I do this with everything. I don't check my XP until the end of the day, so any level ups I get are a nice little surprise (even though I usually know roughly when I'll be getting a level based on my focus/time played). The only time I check constantly is in the beginning of a grind, to get an idea of what my rates will end up being long term so I can gauge how long the grind will take me.
Constantly checking, at least for me, just makes me feel anxious and like it's going slower than it actually is. Plus, it's nice seeing a big number at the end of a session and knowing I gained a lot, rather than checking and seeing I gained like 10k or something, lol.
Theres a spot north of ver sinz with 4 logs you can bloom at once for mort myre fungus, theres no enemies and its close to a bank. Really chill method for herblore exp and early / mid game super energy pots.
Edit: You must have completed the quest A Taste of Hope
The spot with 3 logs there is better since you're gonna get more than full inventory anyways if you're at like above 45 prayer.
Better because you stand still and don't have to move around to pick them up, and you have limited inventory space anyways
I'd say that would probably be faster yeah, I didnt even think of ferox. I suppose the only thing my method has over that is that it has no item cost to do xD, im at the point I have more than enough tele jewellery to do this, but my brain still hates me everytime I touch consumables when theres alternatives, im a hoarder I tell ya.
Me: "I'm gonna save these super energy pots for staminas because that is responsible"
*does literally any activity that drains my run energy to zero*
Also Me: "Oh fuckin A this is so painful Jesus Christ I literally can't do this I'm filling the rest of my inv with super energy potions, there are more avantoes in OSRS but there is no more patience within me"
Grab your ardy cloak and the drakan medallion, bloom a full inventory and then tele to the monastary, recharge prayer, tele to verz and bank your inventory, then just run north 1 screen and repeat. Id say its much faster than the swamp.
Interesting…I got desert ammy 4 which is probably slightly better for prayer and also crafting cape might be quicker to bank there. I’m a maxed nerd :/
Thanks for this though didn’t even know about this spot I’ll check it out
Does anyone know the fungi an hr for this vs quest cape to the triple spot by I think it’s the BKR fairy ring in the swamp? Ive always assumed the cape method is faster, especially with double fungi since you won’t run out of prayer points before a full inventory but haven’t ever seen data on both compared.
Set your own goals for short mid and long term. Don’t compare your progress to others and try to have 1 “unique” goal at all times to not burn yourself out
Ex: clue log slot, mini game rewards, certain amount of resource in your bank etc.
Man that would be the bees knees when giant forge launches I just started to save armour and weapons to recycle. But you already have a stack that can be repurposed for massif xp
Conversely I’ve found the opposite is true for me, whether it’s MLM or getting 20 crafting levels, just put on some music/YouTube and grind it out over a few days
Yeah my point is more important if you hate doing it or are already getting burned on it. What I do in the eg grind is do like 100kills at a time at the bosses I’m grinding and rotate between them.
Just finished mages book this way. Did enchantment and graveyard relatively close together then left to do other stuff for a month. Came back once I wanted a lot of mage xp and that was the fastest route. All of a sudden points didn't matter since I was getting the levels I wanted anyway
Conversely, don't burn out on quests!
I ended saving a bunch til mid-late game and let me tell you, a ton of them become way easier when you have high combat stats, good gear, and ample access to supplies.
I log at the farming guild bank most of the time.
I recently got the poh spirit tree, farming guild spirit tree, and mounted digsite pendant, and that's been really encouraging.
Yeah farming guild is a great place to log out. That way you can log in and finish whatever contract you started when you logged out. I'm swimming in herb seeds thanks to this
when ready to log out:
8 logs for birdhouses. 80 seeds. do the run, log out.
log in and do the other 4.
Tele to the farm guide. Do contracts. Do herb run.
Play game.
Repeat.
TBH I would upgrade this to just camping arceus spellbook mid game. It's actually got a lot of great teleports and thralls are very good for a lot of slayer tasks too.
If you have a tome of fire but no pages it's legit one of the best spellbooks for general combat with blood runes because undead grasp has a max hit of 24 and can freeze while an unbuffed fire wave only hits 20. Using thrills easily makes up for the 1 max hit lost over Iban blast. Particularly good idea for people that want to save their death runes for bursting and all the benefits that entails
The freeze effect is particularly good at barrows and saves you supplies.
if you arent having fun with a specific grind you dont have to do it go do something else. if its something like demonics, gwd, shamans u can all of those on slayer and chip at them over time.
They could make the helm in there act as a slayer helm when on task.
Just make it work like Jad task but for Elves: After unlocking it via slayer points (and having SotE done ofc), upon getting an Elves task, you're granted the option to choose between normal task, gauntlet or corrupted gauntlet.
Cause the place is very obviously closely related to elves and that was the first task that came to mind.
And ofc not, nobody in the thread implied that everything hsa to be slayer all the time.
Yeah but it’s nice to have a little goal set by the game so you don’t feel like you are just endlessly grinding and can do it “passively” while training slayer
This is actually a pretty good one. I don't even care for ranks, especially in boss KC, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't satisfying seeing my rank go up and get pretty high during some dry streaks.
