My picks for WORST Region Selection: Melee with Kandarin, Tirannwn, Zeah

I was originally gonna go mage relic, but the range route lines up perfectly with the regions I’m choosing. And boy does a 2-tick ZCB sound incredible

Thank you for this. I was having such a hard time picking what build I want to do. I was going to go with melee but I knew I didn't want theater. But you explaining range. MAN that seems like the most fun! Plus all the bossing you want!

You totally made me question my route for ranged with the crossbow insight!!! Now to go have pace around the apartment for an hour haha. Thanks the awesome deep dive DoubleShine!!!

Straight up most helpful and well spirited videos I've seen in a little while. Love this video and a ton of useful information that is concise. I'm even more excited for Leagues now that its just around the corner!

Love watching the channel explode with leagues nearing keep up the great content!

Door build with FZM is also great. Gets you leaf-bladed axe as sustain weapon to use until you get door. Plus thanks to the immunities from the melee relic vorkath is basically free so that gets you plenty of easy prayer.

I have another great video idea for you. You should cover which bosses are in every region, including demi bosses and such. Since most have some sort of a KC task attached, people who are looking for dragon tier might want to know what major/(mini)major grinds they might be getting into! Plus I just want to see more content from you!

Also, you can get imbued god cape from wildy. That + regular imbued heart helps close the gap a bit with Fremmy at least.

Last leagues I learned raids2 in full melee, so this leagues I want to learn COX as I've actually never tried it. Thanks to your wonderfull videos I've decided to go asgarnia > tiranwin (as I also want to get better at the gauntlet, and dont really have time for very time intensive grinds) into Kourend. I'm super excited for this leagues and hope everyone else is too!

Dude, this is the best video I've seen so far. You prioritize fun instead of raw efficiency-scape. Very balanced take, super refreshing to hear

Great video! I'D have to say I am tempted to go to the DOOR build! It would prove so challenging to build but theres something unique about being able to afk inferno up to triple jads. All hail the DOOR!

Featured on Jagex update page!! Well done :D

how does this man have less than 10k subs. Amazing video! Good info, helped me iron out my leagues plan.

a note for the ranged route is that rcb limbs also drop from the archaeologist on fossil island if you hate doing steel dragons

im very glad i decided to give leagues a shot this year because i absolutely love the way you break down the game and keep it engaging by not trying to just push everyone into what you think your best strategy is but more so help folks with less game knowledge have a more solid base to make their own plans from! you are quickly one of my favorite osrs content creators for sure i hope you make lots more content here

Yoooo I was so excited when I got the notification for this vid! Just what I needed after a long day

Hey dude. I've never heard of you until this leagues, and I got to say.. damn good insight and info. Keep it up!

You made it into an official Jagex post. Gz!

Fun Factor being the top of your list is GREAT. So many players are obsessed with finding the best relic by the numbers, picking the best region for that relic and getting the most out of their time in Leagues. It’s a fun game mode and if that’s how they have their fun, go for it, but I’d encourage everyone to just play.

This made me even more excited for range route. i was still dead set on tir and hadnt considered a desert kourend asgarnia route. definitely will be going that way

4:49 yessss THIS! there might be the "best for streamers, or best for maximum points" but hoenstly theyre all objectivly amazing when you min max around what you enjoy, what avoids burnout, what your goals are for the league, and what you want ot leanr and achieve. I CANT WAIT TO HAVE A BLAST IN ZAD MELEE~!

Thanks for sharing my build! :) -Zeroic

Congratz on 2.5k, another great vid :)

best league video i've seen by far, love the way you break everything down that I was interested in

The fun factor was actually what I wanted to hear. Leagues is off putting at times with even more effeciencyscape. Liked the video as soon as you said fun factor. Have fun in leagues! I know I will.

