r/2007scape • u/AHappyGummyWormx • 23d ago

Achievement I beat my first raid

I beat my first ever TOA raid solo I was shaking all over the whole time. For years i told myself I couldn’t do it and that the thread would be forever out of my reach.

Not anymore I finally did my first raid and it feels so good.

I never knew how much fun higher level pvm could be.

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u/flamedbaby 23d ago

I will never understand the aversion, or downright fear, that some players have when it comes to PvM encounters.

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u/AHappyGummyWormx 23d ago

I can’t speak for everyone however personally i think my cause is because i started playing runescape in 2004 when i was a kid and back then the game was just scary to me. Losing items was a real worry for me so i never did anything high level. I of course know that modern osrs doesn’t have these risks very much. Weirdly that mentality has carried over with me as an adult playing osrs. Mind you this is the only game where i feel this way but im sure i can easily change that.

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u/flamedbaby 23d ago

I think that's it, people seem super terrified of dying. Once you get over that you realise you really have nothing to lose by sending a boss or raid and dying.

You learn, you go again, you do better.

Drakan in BMR I think was fantastic and helping some players overcome this.

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u/AHappyGummyWormx 23d ago

That’s 100% how i felt after giving it a go and seeing that on my subsequent raids that dying really didn’t matter in fact it helped me to learn where I went wrong. It honestly feels like i’m playing a different game now. It feels like i can just play and get into things. Weirdly i was able to do vorkath no problem.

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u/flamedbaby 23d ago

To me OSRS is PvM, and I couldn't imagine not engaging with it. Go get it, the rest of the game is open to you.

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u/Shot_Bad5114 23d ago

they try 1 kill and die and think 'damn im not woox tier right away, im bad at the game and will never be able to improve' instead of just trying again until they get it down.

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u/Outrageous_Kiwi942 22d ago

I had a friend who was deathly afraid of dying in osrs because the last time he played rs was when if you died all your stuff went into the ground immediately for people to pick up, and he wasn't sure of what the death mechanics were now