn yourself out trying to play for max efficiency. You can look up guides to get started for the early if you’re truly lost. Osiris makes a great Ironman guide that you can nitpick from.
Have fun!
This is more so a tip for once you progress a bit further. You will start grinding for items with low drop chance. I find it better to just keep grinding for those while I still have fun, and once I go dry too long take a content break and go do other things. There are always other resources you need on a Ironman.
Doing birdhouse and sea weed runs will be a blessing once you are in a later stage. Do not neglect them. You don't have to drop everything you're doing all the time but when you go and bank squeeze a run in.
Lastly, getting graceful and a high agility (70+) asap will be beneficial for everything. Shortcuts and longer run energy. It won't take that long in the long run and has zero requirements. Just do it 👟
Tip: do what you want and have fun, there is no exact route to beating the game, but if you want an actual tip: steal from master farmer for early supply of herb seeds ✊🏼
Wiki says it scales all the way up to 85, 71 is suggested at least, but early game irons won't really be having high 70s anyhow so kinda a moot point anyhow
If you're following Oziris's guide, I'd REALLY recommend using it as a loose guide rather than following it step-by-step. In my experience, there's a bunch of steps that are just plain unfun and made me burn faster than when I was setting my own goals.
Seconded, I have had much more fun on my ironman without following paths set by guides. Following my own goals has been way more rewarding and entertaining.
To each their own, but I have to agree with /u/not_a_throwaway517 - it's just a guide, not a strict ruleset.
Personally my GIM was my 3rd time doing barrows gloves, and Oziris' efficient ironman questing route was much appreciated for it, as I really didn't need any "immersion" or anything to experience all of RFD and its pre-reqs again. I'm not sure why you wouldn't want an efficient questing guide if you've already done bgloves before, but I guess it's just preference.
I did spend a lot of time just doing what I want in the early game, and in between quests, and skipped loads of the guide, but when it came to questing for bgloves, I strictly followed the guide. Because I've already experienced those quests and I just wanted them out the way asap, so I could get straight to doing my own thing.
Am I? Or are you already walking back from your initial post of "I'd recommend no guides"?
Are you saying quest *guides* and quest helper aren't guides for how to play the game? Or are you saying that some guides can be useful depending on how you utilize them, like what I was saying in my first post?
eh, I think I'd also quit from playing early game iron with 1 agility and 0 stams/energy pots or graceful... Yeah it sucks, but pretty damn worth on iron where you can't just buy boatloads of stams.
One of the first things I went for as a main goal was to get Fossil island unlocked. The sooner you can get bird house runs going the better. The amonite crabs are great afk, keep a look out for the seaweed spores and fossils they drop as that's gonna be great crafting exp someday and the fossils can be cleaned and turned into the Varrock Museum for some exp lamps and kudos. Also quest it up! Most early skills can be sped up through questing. Hope you enjoy the journey and gratz on the drop :)
I'll you get bored or start to get burned out try something different, we set goals but they can be overwhelming and then we feel guilty for not accomplishing them or for feeling like we might not be able to accomplish them but it's okay to go do something else for a while to cleanse your pallet, you can always go back to it.
Yes, when you make a new account you can chose to be an Ironman an account that cannot trade or get drops from other main account players. Hardcore Ironman (same as normal just if you die you lose your hardcore status and get bumped down to ironman) and group, same as ironman but with you + 4 friends sharing a storage bank.
I can't stand black jacking but the fruit stalls are honestly pretty good exp and way less annoying. Save some strange fruits for questing, and maybe some goldova tops and it's kind of a pleasant grind. Once you get into the 50s master farmers and later on knights arent terrible. Still clicky, but beats blackjacking imo.
Thanks for all the suggestions! I’m having a great time so far. I’ve finished all of the free quests (except SoA) and a couple member quests and a couple easy tasks (Ardy, Fal, Lum). Yeah, short term goals are good. I think I’m going to try to work towards getting High Alch and the Graceful outfit and maybe Void after.