I think with ruinous prayers and the spec relic announced now there's a viable melee route in Kourend-Desert-Asgarnia. Don't need piety, unlocks two raids and DHL, d claws, plus all of kourend skilling. Thinking that's my route

im gonna be mad as heck if you don't have a series when leagues drops

Unless something groundbreaking happens in the next week of teasers, im currently planning on doing melee relic and unlocking, Zeah, Asgarnia, and Fremennik. So excited that last recall is back and isnt competing for a relic choice this time around. Cant wait to see what other madness the rest of the relics can cause.

I like your content and I am rooting for you to get as many subscribers as possible via these leagues videos. Inspiring! Keep up the good work and I wish you some good rng in leagues! We might even meet since I am probably gonna pick the same regions. ;)

I am not super familiar with the newest updates to osrs over the last handful of years I tend to always do what I was doing back in the day but the increased OP exp rates fill me with so much dopamine I’ll definitely be resubbing to osrs next week

My picks for Worst region combination: Magic with Tirannwn, Fremmenik, Asgarnia. (In this order) Why: 1. Tirannwn's only magic upgrade is the magic fang, which cannot be used on a trident since Kandarin isn't unlocked. I'm not sure if unlocking Tirannwn unlocks the iban's staff, but if it does, that will be your best in slot magic weapon (and slayer staff) until Asgarnia (or until you get a better spell, like fire wave). 2. Fremmenik unlocks the seer's ring (and the mud battlestaff, but eh). (getting them will be tedious) 3. Asgarnia has some decent unlocks for mage, those being the void magic set, Staff of The Dead, and eternal boots. 4. If you wanted to increase late game power, but make the grind tedious and horrible, Asgarnia could be swapped out with Morytania. (this way you can get the sanguinesti and nightmare staff, but getting them will be hell). Best in slot gear with Tirannwn, Fremmenik, Asgarnia would be: Normal void magic set, eternal boots, seer's ring (not imbued), Toxic SoTD, Ancient wyvern shield, infernal cape, amulet of fury, any blessing. (Best in slot gear with Morytania instead of Asgarnia: Ahrims, Wizard boots, seer's ring (not imbued), Regen bracelet, Sanguinesti or Nightmare staff, Ancient wyvern shield, infernal cape, Amulet of fury, any blessing.) (This is significantly better, but I feel like this would be an incredibly tedious route, and probably not very fun.) I'm sure i missed some sort of gear upgrade, so the best in slots might be different.

Love your video's! I have just one remark: for the alternate mage route I believe you need to have picked Desert as well to be able to get the Magus ring in the Fremenik area.

I am going to do WAM melee. Voidwaker and Ely Shield from Wildy, Justiciar from Morytania, and getting Guardian Boots and SGS from Asgarnia. My goal is mostly to learn content I have never touched in the Wildy and TOB, and have a fun end goal by being a mega paladin by the end.

Been an on and off osrs player for like 6 years. Gonna use this league to try later game content. Thanks for the guide.

one caveat with the fire surge build is that there's a 1t delay when autocasting. so if you plan on doing content that requires moving a lot (olm), ur fire surge setup is gonna feel very awkward unless you're manually casting it

I'm planning to use this league to learn bosses. I don't want to learn Desert as it's probably the easiest to learn in the main game due to the variable difficulty of ToA. So I'm left with Asgarnia, Kourend, and Morytania. And I have no idea what combat style would be best for those. Ranged is probably better due to not having piety, but there's so much melee loot and the Bulwark idea sounds fun to me. Maybe a relic will let us choose a second relic of this tier so I could just use both styles.

7:25 dropping kandarins because of ruinous prayers after release now is SO HYPE! i wanted ot do cox, and now we get EVEN BETTER PIS PRAYER and get ot have a region that is extreemly competative skilling wise. only downside is looss of a off style magic choice so you either want to slip in desert instead of mory or grind hard for spagghetti staff to carry ya cheers

Glad I stumbled onto this channel, your leagues content seems is definitely top tier, well-researched and accurate! And I know I can trust a fellow former A-F-K melee gang member :) Range builds do seem strongest so far but for some reason I am much more excited to go magic this time around. Still deciding what to pair with K+D though...