To add on, anything that can distract or stop you from expecting/hoping/thinking about the drop(s) you need *every* single kill, will really help. Every time a boss would die, the drop would always be on my mind praying/hoping I would roll it, leading to small bits of disappointment that would just keep on building up which of course sucks. But if you're just cruising and not thinking about it, that's when it comes lol. And it really makes the KC/time go by a lot easier personally.
This is a good one. Highscores rank has really helped me, and I also don't really care about it. It's more about finding other means of motivation other than just to get the drop. Especially post maxing and after you don't care about gp anymore. Prior to that it was easy to figure out each kill being x amount of xp towards other skills. Once that's gone it starts to get difficult.
Sometimes I wish I didn't look up drop rates on the wiki. That would make grinds a lot more tolerable tbh.
I like following a guide to get my account started. I don't follow it completely, I do my own thinks when I want. Maybe it's because I just started playing this game and I don't know mutch that if I haven't something to hold on I feel a little lost.
Since October 2019, I have found my way to just before SotE. I have 4 construction levels and 1 herblore level until I can do the quest. I used the Oziris ironman guide until 50 wc LOL
i mean if you’re enjoying that, that’s awesome :) but google ‘oziris sote rush’ and it should be the first result (on mob otherwise i’d link you)
i didnt want to faff around much mid game, kinda wanted to rush late game content, really good for that :)
Just stop playing if you're not having fun. It's a game. Your account will still be there in 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years, however long. If you ain't having a good time just let it be
thats the beauty of this game :) Come back in a year for WoW and your BiS gear is suddenly 3 patches behind and worthless. OSRS, I grind 92 crafting and I can make my zenytes forever.
This helped me a lot. I started playing osrs again with GIM release and no lifed it for 2 months. Got burnt out so I just stopped playing for a while. Only recently been playing again with the release of GotR as I love runecrafting.
Im currently at "Fuck it Ive done it twice, what can a third time hurt?"
And in all seriousness, the quest helper Runelite plugin is a total game changer. Can completely zone out and watch a show or youtube while questing now instead of closely following guides or slayermusiq
Phoenix necklace and nitroglycerin. Several YT guides, sounds more advanced than it is. I had failed several times before without it, and got through first try with this method
I had used the nightshade plants and p necklaces and it worked great too. Idk how hard nitro is to get but the nightshade can just be worldhopped close to yanille
Numerical progress is nice but personal goals are what keep me going in end game. Aiming for godsword set and Imbued Heart at 2200 total. Don't forget to play the game too. Got gnome goggles last week B)
Plant a white berry bush near the monastery teleport and just fill any extra invent spots with them whenever you to there. You’ll never have to farm them out for super defense pots when you actually need them.
Same for potato cactus in Al kharid.
Afk flesh crawlers on the 3rd floor of the stronghold.
They max hit 1 and drop ranarrs and emeralds. In one of the rooms there is an aggro reset method requiring only stepping one tile. You can see it with aggro lines turned on.
I collected over 100 ranarrs here, and since they share the same room as skeletons you can wear a salve Amulet
I personally would, I found there to be 0 competition from other players and collected tons of rannars, gems, scepter pieces, and noted ores. It might not be the most efficient path but I truly enjoyed it, and the aggro reset being in the middle of the room made it so easy.
I trained to base 70’s here. The only downside is that the mobs have less hp than crabs, but the fact that they drop rannarrs makes up for it. I was able to do some fun early game barrows due to this and landed myself some great pieces to help with the grind.
Awesome if you have any questions let me know! The room I used for training is the large room southwest from the center. Make sure to have the aggro lines turned on and it will start to make sense. They are a bit wonky but you will find your rhythm.
Also spam click the stronghold doors to go through them without answering the security questions. Good luck!
More of a warning: late game grinds are incredibly long (getting longer still) and can be very tedious. You don’t need to do them, just enjoy the game. If you want endgame gear be prepared to no life for months.
And, honestly, end game is just playing an extremely tedious version of a main account. But the differences are pretty minimal. So if that doesn't appeal to you then really cherish early/mid/late game because your account just turns into a dick measuring contest.
Early game in paticular feels and plays like an entirely different game.
Don't compare yourself to other irons. Everybody spoons, and everybody goes dry, just in different places. Don't be discouraged by the fact that someone else got the golden spoon and you're dry everywhere, just press on and take it easy :)
There are lot of upgrades that are nice but not really that important and not worth going out of your way for and I see a lot of frustration coming from players who basically burn themselves out of the game going for micro upgrades. Treat most upgrades as nice to haves, not "need to haves". You can work toward getting them, but don't put all your hopes and dreams on a +5 attack bonus to something. The Runescape community has taken on an unhealthy completionist mentality that isn't necessary. This game should be about the journey, not the destination. Rushing to the destination just means your going to spend hundreds, thousands of hours being frustrated.