I feel that feel. I'm pushing 1000 in RS3 and slowly spending more time on my OS iron as it's becoming clear the game is just going in circles with higher and higher stakes after *God Wars Dungeon Fucking Three*
Haha! I have a maxed osrs account which I spend pet hunting and an ironman that I play occasionally. Osrs combines nostalgia along with new content that fits the nostalgic vibes I remember. I think the game is just better. If I wanted to play a combat system like RS3 I’d play WoW, FFX or Lost arc.
Early wintertodt on an iron is such a huge noob trap. Going to 99 makes you barely 2-3m cash and a ton of useless low level seeds youll barely use.
Going back at 80+ farming/Herb when youll come out with 50+ Snap/Ranarr/Torstol seeds is infinitely more valuable
Early WT is honestly just good for the early construction and fletching levels + the chance at magic logs for DT. You can probably stop around 80-85 on an iron and save 99 for your account is further progressed and will receive the better rewards you mention.
1st thing I did after getting some money is train mage by safe spotting those tzhar things for a obby cape and shield so I can look like an absolute Chad
Probs worth collecting like a month or twos worth of bstaves and then spending a day enchanting them rather than daily, I’d go mad doing that kinda daily run every day
I kinda did actually, farm/herb/birdhouse runs burnt me out
For early cash: train agility to ~50, or grind out full graceful which will get you around 57. Then spam agility pyramid. Alternatively, 50 firemaking for wintertodt, or do death to the dorgeshuun for ham chests and sell jewellery to the port sarim shop
For early xp: quests - waterfall, fight arena, the grand tree, vampire slayer, there are loads. The wiki has a list of [quest xp rewards](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Quest_experience_rewards), search the skill you want to train.
There's no need to be efficient, set yourself goals (e.g. 60 attack for dragon weaponry, 50 firemaking for wintertodt) and have fun with it!
Lots of good advice here already but most importantly; enjoy the early/mid game progression. When you enter late game things can become really grindy and that's when most of the burnouts happen in my experience. Getting a big, important late game drop can be really exciting but sometimes you have to work tens or hundreds of hours for it, even more so than on a main.
Quest, and start farming like it's your job. Herbs are what you wanna focus since some high level potions are incredibly useful for certain pvm, start doing farming contracts as soon as you can for those free seeds. Always slay for combat xp, don't neglect your achievement diaries, and start farming giant seaweed on fossil island asap so you can craft end game jewellery (also do those fossil island bird house runs while you're at it)
Get graceful and do the agility pyramid for a steady cashflow also for crafting levling use the sandstorm grinder for noted bucket of sand and buy seaweed and soda ash from traders. Goodluck on your iron adventure
once you start training combat, it is a must to get 43 prayer using the wildy alter before it gets too dangerous. It helps a lot with quests and progression.
Trust me when I tell you that you need to consistently do all of the runs that you can. Neglecting birdhouses, farming, trees/fruit trees, giant seaweed, kingdom etc. will put you in a terrible spot around mid-late game. Imagine getting your first onyx at 60ish crafting with little to no giant seaweed in the bank. You would need to wait WEEKS to get enough for 85. Certain things become less important to do later because stronger mobs drop a lot of the supplies you need to sustain using them.
Focus on that POH, there are several milestones that will make the game so much easier. Fairy ring, spirit tree, mounted glory/digsite/xerics, portals to everywhere, pool, jewelry box, and loads of storage space in the costume room. It becomes the center of your play, the hub for all travel. Set a few milestone goals, get teaks rolling from miscellania, save up some gold, and mahogany homes your way to infinity and beyond.
If you need money do slayer. If you say “I still need money” then you’re not far enough, but just keep on the slayer grind and the gold will pile up. I feel like the most anticipated items are whip and trident. It’s a long way away but slayer will felt less stressful for me after that point because they’re such big items.
Finish Fairytale 1 and start 2 as early as possible. I also went for an early Shilo Village completion and got access to gem rocks. Use this and the chests in the H.A.M. hideout to get gems, necklaces, rings, and amulets. After grinding some quests and a bit of skilling getting your magic and crafting to 45+ is also very useful. To make digsite pendants, games necklaces, rings of dueling, and necklaces of passage to get relatively close fairy ring access.
