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Combat Achievements

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Combat Achievements

Combat Achievements
Type Mechanic
Videos 5 (first 2023-07-30, latest 2025-09-11)
Main source Tormented Demons Guide + Triple KC CA (OSRS)

Combat Achievements is a mechanic topic that Gnomonkey covers in 5 videos between 2023-07-30 and 2025-09-11. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Methods

  • When multiple Tormented Demons are on you, one launches AoE attacks, one melees you, and one either mages or ranges you, all automatically off-ticked, and you must finish all three with a final punish special.1
  • Gnomonkey's method for the triple Tormented Demon kill is to get all three below 10% health, wait for the special roar, keep prayers flicking, and then finish all three with a punish using a ballista.1

Stats and numbers

  • In the Jagex panel on Combat Achievements shown in the video, 0.13% of the player base had completed Grandmaster, 0.59% had completed Master and 2.01% had completed Elite.2
  • There are 625 Combat Achievements in the game, and that there were about 375 at release.3

Tips

  • You can get every new Tormented Demon Combat Achievement in a single trip kill, which requires killing three at once.1
  • When a Tormented Demon changes prayers it delays its attack slightly, and that he stares at the mage demon while praying melee.4
  • To be careful what you punish so you do not kill a demon early, and he uses a blowpipe to chip a demon down before the final punish.5
  • Reddit discussions at some point suggested locking the stack capacity behind combat achievements, which he considers stupid because killing bosses is not the only way to get clues.6

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says 90% of Combat Achievements are a slog, either simple kill-count tasks or very basic one-off things, and that he can count the good ones on one hand despite there being 485 of them.7
  • Gnomonkey says the Jad challenges added in 2021 were a fun distraction for a day or two but are very simple and reward nothing besides combat achievements.7
  • Gnomonkey says in the video description that the Triple Kill Combat Achievement is not too hard, but everywhere is crowded; it takes a few tries and is easy if you are comfortable flicking and fighting one demon at a time.8
  • Gnomonkey says the Tormented Demon Combat Achievements have a very clear intended method, and says people cheesing it with venom and similar are not using the clear intended way.9
  • Gnomonkey says combat achievements should not have rewards for unrelated things, so he is glad clue scroll stack capacity was not locked behind them.6
  • Gnomonkey hopes Jagex fixes Bloody Blows (the chip damage and splashing on void flares) in the next update, and does not expect the contracts to be reworked.10
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex said Combat Achievements are coming soon and begs them not to put the Yama contracts on CAs, since they are much harder than Blorva, broken and cost money to access.11
  • Gnomonkey argues that Jagex is not designing CAs only for Grandmasters: everyone gets some CAs, so everyone interacts with the system, and he does not think the expectation is for every player to complete everything.12
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex responded defensively by defending the difficulty of CAs, but he thinks the real issue is the quality, how interesting and engaging CAs are and whether you have to learn the boss well to complete them.13
  • Gnomonkey says that every time CAs release, players expect a bingo of cookie-cutter CAs, such as another Salamander CA and an annoying RNG-heavy Grandmaster time.14
  • Gnomonkey says nearly every content release follows a formula: every boss gets a Grandmaster time or speedrun, a perfection CA and a kill-count CA (the Doom of Mokhaiotl being the exception on kill count).15
  • Gnomonkey says that as a Grandmaster he finds about 95% of CAs a slog that does not engage him, and that most Grandmasters he has talked to say it was a grind rather than difficult.16
  • Gnomonkey notes that because CAs give points towards reward tiers, with harder CAs worth more points, Jagex could cut a lot of CAs without much trouble, though some players' point distributions would be skewed.17

Events

  • His worst experience with the aggro bug was while completing the three Tormented Demon Combat Achievement and someone came into the room.18

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-09-11 How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better Added: 8 statements (opinion, stat)
2025-05-25 Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History Added: 2 statements (opinion)
2025-04-08 Clue Boxes and Gambling Tokens (OSRS) Added: 2 statements (opinion, tip)
2024-07-15 Tormented Demons Guide + Triple KC CA (OSRS) Added: 8 statements (event, method, opinion, tip)
2023-07-30 A Plea To Jagex (OSRS) Page created: 2 statements (opinion)
## See also

References

  1. Tormented Demons Guide + Triple KC CA (OSRS), 2024-07-15. ▶ 6:01 ↩↩↩

  2. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 0:56 ↩

  3. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 32:29 ↩

  4. Tormented Demons Guide + Triple KC CA (OSRS), 2024-07-15. ▶ 6:54 ↩

  5. Tormented Demons Guide + Triple KC CA (OSRS), 2024-07-15. ▶ 8:24 ↩

  6. Clue Boxes and Gambling Tokens (OSRS), 2025-04-08. ▶ 5:27 ↩↩

  7. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 7:00 ↩↩

  8. Tormented Demons Guide + Triple KC CA (OSRS), 2024-07-15. ▶ 0:00 ↩

  9. Tormented Demons Guide + Triple KC CA (OSRS), 2024-07-15. ▶ 8:53 ↩

  10. Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History, 2025-05-25. ▶ 54:35 ↩

  11. Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History, 2025-05-25. ▶ 55:04 ↩

  12. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 1:27 ↩

  13. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 1:57 ↩

  14. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 2:26 ↩

  15. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 23:49 ↩

  16. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 28:54 ↩

  17. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 33:27 ↩

  18. Tormented Demons Guide + Triple KC CA (OSRS), 2024-07-15. ▶ 0:25 ↩

Mechanics

Colosseum invocations • Yama contracts • Invocations (Tombs of Amascut) • Jal-ImKot • Inferno pillars • Jal-Ak • Alt account • Thralls • Nex gear setup • Tempoross • Turael • Inferno waves • Jal-Nib • Doom of Mokhaiotl: rock block method • Monkey Room • Fortis Colosseum pillars • Phantom barrage • Awakened bosses • Melee gear progression • Demonic Brutus • Jal-MejRah • Prayer flicking • Butterfly Tech • Fortis Colosseum setup • Doom of Mokhaiotl: melee punish • Sulliuscep • Botting • Off-ticking • Corner trapping • Doom of Mokhaiotl: car attack • Combat Achievements • Doom of Mokhaiotl: shield phase • Pest Control • Blood Barrage • Nylocas • Great Olm 4-1 method • Nex reset • Triple Jad • RuneScape 3 combat • Tightrope skip

Category: Mechanics