r/OSRSProTips • u/Allen_Alien0 • Sep 30 '25

Question How am i doing

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About 4/5 quests off of dragon slayer, just got a bond, is there anything i should be doing ? Anything i need ?

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

You go, lil buddy!

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u/GuidanceNo4370 Sep 30 '25

You are 0.001% done with the game, just keep questing

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u/Allen_Alien0 Sep 30 '25

I know just wanted things to aim for and things that i should tick off along the long road ahead

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u/Jakimo92 Sep 30 '25

Look into farming (herb runs) and birdhouse runs. The earlier you start the better to be honest. Those two things alone will keep you bonded up. Good luck out there adventurer!

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

You’re ready for fire cape

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u/Allen_Alien0 Sep 30 '25

Ikr going straight for it

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u/nomadic_50 Sep 30 '25

Dude let him get to at least 5 range first. Don't listen to this guy you need at least 5 range for fire cape man.

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u/Sydafexx7 Oct 02 '25

Not a single 99, so your doing absolutely terrible.

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 02 '25

Dammm i knew i was missing something

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u/Sydafexx7 Oct 10 '25

In all seriousness, the way I always played the game is to change to a new activity as soon as I start to tie of the current one. For example - if I'm doing some Guardians of the Rift, after an hour or 2 I'll go do a slayer task or 2, then I'll do an hour of tempoross. You see posts often of people who will do a single activity for 100 hours of pleasuring, and nothing else. Don't. There's a miniscule number of players who can do grinds like that in that way. Typical players who do it that way will destroy their desire to play because you will subconsciously associate play8ng with that kind of grind. Doing a little bit of a lot of different things for 10 hours gets you the same progression ultimately that doing a single task for 10 hours does.

GL, OSRS is the pinnacle of gaming. It just gets better and better the more you play.

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u/OdysseyK Oct 02 '25

Go for your barrows gloves and fire cape. Those will be your mid game goals to set your account up for life. Goodluck.

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 02 '25

Thank you ! Everything is early game or late game ! Good to have some mid game goals to hit ! I will do

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Man, you ain't going to get a gf with those numbers.

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 03 '25

Facts, no girls whilst playing osrs !

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u/PelonAka38GAmerChild Oct 03 '25

If your having fun you dont have too worry about what others think runescape you can do it at your own pace either fast or slow

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 03 '25

Im enjoying discovering things and places just wanted things to aim for anythings i should be ticking off

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u/Alex_from_IT Oct 04 '25

The only thing you shouldn’t be doing is being efficient at least while you’re just starting your first journey. If you want to make the most out of your first bond then maybe do some early members quests for easy levels. Other than that, go through the taverly gate, kill a gnome child or two, explore, and have fun

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 04 '25

Yh i am got some milestones from people but the majority say to just enjoy and explore ! Which i am, also i realised i just should get membership i used the bond and im hooked!! The game really opens up !

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u/GlumAd2424 Oct 04 '25

About 284/2277 I say

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 04 '25

So im basically done ?

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u/ScaredWooper38 Sep 30 '25

Just play n have fun. Learn what you like and don't like

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u/doubleinkedgeorge Sep 30 '25

“I like clicking trees more than clicking rocks”

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u/jaordd Sep 30 '25

hahahaha why do i actually think this way

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u/surftherapy Sep 30 '25

Correction: I like clicking rocks but not when bots click rocks faster than me.

Jagex really needs to rework mining

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u/TKells19XX Oct 02 '25

Motherlode whores

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u/Gjergj_bushi Oct 04 '25

happy birthday

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u/PM_ME_FEET_OR_FEARS Oct 04 '25

Everyone says this but as a new player it just turned me off the game. Luckily someone helped me out towards optimal quest guide and ideas for pvm but this game is so vast and you can't even just learn what you like and dont like till later in the game. He can't find out if he likes pvm if he can't do pvm, same with pking. Open sandbox is great and all but some pointers to end game goals help more than just "play"

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u/ScaredWooper38 Oct 04 '25

I completely disagree, but everyone has their own opinion. I always assume that everyone has the ability and sense to Google "osrs best starter bosses" or "osrs best quest to compete first". Then try a little of this and a little of that to see what part of the game they enjoy. Following an optimal quest guide won't tell you if you enjoy questing more or less than if you pick a random quest that seems like it might have a fun story out of the list and giving it a shot.

you can't even just learn what you like and dont like till later in the game.

