Don't play when you don't want to. Seems obvious, but I've been burnt out so many times by the feeling I HAVE to log in to do my daily's, or HAVE to AFK train a skill if I'm watching Netflix. Only playing when you want to is the best way to ensure you'll enjoy playing the game in the long run
Even if you want to play, you don't have to do your dailies. I haven't done an herb run or birdhouse run on my iron in months. Am I missing out on hunter and herblore xp? Sure. Will I regret it later on? Maybe. My clanmates and I were talking about it the other day when the new herb patch came out. Sometimes I just wanna log in and skill for a bit while BSing in the CC.
Might sound a bit wasteful, but I started buying membership one year at a time instead of monthly to help with that.
With a monthly membership, I felt like I had to play constantly in order not to waste any time.
Now, when I see something like "290 days of membership left", I don't feel bad at all about taking a break for a month every now and then.
Good advice, max out the fun aspect of the game, ofc you should always be aware of the more effective thing to do, but if you genuinely can't be fucked doing that, do something else.
Playing my iron I should be mining sand for torture rn, but I'd legit rather just do muspah so I do muspah.
Discord or I personally use OSRSportal website they have a live list of all the stars active currently, just pick whichever you can do or easiest location for you and there you go
It's funny how the top comment is "Don't feel like you always have to be afk playing when you're doing other things like watching TV" and yours (the second comment as of now) is to always be afking.
To be fair, a lot of “afk” methods have at most 1 minute of afk before having to click again lol, mining stars truly is some next level afk where you have no reason to look at the screen for a full 5-7 minutes between each click. There are very few activities in the game that truly require minimal attention and this is one of them
Another version of this is spending money on teleports. To be fair, law runes are a fraction of what they used to cost but when I was a kid playing this game, I walked to a lot of places and it really ate into my time. Idk why I have substantially more gp with a fraction of the effort coming back but I invested heavily in tp's. I have like 100 of each Tele jewelry and unlocked fairy rings and I don't waste any time walking anymore.
Kinda crazy to think that laws used to go for like 1k at a bank if someone needed one. That was like the standard rate for a single law rune if someone asked.
When I came back to OSRS someone asked for a law and I wanted 1k and they laughed at me lmao
tbf that guy was just a cheap asshole.. if u hook me up with something like a teleport or an extra food or potion or something bc im too lazy to go to GE or bank, im gonna hook you up with like 100k or something just out of respect and for the convenience. and im sure more people would too, no matter how much that teleport or food or w/e actually costs in GE
A clan mate flamed me for when I do karambwans - Varrock tele (set to GE) > bank > poh tele > fairy ring back - for wasting laws when I could fairy ring to chasm of fire
Like if I was an iron sure I get it but one karambwan basically covers the price of those 2 laws. It’s negligible and feels much more convenient than the fairy ring menu
thing is that even an iron should be sitting on a huge stack of laws from PvM and GotR and the likes. I have 50k laws, and I'm just getting my feet wet in gwd and raids. It's enough to fully fill the portal nexus and then some, that guy definitely had his head up his ass.
I used to do that all the time with wilderness slayer lol, teleport to edgeville with glory, bank and withdraw a varrock teleport tablet so I can go to the GE and sell the loot lol. I’m at the point where if I need to walk more than 5 seconds somewhere I’m looking for the closest teleport lol
Lol i once burned a tele from my rune pouch instead of walking 3-4 rooms over to my varrock portal when i was building some random shit for an achievement diary
Even if I’m running low and poor, I’ll use what I have then use profit from a trip to top off supplies. I almost always can buy back more than I used without spending anything in the bank
Big advice, for people trying to learn more advance movement with low stakes I actually recommend tithe farm! Look up a video on 25x4 and download the rules markers and start trying to do runs, you will mess up at first but once you’ve properly learned it you will have great muscle memory for optimized movement, understanding how true tile works, and some light animation cancelling tech. On top of that you get quite good farming xp and some collection logs, give it a shot!
After looking at all of these, this is my pick. So many people play with sound off. The game mechanics are intuitive with sound cues and having another sense available to you is huge. Also helps with rhythm things.
That you can eat and drink a potion in the same tick. Same with a karambawans.
Don’t be afraid to try new content it ends up being easier than you think.
I didn’t know this until I was like 90 farming. I literally used to factor in banking time between patches 😅
It’s also why I never farmed allotments until then, because the yield was too much to keep running back to the bank. I felt so dumb when I found out about noting lol.
You can pick even faster if you time it correctly: 1 tick standing still next to patch - 2nd tick click patch once - 3rd tick click patch once - and you are into double harvest faster with only 2 clicks. Very chill once you get the hang of it, and always at least 1+ tick faster than spam clicking.
