My girlfriend just started playing, and I want to let her know about easier ways of playing the game but I don’t want to take the freedom of the game away from her. Sometimes I feel like the more we look for efficiency the farther away from the pure joy we get from the game
This! I remember so many games being fun when I was young and when I break it down I realize that most of the fond memories I have comes from not being so good at the game and exploring my way around it. The fast pace in society now doesn't allow that so I just enjoy my slow pace gaming nowadays where I can take my time.
The part about getting down about exp rates is important. I wasn't having fun or feeling like I was looking at my total exp at the end of the day rather than exp/hr. You forget about slow rates when you can see you're making 1-3% total progress each day.
Instead of min maxing and burning out when looking at my xp/hour and then mentally thinking oh man X goal is 20 hours away or whatever it may be and getting demotivated. I've been having more fun just doing whatever I feel like making progress in everything and then if I feel like doing whatever boss I do. If i feel like I'm missing something to make that boss easier I go down that rabbit hole to make the upgrade. That's why I started ironman in the first place. Otherwise why do anything when you can just do X which is most efficient and then buy what u want.
This was a surprisingly original and outstanding video. Hadn't seen your channel before, but definitely subscribed now. Really appreciate the genuine care for the game and the players.
Usually, videos like this are pretentious and care way too much about how other people play the game. They'll list things like not instantly getting barrows gloves or a fire cape as "mistakes", for example. So thank you for actually being helpful instead of judgmental.
Goals are absolutely vital to keep the game going. My original goal after hitting that "What do I do now" point was to get barrows gloves. Then I found out i needed to do all these quests to RFD, then when I got the gloves I diced to get the quest cape, after that I wanted to do the achievement diary (currently still grinding slayer for this) and also a side goal of making enough GP/grinding content to get that next item upgrade
i like the note about dailies. when i first realized how great they were i got really into basically all the recurrent training methods and money makers but eventually i stopped bc it felt like it was ALL i was doing. if u do tree runs, herb runs, bird houses, magic saplings, and palm saplings, by the time you’re done you’ll probably be ready for another bird house run, and then probably another herb run. and you’re just stuck in a loop. Even though all of those tasks are _supposed_ to only take 5-10min each. That assumes you gear up and fill your inventory with max efficiency. I think most people’s brains take a minute to adjust to all the logistical work required to switch into doing all these different tasks every few minutes. Theyre good money and xp and I at least recommend doing tree runs at a _minimum_ whenever ur hardwood trees are up. but in general yeah… there’s nothing wrong w just ignoring birdhouse runs and just driftnet fishing when u actually decide to get some hunter training done
The gear upgrades thing is so true. I recently started an Ironman and while on the defender grind I saw multiple people with bandos chest and tassets and no other strength bonus gear. These guys could’ve had 3x the DPS for a major fraction of the price.
Another tip: the game gives you the option to redeem 3 bonds at the same time to receive 45 days of membership instead of the usual 42. *Don’t do this.* Committing to playing the same game every day for 45 straight days is a lot. You’re going to have some days where you can’t or just don’t feel like logging on. Always redeem bonds one at a time so that you allow yourself the option of just quitting for a while without feeling like you’re wasting a shit ton of membership. The flexibility is more important than 3 extra days that you have to bend over backwards to use.
For me it kind of works the other way round: I used to buy membership per month but I always felt I had to play (almost) daily to make the most of it. Last time I realised I played several months on end and decided to buy a year. Now I feel far more relaxed to not play: I basically got 5 months free over a monthly subscription so if during that year I don't play for a month or two in total, I still got the better deal.
@@aaronb3225 you misunderstand. This is not about gp, it’s about feeling like you’re wasting membership when you don’t want to log in (which still happens if you spend money irl; people care about how they spend their dollars too, y’know). If you redeem one bond at a time, you can quit for 6 months totally guilt free because you’ve only wasted, at most, 14 days of membership.
A big thing i learned to start doing is trying out new things, even if its weird. Ive been doing Shades of Morton just cause i want to authenically craft a set of Splitbark for my HCIM and ite actually been alot of fun to turn of mind for 3/4 things required for it.
Yeah I agree with most of these, I rushed maxing on main and didn't enjoy playing the game. I skipped out on bossing and ended up quitting main to play iron mode. You will start realize that gp isn't really important, besides early game where you struggling to get early cash via pyramid or other methods lol. I learned to work with what I have and not worry too much on gear. Setting small goals like gaining a certain level in order to do clue steps or finishing a quest can make it less daunting. Graceful is good on iron, but like you said its not really needed. On my uim I barely use it , and I carry heavy gear in my inventory. Walking around Gielinor isn't that bad. I would say to others play how you wanna play and enjoy the journey. Don't compare yourself to others or beat yourself up for not having current bis. If playing uim mode be patience with yourself, it is very tedious and sometime feels endless, but just know once you get the stats, its forever.
Great tips. I love seeing how many herb runs I can get in in a single day, especially now that I have all patches unlocked except for 1. That's a mil for less than 15 minutes of playing, and I can do it over and over, every day - if I set alarms and hit every patch in that 20 minute window. But if I don't want to, I don't. Sometimes I just wander around Gielinor for days, with absolutely no goal. I just do whatever. With skis on, sometimes. Sometimes I fashionscape and just walk around the map. I don't run. I don't use any energy. Just chill and see what all new I can discover. Then I can get KC if I want to. Or I can work on a skill. Or I can do clues. Or I can quest. Or I can fish. Or WC. That's why OSRS is so awesome. You can't burn out if you're aware of the burnout and are totally fine with smiling at it as it passes you by. It's a game. If you're not having fun - what are you even doing?
Im a main account and when I was poor, I would play like an iron man. Herb runs, making my own potions, killing monsters for upgrades i needed (jaw, zenytes,etc.) and I had a lot of fun doing it. Was I doing things efficiently? Nope, definitely not. But I was having fun and enjoyed the game more than ever. I'm still a main, and richer now in game, but I find myself getting burnt out more often now than before. Now I only do things I enjoy and feel like doing, as opposed to doing some arbitrary grind.
One that was probably said and I'm just saying it a bit differently: Don't worry about doing the best method to level a skill. The best method to level a skill is the one that makes you keep clicking and getting XP. People swear by 3t mining because it's the fastest, best xp for mining, but I can't be assed so I MLM, especially because it saves me money for blast furnace smithing XP later with all the gold ore you get. For you, you might like blast mining more. Similarly you might be the type of person who gets bored doing wintertodt for firemaking. Go chop some logs and burn some logs if it makes you feel better. People also swear by superior dragon bones because "they're so fast for prayer XP" when really, they ARE faster, but at some point when you train your prayer high enough, you're still going to be clicking the altar for thousands of bones anyway, so even if you do dragon bones or lava dragon bones, you're still getting a ton of XP, just 5-10% less than if you used superiors and you're saving money in your bank too. I get given shit ALL the time for not doing the best methods because they'll somehow magically "make me a better player" if I do them. 9/10 times though? The same people that spout this bullshit at me are lower level than me in that given skill because they got bored of training it that way. They ask me how I still do it and I say "because I don't train it when I don't want to and I'm not a meta whore when it comes to how I train. I click something, I watch numbers go up. Even if it's inefficient, I'm still getting XP and you're not." TL;DR unless you're some burned out high level streamer/player on your third HCIM account OR you're a speedrunner trying to speed run maxing or w.e arbitrary weird goal you have, stop worrying about being giga efficient all the time. Stop turning games into work. Your boss isn't over your shoulder demanding you meet some arbitrary deadline. Punch out and have fun playing your game.
