In spirit of the old 2007scape question threads on reddit (that feels sorely missing!), I thought to start making a thread in the same fashion.
Should this be a daily, weekly, or monthly occurence?
Post your questions, thoughts on Desert Treasure II, goals, achievements and so on!
I’ll start, I’m somewhat no-lifing hunter currently to try and max (not defence) this month, 1.3M XP to go! Looking forward to Slayer as my last 99 :)
I had taken a break from runescape earlier this year because it was too addicting, but have come back to simply do my daily tree/herb runs. I’ve found farming to be a really pleasant skill; it’s gameplay loop helps me moderate my play time, so I don’t spend an absurd amount of time playing.
Farming is nice! I’m near max but I should probably start again. Sorry for the late reply, in the hospital!
I’ve done DT2 pretty much up until the bosses, I’m around combat level 90 on my ironman and I think this one’s a bit too much for me right now. Not in a rush to get the quest cape back anyways now that lummy elite’s done! The story has been lovely though, the mahjarrat storyline is a classic and I’m pretty excited about the osrs implementation. Ritual of the North (?) was one of my favourite quests.
Yesterday I finished the medium combat achievement tier so I can do some barrows and other than that I’m mostly thieving and farming. A great time, honestly!
How did you find DT2 at lower combat? I did it on my pures and it was quite frustrating! Not as bad as MM2 platform though xd
Love the idea! I think the threads can get more frequent once we get more activity here, so monthly seems fine for now.
At 2255 total with agility, Slayer and the last few melee combats. Mostly just been afking some slayer tasks since I got burnt out on the DT2 bosses.
Yeah it does seem a bit quiet at the moment but the idea still stands.
I feel you, agility was my most recent 99 and it took forever! Unfortunately I can’t do Sepulchre so I did ~8k Prif laps or so. Maxing is no joke remember to have some fun too :) I’ve been on the grind on and off for about 3 years now (In-between lots of pking, raiding and getting cleaned!).
What DT2 bosses have you been doing? I’ve mainly been camping Duke a bit since he’s so reclined, the other 3 are a bit more effort.
I am kinda burnt out on Sepulchre, but I want to get the ring eventually. Got the squirrel before the ring haha. I have done quite a few prif laps as well, but props for the dedication.
I have been doing a lot of Vardorvis because I still suck at it and I like the feeling of improving, but I kinda quit after getting like 25k loot in 5 kills and then dying and losing like 350k lol. Any good drops at Duke? I just did enough of him to get the tele
Fair play, sepulchre does look like really good content but I guess it’s quite intense/high focus… I feel the same about ToB sometimes! Blood squirrel looks awesome though. Thanks :-)
I haven’t done too much Vardo, but it seems more like GWD loots - you’re banking on those Virtus and Ring drops. Nope, only 70kc ish at duke on the alt and just the tele so far! It is pretty chill though I might just do some here and there.
Will you train your defence as well?
I’ve been farming duke sucellus past week and I’ve got to say Desert treasure 2 was huge success.
There’s also one random thought I’d wish to know: I wonder how many 3rd age pickaxes are there in oldschool.
No, I have been 20 defence for a very long time and I like the challenge, I also have to do Inferno and Dust-hunting (Cox/ToB/ToA) after max!
Duke is pretty chill, the item rates are out on the wiki now.
Axe pieces are same rates as rings:
Ultor 1/1440
Venator 1/960
Magus 1/864
Bellator 1/617
Virtus - Between 1/2500-4300 a piece (Didn’t expect it to be this rare!).
DT2 was really great I agree, it was fun and frustrating (funstrating?) as a GM quest should be. It did seem like a Nightmare type grind but on average to complete all bosses you’re looking at about 200h or so, Phosani’s is well over 1000h.
Seeing as the last 3a Pickaxe on the GE was sold 6 months ago, it’s probably very hard to tell! :)
Tempted to grind my mining to 85, just to meet my satisfaction of the childhood goal…
Probobly going to grind out my fire cape, I now have like 200 prayer pots, and I’m 75 in most skills… Except ranged.
Get 75 for the blowpipe! It makes it a lot easier :)
I’m an ironman, so getting a blowpipe involves a 2/1000 drop! likely easier just to get my fire cape without :D
Fair play, I’ve done it with karils :) I guess an msb works fine too!
An OSRS forum was the thing I was missing most from reddit. Glad I stumbled on this one. Looking forward to chatting with you guys.
Currently sitting at 2080 TL, working on elite diary requirements. Need Thieving (currently 82), runecraft (currently 80), BA (currently avoiding), and a Cox kc (currently just bad at the game). Getting closer.
Yep it’s not quite so busy but also trying not to spam! I miss 07scape and still read it from time to time but deleted my reddit account.
Very nice, if you need a cox kc send me a dm and I’m always happy for people to tag along!
Was able to finally beat Xamphur and finish the Zeah questline (so far)! It came down to the wire: me horribly undergeared in my Swampbark armor and Yew crossbow/adamant crossbolt combo, him an ancient angry undead necromancer. He was down to 20HP, but I was out of sharks. Could I bring him down before the clappy hands got me? I tried my best, but he still was up when they appeared, and I sprinted to the other end of the room and back, somehow avoiding damage. Finally, I brought him down with one lucky shot, and was able to finish the quest - and unlock the Arcuus spellbook.
I really need to get more bossing experience, lol. Anyone have recommended boss progression to pick up the mechanics? I struggled a lot more with this than I would’ve liked.
Fair play, at least you have thralls now! They’re really nice for extra dps (like 10%) wherever you don’t use standard/ancient spellbooks.
As for bosses hmm, I may be a bit biased but these are general recommendations.
You could do these at lower levels but you might struggle!
Under 70 stats:
Barrows
Bryophyta
Chaos fanatic
Crazy archaeologist
Hespori
Obor
Tempoross
Wintertodt
70+:
Bandos (Team)
Corporeal beast (Team)
Dagganoth kings (Team)
Fight caves (75 Range for Blowpipe!)
Giant mole
King black dragon
Sarachnis
Tombs of Amascut (Low Invocations - 0-200s)
Zalcano
80+:
All Desert Treasure 2 Bosses
All God Wars Bosses
All Slayer bosses
All Wildy bosses
Chambers of Xeric (Team)
Chaos Elemental
Gauntlet
Kalphite Queen
Nightmare (Team)
Phantom Muspah
Skotizo
Tombs of Amascut (Mid Invocations - 200-300s)
Vorkath
Zulrah
90+:
Chambers of Xeric (Solo or Challenge Mode)
Corrupted Gauntlet
Inferno
Phosani’s Nightmare
Theatre of Blood (Normals or Hard Mode)
Tombs of Amascut (High Invocations - 300+)
22 seems like an odd level to keep your defense at. What’s the reasoning behind that?
Also Hunter was my favorite skill back when I had membership for a year as a kid. One day I’ll make it my first 99
I was 20 defence for quite a long time (was in an pure NH clan for about 5 years) and decided to go for max, 20 maxes at 2198 so I went for 22 instead (2200 or 2299 with sailing).
No extra combat levels but that doesn’t really matter when you’re a 106 combat pure!
Hunter is good, I find Maniacals are the best method for me personally since I can just watch youtube and alt-tab (Even better with baskets of bananas so you don’t have to pick up bones).
Apart from that the odd birdhouse run - I don’t currently have the herb sack for Herbiboar, but I have also been doing some black chins with no tick manipulation. I caught 1500+ without no deaths yesterday!
