Is Runescape: Old School worth playing in 2026?
that depends on whether you believe you were assigned the wrong gender at birth
>>747077064It's a pretty welcoming community then?
>>747077012If you need something chill to waste your time, it does the job, but don't expect a AAA experience.
>>747077012hell yea
>>747077012Only if you have nostalgia for RS2
>>747077012yes
>>747077427>but don't expect a AAA experience.Don't expect a walking simulator movie game?
>>747077582theres no nostalgia for playing this, its a literal different game
>>747077967f2p is pretty much the same game as back then, if you ignore the bull cum quest
fuck no, you'll be player singleplayer for 90% of your entire playthroughthe incentives to play mmorpgs died and now they are just worse singleplayer games
For me, it's Vampyriumhttps://youtu.be/A_NmnlH7Yxw
>>747078180indie devs could make bank by making a single player rpg as deep as runescap, but not a single good one has been made yet. just take tibia graphics and mix it with runescape quests and lore.
>>747077012no combat is shit. It's only good if you want to watch a tv series and game at the same time. Just play an arpg and actually have fun
>>747077012nah maybe in bursts but its 90% botswoke reddit mod jmodsand ironman pandering out the ass
>>747078615Shame it takes far too much effort to get here, I’ve stopped caring now
>>747078797>expecting players to play the game without Runelitekek nice onethe community would realize how boring the fucking game is if they didn't have a plugin telling them where to click next
its fun for a bit, depends how much you enjoy the interface/art style but it has an ok free trial
>>747079193it doesnt have to be janky like runescape, thats the part the devs would have to study and figure out to make it fun
>>747079778i mean, then you are not playing runescapeunless you mean the skill systemi think OSRS is fun is just that it doesn't have the players, no one talks, i rarely run into someone and when they do it's either a tranny or someone obsessed with politics
yeah its always worth playing
>>747077012Runescape is a clicker game from the early 2000s that requires zero skill except investing 10,000 hours into beating. If you want something that is essentially a fidget spinner whilst you watch anime or whatever then its fine but it’s not interesting enough to “play” in the traditional sense
buying gf
early game is fun, mid game is mostly tedious grinding slop and the end game is fun
>>747081197levels 50-75 are so fucking soul sucking, i'm stuck on levle 50 sailing because all methods are so fucking boring and i can't just keep doing the trials
>>747077012play the jeet vibecoded osrs clone instead
>>747081264you can do salvaging and click like once every 20 minutes
I would resub if you could create like 3 chars per account. $30 a month to play a main + iron man is insane. At the very least iron man should be discounted or something
>>747081854i have a tolerance for boredom but that's legitimately too boring, even if you do it as a side activity
>>747078615BMR was such a smelly pile of shithonestly a huge waste of dev time, nu runescape devs cannot >into style or substanceall they care about is "aura farming" and turning the game into a 1:1 copy paste of path of exile 2
>>747077012no and osrs isn't old runescape anymore
>>747084882>turning the game into a 1:1 copy paste of path of exile 2Could you elaborate? I think that's the first time I've heard that.Is it because of the dumb skilltree from the last leagues?
my maxed iron got hacked last year and greatest thing to ever happen to me. good fucking bye after 22 years
>>747077012Do we just have daily OSRS threads now because you guys don't want to go to the /vg/ general? If so I don't blame you.
>>747078797You're just describing Elin.
>>747086115>skill tree>yama boss design has a billion floor effects>doom covers you screen in garbage all the time and spams instant kill one shot attacks at you>oathplate looks like a rejected PoE mtx skinthey even copy "being in beta" because nothing has come out tested in over a year and all of it is consistently riddled with game breaking bugsor they'll just conveniently forget to do basic math on stuff before they release it and have to go "whoops, we didnt realize you could smith these stackable items without having to bank" and then fucking obliterate the new method to be more bot fodderthe quality of updates has taken a nose dive since like, covid
>>747078882>Just play an arpgWhy would you single out the worst genre ever? I would rather play any version of runescape than some hold-lmb-to-kill-100-enemies game.I was actually just looking at videos of grim dawn since it's $4 on steam and it looks so fucking boring. I do not understand
the OST is really comfyare the quests comfy too? I want to do comfy stuff while talking to people
I just started playing I need to catch up on memes and lore on events that have happened like that guy who got jailed selling gold.
Old School Runescape is still a great game and a great experience, both free and paid. The quests are unique, the dialogue is funny and self aware, and traversing the world is something that gets easier the more powerful you become. They have done a great job of scaling the world and giving you reasons to pursue quests or skills that help you get around
>>747088084Quests are kind of all over the place, as they are 20 years of different people all doing their own thing. Like desert treasure was made by one guy in the corner of the office before he quit, and the rest of the team had to make something new out of the assets. Which ironically ended up being one of the best quests in the game.Overall quests are a lot different than most other MMOs. They are more like point and click stories rather than "go kill 10 pigs in the forest" type shit.
>>747086794Isn't Elin just some hardcore roguelike?
>>747088210Vital rs image
>>747088580I've never played it, but "single player runescape" is the most common comparison I've heard about it.I don't think you'll ever get a true 1 to 1 single player rs clone, it's just too much work for an indie dev.
>>747088210
>>747088834Can't believe how fast time goes
just hit 90 mining i hate this skill so much
haven't played itpost more memes and your fav themesmine is flute saladhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFgvAyJWkjU
>>747089240someday jagex will port over rs3's mining improvements
>>747089273what did they do for RS3?
>>747077012>Runescape: Old SchoolI almost had a fucking aneurysm reading that.
>>747089426rocks don't deplete anymore, you just click on them and gradually get ore based on your mining and strength levels with a couple of optional mechanics that reward you for reclicking on your rock and paying attention to the other ones. they also added a bunch of new ores but that doesn't matter
i logged in
>>747089762i mean, that's something akin to forestry i guess
>>747077012Fuck off we're fullWe don't need any more retards who don't understand that the grind is the point, who will get filtered by agility or runecrafting and then campaign on reddit to ruin the game under the pretense of 'Quality of Life'
>>747088438I like this map better because there's something very new about it compare to the old map. https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/images/Old_School_RuneScape_world_map.png?b3666
>>747090265>I suffered so they must suffer tooboomer ass mentality
>>747090265>play ironman>bitch and piss and shit and moan on reddit about how the challenge game mode is challenging>jagex ruins everything for everyone by making enemies drop stupid amounts of noted crafting matssimple as that
>>747084882can you write this post in proper english or did they not teach you that
>resub for the first time in years>just standing there minding my own business>nothing equipped>random walks up and follows me>says "noob" and runs offis this what the community has become? just a bunch of sour assholes?
