Few things to note: 1) I should have clarified: *NO BOSSING UNTIL 99* if you're focused on experience. Bossing is good for profit and mechanics, but experience (especially when learning) is abysmal. 2) Turning chat off in an MMO is silly, yes. But if you've been scammed before, you can never be scammed if you interact with others. Pretty extreme but hey, it works. 3) About NMZ, it's ok to do it for imbues and a few levels for weapon/armor requirements, but maxing it out without touching Slayer for the most part will be counterproductive if going for high levels/maxing.

For me a big mistake is not tracking long-term progress. As a working adult with a family, I hardly have time to play, maybe 1 or 2 hours per day at most, sometimes more on the weekends. Since the grinds are so long and incredibly varied, it can easily feel like running in place. But if you pan out and make note of where you are, say, at the end of a month versus the beginning, it can feel more fulfilling to see it from that perspective.

You’re absolutely insane for that bossing slayer tip. 96+ slayer is useless

Sort of an add-on to the upgrading gear tip, avoid buying new items until the price has settled. I saw tons of people lose gp buying the fang pre-nerf

Make sure you get your achievement diaries done. They are soo helpful I dragged it out and i wish I didn't. The easy teleports, extra drops, more staffs etc it's so worth the grind

Im sorry but not doing bosses until 99 slayer is the worst tip ever. Im like 100k xp off 99 slayer and ive done as much bossing as possible because I like it. I have several 100 kc to several 1000 kc in almost all bosses and my bank is around 600m. If i hadnt done any bossing i doubt my bank would be worth 150m

I think Jagex should expand on Agility and add a lot more great time saving Shortcuts between high traffic and high value locations to make Agility more worth leveling. There are obviously a few great shortcuts, but ive never leveled Agility for those, I only trained it for quest requirements and Run Energy depletion (and graceful).

NMZ at work is great, since I only have to check once every 15 minutes. Fishing, WC, etc can fill an inventory which can lead to downtime. Would rather one over the other, just my opinion though.

My biggest mistake was to think I needed to max my account to be able to fit in within a clan (to be able to participate in events). I ended up burning out and abandoning the game for months. Now I'm back with a new mindset that I can do whatever I want at the time I want using the method I want. As long as I'm having fun, it's okay.

i got max combats from nmz. i work most of the day and its easy to afk. and it makes it easier to kill slayer monsters as well. i could have leveled with slayer and took a year to get them all up with the little time i have at home to play. nothing wrong with doing what you can to keep lvling as long as you are enjoying the game. its not a race.

Biggest mistake was getting past mid game😂 barely played until I finally unlocked stuff like Gargs and nechs and then fell in love with slayer, getting close to 99 in less then a year with two cerb pets under 800kc

I've played on and off since RS Classic. One big thing I see is how much time people waste looking through their banks. Spend a few hours organising your bank, setting bank tabs and layouts (runelite) and you will noticeably see a better gameplay.

I'm old enough that on my main, NMZ Guthans Hosting and 6hr logout timer was still a thing. You'd get a host NMZ world with ONLY the best bosses (at the time you had to only do the quests, you couldn't select which enemies would be in the NMZ any other way) and then you could afk with Guthans for 6hrs. I would Wake up in the morning before work and get it going, come home at noon, restart it, come home after work, and then play normally. Baiscally I became max combat in the background, it was glorious. I'm glad I did all that before they removed it from the game.

i always waste the scammers time, it's great had a fellow try the same bank items one the other day

The tip I would give someone is to not fall for how easy content creators make it look to grind out skills or KC. It takes them hours and hours to get short clips, so expect to also spend a huge chunk of time progressing yourself. Also, dying can be frustrating and disheartening, but it’s part of the experience when learning boss mechanics. After many deaths, I only just recently had the DK rotation clock for me, and that’s probably one of the easiest things to learn when bossing. I’m excited to move on to other bosses and spend the time learning them. It’s a game, have fun.