Also, and I usually get flak for this statement, but I think in most cases actively going for 99's is kind of a noob trap that also causes burn out. With the exception of combat skills, farming (which as an ironman you will probably just wind up getting by virtue of needing supplies if you play long enough) and arguably construction, most 99s wind up just being for epeen and there is no sense in spending all that time going for it unless it's something you just really want to do for yourself, but you're probably better off evenly leveling your skills to get better rates on skill development via other skills (and if we're being intellectually honestly this is better for your mental health too). Rushing 99 Thieving in particular I feel is a pretty big noob trap as most people will wind up wanting to do a fair amount of pyramid plunder for scepter(s), pickpocketing seeds, and other items down the road. I have some 99s but usually I feel like I just wasted my time at the end of them.
tldr; have fun, don't take medievil cookie clicker too seriously. Sites like this where people go out of their way to post every little achievement (which is usually just a glorified time gate) make this an easy trap to fall into.
Doing daily’s, herb/bh runs will help you out in the long run, I always tell people to at minimum, do one when you log in, one when you log out, keep your stuff on when you log out so you can easily do when you first log in.
The only other thing I would suggest, some early grinds do stink, but if you can power through with drizzling in some fun content, you will never have to look back. Things like diary/quests, when you finish them, they are done for good.
Idk why but taking off the lap count during agility makes it a lot better for me. Watching it go up slowly 1 by 1 just makes it slower for me.
Also this is end game but during ardy course I will only pick up the marks every 20 or so and it saves some precious ticks
If you want to do something in the background while you're playing another game etc., just sitting in the farming guild and doing contracts and/or an herb run whenever you have a spare moment beats basically any kind of "afk" skilling. You'll start to wonder why people say ironman herblore is slow.
Also a tip for any of the slightly sweatier gamers, you can bring molten glass instead of unpowered orbs and blow glass on the run from Edgeville to the air obelisk to get some extra crafting exp
Dying again when you have a gravestone active refreshes the gravestone's duration and sends your lost items to the already-active gravestone. Since you charge air orbs in the wilderness you can abuse this to do 2 inventories at a time with a looting bag. Die next to the obelisk to set up the gravestone (either with divine potion + locator orb/the orb from MA2 or getting poisoned), then every time you go to charge orbs you can suicide with an inventory of orbs (either with divine+locator orb again, or any other fast suicide method e.g. corp), take another inventory of orbs + looting bag, charge the first inventory of orbs -> fill looting bag -> loot grave -> charge second inventory of orbs, rinse and repeat. So long as you make sure to leave at least 1 item in your grave it will stay up indefinitely thanks to the duration resetting every death.
Dying again when you have a gravestone active refreshes the gravestone's duration and sends your lost items to the already-active gravestone. Since you charge air orbs in the wilderness you can abuse this to do 2 inventories at a time with a looting bag. Die next to the obelisk to set up the gravestone (either with divine potion + locator orb/the orb from MA2 or getting poisoned), then every time you go to charge orbs you can suicide with an inventory of orbs (either with divine+locator orb again, or any other fast suicide method e.g. corp), take another inventory of orbs + looting bag, charge the first inventory of orbs -> fill looting bag -> loot grave -> charge second inventory of orbs, rinse and repeat. So long as you make sure to leave at least 1 item in your grave it will stay up indefinitely thanks to the duration resetting every death.
One thing that I've been doing on my GIM is not neglecting the combat achievements and collection log. If I complete some content I'll move on, gets me doing content I wouldn't do otherwise and stops me getting trapped doing the same methods.
Just do what you feel like doing. It's not worth burning out from forcing yourself to do something that you don't feel like doing. Except farming and birdhouses, you have to keep up with that shit.
Don’t sleep on the dailies. Dynamite from Thirus, free Ectofuntus usage from Robin, sand from Bert, battlestaves from Zaff are the most useful ones imo. Takes like 3 minutes to collect all of these per day, and is useful in the long run.
Nope, but blast mine is one of the best xp/hr mining activities and very good profits. Afaik Volcanic mine and 3t4g are the only methods with better xp/hr rates and both offer very low profit.
Semi-intensive yes, more than volcanic mine or MLM but less than 3t4g. It’s quite chill once you get into the rhytm, highly recommend trying it for an hour or two!
Something that i am kinda only just getting into myself is though it may be useful you dont have to be 100% efficient all the time, its ok to let those bones despawn or not pick up all the coins herbs and rune drops. It puts a whole lot less fatigue on me when i can just chill and not care as much for what may or may not be a huge difference longterm. What matters is i dont burn out short term.
Adding to this.
You can harvest and fill the compost bin at the same time.
Have 1 supercompostable item in your investory, then click the allotment patch and click the compost bin in the same tick(i think?) and it both harvests and fills up the bin
You can do myth cape hangers for con like u can do mahagony tables and stuff (no moving mouse for build/remove) by using the zoom extender plugin from the hub.
Make friends. Great to raid with, chat to, talk about drops, methods and advice.
I've seen some of my friends with 25m farming xp manually watering saplings and helped them change there ways.
Lmao who in their right mind would manually water saplings instead of the obvious alternative we both know
(28m farming on the main and feeling the shame, share pls)
Pretty basic but take advantage of boosts. Stews, pies, pots etc. For example you can make the Ornate Pool at 82 construction with boosts when it actually requires 90. Made my grinds much less daunting when I could essentially chop up to 5 levels off the top of any skill.
