Lifelong World of Warcraft player tries OSRS... is it any good?

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Please note: The Majority of us have played since we didn't have pubes - and we all were terrible at the game. Maybe the very rare few knew what they were doing, but ultimately - Nobody knew - We were bad, very bad - Nobody had internet fast enough to even really play the game properly. WOW, Attack a thing - You have lag? You'll be fine, time the clicks. When you're working with .6 second game ticks - It's as if MMG wanted us to fail, or more likely - Even the game devs didn't know what they were doing either.

Welcome to the game! I’ve always described runescape to my friends as “a goal setting simulator”. You look ahead a few hours for your character, decide what skills/quests you want to get done, then knock them off in a checklist style. As your account progresses, the goals get longer and require more game knowledge, but the feeling for completing them scales with it. Hope you enjoy the journey!

Coming from a theme park MMO like WoW and going blind into a OSRS which is a sandbox MMO can leave you very lost as you experienced but I hope you stick with it! Your friends recommending quests is also imo the best way to get introduced to the game world since they show you around a lot of places and please to all quests with either the quest helper plugin or the guides on the wiki but also try to read some of the dialogue and you'll find this to be the most charming game out there. Also try just examining stuff around the world, you'll get a good laugh every now and then.

Wow player of 17+ years here, I played RuneScape as a kid too but had no idea what I was doing. A few years ago I made a “main account” on OSRS; didn’t really get that far considering classic had dropped shortly after and I put the game on the back burner. Last year I made an Ironman, got to about 80-100 quest points and quit again for my retail stint. A few months ago I picked up my original main account that I made before the pandemic and I have been having such a wonderful time. I’m starting to get that old sense of wonder for MMOs again that I haven’t felt since playing Warcraft forever ago. This game is truly special and has a significant grip on me. I got my barrows gloves last week and I haven’t felt that good about a goal in a video game since hitting 60 the first time. Stick with it, this game gets so good so quickly.

"Hopefully will get to the endgame sometime soon" my brother you can play 2k hours and still be mid game, especially as a new player. End game osrs is being maxed, hunting pets, getting BIS gear from raids and end game bosses you can't even dream of right now.

Questing at the start is the correct answer because a lot of the content is locked behind quests and you can also skip over early level grinding with rewards. After you get generally familiar with the game though it is basically just do whatever you feel like at the time.

man is down to 1 of 4 lives at 2 and a half minutes into the video I'm so glad you found this game, hope you guys have fun

Let's go! My advice for a new player is this: Explore. Walk around to all the cities you can and right click examine everything you can along the way. Find the banks in each city and observe what people are gravitating towards in each town. Start looking through the skills by clicking on the icon. Click on the other icons in your ui and read! Eventually something will pop out at you and most likely you'll land into a dialogue with an NPC that starts a quest. Get some quests done and enjoy some skills. Dont worry about being the most efficient until you have your eyes on a goal and your personal method is stretched to capacity. It is a triple marathon, not a sprint.

92 may be half way xp wise to 99, but you often gain access to a lot more xp per hour methods as you level up. Things like Wintertodt offer xp based on your level, so it wont take you as long to get to 99 from 92 as it does to get to 92, but it still is a long time. Your friends say to stay there because wintertodt also does damage to you based off your max hp, which means the lower your hp is, the less damage it deals to you per hit on average, making cheaper and lower healing food better at low HP. A 10 hp account can do several kills with a few pieces of cheap, easy to get food like cake or wine, while a 70+ hp account will go through a bunch of higher healing and harder to get food per kill. And Wintertodt is the best firemaking training method for Iron accounts.

a pretty good thing to keep in mind when you're new is the wiki button right underneath your world map. when you have it selected and then click on any interactable object/NPC in the game, weather it is in your inventory or on the screen, it will open up the wiki page for that object/NPC etc. with a pretty detailed list of it's use & purpose. definitively a reliable tool for new players and veterans.

If you ever feel lost on what to do, what I did as a new player is I followed the optimal quest order on the wiki. As I did that, I learned about what early game goals should be from other YouTube videos, such as getting Barrows Gloves from the Recipe for Disaster quest, or realizing that unlocking a specific teleport would save me a lot of time, such as GE teleport or Fairy Rings. I'll find out about a money-making method that I want to try out so I'll grind out the levels for it, or I'll set my eyes on completing a specific region diary for a reward it unlocks. I would say the long term goals to reach the mid-game are Barrows Gloves, all Spellbooks unlocked, all your preferred teleports unlocked (for example, Grand Exchange teleport), and finally, your first Fire Cape, which will also serve as the first stepping stone towards modern bossing.

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Great video, was very refreshing to hear the perspective of a new player, I couldn't even begin to imagine what it'd be like playing this game again for the first time in my shoes now! I also followed Oziris's ironman efficiency guide. I followed it to a T, all the way to the end and I would like to share some thoughts if you're willing to hear them: The guide is a little bit outdated, it's 3 years old now and hasn't been updated to account for updates/new content. Don't take me the wrong way; it's still a very good guide and it will get you to a great point if you follow it but there's definitely some aspects of it that are no longer necessary or have alternative ways of doing them. For example, by far my most hated segment of the guide was getting 88 thieving by blackjacking. I just found it incredibly unfun, and a pain on my hands. Now you can alternatively opt for Varlamore thieving, which isn't as efficient xp wise but is still pretty good and more importantly, it's much less click intensive (unless you like the more active training methods). If I was to start over, that's how I'd make my initial ironman money. Another example is, the guide does not include doing the Defender of Varrock quest to obtain the Zombie Axe, which will be your BiS crush weapon for quite some time and is stronger than the Dragon Scimitar (which will be your main BiS melee weapon for a long time) in some cases. They've also removed Hosidius favour, so that's a part of the guide that can be completely skipped now. There's definitely a bunch of other things that are missing and I'm not going to go over everything, but I'd encourage you to ask your friends about any relevant updates for levelling your Ironman (perilous moons, Scurrius, combat and skilling rebalance, come to mind). Another general tip I'd give, is don't be afraid to spend your gold, you can always make more. Thieving will probably be one of your solid money makers in the early stages but there's a certain point towards the end of the guide where you'll be making constant GP, so don't stress about it, it's there to be spent. Hope this was helpful, I wish you the best of luck in your grind. Thanks again for sharing your perspective, I enjoyed the video :)

Teacher said every time an ironman gets excited for Wintertodt, an angel gets his wings.

ironman mode is what made me fall in love with osrs again after maxing my main account

Welcome to Old School! I hope you enjoy it as much as many of the player base does. I’m not sure how soon you’ll get to end-game. The early-mid-end game periods of the game are each quite long and undefined. I consider myself in the ‘end-game’ at 90 days playtime with raids under my belt, but I got EXTREMELY lucky at Corrupted Gauntlet (not in the guide you use, my friend used the same one) and got my Enhanced weapon seed at 50kc. Some people spend 20 days game time in CG just for it.

as a 22 year runescape player, stick with your friends words. 1) achieve barrow gloves (Finish recipe for disaster; you' re likely hooked by this) 2) achieve Questpoint cape quests = more fun overall 3) go far/achieve the Achievement Diary completion - SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many QOL's are unlocked from these to make gameplay infinitely more enjoyable!

So cool to hear someone's perspective who has never played the game.

Seeing you find out even the simplest of things for the first time and how you reacted to them is so pure. Defo hitting the notification bell in hope of more OSRS content!