Hey I’m in defense for training at nmz. Sure it’s more efficient doing slayer but the afk you can get at nmz is wayyyyy easier than the other skills you mentioned. If you set it up correctly, you only have to click once every 20 minutes or so. If you’re at a job where you can’t catch a break or out of the house, that might be literally the only thing you can do consistently. So.. why not?

Hard disagree on multiple points here. Depending on your goals NMZ is the way to go. I wanted quick access to endgame PVM content. NMZ afk made that possible with my schedule. I cant be leveling slayer for a year. Daily runs are a chore, lots of people will quit them after a while. They are also worse gp than just doing raids if you were going to do that anyway. You don't need 100m+ equipment for new challenges. DHCB + more as a min req for vorkath doesnt make much sense to me. I started running Vorkath as a money maker with low 90 melees, torso, dragon legs from the boss itself and a Lance which cost me 46m or so. With this you can get a consistent 3 kills a run and up to 5 on occasion.

Agreed on much, I confess I’m only 91 slayer but every time I unlock a slayer boss I grind it to learn the mechanics and get the kc needed to hit the hiscores (except guardians*) after which I go back to the xp grind and overall this applies to number 10….it’s fun and rewarding, feels like a little treat and break from the grind. * I want the granite dust for my cannon balls and I want the pet. So I’ve compromised with my play style in that whenever I get a Gargoyle task, I do one inventory worth of supplies to grind the boss. Usually 5 to 6 kills, then head to the basement to grind

I would like to add: Not training agility Getting the graceful set is hugely beneficial, as it makes your grind for every other skill in the game, like mining into smithing, or running farms, much quicker and more efficient. Agility sucks ass, but it's worth it, especially for Ironmen.

Good tips but, Efficiency really shouldn’t be a requirement for the game, everyone should play at their own pace. Even if it’s detrimental to “the grind”. Too much hardcore osrs people look down on players who are exp wasting, or wasting any time or not doing specific stuff etc etc, or generally playing the game they want. Not to mention new players who’ve never played before. I love the game but in the last few years the community has gotten this big head ego about this, and a lot of the newer content save for some examples(like Tempoross) have been tailored for the super end game that, surprise..not everyone can do even after a long time playing. People just expect these crazy high requirements off everyone. It’s a bit exhausting

Mistake I made in game that I wish I did it earlier is power mining with iron. Like, okay that was one "quick" way to 99 but by that time I don't even have prospector outfit and have to grid for it when I'm on achievement diary grind. Pretty painful tbh. Same story goes to bone to peaches

i played back in 05. Your videos are in my feed and its making want to experience it again

First mistake, play osrs

I did Slayer and didn’t enjoy it much. I wanted to do raids so I did afk NMZ for 90+ cb stats. Now I'm running ToA and enjoying the game more than I ever have. To each his own.

That tip for trying to beat your xp/h PB is really cool I never considered that

biggest mistake you can make IMO, letting others tell you how to have fun. OSRS is an addiction and the longer you play, the more important it is to have fun. I’ve played RS since probably 07-08. Burnout is real.

Glad I could help you find out about the dude in Nardah 😅I'd JUST read about that character on the wiki after I was about to do the exact same thing!

I recommend playing goal oriented as you said but be open to changing it up if it doesn't work for you. I for the life of me didn't understand blackjacking and ended up training 77-91 thru ardy knights & pyramid plunder instead of stressing about not being the most efficient way because I still got it done. Along the way you'll often find things you could do to make something more efficient but it requires a long grind (elite morytania for extra herb patch for instance) don't be afraid to switch up your grinds and focus on another one if you feel it'll help you out in the long run. If you ever feel mega burned out, play a different game for a little bit, you'll probably come back to runescape after a bit feeling less bleh about your next goal.