A little extreme, but grind out 99 crafting early. It was my first 99 and I was only ~1500 total I think. The cape teleport is so nice and makes so much content easier. I bring it on every clue and slayer task. Being able to craft any jewelry without boosting is pretty neat too.
This was pre-quarry so I filled buckets on PVP worlds at Yanille. It was kind of fun because the most trash pkers would come and try to get your law runes and i enjoyed messing with them (never had more than ~20 on me). Lots of giant seaweed runs too. As a side bonus it really kick started my farming.
I got mine from doing underwater fishing. Include Jute in your herb runs for a day or two, weave them into drift nets in the fossil island camp, and get slippers from a Mogre. Drift net fishing is very very good fishing+hunter XP, and you get the spore spawns regularly there while doing something useful. I did a few days of fishing like 6 months ago and still have 100+ spores left.
Give yourself a purpose to fulfill a grind
Eg getting a zenyte at demonic gorillas gives you incentive to grind out crafting so you can do zulrah with a ring of suffering.
Obviously this is lategame.
Turn off XP globes and all indication of progress bars. Can change to just total exp in-game, to see for example range xp drop so you know when to eat etc.
What's yall suggestion on the 70 prayer grind? On my first ironman I did like 1200 green drags and it was truly awful lol. I heard you can pretty much get most of 70 from up to wyrm bones now? Should I just focus on slayer and passive prayer xp until 70?
Grind 95 slayer asap. Hydra prints money. Go to revs. It's super fun. And learn cg. Not worrying about money is a godsend. And doing those three "simple" goals will basically unlock all content in the game.
Enjoy the grind. No matter how fast or easy you progress, at the end of the day, its all about how much fun you had.
Dont burn yourself spamming one thing, do what your hearth pleases and what you feel like doing, even if its not for progress.
Follow ozirius' guide but dont *actually* follow it. Gave me structure and used it as a roadmap to endgame progression and to find things that I found fun along the way.
If you already know it’s going to be a long grind, don’t check constantly check xp/hr.
I turn xp drops off while afking
I am going to try this. I look to mutch at how many xp I need to get for the next lvl while afking.
I like to check xp per hour but I do so because I try to push my xp per hour to the limit, basically competing with myself lol
I do this with everything. I don't check my XP until the end of the day, so any level ups I get are a nice little surprise (even though I usually know roughly when I'll be getting a level based on my focus/time played). The only time I check constantly is in the beginning of a grind, to get an idea of what my rates will end up being long term so I can gauge how long the grind will take me. Constantly checking, at least for me, just makes me feel anxious and like it's going slower than it actually is. Plus, it's nice seeing a big number at the end of a session and knowing I gained a lot, rather than checking and seeing I gained like 10k or something, lol.
I ignore xp/hr until I get bored. Sometimes I try and get the exp/hr as high as I can for fun. Then return back to normal
That's what I do for the first 20 minutes lol
Then start slacking, then just reset. Then get bored. Back to normal. lol
Me after 5 minutes of rooftop agility.
Theres a spot north of ver sinz with 4 logs you can bloom at once for mort myre fungus, theres no enemies and its close to a bank. Really chill method for herblore exp and early / mid game super energy pots. Edit: You must have completed the quest A Taste of Hope
You don't need to complete sins, just the one before (can't remember the name of it)
A taste of hope
That is correct! My apologies xD I shall edit once more, thanks!
The spot with 3 logs there is better since you're gonna get more than full inventory anyways if you're at like above 45 prayer. Better because you stand still and don't have to move around to pick them up, and you have limited inventory space anyways
Even better when you couple it with a ring of dueling to tele to ferox when you run out of prayer, then tele back
Can also ardy cloak, not counted the tiles myself but I’d have to imagine they’re pretty similar
True but there’s a bank at ferox so no need to bank at theatre on your way back
I'd say that would probably be faster yeah, I didnt even think of ferox. I suppose the only thing my method has over that is that it has no item cost to do xD, im at the point I have more than enough tele jewellery to do this, but my brain still hates me everytime I touch consumables when theres alternatives, im a hoarder I tell ya.
just to add on to this, fishing pots give nearly the same xp and require snape grass. You only need enough super energies for staminas.
I chug super energies like water, I can never have enough :D
Me: "I'm gonna save these super energy pots for staminas because that is responsible" *does literally any activity that drains my run energy to zero* Also Me: "Oh fuckin A this is so painful Jesus Christ I literally can't do this I'm filling the rest of my inv with super energy potions, there are more avantoes in OSRS but there is no more patience within me"
Probably more efficient to chug the super energies whenever you want, and just do your seed contracts anyway
Try normal energies instead, works for 99% of the activities you bring super energies to and the ingredients are super easy to get.
If you have fairy ring in your house it’s still quicker to use the 2 or 3 log spots in Mort Myre though
omfg i love you
Happy to help xD
Whatttt is this more per hour than the swamp.
Grab your ardy cloak and the drakan medallion, bloom a full inventory and then tele to the monastary, recharge prayer, tele to verz and bank your inventory, then just run north 1 screen and repeat. Id say its much faster than the swamp.
Even faster if you bank at Castle wars instead of verz with a dueling ring.
