The 10 Biggest Mistakes You Can Make in Oldschool Runescape!

[@morganhunt8051]

In the wise words of Mudkip: “playing efficiently and burning out is less efficient than playing inefficiently and enjoying yourself”

[@aidenmurphy9924]

And this is what psychologists keep trying to tell capitalists: give your employees more vacation and more pay, and they will make you richer. But capitalists don't really understand this concept LMAO Oh god please help

[@ek715]

@@aidenmurphy9924 *the US doesn't understand this concept

[@aidenmurphy9924]

@@ek715 fair enough though there's plenty of nuance to mention capitalists in general. French protests raising retirement age, British regrets of brexit, Russians realizing corruption destroyed their military, Chinese Evergrande issues, on and on. Capitalists just can't help but optimizing a single return function and don't understand why everything keeps falling apart despite "number go up" Makes me sad

[@just_limerence]

Yeah, the constant Efficiency-scape meta makes it so unfun to play. Just let me play like I did in 04 damn it

[@henriliimatainen7727]

Totally agreed

[@LPcrazy_88]

I don't often hear people talk about how loosely we define "AFK" in OSRS, and it's always made zero sense how someone could say clicking every 10 seconds is somehow AFK. Glad to see I'm not the only one who bucks this trend.

[@sk8rdman]

AKF just means low intensity. Sure, you almost never actually go away from keyboard when you're doing afk activities, but you also don't laugh out loud when you say lol. It's just become part of the nomenclature.

[@LPcrazy_88]

​@@sk8rdman But only in this game. I've played over a dozen different MMOs and in no game have I ever seen people call clicking every few seconds "AFK". I get why people say AFK because it sounds a lot better than low intensity, but it still just makes no sense. I refuse to call something AFK if it's measured in seconds of inactivity. NMZ = AFK Crabs = AFK Star Mining = AFK Wintertodt = not AFK Thieving = not AFK Fletching = not AFK

[@puff7145]

If I can get up and take a piss without losing much efficiency it's afk

[@VallianceRS]

AFK is not used literally almost anywhere in gaming. its synonymous with "idle" essentially. And its a spectrum to measure how idle / active a method is in the game. Redwoods and shooting stars? very afk. Karambwans? Afk. Cutting maples? Semi-afk. Hell i even refer to things like thieving as "black screen afk" because you can literally do them without having a monitor turned off (and could therefore, with a wireless input device / phone... walk "away from keyboard". AFK being taken absolutely literally doesn't really work for a game you can play on a phone, a device *without* a keyboard.

[@27sspider27]

It's used that way because it's a second monitor intensity they just describe it saying afk for all similar stuff you could do that with when there are activities that actually you can step away from your computer for and ones you can only really do with a second monitor or alt-tabbing

[@clockrockfork]

thank you for telling people to do what they want, not everything is efficiency people forget to enjoy what they are doing because they are so deep in efficiency

[@WhateverIwannaupload]

but i actually like efficiency that much

[@skotos5274]

he literally said play how you want noob

[@Stonecrow99]

No they shouldn't play how they want, they should be 1 ticking chins, while harpooning sharks at the same time as killing hydra, git gud

[@frejlinden407]

Yeah I trained to 71 prayer with ensouled heads, not efficient at all, just enjoyed it and fit in budget

[@Tharronis]

@@WhateverIwannaupload efficiencyscape your way to victory, then!

[@moveit124]

I just started playing about 12 days ago... and while I've been playing a ton this time around... one of the best things I did to give me a direction and motivation was using the Quest Helper Plugin using the ordering option "Optimal". Then as you get further into the quest guide you start realizing you'll need certain things to progress... a few levels in woodcutting... or a few levels in fishing... This gives you a really really long path to play the game... eventually you'll hit a wall (probably agility) but by that time you'll have a firm grasp and understanding. This was super helpful just getting me into the game because I always felt overwhelmed playing runescape - even as a super veteran MMO player.

[@Escape.Velocity]

Yes optimal quest guide helped me significantly get back into the game. If you do them mostly in order those quests will help you level the skills to do other quests with small amounts of skill grinds in between. It gives an easy layout to see what skills you should be training in between quests.

[@matthewshultz8762]

I did a new main account following the quest guide and got my cape about 30 days playtime/18 months IRL. Now I have almost everything unlocked and run around doing whatever I want with a lot of options for content

[@TheAverageGamer1]

7:21 agree 100%. Im currently in the middle of my 99 construction grind (lvl 92 rn so literally halfway done) and constantly take vorkath run breaks, fishing, mining, anything else when i feel like i dont wanna train con at that particular moment. Never lock yourself to a grind, burnout is usually what follows

[@JohnFromAccounting]

I took a break from Wintertodt to do LMS. Very fun and I beat some tough opponents.