I do allot of things i don't really enjoy, whether it's for gp for upgrades, skills for quests, or the quests themselves. But im slowly getting to a point where i can do bosses and raids, the things i actually want to do

Use quest as milestone, then work your way towards completing quest Get as much unlimited teleports unlocked as possible, ectofungus, drakan medallion, fairy rings, 75 crafting for slayer ring, spirit trees etc. 55 runecraft for unlimited law runes They really make a big difference to the game when you can teleport everywhere

Just have fun. Love it. So simple and yet it's my hardest thing. I always get sucked it to some crazy grind. But just returned a day or 2 ago and doing it for fun. No goals in mind yet. Just going with the flow. Now watch the levels come in lol. So far so good.

great video I will keep the max cape grind tip in mind on my way to 99 runecrafting

NmZ warrior is fine... I maxed CB stats before slayer and enjoyed doing boss slayer to 99. If you do nmz slayer and no slayer then yeah that's one thing but if NMZ allows you to kill Zammy over greater demons at a lower slayer level and that's something to us want to do then more power to you.

Definitely feel called out. Got nmz maxed melee stats. But imo at a certain point only need to remote into my PC to send a tap throughout the day was far more afk than anything else possible in the game

Honestly, these scams make it hard to make friends with people around my level, I just wanna talk to people and they treat me with so much suspicion.

It's worse when people catfish you for months before screwing you over and then pretend like they have no idea what you are talking about or flat out ignore you.

That Sigmund kill was epic lol

i learned getting early high lv construction really helped me and training magic and range with slayer aswel

personally i stick to 1750+ only worlds lmao. i love empty ge and never having to fight for spots anywhere

He isn't wrong about goals and competing with yourself. I made zerkers after my very first account got hacked and banned. I made an second got bored and wanted to hangout with my friends till everyone moved or got much better things to do. I came back since the new fresh worlds came out and what I did was make new accounts to figure out what's the fastest way to level and play the game. I realize low hp and no melee. The new grave system let's you reboot your stuff and you don't need food plus restore runs. I got 57 wc and was able to figure out a lot of ways to train and I didn't have to even commute with others since the world's are pretty much empty. 3 months till the characters are moved to base game. Glad they did the worlds. Got me back into playing and watching videos I used to be into back in the day. Keep up the good work!!

That last one is the big one for me, it's easy to get lost in the abyss of optimal grinding and forget to stop and smell the roses

I think the last point is a good point. I hardly play the game anymore because I don't really enjoy playing it much anymore even though I enjoy watching content about it. I believe I would actually feel miserable if I forced myself. doing a little goal from time to time is plenty good for me :)

osrs is like heroin: you should never do it, because if you do, it will consume most of your life and become an obsession. Source: I’ve done both.

1. I picked the wrong slayer master. I did long, boring tasks and it turned me off from doing slayer. 2. I rushed combat and didn't do enough skilling which made my account unbalanced in levels. If I were doing it all over again I would do a lot more skilling at the start and pretty much only do slayer for combat and then do bossing when I am almost maxed combat.

Kaoz sadly bro I lost my tbow to that scam u showed . I was doing rebuild as well and had start all over . Best advice he gave in vid is simply don't talk to them. Learned my lesson never again my private stays off and even public chat whenever I'm at ge.

I camped Nightmare Zone to 97 Att/Str/Def, getting the last two levels with slayer. 20 mill points will give me a lot of money in herbs and I was able to imbue everything in the game.

The slayer vs nmz argument really comes down to how you value your time. I did a lot of nmz when I was working because it was so little attention required, it's essentially free xp considering I'd normally not be getting anything during those hours. You then take that xp and use it to speed up your slayer xp when you're actually playing actively. Sure, you're overflowing your combat xp, but who cares? You're going to do that anyway if you start raiding/bossing.