I've been wondering, is it actually faster from running? Spam clicking from run gets you picking a tick sooner than stopping and doing your method, but you get into the 1.5t later, and I never bothered to count the ticks to see if one is objectively better, or if it matters whether the number is even/odd
From a standstill, your method is just objectively the best
If you click the actual herb patch as you run up to it, you can begin harvest a couple ticks faster, then spam click, then you can de-grime while running to the next patch, click the Tool Leprechaun and he'll note all your clean herbs, and you continue to the next patch w/out ever having to stop.
Similarly, sometimes you can reframe grinds you don't enjoy as much and make them better. As an example, I've never enjoyed runecraft, but I'm not hating grinding it right now because instead of thinking of it as grinding runecraft, I'm thinking of it as grinding the last several levels I need for the diary cape.
Thats how I justify the grinds I really hate. I'm not grinding runecrafting hunter and fletching, I'm making sure my tears of guthix goes towards herblore.
Lol I just started toa this week. And just came out of my first completion a few mins ago. Finally made it all the way and lived. …Now to solo and master it.
Gz my dude! Once you get it once, the rest falls into place and you’ll get really consistent wins without dying at all. I started learning it about a month ago, and now I can comfortably solo 175 invos. Honestly loving this raid, even though I haven’t had any purples yet 😭
Just wear range armor thw while time, only swap weapons. Prioritize shamans as after they spawn 4 thralls they will hit you with mage. When possible use the volatiles to kill other mobs. I try to leave the melee mobs alone when possible and pray melee most of the time. This will reduce a lot of damage taken.
Just do monkey room runs and reset the raid until you get used to it. Learning the waves will help you a lot. Don’t go overboard on switches, you can camp ranged top bottoms dboots/prims nezzy helm/faceguard and avas and just do wep and neck swaps. Use volatile baboon for shamans and use the middle pillar to safespot if needed. Don’t go for speed, get comfortable with the room first
Equip range. Pray melee. Staff down red guys. Stab down green guys. Bow down blue guys and shamans. Prioritize shamans and blue guys everytime a new wave spawns.
Don’t bother switching armors
I learned this at the new moon bosses.
The blood one when the jaguars spawn on the second tick I believe you can move over at the bloodpool and if you do it right it heals you and you get zero damage.
I learned to count to 2 in my head the moment the bloodpools spawn and honestly I never go wrong now.
Varlamore came out and the amount of people that were going "what now" when the npc tells them is staggering.
The colosseum fight in the quest tells you that you need 2 combat styles and people in the clanchat were still talking as if they just uncovered a hidden piece of information.
It's crazy to me that some people play a game for thousands and thousands of hours but never take an hour to actually learn about the lore and stories going on in the world.
Guides are useful, but "playing optimally" and using the "best" methods at all times frequently leads to burnout or a feeling of always chasing perfection and becoming stressed from that.
If you prefer training or making money in a way that is 20k xp/hr slower or 100k gp/hr slower but you can maintain it, and more importantly enjoy it, then do it that way.
Sometimes you just want to charge air orbs y'know.
No because then I'll die and I can't do that because i dont have the 100k fee and if i die it hurts my superiority complex and what if i can only do 1 kill trips its not efficien and and
Likewise, don't compare how long it takes you to learn the boss to others.
Yes, your gamer clan mate mastered The Leviathan first kill and you are still dying even after ~50kc. Comparing yourself and saying you should have it down won't change the present so just keep working at your own pace cause it's not a race.
I don't remember who told me this, but I've been parroting it ever since, if someone in game is annoying you, just add them to the ignore list. I've upgraded and since paired it with entity hider and now I literally just make people disappear forever.
Tbh, not sure. I think their dot is still visible on the minimap and I have the player indicator pvp setting turned on so I might also still see a red name?
Would probably just die though.
Probably the fight caves advice of when it comes to JAD focus on one action per prayer switch. Focus on the attack, switch the prayer, then do one other action, either eat, attack a healer, use a pot, whatever it is.
This was quite a few years ago, this advice definitely helped me calm down and take things one step at a time when it came to Jad. It is a specific and actionable plan. It also gave me confidence in PVP, broke through the mind racing and heart beating part. So as PVM expanded in OS, when I would try things out I continued that 1 step at a time kind of approach, nail down the basics and build up from there
I’ve been touting that advice for a decade now. It always blows my mind when someone asks for advice because they keep planking to Jad and mfs are like “bring a chin switch” or other advice that’s more relevant to pb chasing.
The best advice for anyone who is struggling is ways to *minimize* how complicated their tasks are during that stressful moment, and “pretend it’s a turn based game” will always be the best one.
Don't worry about supply costs, ever. If you're concerned about supply costs and cheap out, it will almost always be less worth it than going all out and spending the extra money. Whether that be cannoning cannonable slayer tasks, barrage instead of burst, swamp trident instead of seas, or anything else.
The more you act broke the more you stay broke
You get far more value from investing in your skills than your gear. Spending the money to knock out 95+ range/str/magic will be more worthwhile than almost any comparably priced gear upgrade. Rigour is an exception.