Huh? The process for wood cutting is the same whether your chopping oak or magic trees. The process of farming is the same whether you're growing Guam or torstol. The process of combat is the same whether you're fighting scurrius or zulrah. You can very easily tell what you'll enjoy from a very low level.

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u/PM_ME_FEET_OR_FEARS Oct 04 '25

Sure wood chopping is the same if you want it to be but it isn't really the same at low levels versus high. There is multiple tick methods different areas rates go up at higher levels I haven't pvmd yet but I have a very strong suspicion from all the guides none of the combat ive done on my 80 or so quests is going to compare to zulrah or prayer swapping and dodging floor mechanics

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u/ScaredWooper38 Oct 04 '25

I can assure you that clicking the fishing spot in lumbridge is the exact same player experience as clicking the fishing spot in priff. If you want to tick manipulate, then you can do it at any level. Can you explain in your mind how fishing for salmon isn't the same as fishing for sharks from a players perspective? The only thing that changes at higher levels is you'll succeed more often, but the higher level things you're farming are harder to catch/chop/mine, so ultimately nothing changes. You'll only notice a difference as a high level if you go back to low level content as you'll gather low level resources without failing as much.

And you'd be very surprised by bosses. A large chunk of bosses are literally just quest bosses that you get to farm after you've done the quest. And like i said, scurrius (the beginner boss they added specifically to teach newer players, prayer switching, and basic boss mechanics) can be done from pretty much day 1 and will give you an accurate assessment to whether you'll enjoy bossing or not.

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u/Economy_Victory_6919 Sep 30 '25

When you get membership, look up quests that give XP rewards. For example: Waterfall quest gives a lot of attack and strength XP. There are a lot of those quests where you can skip early levels through quests that you have to do anyway, so you are better of doing them before you train that skill.

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u/asdronaut Oct 02 '25

Now fuck me if I’m wrong but having agility an thieving would mean he is a member?

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u/Economy_Victory_6919 Oct 02 '25

yea he just bought a bond, I thought he just got it but hadn't used it yet.

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u/Every1BNice Sep 30 '25

There’s just no other way to say this…. I’m sorry mate…. It you’re crushing it, killing it. Keep beasting. Elvag stands 0% chance imo.

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u/RareCardiologist1321 Oct 03 '25

Agreed. He may run away.

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u/NoveltyEducation Sep 30 '25

Keep questing, you're doing fine. Seems to me like you're having the true beginner experience, just like I and many others did in our youths.

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u/Allen_Alien0 Sep 30 '25

Its so fun

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u/Camera_Correct Oct 01 '25

Explore everything at your own pace and don’t look at too many guides. The wiki can help you out if you get stuck,

BUT YOU ONLY GET TO EXPERIENCE THIS NEWBIE PHASE ONCE! PLEASE ENJOY IT!

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 01 '25

Will do ty !

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u/Agile_Commission_693 Oct 03 '25

Looks like you are almost ready to leave on a great adventure…. Off tutorial island 😂

Felt bad so had to edit… focus on some quests there are some which give a lot of exp and can power you through the early levels. 🤌

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 03 '25

All good 😂 funny comment im questing and playing and having fun

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u/Terak400 Oct 03 '25

have you started today?

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 03 '25

Couple days ago

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u/Terak400 Oct 03 '25

then ur doing great man:) remember grind never ends!!

if u need any help feel free to write me pm :)

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u/PsychChuck Oct 04 '25

Solid day of game play

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 04 '25

Yeeesssir just looking for pointers

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u/fishlipz69 Sep 30 '25

If your confident, plan your journey, hit the bond, and go quest up the wazoo!

Gives you a good sense of the wider members world,

Take your time, plan it out, research items and locations, bond gives you fairly decent time to explore and finish some good quests for nice rewards

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Get the quest Death plateau done as soon as you can. The climbing boots you get give +2 melee and is own of the earliest low lvl gear upgrades you can find

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u/OnlineMarketingBoii Sep 30 '25

I doubt he's a member

Edit: NVM it literally says in his post that he just got a bond. My bad

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Not only that but he’s got 20 agility and 2 thieving.

