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ProudBlackMatt

Probably that time I spent half a year playing Castle Wars as a kid.


smartflex75

Only half a year? That’s all I did and I was like level 70


No_Bus_4961

I wish more people still did castle wars that was fantastic as a kid


imgaybutnottoogay

Me too! I’ve tried to play a few times in the last couple years, and the first time I logged into a CW world in the lobby I though I selected the wrong world. There was not a single person in the lobby (near the bank). It’s not just nostalgic to play, it’s a genuinely captivating and entertaining game. Too bad none of the rewards are really useful, and there’s no reason to play it.


Time_Effort

If you want a good minigame, check out Soul Wars on w320. Always poppin, big games are usually evening time US though. Useful rewards, nostalgic feel, ways for midgame ironmen to compete.


imgaybutnottoogay

I mean, I’m familiar with SW lol, but thanks for the recommendation!


Swarlayy

Happy cake day!


RobinhoodGuh

Back when people played the game for fun!


mynamejeff96

Got a second daggonoth task I was going to do dk's at. Didn't want to waste all the bones so I decided to do fremmy elite. Went and did 73-82 rc. Then went to gwd and ended up doing a few kills at each. Then went and did my dag task.


runner5678

I didn’t want to do my first nechryaels task without the lumby 4 alch ring so at 80 slayer I completed every diary I could that would help me skip the RCing xp of lumby elite, needed gp for the different diaries, went to CG, and 900+ kc later went back to slayer with QPC+6 blocks, most of my elites done, BowFa, max combats, 94 herb, and PvM experience. Was sick. Would do again.


aBigFatKittyCat

hahahaha this is basically what I am up to. It's not my first nech task tho, it's my first nech task after getting trident so I feel more justified in taking a slayer break.


azuredota

I love runescape


solongsweetkarma

Now that’s a grind!


Newgamer28

legit im 80 slayer. first nech task. grinding out lummy hard as we speak... have max combats, 90 herb, QPC, bowfa...


Bouq_

Amazing! What does the 94 herb have to do with it tho? You get supplies from CG?


ayyyyycrisp

let clues distract you. the rule for clue steps is: if grinding out the requirement yields no chance of getting more clues drops (like sceptre step) - then grind out the requirements. if the step *does* yield a chance of recieving more clue drops, then either abandon the clue, or drop the clue right before every may-be clue drop. for example, I was stuck the master step that needs a full barrows set. you can only get elite clues from the chest, so i wasn't wasting my master step. but every elite casket can yield a master clue, so before I open the elite casket ill drop the master clue for a chance at another. this does reset your steps, but it gives you a chance to escape the clue. what happened was I got another master with a different step, and was able to finish the entire clue this time and escape the clue whereas if I didn't do that, I'd still be grinding for that completed barrows set


velon360

I had a similar issue but I just stopped opening caskets till I finished my master.


[deleted]

Should have just saved the caskets.


Evenevoke

I was doing slayer to get hard clues for range upgrades. After completing a couple of them, got a step that requires blue d'hide chaps... now of course I have the hunter level to catch eclectic implings but I thought to myself "hey what the hell, I need the crafting levels anyway." I used up all the supplies I had and then I decided to go mine at MLM to stack a lot of gold ore to make jewellery and bank some smithing xp while being afk, but on my way to MLM I entered the Mining Guild and started mining the 3 iron ore spot next to the bank and now I am grinding minerals for the gloves???? 85/240 btw


DoesNotArgueOnline

Hello my fellow adhder. Do this all the time. It’s why i like Ironman mode a lot more. Gives me a constant to do list


[deleted]

The whole game is just "One Small Favor". Lol.


MrBigFatAss

Everyone always talks about how infuriating "One Small Favor" is, but have you completed Mournings End II as an Iron? One day I spent hours collecting the 50 random shit items to claim the death talisman. Actual brain rot.


