MAXED OSRS to FRESH RS3 IRONMAN


Date	2023-08-18
Type	series-episode
Video	youtu.be/KIticRFI1Rc

Summary

Gnomonkey, a maxed OSRS player, starts a fresh RS3 ironman account (leaving behind a maxed RS3 main) because it lacks microtransaction advantages, with the goal of reaching endgame PvM such as Telos, Arch-Glacor and Zamorak quickly. The video is the first stretch of live play: tutorial, mobility unlocks, dailies, combat adrenaline, early training, quests and starting Rune Span, with running comparisons to OSRS.

Outline

0:00 Starting the RS3 tutorial and noticing changes since he left
2:06 Ironman mode confusion: the account was not set as an ironman in character creation
5:49 Unlocking key mobility: Surge from the circus, lodestones, Run energy differences
7:12 Daily activities: Wicked hood essence, Wilderness flash events, Alt1
8:35 Exploration and navigation: skyboxes, bridges, no gates, Musician
10:48 Combat mechanics explained: adrenaline, thresholds and ultimates, Revolution
13:22 Early game training following a guide; the Wilderness is gone
17:34 Questing and preparation; Necromancy talk; Virago
23:20 Rune Span and the daily grind

Topics covered

RS3 Ironman account

(0:00) Gnomonkey returns to RS3 with a new account while keeping a maxed RS3 main he left behind, deciding to start fresh as an ironman because of the lack of microtransaction advantages.
(2:06) At the start of the video he realises he never specified Ironman during character creation, believing it would be prompted at the end of the tutorial, and has to deal with it before ending up set as an Ironman.
(2:33) Gnomonkey says he keeps his maxed main account in case he ever needs a main for some reason, but would rather get straight to endgame PvM on the ironman.
(13:18) Gnomonkey says he plays an ironman in RS3 so he cannot buy things like Treasure Hunter spins, which mostly give bonus XP (e.g. double XP in a skill, still requiring training), and that ironman is the only way to play the game authentically.
(20:10) Gnomonkey says he is considering rushing Necromancy as well, since it seems fast to get early levels and the guide he follows does not include it.
(21:47) Gnomonkey says his highest-priority targets are endgame PvM bosses such as Telos, Arch-Glacor and Zamorak (Zammy), and that he is most looking forward to Telos.
(27:50) Gnomonkey says there are so many dailies in RS3 that you can do them all day long, especially early game because they are so good.

RuneScape 3

(0:00) Gnomonkey notes that RS3's interface is completely scalable and can be arranged however you want.
(0:33) Gnomonkey notices mining has changed since he last played RS3, and that the tutorial is much the same as before, with a special hyper rock added.
(8:02) Gnomonkey says the Wilderness is effectively removed in RS3 (PvP no longer exists), with skilling Wilderness flash events starting at the top of every hour via the Edgeville Wilderness lodestone, and activities listed on the wiki.
(9:08) Gnomonkey says Alt1 is a tool that scans your screen and can solve clue scrolls and similar, but is nowhere close to RuneLite.
(9:08) Gnomonkey says RS3 lets you change the whole skybox, with options like an eclipse and shadow-world skyboxes that he thinks look really cool.
(9:43) Gnomonkey notes that in RS3 players are mostly at the Max Guild because everybody is maxed, the Lumbridge-Al Kharid bridge area is connected, and the Al Kharid gate has been removed.
(10:16) Gnomonkey says RS3 and OSRS are at extreme opposite ends for run energy: in RS3 run energy is almost irrelevant, you can recover it with a Musician, and there are no stamina potions, so you will never need them.
(10:59) Gnomonkey says Tutorial-era Gielinor features like Entrana-style islands have changed, and he believes an island he asks about (Taverley-area 'Toriel Island' as transcribed) was deleted.
(14:42) Gnomonkey likes that in RS3 you can look into the distance and spot landmarks like the Dominion Tower, saying that is not a thing in Old School.
(21:45) Gnomonkey notes that in RS3 one to three sealed clue scrolls can be obtained about every 15 minutes from skilling, and that he understands 200 million Woodcutting XP yields around 5k clue scrolls.
(21:47) Gnomonkey says RS3's Necromancy release was a chance to make the early game more accessible for new players, but Jagex nerfed combat XP and made levelling harder for early players, which he calls an interesting decision.