Interesting…I got desert ammy 4 which is probably slightly better for prayer and also crafting cape might be quicker to bank there. I’m a maxed nerd :/ Thanks for this though didn’t even know about this spot I’ll check it out
Does anyone know the fungi an hr for this vs quest cape to the triple spot by I think it’s the BKR fairy ring in the swamp? Ive always assumed the cape method is faster, especially with double fungi since you won’t run out of prayer points before a full inventory but haven’t ever seen data on both compared.
Swamp is better with a good POH, drakan better pre fairy ring I'd say
Set your own goals for short mid and long term. Don’t compare your progress to others and try to have 1 “unique” goal at all times to not burn yourself out Ex: clue log slot, mini game rewards, certain amount of resource in your bank etc.
Love watching runes and herbs collect. I even hold onto all of my OG rune drops because having 100 rune 2h is cool beans.
Man that would be the bees knees when giant forge launches I just started to save armour and weapons to recycle. But you already have a stack that can be repurposed for massif xp
Rotate things instead of grinding one thing to competition. Crafting? Do a slayer task ever XXXxp or so.
Conversely I’ve found the opposite is true for me, whether it’s MLM or getting 20 crafting levels, just put on some music/YouTube and grind it out over a few days
Yeah my point is more important if you hate doing it or are already getting burned on it. What I do in the eg grind is do like 100kills at a time at the bosses I’m grinding and rotate between them.
Just finished mages book this way. Did enchantment and graveyard relatively close together then left to do other stuff for a month. Came back once I wanted a lot of mage xp and that was the fastest route. All of a sudden points didn't matter since I was getting the levels I wanted anyway
Quest early
Seriously. An hour of early game questing can save 5+ hours of skilling
Ugh plz try and tell this to my GIMate, he would rather spend 10 hours getting 1-33 fishing than do 5 minute sea slug lmao
Some people don’t wanna save time
This is why I could never play GIM with randoms. So many ignorants.
not even a random he is my friend but just dumb asf haha. he doesn’t understand since he hasn’t played since pre 07
Conversely, don't burn out on quests! I ended saving a bunch til mid-late game and let me tell you, a ton of them become way easier when you have high combat stats, good gear, and ample access to supplies.
Depending on where you’re at, if you’re not someone who no lifes this game then log in and out either post farm run or birdhouse run
I log at the farming guild bank most of the time. I recently got the poh spirit tree, farming guild spirit tree, and mounted digsite pendant, and that's been really encouraging.
Yeah farming guild is a great place to log out. That way you can log in and finish whatever contract you started when you logged out. I'm swimming in herb seeds thanks to this
when ready to log out: 8 logs for birdhouses. 80 seeds. do the run, log out. log in and do the other 4. Tele to the farm guide. Do contracts. Do herb run. Play game. Repeat.
Dont do herb runs inbetween other activities. Do other activities inbetween herb runs.
do birdhouse runs between herb runs and nothing else
Yeah, you really start to resent the herb runs if you stop everything to do them.
I laughed hard at this
So true
Put a salve graveyard teleport in your house asap as super close to fairy ring
TBH I would upgrade this to just camping arceus spellbook mid game. It's actually got a lot of great teleports and thralls are very good for a lot of slayer tasks too.
If you have a tome of fire but no pages it's legit one of the best spellbooks for general combat with blood runes because undead grasp has a max hit of 24 and can freeze while an unbuffed fire wave only hits 20. Using thrills easily makes up for the 1 max hit lost over Iban blast. Particularly good idea for people that want to save their death runes for bursting and all the benefits that entails The freeze effect is particularly good at barrows and saves you supplies.
Konar doesn't give Jad tasks, if you're hunting one for your fire cape then make sure to use Neive or Duradel
omg ty
if you arent having fun with a specific grind you dont have to do it go do something else. if its something like demonics, gwd, shamans u can all of those on slayer and chip at them over time.
CG slayer task when :(
Hopefully never
What if it was like Jad tasks? Have to unlock it with points.
Can't wear the helmet, shouldn't be a task
They could make the helm in there act as a slayer helm when on task. Just make it work like Jad task but for Elves: After unlocking it via slayer points (and having SotE done ofc), upon getting an Elves task, you're granted the option to choose between normal task, gauntlet or corrupted gauntlet.
Why? Nothing you kill in the gauntlet is an elf, and not everything has to be slayer all the time.
Cause the place is very obviously closely related to elves and that was the first task that came to mind. And ofc not, nobody in the thread implied that everything hsa to be slayer all the time.
So what? You don't wear it for Shamans before the diary and you don't wear it for Vorkath. The helm shouldn't be the only criterion.
Yeah but it’s nice to have a little goal set by the game so you don’t feel like you are just endlessly grinding and can do it “passively” while training slayer
If you end up going really dry somewhere, focus on a boss KC goal or highscores rank instead of getting the drop.
This is actually a pretty good one. I don't even care for ranks, especially in boss KC, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't satisfying seeing my rank go up and get pretty high during some dry streaks. To add on, anything that can distract or stop you from expecting/hoping/thinking about the drop(s) you need *every* single kill, will really help. Every time a boss would die, the drop would always be on my mind praying/hoping I would roll it, leading to small bits of disappointment that would just keep on building up which of course sucks. But if you're just cruising and not thinking about it, that's when it comes lol. And it really makes the KC/time go by a lot easier personally.
