What Skills Should You Prioritize In OSRS? - Mains & Ironmen!

We all like to juggle many goals at once, but... which skills are more important to focus on? Come learn! / kaozbender_
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00:00 - Intro & Disclaimers
01:30 - Tier List Categories
02:13 - Requirements Only
04:12 - Useful Requirements
05:51 - Super Useful
07:20 - Mandatory!
08:15 - IM Requirements Only
09:24 - IM Useful Requirements
10:49 - IM Super Useful
11:48 - IM Mandatory!
14:12 - Bond Giveaway!
14:33 - Sponsors & Outro

[@Manpinkster3]

Construction is important so I can fill my house with carpet.

[@KaozOSRS]

Sorry for the "sliiiigh" delay, but you won. Contact me on Discord with a screenshot of you receiving this reply for a bond!

[@Manpinkster3]

@@KaozOSRS This has made my day!!! Thank you so much for everything you give to the community :D

[@piprod01]

The farming cape has a really useful teleport close to the bank chest in the farming guild and next to a spirit tree that you can use to get to your house. I don't have a crafting / construction cape so it serves as both for me!

[@BelugaSennah]

As far as i am concerned farming cape is the best cape

[@assasaindude]

I've said the same thing. Great 99 cape

[@sookysav7006]

My farming cape is my favourite cape ! I use it for a free tele basically anywhere :)

[@youtubeisracist890]

@@BelugaSennah 99 farming is the best

[@Th3Chuzzl3r]

Farming was my 1st 99 and I love it's teleport utility plus the bonus yield when harvesting is good as well.

[@ureyesrbleeding1]

Farming is probably my favorite skill, its just so relaxing to drop stuff to go do herb/tree runs every once and a while, helps keep the game fresh i feel. Carpet

[@KeytarArgonian]

Same I just got 99 the other day first time ever.. so good knowing any tree seeds are basically just straight profit and I just periodically pick and sell coconuts for cash.

[@TM26Slippy]

Hahah nice for me it's the opposite I can't be bothered XD

[@thedude-nf1uf]

i keep my bond up between free Staffs and growing random herbs I get from slayer tasks.

[@gregcrosby176]

Nice thing about the farming cape besides increased herbs is the unlimited teleports to farming guild gives you fast easy access to a bank and to your poh via spirit tree

[@kThund3r]

carpet I just maxed cooking and it's just one of the most calming things I've done. I think my next will be ranged as that seems to be highly important. Looking forward to the journey!

[@pSavv]

Great video man, don’t think I’ve ever seen one like this before! Very informal

[@vuew12]

Carpet: Probably most favorite/useful skill would be construction. Getting a max house so you have all the teleports and other useful things in it is by far one of my first goals ever on the account.

[@SupaBass1793]

Farming is my favorite skill not only because of the profits to be made but also the farming contract system keeps things fresh. The cape and guild are super convenient because of the spirit tree. If you have a tree in your house the cape is essentially a more accessible construction cape. Carpet

[@ArbyTV]

carpet!! honestly my favorite skill has got to be farming. i remember HATING it when i was younger but it was my second 99 ever. i love how chill the farming guild is. its so comfy and that's a big part of it being my favorite skill. i hope other skills get guilds similar to the farming guild 1 day

[@CatchThemAllTCGandCollectibles]

Carpet! Woodcutting was always my favorite as a kid. I think it was just because I could easily do it without leaving Lumbridge or Draynor, but that love brought me back to OSRS a few years ago so it's always held a special place in my heart.

[@AceTrainerMatt]

My favorite skill is fletching because it was the first skill I got to 99 back in the day and I love range gear so much! Great video! I'm surprised firemaking for Irons wasn't higher! Also, Carpet

[@darklight807]

Carpet Woodcutting: when I was a kid and I played with a friend we used to have this “lumberjack” vs “miner” thing to see who could make more gp, more often than not he would make way more than me. He stopped playing since eoc but my love for wc remains.