>>747090349what are those islands on the SE of the map?
>>747090350>Remove the grind from grinding game>Nothing leftWow who the fuck could have guessed
I genuinly hate fucking reddit they quite literally don't understand the concept of balance, just things being easier and better.I'm glad Jagex gives em the middle finger every now and then but fuck.
>>747081264that's because Sailing is a terrible skill
>>747090470lol owned
>>747090474Either The Great Conch or the unknown island from Cursed Arpeggio that is not released yet. The Great Conch has cool trees
>>747090585>Jagex launches magic amulets which supercede BiS>Dropped by level 45 slayer mobs>Clearly a mistake, they adjust them to be the mid game upgrades over a basic magic amulet>Reddit sheds infinite tearsFucking typicalPeople need to start looking at things from a design perspective, even just a tiny bit
>>747084882Retard with no taste
>>747089991In a way, but r3 mining rocks never deplete, so you can just click a single time to get 15min afk, though the xp is total dog
>>747077012No.
>>747078615https://youtu.be/55418Cv6CJ8?si=yrP6FiaAeWHjPLUn>I don't even know your name
>>747090558if rooftop agility is your idea of a fun game then idk what to tell youhalf the grinds in the game are literally useless. what can you even do with 99 firemaking? or smithing?
>>747090474We don't know, they are currently unreachable, the sea on that part of the map does crazy damage to your ship.But I'm pretty sure it's going to be related to the pirate questline at some point.
>>747091113>what can you even do with 99 firemaking?you can do a sweet emote that drops panties in a 10 mile radius.
>>747091113Sorry that your mongoloid adhd brain doesn't understand the difference between fun and satisfactionFuck off my game, it literally isn't for you and your presence therein can only make things worse for both of us
>>747090760>supercede BiSat one fucking boss for one phasejesus christ it literally cannot get more niche than themthey are fucking pure ironman content, you have zero fucking reason to get them as a main account if you have more than fucking 400 total levelits not even like it was by a huge margin eitheryou are a fucking retard with no concept of game design if you think the elemental amulets were broken anywhere for any reason
>>747091428Okay but +6 max hits from fucking MOLANISKS is retarded+2 makes it better than a fury which is fineMaybe they can re-add the pre-nerf amulets from some future mid-level bosses
do girls play osrs? I want to grind while asking for fat booba pics
>>747091428cry more about your unpolled powercreep slop getting nerfed
>>747091503probably the one mmo girls dont play, osrs is a really malebrained type of autism
>>747077012I enjoy it but it's definitely not for everyone. You could always just try f2p and see if it interests you.
>>747091371Your incomprehensible anger and gatekeeping are exactly what I would expect from someone who has dumped 10k hours into runescape lmao. I would keep that shit to myself if I were you. You're a walking trope.
>>747091503Here's your average female osrs player
>>747091491>+6 max hitsyou are retardedshadow gets +6 max hits from occult UNIVERSALLY and less than half of one boss having a piece of design content that plays into its weakness (something not relevant at any other content outside early game fucking barrows) makes them "overpowered"mage gear in general is in a sad fucking state, the literal only gear that matters is torms, occult and weapon until you get to fucking gigamax BIS, which is only worth getting as a whole dealshadow is 800m because such a huge amount of its power is wrapped up in 200m of ancestral, and its holding back gear design more than anything else in the gamemore than fucking fang>>747091561it literally would have passed a poll, go piss yourself more faggotthe polls have always been retarded, bronzeman is a huge example of this because they grouped EVERYTHING together for some fucking reason with ZERO explanation
Finally hit 80 Slayer a few days ago and got myself a pair of Rune Boots. Mort has actually been getting me to train it again due to having some amount of choice for the tasks.Not really sure how I feel about the dog quest though. I might just be a jaded asshole, but I feel it's mostly being added for the Can You Pet the Dog pupper crowd with some reused assets from the 2024 Christmas event. And Crab Quest just feels like RS3 Duck Quest but for OSRS.
>>747091907unfortunately the game is played by mostly redditors who love the hecking puppers so expect more of that slop
>>747090948>Even if it is you who will rise and I who will fall, it does not matter. For I am right where I need to be...>Home.
>>747091897Yeah and shadow is a fucking mega rareIt's also borked, design wiseComparing it to that isn't doing it any favours
>>747091956cinema
>>747086794elin quests have no depth or british humor
>>747091113>what can you even do with 99 firemaking? or smithing?Don't do them then? Nobody else cares if you max or not so unless you want to its pointless
>>747091993the ONLY relevant comparison is shadow because that's the only thing it beats its like arguing "dragon hunter lance shouldn't beat out my heckin scythe at OLM because its a megarare!"what the fuck is the point of niche weapons if you're just gonna relegate them to mid game content, you want every weapon to be a fucking granite hammer
>>747092197Even if it isn't BiS, it's within spitting distance on a whole bunch of encounters, and that's why it shouldn't come from goddamn fucking molanisks and infernal fucking magesThat's way too accessible for what it is
>>747092164>the grinds are pointlessexcept they arentthey are hugely worthwhile, even all the way up to maxingeven the diary cape grind is insanely worthwhile because it gives you like 13 unlimited teleports in a single inventory spot and its untradableit has a close tele to bank, spirit tree, poh portal, fairy ring. its literally a budget max capemax cap is insanely fucking broken, it 100% should not have been added to the game, because it literally justifies all the hours of agility and mining
*Ahem* Jagex should make ZERO concessions to ironmen. Nobody forces you to play an ironman, just play a main and enact some self control and limit your engagement with the GE, and let ironman be the challenge it was originally meant to be.