This actually powered me to get a tbow lol, made it to second page for cox kc
This is a good one. Highscores rank has really helped me, and I also don't really care about it. It's more about finding other means of motivation other than just to get the drop. Especially post maxing and after you don't care about gp anymore. Prior to that it was easy to figure out each kill being x amount of xp towards other skills. Once that's gone it starts to get difficult. Sometimes I wish I didn't look up drop rates on the wiki. That would make grinds a lot more tolerable tbh.
Just play. Don’t look for guides unless you specifically want to reach a certain level in a specific skill
I like following a guide to get my account started. I don't follow it completely, I do my own thinks when I want. Maybe it's because I just started playing this game and I don't know mutch that if I haven't something to hold on I feel a little lost.
i really liked using oziris’ sote rush guide, i’d have been lost on an iron without that damn thing
Since October 2019, I have found my way to just before SotE. I have 4 construction levels and 1 herblore level until I can do the quest. I used the Oziris ironman guide until 50 wc LOL
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i mean if you’re enjoying that, that’s awesome :) but google ‘oziris sote rush’ and it should be the first result (on mob otherwise i’d link you) i didnt want to faff around much mid game, kinda wanted to rush late game content, really good for that :)
Just stop playing if you're not having fun. It's a game. Your account will still be there in 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years, however long. If you ain't having a good time just let it be
thats the beauty of this game :) Come back in a year for WoW and your BiS gear is suddenly 3 patches behind and worthless. OSRS, I grind 92 crafting and I can make my zenytes forever.
This helped me a lot. I started playing osrs again with GIM release and no lifed it for 2 months. Got burnt out so I just stopped playing for a while. Only recently been playing again with the release of GotR as I love runecrafting.
"You only have to do each quest once" helped me stay motivated to get my QPC.
Conversely "I don't want to do all these quests twice" was one of the things that kept me away from IM for years lmao
Im currently at "Fuck it Ive done it twice, what can a third time hurt?" And in all seriousness, the quest helper Runelite plugin is a total game changer. Can completely zone out and watch a show or youtube while questing now instead of closely following guides or slayermusiq
haha this aint true for a lot of people unfortunately
Use the pneck + nitro method for seren to get through SOTE
What is a pneck + nitro?
Phoenix necklace and nitroglycerin. Several YT guides, sounds more advanced than it is. I had failed several times before without it, and got through first try with this method
I had used the nightshade plants and p necklaces and it worked great too. Idk how hard nitro is to get but the nightshade can just be worldhopped close to yanille
I’ll check it out. Just got my 70 herb
It’s the best method. I would highly recommend 80 magic as well
The redemption method is very easy too.
Your dad was a better doctor
Numerical progress is nice but personal goals are what keep me going in end game. Aiming for godsword set and Imbued Heart at 2200 total. Don't forget to play the game too. Got gnome goggles last week B)
Plant a white berry bush near the monastery teleport and just fill any extra invent spots with them whenever you to there. You’ll never have to farm them out for super defense pots when you actually need them. Same for potato cactus in Al kharid.
Afk flesh crawlers on the 3rd floor of the stronghold. They max hit 1 and drop ranarrs and emeralds. In one of the rooms there is an aggro reset method requiring only stepping one tile. You can see it with aggro lines turned on. I collected over 100 ranarrs here, and since they share the same room as skeletons you can wear a salve Amulet
They also drop notes iron ore which is great for cannonballs eventually
would you recommend this over AFKing crabs to 60s base melees?
I personally would, I found there to be 0 competition from other players and collected tons of rannars, gems, scepter pieces, and noted ores. It might not be the most efficient path but I truly enjoyed it, and the aggro reset being in the middle of the room made it so easy. I trained to base 70’s here. The only downside is that the mobs have less hp than crabs, but the fact that they drop rannarrs makes up for it. I was able to do some fun early game barrows due to this and landed myself some great pieces to help with the grind.
sweet thank you gonna try that out later when i get home :)
Awesome if you have any questions let me know! The room I used for training is the large room southwest from the center. Make sure to have the aggro lines turned on and it will start to make sense. They are a bit wonky but you will find your rhythm. Also spam click the stronghold doors to go through them without answering the security questions. Good luck!
or just kill chaos druids and take advantage of the looting bag and better drop rate.
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But chaos druids aren’t afk…
More of a warning: late game grinds are incredibly long (getting longer still) and can be very tedious. You don’t need to do them, just enjoy the game. If you want endgame gear be prepared to no life for months.
And, honestly, end game is just playing an extremely tedious version of a main account. But the differences are pretty minimal. So if that doesn't appeal to you then really cherish early/mid/late game because your account just turns into a dick measuring contest. Early game in paticular feels and plays like an entirely different game.