Surge potion

(3:31) Gnomonkey says in RS3 you unlock the Surge ability (a dash) by completing the circus agility course, and that the XP from it is insane.
(5:31) Gnomonkey says early in the RS3 account he unlocked teleports to Catherby, Taverley and Burthorpe via lodestones.
(5:48) Gnomonkey calls getting Surge a high-priority early mobility unlock and assigns it its own hotkey.

RuneScape 3 combat

(3:02) Gnomonkey says shots at a moving target in RS3 give more damage if the monster moves, and he notes triple-damage hits and dual-wield abilities once an offhand is equipped.
(11:22) In RS3, XP is stored in the monster until you kill it, so you must actually kill the monster to receive XP and cannot just hit it for XP drops.
(12:00) Gnomonkey explains that RS3 adrenaline is like OSRS special attack energy: you build it by attacking, then spend it on threshold and ultimate abilities.
(12:47) Gnomonkey says a threshold ability needs 50% adrenaline to use and takes 15% of it, doing more damage than the basic version, while ultimates use more.
(13:22) Gnomonkey says he is using Revolution (auto ability use) for now and plans to switch to full manual once he has more abilities, as he currently has one threshold and one ultimate on each bar.
(16:17) Gnomonkey says he surprised himself with how easily a 'one-take' (like protecting from damage without prayer, using a key press) works in RS3 when you can bind a keyboard key.

Wicked hood

(7:03) Gnomonkey says the Wicked hood lets you teleport to altars and pull essence out, with essence withdrawals limited to once a day; he uses it with the Mind altar and later adds an Earth talisman by killing spiders.
(7:36) Gnomonkey calls the Wicked hood essence pull one of the thousands of dailies in RS3.

Fight Kiln and TzKal-Zuk

(11:49) Gnomonkey says RS3's equivalent of the Fight Caves is the Fight Kiln, which he considers honestly easier than the Fight Caves, and that RS3 also added a TzKal-Zuk challenge of about 20 waves that he compares to what the Blue Inferno was going to be.

Early game questing and skilling

(17:34) Gnomonkey follows a guide for RS3 ironman progression, which tells him which XP lamps to spend (for example on Mining and Farming) and which items to buy in advance.
(17:35) Gnomonkey says the RS3 questing and Christmas-themed quest chain he runs into is not to his taste, and that spam clicking works in one Desert Treasure-style quest.
(23:40) Gnomonkey says getting 25 quest points unlocks a free 250k GP, after which he plans to start Crossing/Croesus-style GP to keep progression going; one quest requires buying 352 limestone bricks but the shop only sells 250 per day, so he must resume it on the second day.
(24:51) Gnomonkey says one guide step needs training Runecrafting to level 50 and buying 1,000 each of air, water, earth and fire runes for a quest.

Rune Span

(26:22) Gnomonkey says Rune Span is how you train Runecrafting in RS3: you grab essence from the creatures and play, and he reached level 7 immediately.
(26:49) Gnomonkey says RS3 Rune Span is completely AFK, like OSRS blood runecrafting but more AFK, and it can be automated with Revolution so abilities inside the yellow area fire in order.

Vorago

(20:48) Gnomonkey says Vorago (Virago as transcribed) was an endgame raid boss when released, not really endgame anymore, and that you can now solo him after Jagex changed the P1 mechanics and made the fight faster.

Gnomonkey

(13:48) Asked why he is not in the speedrun cup, Gnomonkey says he does not like tournaments in general, because speedrunning against other people is like poker with luck involved, and he dislikes PvP for the same reason.