>>747092339we're overdue for an occult upgrade by several years, but they literally fucking cant do it because of shadowthey had to specify "no shadow" on the torm bracelet upgradesall armor upgrades are fucking pointless until ancthe style is a fucking joke, it starts and ends at the shadow, and if you faggots keep whining about marginal increases to anything outside of that then it'll stay that way forever
>>747091907>Not really sure how I feel about the dog quest though. I might just be a jaded asshole, but I feel it's mostly being added for the Can You Pet the Dog pupper crowd with some reused assets from the 2024 Christmas event. And Crab Quest just feels like RS3 Duck Quest but for OSRS.I voted no to that that entire poll except for the crab quest. The dogs are pure reddit pandering, runescape is a cat game.
>>747092478Catering to ironmen inspires good design because it disincentives item fungibility. Making more content that isn't DoA because it's less gp/hour than vorkath/raids is objectively a good thing, and that is easier to do with ironman mode in mind.
>>747092478what are some concessions jagex has made to ironmen
>>747092497I don't give a fuck how 'overdue' it is, it still shouldn't come from level 45 fucking slayer mobs if it is even remotely close to best in slot.Make it come from drakes or something, fine, what the fuck ever. Molanisks? Fuck off
>>747092680you can make non fungible items without specifically catering to ironmenCG is fine content (i think the grind is a bit long considering its relative place in the meta) and its pretty anti-ironman
>>747092497I feel like Jagex has been saying "we're looking at rebalancing the shadow" for like 3 years now and they've had several opportunities to do it, but instead they just pre-nerf items like the Confliction Gauntlets to specifically exclude shadow (it also nerfs midgame people with blue moon spear btw) just to get around it
>>747092779>this makes shadowsissies piss and shit themselves in angerBiS in 2 raids and several end game bosses btw
>>747092794They can for sure, but catering to ironmen clearly makes the design juice flow easier
I'm better than you because I play ironman and you don't.
>>747092830blue moon is 100% dead contentit exists for robospear bot strategies, but there is no where in the entire game you arent using either DHW or master wand and like, a prayer book or tome of fire/water
the only thing that makes the amulet discussion fucking annoying is that its going to take jagex at minimum an entire year to finally give us some upgraded version that can actually give potential variety to gearing
>>747092945You specifically play to not interact with anybody so I will not interact with your posts
>>747092914Fine in raids because of inventory pressureOther than that, what, Vorkath? One boss? Who cares.If they released the buffed salve now it would come from a boss or a mid-high level slayer mob, and that would be fine.
>>747093157too late (;
>>747092680Catering to irons isnt bad but early game reddit irons do give them a bad name, most of them are only playing ironman because some retarded streamer told them to and they actually hate it and should be playing a main. They're stuck at gauntlet and are being filtered by babbys first grind. These type of players should not be catered to, but theyre the loud minority and Jagex are retarded.
>>747093283As a raid-doing, bowfa-having ironman, I agree.
>>747093283CG is several times longer than basically all other grinds at that levelit averages 80 hours for a mid game item (from a pretty close to end game encounter even)zulrah, tormented demons, demonic gorillas, doom 1-6s all average like 17-25 hours for their uniquesthere shouldnt be dry protection because fuck irons, but they absolutely should shorten the grind for a weapon that's not even top 5 ranged weapons in the game
Runescape is in desperate need of a clean up and reordering. 80% of the items are junk and can be deleted, same with half a dozen skills. A lot that was once useful has been overshadowed by new things and one if the two needs to go away. They should also get rid of 120s and go back to strict 99s and accept their game has an end point
how has jagex managed to convince people to pay a subscription fee for iron man accounts anyway? it's literally a single player game. wouldn't it be more enjoyable to just run the client locally and remove any lag/disconnects? or are people fine with paying $15 /mo just to "flex"?
>>747093413No.If they can't hack it then they can stick with their eclipse atlatl
>>747093413Nah bowfa is amazing and sets you up to do the hardest content in the game immediately, even if it isn't max efficiency. It shouldn't be easier to get. CG is a shit test and its good that it filters people.
>>747093465people can't let goalso, it's not a big flex compared to whats out therepeople pay absurds amount of money for jpegs and softcore porn
>>747093420Oh if we're talking RS3 then yeah there's a lot of work to be done to it. They're taking good steps but it's going to be a long and painful process before it's worth playing, and I'm not convinced that the private equity retards won't stick their dick into it and fuck everything up again, and I don't want to invest my time just for that to happen.
>>747093465Flex is important.Progressing, and knowing that everybody is on the same playing field, is what creates the sense of satisfaction
>>747092945>play 3 rights to make a left modethere is nothing in ironman mode that's harder than the base gameif you can beat jad in your main, you can beat jad in ironman, there is no fucking difference. The only thing Ironman does is make you more excited about drops that you'd usually dismiss as junk
>>747093283>They're stuck at gauntlet and are being filtered by babbys first grind.Yeah but I'm working on it
>>747093593>>747093658>the content is good but the grind is bad>you need to suffer to be allowed to play the gameit takes you less time to get an infernal once you have a bofa than it takes to get a bofa unless you literally have a learning disabilityyou basically never fail a run after the first 5-10 hours of cg, its just mindless time wasting and bloating the fuck out of your bank with alchables
>>747093967You're part of the solutionKeep on grinding
i don't think i can ever go back, Sailing was the last hurrah for me, I don't think it was bad but i had enough. I like that the skill is designed in a way that you can literally just level Sailing and you still have content without having to interact with the base gamei like that about Varlamore too, you can 1-99 within Varlamore or Zeah, and I think that's cool
>>747093283>watch youtube guide on how to start an ironman>he literally recommends grinding 50 thieving and then 50 agility before doing anything elseyeah bros idk how y'all do it
>>747094070>I hate grinding in my grinding gameFuck off and play something else
>>747093202>One boss? Who cares.but enough about the fire amulet
>>747094070>its just mindless time wastingGood thing they made it even more mindless to cater to complainers on reddit then>alchablesGreat for an ironman at that level
>>747094324it needs a degree of autism, no jokegetting 99 in all skills isn't challenging, it's just boring. Even a disabled man can eventually get 99 in any skill yet I see maxed mains who still struggle with a single fucking JadIronman's main focus is you getting excited about shitty drops and trying to get enough money to buy a bond without having to go back to your mainif people really want a "hard mode" they should just stay 1 def
>>747094324every account wants to start by grinding agility
>>747077012It's one of the best mmos but I'm guessing there's a reason you quit
I dont get why people call this a bad grind
>>747094324>yeah bros idk how y'all do itFor me it was by not following whatever retarded meta some content creator shat out and just having fun.If I was starting an iron now I'd probably sit at gemstone crab getting 99 combats afk before doing anything else but that's me and you should do whatever you want.