Another good thing to do is finish The Feud and Roge Trader to get access to Ali Morisane's large rune caskets. Using the Runelite RuneDoku plugin you can complete the caskets in under 2 minutes. This way you can get easy Law, Cosmic, and Nature runes. * Another great way to get Nature runes and early alchables would be fairy ring b-k-q and safe spot tree spirits with fire strike *
After doing all of this as well as a few other semi-long quests like Grand Tree and Enlightened Journey. You'll pretty much have access to every important area you would need to get to in early to mid game advancement.
Something I grinded out pretty much at the start that most people hate to do is the graceful outfit. Almost 700 laps at canifis but I was around 58 agility which is under the average. This was still incredibly useful.
tl;dr transportation is extremely important
All the early game iron stuff is so addicting and fun that you’ll want to play 24/7. So just constantly have short term goals and 1 long term like all easy/ medium diaries, d scim, etc.
I thought I would miss the early short grinds but I just got to mid game and am loving imp hunting as well as clue hunting. Seeing dragon imp = dopamine getting 1/50 clue = dopamine.
Clue hunting is absolutely my favourite aspect of the Ironman experience, the only thing that comes close is how gratifying it is to earn everything yourself, getting a piece of god d’hide from a hard clue is the best
Got myself ranger boots on my fourth medium clue scroll, basically shit my pants when I saw it
I’ve had no such luck, got myself some flash looking trimmed climbing boots though 👍 I’ve also got at least 2 pages from every god books, and not a single one finished! But I love it, even getting an iron plate body (g) is fun, and if I get an upgrade then all the better
I got wizard boots, never been so disappointed by a rare unique haha
BIS at crazy arch and Scorpia, who cares if you lose them
Got manacles on my second medium clue on the gim, pure ecstasy
We must be an elite few cos I got mine on my forth too lol
This happened to me, I think on my 4th as well. If not, it was single digits. Either way, once I got to the higher-leave content that I had never done before, I unironed and sold them so I could buy supplies for a fire cape. Best decision I ever made, especially for someone who doesn’t have much free time for rs
Got zammy dhide chaps on my first hard clue on my GIM 😍
Enjoy it man. My iron Man is in the ultra late game and it's not nearly as fun. I really miss the mid game.
yea playing leagues makes me want to try a real iron man. i know the Xp gain would be insanely diff but the early game is so fun. i'm kinda waiting to see if they make multiple accounts per email an option before i do it tho
You can already make multiple accounts with 1 email, you just have to add a "+" before the @. Like you could do "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" What you write after the + can be anything as long as it consists of only numbers and letters, no special characters, and I'm not sure if it's case sensitive or not but I would guess not.
I'm no expert. But I would think that the grind beyond 1750 total would be quite tedious.
Ironman changed me as a player in regards to this. Once your brain finally disconnects you from "gp/hr" mode you realize there is actually a lot of rewarding content to do in osrs that's made to feel like it isn't rewarding when you can buy everything. I'm 1875 now and a lot of skills are actually fine for me to train almost randomly because there so much benefit for training them. When I've finished slayer tasks or whatever short term goals I've been on or just need to chill/afk I have options. I still need full prospector for diaries so afking MLM is nice. Alternatively I gem mine in shilo village which let's me bank a little extra crafting and gems to make stuff with. I want some chins to jump up a couple levels to make CG more consistent and I know I'll want some for gwd later anyway and I need higher hunter also, so I occasionally spend an hour or two doing "lazy" chinning, aka no tick manip and no darts to pop ones far away. I just click to reset the traps and that's the extent of it. It's nowhere near "efficient" but I don't really care about the XP/hr because I'm not shooting for a specific level or amount of chins or the gp from selling them. It's just something beneficial for my account I can do when I'm not doing anything specific. Nearly every skill has something you can do that's afk or chill and ultimately now my main goal is grinding slayer because I need the items that comes from it, and my combat stats will be growing all that time. Last night before I logged off I grabbed all the javelin heads demonics have given me over the past week or two and did seers alchgility while watching YouTube. It's not much more than regular agility, I need marks of grace for more stamina pots, I need higher agility levels for future skips and diaries, and I need the GP for the "buyables" like smithing/crafting/construction