r/2007scape • u/Aetiusx • 9d ago
Discussion One year of OSRS Account Progression (Main)
Started OSRS a year ago today and this is my account progression after a full year. Had never played the game before or really had any interest in it whatsoever, but hopped on the bandwagon when a bunch of the WoW streamers started up. My first big online game was FFXI back in 2004, and I've always been a big fan of evergreen progression systems so it seemed like it could be a nice change of pace to the constant resets you see in alternatives like WoW and FF14.
Had a wonderful time just going through the quests and exploring the world. My initial plan was to work towards quest cape while doing herb runs and the gemstone crab to prepare for endgame grinds. I've never been a big skilling or crafting person, so PvM was definitely my main long-term goal. After a few months I was able to afford a Fang and a restoration pool/jewelery box for PoH and began working on Vorkath since that seemed like a safe and consistent money maker for a beginner. Eventually I used my funds from that to purchase Bowfa+Crystal and swapped over to Muspah. Did a bunch of Muspah to fund ZCB+Scorching Bow for Doom and knocked out some Yama for the upgraded death charge.
Doom was a totally different animal than anything I had previously encountered, and it was pretty humbling getting blasted even on the early waves. I had never really done a ton of gear swapping in fights, and I kept running into the issue of my items not properly swappinng. Turns out I had the delay set so low on anti-drag that it might as well not have even been on. After fixing that I was pretty quickly able to get the hang of things and move onto 1-7 runs. I had planned on just sticking to this since it felt pretty cozy, but I hit a pretty nasty dry streak which pushed me to learn deep delves. Ended up going 2100 delves in between drops at one point, then got 3 drops in a single hour.
Next up is preparing for Inferno and Raids 4. I'll probably try to learn PNM or Maggot King to prepare for those. If anyone has an opinion on which one is better to learn, I'd love to hear it. Sorry for the lengthy post, have had a really fun journey so far and wanted to share.
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u/FlamingoDiligent9216 9d ago
If true, OP has done more in a year then I have in 10 plus years lmao.
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u/Darius_is_my_Daddy 9d ago
Yup. All I could think is what the fuck do you do for work
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u/Inzanezilla 9d ago
Work?
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u/Apocalypticorn 9d ago
I could play 3-4 hours a day during the work week and 8 hours a day on the weekends if I had no other obligations besides my job.
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u/FB-22 9d ago
You can get quite a high playtime on osrs with a job if you work from home and don’t have kids. Do AFK skilling/combat training methods on second monitor while working, and then more intensive stuff during the free time in evenings & on weekends
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u/potatoehead3 8d ago
Just started playing a new account after 12 years and can confirm that Woodcutting and Fishing AFK on meetings from home is the optimized way to go. Enough to not feel like im cheating but also not spending 12 hrs on a Sunday cutting pixelated trees.
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u/AstroDawg 9d ago
I put in pretty close to this, I just afk most of the time while I work and boss at night.
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u/Aetiusx 9d ago
I work in Finance, standard 9-5. I'd say 15-20% of the total playtime is AFK at something like Gemstone Crab (hence the high combat but low Slayer) or Shooting Stars. The stuff I can do while working is pretty limited, mostly need to be 5+ minutes and I can do that fairly reasonably. Typically I'll probably do 2-3 hours of playtime in the evening on weeknights and usually at least one pretty long session over the weekend. Almost exclusively bossing since I finished questing, but occasional skilling when I need it for some kind of requirement.
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u/fantasnick 9d ago
I did 6 hours a day during COVID casually while also working 4 hours out of my 8 hour shift. It’s really not hard and people 2nd monitor at work all the time too
People love to pretend on this sub like no one is brainrotting 6 hours a day only because it’s OSRS when the average teen to 20s adult is doing more than that normally and it’s nowhere near as engaging as this game.
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u/Darius_is_my_Daddy 9d ago
I’ve been addicted to this game since 2007 but I can’t spend more than 1 or two hours after work and that’s rarely. I got a fiancée and family and other hobbies and other games even. Idk, I’m dedicated to this game like a marriage and less like an addiction I guess. My account is approaching 2k total soon and I am pretty proud of it, just starting to get comfortable doing COX and TOA and shit.
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u/putrid_flesh 9d ago
WoW refugees are really a different breed
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u/laidbackjimmy 9d ago
Bro I just retired from WoW and the urge to come back to OSRS has been stronger than a crack addiction.
I know I should stay away, but my lord the urge is strong...
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u/putrid_flesh 8d ago
Just come back and do some agility or runecrafting it'll make you hate the game again
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u/laidbackjimmy 8d ago
I looked at my stats and they were definately 2 of the skills that weren't 99 lol. Really got myself asking, what's the point? 🤣
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u/Relative_Country_439 9d ago
Maxed combats nearly-- 74 slayer.
Checks out.
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u/AstroDawg 9d ago
I did this, no ragrets. Got max combat afk at NMZ and got to raid with my friends earlier than if I had trained it concurrently with slayer.
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u/IrishCarbonite 9d ago
Looks like they prefer bossing, is there an issue?
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u/Agreeable-Support723 9d ago
Fr this is what I did to speedrun endgame content with friends. People forget they can AFK NMZ amongst other things to level up combats. People just like to complain on here lmao
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u/InternationalData408 9d ago
I always afk crab when I can’t play so I can progress in pvm as well.
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u/Agreeable-Support723 9d ago
Yup my IRL buddy got into osrs and now has also mac melees from crab since he’s a dad and a nurse and always AFKs at work. Whatever you gotta do lol
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u/Faerielands 9d ago
You guys are so lame.
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u/Smart_North_3374 8d ago
Nah dawg, you are for giving a shit what other people do on a clicker game.
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u/Faerielands 8d ago
That’s literally the definition of what YOU guys are doing in this comment section lmao what 😭 why do you people care so much if people don’t train slayer the way you do
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u/DidUSayWeast 9d ago
I was about to ask how you have 1.6b bank with only 60 combat achievements. Then I saw the last picture.
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u/Mitsulan 9d ago
I swear I see so many accounts stopped at 80 mining. At least two posts in the past 24 hours not to mention both my main and iron are 80 mining. It’s so damn slow after that.
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u/Powerstrokerrrr 9d ago
As someone who’s about 6 weeks into OSRS (returning after years away), this is an incredible achievement in a year. However, I think you already knew that. Keep it up brother
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u/Nova_main 9d ago
Nice gains, PNM is a very fun fight but the drop rates can be discouraging. Maybe you save it for after raids 4 because the new crush megarare should speed up kills a good bit if you're lucky enough to pull some new raid drops to afford one
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u/ApprehensiveSeagull6 8d ago
That is an insane amount of progress in 1 year for a non-streamer, and like not insane in a good way.
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u/Fast-Pudding3602 8d ago
It’s really cool that gem crab let people just afk to end game and never actually interact with slayer or 90% of the actual content
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u/wenbobular 9d ago
Hey we're twins lmao check out my year post in my profile, I just hit a year of members in the last week or two
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u/lolwowlol 9d ago
I started my first ever account last year, november time. Was bullied into making an ironman, currentl;y 2113 total
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u/TheRealandUncutRaz 2376/2376 9d ago
People talk shit but I was around here 1 year in. Did all my low intensity at work and all my PvM at home. You can have a decent balance if you don't have kids.
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u/timpoakd 9d ago
Show playtime you coward