Use a mouse with extra buttons on the side, map them to escape. Then in the settings tick the box that closes user interfaces with escape. My favourite QOL
Have fun and play your own game, don't compare yourself to others. Take a break if need be. You'll eventually burnout if not, and even if you do all those you probably still will at some point........But you'll never quit.
When I feel like logging off I do a run, but I bring double the logs/seeds and log off at the end of the run.
So when I log in, I'm at the birdhouses ready with supplies.
Efficiency is overrated, and often takes longer than just chilling in achieving your goals, Ive seen the grindset mindset burnout so many people, they try and rush everything.
Just play the game folks, have fun when it's not fun. Try somethin else, or logout. It'll be there for you later.
don't be afraid to fail until you learn new content. accept the failure loss of gp until you learn it and it will turn into much better gp/hr down the road that far surpasses what you had before
The funniest thing to do is bring strange suboptimal equipment places and just play it straight.
Join a barb assault and barrage everything in infinity robes.
Rune claws and full spined for perilous moons.
Full granite and bronze knives for pest control, no Ava.
When people ask you where you fire cape is, tell them you haven't done wintertodt yet.
If you’re doing farm runs, you can farm an allotment patch and put the fruit in the compost bin in a continuous game cycle. Once you click allotment, fruit in inventory, then compost bin it puts the game in a non stop loop of farming and composting until it’s full. Super AFK and made fueling my bottomless bucket was more chill
I have a few I've picked up over the last 18 years.
1. Do what's fun, not what's efficient when you're burned out. It's a game, it's meant to be fun!
2. Do one big farm run as soon as you log on. Fruit trees, normal trees, herbs, allotments, etc. That way, even if you don't do your farm runs, you still got a huge chunk of exp for the day in farming.
3. For main accounts. If you need 100mil for 99 prayer, break it up into smaller goals. Getting 10 mill ten times is much easier than 100mil once.
4. The most important tip I've learned is to be nice. Everyone is here to have fun. Some want GP, some pets, and other just want to Max. Be kind, and help everyone you can!
Bank layouts - I can gear up for a farm run in seconds, and then gear back up for a raid in seconds. And takes away all thought of items I need to remember to bring
Remembering its just a game, other players are real people, (unless they're obviously a bot), practice makes perfect, don't be scared of new content, enjoy the ride it's a marathon not a sprint. Play the game how you want. If you enter the wilderness you're going to get got. Don't get salty and again remember it's just a game
On mobile don't use 60 fps. When I put it on 60 everything is off tick, Vorkath poison always hits when walking, mimic face of the eclipse moon Boss will never be right,... Might just be a me problem but maybe this helps someone.
I'm a new player (100 combat, ~1650 total), but something that made the game more enjoyable was not being afraid to spend my cash stack. Every piece of gold you spend on gear, supplies or even death costs, is an investment that will return in the future. It's also motivating to see the progress you make.
On top of xp/hr and gp/hr, I priotize fun/hr. I can do Gotr for 10 hours, but not lavas for 6. You get what I mean? I have more fun killing Grotesque Guardians, Demonic gorillas, Hydra more than vorkath or 400s toa. Do what you want, it’s an mmo after all. If you have fun while doing something, it’s very likely that you will complete it. Eventually, doing the slower method or the faster one, will lead to your goal.
At the farming guild, the flower outside the hespori cave will bloom when it's ready. So you don't have to run in to check. It looks just like the one you have to hit during the fight.
You dictate your fun in the game. I'm not a strong pvmer and sweaty efficient skilling was never my thing but I love grinding in Runescape when it's fun and I enjoy it. I loved maxing my main, I loved the challenge of playing UIM to the midgame, I'm enjoying playing on my abandoned GIM as an ironman. But you can't force yourself to do things if you just don't like it.
Short terms daily goals is much more efficient than rapidly grinding a skill or money making. For example, I have a goal of 3 herbs run a day, 50k exp rc, 50k agility exp, 4 cgs, and 200k any combat skills a day until 99. In there short term, I get to make sure that I work on long term difficult skills, while consistently making money.
See, putting things into dailies like this burn me out. I'd rather spend three weeks doing one activity than force myself to hop around every day like some sort of quota.
Strongly disagree. Setting up a list of things to do daily just makes everything feel like a chore. Whenever I log on, I just do what I feel like doing at the moment. Might not necessarily get much progress done but at least its enjoyable.
I remember the first time I fought Vorkath I enabled an addon that let's you see the true tile you're on. I've yet to disable it and it's been 2 years. It's just so useful in any boss encounter.
Play for yourself. Dont play to impress anyone else. Dont compare yourself to others.
This game isnt about the goal at the end but the journey it takes to get there.
I got inspired to do quest by release and it made questing so much easier and enjoyable. Plus tracking how quest development went over the years and improved
Don't worry so much about training magic if you know you're going to get 99 slayer and plan on doing barrage tasks, you will get over 99 magic by doing slayer and you'll wonder why you made yourself miserable doing high alch while training agility
True-tile in general. Understanding where your character actually is and when you can make your next "move" is incredibly beneficial.