So many RS players seem to forget that games are for fun. If you find being perfectly efficient fun, that's great, but you don't need to feel that way to being playing the game "right".
Point 2 - Don't do dailies. For real I only do dailies if I'm going to the place anyway. I only do mahogany as my farm run. Doing dailies just felt like a chore interrupting what I was already doing. If you like to break things up then maybe they are a good thing for you but I like to set up camp somewhere and grind it for ages so dailies felt like impositions.
I am also a mahogany enjoyer, but they aren't really that efficient anymore. Hop prices are crazy. You'd be better off doing other types of trees once every 3 days (same pace as mahogany). More exp and cheaper.
It really shows in your videos your love for the game which honestly makes them that much better as opposed to just saying what people want to hear all the time!
I feel like the biggest trap people fall into is feeling like they need to rush or even partake in raids. Been playing Runescape on and off for nearly 20 years now and essentially never have done any raids in RS2/3 or OSRS. The only time I have ever done a raid so far is when an account needs 1 kc for zeah elite diary. There is plenty of content in the game to never need to step foot in raids if not a fan of the content. Even on my harcore ironman I have mostly avoided raids asides from the 1 required kill. Gauntlet covers range completely and melee partially, godwars dungeon covers most of melee between bandos and torva, and the new desert treasure 2 bosses can now cover magic.
Disagree in my opinion raids are bad content they are way too long and the puzzle rooms suck. I have full bis range and mage with tbow and shadow and i can count on my fingers how many raids i ran
You're one of two RS content creators I like to watch and when I first heard you mention addons in wow in the plugin video I had to do a second take for a minute there lol. That came so out of the woodwork it was weird. Feels like there's not many people doing that switch, usually it's to something like FF14 or some other game with more wow-like combat. Going from being a cutting edge and a semi high-end mythic+ tank to struggling doing my first kills of barrows when i got base 40s/50s and 50 ranged and magic for msb and ibans, was a weird change. But regardless of what I do in OSRS at least I feel like whatever I'm wasting my time on I'm progressing in some way, unlike in wow. Keep up the awesome content, I'm happy to be so early in following the channel and I look forward to watching it grow and learning more about the game on the way!
Another good one! I’m kind of burnt out right now. I have been setting crazy goals. I’m going to try and keep them smaller. Maybe I will actually play when I log in. Thanks for the content!
Good points. These are exactly the things I have run across though in my journey to max. Also don't be alarmed: I set max as my goal for the sake of maxing, not per se for the cape. During that time I ran into a lot of the problems you described and found very similar solutions.
I always see these videos and think it’s a huge channel making them, it amazes me every time I see the sub count. The editing and videos are always so high quality
As someone who has felt really frustrated with my progress, I really like your type of content. It has helped me tackle this game with a new mentality.
I highly recommended swapping stuff up every now amd then. Whether it be switching to a different method or skill. Took a slight detour on my 99 grinds and got a bunch of other benefits now
Pushing a grind I hated was the final straw that got me to quit RS3, and is why I have taken a different mentality with OSRS. Back in the day, I had started only logging in a few times a year, not even keeping up members, and all I wanted was 85 mining. I don't know why THAT was my focus, but it was. I pushed that to burnout every time I logged in, and when I finally hit it, they changed mining the next month. It was my personal burnout grind that I never got a chance to enjoy the reward for, and THE reason I approached osrs with the mindset of no burnout grinds.
everyone is different. Just know that not being able to hold onto a massive grind doesn't make you "worse" than someone else. I always find myself feeling my willpower is inferior to these people as if I'm failing some right of passage. I try to remind myself that runescape isn't a relationship, and chores like birdhouse runs or herb runs are a choice, not a responsibility.
This video has helped me, being nearly maxed being forced to do the remaining levels I get burnt out super quick, so end up doing other things and enjoy the game more, keep it up dude.
You are definitely right about setting incremental goals For example : I am training for 90 strength It is a lofty grind when that’s all I’m doing- however, I’m doing it at moss Giants for mossy keys chasing the essence drop. They also dropping loads of clue scrolls for collection log. So I get hits of dopamine throughout my grind, as well as collecting loads of seeds loads of herbs and loads of ensouled heads which will help me and other grinds down the road, so finding something that rewards you along the way rather than a thankless grind like rock, crabs, or whatever. Anyways, happy scaping!
Videos like this are usually a list chucked together just to get a video out. All of the points in here are really good. They all reasons I play for a week or so, then take another massive break, then come back and not stay or get anywhere
A great tip for old players with near max main accounts that keep burning out is to bite the bullet and make a Ironman. It genuinely charges your whole look on the game and all the “useless” content as a main becomes not only useful but a fun experience most the time as the content usually gives big upgrades which would be junk usually. Stuff like mini games and quests not only become a challenge but they result in rewards that you wouldn’t care about as a main
I will say, "don't do dailies" is pretty lethal advice for an ironman specifically. You knda have to keep up with at the very least daily herb runs, or there'll come a time where one of your next goals will require a high herblore level (whether that's SOTE or elite diaries or having access to divine supercombats) and you'll realize you're time gated behind months of farming that you've neglected. Also I actually completely agree with graceful being overrated, EVEN for irons. You can get dueling rings very easily and early, so when you really need run energy i.e. questing you can just pop into ferox and restore it while banking.
Thanks so much Elysian! New sub here :) I'm getting back into OSRS after a strong 1+ year hiatus! Thanks for all you're doing, keep up the great work my friend!
I've been playing an unrestricted ultimate iron man account on and off since February of last year, and I have to say it's really helped me reshape my perspective on grinding in this game. Even from day one, I knew that I was gonna have to approach things with clear, concrete goals. Because my focus shifted from the generally vague concept of maxing and making a bunch of money to unlocking things that will make the rest of the game easier to play, I really came to appreciate the results of the grinds I've undertaken a lot more than on my main. Knowing ahead of time that my grinds were automatically gonna take quite a lot longer than normal due to not having a bank, I just came to accept that slower methods were okay, because all progress is progress. Also, I always make sure to pick grinds that will benefit me in multiple ways through various content unlocks, because then it makes the time feel that much more worth it. After watching this video, I've found that playing this way for long enough helps you unlearn all of the deadly mistakes you covered, hahaha.