>>7470944901 def and skiller accounts would be based if they actually made a way to play the game without constantly risking ruining them foreverit would open up so much in terms of potential gameplay for skillers getting clogs or boss KC like rendi's level 3 without having to sometimes gamble a permanent account changing amount of experience on boss killsand you would also have real support for pvp style characters without having to be constantly on guard that auto retaliate is going to fuck up your account, or some random update is going to reset your attack options and brick it
Played in 2020 for 4 months after a 15 year hiatus and did a bunch of challenge stuff like killing jad for the cape, amassing a small fortune gaming the TP, getting legend cape etc. But as soon as my quest progress was blocked by needing over like 60 agility I quit, nothing worse than that shit
>>747094630there are guns in runescape?
>>747091864WOWZERS
>>747094727https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/9mm_revolver
>>747094674i still to this day hold that 1 def accounts should have access to all quests and contentseeing someone take on the vampyre quests or the DT2 quests with only 1 defence where one fuck up can get you killed is way more exciting than HCIMs
>>747094490I would argue that the main appeal of ironman is routing autism and every drop having some importance.On a main, most every drop boils down into gp. Rune ore is gp. Soul runes is gp. Magic logs is gp. On an iron, there's that immediate flash of dopamine that comes with solving a puzzle, one you didn't even know you were playing, by working out how best you are going to use those resources. Same shit with working out quest progress, or getting a cool drop which unlocks other content.
>>747094915yeah and that's great for 200 hours, but at 2000 hours it just boils down to make sure you do all your fucking chores so you can keep playing the game>better do your herb runs!>better do your bird houses!>better do your zulrah kills!>better do your xyz!gp is there both to skip grinds and to move past the boring chore part of the game where you have to sit and mine amethyst for dozens of hours to get enough darts and arrow tips
>>747094674I really don't know why there's no way to just turn off xp gain for certain skills. You can't even pvp without eventually gaining combat levels.
>>747095154people who play snowflake pking accounts are extremely annoying on social media and fagex tried way too hard to pander to them in the past so now everyone votes no on anything related to them
>>747095115Most everything has alternatives these days, they started adding intentional redundancy to the game specifically to fight the chorescape allegations.The only one I would say is absolutely mandatory is farm runs, and farm runs aren't really chores so much as they are the core identity of the farming skill. You need to do those if you want to max the skill.>gp is there both to skip grinds and to move past the boring chore part of the gameOkay, that's fine, mainscape is a valid game mode as well, I just think that a lot of the appeal of ironman is in considering how to progress your account.
>>747094915Idk what I want. Maybe trade limits or something is the answer.It's a weird feeling when you need something like say dragon bones, and you realize it's faster to just chop logs than just kill dragons. But at the same time I don't want to be locked into collecting buckets of sand for hours.
>>747095154people hate 1 defs / skillers even though they literally play the game in hard mode>>747095115there should be a managing miscellania expansion where you get the shit you need in the endgame as long as you sink enough money into it as an Ironman
>>747095367No more sand buckets unless you want to, manIt's about golem crafting now
>>747095356>The only one I would say is absolutely mandatory is farm runs, and farm runs aren't really chores so much as they are the core identity of the farming skill. You need to do those if you want to max the skillherb runs are diametrically opposed to tree runsyou dont do herb runs for exp you do them for profit, they are the boss slayer of farming, while tree runs are the burst tasks of farmingthe problem is you have zero alternatives to getting supercombats and brews other than farming
>>747095367this is a really weird issue to have with main account gameplay because the entire point is that you are allowed to do whatever you want to get to the goals you haveyou can do cheap crafting methods if you want to profit and dont mind taking longer, or you can cut gems if you would rather spend that time doing barrows or killing tormented demonsmy issue is that the end game is pretty frustrating because its the exact same gameplay as scurrious but you need 500m in gear and if you fuck up once you instantly die, and i dont really like doing scurrious
>>747095487they should be buyable from NPC stores, even if they are expensive
>>747095115farming contracts and herb rubs are comfy tho
>>747095367>I don't want to be locked into collecting buckets of sand for hours.this was the last big pain point for helmies and they just added golem crafting to fix it
>>747095692helmies will never be satisfied because their game mode is annoying
>>747092680verbatim quote from original guy>just play a main and enact some self controlyour epic rebuttal>NOOOOOOOOOO I HAVE NO SELF I CONTROL I MUST GRIND THE MOST EFFICIENT GP PER HOUR BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ironmen have brain damage
What's the best money strat to fund bonds on a fresh (group)ironman? I have 66 agi and 43 days left. I was planning to do pyramid while my friend sourced alchables. Is there a better angle?
>>747094674I have a 1def ironman, there really is 0 risk to of it ever going above 1 def cause theres a plugin that just removes the def attackstyles from your UI. You just gotta keep in mind that hastas and some other weapons give def xp for all attack styles
>>747095921what he said was that it's good for the game to have content that isn't objectively inefficient to even touch and i dont know why that triggered you like this
>>747095864Most irons who made it past the mid-game are fine with it, Irons who complain should fuck off and stop giving us all a bad name.
>>747096015just buy a sub. you will want to fucking kill yourself if you try to grind a bond at the agility pyramid
>>747096015work a jobalternatively, make a main account for farming revenantslastly you could do regular ironman money makers for like 10% the gp you would get normallythere are no good ways to maintain bonds on any accounts without wasting like literally half the time of the membership just farming gold
>>747094324my god... level 50? holy freaking autism... who could possibly grind until they get 100k xp in a skill...
>>747096109I haven't not wanted to kill myself in years. Real answers only brother.