Some great tips, i'm coming up on 75 range and feel like i need to do fight caves for the cape but honestly the fight caves aren't fun for me. Spending all that time fighting through a ton of waves (most of which require no effort and are boring as hell) just for a chance at beating jad to get the cape sounds like a huge waste of time and not something i'd be interested in. I was leaning on the side of just waiting until i'm super OP for it then give it a shot, may even pass it entirely and stick with obsidian (mythical in future) but was feeling pressured to get it, but after your final point, i'll do it when i want to, i'm a skiller not a PVMer atm so i'll stick to what i enjoy. Fire cape is for the future

I think the problem with people not spending money comes from other mmos having bind on equip items. So people are just used to skipping over a few upgrades to save money.

NMZ warrior all day baby! Having low slayer than your combats gets such a bad rep. I work in an office, so I am on a computer all day. I remote desktop my home computer and have my account in nmz easy mode all day. Every 15 minutes I can just re pot up and click my health back to 1 and leave it alone, takes like 10 seconds. This is efficiency at it's peak! I don't have the time to be able to fish or any other "afk" skill. The nmz is true afk, and it makes slayer SO much easier to train when your combats are in the 90s.

In regards to setting small goals, please make sure to time them properly. I’m not saying look at how much time you have every single day, just know roughly how much time you have to play, assign those small goals for those times, then boom. You will be very pleased. As a new father, I barely get to play, but I still find time to get small quests done here and there!

You forgot a great reason to afk in nightmare zone is the access to herb boxes. Afking in nightmare zone makes it easy to stack up point and continually buy boxes daily which makes herb training much cheaper.

Common mistake is using up the last charge on jewelry. I always high alc my rings of dueling or games necklaces at 1 charge left so you don’t lose any go

My best singular advice for a brand new account is to pick a hard achievement diary task you set your ultimate goal for. It will be harder than you think for example I picked morytania hard as my intial ultimate goal. So I could have a timeless moneymaker setup on barrows. And by the time I got there I can decided I should just push for all zone and content unlocks as much as possible and ended with a fun quest cape on top of casually maxing combats at rock crabs. Took probably 1 year of ulting from my phone.

There's a plugin on runelite called entity hider, I just hide other players and turn public chat off and ignore any whispers that come from people I don't know. It's great to counter scammers but weird when you see random trees fall down or fires be made

Love the content keep grinding

That fight of beneath cursed sands is just pain to watch lol

My first mistake, do things without getting helpful boosts and unlocks first. My second mistake, force myself to do them and be miserable. After that, do whichever I feel like at the time and be content. no more mistakes

‘Set little goals’ < this. So what I’m doing is an OLAAT (one level at a time) and in between each level I’m hitting 25% of a Runecrafting level in between each other. I don’t do this for combat, because that’s done through Slaye, and you easily make the GP needed for the buyables this way once you’re around 85-86 in everything, as long as you’re keeping up your runs.

Great info! I’ve made these mistakes haha

I think the only point I really disagree with is not going hard into bossing before maxing. Especially if it's a slayer boss like the GG's, cerb, thermy, or krakatoa. Like yea I would agree don't sit there on the money snake for weeks, but if you have a slayer task & a boss you want to try and kill do it.

I got my 50kc for vorkath at 75 range with a blowpipe and tbh it wasn’t hard at all. And the assembler is a top tier upgrade so I would do it again in a heart beat. Also most players aren’t going to be grinding slayer out after 99 I feel like so bossing while you can seems like the most profitable way to train that skill. Outside of that I do agree with what you said though. I spent wayyyyy to much time at nmz.

thanks for the tips. what resource pack for the UI do yo use?

Is the music you're using in the background at the beginning from GW1 pre-searing?

lmao "I mean, what the hell are you even doing?" You're a legend man!!! Thanks for the inspiration :)

i set small goals that get big. I wanted Mort hard diaries so I could do better barrow runs. I needed more agility. The seers course would be needed for better xp. To maximize the seers course xp I needed Kandarin hard diary. So one simple goal became a much larger one. It reset my drive for the game tbh

I completely disagree on the NMZ being a waste of time. It's one of the most AFK things you can do in the game (other than Birdhouses/Farming). Your point was that we should do other AFK grindable skills like Fishing, Woodcutting or Mining. It all depends on what you classify as AFK though. In my job, I can't afford to be looking at the screen every few minutes. Even once every 20 minutes is pushing it. Therefore my only AFK option (when I'm wfh) is NMZ. It allows me to do all my chores, work and study without having to dedicate more than a few seconds every hour for great XP.