[@TheAverageGamer1]

@@JohnFromAccounting ayyyye hz kn the wins bro

[@iOmgTom]

Technically you're over halfway done because the exp rates are better at higher levels, if that makes you feel better about it

[@TheAverageGamer1]

@iOmgTom it kinda does haha currently level 93 almost 94 but I needed to take a break😂

[@Candyman1996.e]

​@@iOmgTom mahogany table from 50 to 99 🤣🤣 No sweat

[@masterofthecontinuum]

A bond costs around 1 hour of minimum wage work. Keep that in perspective if you are grinding 15 hours ingame just to sustain your membership.

[@xPersianxKing]

I get paid 8x the cost of a bond, per hour. 😮

[@tomjaap2933]

@@xPersianxKing you really feel the need to post that?

[@xPersianxKing]

@@tomjaap2933 I did the math wrong, it’s more like 5x lol

[@exantiuse497]

That is the curse that bonds/any MTX brings to the game. If you're middle-income or above in a 1st world country, grinding for money is made completely nonsensical from efficency POV because almost any money maker in-game is inferior to working extra hours IRL and using the credit card skill. I don't do it, even though I have the disposable income for it, but if I was a more efficiency minded player I would definitely be tempted to

[@Daryl.Guzman]

Pin this, 100% agree. Why waste 15 hours on bond when it is only 15 minutes of a check to buy a full month instead of 14 days.

[@sylvariatzaka]

Slow and steady wins the race. I hated mining/runecrafting so I did shooting stars and zeah runecrafting all the way to 99. It took ages, but because I didn't hate doing the content (since it was so afk/easy), I was able to reach my goal. Efficiency is pointless if you only want to do it for 30 minutes or 1 day before giving up. Know yourself and your limits.

[@SetariM]

Yeah I recently remembered star mining is a thing, along with Motherlode mine. It's so much easier to do while doing other stuff IRL while still making progress toward a 99. Plus with Motherlode mine you're basically guaranteed to make money/resources so it's pretty nice, and mildly afk. Not as afk as stars but still.

[@everbeenzen]

Dude zeah is not afk. You get like 30 second breaks. That's not afk.

[@sylvariatzaka]

@@everbeenzen How does it feel to be so argumentative that you don't have friends?

[@sylvariatzaka]

@@SetariM Gosh motherload mine gave me ebola, not near as afk as I would like for a long skill like mining. Was a big no from me!

[@Isaac-ul8yz]

the AFK method has helped me so much. Ill AFK while im doing something that doesn't require my full attention, and when I want to focus on the game ill do a high xp high attention method and it feels fulfilling getting a level up after a few hours and I dont get burned as easily. the XP adds up slowly but surely.

[@Veltree]

I hopped back into the game recently after ~10 years and have been loving it. End goal is the quest cape I think but I’m gonna take my time just enjoying unlocking new content I haven’t seen before.

[@mcul3474]

Same my man.

[@xPersianxKing]

I would make the achievement diary cape your end goal, quest cape is very easily achievable in 2024.

[@isthisit781]

​@xPersianxKing why are you like that? The op set a resonably long endgame and it wasn't good enough for you. Don't be a douche. Some people like to take it easy. Who knows, by the time he get the quest cape he may set another goal.

[@ivycutler1907]

Good luck getting your quest capes.. I had one back in the RS2 days. ..Hurt like hell every time Jagex made a new quest! If I were to go back to playing OSRS I'd probably try for achievement cape.. 🌹

[@bhackaa]

Me hiding my Rapier after watching this.. Bro, your videos are generally full of great advice, but the comments are LOADED with great advice. Love the feedback you get on this channel. The community is awesome. Agree w AFK methods, I'm nearing base 80 on all combat stats via AFK training, and I plan to AFK Runecraft and Mining for sure. I will say I am HARD leveling Construction to 86 to be able to fill out a house because I feel like the value is so there. 81 now 💪. However, I'm doing Mahogany Homes because the standard construction leveling is mind-numbing to me and outrageously expensive.

[@MagicalShotgun]

I remember keeping Krakens blocked because every guide said they were awful slayer xp/hr but when I tried them on a lark once I was blown away by how chill the kraken boss was and I have over 2k kills on him now, I definitely got a lot more xp out of them than I did a lot of the more commonly seen 'efficient' tasks just because it was easier for me to toss a fishing explosive than to focus on higher intensity barraging methods at the time. Great guide and I'll definitely be showing this to people if they ask me for rs tips for newbies

[@Luis-od5on]

Yeah a lot of the "efficient" tips people throw around are pretty dumb and usually stem from very old suggestions before we had more knowledge or before QOL updates. Another example is people saying to block dark bests, it's actually a very chill task

[@stickyfrog1337]

Yeah I made my own table to personally rate each slayer task out of 10 for loot, xp and difficulty. I block/skip the ones with low overall scores and slayer is far more enjoyable.