I always have goals in this game. So many of them, some more long term or short term than others. I'm working on 99 Farming and 99 Construction right now. I got 98 Farming today, and my bank now has the exact amount of Oak Planks I need for 99 Construction. I went from level 81 - 83 today in about an hour, broken into three segments of 15 - 20 minutes. I'm at 2000 hours now and not close to maxing. BUT those 2000 hours include a few years stuck in f2p as a child.
I think I've made almost all of these mistakes. I played as a kid and quit around EoC, but didn't get that close to maxing anything. I came back to OSRS after HCIM was released and started over as that. Hated having such bad gear, deironed and played for a few years until I burnt out severely on the gp grinding gameplay loop. Started over again as HCIM thinking I could just hop back to my main if it ever got too much instead of deironing, but that just never happened. I'm still playing that ironman and it's way more progressed than the previous accounts. I did die at around 1700 total level, but I knew it was going to happen eventually anyways. I did get burnt out on various ironman grinds multiple times and just quit for months. I still have some massive grinds ahead of me, but I know better now. I'll break it up and go do something else for a while. No matter what I do it's progress. Burning out and staying away for half a year means no progress on anything. I'm also much more aware of what intensity of content I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I enjoy being laser focused on a boss or something, other times I just want something more chill and other times I want max afk. I know several things in all of those intensity levels that will progress me.
The Dailies tip is so true. I work 12 hour shifts and the last thing I wanna do is run around and do herb runs every hour or so while being an end-game account.
Really nice video! The goals part, as obvious as it sounds, really was the difference for me to get to play the game. I started years ago with no idea what to do, then later I set myself a dumb goal, and after a while my friend told me that smithing your own armor is not actually a reasonable way to go, because smithing goes much much slower. Nowadays what I do is look at one grind I want to do, and sink some cash into it, maybe a mil maybe a bit more. All my grinds end up cash positive, but once I'm committed, I Know what I'm supposed to do. And on the other hand, I have a visual indicator of how I'm progressing as I see the number of items in the bank decrease. Instead of saying "i'll get 80 smithing", I said "i'll drop a mil in mithril bars and see where that (and reinvestments) takes me". seeing the dwindling stacks was always a boost in morale, especially every time I bought a smaller stack (also for giveaway, I'm GwenTheKween)
I first got into osrs because I had two friends that kept on telling me I should play it with them. At first, all I did when I played with them was kill cows and collect their cowhide. I ended up getting around base 60 combats and 43 prayer from just killing cows. Eventually, they talked me into getting membership after I complete all the f2p quests. My first goal as a member was to complete something that they hadn't done yet. So my first goal ended up getting the quest cape. This took me roughly 2 years to get. After that, I wanted my first 99 which ended up being farming. My next goal was to get the achievement cape (I found it funny that you mentioned that in your video haha). I'm currently 4 Elite diaries away from completing my goal. I completely agree with your points. I had pretty high goals and at times it was disheartening when I realized it would take a long time to do, but the thing that helped me the most was taking a break from my grinds and trying new stuff or doing content with my buddies. Great video. Good luck to everyone on their grinds and have fun playing osrs!
This hits home. Thieving is my most hated skill. Grinded fruit stalls to 60 to do ardy knights. Done that to 65 now doing summer garden, I enjoy summer garden so much more than ardy knights.
One big thing I do to avoid burnout is simple: If whatever (grind) I’m currently working on is starting to become boring, I change it up to different content, whether it’s another grind or a quest/diary or just money making.
I’ve always heard these same tips from other OSRS vids, but your words really got to me. Likely due to the firsthand experience you shared by doing opposite of what you said. Im an older player (early 2000s) that just came back to this game recently and got mem for the first time in my life. This vid helped me remind myself to not compare my account to the others around me. Thanks man.
The biggest turnoff for me in this game has always been the snobby attitudes from maxed or end game players. I have casually enjoyed rs since i was in 3rd grade, and i really dgaf about sweating max efficiency methods. People who bank stand and judge "noobs" are some of the most pathetic people i can imagine, and to a new player it can really demotivate you. Why would i want to progress my account to hang out with those people? Had somebody trick me into bringing a certain item while grinding slayer because it was "bis" (it wasnt even good) and then they sat there and made fun of me for not knowing otherwise. Sorry dude, i dont spend my whole day on the wiki. I think this game is great but its definitely got a toxic side, full of people who literally have no life outside of flexing on people who do. Anyway, thanks for making these videos. Your attitude towards the game is way more healthy and genuinely helpful to casual players as well as serious ones. Cheers
If I could add something. Try to always have a skill to afk when your getting bored of a piece of content. Doesn't matter the exp, as long as you keep doing it the exp will go up. I know bouncing around skills might seem engaging now, but plenty of players end up in a rut because they all have 80s and 90s skill levels that they don't want to train since they are all equally slow. But this way, you're like "hey I'm done killing zulrah for now, I'm just gonna chill and start afk woodcutting". By this time it's been about 3 months and you got yourself a 99 by afking between taking breaks from bossing. Money will come along with that too. Examples of things to afk: Melee Combat: Full obsidian with zerk neck and obby sword. Afk at NMZ or ammonite crabs Magic: Splashing (requires money/not really worth). Could high alch but click intensive. Runecraft: Afk bloods (nets you over 150m with full rc outfit) Woodcutting: Redwoods (or any other tree for that matter) Agility: Rooftops can be pretty low effort if you are watching a show/movie. Sepulcher is fun when you unlock all floors. Smithing: Smithing mithril dart tips or cannonballs is extremely afk and profitable Fishing: Literally anything. I enjoyed lava eels personally. But karambwans and anglerfish are also fine. Firemaking: Wintertodt is fast but bonfires are a thing now(cost money though but super afk) Thieving: Look up the sq'irk minigame method that's been possible (world 523). Crafting: D'hides/gem cutting/arrowheads are pretty afk with not much profit loss. Cooking: Fast/afk/profitable Fletching: Afk/profitable Mining: Star mining is super afk. Mlm is not really afk but fairly low effort and makes you at least 50m depending on when you start.
I already do alot to avoid these things but I wanted to comment, and sub because I find it really difficult coming to YT for help as alot of the content creators talk fast or use alot of terminology that as a casual player I find too much of an information dump. This video was very simple and to the point and you took great care to explain things. I'll be visiting this channel alot from now on! Thanks for the help and advice this was a service!
I came back the game when the final sailing poll was out and a friend gave me a bond to vote. Basically i just bought bonds when they were selling for 9m+ grinded construction to 84 to max out my house. And with that done, made the plan to just bang out all the quests. I have since been playing almost daily raising my total from 1250 to almost almost 1750. Honestly the biggest takeaways are make goal roadmaps and understand your time's value.