Doing soul wars atm on a iron acc and loving it, so tro I got burnt out going for zulrah and vork pet on main 😅 now I am loving the game because of a iron man acc lol great video keep up the good work

As someone that just afk’d rock crabs on my back-up phone when mobile came out I can say I would NEVER have maxed my combat if I only did slayer to level. The game is so, so much easier with max stats and the amount of lamps you get from maxing at rock crabs is insane. You easily finish the museum and have any skill you want at near 70 from lamps. Plus then you just collect bones for free super fast pray xp. Its just too damn easy to max all combats on crabs at fossil island. Talk about afking. And this is modern mobile logout timers. The difference between 85 combats and 99 with your percentage boosts buffs just tips alot of combat challenges into the easy mode.

I hard disagree with the Nmz one. its very convenient and requires barely any interaction or focus so you can do other things like work, school, etc.. idk how you can suggest woodcutting or fishing when those require more interaction than nmz. Yes you shouldn't neglect your slayer, but if you have moments where you can't give the game your focus but still want to be making some type of progress then Nmz isn't bad.

Got my QPC at 85 combat, it's been great since.

"You could kill vorkath at 75 range, a rune crossbow and an anti-dragon shield". Either you're joking or you just tore a piece from my soul.

If you're doing slayer efficiently you are mainly doing bursting or cannoning tasks, so in the end you wont actually get that much melee combat xp out of it

I don’t like when you said at the start “…play more efficiently and have fun doing it”. What if me bank standing or collecting shovels are barrows is fun for me? It’s subjective. Efficiency can take the fun out of the game because an MMORPG is just that, you doing what you want….but when you abide by the efficiency standards, it’s telling you how to do something you used to do otherwise. Sometimes it’s more fun to clean +10 more vorkaths/hour but other times, fun might be trying to solo corp with only potatoes. You know? Subjective. But good video. I learned some things that I didn’t think I would as a 15+ year veteran.

Number 10 is the most important one together with 4 maybe. It's a game after all you should have fun most importantly. I know people who quit RS because they set a goal that takes ages to achieve and didnt like the path you need to take to get it. For instace when I was looking for a good armor to traing melee combat Fighter Torso is mentioned a lot, but you need to play Barbarian assault minigame and I hate that minigame, I tried it once for the achievement diaries and then never touched it again. People shouldn't feel forced to do everything as efficiently as possible. Simply if you are not having fun, don't do it.

Im so glad I never even wanted to try max. All I wanted to do is get a questcape and fish. Now I suddenly find myself with multiple noncombat 99s

What lvl should I be for the funny money worm combat stat wise

I never knew this would be a mistake untill after it happened. I made a good OSRS friend, played with him for years! One day he messages me to meet him at the ge.. to my surprise he decided to give up RuneScape because it had become a mmmaaajjooorrrr problem in his life :(. Imagine my surprise when he gives me 670m+. I would say that was a game changing moment but it turns out it would be in a negative way! That killed my drive to grind out skills and learn new bosses, at that point I was already 99 in all melee hp, mining, and slayer, sure I got a bunch of xp and shiny gear but it all feels hollow and underwhelming and the game has lost a lot of enjoyment. Mostly I'll just stand at the ge these days or hop into f2p to take a noob on a dumb adventure for some coins but that's really it since then. Him and I played other games together after he quit and we're on discord alot, and we still are to this day so I know him leaving the game wasn't the issue D:

"Just don't talk to strangers" What a European answer

When I started 2 weeks ago I set a goal of doing every quest not fast but taking it step by step

Set realistic goals huh? Time to solo ToB!