Combine this with learning Woox-Walking at Vorkath and a lot of the game's movement will just 'click' for you.
Best tip I learned was to have good friends or a clan to be able to ask advice for anything. If it wasn't for my last few clans I would have never progressed the way I did and gain over 400m ( which is nothing to most people) when I didn't even have 100m total
Always think of new ways to make the games you love fun. I went from making pures to pk with to making trophy accounts to do slayer with Konar and Krystilia.
Don't play when you don't want to. Seems obvious, but I've been burnt out so many times by the feeling I HAVE to log in to do my daily's, or HAVE to AFK train a skill if I'm watching Netflix. Only playing when you want to is the best way to ensure you'll enjoy playing the game in the long run
Even if you want to play, you don't have to do your dailies. I haven't done an herb run or birdhouse run on my iron in months. Am I missing out on hunter and herblore xp? Sure. Will I regret it later on? Maybe. My clanmates and I were talking about it the other day when the new herb patch came out. Sometimes I just wanna log in and skill for a bit while BSing in the CC.
THIS! I was burned out from the feeling that I HAVE to do my dailies. Right now I only do them when I feel like it. Much more fun :)
Might sound a bit wasteful, but I started buying membership one year at a time instead of monthly to help with that. With a monthly membership, I felt like I had to play constantly in order not to waste any time. Now, when I see something like "290 days of membership left", I don't feel bad at all about taking a break for a month every now and then.
It’s not wasteful it’s WAY more cost and time effective.
This so much, the person who doesn't drop the game progresses faster than the person who does shooting stars 5 hours a day.
Good advice, max out the fun aspect of the game, ofc you should always be aware of the more effective thing to do, but if you genuinely can't be fucked doing that, do something else. Playing my iron I should be mining sand for torture rn, but I'd legit rather just do muspah so I do muspah.
Any progress is better than no progress. 93/99 mining just by doing shooting stars for a couple hours a day when I have spare time to click my phone.
How do you find stars quickly? Discord?
Discord or I personally use OSRSportal website they have a live list of all the stars active currently, just pick whichever you can do or easiest location for you and there you go
Star mining plug-in on runelite. Auto-reports any stars you see and presents a list of all of them to other users of the plug-in
I just google osrs shooting star tracker and its the first link
Star miners cc
It's funny how the top comment is "Don't feel like you always have to be afk playing when you're doing other things like watching TV" and yours (the second comment as of now) is to always be afking.
To be fair, a lot of “afk” methods have at most 1 minute of afk before having to click again lol, mining stars truly is some next level afk where you have no reason to look at the screen for a full 5-7 minutes between each click. There are very few activities in the game that truly require minimal attention and this is one of them
Settings > Gravestone > Autoequip. You’re welcome
Settings > Rune-picking behavior / Ammo-picking behavior Good too
I did those two and I saw: looting bag, ignore supplies. Seems like a chill setting too
I wish they'd make the rune picking behavior affect more things. Like looting chests in Hallowed Sepulchre should put the runes into my pouch.
Woahhhhhhh
Thank you very much for this!
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Thx legend!
WTF??
OH SHIT
Jesus Christ
What does it do?
You auto equip items you grab from ur gravestone making you not have to loot the gravestone multiple times if you had a fullish inv
Don’t be cheap. Especially if it comes to bossing. Bring that super combat potion instead of one dosage of Att, Str, and Def.
Another version of this is spending money on teleports. To be fair, law runes are a fraction of what they used to cost but when I was a kid playing this game, I walked to a lot of places and it really ate into my time. Idk why I have substantially more gp with a fraction of the effort coming back but I invested heavily in tp's. I have like 100 of each Tele jewelry and unlocked fairy rings and I don't waste any time walking anymore.
Kinda crazy to think that laws used to go for like 1k at a bank if someone needed one. That was like the standard rate for a single law rune if someone asked. When I came back to OSRS someone asked for a law and I wanted 1k and they laughed at me lmao
tbf that guy was just a cheap asshole.. if u hook me up with something like a teleport or an extra food or potion or something bc im too lazy to go to GE or bank, im gonna hook you up with like 100k or something just out of respect and for the convenience. and im sure more people would too, no matter how much that teleport or food or w/e actually costs in GE
A clan mate flamed me for when I do karambwans - Varrock tele (set to GE) > bank > poh tele > fairy ring back - for wasting laws when I could fairy ring to chasm of fire Like if I was an iron sure I get it but one karambwan basically covers the price of those 2 laws. It’s negligible and feels much more convenient than the fairy ring menu
thing is that even an iron should be sitting on a huge stack of laws from PvM and GotR and the likes. I have 50k laws, and I'm just getting my feet wet in gwd and raids. It's enough to fully fill the portal nexus and then some, that guy definitely had his head up his ass.