Tips to the vid: Dailys are fine if that are in line with whatever you're doing; don't pause content to do dailies, almost ever. Having fun is also under rated, theres also content that will fit you mood, heboxjorge made a video about it a while ago where he says just have fun and find the content that fits your mood and it goes so well & true to this game! OSRS Has gotten a lot of new players so I think some sort of progression based video would be good like quest -> diary -> max; so sprinkle in ca's pvming etc.
13:26 Also just popped to mind, but It's totally valid to consider plugins to be cheating, in FFXIV, they are seen that way the equivalent of weak auras can get you banned if you talk about using it, and will get you banned if you stream yourself using it. There was a massive kerfuffle when somebody got a world first clear with a zoom mod that let them zoom out further than other players, the team was DQ'd and the player was banned. The problem is if plugins aren't considered to be cheating, then content needs to be developed with plugins in mind, which will lead to much more difficult content that assumes plugin use from players. Being anti plugin is totally fine if you enjoy the game more like that.
I’ve been playing the game since 2007 on and off because.. life. But I will say, I came back recently and I’m genuinely surprised with how much content has come out within the last couple of years. It’s great when you’re going for efficiency but it definitely makes everything feel stale, accomplishments don’t feel as great as they used to.
My big issue was feeling anxious about bossing. I have 10k hours in the game and just a couple days ago finally started doing god wars bosses. I now love soloing kree arra, have done almost a hundred kc already. Legit have been having the most fun I've ever had doing god wars bosses. Nex is super chill as well.
Another banger! A budget nex set up would be nice. So far, I’ve seen set ups with god dhide + arma cbow, then straight to Masori with zcb/ tbow or Masori with fang/voidwaker. Something in between would be beneficial to players who can afford more than an acb but less than full max gear. Also, letting us know when and what to upgrade to like a gear progression guide would be nice. Gear progression guides in general would be nice for certain bosses but I understand would be redundant for a lot of bosses. After a few of those kind of vids, maybe make a tier list of really nice gear to have for general bossing /pvm and a separate vid of overrated weapons?
One of the best tips I got from you was your video on Max hits and what’s most efficient! Makes me feel better now having the max gear haha, just gonna focus on stats while saving money, was glad to see that tip here as well appreciate your content it’s very helpful!!
Excellent video, 100% could relate with a fair few of these! Possibly a basic one but a budget/barrows GWD guide, and not the crazy fly around the room ranging/maging but more concentrated on the prayer flicking? if ppl understand that it, unlocks so much content for them.. Well done Ely :)
I am a relatively early player with not much to my name but I made the dumb mistake of not banking my first 2mil when going to fight a quest boss much stronger than expected and now I am doing slayer. Not because it help me recuperate at all but just for therapeutic effect
OSRS is such a grindy game that you should focus on the progress rather than the finish line. I feel happy to see being 10% closer to a level rather than being annoyed I haven't leveled up. I'm learning to do Leviathan and happy to see I can get to its enraged phase consistently even though I haven't killed it yet. Even irl I learn to look at my progress more and more, especially since I'm writing a novel and I can tell you that's a big grind, but I always feel happy to find the perfect sentence and see my word count go up.
When i went for graceful I did it by getting anything between 5-25 marks of grace. Sometimes i just played a bit of canifis rooftop between League matches. It took me close to a month to get it but doing it like that was not that bad :)
If I can give my 2 cents on setting goals. I just recently came back from a long break because Im stuck on galveck on my Ironman. I always just kept thinking when I come back Ill try again. Well thankfully my coworker that brought me back got me out of that mindset, and put me in a mindset of getting my range a couple more levels before I go back. I decided I wanted to train range using chins. I am now almost 99 hunter getting chins for range and doing herbiboar for herbs. (Also got herbi so thats a plus) I set my goal at either 100 herbiboars or 1000 chins a day, I feel as I can do with my limited time well still having time to go do other things like achievement diaries.
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My girlfriend just started playing, and I want to let her know about easier ways of playing the game but I don’t want to take the freedom of the game away from her. Sometimes I feel like the more we look for efficiency the farther away from the pure joy we get from the game
Bro don’t let her start playing. She’ll siphon your gp
Tell her to start bottling, super easy.
I’m trying to get my girl to play.
This! I remember so many games being fun when I was young and when I break it down I realize that most of the fond memories I have comes from not being so good at the game and exploring my way around it. The fast pace in society now doesn't allow that so I just enjoy my slow pace gaming nowadays where I can take my time.
No one just started playing RuneScape. Fake news
The part about getting down about exp rates is important. I wasn't having fun or feeling like I was looking at my total exp at the end of the day rather than exp/hr. You forget about slow rates when you can see you're making 1-3% total progress each day.
Instead of min maxing and burning out when looking at my xp/hour and then mentally thinking oh man X goal is 20 hours away or whatever it may be and getting demotivated.
I've been having more fun just doing whatever I feel like making progress in everything and then if I feel like doing whatever boss I do.
If i feel like I'm missing something to make that boss easier I go down that rabbit hole to make the upgrade.
That's why I started ironman in the first place.
Otherwise why do anything when you can just do X which is most efficient and then buy what u want.
This was a surprisingly original and outstanding video. Hadn't seen your channel before, but definitely subscribed now. Really appreciate the genuine care for the game and the players.
Awesome, thank that is very kind of you to say
I have never seen someone explain away the anxiety that OSRS breeds so effortlessly. 10/10
Legend thanks so much
I've been moving to more AFK methods like stars and NMZ recently and it's refreshing
any xp is good XP :) glad you're enjoying it
Nmz is probably my favorite content in the game. Allows me to have numbers go up while I work on school projects.
Usually, videos like this are pretentious and care way too much about how other people play the game. They'll list things like not instantly getting barrows gloves or a fire cape as "mistakes", for example. So thank you for actually being helpful instead of judgmental.
Goals are absolutely vital to keep the game going. My original goal after hitting that "What do I do now" point was to get barrows gloves. Then I found out i needed to do all these quests to RFD, then when I got the gloves I diced to get the quest cape, after that I wanted to do the achievement diary (currently still grinding slayer for this) and also a side goal of making enough GP/grinding content to get that next item upgrade
i like the note about dailies. when i first realized how great they were i got really into basically all the recurrent training methods and money makers but eventually i stopped bc it felt like it was ALL i was doing. if u do tree runs, herb runs, bird houses, magic saplings, and palm saplings, by the time you’re done you’ll probably be ready for another bird house run, and then probably another herb run. and you’re just stuck in a loop.
Even though all of those tasks are _supposed_ to only take 5-10min each. That assumes you gear up and fill your inventory with max efficiency. I think most people’s brains take a minute to adjust to all the logistical work required to switch into doing all these different tasks every few minutes. Theyre good money and xp and I at least recommend doing tree runs at a _minimum_ whenever ur hardwood trees are up. but in general yeah… there’s nothing wrong w just ignoring birdhouse runs and just driftnet fishing when u actually decide to get some hunter training done
You’re up and coming man, love these videos. Super informative and fun to watch
I appreciate that!