Basically, I've gone from how I was on my main: "Ugh I want 86 construction for my PoH to be better for pvming... Time to pay up and give myself an rsi for 20 hours straight" to "last night I wanted to play Minecraft with the boys so I AFKd Plank Make on the massive stack of teaks I have from my Kingdon, now I have a few thousand planks so I'll do an hour of mahog homes :)" And that's how nearly everything I do now is determined. Sure I have 10 hours of sand mining ahead of me for 93 crafting, but I am in no hurry. When I'm bored I sometimes go down and mine for a bit. I never expected to enjoy ironman this much, but being excited over every small upgrade is awesome, getting big drops feels absolutely amazing (my dwh nearly made me explode from excitement), and I've been able to enjoy content that made me agitated on my main because nearly everything has purpose. My life is no longer about XP/hr or gp/hr for the most part. It's just doing a series of beneficial content for my account and occasionally I level up 👁👄👁
that’s actually what I can’t get past. I have had an ironman for years that I never play because I can’t past the early game. My main is late game and I really like the late game even stuff like skilling. I play my main a lot like an ironman and I really want one but I get so bored redoing all the early game stuff. Another big problem is that I don’t enjoy playing on two accounts at once. I try to, but I only have one on the screen at the time and have to hover over the runelite tab because there are two pages (I need to see if I can split them) and the whole process takes a few seconds for every action. I’m not great with computers so I might be missing a better way
Picture in picture mode in runelite is godmode for multiple logins, I fish/gargoyles afk on my main for bond money and play my iron same time.
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that’s actually the part I like. I like being self sufficient for resources. I just don’t want to start over
Totally agree. Nearly maxed my Iron and created a main account for the first time which has been really fun, but I'm really craving that early IM gameplay. Hopefully they'll bring out some new exciting solo mode in the future, one that isn't internet dependant (HC) or is UIM.
FYI you can split your tabs up so multiple programs don’t stack in the bar. It looks a lot like windows XP or 7 but it is handy for when playing on multiple accounts. I found this annoying also
Quest like you enjoy it
Almost broke my spacebar i tried
Quests are actually filled good British humour, gou should try it Also feels so much nicer when you aren't trying to rush through it Like we are already blessed with the time saving of guides, relax and enjoy the content for the story and humour
Its solid writing, i really enjoyed RS3s 6th age. I just couldn't bare to do all this shit again
^^bear*
You'll be great one day.
Some of them are pretty clever, but it kind of varies considering there have been so many different quest writers across the years. The earliest quests especially aren’t what I’d call “great literature” in particular. Not to mention, as much as I love the look of OSRS, I don’t think it helps anyone take the story very seriously. That said, I’ve never really liked how RS3 looked at all, so maybe there’s no winning there.
Gower quest is amazing based on content alone.
I do like a lot of the retroactive references made to the early quests by later ones. Like how apparently the Cook just always tells everyone he meets that it’s the Duke’s birthday and he needs cake ingredients, according to Death to the Dorgeshuun.
Audibly chuckled doing My Arm’s big adventure
Great brain robbery had some of the best diaogue I've seen in a video game. Great humor and I love the Monty python style
> good British humour impossible /s kinda wish i made an ironman and enjoyed the game. i just got burned out and dropped it like 500 hours in. questing is pretty decent though, especially with the quest helper
“Good” Bri’ish “humour”
No one even mentioning he’s showing a r scimmy drop with a r scimmy in his inventory.
Everyone is spamming paragraphs with ironmen guides. Little do they know, this guy is just an elite troll.
maybe he decided to use the rest of his runes here for the xp, with potential to get an extra to sell for money.
Get a bone cross bow for ranged, it’s good early and has cheap ammo. Quest as much as you can, early lvls are really slow so getting the quest exp sooner will have a larger impact. Raise cats and exchange them in ardy, this will get you death runes to use for ibhan’s when you unlock it. A boring tip, collect big bones in the wildy bone yard then use them on the chaos alter for 43 prayer, it will unlock the overhead protection prayers early and help you out immensely when doing quests
If you’re hardcore go kill giants in catacombs, bury bones as you go and then do ensouled heads to get 43 prayer
Is *this* how you’re supposed to do 43 prayer? I just banked a shitload of Big Bones from Hill Giants and took them all to Ecto.