The other day I learned you can give the farmers noted items as payment to watch your plants. I accidentally learned that the other day. Been playing for 14 years on and off and somehow never knew that 😑

Very good video Thanks :)

The one about biting off more than you can chew is a mistake im definitely making lol. Trying to grind assembler with 70 defence and without 75 attack for bgs or dragon warhammer. very doable kills but sometimes have to tele out before even finishing a 2nd kill. after i get the head it will be a while before i come back for sure.

For me it was stop trying to be tick perfect in everything. I put off runecrafting too long because I wasn't coming close to the wiki xp expectations. I realized its better i'm at least doing it half assed than not doing it at all...

I think one mistake I keep making is letting myself be a noob. I know, that sounds silly, but the thing is. I often play runescape on the side of doing something else. Like watching shows, doing school work, cleaning. The sorts. By doing all this, I'm accepting the fact that I don't have time and despite having placed a solid amount of hours into runescape overall, I hardly know anything about the game! I mean, the only skill I ever hit 99 in is woodcutting in rs3... cutting elders the entire time. I struggle to understand the scope of options and commitment to understand the games mechanics. Like farming? I never learned that skill. I know I plant stuff, but that's it. I've never done barrows before and I don't know how to boss what-so-ever. The mole and kbd are the only bosses I ever beat! I'm playing osrs for the first time and using runelite has helped me a lot with opening up to new mechanics in the game and with how massive the community is, there are a lot of good videos out there to teach me about a bunch of stuff! None-the-less. There is tons for me to learn and I'm barely scratching the surface. It's been a lot of fun seeing content I've never touched before so far!

I know the membership unlocks a ton within the game but is it worth it overall? And which version is the best bang for my buck

What is the plugin you use to mark the ground? Like 5:02 some are red or yellow

Biggest mistake is worrying about how other people play

quests get you onto the bossing ladder mindset. beating ds2 is a great start

I’m learning that after the quests there is a ton of more content left to do like raids and bosses etc. I do have to say though once my main is done I don’t think I will ever do a iron man that’s just asking for a life of no life but the game lol

Loved this video!

Osrs is a great game truly! There is a reason gamers quit and come back to playing it again. But people who have a life, work, training and other social life are limited in playing osrs. some people don't have 8-10 hours to grind everyday unfortunately :/

I made a goal to complete the varrock medium diary. Completed 4 quests in one day.

i get the quest thing i keep telling myself i should do my last 30quests but i always end up doing other things >< i do disagree on the not bossing before 99 slayer tho i feel like it depends on the boss in question and the players stats im currently 94 slayer with 99 range magic hp 83 att 97str and 82 defence 82 prayer since i trained my combat stats mainly with slayer stuff like cerberus at this point goes really smooth a boss i would skip on slayer is vorkath on a blue dragon task if you dont have lance/dhcb since you don't gain anything from your slayer helm anyway and its a boss you can do whenever you please it can feel like a real task getting 150 vorkath kills but bosses that require a slayer task to kill i would personally atleast attempt and see how it goes even if its only like 5kills per task and doing the rest on normal monsters

Love the content bro

I have been playing on and off since 2004 and I still have so much to do. And I had my new account since 2016 or 2017 and just now about to get quest cape and then achievements cape then trying to max finally once and for all !!!

5:00 My fist Goal its Barrow Gloves and some items like Bone crucher etc

Some people don't know how to take it easy and limit themselves. I rarely play more than a couple hours a day on my days off. Keeps the game fun that way

I'm maxing with nmz at work so yes I'm guilty of that since Slayer would be a thousand times more worth it XD, I do it while I'm at work so the account gets some progress at the same time and I want to do some Melee content, but I guess I'll stop doing it so frequently and I will do Fishing or another afkable skill since Is more efficient to train slayer with melee