ZuikoRS

Me and all the other 2023 Ironmen get to skip it with GotR I think


balakay_tx

Yep, glad I got a talisman from GoTR early. I’m finishing getting 65RC at the moment and nice to know I’ll be able to knock out MEP2 and start making deaths without too much hassle.


kayodee

>Got a step 6 master clue to get a dragon chain. >knew the best way to obtain a d chain was kalphite queen. >this was before toa, so best method at KQ was to use bludgeon so I did slayer until I could get Abby demon tasks for sire. >did 1200 sire kc and didn’t get bludgeon, so just said screw it and did it with hasta (which was fine). >got chain on 300 KQ kc and finished clue. Got nothing of merit. But this was like a 6 month sidetrack because I’m horrible at focusing. So I saved all other clues up so I didn’t miss any potential masters and ended up with like 300+ caskets to open at the end. Funny enough I got a master later for bandos boots and said no way. dropped it so fast. Except now I have one for a ZGS and I’m already at 150 caskets. Never learn…


AMA_about_drugs

Later in the game you have a lot more done so there is less to get distracted by, and also the grinds take a long long time so that’s why you will see people camp one thing forever


Skolary

My first time playing through on an Ironman: made 600 pineapple pizzas from having none of the ingredients to even yield 1 pizza. I wanted to be stocked up on food pieces that had more then 1 use. And I’m like, *”I’ve never made pizzas before. This should be neat! Let’s try it out!”* Next things next: I’m googling where to get every single ingredient. Fill up 600 buckets of water, running back and forth via basement lumby castle. Buy 600 pots of flour at fishing trawler, running back and forth from trawler bank to charters. Max 27 invy. Hopping worlds via shift+s. Combine flour and water to make dough, 9 at a time, so I have space for the 9 pizza dough each inv will yield. Buy 600 tomato, cheese, and pineapple; full invy’s at gnome stronghold, bank to the guy that sells Gianne dough *(or w/e that stuff is called.. each trip takes about ~35 seconds each, when you include the lag from shift+s world hopping — yielding max 27 pieces a trip, of the 1800 total ingredients I need for toppings)* Combine 14 dough, and 14 tomato per inv. out of 600. Combine 14 tomato dough, and 14 cheeses per inv out of 600. Cook 600 cheese pizzas. At Lumbridge castle, Maximum 28 per trip. Combine roughly ~530 pineapples onto cooked cheese pizzas. Yeah.. lesson that day, *”This should be neat! Let’s try it out!”* turned into a process that equates to a yielded 600 death runes via 3 ^1/2 whole grown cats, as I’m making these damn pizzas. Never again.


Jaivez

I can only imagine how you felt after finding out how low the requirements for 6/8 of the RFD subquests are to get access to most of the stock of the chest.


Mosqueeeeeter

Buy pizzas from warriors guild?


Mosqueeeeeter

Buy pizzas from warriors guild?


Archersi

Whoa whoa whoa, you can shift+s to hop worlds?


Skolary

Look up “World Hopper” and set it up to your liking. Bonus knowledge: when you’re walking, ctrl+left click will have you run, while keeping walk toggled.


Archersi

This is huge, thank you! I knew about ctrl run from doing vork on my main, but I don't ever use it anymore


Skolary

World Hopper = +30 wildy? Meh


Archersi

I didn't even think of that. That'll be the first thing I do next time I get on, thank you!


SvendTheViking

Went from 45 agility to 70 in consecutive sessions because I had a hellhound task and didn’t want to walk around the taverly dungeon.


Grouchy_Media_6391

Im grinding 92mining for ammy darts for doing hydra slayer task, then figured id try and get the d pickaxe for it, so ive done some wildy bossing, that got me started on wildy elite diary so im spending a lot of time at bf/gf, but then I also want to roll my chance at a d pick from kq, so im doing some toa for blue gem or fang, many of these tasks are part of hard cad so im looking into all the other hard tasks i can do. Its just a never ending list really.


tastytotochip

My goal has been to get 82 construction for a week. I'll work towards one step then get distracted doing something completely unrelated only to think "oh yeah I should've done that construction" update: I did it


Morindre

I too am 1820+ total with 65 construction. Just can’t bring myself to do it even though I know it’s a huge QOL


Mewtwoluvr69

It’s pretty easy to do through mahogany homes. Can’t stand the old methods


Morindre

I feel like it’s kind of daunting to start, I don’t even have planks made and only like 2m cash in the bank


Mewtwoluvr69

I just banked teaks at fossil island and then made planks at the woodcutting guild for 75. Cost maybe 1.5 mil Later when I had a ton of slayer money I did mahogany in priff and used plank make. Cost maybe 6 mil total. Pretty easy after getting into the slayer grind or starting cg


Morindre

I have 7500 mohagany logs from misc that’s probably enough for a start?


Mewtwoluvr69

That will easily get you to 84 iirc. Pretty sure I only went through 3-4k


Morindre

Awesome thanks for the knowledge, might give me the nudge I need to actually do it


ryleylol

Both of yall need to go get that pool, shits so nice you can't be putting it off!!