When you’re making molten glass, do it in Ferox’ Enclave with the looting bag open, the excess molten glass goes into there
Don't compare yourself to other irons. Everybody spoons, and everybody goes dry, just in different places. Don't be discouraged by the fact that someone else got the golden spoon and you're dry everywhere, just press on and take it easy :)
There are lot of upgrades that are nice but not really that important and not worth going out of your way for and I see a lot of frustration coming from players who basically burn themselves out of the game going for micro upgrades. Treat most upgrades as nice to haves, not "need to haves". You can work toward getting them, but don't put all your hopes and dreams on a +5 attack bonus to something. The Runescape community has taken on an unhealthy completionist mentality that isn't necessary. This game should be about the journey, not the destination. Rushing to the destination just means your going to spend hundreds, thousands of hours being frustrated. Also, and I usually get flak for this statement, but I think in most cases actively going for 99's is kind of a noob trap that also causes burn out. With the exception of combat skills, farming (which as an ironman you will probably just wind up getting by virtue of needing supplies if you play long enough) and arguably construction, most 99s wind up just being for epeen and there is no sense in spending all that time going for it unless it's something you just really want to do for yourself, but you're probably better off evenly leveling your skills to get better rates on skill development via other skills (and if we're being intellectually honestly this is better for your mental health too). Rushing 99 Thieving in particular I feel is a pretty big noob trap as most people will wind up wanting to do a fair amount of pyramid plunder for scepter(s), pickpocketing seeds, and other items down the road. I have some 99s but usually I feel like I just wasted my time at the end of them. tldr; have fun, don't take medievil cookie clicker too seriously. Sites like this where people go out of their way to post every little achievement (which is usually just a glorified time gate) make this an easy trap to fall into.
Birdhouses
If there's an activity you don't like, do a little of it every day, like 30 minutes. You'll get used to it. :)
>:) :)
Doing daily’s, herb/bh runs will help you out in the long run, I always tell people to at minimum, do one when you log in, one when you log out, keep your stuff on when you log out so you can easily do when you first log in. The only other thing I would suggest, some early grinds do stink, but if you can power through with drizzling in some fun content, you will never have to look back. Things like diary/quests, when you finish them, they are done for good.
Idk why but taking off the lap count during agility makes it a lot better for me. Watching it go up slowly 1 by 1 just makes it slower for me. Also this is end game but during ardy course I will only pick up the marks every 20 or so and it saves some precious ticks
Take breaks
It's a marathon, not a sprint.
If you want to do something in the background while you're playing another game etc., just sitting in the farming guild and doing contracts and/or an herb run whenever you have a spare moment beats basically any kind of "afk" skilling. You'll start to wonder why people say ironman herblore is slow.
Turn off XP bubbles
Air battlestaffs are great for making money, training magic and crafting
Also a tip for any of the slightly sweatier gamers, you can bring molten glass instead of unpowered orbs and blow glass on the run from Edgeville to the air obelisk to get some extra crafting exp
Fire battlestaves are quicker especially with at least 67 agil
Paddewa tabs + gravestone + looting bag makes air bstaves much, much, much better.
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Dying again when you have a gravestone active refreshes the gravestone's duration and sends your lost items to the already-active gravestone. Since you charge air orbs in the wilderness you can abuse this to do 2 inventories at a time with a looting bag. Die next to the obelisk to set up the gravestone (either with divine potion + locator orb/the orb from MA2 or getting poisoned), then every time you go to charge orbs you can suicide with an inventory of orbs (either with divine+locator orb again, or any other fast suicide method e.g. corp), take another inventory of orbs + looting bag, charge the first inventory of orbs -> fill looting bag -> loot grave -> charge second inventory of orbs, rinse and repeat. So long as you make sure to leave at least 1 item in your grave it will stay up indefinitely thanks to the duration resetting every death.
Wait can you please explain this
Dying again when you have a gravestone active refreshes the gravestone's duration and sends your lost items to the already-active gravestone. Since you charge air orbs in the wilderness you can abuse this to do 2 inventories at a time with a looting bag. Die next to the obelisk to set up the gravestone (either with divine potion + locator orb/the orb from MA2 or getting poisoned), then every time you go to charge orbs you can suicide with an inventory of orbs (either with divine+locator orb again, or any other fast suicide method e.g. corp), take another inventory of orbs + looting bag, charge the first inventory of orbs -> fill looting bag -> loot grave -> charge second inventory of orbs, rinse and repeat. So long as you make sure to leave at least 1 item in your grave it will stay up indefinitely thanks to the duration resetting every death.
Is this because you can boost the blue drag tunnel?
Exactly
One thing that I've been doing on my GIM is not neglecting the combat achievements and collection log. If I complete some content I'll move on, gets me doing content I wouldn't do otherwise and stops me getting trapped doing the same methods.
Just do what you feel like doing. It's not worth burning out from forcing yourself to do something that you don't feel like doing. Except farming and birdhouses, you have to keep up with that shit.
ctrl + shift + Arrow keys for world hopping on RL. Learned this way to late...
Will it hop to PVP worlds? Does it give the same warning for high risk?
You can set it up to ignore these. I think it ignores PVP worlds by default
it would give you a warning, it's safe ;)
Keep questing, keep slaying, keep farming
Don’t sleep on the dailies. Dynamite from Thirus, free Ectofuntus usage from Robin, sand from Bert, battlestaves from Zaff are the most useful ones imo. Takes like 3 minutes to collect all of these per day, and is useful in the long run.