If my math is correct, blood fury is actually BiS with melee relic with not just sustain, but with damage too. 57 max hit with blood fury vs 56 max hit with torture because of extra def bonuses. Blood fury loses to torture in accuracy by 2.5%, which ends up losing in high DEF opponents, but that won't matter if you get a dwh.

I have little to no experience with the "optimal" ranged build, but i think im going to try it out. It will be a good opportunity for me to learn some of the end game bosses I have no experience with.

There's another magic spec weapon in Morytania! The nightmare staff from Phosani's nightmare. Also the Imbued God capes are in wilderness

Idk if someone has mentioned it, but magic has another spec - Nightmare Staffs. Volatile in particular competes with Tumuneks Shadow with a Spec build. Could go ZKM or FKM as extra non-desert options.

Thank you for the recommendations! Great note to have fun, people tend to get lost in the meta nowadays. :) Hope you have a fantastic leagues 4!

For the Asgarnia pickers (especially range), VOID VOID VOID. Range Void is better than Armadyl for most DPS calculation and can be acquired insanely early on.

I'll was going Ranged but the magic relic has convinced me to revert back to my ambitious choice of ZDM, The plan is to get tasks, diary, and skilling out of the way in the starters/ zeah and the desert and to invest heavily in combat once Mory is unlocked. (Maybe water/fire tome? Plus rada's blessing is nice even at a +1) Planning on going from fire battlestaff ->infinity robes/master wand/mages book once I have a strong enough minigame multiplier + Ring of Shadows for 75k +Magic Ammy-> Ahrims -> Fire Cape/99 Cape T-> Hit up the raids and pray

i think its worth noting if u get the bofa then putit on accurate; both accurate and rapid both are 2 tick, but u do get the extra accuracy from using that style

I'm definitely leading to KDA for magic as well, kinda funny that KDA is just individually one of the best choices for both magic and melee. Indeed the main thing leading me to asgarnia is the whisperer for Virtus Robes, and hasta/defender which seem quite useful for grinding out ToA (especially if you decide to grind for shadow you'd be in ToA for a while)

I hope you, or anyone else sees this and helps me with some advice lol. I’m a new father and going to be solo and on mobile a decent amount. I’ve never done a raid and stuck on my region choice. Was thinking maybe Kandarin, Zeah, Desert and going mage main? I just want to be able to complete a lot of tasks and boss on mobile if needed lol. Any advice? EDIT: I completely forgot to thank you for the video and info. You have put a lot of work into these videos and it shows!!!

Door build sounds epic. Please give us a door-build roadmap video!

Really loving all the vids, great summaries and in-depth ideas at the same time keep it up and hope you enjoy your league!

man your content this leagues is seriously top tier and your dedication to reply to everyone! you deserve your blowup man!

It’s worth mentioning that dinh’s is also a big dps spec (usually > claws) since it double hits your target on spec, without even factoring in its aoe utility. Door gang rise up!

im going melee with asgarnia, fremmy, and desert and rocking that sick ass 2t soulreaper axe

Impressed with your content.

Another banger. Looking like melee K A D or K A F for me. Excited... one more week. At least there's a few more leaks and deep-dives to look forward to until then :)

I read some pretty wild tech about using onyx bolt tips from the tokkul store and the ranged relic that seems like it could be nuts

Even for a rs and especially leagues obsessed guy like myself, I still pick up some good tips on your vids. Thanks and keep it up!

How bad would it be if I didn't go Kandarin as melee? I really wanted to go Asgarnia, Desert and Morytania. Is losing out on Piety/Chivalry going to hurt me that badly?

A fun melee build could also be ZMD since it gives you so many 5t weapons to play with. Fast access to the Soulreaper axe from Vardorvis, Bulwark, Scythe, and Fang. As well as full justi to support the door. You don't get piety, defenders or torva here, but it could be fun and varied.