>>747095921Flex is actually important even though we always try to pretend it isn't. We're basically hardwired to compare ourselves to others.
>>747096015>spending early game GP on bondsNigga you need to fund misc and your construction, pay the sub lol
>>747096015get a rune cbow from deranged archeologistgrind 55 slayer for broad boltssafespot rev knightbonus points if you kept your combat level low so you're not PK fuel for literally everyoneheres the thing tho, GP is progress, especially on an ironman. Trying to fuel bonds when you're not super endgame is just legit a waste of time, you're throwing out account progress for barely any return
ironman is only kinda exciting when you restrict yourself to a single contienti mean, if you are going to play an ironman the same way you play your main then are basically playing "3 lefts to make a right" mode
>>747096015Make a main to sit at rune dragons forever on a second monitorDo not under any circumstances try to keep an ironman running with bonds without alt accounts.
>doing toa expert mode>keep getting my ass handed by level 4 akkha for bullshit reasons and chip damageTruly the worst raid.
>>747077012No. God no
>>747096035its inefficient not to constantly play russian roulette irl because all other jobs make less dollars per hour. why arent you playing russian roulette right now?think about how your answer applies to game design and how fucking retarded youd have to be to think "i must constantly do the most efficient thing at all time" is
>>747090265Post your agility cape, assface. I got my cape and it was the worst experience of my entire fucking life
>>747096816agility singlehandedly prevents me from coming back to the gameit's incredibly useful and so fucking boring, maybe more than RC is to train
>>747077012Highly recommended if you have autism
>>747096792>i must constantly do the most efficient thing at all timenobody is saying this but feel free to continue writing inane seethe about the idea that it's good for old school rune scape to have activities that are extrinsically worth doing
>>747077012You did beat him, right /v/?I'm conflicted, I beat him without the ring, because I forgot about it, and I think I overall liked it but I'm concerned with what they might do in future with bosses.
>>747096984>its incredibly usefulLol
>>747097408I need to sit down and do this plus like 5 other quests I fell behind on. I expect it to be a nightmare. The previous vampire fight was worse than the DT2 bosses honestly.
>>747097408he wasnt that hard unless you didnt pick up on the left/right gimmick which was a lot of people because they do fucking NOTHING to teach it to youyou get sparkles for part of one fight in the entire quest and then its just up to you to intuit that the game defined by its laggy shitty 0.6 tick game system isnt being laggy and shittythe whole quest was a gigantic fumble and genuinely one of the worst in the game
>>747097408i wouldnt want to grind a boss like him but it is interesting seeing the things jagex can do within the tick system
>>747097408Fuck the skillers crying about it. I watched one of my clannies who has ten thumbs and trembles uncontrollably at the very idea of any PvM more complicated than kraken take about eighty attempts to beat him, and I felt a visceral second-hand satisfaction when I watched him slowly start to understand the mechanics and actually dodge things.
>>747097408By the time I got to the final fight I hadnt learned how to do the dodges at all because I couldn't see shit past the 20 npcs shitting up the screen during the tutorial fights. It was pretty easily brute force able with max combat, I think reddit just doesn't know what brews are
>>747097408This was one of the easier GM quests. Hell, I think the ToB quest was harder than this one
>>747097408Beat him last night, I was surprised at how easy it ended up being. Not as a flex, but how being in the hot seat helps my focus and reaction time, because I had a few bits of the fight spoiled for me and I thought "goddamn that's some Radahn-looking bullshit." Also helped that by the end of the battle I wasn't even bothering to dodge since you can absolutely stuff your inventory with healing that has 0 downsides. I will echo the sentiment that he's tutorialized very poorly. I really appreciate that they gave you several encounters to learn his moveset but there's an increasing amount of distracting bullshit on the screen with each subsequent encounter to the point that I didn't understand half the mechanics until the final fight. Also please bless my RNG I really need it.
What can I do or what should I do at this stat? I'm a poorfag in the game btw.
>>74709872799 agility mining runecraftingthat should keep you occupied for a while
I don't have a single 99.Wanted to get STR to 99 first. Then I started training Slayer cause might as well. Then I started needing to get my ranged up since it was piss poor and better for some tasks. Stopped halfway to level agility for quest requirements. Then I stopped.That concludes my runescape adventure.
>>747099014>Then I started needing to get my ranged up since it was piss poor and better for some tasks.What benefit does Ranging gives me compare to Meleeing and Maging while Slayering?
are pronouns still half the game UI
>>747099275better damage than maging in some places, way cheaper than maging in generalits required for some bosses
>>747077012>Runescape: Old SchoolMore like Runescape New New School New Edition
>>747092914that's not the real Treusfuck out of here with that runescape 3 shit
I played this once around 2004 and I remember there being a goblet or a cup or something and people would try and trick noobs into trying to pick it up because it would aggro a bunch of monks and they would kill you. Does anyone remember this? Is it still a thing and where is it? I googled but couldn't find anything.
>>747097408good boss
>>74709872794 mage so you don't need to boost for ice barrage
>>747100287that new model is older than you sis
>>747100382Zamorak wine north of Falador. Players could keep closing the door on you so you couldn't run out
>>747100382Yep that's the spot outside Varrock, it's common these days to hop to a free to play world and use an item that makes you look like a pile of coins to bait players below the aggro-level cap to try to pick it up. Classic stuff.Also, OP, OSRS simply isn't worth your time. Out of all videogames to play, it's the last one that'll treat you with respect - by all means, have some fun and do all the free-to-play quests, but you should pick up other games or hobbies instead because it really always boils down to just clicking and waiting. Worrying about getting more XP, more money, the right items... better MMO's that require more focus exist, and they're from the same time period. It was just a game that was made to be a chatroom with skills, and when you stop treating it as such, it loses the fun. Not really good to look at the past 2-300 hours of play and be like 'yeah... level 90 smithing, level 89 mining...' because it was just doing the same thing over and over. Could be doing everything from juggling to language-learning to socializing in a game with microphone support.Wouldn't recommend it. Wanted to get a respectable 99 someday but after returning to it again years later the flair just ain't there anymore. Some of it is neat, but there's better way to spend my (and your) time.