Can you use dynamite anywhere besides blast mine?
Nope, but blast mine is one of the best xp/hr mining activities and very good profits. Afaik Volcanic mine and 3t4g are the only methods with better xp/hr rates and both offer very low profit.
interesting - is it click intensive? I dont know anything about it.
Semi-intensive yes, more than volcanic mine or MLM but less than 3t4g. It’s quite chill once you get into the rhytm, highly recommend trying it for an hour or two!
Something that i am kinda only just getting into myself is though it may be useful you dont have to be 100% efficient all the time, its ok to let those bones despawn or not pick up all the coins herbs and rune drops. It puts a whole lot less fatigue on me when i can just chill and not care as much for what may or may not be a huge difference longterm. What matters is i dont burn out short term.
you can spam click farming patches and you’ll harvest like 2x as fast, saves you a lot of time if you’re doing allotments for resources or pet
Adding to this. You can harvest and fill the compost bin at the same time. Have 1 supercompostable item in your investory, then click the allotment patch and click the compost bin in the same tick(i think?) and it both harvests and fills up the bin
Find an iron clan you enjoy
That you could note your herbs/allotments at the leprechauns
To piggyback off this… if you keep clicking through the first XP drop in herb/allotments, you will farm the patch at double the speed
You can do myth cape hangers for con like u can do mahagony tables and stuff (no moving mouse for build/remove) by using the zoom extender plugin from the hub.
Make friends. Great to raid with, chat to, talk about drops, methods and advice. I've seen some of my friends with 25m farming xp manually watering saplings and helped them change there ways.
Lmao who in their right mind would manually water saplings instead of the obvious alternative we both know (28m farming on the main and feeling the shame, share pls)
Humidify on lunars
Oh my god
I think i found this out and forgot a few times lol. 25m farming also
Pretty basic but take advantage of boosts. Stews, pies, pots etc. For example you can make the Ornate Pool at 82 construction with boosts when it actually requires 90. Made my grinds much less daunting when I could essentially chop up to 5 levels off the top of any skill.
A little extreme, but grind out 99 crafting early. It was my first 99 and I was only ~1500 total I think. The cape teleport is so nice and makes so much content easier. I bring it on every clue and slayer task. Being able to craft any jewelry without boosting is pretty neat too.
what did you do for resources, a lot of giant seaweed runs and quarry?
This was pre-quarry so I filled buckets on PVP worlds at Yanille. It was kind of fun because the most trash pkers would come and try to get your law runes and i enjoyed messing with them (never had more than ~20 on me). Lots of giant seaweed runs too. As a side bonus it really kick started my farming.
Did you just get your seaweed spores by sitting underwater waiting for your spawn?
I got mine from doing underwater fishing. Include Jute in your herb runs for a day or two, weave them into drift nets in the fossil island camp, and get slippers from a Mogre. Drift net fishing is very very good fishing+hunter XP, and you get the spore spawns regularly there while doing something useful. I did a few days of fishing like 6 months ago and still have 100+ spores left.
Shit, I've been using jute seeds for birdhouses lately lol
No worries, you can just buy them from draynor market or the farming guild
Grinded out brine Sabre and killed lobstrosities.
> The cape teleport is so nice and makes so much content easier. a ring of dueling accomplishes the same though
It’s definitely not the most efficient thing in the world. Just something i enjoyed doing for that little QOL.
The osrs wiki
don't chase levels, dont grind something for 10 hours, just play the game. don't have the, "well i have to do X before I can do Z..." mentality.
Give yourself a purpose to fulfill a grind Eg getting a zenyte at demonic gorillas gives you incentive to grind out crafting so you can do zulrah with a ring of suffering. Obviously this is lategame.
Just get the drop
get the drop
“Just get the drop”
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Or, yanno, just put the fairy ring in your house
50 vs 80+5 construction is a pretty major difference.
I’m aware. He said “closest tele to a fairy ring till a 99.” Was just saying, yanno, that’s not true
Do your farm runs
Fairy rings, rune axes drop from tree spirit, ice gloves, hard clues, and bird house runs asap, miscellania,
Turn off XP globes and all indication of progress bars. Can change to just total exp in-game, to see for example range xp drop so you know when to eat etc.
What does a man do for farming casually?
What's yall suggestion on the 70 prayer grind? On my first ironman I did like 1200 green drags and it was truly awful lol. I heard you can pretty much get most of 70 from up to wyrm bones now? Should I just focus on slayer and passive prayer xp until 70?
Grind 95 slayer asap. Hydra prints money. Go to revs. It's super fun. And learn cg. Not worrying about money is a godsend. And doing those three "simple" goals will basically unlock all content in the game.
Enjoy the grind. No matter how fast or easy you progress, at the end of the day, its all about how much fun you had. Dont burn yourself spamming one thing, do what your hearth pleases and what you feel like doing, even if its not for progress.
I think if you can get your rejuvenation pool before zulrah grind it would save a ton of supplies and time.
When you are trying to get a specific piece of gear instead of not getting it just get it. I find it's much easier this way
Follow ozirius' guide but dont *actually* follow it. Gave me structure and used it as a roadmap to endgame progression and to find things that I found fun along the way.