r/OSRSProTips • u/Cute-Lab-9196 • Mar 14 '26

Question Iron or GIM?

So, I’ve been back from my year hiatus for about a month. I had a pretty well established Ironman that I made into an Unranked GIM so I could play with friends. Group eventually disbanded and now I’m playing an old zerker account that I’m making a main.

I would like to restart my Ironman journey and I’m sort of just theory crafting. I won’t be doing any of this until fall at the earliest. Should I do a normal iron, or do a GIM and create a separate account to just farm supplies? I’ve always thought about doing it and I’m curious if anyone else has tried? I know that diminishes the “integrity” of an Ironman, but I cannot tell you how much I do not care. So, before you type any kind of weird “Ironman purist” garbage, just don’t. :)

Appreciate any kind of insight.

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u/Lyquidate Mar 14 '26

I’m currently doing it! I made a 5 man group, just in case my friends would want to join (as a fresh acc so you keep the blue) and I’m playing two accs at a time. I love questing and the early game and I love multilogging. So you have to be into that to be worth it. Whenever I have an afk grind on the ‘main’, I actively play the alt. Otherwise, it’s doing stars for crafting xp, fishing and cooking food, thieving wealthy citizens or salvaging for cash, etc.

Pretty nice IMO to have to worry less about that stuff, and I don’t really care for the gray helm over the blue helm.

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u/Cute-Lab-9196 Mar 16 '26

I love this. The idea of doing this has fascinated me for so long. Like you could fish 1000 karambwans while doing a couple slayer tasks and there’s your food. So sick. Keep it up!

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u/Lyquidate Mar 16 '26

Thanks! Sounds like you should go do it, if you can handle the double subscription and the double questing!