The gear upgrades thing is so true. I recently started an Ironman and while on the defender grind I saw multiple people with bandos chest and tassets and no other strength bonus gear. These guys could’ve had 3x the DPS for a major fraction of the price.
genuinely, you sound like my therapist (in a good way)
these all boil down to "be kind to yourself, its okay"
thanks for your positive content :)
Wow, thank you
Another tip: the game gives you the option to redeem 3 bonds at the same time to receive 45 days of membership instead of the usual 42. *Don’t do this.*
Committing to playing the same game every day for 45 straight days is a lot. You’re going to have some days where you can’t or just don’t feel like logging on.
Always redeem bonds one at a time so that you allow yourself the option of just quitting for a while without feeling like you’re wasting a shit ton of membership. The flexibility is more important than 3 extra days that you have to bend over backwards to use.
Or make enough gold to buy a year at once
For me it kind of works the other way round: I used to buy membership per month but I always felt I had to play (almost) daily to make the most of it. Last time I realised I played several months on end and decided to buy a year. Now I feel far more relaxed to not play: I basically got 5 months free over a monthly subscription so if during that year I don't play for a month or two in total, I still got the better deal.
@@aaronb3225 in what way does buying membership irl prevent burnout? You realize you can’t just buy 99 agility, right?
@@aaronb3225 you misunderstand. This is not about gp, it’s about feeling like you’re wasting membership when you don’t want to log in (which still happens if you spend money irl; people care about how they spend their dollars too, y’know). If you redeem one bond at a time, you can quit for 6 months totally guilt free because you’ve only wasted, at most, 14 days of membership.
A big thing i learned to start doing is trying out new things, even if its weird. Ive been doing Shades of Morton just cause i want to authenically craft a set of Splitbark for my HCIM and ite actually been alot of fun to turn of mind for 3/4 things required for it.
Yeah I agree with most of these, I rushed maxing on main and didn't enjoy playing the game. I skipped out on bossing and ended up quitting main to play iron mode. You will start realize that gp isn't really important, besides early game where you struggling to get early cash via pyramid or other methods lol. I learned to work with what I have and not worry too much on gear. Setting small goals like gaining a certain level in order to do clue steps or finishing a quest can make it less daunting. Graceful is good on iron, but like you said its not really needed. On my uim I barely use it , and I carry heavy gear in my inventory. Walking around Gielinor isn't that bad. I would say to others play how you wanna play and enjoy the journey. Don't compare yourself to others or beat yourself up for not having current bis. If playing uim mode be patience with yourself, it is very tedious and sometime feels endless, but just know once you get the stats, its forever.
Your videos on the more abstract aspects of osrs are really useful and fun to listen to :)
Glad you like them!
Great tips.
I love seeing how many herb runs I can get in in a single day, especially now that I have all patches unlocked except for 1. That's a mil for less than 15 minutes of playing, and I can do it over and over, every day - if I set alarms and hit every patch in that 20 minute window. But if I don't want to, I don't.
Sometimes I just wander around Gielinor for days, with absolutely no goal. I just do whatever. With skis on, sometimes. Sometimes I fashionscape and just walk around the map. I don't run. I don't use any energy. Just chill and see what all new I can discover. Then I can get KC if I want to. Or I can work on a skill. Or I can do clues. Or I can quest. Or I can fish. Or WC.
That's why OSRS is so awesome. You can't burn out if you're aware of the burnout and are totally fine with smiling at it as it passes you by. It's a game. If you're not having fun - what are you even doing?
I just started my OSRS journey around a month ago and your content is a blessing 🙏 Keep pumping out the banger videos
Same here brotha. I’m hooked
Welcome aboard! thanks so much for your support!
Im a main account and when I was poor, I would play like an iron man. Herb runs, making my own potions, killing monsters for upgrades i needed (jaw, zenytes,etc.) and I had a lot of fun doing it. Was I doing things efficiently? Nope, definitely not. But I was having fun and enjoyed the game more than ever. I'm still a main, and richer now in game, but I find myself getting burnt out more often now than before. Now I only do things I enjoy and feel like doing, as opposed to doing some arbitrary grind.
Another Elysian video! Really been enjoying your content, congrats on the RUclips success so far! I can see this channel becoming a staple
oh my rsn is: weckmon incase I win
You're too kind!
One that was probably said and I'm just saying it a bit differently: Don't worry about doing the best method to level a skill. The best method to level a skill is the one that makes you keep clicking and getting XP. People swear by 3t mining because it's the fastest, best xp for mining, but I can't be assed so I MLM, especially because it saves me money for blast furnace smithing XP later with all the gold ore you get. For you, you might like blast mining more. Similarly you might be the type of person who gets bored doing wintertodt for firemaking. Go chop some logs and burn some logs if it makes you feel better. People also swear by superior dragon bones because "they're so fast for prayer XP" when really, they ARE faster, but at some point when you train your prayer high enough, you're still going to be clicking the altar for thousands of bones anyway, so even if you do dragon bones or lava dragon bones, you're still getting a ton of XP, just 5-10% less than if you used superiors and you're saving money in your bank too.
I get given shit ALL the time for not doing the best methods because they'll somehow magically "make me a better player" if I do them. 9/10 times though? The same people that spout this bullshit at me are lower level than me in that given skill because they got bored of training it that way. They ask me how I still do it and I say "because I don't train it when I don't want to and I'm not a meta whore when it comes to how I train. I click something, I watch numbers go up. Even if it's inefficient, I'm still getting XP and you're not."
TL;DR unless you're some burned out high level streamer/player on your third HCIM account OR you're a speedrunner trying to speed run maxing or w.e arbitrary weird goal you have, stop worrying about being giga efficient all the time. Stop turning games into work. Your boss isn't over your shoulder demanding you meet some arbitrary deadline. Punch out and have fun playing your game.
Great content. Extremely underrated content creator.
Glad you think so!
So many RS players seem to forget that games are for fun. If you find being perfectly efficient fun, that's great, but you don't need to feel that way to being playing the game "right".
Point 2 - Don't do dailies. For real I only do dailies if I'm going to the place anyway. I only do mahogany as my farm run. Doing dailies just felt like a chore interrupting what I was already doing.
If you like to break things up then maybe they are a good thing for you but I like to set up camp somewhere and grind it for ages so dailies felt like impositions.
I am also a mahogany enjoyer, but they aren't really that efficient anymore. Hop prices are crazy. You'd be better off doing other types of trees once every 3 days (same pace as mahogany). More exp and cheaper.
@@user-cr8vy2hs7o Nope, mahoganies mean I don't do a tree run. I just go to Fossil Island. All about minimal effort, not maximum efficiency.