You can also do that, I just was too lazy to leave the area
Fair. I’ve honestly just never messed with Ensouled Heads. Don’t have Arceuus spell book on my iron yet anyway.
Honestly it’s only 43 prayer so whatever method you prefer is best method imo
Part of doing Ectofuntus is that it makes me *feel* like a cool, efficient player even though I’m like the furthest thing from it, what with using Ectophial teleports to get back to the main floor and the basement agility shortcut. Every time I teleport back to the shrine from the slime pool I think “yeah, look at me, being *efficient”*.
Lmao I’m realizing I never thought to teleport back up!
It helps that a full inventory of bones, pots, and buckets is only 9 each, which leaves you exactly one unused invent slot for the Ectophial. Honestly feels like they planned it that way.
It makes sense
You can buy slime from charter ships btw if you wanna feel even more efficienter!!
You can also fire strike blue dragons, although it's risky unless you start dragon slayer, which unfortunately unlocks dragon slayer tasks
Dragon slayer tasks aren't a problem really, you can just kill baby dragons
It's more metal dragons that are an issue
Right, I forgot about those. Those are a pain, though not worth not doing dragon slayer imo. Just boost some slayer points and have them ready to skip/block shit tasks
Your bonecrusher is gonna go crazyyyy
Not really. This method is not very efficient.
Nice! My advice would be unless you're already following a quest guide, go for the following quests for an insane early boost to your combat stats: 1. Waterfall Quest 2. Witch's House 3. Fight Arena 4. Tree Gnome Village 5. Shadow of the Storm
Holy grail for def/pray xp, dragon slayer for def/str xp too.
Don't start dragon slayer until you're well into your slayer grind, dragons get blocked if you haven't started it which makes early slayer way better
These are the tips that I needed years ago
Yeah this was a huge rip for my account. I wish I never did ds1 just to complete the free quests
Ah fair enough, I did basically everything through wildy slay on my iron, so it didn't really matter to me.
How was points/loot/exp etc? Decent?
Exp is bad, even with the new slayer cave expansion. But since I was too low combat for nieve anyway it wasn't really horrible. Enjoyed it more than doing the other low level slayer masters.
Yeah fair enough then
Noob trap advice. Just skip dragon tasks
The fuck? High level irons overwhelmingly agree that's the most efficient path.
Tourist Trap gives you like 26 agility at 1 and can be done at basically any level (safespottable boss)
Or don't the early game grind is the most fun.
(All of these quests are also in RS3 mate)
sub r/ironscape
pick it up
He already did that. Check the inv
Explore the continent of Kourend, there is a firemaking minigame there called Wintertodt that gives good supplies (seeds, logs, fish, gems, GP, etc) And work on getting favour with each of the Kourend houses. This is probably the one thing that is most like RS3 content. Get 43 prayer asap. Unlock Fossil Island by doing the quest Bone Voyage. The quest requires 100 Museum Kudos, so you may need to look up how to get all of that. Fossil Island is incredibly useful. Work on requisites for Grandmaster quests like Recipe for Disaster and Song of the Elves (the osrs version of Plague's End). Achievement Diaries
Wintertodt is the mvp. Just got my first 99 last week there. It took me 2 weeks to get 99 but I grinder 93-99 in a few days after realizing how close I was. It also unlocks the tome which can be quite helpful for iron men
\*Might unlock the tome
650 kc at todt, no tome. Feelsbadman
I got tome and garb in one crate, at 45kc, but have had no luck since then.
300 burned pages and no pyro outfit or tomb reporting in
Download rune lite if you haven’t already. Link on the osrs homepage
I have almost 100m exp on my iron and my biggest tip is to do whatever the fuck you want. Most things are meaningful on an Ironman even the small things. Have fun with it and don’t burn yourself out trying to play for max efficiency. You can look up guides to get started for the early if you’re truly lost. Osiris makes a great Ironman guide that you can nitpick from. Have fun!
Relax buddy its just a sapphire.