As someone who really isn't into raiding all that much, thank you for outlining a raidless melee setup

Cult of the Door calls to me, I love Dinhs so much. KKA seems to be the most flexible though for me personally, while also including Door, but I want to take this league to also learn ToA. Maybe KAD? But then no Door. I wish we had a fourth choice, so hard to choose. Nonetheless as a huge noob this video certainly did help narrow it down for me though, thanks!

Grrat video, but another good option for ranged could be Desert Asgarnia Fremennik, you loose rigour and the buckler but you get an assembler, venator ring and dfw, wich compensate some of the ranged strength while being less raid heavy. Also venator bow is too cool.

If you do range, you can argue about Tyrannwn for BP in midgame, Bowfa, and the 4tick Dark Bow (with the spec relic this might be very fun?). Also I think Zeah Desert Morytania/Fremennik are very fun for melee. Either the inquis/justi scythe/door build (has it been tried yet?) with Morytania or the Gloves/Rings/Axe build with fremmy, they both have fun stuff, but you miss out on Asgarnia. The main issue I see with DZF is that your body/legs slots are kinda doomed if going melee, no? But you do get two raids and 3 dt2 bosses to have fun with

New subscriber here, really enjoying your content. One thing i havent noticed people discussing regarding the range relic is that almost all the time accurate is going to be superior to rapid.

The Wilderness also have the spectral shield in corp beast tho. My worst choices: Magic with fremenik, tirannwn and Asgarnia. But for real tho: I honestly don't know what route to go, i want to go to the wilderness because i want to take advantage of the safe deaths there to be able to bring good itens without fear, since i'm terrible at bosses/reflexes it would be the perfect time to try to kill wilderness bosses. If i go ranged i could try and go asgarnia, but while zeah would be nice like i said i'm terrible at reflexes, and while the gauntlet does require them i doubt they are harder than CoX, but i could be wrong since i never did either of them. If i go melee i would need to go do ToA and/or ToB and that is also not great. If i go mage i need to go desert, and while ToA is considered easier (never done it as well) it's still a raid, besides i would need to keep killing the leviathan and that is a very hard boss, or so i'm told. What do you guys think?

Excellent video!

Frem for venator bow and ranged sounds so fun, but extremely niche. Range does seem fun this leagues!

I still think it might be too early to *really* confirm area choices. This combat relic really flipped ranged route players to ditch prif with asgar. There might be another relic until release that flips it back around. Who knows.

Actually have thoroughly enjoyed these. Perfect to watch at work and theory craft

The idea of using the bulwark as a main weapon is amazing, i really wanna do that!

Best OSRS KZfaqr right now and it’s by a long shot 👏🏻

20:40 You can also get the runite limbs as 1/25.6 from the deranged archeologist+ an early black d'hide body which he drops

Something I dont see people mentioning is that the range relic only helps with range, and the mage relic only helps with mage... But the melee relic also gives defence bonuses and immunities to status conditions, helping with whatever style you're fighting... I seriously think that people are underestimating how much that much bonus tankiness will help.

Imagine picking Morytania with melee relic and using full dharok and critting faster than whip in main game. Would be fun

Kandarin will be a great alternative to Desert for ranged. Not much weaker with just Armadyl and if you can do the diaries, your 10% increased bolt proc chance is doubled, which roughly makes up the difference, or makes it better against some monsters, I believe.

This is the video that makes your channel pop off

great vid man. thank you

Can you kill zulrah with a halberd? almost positive you can get one from the shop at tyrus camp and use it as a 2 tick because of its 5 tick attack speed.

Dude, you're actually a genius. I didn't even think that DLong was going to be better with it being 2 ticks this league! That special attack noise is a classic! Although, how is it stronger than a whip? Maybe I missing something about their stats, but the whip has better strength and slash

Im personally going for bowfa range build. Frem and desert will be my other unlocks for some Toa! Super excited

I think I'm going to go for a Ranged build in Fremennik + Asgarnia + Zeah. Those regions have what I consider to be the most enjoyable content for me, and they seem to synergise reasonably well too. Who knows, though - everything could change once we get the full list of relics and passive effects!