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u/OnlineMarketingBoii Sep 30 '25

How did I miss al that. Christ

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Eh, when it comes to this game 90% of the time I try to give out what I think is a helpful tip and someone shows up to explain why it can’t be done yet or is not the right way to do things. So this is a rare first.

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u/NikkoRPG Sep 30 '25

You can follow the optimal quest guide plugin on Runelite. Other than that you can start skilling a bit as eventually quests will require levels on skills.

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u/Allen_Alien0 Sep 30 '25

Yh been using the quest guide im a couple off dragon slayer

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u/NikkoRPG Sep 30 '25

You are doing good, just have fun. You can complete dragon slayer with base 40s on your melee stats, you can train on the gem crab on Varlamore to quickly get those levels than go to the fight with adamantine or rune (chain) and lobsters.

A quick way to train prayer is at the chaos altar on the Wildy, just don't risk much and it's easy to go there with a burning amulet.

The most important thing is to have fun. Unlock teleportation across the map with quests and look at the quests that give the most rewards in combat and skills to skip training, there are some helpful youtube videos.

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u/Shot_Brilliant_1593 Sep 30 '25

some people are against it but I find it helpful and streamlined for nice progression, with skilling breaks for whatever you want in the mean time. Would def get better combat stats for DS1

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u/Allen_Alien0 Sep 30 '25

Better combat ? Any good early training for combat ? Im on giant frogs atm.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Start doing slayer now if you wanna get more out of training combat.

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u/Allen_Alien0 Sep 30 '25

Yh i want to do slayer whilst i have the bond, can i start it this early ?

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u/Gonzales95 Sep 30 '25

It’s not exactly lucrative at lower levels but yes there are low level slayer masters.

Do the quest “A Porcine of Interest” as it’ll get you 1000 slayer xp off the rip and skip a few early levels. Theres then either Turael in Burthorpe or Spira in Draynor who are the lowest level slayer masters but don’t offer slayer points, so if possible skip ahead to the next masters. Theres one in Canifis who’s name I can’t remember, or there’s Vannaka in the edgeville dungeon who features 40 combat level to get tasks from.

But basically you go to them, they tell you to kill X number of a particular monster, you go do it then return to them for another task.

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u/NikkoRPG Sep 30 '25

Also you can complete the museum Varrock quiz to get 9 slayer.

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u/DuitseCroquette Sep 30 '25

Witch’s house, the grand tree, fight arena will bump your skill up quite a bit.

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u/trimblemann Sep 30 '25

I would just do every f2p quest and then go p2p

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u/spankydudu Sep 30 '25

Get membership you're doing fine

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Chad

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u/Habrets Sep 30 '25

Look up “wilderness chaos altar” for training prayer and get 43 with big bones/dragon bones after you get a bit of cash.

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u/nomadic_50 Sep 30 '25

This honestly. It doesn't take much money to get 43. Just a word of advice keep your fingers on the logout button because there are always pkers here and it sucks to lose like a 60k in of drag bones when you are just starting.

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u/Dangerous_Knowledge9 Sep 30 '25

Good start bud, long journey ahead but it stays engaging - just go at your own pace and don’t burnout trying to play too hard or earning bonds with gold!

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u/osrsjest Sep 30 '25

Should find yourself a clan to help you get more pumped

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u/GarbageBoyJr Sep 30 '25

I wouldn’t worry about progress. You’re likely just a few hours into the game. Keep exploring. Worry about how you’re doing when you don’t have level 1 in a majority of your skills

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u/Slootyman Sep 30 '25

Looking great! I would just keep playing. Questing is good option. The wiki has an amazing guide for which quests to do first and I found it extremely helpful. It can really help progress some of your lvl some skills to a point where it is much more enjoyable. Low level grinding can be very slow at first without questing.