[@LordSadCat]

I saw that too since I made some room on my block list and I saw people skip Krakens. I'm not that slayer lvl yet but I got the pet on leagues and I want it on my iron, so cute during xmas time.

[@pomey13]

I thought people say to skip krakens because you'd rather get the boss task rather than just normal krakens. Blocking them doesn't block the boss task.

[@Noxlion28]

Great video! Even as a max combat player I didn't realize Dark Crabs heal the same as Mantas. I also agree that I have way more fun playing inefficiently than efficiently.

[@ibenzu]

0:30 over 6000 hours on my main and still not maxed. I love playing inefficiently.

[@Can_i_getahooyea]

6k hours 😳😳😳

[@Kainraa]

The last tip really hit home. I had 99 cooking banked in wines for the longest time but I can't tolerate bankstanding activities where I have to constantly be clicking. I really wanted my first ever 99 but couldn't bring myself to do it. Then one day my friend goes "dude just cook sharks". Got my first ever 99 and made a profit at the same time!

[@2freshhobos]

This video came at a perfect time for me! just started yesterday and i'm pretty addicted. Thanks for this!

[@redheater101]

I loved early questing in my account, helped me level up so much snd really sped up the early game. To be honest, i hardly ever skilled, just a few random levels for a quest requirement. By the time i got my quest cape, most of my skills were 70 or higher, and I had access to most of the game.

[@CaelenSawyers]

A note on the manta ray/dark crab comparison... Dark crabs weigh less than mantas, granted only 0.05kg less but still this does actually make them better than mantas as well.

[@mahaok1]

This is a really interesting video because all of this mistakes you can learn by either A. Playing an ironman where you literally wont be allowed to make them or B. Not pretending to be a (or copying) a popular yter who gets paid to play this game. I just think its neat that a lot of the common mistakes people seem to make comes down to them just 1 for 1 copying what they see and not taking the time to understand why those things work

[@SpyritekXR]

Great advice. Ive been back on for about 3months.. 60+ stats across the board (other than my two lvl1s 😂) and ive been really enjoying after so many years of not playing. Definitely choose fun over efficiency.. you will still get there.

[@jat2319]

Thanks for the content. Was aerial fishing whilst watching this and just got my heron at 4m xp. Thanks :D

[@ohXerosis]

but what if im 3/4 on soulreaper axe? i have to stay at whisperer before i go anywhere else lol

[@Knightsking917]

I’m currently locked into getting a shadow myself 3 weeks in 600 kc and still not had it yet 😂

[@graxtheswampgoblinarchmage5356]

​@@Knightsking917I was pet hunting at cg a few weeks ago, felt so burnt out after 700kc with not even an enh seed. Glad I didn't go too dry on the pet though, got at the 826kc. Still no enh though

[@Knightsking917]

@@graxtheswampgoblinarchmage5356 nice nice that’s one I wana get next aswell I’m mobile only though so guna need to learn it if I can do toa surely gauntlet right? 😂

[@graxtheswampgoblinarchmage5356]

@Knightsking917 ya I'd say so, only hard part really is final phase hunllef, I'd recommend learning with t1 prep unless you have low stats, and go to corrupted once you have 30-50 kc on normal. Lots of good t1 guides out there to learn the correct prep pathing Gl on that shadow anyhow. I'm already starting to feel burnt on my new nex grind, almost at 2x rate here already with no drop, and all ffa so no profit at all yet

[@Knightsking917]

@@graxtheswampgoblinarchmage5356 yeah good idea and I’m max account so t1 should be good and don’t get me started with nex I did 2400 kc in ffa no drops it made some cash but it’s mainly covering supplies

[@iamnash]

The DPS calculator plugin is the best pvm plugin in the game, hands down.

[@TheRealNetworkz]

Bro Imo you make the absolute best content covering every subject of RuneScape. I'm a big fan!

[@weezer619]

I own pet stingrays, so for fun I absolutely refuse to purchase or eat any stingray I find. I have an entire bank tab dedicated to keeping any stingray I find in the game.

[@GuyN0ir]

They’re already dead if they’re in your bank

[@Vegcra]

In the bank locked up and not being used for their purpose because you feel bad.

[@cyan_2169]

this is adorable omg, keep it up!

[@rickastley2545]

Wow so noble protecting 17 year old pixels

[@Prushka]

@@Vegcra He just said for fun, I doubt he feels bad about some pixels in a video game

[@EastJ22]

tbf, i think the skill ceiling in runescape is so high, that end game/high skill requirement content does usually end up being like solving a math problem.

[@tomjaap2933]

it's not high, it is not a competitive game at all

[@EastJ22]

@@tomjaap2933 tell me you've never played osrs without telling me you've never played osrs...