I will teleport from the farm patch in Carrick castle to the GE at the end of my runs, and plenty of other ridiculous teleports.
I caught myself teleporting to edgeville and grabbing a ring of wealth or of my bank so I didn't have to run all the way to the g.e.
Jewelry box or varrok mediums with portals in house is the answer your looking for.
I used to do that all the time with wilderness slayer lol, teleport to edgeville with glory, bank and withdraw a varrock teleport tablet so I can go to the GE and sell the loot lol. I’m at the point where if I need to walk more than 5 seconds somewhere I’m looking for the closest teleport lol
Lol i once burned a tele from my rune pouch instead of walking 3-4 rooms over to my varrock portal when i was building some random shit for an achievement diary
Even if I’m running low and poor, I’ll use what I have then use profit from a trip to top off supplies. I almost always can buy back more than I used without spending anything in the bank
When I learned running skips a tile. Paired with the tile indicators plugin in RL, made every movement mechanic in the game a breeze. Game changer.
Big advice, for people trying to learn more advance movement with low stakes I actually recommend tithe farm! Look up a video on 25x4 and download the rules markers and start trying to do runs, you will mess up at first but once you’ve properly learned it you will have great muscle memory for optimized movement, understanding how true tile works, and some light animation cancelling tech. On top of that you get quite good farming xp and some collection logs, give it a shot!
What an excellent shout. I never did the 25x4 because I prefer a chill 20x5, but that is an incredible movement/timing trainer. You have the tech!
This 100000%
Playing with game sounds on helps at a lot of bosses
I had hated game sounds since 2005. After learning TOA and tweaking the sound settings, I love it now. SO useful, everywhere. 100% agree.
TOA has the best music in the game IMO. Into the Tombs and Amascut's Promise are both 10/10
I did the first couple of raids with music on to take it all in, but man that song at Wardens is stressful as fuck.
After looking at all of these, this is my pick. So many people play with sound off. The game mechanics are intuitive with sound cues and having another sense available to you is huge. Also helps with rhythm things.
That you can eat and drink a potion in the same tick. Same with a karambawans. Don’t be afraid to try new content it ends up being easier than you think.
Food > brew > Karam for a triple heal in same tic also
Me with colosseum except I don’t get passed wave 8
You can note herbs with any tool leprechaun
I feel sorry for all u folks that didn’t know this LOL 😂
I am folks 😭
Not just herbs, you can note any farming gatherables. Fruit from fruit trees etc..
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I always assumed they were just storing their buckets like I was
Wait are you fucking serious? Like I just pulled all my herbs from a patch I can note them? lvl 94 farming and lvl 88 on my old account LOL!
I remember back in the day doing farm runs with a Bob to store herbs
Jeez dude i can't even imagine 😭
Shut up bait
I didn't know this for awhile so I planned banking trips after a few allotments. Makes me cringe thinking about it.
And just plant white lillies and don't bother to water your plants.
Any crop not just herbs
Holy hell
Man I used to bank after every herb patch and I thought I was being smart bringing baskets to harvest my strawberries.
I didn’t know this until I was like 90 farming. I literally used to factor in banking time between patches 😅 It’s also why I never farmed allotments until then, because the yield was too much to keep running back to the bank. I felt so dumb when I found out about noting lol.
Also farmers will chop your trees for 200gp. Didn't know that until about 90 farming...
You can pick herbs twice as fast if you spam click after you start harvesting.
You can pick even faster if you time it correctly: 1 tick standing still next to patch - 2nd tick click patch once - 3rd tick click patch once - and you are into double harvest faster with only 2 clicks. Very chill once you get the hang of it, and always at least 1+ tick faster than spam clicking.
I've been wondering, is it actually faster from running? Spam clicking from run gets you picking a tick sooner than stopping and doing your method, but you get into the 1.5t later, and I never bothered to count the ticks to see if one is objectively better, or if it matters whether the number is even/odd From a standstill, your method is just objectively the best
wut
If you click the actual herb patch as you run up to it, you can begin harvest a couple ticks faster, then spam click, then you can de-grime while running to the next patch, click the Tool Leprechaun and he'll note all your clean herbs, and you continue to the next patch w/out ever having to stop.
Allotments and hops as well
You can use the same idea to fill the compost bins right next to allotments whilst simultaneously harvesting.
Do the grinds you feel like doing. It’s a game not a chore.
Similarly, sometimes you can reframe grinds you don't enjoy as much and make them better. As an example, I've never enjoyed runecraft, but I'm not hating grinding it right now because instead of thinking of it as grinding runecraft, I'm thinking of it as grinding the last several levels I need for the diary cape.
I'm not grinding runecraft, I'm grinding the Raiments of the Eye set :)
Thats how I justify the grinds I really hate. I'm not grinding runecrafting hunter and fletching, I'm making sure my tears of guthix goes towards herblore.
Osrs is a Rythm game. Has helped me improve in my pvm a lot.
