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Deadman: Annihilation

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Deadman: Annihilation

Deadman: Annihilation
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2026-02-04, latest 2026-02-04)
Main source DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS)

Deadman: Annihilation is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2026-02-04. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Requirements

  • Entering raids in Deadman: Annihilation requires at least 800k risk, but Gnomonkey says players gamed this with inflated GE-value items so it served no purpose.1

Methods

  • The starter sigil (for example melee, magic or ranged) is picked by clicking the skull in the equipment tab, rather than a menu popping up on login like in Leagues; Gnomonkey's chat repeatedly asked how to pick it.2
  • The starter crate (tuna, basic starter weapons, and a chronicle to teleport) can be claimed once per day from the Combat Tutor in Lumbridge, or you get it back if you die a PvP death.3
  • In Deadman: Annihilation the peek option is disabled on bosses that have one, and you cannot bank items worth over 10k while in a fight, which Gnomonkey learned when overload clicks at a bank did nothing.4

Stats and numbers

  • Gnomonkey observed that Deadman: Annihilation worlds were not as busy as Leagues worlds: a Leagues world would have over a thousand players, while some Deadman worlds were dropping below 200 at almost midnight his time.5

Tips

  • Gnomonkey's Deadman: Annihilation PvP approach was killing skillers doing chinchompas, players thieving wealthy citizens, and players at the Agility Pyramid, targeting people carrying money who would not fight back much.6

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says Deadman: Annihilation was casualised by removing things like looting other players' banks, and Jagex marketed it as doable even if you do not do PvP.7
  • Gnomonkey did not feel clans were a big problem in multi-combat areas; he was killed only once or twice at Scurrius when a clan swept through, and mostly players in multi areas left each other alone.8
  • Gnomonkey says he started to have much more fun in Deadman: Annihilation when he stopped focusing on points and the grind and just killed people for money.9
  • Gnomonkey says Deadman: Annihilation streams were not really popping off and the mode did not grab players the way Leagues does.5
  • Gnomonkey says Deadman: Annihilation was his first Deadman, and that veterans may find new-player friction less of an issue but it is important if Jagex wants a more casual mode.10
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex failed at the easiest step of making Deadman friendly to new players, which is making things obvious, and wants an NPC like the Leagues Sage as a hub for game-mode items such as the bone crossbow and lost gear.11
  • Gnomonkey considers Deadman: Annihilation a 'meh' game mode that is not capturing people because Jagex tried to Leagues-ify it.12
  • Gnomonkey is worried that releasing a temporary game mode in the same year as Leagues may leave players burnt out on temporary game modes.13
  • Gnomonkey hopes future Deadman modes drop the jack-of-all-trades approach and focus on PvP, while keeping bank keys removed and making things more obvious.13

Events

  • Jagex recently released Deadman: Annihilation, a temporary game mode encouraging PvP with a Leagues-like feel.7

Trivia

  • Gnomonkey describes himself as a PvMer and extreme PvP novice who used Deadman: Annihilation to practise for All-Stars, making him the target demographic for the casualised mode.14
  • Bone crossbows are sold in the Varrock Archery Shop, which Gnomonkey says new players cannot discover without a wiki.15
  • A chest at the Grand Exchange lets players turn in emblems from breaches for points to buy items such as potions, a granite maul handle and a ring pouch.16

Revision history

Date Video Change
2026-02-04 DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS) Page created: 19 statements (event, method, opinion, requirement, stat, tip, trivia)
## References

  1. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 11:28 ↩

  2. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 9:31 ↩

  3. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 10:59 ↩

  4. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 11:34 ↩

  5. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 3:53 ↩↩

  6. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 2:55 ↩

  7. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 0:00 ↩↩

  8. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 2:26 ↩

  9. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 3:24 ↩

  10. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 8:59 ↩

  11. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 12:54 ↩

  12. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 18:10 ↩

  13. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 22:10 ↩↩

  14. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 0:31 ↩

  15. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 10:02 ↩

  16. DMM New Player Experience Needs Work (OSRS), 2026-02-04. ▶ 10:30 ↩

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