>>747097408drakan made me realize the loss of supplies and death costs are the real killer in bossingfighting drakan felt like a picnic because everything was free so it was chill
>>747081665Okay but what's it called?
>>747100643language learning and playing a videogame dont really occupy the same cognitive space. It's essentially like saying just replace your leisure time with work
>>747097530>this game's core fundamental architecture is laggy and shitty>i think i'll spend hundreds of hours playing it to get the levels for gm questsAre you retarded?
>>747100643>it really always boils down to just clicking and waitingSpoken like a true cheese cape owner
>>747098727>99 str and def>92 slayer>PoorThe crab claims another victim
>>747100643It's fine if you don't like it but endgame PvM has progressed tremendously past just "click and waiting". If anything, that is the reason OSRS is still so popular. It has a ton of activities at a ton of different intensities, so there really is always something you could be doing.
>>747100526sovlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3NUBXGV1SY
>>747077012Idk I've been grinding woodcutting and totems for hours to craft my toxic blowpipe and I still have 18 levels to go and I'm losing my fucking mind
>>747097408Yeah, I beat him fine, probably like attempt 5. That said, I'm glad I got my quest cape well before DT2 came out. I am pretty sympathetic towards people complaining about lumbridge elite. It used to be by the far the easiest and most rewarding diary, and I don't know if that's still true / will continue to be true indefinitely the future. I do think its great that they are actually introducing what "real" PvM is like in these newer quests though, overall its probably a good thing. Like on Drakan I beat him fine, but at one point dropped down to 3 health, and i have 99 health. When I got my quest cape originally, I was like base 80s combat probably, so I would have died, and I'm too lazy to calculate how much of a difference like ~15-20 levels of strength make (+ avernic, prims, rancour, inferno cape, just overall better gear), in the fight, but its probably pretty significant.
>have to download an add on that shows your characters true location to do high level pvm because the trannies who made this game were retarded and decided your model doesnt represent where you ACTUALLY areNo thanks
>>747102240skill issueb0aty is an absolute goat pvmer and doesn't use true tile.
>>747102232>That said, I'm glad I got my quest cape well before DT2 came outI got mine post DT2 and a few of the early Varlamore quests and I hated it. I hope they change the task in the future but I know they won't.
>>747102232>It used to be by the far the easiest and most rewarding diaryThe older my account gets, the more relieved I feel about completing lumbridge elite. I got it when a night at the theater came out and doing ToB on entry mode as someone that was still mentally stuck in 2007 runescape playstyle, that was tough.
>>747102317b0aty has been playing the game for 30 yearstrue tile is mandatory who hasnt been playing the game for longer than the average /v/tard has been alive, even if for no other reason than to actually tell you how the movement in the game worksskipping tiles is mandatory for high level pvm and you would never pick up on it otherwise
>>747102240its just not that big of a deal lol
>>747102240The OSRS devs discovered how to make a game out of a 2000s virtual chatroom and found out it is actually a tile based rhythm game
>>747097408wish devs treated difficulty with this kind of ceiling in mind, not 2+ hours trial and error slogs that force you to refer to a guide or watch an hour video to understand and spend days trying to complete
>>747102232Well I got curious and did calc it -- left is what I used, right is what I would have used when I got my QC originally + base 80 statsHonestly, that's pretty fucked up. On the calc its straight up 2 minutes longer, which probably corresponds to like 3-5 minutes in the actual fight? (since you need to dodge). Fight is longer, with less HP / prayer the brews / restores are less effective so you need to be more careful.
>>747102820Example, The Gauntlet is just that one boss from Spongebob Battle For Bikini Bottom
I think it's telling how much Gower's 2nd game flopped so hard. Runescape was a fluke and it's not ever been clear if any of the devs understand why it succeeded.As osrs slowly moves more and more away from its famous voting system, I worry for its future. Plus it's already ridiculously over priced for how jank the servers and the gameplay experience seems to be.
>>747096984put all lamps into agility and rc lolor afk bf pump
>>747097408I finished the quest blind, a day after release. I didn't even know the ring existed.
People don't want to admit it but EoC is better than OSRS' combat especially after the combat rework, people who shit on it are still stuck in 2013 thinking it was the same as back then.
>>747103665I always find it funny how you get a lots of posts saying "RS3 really is better than OSRS", but absolutely zero posts saying "OSRS is better than RS3" with any kind of specifics. I dunno what it means, really. I've never touched RS3 and I have zero intention of doing so. I do know some big OSRS pvmers have played RS3, especially around the new leagues, and as far as I can tell it has absolutely zero staying power.
>>747097408It pisses me off that RS3 will never have any kino final quest boss fights like this because of the forced story mode difficulty bullshit they do even on the grandmaster quest bosses. It completely ruined the final desert quest with Amascut making her a complete pushover after all the hype with her. Imagine if they did that shit with Drakan in OSRS.
>>747103815People ingame shit on RS3 all the time what are you talking about.
>>747102149Used to only be 53 fletching, you got scammed by jagex. I find totems boring as fuck, after getting the knife I never did them again
>>747103665idk what rs3 is like today but back when eoc first launched it really felt like budget WoW. I'd rather just resub to classic WoW than try that cursed abomination again
>>747103842bmr would be more well received if drakan was (even) easier
>>747103886ive been at ironwoods for like the past 2 weeks and everything in game is just about ironmen and femboys. No body talks about RS3.
>$14.99 + tip No
>>747103894>Used to only be 53 fletching
>>747077012I don't like how the endgame combat has become dark souls tier where a single mistake will lead to death. Even in the fuckin quest bosses. Then they charge you hundreds of thousands of gold to get your stuff back. Souls difficulty works because the only loss is time and you practice and get better. A death in runescape can and will absolutely drain your resources. This before even considering the fact that they're trying to go this hardcore in such an archaic game system with the ticks and the way movement works.