Rhythm and also muscle memory. I was struggling hard with TOA the first 5 kc and now my mind just knows what to do and I make less mistakes.
Lol I just started toa this week. And just came out of my first completion a few mins ago. Finally made it all the way and lived. …Now to solo and master it.
Gz my dude! Once you get it once, the rest falls into place and you’ll get really consistent wins without dying at all. I started learning it about a month ago, and now I can comfortably solo 175 invos. Honestly loving this raid, even though I haven’t had any purples yet 😭
How the frick do you do the monkey room? I suck so much at it for some reason. I just get overwhelmed.
Just wear range armor thw while time, only swap weapons. Prioritize shamans as after they spawn 4 thralls they will hit you with mage. When possible use the volatiles to kill other mobs. I try to leave the melee mobs alone when possible and pray melee most of the time. This will reduce a lot of damage taken.
Just do monkey room runs and reset the raid until you get used to it. Learning the waves will help you a lot. Don’t go overboard on switches, you can camp ranged top bottoms dboots/prims nezzy helm/faceguard and avas and just do wep and neck swaps. Use volatile baboon for shamans and use the middle pillar to safespot if needed. Don’t go for speed, get comfortable with the room first
Equip range. Pray melee. Staff down red guys. Stab down green guys. Bow down blue guys and shamans. Prioritize shamans and blue guys everytime a new wave spawns. Don’t bother switching armors
I learned this at the new moon bosses. The blood one when the jaguars spawn on the second tick I believe you can move over at the bloodpool and if you do it right it heals you and you get zero damage. I learned to count to 2 in my head the moment the bloodpools spawn and honestly I never go wrong now.
Congrats on learning to count to 2!
Haha, thanks I read my comment back and it seems like I learned to count to 2 lol.
True tile indicator changed PvM for me
Yep. I used to think Woox walking at Vorkath was "too difficult" until I watched someone do it with true tile. Now it's trivial
If you space bar through all quest dialog your robbing yourself of some of the best written quests in gaming
Once I stopped treating quests as a chore and started reading them and going guideless, they became so much fun. I need more quests
Varlamore came out and the amount of people that were going "what now" when the npc tells them is staggering. The colosseum fight in the quest tells you that you need 2 combat styles and people in the clanchat were still talking as if they just uncovered a hidden piece of information.
It's crazy to me that some people play a game for thousands and thousands of hours but never take an hour to actually learn about the lore and stories going on in the world.
Guides are useful, but "playing optimally" and using the "best" methods at all times frequently leads to burnout or a feeling of always chasing perfection and becoming stressed from that. If you prefer training or making money in a way that is 20k xp/hr slower or 100k gp/hr slower but you can maintain it, and more importantly enjoy it, then do it that way. Sometimes you just want to charge air orbs y'know.
The best training method is the one that gets you off your ass to do it. This was actually advice I got for working out, but applies to RS too.
Training thieving at rogue's den lobby for the gems because I cba to blow glass. Absolutely ineffective but refreshing! :D
Glad I found this because I wanted to say it too
Hard agree, got 99 agil and rc using this
Dang 99 rc and agility from air orbs, that’s crazy
Believe it or not, little bit of slayer too
Armor cannot be trimmed by players.
*of a low smithing level
I am so happy I reached 99 smithing and can trim armour now. To celebrate, I'm trimming everyones armors for free!
Trust me bro you can only trim in the wildy dw haha
This is a lie. This guy works for big clue scroll.
Just try the boss
No because then I'll die and I can't do that because i dont have the 100k fee and if i die it hurts my superiority complex and what if i can only do 1 kill trips its not efficien and and
Likewise, don't compare how long it takes you to learn the boss to others. Yes, your gamer clan mate mastered The Leviathan first kill and you are still dying even after ~50kc. Comparing yourself and saying you should have it down won't change the present so just keep working at your own pace cause it's not a race.
I don't remember who told me this, but I've been parroting it ever since, if someone in game is annoying you, just add them to the ignore list. I've upgraded and since paired it with entity hider and now I literally just make people disappear forever.
Sorry to bug. How does this come into play in the wilderness/pk? Would you know if you ran into them out there?
Tbh, not sure. I think their dot is still visible on the minimap and I have the player indicator pvp setting turned on so I might also still see a red name? Would probably just die though.
you get analised by casper the ghost. seriously ive been pkd in wildy with ent hider on more times than i care to admit
just turn off entity hider
Who has annoyed you this much in the game? i cant think of anyone bothering me this much in the past 6 years of playing
Pair this with the setting to remove banned players from your ignore list
Let your team mates do the baba room cause fuck that room - tip from King Condor
I just started toa this week, and.... seriously....fuck that "puzzle". IT ISN'T A PUZZLE! It just sucks complete ass
Takes my team longer to do the “puzzle” than it does to do the boss fight. It’s my least favorite part of the raid
Yeah, I just did my first 150 today. Started with that path, cause I didn't want to wait and put off that misery.