[@exantiuse497]

@tomjaap2933 It definitely is, don't downplay it. Especially things like certain GM combat achievements are well above the level of most players ability. The skill ceiling may not be as high in terms of raw mechanical skill as in something like Starcraft or League but the top OS players are still really really skilled

[@ryanrodgers3099]

4:12 A huge thing that helps with plugins for me is: don't have all of your plugins actually *on* all of the time. Favoriting plugins that I like to turn off or change a setting for depending on what I'm doing and embracing having different "modes" for different activities has helped me a lot with keeping my screen clutter/information at reasonable levels.

[@rax1e352]

About the manta rays vs dark crabs thing, dark crabs also weigh a not insignificant amount less than manta rays, so you also use stamina slower with them, which can be quite useful in some places

[@YesIsForMe]

Needed this tbh 10/10 video, good work!

[@JSDRB]

No wonder my blue dragons were so annoying to fight during this slayer task. I was using slash. Thank you!!!! I would use magic but I am training defense up to 70 from 61. Multitasking so I can get requirements for diaries atm.

[@Mayhemzz]

You really can't overstate the importance and benefit of early questing and achievement diaries. I recently came back and decided to follow the 'optimal' quest order in Runelite and on the Wiki, and it's made such a massive improvement to the quality of life of the account.

[@jonathanhh3728]

Locking into a grind has been the thing that has made me quit the most for sure. Getting stuck on something I hate but feeling like I cant do other things efficiently without first completing this thing. On my main account it was just grinding whatever thing made me the most GP for hours and hours. I did start an Ironman last year though and its been great for breaking the monotony and making way more activities efficient and exciting!

[@Smexyman0808]

They "best-in-slot" part is the most underrated OSRS tip; this is one of the only MMOs I've played where "BIS" is only a concern if you are trying to maximize profit. I spent so much time NOT playing content thinking it was a waste of time without BIS... Sure it takes me an hour to do ToA solo with minimal invocations, but its incredibly fun AND I could get a fang!

[@jaredmorein]

Just returned a couple days ago back to osrs after about a year break and I didn't realize magic and range defenses were added for monsters! It was one of the few things I did like about RS3!

[@dvgolf9915]

I play this game for 20 years and I actually found myself enjoying the game more when I lock myself to some grind, Iam doing it like for last year and its more effective for me, I tried Zulrah for the first time and when I get my first kill I told to myself that I wont leave until blowpipe. I have done almost 600kc in 2 weeks (with 10kc/h :)) and it was quite enjoyable, or last grind was 76-92 mining, i was afking stars for like 14h a day and i was enjoying it. Mby iam weird lol, but i like it

[@demon3203]

Its not bad to do that, but sometimes people overestimate how much they're willing to do something. In fact in todays day and age people on average don't have the longest attention span. Which can easily cause you to put yourself in a bad spot. Here is a very real example that happened to me on time. I was trying to level a skill while making money. I invested nearly all my money into the skill to craft stuff for profit. Well, turns out that to craft it all into whatever it was i was doing would take me 5 hours. Which i didn't even realize that was what i was signing up for. So by the second straight hour of just doing nothing fun but crafting i was over it, but then i realized that i really couldn't do anything else until i made some money. So i kind of put myself in a weird spot of kind of needing to finish what i started so i can have money on the account again so i may buy whatever it is i need to do other things. Of course people find different things fun too. I love all things combat, i can sit and kill whatever for a long long time. Even better if its a boss and not some random enemy, but when i start doing non combat stuff i'm typically good for an hour max and then i'm over it.

[@TheRealNetworkz]

I like how you stated if your enjoying the game inefficient run it. At the end of the day we play the game to enjoy ourselves. Idc if I ever get all these skill capes, diary cape, and quest cape I just wanna have fun... With a full set of torva & tbow

[@Mikerich_94]

Good tips. I’d add train combat with slayer. Much better to level 3 skills at once than 2

[@christianspanggaard]

Afking melee is actually very worth it, especially early on, as you don't pay much attention, and it will speed up your slayer training later on. I like Shooting stars as well although I feel like the xp is a bit meh. What other 5 mins + afk activities do you guys recommend?

[@Tharronis]

It also helped me a lot in RS3 to use less efficient, slower methods that require much less attention. It takes so long to max and it's such a marathon, that being able to do something else while you make your way along is so helpful. I know I did at least one full grind while trying to catch up to One Piece from scratch, for example...

[@GamerFozzy]

I totally agree with the "Finishing a Grind" segment. I spent two weeks doing nothing but Wintertodt to get 99 firemaking and then spent another two weeks doing nothing but Guardians getting 77 Runecrafting and trust me when I tell you, it crushed me. Mentally I was done with the game but after a weeks break I came back with renewed energy but I lost out on a week of progress

[@Civ33]

investing your money into training skills and upgrading gear: ❎ Throwing your money into leveling construction and building an unnecessarily cool and expensive house: ✅

[@strongside4565]

Something I was always notorious for is not double training when it was basically free. For instance, if you are doing rooftop agi for graceful, it isn't high effort to also be making arrows or darts. There isn't a ton over overlap, but you could realistically max something like fletching without ever sitting down and just training it.

