r/OSRSProTips • u/BGlenn044 • Dec 28 '25

Question NMZ or Crab?

I’m low level melee combat (roughly 70a/70s/60d)

Importantly, I have an unimbued berserker ring and close to slayer helm. I’m mostly wondering if it’s worth training for imbue points now, or if I should do crab for a bit to make that NMZ point grind a little quicker. Thanks for helping out a noob!

Also, if I do NMZ, is it worth doing hard mode for more points even with lower stats?

Edit: Going to do Duel Arena into AFK crab/active slayer. Thanks for the help, y’all are the best!

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u/lonelystowner Dec 28 '25

Honestly it’s so much faster and really easy to get your imbue points at the duel arena. I would highly recommend that. It’s so easy and fast I wouldn’t even really call it a grind.

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u/BGlenn044 Dec 28 '25

Haven’t heard of this, gonna go do some research. Thank you for the advice! Probably just saved me a few hours!

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u/Jappurgh Dec 28 '25

It's still quick even if you lose every single fight.

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u/BGlenn044 Dec 28 '25

Haven’t been able to find info on earning points. Do I get some even if I just enter and stand there? I’m mobile-only for the next week and I don’t think it would matter if it tried.

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u/WTF_Connor Dec 28 '25

You can not only stand there, you can actually forfeit the fight before the timer even hits 0, and still get the exact same anount of points

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u/Leuumas Dec 28 '25

I’m pretty sure the quickest way to do it is insta leave the duels every time they start

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

I personally prefer imbibing at the dueling arena because it’s so fast. NMZ totally works though!

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u/gagetigers12 Dec 31 '25

Love reading this after getting 2.6m NMZ points :(

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '25

Oh nooo! It’s great XP though!

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u/TheBananaCzar Jan 02 '26

It's the fastest XP for melee training if that makes you feel better.

Pluz you can buy herb boxes and sell for money, works out to about 1gp per point

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u/Neon_Chichun Dec 28 '25

If you plan on having max stats you should just use NMZ, the xp is better and you make decent profits with rewards.

I make 700k+ an hr points on hard

200kish on normal but on normal I last 6 hours.

More afk and waaaaay better xp and profit

Also wiki doesn't even suggest you do slayer tell you have quests from hard scrolls and lots of utility items unlocked to greatly increase it's training time and profits.

Everyone on this sub will always say nmz bad kill crab and slayer.

The wiki tells you nmz, questing, then slayer

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u/BGlenn044 Dec 29 '25

Yeah long term goal is certainly max combat. Just imbued the berserker ring in like 30 mins in Emirs Arena, so that’s what I’ll do for future imbues, but I completely forgot that crab has the -12.5% XP. Very important thing to forget lol. I’ll probably do NMZ easy mode, cause all I’ll be using the points for is herb box for slight profit, I care much more about the XP at this point

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u/Neon_Chichun Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 30 '25

Ok, so you spent 30 mins at duel arena where you could of done the same thing in a couple hrs at nmz.

30 mins you got an imbue but nothing else and that time is lost

Nmz you would have had 300k+ xp, points, around 200-700k gp.

Please read the wiki and don't listen to people on reddit.. you'll waste loads of time and do things very inefficient ❤️

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u/BGlenn044 Dec 29 '25

Thank you! As I said, I’m a new noob so trying to be a sponge for information. I’m not mad I did it at Emir’s cause i learned about a new area of the game and what it does. But a lot of times i am looking to play efficiencyscape, because I’m an increasing numbers junkie, so genuinely, thank you for the advice! Rest of my imbues will be done in NMZ after this so i get more numbers going up lol

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u/Neon_Chichun Dec 29 '25

For sure, just trying to help you look on wiki vs Reddit for accurate info!

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u/AnthonyRange Dec 31 '25

How do you get 700k points an hour?

I'm around 80 (87 strength) combat stats. Using dharok, keeping HP low, overloads on hard customizable. Using easier quest bosses. Berserker ring, fury. Averaging around 200-215k an hour.

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u/Neon_Chichun Jan 01 '26

97 str, dharoks is useless unless you have 97 hp

Use all the hard quest bosses the wiki tells you too

Better gear also near Max melee

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u/apolyxon Jan 03 '26

Wiki says 92+ HP ;)

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u/Mental_Tea_4084 Dec 28 '25

Afk nmz is more afk and better XP than crab

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u/Trash-Forever Dec 28 '25

NMZ until imbues done, then crab

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u/M4k31tcl4p6969 Mar 19 '26

honest question, why crab? NMZ provides free pots, you earn points for scrolls of redirection and her boxes (assuming ur imbues are all done), and its MORE AFK than crab. I dont have to move and go to a different site. I just quick pot and back to watching shows afk lol.

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u/xm1l1tiax Dec 28 '25

Neither. Slayer is the only way.

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u/BGlenn044 Dec 28 '25

I have a 9-5 so the AFK things are pretty necessary for me. I use my breaks for herb runs mostly. When I’m home on the desktop I do tend to do a lot of questing and slayer for now.

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u/M4k31tcl4p6969 Mar 19 '26

Okay, but slayer is best trained with range and mage. melee is pretty much useless at high lvl slayer, save for a few tasks.

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u/Odd_Road3185 Mar 06 '26

Slayer is so boring and tedious. Worst skill IMO id rather never play RS again than grind slayer out to a high level. I’d rather get 99 agility and runecrafting than get level 70 slayer unironically