[@wesscoates5676]

I found WC was useful early game for one reason: canoes. If you haven't leveled mage high enough to use lumbridge, varrock, and falador teleports, you can get your wc up to 14 and make a canoe to take yourself up and down the river Lum. Making stops at lumby, the champs guild, barb village, and edgeville. And if you get it high enough to make the wakkas canoe, you can even go into deep wildy and the ferox enclave. Hell even late game, if you wanna save a couple law runes, grab your axe, whack out a canoe, and go for a ride. Best of all, this feature is even able to be used in non members.

[@vanguardjordan]

Your content is honestly so good and helpful!

[@tylermumma714]

“Carpet!” My favorite skill in f2p was cooking also my first 99! But in mems I really enjoy crafting because there’s plenty of options and lots are profitable or at least breakeven

[@saintsaudade5181]

Carpet. My favorite skill is crafting. Just the being able to make jewlery when you want it is the nicest ability to have.

[@PurityVT]

I actually always loved doing Mining when I was playing RS2, sitting in the dwarven mines for hours and hours collecting coal. Nowadays as an adult who can get membership occasionally in OSRS, I really enjoy Agility! It's super nice getting to use all the shortcuts I used to look at longingly as a kid! Thanks for the video, and carpet.

[@miciso666]

yeah benefits of 99 agil are : gracefull outfit like -10 weight. greatly increased run restore passive. even if u lose member it still works. and even works great for outrunning pkers :) a lot of shortcuts to places increasing money makers.

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Wtf lol as an adult I prefer stats I didn’t go deep into as a kid like magic & stuff but… agility?!?! Dude that’s hell. Nobody except weirdos enjoy it hahaha

[@Josepefj23lop]

As a new player, I also like a lot to train agility. Because it's for me the easiest skill to afk train and it was much funnier to discover the world and other activities speed running all the way. Just arrived to a 1k total.

[@qdcents]

As someone who is working on maxing, this video is super useful. Love the carpet brother

[@brendanburdette2940]

Love the videos, and ABSOLUTELY love and the live streams everyday. Gives me something to look forward to at work.

[@mirandaperez1462]

Carpet. Just started 3 months ago as an IronWoman, thanks for this guide Kaoz!!!

[@johnrichards5234]

I would say Construction is my favourite as it allows for POH and all the amenities like tele's, portals, roaming pets and rooms to customize how you like. Personally I prefer rooms with carpet than tile.

[@hannibal.8662]

Great video! my favorite skill is farming, requires some dedication but always pays off, got 99 multiple times on it. Also I ate carpet as a kid

[@christoph1926]

Carpet! I actually love runecrafting! I remember as a young dumb kid, I would run air runes on a f2p account for hours to slowly make enough money to get a bond! Runecrafting really helped me love Runescape, because I'm not sure if I would still play the game on and off if I never had membership before!

[@foxuss5661]

Carpet range is by far the most fun and the most useful skill. With msb and void you are almost set for all the pvm and upgrades are far cheaper and more diverse than meele. Thanks for the vids

[@SylentSav]

I've been having ALLOT of fun with Ironman, only started 2 months ago. So far my favorite skills on this journey have been construction and runecrafting. I've finally got around to setting up a chapel in my POH and it's been amazin' usin' all those saved up bones on it. My only complaint I have with my chapel is I still don't have a carpet... 😅

[@cheesywombat2661]

Carpet. Farming has always been my favorite skill. My main goal since I started playing OSRS was to have the most efficient farm run possible. Almost getting the elite mort diary for that final herb patch

[@zac2035]

My favorite skill is currently mining due to its afk ability i can do at work. Is the blinds the same shade as the carpet?

[@o0jezus0o50]

Carpet. My favorite and in my opinion one of if not the most useful skill is magic, if its pvm or making some cheeky money with H.a. or tan leather or from teleports to tele blocks, it's wide range of uses keeps it fun

[@triumphoverdeath]

"Carpet!" I always loved fishing my first 99 just came back and saw tempeross is a thing. Hella excited for that. Guide was useful ty.

[@taraphita2967]

Carpet I love slayer the most because it's useful for any kind of account, you get good drops, you level all your combat skills with it and it's a very varied skill overall.