[@projectfiveunder]

On my F2P account, I'm almost 90 crafting and I've just been afk making necklaces. Doesn't even feel like I've been working on my crafting. Compare that to mining to lvl 70, where I was power mining iron, that felt super long because it was so intensive. There's a trade off between Click intensity XP Rates Enjoyment The more click intensive, the less fun it is and the better the xp. The more focused on enjoyment, the less XP but it feels like way less of a grind and IMO the levels go by faster.

[@NammiNamm95]

Man, I really agree with the questing part, came back to osrs for the first time since 2007 to a fresh character, I've been following the optimal quest guide on the wiki and damn, almost all the skills level up so much and pretty evenly, really let's you skip the early skill level grind which I remember clearly from the old days

[@brucew.7224]

I didn’t know that about the dark crab. You should do a whole video highlighting things/items like this example!

[@tomasvantilborg6437]

The way I trained a lot of my combat stats and slayer to max is max prayer bonus afk in katacombs of kourend. Just make sure the prayer bonus last longer than the aggro timer and you're golden. You don't need to worry about clicking every 10 minutes, because the monster aggro will be over before your protection prayer.

[@hendaben]

really approve this video. i think the most important part of the game is to play it like you want, not like some tryhards 1tick every single piece of content for max xp gains. questing is also important, got my quest cape around 88 or 92 combat

[@MisterBones2910]

On the subject of "try stuff before you get best in slot" I did a bunch of Barrows one week at like base 70 combat skills with a black salamander set and minimum gear swapping just for fun. Barrows is not a great moneymaker at any level these days, and I just wanted some fairly simple combat content to do that still wasn't utterly brainless like Slayer, crabs, or NMZ.

[@igooog]

Anyone who writes off NMZ because "slayer is more efficient" completely ignores the fact that NMZ is potentially a "zero time" method. I maxed my melee stats on mobile while I wouldn't be able to spend more than 10-20 seconds every 5 minutes paying attention to the game.

[@Stream-g1s]

Pretty solid points and actually good production value.

[@Rock_Appreciator]

To expand on the Manta Rays being expensive: Summer Pies also heal 22HP, you just need to click it twice. You can eat both pie halves in the same time as eating 1 piece of regular food. You can still stack it quickly with karambs or pots like normal. It's like 800-900gp a pie usually. As an added benefit, it gives you an agility boost and restores run energy as well. One of the best foods in the game. Use it everywhere but the most intense bosses, even then sometimes I bring a handful in addition to anglers etc... to avoid needing a stamina

[@oscargonzalez3134]

Can you make a video analyzing the 3rd age prices? The "cheap" ones seem to be going wild

[@ElizabethMm315855]

3a is osrs crypto. I wouldn't bother.

[@xPersianxKing]

3a is also fashionscape, so when it’s the wrong season it’s super cheap, summer months bring an increase to 3a melee that’s why it’s up rn, check again in the holiday period.

[@miranda2421r]

You're so right! There are much cheaper options for the exact same or slightly less efficient items. That's why gear advice always annoys me. They usually just show the fancy expensive item or bis. And I end up having never even heard of the alternative. I'm just very fortunate my husband knows almost all of that by heart.

[@tempo9641]

This is a great vid, especially love the point about the gear investment. I still want a bandos chest plate cuz it looks so cool but it was better to hold off considering the price. Better to put towards that next level weapon or into skilling to help with quests etc, looking as cool as everyone else is not necessary

[@matthew5226]

OSRS has such a fond place in my heart. I don't have a main, I've almost never gotten a skill past 70, I keep abandoning accounts, I've barely seen a fraction of the stuff in this game... and my most recent hiatus lasted almost 7 years. But I always come back. I love this game as much as I did when I was a kid and I booted up the original noodle graphics rs. I've noticed that when I burnout and stop playing for years it is usually because I get stuck in moneymaking>ge>skilling grind loops, doing familiar content, and reading guides. So this time, I am running around on an ironman with no guides focusing on quests, exploration, and talking to every named npc. Some runescape quests make no fucking sense unless you are a lunatic. I'm having a lot of fun

[@Mastabacc]

7:34 I had to do that for woodcutting. I actually prefer it, because I leveled it so fast within 2 weeks. going from 65 to 97. Being in the forestry area reminded me of barb fishing with the community. But most of the time I was either working or playing WoW while lvling WC. Even made about 20 mil from all the sticks I sold

[@danbill9165]

Great video , we have a GiM and ultimately if you like doing something do it , I also think doing things without best in slot is great advice , we’ve gone for bosses to try them but also got the combat achievements on the way , I think working to diaries is a nice varied content goal - skills and quests and different locations

[@humongofrog]

2:46 YOU MEAN I WAS MANUALLY PUTTING IN EVERY PIECE OF GEAR WHEN I COULD HAVE JUST CLICKED THIS BUTTON????? Where was this piece of info for the last 200 slayer tasks?