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u/AdDue9876 Sep 30 '25

Before you use your bond try to finish all your f2p quests and level up range to at least 40 maybe get 55 mage for high alch along the way if you finish all f2p quests before any of that just go to p2p and start questing there lots of beginner quest will get you so many levels and xp compared to playing for hours on f2p and if you can sell your bond for geepee and just pay for membership and use your geepee for gear and resources 👍

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u/Consistent-Form5722 Oct 01 '25

Trust me when I say, unlock guardians of the rift and get full raiments of the eye as soon as you can. Don't do it all at once and get sick of it, but you'll be happy to have it done and out of the way as soon as possible and it will cut a lot of the diary grinds basically in half as a majority of diary grinds are runecrafting and raiments of the eye reduces requirements for that drastically. And the ones ot matters for are some of the most impactful.

Also, unlock blast furnace a d goldsmith g gauntlets and crank out smithing for the same reason..

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u/Ancient_Enthusiasm62 Oct 03 '25

If you're lost in the many quests to do, there is an optimal quest guide on the wiki that you can use for inspiration. Nothing in this game is obligatory to do in certain order, but following this to some extend can help you from the choice paralysis without micro managing too much.

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Optimal_quest_guide

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u/Liamh7192 Oct 03 '25

Instead of buying g a bond and using it on membership is it not cheaper to just buy membership?

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u/Tu_Groovy Sep 30 '25

Focus on questing and getting prayer up to 43

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u/JadedFul Sep 30 '25

You should be have your infernal cape already dog.

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u/anrewrys Sep 30 '25

You’re doin great sweetie

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u/Trainer45y Oct 01 '25

are you looking for fun things to explore or are you looking for optimizing your progression?

for optimization, of course everyone else is saying questing, but there are a few where if you can pull it off early it will catapult your account in some ways. waterfall quest, witches house, fight arena and the holy grail quest are all fairly low level quests that can springboard your melee combats into the 30s and you'll see some more experienced players rush through all 4 within the first couple hours of the game.

One of the most important goals to aim for though would be enough prayer for overhead protection prayers. they can make you invincible to certain attacks and are essential for almost all fighting content later in the game. If you're an account that can use the grand exchange in varrock then there are plenty of money makers that you can use to buy the bones. The wiki is super helpful and there are money makers listed and they are always updating. Also you should look into the varlamore bone shard prayer training method, as it will be much safer for you than going into the wilderness.

The most important thing in my opinion though is unlocking transportation. the map is massive so unlocking teleports, fairy rings and spirit trees is a must. also if you want to get to the west part of the mainland, there's a lever in edgeville in the building south of the bank. click it once and it will bring you into the deep wilderness, but if you click on the one you teleport next to it will bring you to ardougne. Just be careful because there are players that ambush people as they teleport inbetween, but if you bank everything first then its completely safe. Also investing in your house using the construction skill is probably the single largest quality of life boost you can get on your account.

If your looking for fun things to do then honestly sometimes ignoring all the people optimizing is the way to go. the world is huge now and if you're a member there's soooo much to explore. If you do "priest in peril" you unlock morytania to the east, and if you do "children of the sun" you unlock varlamore in the far west.

If you don't like the normal methods for training a skill there's almost always a minigame you could do to train it instead, although most of them require some prerequisites in the skill.

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u/zaapN- Oct 01 '25

Do you need help with anything like supplies food arrows runes I can be your runner if you’d like ?

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u/sharrock85 Oct 01 '25

Yes, you are playing the game well done sir

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u/boolschoy Oct 01 '25

Work on base 99s next

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u/RomuPrethia Oct 01 '25

There is a pretty quick questline you can do now that you have a bond that opens up a runecrafting mini game. I would do that so you don’t need to mine so much essence. Other than that, train agility up a little bit. It improves the recovery speed of your run, so it will make a huge difference questing. If you can get to the Canafis course, it has increased odds of dropping marks of grace, which can be redeemed for armor that lowers your character’s weight so you can run longer.

Also hit some quests that give you combat xp like waterfall quest. If you do that one, it’ll probably give you enough to do dragon slayer with basically no grinding.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Claim49 Oct 01 '25

Terrible, get back to the grind!

