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Gridmaster

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Gridmaster

Gridmaster
Type Activity
Videos 1 (first 2025-10-22, latest 2025-10-22)
Main source GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS)

Gridmaster is an activity topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-10-22. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Methods

  • Gridmaster is a grid of tiles where each tile unlocks a useful Leagues relic or item, and completing columns and rows of tiles gives further rewards on the outside of the grid.1

Stats and numbers

  • The easiest Gridmaster tiles include equipping fancy boots, mining gold, throwing a gnome ball and stealing from a fruit stall, each giving a powerful relic that gets you started quickly.2
  • Tougher Gridmaster tiles include a sub-30 Inferno, a floor five Hallowed Sepulchre, getting Blorva, reaching 2k total level and obtaining a rare drop from Araxxor.3

Tips

  • In Gridmaster, throwing a gnome ball early gives Agility XP, and you get all three early pick tools (pickaxe, axe and harpoon) fairly quickly.4
  • In Gridmaster, Golden God can be obtained fairly easily at 50 Thieving, and reaching 99 Construction, which takes about an hour, gives the Kopesh, which Gnomonkey calls unbelievably strong for killing bosses with combat relics.5
  • A sub-30 Inferno tile is doable for anybody if you leave it towards the end of the grid, when you are incredibly powerful, though it may not be one and done.3
  • In Gridmaster you can rush bosses such as Scurrius with terrible gear for the first combat mastery, and many tiles only require killing a single boss, which is doable with almost nothing.6

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says Gridmaster is worth playing, is very quick, and takes about a week at most even at a slow pace, with some people finishing on day one.7
  • Gnomonkey says players get more powerful in Gridmaster than they ever do in Leagues, and that you have all three combat relics.1
  • Gnomonkey says Gridmaster is much, much faster paced than Leagues, with very basic tasks such as completing the stronghold, doable in the first three minutes, unlocking Fairies' Flight so you can teleport everywhere.4
  • Gnomonkey likes Gridmaster as a change of pace and is glad Jagex did not just run Leagues again, since there was not going to be a Leagues this year.8
  • Gnomonkey says Gridmaster may not suit players who want something that lasts, because you fly through it.8
  • Gnomonkey likes the tile system because larger individual tasks unlock something instantly rather than slowly accumulating points as in Leagues, and there is a good variety of tasks.2
  • Gnomonkey says routing matters a lot in Gridmaster because harder tiles like the sub-30 Inferno require you to become powerful first.9
  • Gnomonkey really likes the Gridmaster UI, which has a flip button to compare the reward with the challenge, shows what each unlock does and what you need to do, and shows clearly when a tile is complete; he expects clans to use it a ton for bingos.9
  • Gnomonkey says Gridmaster did not use region locking, which he welcomes after RS3 Leagues, which also had no region locking but was bogged down by needing many quests.10
  • Gnomonkey says in Gridmaster he did not do a single quest because basic tasks unlock quest completions, for example Vampyre Slayer to unlock Sins of the Father and killing a Lizardman shaman to unlock Song of the Elves, and he calls this amazing for pacing.11
  • Gnomonkey says Gridmaster's short pace lets people speedrun it by finding special routes, which he says never really happens with Leagues.12
  • Gnomonkey says the Gridmaster launch was a breath of fresh air: Jagex took the worlds down, put them back up, and launched Gridmaster an hour later with no downtime, unlike Leagues launches that have been delayed up to two hours, and he says Jagex should do this next time.13
  • Gnomonkey says bugs are a bigger problem in a fast-paced event like Gridmaster than in Leagues because players finishing in a day spend much of their playtime stuck on a bugged mechanic that will not be patched in time.14
  • Gnomonkey says he is giving full negative feedback on Gridmaster in case Jagex reuses the system, but acknowledges it was a slapped-together temporary thing that worked really well.15

Records

  • Gnomonkey did a Corrupted Gauntlet in Gridmaster with 40 hitpoints, which was a challenge even with the combat masteries.6
  • Streamer Foe completed the whole Gridmaster grid in about 13 hours, while Gnomonkey's first completion took about 23 hours.16

Trivia

  • Gnomonkey describes Gridmaster as a kind of mini Leagues made to break in Jagex's new bingo system for clans.7

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-10-22 GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS) Page created: 24 statements (method, opinion, record, stat, tip, trivia)
## References

  1. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 0:30 ↩↩

  2. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 3:24 ↩↩

  3. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 3:51 ↩↩

  4. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 1:56 ↩↩

  5. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 2:30 ↩

  6. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 5:49 ↩↩

  7. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 0:00 ↩↩

  8. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 2:57 ↩↩

  9. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 4:19 ↩↩

  10. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 4:48 ↩

  11. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 5:19 ↩

  12. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 6:49 ↩

  13. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 9:21 ↩

  14. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 9:54 ↩

  15. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 10:20 ↩

  16. GRIDMASTER: Was it RUSHED or better than LEAGUES? (OSRS), 2025-10-22. ▶ 6:22 ↩

Activities

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