[@Wutertheodds]

One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made was competing with another player on who can undercut each other on selling Wilderness crabs teleports. Every 5 minutes an undercut would happen. Eventually, after 50 price changes, I finally made the mistake of setting price to 1 instead of quantity and sold my entire stack of teleports for a loss of 130m. My Average sell price was like 7k and they were 40k each

[@TehranScapeOSRS]

OMG 😭😭😭😭

[@TheAverageGamer1]

​@@TehranScapeOSRS rip

[@mikeyblaze]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[@Stoff_Rocks_Packs]

100% agree on the plugins. People be having so much things on the screen they can't even tell whats going on

[@Zirapgaming]

About trying with lower gear and not waiting for bis, its such a good tip, i did toa on my ironman with like rcb and stuff, while people i talked with said i NEED a bowfa. Sure i did not do super high lvl toa, but i genuinelly had alot of fun doing it 😁

[@MicahMosier-n9u]

11:34 the bond thing is so true. My first year playing os i used bonds and at the end of that year i realized id spent about 90m on bonds and my bank was only 120m. Obviously i wasnt super efficient with money but it felt like all i was doing in the game was training a bit to unlock moneymakers that are just a little bit better than my previous and with bonds always going up the marginal increase was making little difference in account progression. I wound up going to sand casino, making 500m or so then leaving before quitting and giving my bank away. I came back a year ago strictly paying for mems with irl gp and bank went from 0 to 480m in the last year without gambling. So not constantly stressing bonds has helped my account progression so much

[@TheToMiToX]

You can also left click the world icon on your minimap and it has a "DPS " option which will also pull out the DPS wiki without having to open equipment window.

[@Frogf1sh]

Wow great advice! Took me years to learn all of this. Will send it to a friend of mine who's in the early game

[@uberwarlocker]

The most plugin clutter I've ever had on screen was npc highlighting vardorvis' swangin axes, his head and vardorvis himself. Also, i would like to add to your gear upgrades tip: Check the dps calc, sometimes a fighter torso and serp helm has the same dps output as a torva plate body and legs.

[@ArneyO7]

I recently started afking skills like fish, wc, and mining while I'm doing things irl like cooking, cleaning, folding laundry etc with focused notifications in runelite. I'm almost base 90s in the gathering skills now because of it. I used to hate them because of boredom but now I don't mind them

[@zin.nesis1]

I actually saw a lot of use of quests also because as you do more difficult ones, you also need to train up your skills. I am a person who needs a goal, not just train them for trainings sake, so I had a smaller goal of gaining the levels for quests. Next came the achievement diaries, which include not only skills requirements, but also other things. That`s just me. But I have the Achievement cape and also the music cape, of course also the quest cape, and I liked the way game played by doing this.

[@derekwalker4622]

Good tips. Learned some new stuff. Thanks!

[@O_BRIZZLE]

Love your videos especially the ones where you provide great insight. Hopefully some people step their game up!!

[@slithery9291]

As a relatively new player I absolutely love this video.

[@ShortenMonteCristo]

your videos are so good man, subbed

[@gamingguru2k6]

Like you said, It's more important to have fun than play efficiently. I can appreciate the advice anyway.

[@kingjaries]

I definitely recommend creating an alternate account for gathering resources, making extra gp, or playing the game differently from a main account

[@pr3ts3l]

8:00 If you have boots of lightness, you can skip that slot until you have the rest of the set

[@birdenthusiast5421]

You're absolutely right that expensive gear makes little difference until the late game, but consider the following: fashionscape

[@jake8748]

For things like graceful grind I went and got the alternatives in a few slots too, boots of lightness and the cape from hunter. Then id do a few laps at course as I went by them doing other things. Canifis for slayer master/clues/quests, run 5-20 laps. Later teleport to Seers for my banking around runs etc, run laps until I get 2 or 3 marks. Also noticed I often had more marks per laps doing it this way. If i kept grinding laps at times fir seers it was 1 mark per 5ish laps. But my first lap after not doing any for a day often dropped a mark so I'd only do 2. I almost always stopped right after getting a mark so it was noticeable. I also do alot of combined training. I would chop willows and fletch my inventory to long bows, then bank them. Rather than chop 5k logs, then bankstand 5k logs. In total it should be around the same time investment for both skills it broke up the grind. I mixed that with agility in seers too. Run lap, vheck collection log to see if mark spawned, if not chop yews and fletch into bows, bank and do another lap to get back to yew trees.