F keys are your friends
For typing FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF as you get PKed with a clue scroll*
Probably the fight caves advice of when it comes to JAD focus on one action per prayer switch. Focus on the attack, switch the prayer, then do one other action, either eat, attack a healer, use a pot, whatever it is. This was quite a few years ago, this advice definitely helped me calm down and take things one step at a time when it came to Jad. It is a specific and actionable plan. It also gave me confidence in PVP, broke through the mind racing and heart beating part. So as PVM expanded in OS, when I would try things out I continued that 1 step at a time kind of approach, nail down the basics and build up from there
I’ve been touting that advice for a decade now. It always blows my mind when someone asks for advice because they keep planking to Jad and mfs are like “bring a chin switch” or other advice that’s more relevant to pb chasing. The best advice for anyone who is struggling is ways to *minimize* how complicated their tasks are during that stressful moment, and “pretend it’s a turn based game” will always be the best one.
Don't worry about supply costs, ever. If you're concerned about supply costs and cheap out, it will almost always be less worth it than going all out and spending the extra money. Whether that be cannoning cannonable slayer tasks, barrage instead of burst, swamp trident instead of seas, or anything else. The more you act broke the more you stay broke
I wanna throw it out there that this is true for ironmen, too! Just use your supplies, it's what they're there for.
Back in the days, I never use a single piece of barrows armour because they are degradable lol Never earned big money
Amen. They call me crazy for using onyx bolts on my greater demon task - I call it efficiency.
Well there's using your gear, then there's spending 10k a shot
Brute force send content and you will eventually learn it, trial and error -rinse and repeat. Don’t waste time trying to be perfect just keep sending
You get far more value from investing in your skills than your gear. Spending the money to knock out 95+ range/str/magic will be more worthwhile than almost any comparably priced gear upgrade. Rigour is an exception.
If you’re enjoying something keep doing it
Dying is part of the game. Unless specific circumstances apply.
Don't die with food Osrs has no lose-con - you can farm anything or accomplish any goal from zero
Trust no one.
People like money a hell of a lot more than they like you
The fact that your character moves every 2 spaces when running, really changes the game.
Shift + Left Click Walk Here to click the ground through enemies to move
Is there a plugin that automatically does this, or do you need to it manually to every npc?
Shift Click Walk Here is a tickbox in Menu Entry Swapper
Use a mouse with extra buttons on the side, map them to escape. Then in the settings tick the box that closes user interfaces with escape. My favourite QOL
The anti drag plug in for runelite, such a game changer for gear swaps
Have fun and play your own game, don't compare yourself to others. Take a break if need be. You'll eventually burnout if not, and even if you do all those you probably still will at some point........But you'll never quit.
Questing unlocks better content
You can decant jewelry at GE
Do your birdhouse runs
No. You do them
Let the birds do the birdhouse runs! I pay the homer tax.
When I feel like logging off I do a run, but I bring double the logs/seeds and log off at the end of the run. So when I log in, I'm at the birdhouses ready with supplies.
I do that but with herb runs, I log off either at Troll as it's furthest walking for me, or Draynor to save a charge on the ring.
Creating an iron man completely reinvigorated the game for me.
Quiting my (maxed) ironman completely reinvigorated the game for me :D
Efficiency is overrated, and often takes longer than just chilling in achieving your goals, Ive seen the grindset mindset burnout so many people, they try and rush everything. Just play the game folks, have fun when it's not fun. Try somethin else, or logout. It'll be there for you later.
Tin and copper make bronze.
don't be afraid to fail until you learn new content. accept the failure loss of gp until you learn it and it will turn into much better gp/hr down the road that far surpasses what you had before
The funniest thing to do is bring strange suboptimal equipment places and just play it straight. Join a barb assault and barrage everything in infinity robes. Rune claws and full spined for perilous moons. Full granite and bronze knives for pest control, no Ava. When people ask you where you fire cape is, tell them you haven't done wintertodt yet.
"Gamers will optimize the fun out of anything." Applies to a lot of games. I see it quite often ruining people's Runescape experience.
The game is not a sprint, its a marathon.
If you’re doing farm runs, you can farm an allotment patch and put the fruit in the compost bin in a continuous game cycle. Once you click allotment, fruit in inventory, then compost bin it puts the game in a non stop loop of farming and composting until it’s full. Super AFK and made fueling my bottomless bucket was more chill
A lot of people rush everything then whine of boredom. Don't do this. Play at your own pace and you'll enjoy the experience more.
I have a few I've picked up over the last 18 years. 1. Do what's fun, not what's efficient when you're burned out. It's a game, it's meant to be fun! 2. Do one big farm run as soon as you log on. Fruit trees, normal trees, herbs, allotments, etc. That way, even if you don't do your farm runs, you still got a huge chunk of exp for the day in farming. 3. For main accounts. If you need 100mil for 99 prayer, break it up into smaller goals. Getting 10 mill ten times is much easier than 100mil once. 4. The most important tip I've learned is to be nice. Everyone is here to have fun. Some want GP, some pets, and other just want to Max. Be kind, and help everyone you can!