[@miciso666]

carpet and i believe the most handy one is agility. if i could instantly do one to 99 it would be that. the time to restore run energy is greatly increased. u unlock so many shortcuts. and with that u can also get the gracefull outfit one of the best outfits for doing other skilling related tasks.

[@jesse7391]

Carpet Crafting cape is great for an easy bank if you go fill the log with clues etc, very useful and can save hours in the long run!

[@phatboymace]

Carpet- SLAYER is perhaps my favorite skill because of the variety of monsters to fight and locations to visit, GP and resources gathered, pet chance, dope 99 skill Cape, can be done with friends and it "passively" trains your combat stats!

[@100BoyEgg]

Carpet Farming, farming cape is cool and the guild is super chill. Having a boss in the basement is pretty dope. Also the spirit tree teles are amazing.

[@RickyNN]

Carpet Farming because when I first played Runescape years around 2005 or so. I hated it and saw no purpose for it but as Runescape 3 became a thing and I had to start over for osrs farming easily became one of my favorites and most helpful money makers early on. Also some how became my highest skill without me paying attention at the time

[@DieHardGamin]

Love the vidz bro keep up the good work my favorite skill has to be rune crafting because it's mind numbing oh and carpet

[@trevonharris9556]

Carpet I'd say woodcutting should be higher up as it serves as a gateway to Fletching, Firemaking (level for Wintertodt), and Construction in a sense. Not to mention it's the best looking gathering skillcape IMO.

[@diedia130]

Carpet. Back when my brother and i would play together, he would cook up everything that i caught. Because of that, Fishing still holds a special place in my skilling priorities and is my favorite (not to mention it's pretty easy/afk-able).

[@leewarren08]

Carpet. I’m a low level in all skills however I absolutely love agility training. Just afking at work, it’s so simple, and the bonuses from it are excellent

[@XZirokoX]

My favorite skill is agility, I find going around & around calming plus I hate running out of run engery & having to walk. Currently I'm taking the 'carpet' right out to Pollnivneach rooftop area!

[@DaddyHipo]

Carpet! Farming has been my favorite skill. Its really relaxing and once you have a rhythm set for yourself, it becomes really easy to do and maintain.

[@FlesterVids]

I would have to say magic is my favourite skill. It has such a wide array of extremely helpful spells, and for Ironmen I'm sure high alch is highly appreciated. Aand carpet

[@Waakz]

carpet. Favorite would be construction on how useful it is having all the teles and perks in one tele

[@tylarheidrick6096]

Magic is definitely my favorite skill. Mostly cause alching is easy to do and lunar spellbooks makes my training for certain skills fly fast like that magic carpet in the desert

[@OneManFlashMob182]

Hope your future videos have more Ironman and carpet content!

[@KeytarArgonian]

Carpet, it’s got to be farming. I just got 99 this week for the first time ever! So happy to see some total profit from tree seeds, Yanillian hops and coconuts! No pet though, but can’t get em all.. unless you’re a streamer 😉

[@Arkegox]

Slayer has gotta be my favorite! Taking that magic carpet ride to Khalphite caves always makes me excited

[@duckdictator6531]

Carpet I’ve been doing a pretty good job on my iron. Except for herblore, crafting and slayer… Just realized it when I hit 250 tithe farm points and couldn’t buy the herb sack. I do not have nearly enough herbs to get 58. Time to aggressively do diaries, I guess?

[@speedracer642]

Great video! Love me some of that Carpet.

[@barstokians365]

Carpet Farming has been so useful for me, mainly since herb runs have been the easiest thing to fit into my busy life so I can still make money over and above maintaining a bond.

[@JonoTaku]

10/10 video as usual :) Thank you!

[@BenessGaming]

Carpet! Farming is one of those skills I could never be bothered with. But now that I’ve inevitably started training it, I wish I started sooner

[@blwade90]

Carpet - i don’t know that it’s the most helpful, but farming is so chill and big xp drops make it one of my favorite skills!

[@JonoTaku]

Hey @kaoz.Whats the name of your clan chat so i can join?