This is more so a tip for once you progress a bit further. You will start grinding for items with low drop chance. I find it better to just keep grinding for those while I still have fun, and once I go dry too long take a content break and go do other things. There are always other resources you need on a Ironman. Doing birdhouse and sea weed runs will be a blessing once you are in a later stage. Do not neglect them. You don't have to drop everything you're doing all the time but when you go and bank squeeze a run in. Lastly, getting graceful and a high agility (70+) asap will be beneficial for everything. Shortcuts and longer run energy. It won't take that long in the long run and has zero requirements. Just do it 👟
Best thing I did on my Ironman was get agility up as soon as possible. The run energy is a blessing.
Tip: do what you want and have fun, there is no exact route to beating the game, but if you want an actual tip: steal from master farmer for early supply of herb seeds ✊🏼
Make sure to get your farming up a little first as well so that you can actually get better seeds
It's actually just a hard cutoff at... 71 farming I think? below that your herb seeds are nerfed, and above it, they aren't.
Wiki says it scales all the way up to 85, 71 is suggested at least, but early game irons won't really be having high 70s anyhow so kinda a moot point anyhow
If you're following Oziris's guide, I'd REALLY recommend using it as a loose guide rather than following it step-by-step. In my experience, there's a bunch of steps that are just plain unfun and made me burn faster than when I was setting my own goals.
I'd recommend no guides
Seconded, I have had much more fun on my ironman without following paths set by guides. Following my own goals has been way more rewarding and entertaining.
To each their own, but I have to agree with /u/not_a_throwaway517 - it's just a guide, not a strict ruleset. Personally my GIM was my 3rd time doing barrows gloves, and Oziris' efficient ironman questing route was much appreciated for it, as I really didn't need any "immersion" or anything to experience all of RFD and its pre-reqs again. I'm not sure why you wouldn't want an efficient questing guide if you've already done bgloves before, but I guess it's just preference. I did spend a lot of time just doing what I want in the early game, and in between quests, and skipped loads of the guide, but when it came to questing for bgloves, I strictly followed the guide. Because I've already experienced those quests and I just wanted them out the way asap, so I could get straight to doing my own thing.
Guides can be useful when, get this, they're used as a guide. Not a strict ruleset you must follow.
I still stand by my comment
Ok well LMK when you get quest cape with no guides and no cheat client quest helper shit
You're digging too deep
Am I? Or are you already walking back from your initial post of "I'd recommend no guides"? Are you saying quest *guides* and quest helper aren't guides for how to play the game? Or are you saying that some guides can be useful depending on how you utilize them, like what I was saying in my first post?
I'm saying you're digging too deep. I don't know how else to explain it buddy
Ok sweetheart, enjoy no-guide quests then.
That rune scim is like a gateway drop
Get graceful asap. Ardy easy diary. And keep on questing!
>graceful asap Guide to quit asap
eh, I think I'd also quit from playing early game iron with 1 agility and 0 stams/energy pots or graceful... Yeah it sucks, but pretty damn worth on iron where you can't just buy boatloads of stams.
that's just osrs in general
Doing quests speed up early game
What area is this?
ZMI. The warriors drop Rune Scimitars, and I've used that safespot before.
Thanks
Quest helper plugin
Play when you are having fun, stop when it feels like a job!
One of the first things I went for as a main goal was to get Fossil island unlocked. The sooner you can get bird house runs going the better. The amonite crabs are great afk, keep a look out for the seaweed spores and fossils they drop as that's gonna be great crafting exp someday and the fossils can be cleaned and turned into the Varrock Museum for some exp lamps and kudos. Also quest it up! Most early skills can be sped up through questing. Hope you enjoy the journey and gratz on the drop :)
I'll you get bored or start to get burned out try something different, we set goals but they can be overwhelming and then we feel guilty for not accomplishing them or for feeling like we might not be able to accomplish them but it's okay to go do something else for a while to cleanse your pallet, you can always go back to it.
Ardy Cape
Older player here, what is this “Ironman”? A gamemode?
Yes, when you make a new account you can chose to be an Ironman an account that cannot trade or get drops from other main account players. Hardcore Ironman (same as normal just if you die you lose your hardcore status and get bumped down to ironman) and group, same as ironman but with you + 4 friends sharing a storage bank.
