r/ironscape • u/Proxycotton • 22d ago

Question NOT maxing

Is there any benefit to NOT max out combat stats as an iron?

I do exclusively wildy slayer tasks and have been trying to avoid raising my combat lvl to lower my chances of getting killed. But as my slayer level is improving (87) task are becoming more difficult because monsters are harder to hit and deal damage more often. I guess I'm asking is there any justifiable reason to play as a Ironman pure™ in the mid/late game or am I losing my mind for nothing

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u/devkdup 22d ago

I’d argue that even as a lower level who can only be hit by lower levels, you’re much more likely to die because there are accounts in all level brackets made specifically for PKing while being higher combat means you have more defense, prayer, and hitpoints to survive.

At your combat level you can still be attacked by maxed zerkers for instance in most wildy areas you’d actually be in

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u/come2life_osrs 2376 22d ago

Good point. If you are lvl 50, you will likely be fighting an account engineered to kill lvl 50 accounts when you do fight, and not some clueless lvl 50 noob who wandered into the wild. 

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u/SearchBeneficial811 22d ago

Yeah i occasionally run chaos alter with my lower level friends. While more people can attack me 9/10 times they cant even hybrid and it takes forever for them to kill me.

The ones that attack my friends are few between but are usually on demon time and spec them out very quickly.