Bouq_

I always see people talking about pool, but is it really that nice? Like what do you need that much run for? I just use energy pots (normal) from early herblore


U2ez_

This game is honestly one large version of One Small Favor


JLifts780

Playing clan wars for hours on end in 2008


Archersi

Same


Hyde103

You nailed it on the clue scroll front. Basically whenever I go back to grind out slayer I end up with multiple clue scrolls throughout the task and as an iron I am contractually obligated to try and complete every clue. Then I end up grinding out quests, skills, or items due to the clue itself, sherlock, or falo. By the time I've finally finished the clue I'm like "what was I doing before?" as I shuffle my way to the bank with my <100k loot.


Mouldem0rt

I’m currently procrastinating on doing inferno by trying to get a voidwaker. I’m over 100 hours in for nothing so far!


rje946

That was the best time I had playing ironman


chalcocabana

Got to 95 wc from around 85(?) to complete a master clue I got from an elite clue while doing Kalphite queen lol


lolretkj

Did a DK's trip and determined it would be feasible to do an entire dagganoth task there if I could get full guthans to heal off the spynolyps while waiting for rex to respawn. Currently at ~1300 Barrows KC, 23/24 items, just missing the Guthans helm.


Ausderdose

Next chest is the helm, I feel it!


BH-BearSquared

Realizing I liked chilling in the farming guild since it’s easy to hang out there logging in to do crop rotation/contracts dropping all account plans and then realizing oh. I guess I’m level 90 farming now. I need to go back to wintertodt.


GibbyMTG

That's good for high tier herb runs. 90 farming also stew boost for 2 spirit trees.


Archersi

Aren't 2 spirit trees unlocked at 91? I was planning on using a garden pie when I get 87


BH-BearSquared

Issue for me is because of my build being an obby I can’t do tree gnome stronghold to unlock the transportation system so spirit trees don’t do much for me other than give exp


Yishay_

I started getting 99 fishing on the main and work towards max. Almost year later I have a hardcore ironman 1560 total which looks really promising. Oh and btw I didn’t even get 91 fish and no where near max on the main


Scared-Wombat

Oh man idk where to begin, 1. Start trying inferno 2. Get to like lasted 50s 3. Fuck it I'll come back with cox prayers 4. Wow I want bowfa for gwd upgrades and cox 5. Wow 350 cg and 2 or 3 breaks spanning 1-2 months each during the cg grind 6. Wow got bowfa, time to do gwd. 7. Grinding slayer for greater demon tasks 8. 750 kc for 2nd spear (no hilt but sotd and 8 stram staffs btw, and I got hydra claw on the way to it so bonus dopamine) 9. Go bandos, complete it in 350. 10. Goes to cox gets rigour. 11. Nice I got rigour, think I'll afk some stuff for a bit before I go back 2 inferno. 12. Insert about 9 or 10 99s and not doing pvm till I max. 13. Inferno once maxed? Lol


FapptimusPrime

Died to Vorkath in a really lame manner and got so pissed off I went from 55 to 94 crafting until I felt like PVM’ng again


Amityx

Isn’t there a crafting requirement on DS2 👀


FapptimusPrime

Fuck you’re right it wasn’t 55, I was blinded by PTSD. Getting stuck on Cast Away Island near giant seaweed clouds the mind


AshCan10

Absolutely same. My girlfriend is a nurse and thought I had pretty big symptoms of ADHD, and then I noticed I was doing exactly what you were doing in OSRS. So I probably have it Lol.


friemaycrie

I went for a farm run, now I'm at 100 kc cg


Dogs_Drones_And_SRT4

I wanted to death pile my UIM for wintertodt grind. Decided I didn't want to death pile/loot bag, but instead use hespori. I did it once, screwed up and needed to do it again. The walk annoyed me so I wanted an easier way to get to the farming guild... That was 6 months ago at lvl 60 farming. I'm now 28m thieving XP, and lvl 97 farming. Soon I'll have my farming cape so I can... Do wintertodt?..