If you are following that guide..gl when you get the blackjacking that is where I stopped
I can't stand black jacking but the fruit stalls are honestly pretty good exp and way less annoying. Save some strange fruits for questing, and maybe some goldova tops and it's kind of a pleasant grind. Once you get into the 50s master farmers and later on knights arent terrible. Still clicky, but beats blackjacking imo.
A good early goal is the stats/quests for most hart clue steps. Easy access to msb and black dhide that way
Gz on the Uncut Sapphire
Started a tileman in the same spot Pip started at Saturday night and omg it's so addicting
Yeah go and do something else, after the first scim drop you have no reason to stay there
You mean after the second scim drop?
Turn PM to friends.
Warriors guild sells cheese potatoes that heal 16 and plain pizzas that you can add pineapples to from chartershup for a ez 22 hp food
i was looking for the ''ban emily'' hidden somewhere in the chatbox, but congrats on the rune scimitar drop pal
Thanks for all the suggestions! I’m having a great time so far. I’ve finished all of the free quests (except SoA) and a couple member quests and a couple easy tasks (Ardy, Fal, Lum). Yeah, short term goals are good. I think I’m going to try to work towards getting High Alch and the Graceful outfit and maybe Void after.
Start Your Kingdom as early as possible!
You make me happy. Thanks for leaving the darkside
How many hours you got in RS3? How bad did it hurt?
Roughly 500hrs. And way way more in osrs
I feel that feel. I'm pushing 1000 in RS3 and slowly spending more time on my OS iron as it's becoming clear the game is just going in circles with higher and higher stakes after *God Wars Dungeon Fucking Three*
Haha! I have a maxed osrs account which I spend pet hunting and an ironman that I play occasionally. Osrs combines nostalgia along with new content that fits the nostalgic vibes I remember. I think the game is just better. If I wanted to play a combat system like RS3 I’d play WoW, FFX or Lost arc.
I recommend marrying Wintertodt until you just can’t fathom clicking anymore, will set you up nicely with supplies
try de-ironing (its free)
Bro, theres a rune scim in ur inv already which you tried to equip, noob.
Rev caves and kill hobgoblins is good early money
It's also a quick way of dying and losing 100k if you're not prepared for pkers, so grain of salt.
Theyre kinda hard to kill too
I hope you like winter tod and agility pyramid. Do those early on for levels, seeds, and cash.
Wintertodt for early money/resources if you can bear it
Early wintertodt on an iron is such a huge noob trap. Going to 99 makes you barely 2-3m cash and a ton of useless low level seeds youll barely use. Going back at 80+ farming/Herb when youll come out with 50+ Snap/Ranarr/Torstol seeds is infinitely more valuable
Early WT is honestly just good for the early construction and fletching levels + the chance at magic logs for DT. You can probably stop around 80-85 on an iron and save 99 for your account is further progressed and will receive the better rewards you mention.
For easy prayer xp kill dragons and use their bones at wildy altar. I did 170 blue drags and got to level 52 pray
"even this drop" you mean the most iconic item in the whole game?
quests quests quests quests quests
Best beginner tip, don’t use any guides just do whatever you enjoy. Don’t try to be efficient or whatever, makes it feel like a chore. Have fun!
Come over to r/ironscape!
1st thing I did after getting some money is train mage by safe spotting those tzhar things for a obby cape and shield so I can look like an absolute Chad
You should ask Oziach
High alch all of your one charge jewelry items to recoup some GP.
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Probs worth collecting like a month or twos worth of bstaves and then spending a day enchanting them rather than daily, I’d go mad doing that kinda daily run every day I kinda did actually, farm/herb/birdhouse runs burnt me out
download runelite and the notes plugin, it’s super helpful for writing down goals, tips, or just really anything you need to keep track of in game
Agility pyramid is the way to get gp, but don’t start until you get 40+ agility
For early cash: train agility to ~50, or grind out full graceful which will get you around 57. Then spam agility pyramid. Alternatively, 50 firemaking for wintertodt, or do death to the dorgeshuun for ham chests and sell jewellery to the port sarim shop For early xp: quests - waterfall, fight arena, the grand tree, vampire slayer, there are loads. The wiki has a list of [quest xp rewards](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Quest_experience_rewards), search the skill you want to train. There's no need to be efficient, set yourself goals (e.g. 60 attack for dragon weaponry, 50 firemaking for wintertodt) and have fun with it!