It really shows in your videos your love for the game which honestly makes them that much better as opposed to just saying what people want to hear all the time!
Thanks so much Alex !
I feel like the biggest trap people fall into is feeling like they need to rush or even partake in raids. Been playing Runescape on and off for nearly 20 years now and essentially never have done any raids in RS2/3 or OSRS. The only time I have ever done a raid so far is when an account needs 1 kc for zeah elite diary. There is plenty of content in the game to never need to step foot in raids if not a fan of the content. Even on my harcore ironman I have mostly avoided raids asides from the 1 required kill. Gauntlet covers range completely and melee partially, godwars dungeon covers most of melee between bandos and torva, and the new desert treasure 2 bosses can now cover magic.
My issue are the skilling reqs. It's hard to commit to 100's of hours of non combat lol
Nah raids best content in game. Theres a reason people rush it
You ain’t wrong. So many noobs trying to rush raids and it doesn’t go that well lol
Disagree in my opinion raids are bad content they are way too long and the puzzle rooms suck.
I have full bis range and mage with tbow and shadow and i can count on my fingers how many raids i ran
For me, raids and bossing are the most interesting part of osrs. But the requirements just take so long to get, makes me not want to play😢
You're one of two RS content creators I like to watch and when I first heard you mention addons in wow in the plugin video I had to do a second take for a minute there lol. That came so out of the woodwork it was weird. Feels like there's not many people doing that switch, usually it's to something like FF14 or some other game with more wow-like combat. Going from being a cutting edge and a semi high-end mythic+ tank to struggling doing my first kills of barrows when i got base 40s/50s and 50 ranged and magic for msb and ibans, was a weird change. But regardless of what I do in OSRS at least I feel like whatever I'm wasting my time on I'm progressing in some way, unlike in wow.
Keep up the awesome content, I'm happy to be so early in following the channel and I look forward to watching it grow and learning more about the game on the way!
Another good one! I’m kind of burnt out right now. I have been setting crazy goals. I’m going to try and keep them smaller. Maybe I will actually play when I log in. Thanks for the content!
You got this!
Good points.
These are exactly the things I have run across though in my journey to max. Also don't be alarmed: I set max as my goal for the sake of maxing, not per se for the cape. During that time I ran into a lot of the problems you described and found very similar solutions.
Honestly man. You've got very refreshing and honest content. Great videos keep it up.
Glad you like them!
I always see these videos and think it’s a huge channel making them, it amazes me every time I see the sub count. The editing and videos are always so high quality
I appreciate that!
@@ElysianOSRS thank you for the amazing content sir 🫡
Congrats on the 3k milestone and continue on your journey and enjoy it.
Thank you so much!
As someone who has felt really frustrated with my progress, I really like your type of content. It has helped me tackle this game with a new mentality.
Thanks so much!
I highly recommended swapping stuff up every now amd then.
Whether it be switching to a different method or skill.
Took a slight detour on my 99 grinds and got a bunch of other benefits now
the bird and farm runs are so real. it almost feels like a chore or job but i also learned to do it when i feel like it and its helped!
I'm actually coming back to play runescape and this video hepls a lot ,tysm for the information
Pushing a grind I hated was the final straw that got me to quit RS3, and is why I have taken a different mentality with OSRS.
Back in the day, I had started only logging in a few times a year, not even keeping up members, and all I wanted was 85 mining. I don't know why THAT was my focus, but it was. I pushed that to burnout every time I logged in, and when I finally hit it, they changed mining the next month. It was my personal burnout grind that I never got a chance to enjoy the reward for, and THE reason I approached osrs with the mindset of no burnout grinds.
everyone is different. Just know that not being able to hold onto a massive grind doesn't make you "worse" than someone else.
I always find myself feeling my willpower is inferior to these people as if I'm failing some right of passage.
I try to remind myself that runescape isn't a relationship, and chores like birdhouse runs or herb runs are a choice, not a responsibility.
This video has helped me, being nearly maxed being forced to do the remaining levels I get burnt out super quick, so end up doing other things and enjoy the game more, keep it up dude.
Elysian is growing quickly. Im glad, its all very deserved!
You're too kind
You are definitely right about setting incremental goals
For example : I am training for 90 strength It is a lofty grind when that’s all I’m doing- however, I’m doing it at moss Giants for mossy keys chasing the essence drop.
They also dropping loads of clue scrolls for collection log. So I get hits of dopamine throughout my grind, as well as collecting loads of seeds loads of herbs and loads of ensouled heads which will help me and other grinds down the road, so finding something that rewards you along the way rather than a thankless grind like rock, crabs, or whatever.
Anyways, happy scaping!
Been obsessed with your videos lately, literally one of the most helpful osrs RUclips accounts for information
Wow, thanks!
Videos like this are usually a list chucked together just to get a video out. All of the points in here are really good. They all reasons I play for a week or so, then take another massive break, then come back and not stay or get anywhere
Thanks so much for the helpful feedback
A great tip for old players with near max main accounts that keep burning out is to bite the bullet and make a Ironman. It genuinely charges your whole look on the game and all the “useless” content as a main becomes not only useful but a fun experience most the time as the content usually gives big upgrades which would be junk usually. Stuff like mini games and quests not only become a challenge but they result in rewards that you wouldn’t care about as a main
I will say, "don't do dailies" is pretty lethal advice for an ironman specifically. You knda have to keep up with at the very least daily herb runs, or there'll come a time where one of your next goals will require a high herblore level (whether that's SOTE or elite diaries or having access to divine supercombats) and you'll realize you're time gated behind months of farming that you've neglected.
Also I actually completely agree with graceful being overrated, EVEN for irons. You can get dueling rings very easily and early, so when you really need run energy i.e. questing you can just pop into ferox and restore it while banking.
Thanks so much Elysian! New sub here :) I'm getting back into OSRS after a strong 1+ year hiatus! Thanks for all you're doing, keep up the great work my friend!
Thank you so much for watching and welcome back !
I've been playing an unrestricted ultimate iron man account on and off since February of last year, and I have to say it's really helped me reshape my perspective on grinding in this game. Even from day one, I knew that I was gonna have to approach things with clear, concrete goals. Because my focus shifted from the generally vague concept of maxing and making a bunch of money to unlocking things that will make the rest of the game easier to play, I really came to appreciate the results of the grinds I've undertaken a lot more than on my main. Knowing ahead of time that my grinds were automatically gonna take quite a lot longer than normal due to not having a bank, I just came to accept that slower methods were okay, because all progress is progress. Also, I always make sure to pick grinds that will benefit me in multiple ways through various content unlocks, because then it makes the time feel that much more worth it. After watching this video, I've found that playing this way for long enough helps you unlearn all of the deadly mistakes you covered, hahaha.