You forgot to mention Mages option of Ancient sceptre if they pick Fremmy but otherwise great video. Its such a minor thing to leave off though as you said, Kandarin and Desert are pretty much mandatory. All sceptre would do is aid you in getting a Shadow if you pick Fremmy as your first region. Otherwise you can add a Dt2 jewel to the sceptre to attempt to buff up the power pre-Shadow. Fremmy could also have some potential use for Range if there is some cool use you can find with a 2-tick Venator bow in multi (If we get explosive attacks back)

Melee, Tiranwyn, Kourend, Wilderness You get almost no melee bis other than ferocious gloves and arguably blade of saeldor. You get a good spec weapon (claws/voidwaker) but these are essentially duplicated i.e. you waste a region getting another spec weap with very similar use case. Your bis setup ends up being obsidian armour with blade of saeldor and you have bosses like zulrah, olm and zuk you literally and almost none of the raid rewards you can access are particularly useful to you.

You mentioned the Voidwaker spec doesn't work with the melee relic, but that's only for the 10% crit chance, right? The important part is having the speed increase on the spec. The accuracy buff also doesn't matter since it's a guaranteed hit. I'm planning on going melee with Asgarnia + Desert + Wildy because I like the content, and spamming Voidwaker specs is a pretty big part of the fun factor. Very excited to play a little OSRS after a long break, thanks for the informative videos!

Just the video I needed

The Accursed Sceptre isn't the only magic spec weapon; the Nightmare Staves exist. The Volatile Nightmare Staff has a spec that should be able to hit mid-90s, and the Eldritch Nightmare Staff heals your prayer based on damage dealt. Depending on what special attack relics there are (if any) I can see either/both of them being very useful. Given how most of the power of a mage build comes from Kandarin and Desert anyway, and how the Shadow can effectively do just about anything including ToB and Nightmare, Morytania is a pretty good third region choice as well.

I managed to get a dragon longsword before I could even equip it due to grinding soul wars for food/pure essence It has been really nice to use since I got the attack level for it. I obviously decided to go melee upon getting it and am doing Asgarnia Desert and Morytania

Melee: WTZ: You'll have leaf-bladed battleaxe, claws/voidwaker for spec, obsidian armor, torso, piety and that's it. 😅 Ranged: WMF: only Venator and Karils. Mage: TAF: uhhh.... you'll have lunars? 🤣

for anyone watching this now one of the later relic seems to be a prayer book meaning you no longer need to consider the regions that give dmg prayers if you pick the prayer relic

Morytania is an honorable mention for magic build. It can use the Nightmare staves which (a) have a special attack and (b) have the best in slot standard spell increase of +15%. This boost is tied with the Staff of the Dead (Asgarnia) and the Kodai Wand (Zeah + Desert).

Having so much fun with mage. Unlocked desert and kandarin so far. Still stuck on what my last map unlock should be!

Great info and well presented ty

Bis mage is dkz Bis melle is mka scy or dka fang Bis range is zda, a can be swapped for another relic if you don't like gwd, the main reason a is included is zcb special Bis mage (dkz) is also overall best with no weak style. Bis mage, fang tbow zcb claws lightbearer There are other options but tgese are the best 4 depending on what you want

It's genuinely hard to resist the Cult of the Door but it's the exact opposite route I'm going for melee Also, looking at the worst regions is actually a good way to help better think of your regions I can't believe I haven't thought of that

gr8 vid man! subbed!

Now I know why I was seeing this fox on every leagues video

You got me sold on faith build. Unless evidence supports it won’t work; I’m doing it 😆

Am I being stupid but how can you get soul reaper axe with this zones you said? You need desert for the quest, then fremenik for Duke, kourend for vard, misth for levi and asg for whisp?

Are there going to be any fun uses for a venator bow? It’s a 4 tick like bowfa but I am curious if the chance to fire an extra projectile can also proc the ricochet effect?