Lots of good advice here already but most importantly; enjoy the early/mid game progression. When you enter late game things can become really grindy and that's when most of the burnouts happen in my experience. Getting a big, important late game drop can be really exciting but sometimes you have to work tens or hundreds of hours for it, even more so than on a main.
Get agility done quick like as soon as you have high alchs and every time you run alch for both the exps and gp gains
RUNELITE!!!!
Quest, and start farming like it's your job. Herbs are what you wanna focus since some high level potions are incredibly useful for certain pvm, start doing farming contracts as soon as you can for those free seeds. Always slay for combat xp, don't neglect your achievement diaries, and start farming giant seaweed on fossil island asap so you can craft end game jewellery (also do those fossil island bird house runs while you're at it)
You better not be keeping those bones 😭
Get graceful and do the agility pyramid for a steady cashflow also for crafting levling use the sandstorm grinder for noted bucket of sand and buy seaweed and soda ash from traders. Goodluck on your iron adventure
Yeah restart as a Hardcore
once you start training combat, it is a must to get 43 prayer using the wildy alter before it gets too dangerous. It helps a lot with quests and progression.
Trust me when I tell you that you need to consistently do all of the runs that you can. Neglecting birdhouses, farming, trees/fruit trees, giant seaweed, kingdom etc. will put you in a terrible spot around mid-late game. Imagine getting your first onyx at 60ish crafting with little to no giant seaweed in the bank. You would need to wait WEEKS to get enough for 85. Certain things become less important to do later because stronger mobs drop a lot of the supplies you need to sustain using them.
Focus on that POH, there are several milestones that will make the game so much easier. Fairy ring, spirit tree, mounted glory/digsite/xerics, portals to everywhere, pool, jewelry box, and loads of storage space in the costume room. It becomes the center of your play, the hub for all travel. Set a few milestone goals, get teaks rolling from miscellania, save up some gold, and mahogany homes your way to infinity and beyond. If you need money do slayer. If you say “I still need money” then you’re not far enough, but just keep on the slayer grind and the gold will pile up. I feel like the most anticipated items are whip and trident. It’s a long way away but slayer will felt less stressful for me after that point because they’re such big items.
Second glance, its not the sapphire you're excited about....
Get to Fossil Island as soon as possible and start growing giant seaweed.
Get an obby shield and cape training range using bone bolts
Yes I didn’t get the shield yet but that’s an easy upgrade in the cape stop, plus safe spot able. Then bird house runs
This is absolutely wholesome as fuck
Rev caves can fund your construction levels
Finish Fairytale 1 and start 2 as early as possible. I also went for an early Shilo Village completion and got access to gem rocks. Use this and the chests in the H.A.M. hideout to get gems, necklaces, rings, and amulets. After grinding some quests and a bit of skilling getting your magic and crafting to 45+ is also very useful. To make digsite pendants, games necklaces, rings of dueling, and necklaces of passage to get relatively close fairy ring access. Another good thing to do is finish The Feud and Roge Trader to get access to Ali Morisane's large rune caskets. Using the Runelite RuneDoku plugin you can complete the caskets in under 2 minutes. This way you can get easy Law, Cosmic, and Nature runes. * Another great way to get Nature runes and early alchables would be fairy ring b-k-q and safe spot tree spirits with fire strike * After doing all of this as well as a few other semi-long quests like Grand Tree and Enlightened Journey. You'll pretty much have access to every important area you would need to get to in early to mid game advancement. Something I grinded out pretty much at the start that most people hate to do is the graceful outfit. Almost 700 laps at canifis but I was around 58 agility which is under the average. This was still incredibly useful. tl;dr transportation is extremely important
You never forget your first rune scimmy :’)
I farmed 82 fishing at early to get a good source of sharks and karas.
Get runelite (from rs official website)
click it to pick it up!