[@wwmeloy]

Nothing like some soft carpet… overall another great helpful video! Thank you 🙏🏼

[@WafflesYo]

i love your random efficiency videos

[@rayleetaka635]

Carpet! RC is def key skill for me which i trying to work on great vid Kaoz!

[@marcweber5800]

For some reason my favorite skill is fishing, everything I plan on doing revolves around getting the song of the elves quest done asap. I just want to sit on a carpet and wield my crystal harpoon.

[@Austin-xk6sm]

Carpet and firemaking at wintertodt. Thank you for the chance!

[@DrZiller]

Carpet Runecrafting is my favourite to train, since GotR came out, anything that has a mini game and I’m there!

[@dominickbergeron797]

My favorite carpet skill is melee for sure! All the beauty of combat without the cost of ammo or runes.

[@somegirl.x]

Carpet I'd say range cause you can basically do alot with it, along with slayer as my other favourite skill

[@Kiyuchoochoo]

I'm surprised Ultimate Ironman didn't have its own category here. I do enjoy riding magic carpets with them. I do suspect it'll have mostly the same tier list as a normal ironman. Runecrafting was my favorite skill back in 2005. It'll remains my favorite skill to this day but it's just not that feasible for an Ultimate Ironman to train early game

[@thiswontworkatall]

Carpet I reckon Slayer for the reasons you provided, you never get bored, and hitting it big on a lucky Clue Scroll is all the serotonin I need to get me through the day lmao

[@stickwicki7730]

Carpet - Woodcutting is my favorite skill due to how AFK it is to 99, and the beaver is the only skilling pet I've ever gotten :)

[@darkpitt1]

Carpet, my favorite skill is any skill I can afk to then use in raids. Probably is range though. Range feels the least clunky of the combat skills imo.

[@ShinyHunterStain]

Carpet and my favorite skill since coming back is fishing but only cause I'm F2P. I know I'm too late for the giveaway but wanted to feel included lol. Great video!

[@glanks6416]

Carpet - Farming. I just love doing the daily tree runs and hourly herb runs. Something theraputic about it!

[@Glenderneutraal]

carpet! My fav skill is magic. I love to train this because you can kill a lot of monsters with it. it's so much fun! Playing osrs after 10 years again lol :)

[@Rs4pk]

My favorite skill is range, is this goes pretty easy to train especially in pvming at vorkath while also making tons of money. However, there´s nothing better than riding a CARPET, right?

[@troywright3743]

Carpet ! My favorite skill is probably fishing just for the nostalgia of training fishing on ftp as a kid

[@cannedsquasher5923]

Favorite skill is Runecrafting, yes yes I know it is meme'd, but I actually enjoy doing it through Ourania Altar and with the addition of Guardians of the Rift it adds a decently chill method pre-bloods. I haven't hit 77 RC yet but I'm close and can't wait to have that super chill method unlocked. It is certainly not as bad as the active clicking methods in other skills forcing me to click a million times a minute just to be efficient. It can't fix my carpet though which is certainly a downside.

[@t0m1d34th]

Slayer gotta be my favourite. Love getting good drops, such as a carpet :)

[@ZeynLive]

My favorite skill is woodcutting actually, but that might be influenced by nostalgic feelings. Carpet RSN Sangara

[@Chealder]

I like to vary a lot in training skills but fishing is my favourite. Mainly because I have good memories of fishing and chatting away with my friends and random people back in 2005. I'd like it to be my first 99. Carpet!

[@busterzxd6695]

carpet My most favourite skill is Slayer. Its always a grind in the beginning but once you get to the mid/end game it becomes so useful when bossing. The drops and money are an added bonus :)

[@moe3120]

Just found this channel, subbed

[@chrissykes1805]

I don't really have a favorite skill rn cuz I'm in the grinding part of the game. But if I had to choose I would say slayer, when I was younger I want to learn to get slayer up in the 05-07 version but didn't know how to. And it always curious me on wat it was like. Carpet

[@bigglittleghockeychannel1349]

Carpet! For ironman it's gotta be slayer or herb. Great video!