I always have goals in this game. So many of them, some more long term or short term than others. I'm working on 99 Farming and 99 Construction right now. I got 98 Farming today, and my bank now has the exact amount of Oak Planks I need for 99 Construction. I went from level 81 - 83 today in about an hour, broken into three segments of 15 - 20 minutes.
I'm at 2000 hours now and not close to maxing. BUT those 2000 hours include a few years stuck in f2p as a child.
I think I've made almost all of these mistakes. I played as a kid and quit around EoC, but didn't get that close to maxing anything. I came back to OSRS after HCIM was released and started over as that. Hated having such bad gear, deironed and played for a few years until I burnt out severely on the gp grinding gameplay loop. Started over again as HCIM thinking I could just hop back to my main if it ever got too much instead of deironing, but that just never happened. I'm still playing that ironman and it's way more progressed than the previous accounts. I did die at around 1700 total level, but I knew it was going to happen eventually anyways.
I did get burnt out on various ironman grinds multiple times and just quit for months. I still have some massive grinds ahead of me, but I know better now. I'll break it up and go do something else for a while. No matter what I do it's progress. Burning out and staying away for half a year means no progress on anything. I'm also much more aware of what intensity of content I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I enjoy being laser focused on a boss or something, other times I just want something more chill and other times I want max afk. I know several things in all of those intensity levels that will progress me.
The Dailies tip is so true. I work 12 hour shifts and the last thing I wanna do is run around and do herb runs every hour or so while being an end-game account.
Really nice video!
The goals part, as obvious as it sounds, really was the difference for me to get to play the game. I started years ago with no idea what to do, then later I set myself a dumb goal, and after a while my friend told me that smithing your own armor is not actually a reasonable way to go, because smithing goes much much slower.
Nowadays what I do is look at one grind I want to do, and sink some cash into it, maybe a mil maybe a bit more. All my grinds end up cash positive, but once I'm committed, I Know what I'm supposed to do. And on the other hand, I have a visual indicator of how I'm progressing as I see the number of items in the bank decrease. Instead of saying "i'll get 80 smithing", I said "i'll drop a mil in mithril bars and see where that (and reinvestments) takes me". seeing the dwindling stacks was always a boost in morale, especially every time I bought a smaller stack
(also for giveaway, I'm GwenTheKween)
Great video, glad I came across this channel! You’ve earned a sub. Keep up the great content bud!
Thanks for the sub! Really appreciate you
You’re right, i sometimes don’t feel like farming for days so I don’t and then when I finally do I actually enjoy doing it
I feel like I can thoroughly understand what you're saying.
I love your inflection and voice man.
You're the Man!
Thank you so much! You're the man!!
Love your content man, had no idea you only had so many subs, you’ll blow up soon!
I appreciate that!
I first got into osrs because I had two friends that kept on telling me I should play it with them. At first, all I did when I played with them was kill cows and collect their cowhide. I ended up getting around base 60 combats and 43 prayer from just killing cows. Eventually, they talked me into getting membership after I complete all the f2p quests.
My first goal as a member was to complete something that they hadn't done yet. So my first goal ended up getting the quest cape. This took me roughly 2 years to get. After that, I wanted my first 99 which ended up being farming. My next goal was to get the achievement cape (I found it funny that you mentioned that in your video haha). I'm currently 4 Elite diaries away from completing my goal.
I completely agree with your points. I had pretty high goals and at times it was disheartening when I realized it would take a long time to do, but the thing that helped me the most was taking a break from my grinds and trying new stuff or doing content with my buddies.
Great video. Good luck to everyone on their grinds and have fun playing osrs!
I love the chillscape music
Your content is a breath of fresh air for my OSRS feed. Love the great work. Keep up the awesome vibe!
Much appreciated!
This hits home. Thieving is my most hated skill. Grinded fruit stalls to 60 to do ardy knights. Done that to 65 now doing summer garden, I enjoy summer garden so much more than ardy knights.
One big thing I do to avoid burnout is simple:
If whatever (grind) I’m currently working on is starting to become boring, I change it up to different content, whether it’s another grind or a quest/diary or just money making.
I’ve always heard these same tips from other OSRS vids, but your words really got to me. Likely due to the firsthand experience you shared by doing opposite of what you said. Im an older player (early 2000s) that just came back to this game recently and got mem for the first time in my life. This vid helped me remind myself to not compare my account to the others around me. Thanks man.
just noticed how small your channel is dang, subbed. great stuff so far man cheers for the content
The biggest turnoff for me in this game has always been the snobby attitudes from maxed or end game players. I have casually enjoyed rs since i was in 3rd grade, and i really dgaf about sweating max efficiency methods. People who bank stand and judge "noobs" are some of the most pathetic people i can imagine, and to a new player it can really demotivate you. Why would i want to progress my account to hang out with those people?
Had somebody trick me into bringing a certain item while grinding slayer because it was "bis" (it wasnt even good) and then they sat there and made fun of me for not knowing otherwise. Sorry dude, i dont spend my whole day on the wiki. I think this game is great but its definitely got a toxic side, full of people who literally have no life outside of flexing on people who do.
Anyway, thanks for making these videos. Your attitude towards the game is way more healthy and genuinely helpful to casual players as well as serious ones. Cheers
That's a really crappy experience sorry you had to deal with that
@@ElysianOSRS thank you man, I'm just glad not everybody is like that. Keep making videos, you got my sub
With the exception of a couple of these points like getting graceful, all these could basically be applied to real life. Nice vid man
Very true!
I think most of the tips in this video can be transfered over other games, even other hobbies!
Very nice video, subscribed!
This channel will blow up! Best content I have seen in a while! 💯🔥
Appreciate that
This guy has to be one of next golden gnome winners for osrs
Love listening to your videos while falling asleep, thanks for the content!
I just restarted my membership, can’t wait to start playing again! Thanks for the content I just subbed 😊
Have fun!
Setting goals is huge - i’ve set my sights on a quest cape and base 75s. Makes me motivated to train a bunch of different skills and avoid burnout!
If I could add something. Try to always have a skill to afk when your getting bored of a piece of content. Doesn't matter the exp, as long as you keep doing it the exp will go up. I know bouncing around skills might seem engaging now, but plenty of players end up in a rut because they all have 80s and 90s skill levels that they don't want to train since they are all equally slow. But this way, you're like "hey I'm done killing zulrah for now, I'm just gonna chill and start afk woodcutting". By this time it's been about 3 months and you got yourself a 99 by afking between taking breaks from bossing. Money will come along with that too. Examples of things to afk:
Melee Combat: Full obsidian with zerk neck and obby sword. Afk at NMZ or ammonite crabs
Magic: Splashing (requires money/not really worth). Could high alch but click intensive.
Runecraft: Afk bloods (nets you over 150m with full rc outfit)
Woodcutting: Redwoods (or any other tree for that matter)
Agility: Rooftops can be pretty low effort if you are watching a show/movie. Sepulcher is fun when you unlock all floors.