>>747097408yeah, by far the best quest boss they've made so far, im hopeful for future boss fights having atleast interesting fights (hopefully the majarrat finale quest will be cool)
>>747104021Even bonds are 10 smackers now. Whew lad where do they even get off
>>747104189Do you know about deaths coffer? Are you paying death to retrieve your items instead of going to your gravestone? Death fees don't seem like a big deal at all, if they didn't exist there would be no consequence for dying.
its almost a completely different game than in 2007 but if you liked that kind of gameplay you will still probably like it. I dont play it anymore but the devs did a pretty good job with it. It is probably the best MMORPG because every other competitor is now soulless chinkslop or a failed wow clone. also wow is for faggots
>>747100287the model changed in 2007 zoomie
>>747077012>has mandatory pronouns in character creation screenyou tell me
>>747104516I'm specifically thinking of some quest bosses where your loot is locked beyond an NPC whom you have to pay 100k to get your stuff back. This is from a boss that can kill you in one hit within 10 seconds of the boss fight. Deaths coffer doesn't alleviate the problem it still means you need to funnel resources into getting your shit back. Yes death meaning something is nice but not when its at the point where enemies are killing you in a single mechanic failure.
>>747104745That era of introducing a bunch of pozzed shit and having pride parades etc sucked but the pronouns are a single option I saw once thousands of hours ago and have no effect on the game
>>747104745why are you so fragile and sensitivehow are you getting offended about being asked your gender tranny
blood moon rises fight was kino
>>747104745thankfully mod north saved the game from being even more pozzed.
>>747104213If the OSRS version of Ritual of the Mahjarrat doesn't let you fight Lucien I'm going to be pissed.
>>747105118If he was really on our side and isn't just treating the game as a business to sell then why hasn't he reverted all the woke shit from both games like the pronoun crap?
I'm convinced the grand exchange is a lie.Jagex is buying items and deleting them when no buyers are available and creating items out of thin air when there are no sellers. This is the only way the market could still be stable after all these years.You have a million bots chopping logs and fishing fish and yet none of the prices have dropped to 10gp.Take a look at classic WoW. Most items (cloth, herbs, etc.) sell for the vendor price on the AH.
>>747105275Because that's too dramatic of a step. You tone it down and slowly change it over time. The first step has been taken in no more pride support.
>>747105409they ban botst. had my bots banned
>>747102240Now see there's actually a plugin that puts your character where he actually is and removes the animation stallBut it turns out that there's a reason the run animation doesn't match up with the true tile, and it's because there needs to be an animation to transition you between origin and destination or it looks silly as fuck
>>747105275nigga you know how bad the PR would be if he reverted all that shit, it's a miracle jagex even promoted a white dude as CEO in the UK of all places.
>>747104828I think they might've changed it recently but you used to be able to cheat the coffer because the money it gave you would lag behind GE prices, plus an extra 5%. Worrying about GP like this is partly why I started playing ironman, now that my house is built I have nothing to do with my money except for buying runes. For death fees I put my dupe barrows pieces in it early on and then some masori etc later on and never worried about the fees again.
>>747105409I don't think it's a lie, I think they dump banned bots items onto the GE to keep the prices stable.
>>747105189we're either fighting lucien or sliske, coinflip honestly.
>>747105409you don't even see many bots these days
>>747105409>Jagex is buying items and deleting themYes they say this publicly, they buy and delete items constantly to keep price of rare items artificially high. Look up "Item Sink">and creating items out of thin air when there are no sellers. that would make absolutely no sense, WoW items are worthless because there are too much supply, why would they artificially amp up supply when its already too high
>>747102975That's actually not correct, Drakan caps your damage at like 38 or something, so the max setup has 4% accuracy and 3 max hits on the budget setup. It would save like 20 seconds, tops
>>747103665EoC is still dogshit even after 12 years of working on it.If I wanted action bar combat I would play one of the other twelve billion WoW clones
>>747104189It's a tile based rhythm game'Mistakes are punished' is hardly a signature design element of dark souls so much as every video game ever made
>>747103665you are actually retarded and beyond hope
>>747105852I only reference souls because of how punishing the mistake is. AKA instant death
>>747104189it is so easy to make gold in this game, i feel like you can only be complaining about this is if you are an ironman
>>747105852It really depends on the boss, some like Yama and Vorkath feel more like a regular video game boss and are fun, but others like doom and ToB really do feel like guitar hero or some shit and i really hate it
I find it funny how people call EoC a WoW clone when it was Everquest that invented action bar combat.Also are people really unable to run to their gravestones in time?
>>747105915And if you fall in a pit in Mario you die instantlyI just don't think it's that big a deal that some mechanics have death as a punishment for failure. Most don't, and those which do generally have a lot of warning and a big 'DO NOT FUCK THIS UP' sign on them.
>>747106118the problem with EoC isnt that its a clone of something the problem is that its fucking stupid and no one ever asked for it.
>>747105936Its the opposite, ironmen have shitloads of money and nothing to do with it.
>>747106118its because nobody gave a shit about everquest, wow was the game that popularized action bar combat
>>747106118WoW popularized it. The games which copy that style aren't copying Everquest, they're copying WoW, even if WoW itself copied Everquest.
>>747100457new model is cancer
I still play RS3 every now and then to maintain my comp cape, but it always makes me wonder if I should get into OSRS. I kinda miss the old graphics and music, but the idea of starting over when my RS3 character has been around since early 2004 is a bit daunting.
>>747102317>dies on HCIM
>>747106150You are a fool and trying too hard to defend. Mario does not have a comparable resource loss. I'm not arguing about the instant death itself but that they pair that with the resource grinding of runescape. "Dude its easy to get gold" is not an argument.
>>747106257I can guarantee you were born in 2004 or later
>>747106257>newIt's almost 20 years old
>>747105639how are people buying and selling trillions of runes a day?do you really think there are enough fire runes being made/looted in a day to fuel all of the tridents being used? all of the alchs? they are hard capped by shop prices but that's only if there are people who would bother spending the time to get a 1gp margin on something as small as a fire runei believe most of it is real, but they have unrestricted access to the back end and if they wanted to make fish prices high they can arbitrarily buy out enough of them that the price tends upwards, or if they want to keep them down they can do the oppositenobody can even fact check them on this because nobody has access to global fishing exp across every account in the game tracked accuratelyagain, not saying they are forcing lobster prices down, but if they are we have no way of knowing
>>747103665you are so fucking stupideoc combat is fucking braindead rotations everyone has the same fucking rotation as well
>>747102240yeah the gower brothers were fucking idiots but at this point it cannot really be fixed
>>747106319It's part and parcel of the game. If you aren't risking anything then failure means nothing. It's the best and most obvious means of motivating people to learn mechanics and play better.