[@donsolos]

Wow that's smart. I didnt know you could check collection log like that to see if Mark's of grace spawned. Do you have to be in the area I'm assuming for this to work?

[@donsolos]

But yeah Mark's of grace are a timing thing, the game isnt rolling for a mark of grace every lap. I saw a video explaining you can get extra Mark's of grace by stalling out for 30 seconds at specific times

[@jake8748]

@@donsolos so the spawn trigger is when you complete the final obstacle. It either spawns or doesn't. So if you keep count and watch that log screen you can see if it spawned, and do another lap to collect it. If not you know you can do something else or log off etc without losing 1. And yeah, I thought originally it was rolling each final obstacle. But after doing it my way I actually think it might have some internal timers too to prevent lucky streaks or something. So doing sporadic runs seems to have saved me laps to get full graceful (IIRC I did about 650-750 total laps between canifis , fally, varrock and seers). But anytime I did a solid lot of laps I averaged out to closer to 3 or 4 laps per mark.

[@donsolos]

@@jake8748 the video I watched said something about specific timing moments every hour. Something about 6 minute intervals I think, i cant remember.

[@jake8748]

@@donsolos could be. Lots of things in the game run off tick clocks like farming or fight cave rotations etc. Could be an internal timer of say 3mins and then a high rate to spawn per lap after that. So canifis was about 80ish laps per hour, and 18/19 marks, or roughly one ever 4 laps which was about 3mins or slightly less per 4. Seers was about 70 laps per hour and 14/15 marks per hour, so also roughly 1 per 4-5 laps which was a little more than canifis times. So if it's an internal timer (well prior to the last update) of say 3mins, you could do 4ish laps in canifis easily meaning you could trigger it on a steady rate, but seers was slightly longer per lap so it might not trigger until an extra lap was run. Whereas when I took a break the timer was reset for when I went back. Idk, I just know doing 850 laps of canifis would have killed me with how boring it is lol.

[@ChiefZumakalis]

I would love to play with this guy or SmallExpLamp.. yall both seem so chill

[@Jovan-UK]

Quite a decent guide for new players!

[@Cursedone12]

I feel like it should be mentioned, if you put on full guthans and the correct bosses, you just need to leave something on your spacebar for 6 hours of full afk NMZ

[@bohemiancasanova5538]

This is a great list. Very new player should watch this, even experienced players actually with their 99 grinds that take their life away 😅😂

[@24kMason]

This reminded me I haven’t gone back to get the rest of my graceful set 💀 been killing nex and doing raids haven’t even noticed.

[@NuculearFallout1]

I’ve been playing this game on and off for more than a decade and I play completely inefficiently and love it lol

[@yellowflash5555]

I've barely done quest and went to combat skills lol some skilling 😂😂😂

[@Mythikal13]

I feel like you could have spent this whole video just explaining how yo understand the wiki, I've thought about it. There's a lot and it's overwhelming especially when strategies n gear for bosses and stuff are more of a suggestion than a hard requirement. Also 5:15 good skill to start ASAP is farming. It will carry you through the mid game combined with a decent herblore level. You'll find yourself not spending a lot on potions which is a huge gp save, also is constantly gaining you xp

[@sagebauer1077]

Making your own potions is generally a loss of gp...

[@Mythikal13]

@@sagebauer1077 if you go from seed to potion you're at least breaking even most of the time, or even just making less profit for herblore xp and supplies, and I'd start at least at prayer pots. It's definitely not worth with most of the other potions. I've been doing prayer pots, brews, and restores and it never really sinks into my cash stack. I even sell extra potions sometimes because it can build up depending what content you're doing. Sold like 200 prayer pots a while ago for 2 mil just that I built up and still had 100 left over, I made them all myself from snapegrass seeds and ranarr seeds. It only cost like 40k to get 35k-100k of prayer pots from 3 Snape grass (5k each) and 1 ranarr seed (25k). And you'd even have extra Snape grass that usually makes up the difference. I think there's some value to somewhat iron-maining your account lol

[@zeph6182]

I can do those medium grinds (like graceful) pretty easily, but man when you start trying to do 100+ hour grinds you’d be insane not to break it up and play a fun minigame or something

[@Excal111]

While I really shouldve done more questing awhile ago, Ive been getting into it more recently and actually been having fun even if the rewards (exp wise) havnt been phenomenal for my levels. I do still find that I lean towards more AFK stuff so I can watch a movie or play another game at the same time, usually AFKing combat with either sand crabs or more recently Sulphur Naguas. Not 100% sure what im doing wrong with NMZ, but im getting about the same amount of exp there as I am at Naguas (75-90k/hr ish) when it should be more from what im hearing. When it comes to AFK stuff, I always define it as having a long enough time between interactions I can get up away from my computer to actually do something like cook food or something else

[@shermj7439]

Doing things in chunks and not locking yourself to one grind is the best advise tbh reduces burn out

[@0x0rOSRS]

Flipping Old School still bringing out banging content ❤

[@tothepast]

5:50 back when you could hustle for bonds I preferred the lower xp for higher money.