[@Matic6971]

Carpet (pls just why this word in particular XD) Fav skills of mine is definitely both agility and rune crating. Agility is because of useful shortcut (and best cape emote, you can't change my mind). Rune crafting is because of the amount of gp and I could just craft them to use it later to save money

[@clcUGAlax]

Carpet Thieving is my favorite skill because it can be a great money maker without needing capital to invest up front and doesn't need much capital to train efficiently. Also it feels badass to be a master thief!!

[@mtydir]

Carpet. My number 1 skill for ironman is slayer. If you get 99, you’ll be completely set to do almost all other PVM content. You also get a decent amount of valuable resources like GP. Arguably a great skill for mains too.

[@drbinxy9433]

Carpet My favorite skill is definitely farming. Can squeeze out herbs all throughout the day even if I only have a couple minutes.

[@Lorentari]

Being able to create your own ruby and diamond bolts is quite handy as an ironman though

[@SteveDickman1]

I love the feeling of stretching out on my carpet after a long slayer session :)

[@HarryStanko9631]

Riding on carpet would be a good new skill, but imo best skill is construction as having your own house is super useful

[@zoltan9760]

Carpet Slayer is my favorite just got baskilisk jaws 123kc and 131kc first ever knight task. Also a head around 70kc

[@jamec373]

fav skill is probably slayer. finally getting to a decent level and getting that high end pvm experience + fun drops on the carpet =)

[@kingconn3348]

carpet combat skills for sure but id like to learn more about farming since ive never done it properly and always end up losing money

[@andreperez9767]

You know I'm laying down on my carpet thinking about what skill I like and i cannot think about anything else than Slayer, I find it really fun and engaging, I'm very grateful for that skill because it lets me fight things that otherwise I wouldn't even try, and unlocks really cool and profitable bosses! After gotr I have began to love runecrafting too, so I would totally put it in second place! Best wishes!

[@simonnordon8421]

Basically all skills other than firemaking are really important for ironman. If you need a couple logs or ore, there's no GE to quickly pick them up.

[@FilmXak]

I would think crafting is the one I've enjoyed just because making all the jewelry to unlock teleports was a huge goal of mine. Imagine if you could craft a magic Carpet though :O

[@pow752]

whell sir master of carpet i would say my favrought and most hated skill in osrs is agility, because it is the onily members skill that still works in free to play.

[@MoveMotivateInspire]

Farming is undoubtedly the most important skill for free maintenance of bonds. Just doing a few farm runs a day and gathering that passive gold so you don't have to pay for carpet rides.

[@BURRDAWG_]

Herbs and staffs from varrock

[@dulowy1716]

I love the carpet guardians of the rift minigame

[@ryancanipe220]

im a carpet muncher that likes hunter. for me that skill is so nostalgic as I was a kid when the skill released and I was able to train it on day one. I have so many memories of people tracking kebbits at the polar area and it was my first 99 in RS3. I primarily play my ironman on osrs and usually will dedicate a day a week to just hunting chins.

[@daviscapeosrs]

I’ve just made a bronzeman - I’m going to apply this thanks

[@yobnok]

carpet Slayer is my favorite skill now. Even though I have played RS on and off since 2008, I had never trained slayer until this year because I was a f2p player for a majority of those years. Every slayer task has me preparing different characters loadout and I have gone to so many different locations that I would have otherwise never gone to. I love how slayer is just the typical MMO quest of "Kill X enemies" but as an actual skill with progression and without the unnecessary story to it. It lets the RS quests feel meaningful instead of simply assigning you to kill a given amount of enemies like other MMOs do a lot.

[@miciso666]

if u like slayer. do you use arceus magic? to reanimate to get heaps of pray exp?

[@sgordon57xx]

Carpet and slayer. The gear and supplies you gain from slayer are insane for both normies and irons

[@vitalbuz544]

Carpet Agility is my favorite skill, I work long hours and I use rooftop courses to help me unwind for the day. I'm working on obtaining my 3rd graceful set. I want all of them.