>>747106337I'm older than you1990
>>747106118>Also are people really unable to run to their gravestones in time?Some people don't understand how death works, dont read anything and don't know it costs more money to retrieve items. I'm so cheap I've run all the way back to daganoth kings to get my shit.
>>747077012can't fucking sprint
Yes, but only if ironman.
>>747106414bro is 36, playing osrs and on 4channel
>>747106357yeah I think so. late game runecrafting generates a lot of runes and bossing generates even more. lots of bosses drop hundreds of runes per kill. plus magic is probably the least popular combat style.historically bots filled in a lot of the gaps because you could just bot and merch to make tons of money, but now that bots are mostly gone now I think the prices of a lot of common items like ammo and runes will go up, but only after the botted supply gets used up which is going to take like another year. guess we will see what happens
>>747103665you have to adapt way more for osrs combat, rs3 is just wow style rotations
>>747106414thats even more embarrassing get a job loser
>>74710641436 and still cant get over about a graphics change that happened when he was 16certified 4chan moment
Hey fags,weird ask but anyone remember a zezima music video with the OC theme song?It had its own lyrics like>Zezima's number 1, he has 99 of each leveled skill>I don't even care, if he's a nerd, who lives in his mom's basement>Zezima's number 1, all the way to the sun
>>747106981no but that sounds fucking hilarious lolold runescape videos were gold
>>747106585>bosses drop hundreds of runes per killi'm not impressed by this listthe yama fire rune drop is more of a supply drop than anything because it is reasonable to go through 16k fire runes in a session against himi'm just skeptical that there are enough coming into the game to actually account for the number of people casting spells, but maybe the tomes and staves are doing more lifting that i'm realizing
>>747107594well like i said there is an existing massive supply of a lot of items just from botting. there were probably many bots doing zmi and bosses that generated a lot of runes.now that there are far fewer bots, there could be a massive spike in price once the demand outpaces the the supply.
>>747106150runescape is utterly impenetrable if you do not have like a video guide showing you exactly how stuff works with detailed breakdowns that showcase isolated visual and auditory cuesyou cant even explain how olm works or running the head to someone who's never been to cox in under 15 minutesversik has a totally unique mechanic for specifically her, where a single person in a group (at random even) is chosen for her aggro and they have to do this insanely autistic step under method or else it nukes the team with a huge amount of unavoidable damagea really good example of runescape utterly failing in its methods of communicating to the player is watching madseasonshow play the game
No matter what they do, they'll never get the old culture back. That's what made the game truly special back then.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsAwe84OLzU
>>747103842Nomad?
>>747091864WHERE NUDES
my partner tried to get me into this but man, the grind is something else. I just get bored. I feel a bit bad I can't get into like others can. This is coming from someone that played FFXI back during 75 cap era and had several jobs at cap, too. Idk man
>>747109516honestly its just different with being click-based vs other mmos, the interface takes a special kind of autism to enjoyits not bad as a semi-idle game once you get to some of the more afk skill methods
>>747091864tits mcgee went on to grift another game
>>747077012it was around 2 years ago, devs prove with every update that they're trying to kill the game and people still eat it up regardless because it has shiny new content that doesn't add to anything
>>747091503Of course, this game is basically a fantasy version of The Sims. Just beware of the trannies at the Grand Exchange and you'll be fine.
>>747091956I'm an eternal early game retard, but I'm glad that people love this quest as much as they apparently do. I wish I could get further in the game, but I just get addicted to skilling every time I resubscribe.
>>747081665wtf is that
>>747089240What's the meta now, still granite at the quarry?
>>747116012Yeah but as of a few years ago you can tick manipulate way more stuff like sandstone or gems so there's way more options for active play.AFKwise there's also plenty of good options now with Calcified Rocks, Volcanic Mine and Stars which offer up to 8 minutes between clicks.Probably the skill with the highest amount of good ways to train depending on your preferences. It's just slow
>>747118171Do people still do motherlode mine at higher levels for afk or is that too slow?
I like OSRSI'm not paying $10 a month to play it though
>>747113901Honestly in isolation the quest's a dud. The first half is too frontloaded with puzzles(really shitty ones unless you thought RS3's Broken Homes and the occasional dungeoneering puzzle was great) and the latter half was nothing but endless boss fights and in spite of having three tutorial fights Drakan is still tough to get the hang of because his tutorial fights are so poorly signposted once the sparkles are removed and also there are anywhere between 4 to a dozen NPCs taking up space and causing visual noise during said tutorial fights.But the presentation of it all, the music even if two of my favorite tracks ended up being clones of RS3 tracks, but Home is an infinitely better music track than Dirge of Drakan which has the mid 2010s RS3 boss music issue of being random drums and guitars and zero music identity but I digress, the cringekino attempts at making cutscenes they genuinely thought were cool(I had such a belly laugh at the bridge Darth Vader clone cutscene) that wrap around into being actually cool(Drakan's last stand and the actual blood moon final boss intro), Drakan himself doing nothing all quest but posing and reusing that spear twirl animation and just generally attempting to look cool, it all comes together to being something you would have never really expected for RS especially if you had never played through the whole World Guardian shit in RS3.
>start playing runescape one day>some guy bothers me at grand exchange telling me he can lead me somewhere(?)>follow him with all my items>he leads me to a one way entrance with strong monsters on the other side>i die and lose my items>never play runescape againthank you kind stranger for killing my interest at its root and freeing me from the toil of runescape
>>747100751>>747115639https://elderwood-realms.rohannvarma.chatgpt.site/For some reason it's currently super laggy.
>>747118496It's still a very popular method but imho all the things I named beat it in it's core aspects. Volcanic Mine is way higher XP at similar intensity/attention levels. Calcified Rocks result in more useful resources (Bone shards for prayer instead of Ores) at the same attention level. And Star Mining is slower but you go 8 minutes between clicks needed.