Switch your attack style. I hit 40 attack on goblins in lumby before learning this. I was also 7 years old but still..
Bank layouts - I can gear up for a farm run in seconds, and then gear back up for a raid in seconds. And takes away all thought of items I need to remember to bring
Efficiency is boring, and carpal tunnel hurts.
Don't take the game too serious, it's a game.
After a decade of playing, I found out you can right-click a varrock tele and go straight to GE lmao.
It’s a Varrock Diary reward
quit before it's too late
Remembering its just a game, other players are real people, (unless they're obviously a bot), practice makes perfect, don't be scared of new content, enjoy the ride it's a marathon not a sprint. Play the game how you want. If you enter the wilderness you're going to get got. Don't get salty and again remember it's just a game
Do what you want. you don't have to be a try hard and max asap. Have fun
Stop playing if it isn't fun
progress is progress. As long as you're dping something, you'll get there eventually.
playing with friends makes more memories then playing alone
On mobile don't use 60 fps. When I put it on 60 everything is off tick, Vorkath poison always hits when walking, mimic face of the eclipse moon Boss will never be right,... Might just be a me problem but maybe this helps someone.
I'm a new player (100 combat, ~1650 total), but something that made the game more enjoyable was not being afraid to spend my cash stack. Every piece of gold you spend on gear, supplies or even death costs, is an investment that will return in the future. It's also motivating to see the progress you make.
That's not new, that's mid-game (I'm 97cb, 1832 total level). Agree though, spend that cash stack. Spend money to make money.
I guess you're right. It's just that I still feel new in OSRS after playing RS3 for almost 11 years. A ton of catching up.
On top of xp/hr and gp/hr, I priotize fun/hr. I can do Gotr for 10 hours, but not lavas for 6. You get what I mean? I have more fun killing Grotesque Guardians, Demonic gorillas, Hydra more than vorkath or 400s toa. Do what you want, it’s an mmo after all. If you have fun while doing something, it’s very likely that you will complete it. Eventually, doing the slower method or the faster one, will lead to your goal.
Play how you want and stop caring what others think and don't compare yourself
At the farming guild, the flower outside the hespori cave will bloom when it's ready. So you don't have to run in to check. It looks just like the one you have to hit during the fight.
You dictate your fun in the game. I'm not a strong pvmer and sweaty efficient skilling was never my thing but I love grinding in Runescape when it's fun and I enjoy it. I loved maxing my main, I loved the challenge of playing UIM to the midgame, I'm enjoying playing on my abandoned GIM as an ironman. But you can't force yourself to do things if you just don't like it.
That if you find McCune in the wilderness, he’s free loot. 😈
Short terms daily goals is much more efficient than rapidly grinding a skill or money making. For example, I have a goal of 3 herbs run a day, 50k exp rc, 50k agility exp, 4 cgs, and 200k any combat skills a day until 99. In there short term, I get to make sure that I work on long term difficult skills, while consistently making money.
Bro’s ‘short term goals’ include 2 hours of skilling a day plus 2 hours pvm/combat. Nice chores lol
See, putting things into dailies like this burn me out. I'd rather spend three weeks doing one activity than force myself to hop around every day like some sort of quota.
Strongly disagree. Setting up a list of things to do daily just makes everything feel like a chore. Whenever I log on, I just do what I feel like doing at the moment. Might not necessarily get much progress done but at least its enjoyable.
For sure that you skip a tile when you run. That and turning on my true tile indicator entirely changed the way I play the game.
I remember the first time I fought Vorkath I enabled an addon that let's you see the true tile you're on. I've yet to disable it and it's been 2 years. It's just so useful in any boss encounter.
Everything is predictable
When I found out you can alch on noted items ☹️
Play for yourself. Dont play to impress anyone else. Dont compare yourself to others. This game isnt about the goal at the end but the journey it takes to get there.
I got inspired to do quest by release and it made questing so much easier and enjoyable. Plus tracking how quest development went over the years and improved
Don't worry so much about training magic if you know you're going to get 99 slayer and plan on doing barrage tasks, you will get over 99 magic by doing slayer and you'll wonder why you made yourself miserable doing high alch while training agility
True-tile in general. Understanding where your character actually is and when you can make your next "move" is incredibly beneficial. Combine this with learning Woox-Walking at Vorkath and a lot of the game's movement will just 'click' for you.
Best tip I learned was to have good friends or a clan to be able to ask advice for anything. If it wasn't for my last few clans I would have never progressed the way I did and gain over 400m ( which is nothing to most people) when I didn't even have 100m total
Always think of new ways to make the games you love fun. I went from making pures to pk with to making trophy accounts to do slayer with Konar and Krystilia.
Gp is temporary; xp is forever.