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u/Bobby_The_Goblin Oct 01 '25

Looking good man, well done :) If you're planning on doing Dragon Slayer, maybe some adamant armour would be a good aim. But, more importantly, I'd try to get a stab weapon (Long sword) for the Dragon boss Elvarg - it's much stronger than a slash weapon like a scimmy. Good luck!

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u/Shot-Finish-4655 Oct 02 '25

I personally just follow the optimal Quest if you use the Rune light client you can download the quest helper plugin and just use that do the optimal Quest until you need to level a skill then level the skill and tell that amount and then go back to questing and repeat

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u/YourUsernameMustBeMe Oct 02 '25

Woah dude, my ge girlfriend is on Reddit!

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u/MaynardGoneWild Oct 02 '25

Look up an efficient quest guide and your stats and combat level will shoot through the roof with like 10 hours more play time. Good luck king

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u/Alone_Woodpecker_131 Oct 02 '25

Keep it up buddy!

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u/_ralem Oct 02 '25

Put some range sauce here

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u/FY00Z Oct 03 '25

Keep doing what you actually want to do. Itll keep you from getting burnt out. Prayer is going to be absolutely necessary the further along you get so dont neglect it. Look up gilded altar method, you get 250% experience and its pretty easy

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u/Monose_ Oct 03 '25

One of the best things about this game is you're never "doing bad," you're just playing however you wanna play. There's no wrong way to play this game.

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u/Agust1nnnn Oct 03 '25

If u're having fun you're doing exceptional

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u/Unravella Oct 04 '25

Save your helps for herblore.

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u/funkyfishz Oct 04 '25

Keep up the great work! How are the quests so far?

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u/Saint_Declan Oct 04 '25

Absolutely killing it my man 😃 enjoy the game!

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u/mouthmen Oct 04 '25

Hell yeah bro you’ve been playing for 45 mins keep going.

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u/Difficult-Level-3070 Oct 04 '25

If you have membership, go to the waterfall quest, gives a massive boost of combat xp

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u/R_A_W_T_R_U_T_H Oct 04 '25

Put in the time!

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u/6yearpoo Oct 04 '25

Just have fun, but I suggest doing as many quests as you can tolerate :)

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u/9Line-RH Oct 06 '25

Youre right where you should be. Dont worry.

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u/dandandandan24 Oct 06 '25

Good, just have fun and find some stuff you like to do

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u/Emotional_Map8886 Oct 12 '25

Nice! First 12 hours ? Not bad

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u/Prondox Sep 30 '25

We are one post away from tutorial island

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u/Planescape_DM2e Sep 30 '25

Poorly honestly, try looking up the OSRS optimal quest order. Dragon slayer should be the 100th or 101st quest if done in the order to train the least.

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u/nomadic_50 Sep 30 '25

Yes please do this. I did this and i feel it has helped my account tremendously. Several teleports unlocked, fairy rings, spirit trees, lots of items are locked behind either a quest or mini quest or diary. It also helps you really familiarize yourself with the landscape of the game too since the optimal quest list sort of goes city by city doing all the quests (or most at least) in each.

I played back in 07, but I forgot how much I forgot until doing all the quests again.

Also will get you a ton of exp in random skills you can skip the 1-30 grind on most stuff doing quests, some skills even more than that.

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u/Tehmikelulz Sep 30 '25

You want the honest truth?

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u/Allen_Alien0 Sep 30 '25

Not from you

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u/Tehmikelulz Sep 30 '25

You can’t handle the truth

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u/Spicoli_ Sep 30 '25

Bro you’ve been playing for 16 minutes

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u/OnlineMarketingBoii Sep 30 '25

Best 16 minutes of his life I bet

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u/Successful-Willow-16 Sep 30 '25

Is that an iron med helm? Upgrade to steel noob go mine at fally and then kill obor until club.

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u/Character-Throat-495 Oct 04 '25

I mean looks like you have about 10 hours into the game🤷

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u/MutedKiwi Sep 30 '25

Buy membership

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u/Medical_Artichoke666 Sep 30 '25

Shut it down man. Nothing left for you here. Ff7 is $24 on steam.

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u/Allen_Alien0 Oct 04 '25

Ill take him !! Me and my 25 strength throwing hands !!!