[@brentmabey3181]

Fr the advice to let yourself take breaks from whatever you're grinding and do other things is huge. I tried to grind out exp/gp at the blast furnace all at once and got burnt out after like 2-3 hours of it, and stopped levelling smithing altogether. Then i realized i could just do it for 30-45 minutes at a time and do herb/birdhouse runs or a couple slayer tasks before going back and suddenly I'm level 93 without hating my life 😅

[@Jimmyvdpost]

People play with too many plugins!!! Thanks for highlighting that!

[@noThankyou-g5c]

9:50 the real cheat code is sea turtles. theyre 1hp less than mantas/crabs but cost closer to a shark than even crabs. most set ups where u bring turtles instead of dark crabs youre losing like 8-10 hp and saving a few k in supplies per trip. usually around 200-400k per 1k food. theres some places where that 1hp difference rlly matters but at most places, not so much Also wyvern bones are always cheaper than dragon bones. even though they are functionally the same and there's less of them in the games

[@Jordan-dg8tp]

One thing I should mention is that best exp per hour should be sometimes considered if you have a good way to make money: Just an example: -Lose 2m an hour, but gain 200k exp an hour -Gain 200k an hour, but gain 60k exp an hour If you did each for 3 hours, you lose 6m gp and gain 600k xp for option one and gain 600kgp and 180k exp for option two. Assuming you trained the same way for option 2, in order to get the same xp, you would need to train for an additional 7 hours (and gain 1.4m in the process) to get the same xp as the other method. All things considered, if you can earn more than 8m gp in 7 hours, it actually is more time effective to LOSE money, then make it back, than train slower while always making money. Sometimes quicker is better if you can make decent money! Don't always worry about spending gp to progress your account - especially on things like prayer where they are always unlocked once done.

[@aidenmurphy9924]

As someone who stopped playing in 2007, a lot of these things I'm learning for the first time. I've spent the last year getting all skills to level 75 and knew none of this. I end up playing the way I remember and that often times means I'm doing things in inefficient, expensive, or time-consuming ways that I didn't realize could be fixed...

[@Georgehalasghost]

Great informative video, but theres somthing about dressing like a noob and doing things inefficiently at first is why i had so much fun with this game in 2004!

[@yournamethere123]

When it comes to plugins, if it’s something I can see on the screen I keep it to a minimum, but stuff that modifies right clicks and just makes the game operate better the more the merrier

[@pony3127]

So many players need this video

[@EpicWin1337]

I remember when just buying your daily staves would sustain a bond from the final varrock diary

[@hamzahussain7794]

Another tip I wanna add is try to do a little bit of agility training here and there. Yes its a dogshit skill to train but don't ignore it because over half the game consists of running to places and you wanna have the best run possible. Also it unlocks a ton of shortcuts that save you so much time especially for slayer areas. Get some movies/shows/anime and get that agility up. You will be glad you did later on

[@Zaelize]

Pro tip!!!!! NMZ can be asked for 6 hour log out. Wear full justy with DFS and fang or whatever weapon blood fury if money isn’t an issue but not needed your defense is stupid high you set it up for regular rumble not hard custom and will make like 60-80kxp/h and just rack up a lot of points to be used daily on herbs for 100-300k free and you get xp while you sleep. Set something heavy on your arrow key and go to work or bed and it will log you out after 6 hours since they cannot prove it is not you holding the key down manually and they can see its manual input so it is not breaking the rules my entire clan does it once I figured it out.

[@dominater5]

I tried this and it logged me out after 20 minutes, holding a key doesn't stop logs

[@Zaelize]

@@dominater5 it still works… are you using a cheap 10$ keyboard? Or applying enough weight with auto retaliate on? And did you set your auto loggout to off????

[@dominater5]

@@Zaelize how do you change auto log out?

[@Zaelize]

@@dominater5 should be in the runelite settings

[@yy0]

10:40 as a kid, this is the biggest turn-off i have with the game. my parents wont buy me membership for obvious reasons and that's the only option since f2p money makers are even worse. So in the two weeks I can maybe make 15 mil but not or barely progress my account.

[@bhackaa]

Mow some lawns, kid. Ask your parents how you can EARN the money for membership rather than asking them to buy it for you.

[@yy0]

@@bhackaa yeah i could, definitely not from my parents but maybe with my neighbours

[@sam5734]

DPS is sometimes not the best stat, though agreed it mostly is. Some bosses will say that the fang is better dps, while not accounting for your attack speed vs the boss. Having a 4 tick can allow you to hit twice and then step under, getting two hits for one of th boss, whereas a 5 tick might be 1:1