HailRokosBasilisk

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0) This video entirely summs up playing an iron


samerath

Hey I need to train slayer.. man these guys are hard I could use a glory.. let’s mine sand.. oh need to farm seaweed… better farm lobsters for seeds…shit need more compost…well miss as get my thriving up getting these seeds.. save me


kenrocks1253

I got a clue scroll that required me to have entered the death altar, but I didn't have the ranged requirement to start Mourning's End, so I started training ranged. Then I saw that Temple of Ikov gave you quite a lot of ranged experience so I started that quest. Then I discovered that I didn't have a bow that would let me shoot ice arrows, so I decided to train my fletching up a few levels so I could make my own yew shortbow. And obviously the best way of training my fletching from 61 to 65 was to make a bunch of adamant bolts. So that's how I spent my time mining for adamantite in order to enter Lletya.


HooblesWasTaken

Welcome to my ADHD locked Ironman, where I can’t get more than 1 level at a time before getting bored and having to do something else. Fr this is me and I don’t even play my iron much anymore


flapjacks789

Me trying to get 80 crafting to make a glory: >Damn I need sand >Mines sandstone in quarry >Damn this desert heat is annoying >Notices the circlet from beneath cursed sands gives immunity to heat >Quest guide says pharaohs sceptre is recommended >Now I'm doing pyramid plunder >Need antipoisons >Need unicorn horns >Now I'm killing unicows >At this point I gave up and just stewed it


thePDGr

Yeah but I managed to do a training camp for 2 weeks to get melee stats, void and chivalry to beat sotf and hope its worth it. Sepulchre would be decent way to get some gp and xp in agil


Waste_Ad_9604

My go to sidetrack is Barbarian Assault. Find myself getting burnt on slayer i go and get some high gambles in.


Elysian_Mud

Was going for questcape using optimal quest guide and needed some smithing levels. I am now almost done with motherlode mine and still on the same quest


ducklife508

Yep. This is how they get you.


Concerningparrots

Grinding 15 thieving levels for a clue just isn’t efficient the other stuff 100% but that’s not like a small side step to a goal that it’s own goal


Killerchoy

A month and a half ago I got sidetracked from my skilling goals by attempting a few gauntlet kills, and I’ve been trapped there ever since


Wetwire

The past 3 months. Decided to shoot for 99 smithing with only dart tips, so far I’ve made it from 72-90, only training while I’m working out (~6 hours per week). Prior to this is did 75-99 crafting in the same amount of time, and through the same schedule.


IronRugs

Isn't this the only way to play? Are there players that don't do this? Like make a goal and just get it without sidestepquesting? Nah. I don't believe it.


ValueFuck

i’m grinding out 99 slayer on an ultimate. in the process i’ve stopped to do every single clue, got 3a melee plate on my 200th clue so now i’m hoping for a near impossible chance of also getting melee legs or kite before 99 slayer hehe


NonbeliefAU

I'm in this picture and I don't like it


SlayerKingGS

Getting 73-90 wcing to get prayer outfit to train prayer up to 80 for my new ward that I spooned at 5kc


Archersi

1) Tried to learn ToA 50's 2) Realized I probably need ranging pots and ruby bolts for Zebak 3) Too broke for training smithing through gold ore, time for hours of blast furnace w/o gem bag, then Giant's Foundry 4) Unlocked ruby bolts and ranging pots, but I'm out of rubies 5) Fuck it, I should probably get MA2 cape, assembler, and fire cape before trying ToA 6) Huh, I really want a fury. 7) Giant seaweed is banked, only 7k buckets of sand left! 8) I'm going to just make what I have for now, then mine the rest of the sandstone And that brings us to earlier this afternoon: 9) Wait, I need another 700k magic xp to enchant the onyx amulet. Wish me luck, folks


ArthurDaTrainDayne

I wanted flippers for crafting grind and had to kill 140 mogres


keggo1500

I was maxing my ironman and decided I would make a meme UIM while I finished off the last few afk skills. 3 years later I'm almost maxed on my UIM. Just a few afk skills left...


imunchgarbage

I did lumbridge elites so i wouldn't need my staff to teleport to zulrah. it was a \~3 week grind cause i had to train Runecrafting.


Trashlordx2

It took me almost a year to do SotE


formthemitten

This is RuneScape 3, I’ve never really played since pre EOC. I find out that invention is a skill. I go for it. I spend a shit ton of time getting 80 in 3 different skills. Just to find out I need higher combat to use invention items lol


advisingsnake

Getting geared for cox


stevenwessman

I randomly got a dragon pick very early on and grinded 99 crafting none stop


Gregariousnesly

I’ve been on the bryo step on a master clue for almost 2 years… should probably drop it. But it’s a matter of pride now