Smithing: Smithing mithril dart tips or cannonballs is extremely afk and profitable
Fishing: Literally anything. I enjoyed lava eels personally. But karambwans and anglerfish are also fine.
Firemaking: Wintertodt is fast but bonfires are a thing now(cost money though but super afk)
Thieving: Look up the sq'irk minigame method that's been possible (world 523).
Crafting: D'hides/gem cutting/arrowheads are pretty afk with not much profit loss.
Cooking: Fast/afk/profitable
Fletching: Afk/profitable
Mining: Star mining is super afk. Mlm is not really afk but fairly low effort and makes you at least 50m depending on when you start.
Im glad I found this channel, great content so I subscribed right away.
Awesome, thank you!
keep pumping out vids and you’ll be big one day. make longer videos! osrs players love having background videos
I will try!
I already do alot to avoid these things but I wanted to comment, and sub because I find it really difficult coming to YT for help as alot of the content creators talk fast or use alot of terminology that as a casual player I find too much of an information dump. This video was very simple and to the point and you took great care to explain things. I'll be visiting this channel alot from now on! Thanks for the help and advice this was a service!
Thanks so much for the kind feedback I really appreciate it, thank you for supporting
I came back the game when the final sailing poll was out and a friend gave me a bond to vote. Basically i just bought bonds when they were selling for 9m+ grinded construction to 84 to max out my house. And with that done, made the plan to just bang out all the quests. I have since been playing almost daily raising my total from 1250 to almost almost 1750. Honestly the biggest takeaways are make goal roadmaps and understand your time's value.
The tips about dailies is really helpful, I find myself falling in that trap far too often.
Honestly this is a quality video. It's insightful, easy to follow, and isn't the same recycled content over and over again.
Thank you so much!
great quality content you have here! I really like the ideas you come up for videos specially this one! Very useful :)
Glad you like them!
I have had my breaks from OSRS though sometimes binge watching vids do make me want to come back and grind again
Great video man! Keep up the good work!
Thanks! Will do!
The game mode part, I got queat cape 6 years ago and indeed fell into gp/hrs scape. Ironman mode was very liberating
This channel will be one of the biggest osrs channels within a few years i'm calling it now. Deservedly so
Tips to the vid:
Dailys are fine if that are in line with whatever you're doing; don't pause content to do dailies, almost ever.
Having fun is also under rated, theres also content that will fit you mood, heboxjorge made a video about it a while ago where he says just have fun and find the content that fits your mood and it goes so well & true to this game!
OSRS Has gotten a lot of new players so I think some sort of progression based video would be good like quest -> diary -> max; so sprinkle in ca's pvming etc.
I saw some of your other videos and didn't even realize you only had a few thousand subs, awesome production quality man, keep it up.
Beautiful editing on these mate. Deserve so many more subs.
Glad you think so!
Definitely needed this to get my motivation back. Thanks ❤
You got this!
13:26 Also just popped to mind, but
It's totally valid to consider plugins to be cheating, in FFXIV, they are seen that way the equivalent of weak auras can get you banned if you talk about using it, and will get you banned if you stream yourself using it.
There was a massive kerfuffle when somebody got a world first clear with a zoom mod that let them zoom out further than other players, the team was DQ'd and the player was banned.
The problem is if plugins aren't considered to be cheating, then content needs to be developed with plugins in mind, which will lead to much more difficult content that assumes plugin use from players.
Being anti plugin is totally fine if you enjoy the game more like that.
I’ve been playing the game since 2007 on and off because.. life. But I will say, I came back recently and I’m genuinely surprised with how much content has come out within the last couple of years. It’s great when you’re going for efficiency but it definitely makes everything feel stale, accomplishments don’t feel as great as they used to.
bless us oh lord a new elysian vid
Bless you very much for the kind words!
My big issue was feeling anxious about bossing. I have 10k hours in the game and just a couple days ago finally started doing god wars bosses. I now love soloing kree arra, have done almost a hundred kc already.
Legit have been having the most fun I've ever had doing god wars bosses. Nex is super chill as well.
Another banger! A budget nex set up would be nice. So far, I’ve seen set ups with god dhide + arma cbow, then straight to Masori with zcb/ tbow or Masori with fang/voidwaker. Something in between would be beneficial to players who can afford more than an acb but less than full max gear. Also, letting us know when and what to upgrade to like a gear progression guide would be nice. Gear progression guides in general would be nice for certain bosses but I understand would be redundant for a lot of bosses. After a few of those kind of vids, maybe make a tier list of really nice gear to have for general bossing /pvm and a separate vid of overrated weapons?
Try to push for a zcb and rebuild from there and if your not running Masori it’s gonna be a little rough cause nex is gonna constantly agro you
Great video, i was surprised at how original your takes were in comparison to the million other similar videos in this platform.
Glad you liked it!
Going for graceful actually made me enjoy training agility since there was a goal attached.
One of the best tips I got from you was your video on Max hits and what’s most efficient! Makes me feel better now having the max gear haha, just gonna focus on stats while saving money, was glad to see that tip here as well appreciate your content it’s very helpful!!
Great to hear!
Cheers. Look forward to the content you'll provide us
Got into the game not long ago. Really enjoy your videos!
Glad you like them!
Excellent video, 100% could relate with a fair few of these! Possibly a basic one but a budget/barrows GWD guide, and not the crazy fly around the room ranging/maging but more concentrated on the prayer flicking? if ppl understand that it, unlocks so much content for them.. Well done Ely :)
I am a relatively early player with not much to my name but I made the dumb mistake of not banking my first 2mil when going to fight a quest boss much stronger than expected and now I am doing slayer. Not because it help me recuperate at all but just for therapeutic effect
OSRS is such a grindy game that you should focus on the progress rather than the finish line. I feel happy to see being 10% closer to a level rather than being annoyed I haven't leveled up. I'm learning to do Leviathan and happy to see I can get to its enraged phase consistently even though I haven't killed it yet.
Even irl I learn to look at my progress more and more, especially since I'm writing a novel and I can tell you that's a big grind, but I always feel happy to find the perfect sentence and see my word count go up.
Another quality video! This channel will keep on climbing !
Hope so! Thank you for your support
When i went for graceful I did it by getting anything between 5-25 marks of grace. Sometimes i just played a bit of canifis rooftop between League matches.
It took me close to a month to get it but doing it like that was not that bad :)
If I can give my 2 cents on setting goals. I just recently came back from a long break because Im stuck on galveck on my Ironman. I always just kept thinking when I come back Ill try again. Well thankfully my coworker that brought me back got me out of that mindset, and put me in a mindset of getting my range a couple more levels before I go back. I decided I wanted to train range using chins. I am now almost 99 hunter getting chins for range and doing herbiboar for herbs. (Also got herbi so thats a plus) I set my goal at either 100 herbiboars or 1000 chins a day, I feel as I can do with my limited time well still having time to go do other things like achievement diaries.