WIKI GUIDES: Phosani's Nightmare (OSRS)
| Date | 2024-05-06 |
| Type | challenge |
| Video | youtu.be/zHxGjKaeTNU |
Summary
Gnomonkey fights Phosani's Nightmare using the OSRS Wiki's recommended 'worst downgrade' gear setup, then repeats the fight with a cheaper setup suggested by the Gearscape calculator. He concludes the wiki's downgrade charts are misleading and that Gearscape can replace them for gear setups.
Outline
- 0:00 Reviewing the wiki's Phosani's Nightmare downgrade gear and the idea of a mini series
- 2:00 Testing the wiki setup on the first phase; Phosani's clickbox
- 5:19 Fang spec experiments and the Dragon mace special on parasites
- 8:42 Completing the kill in the wiki gear (about 13 minutes)
- 10:37 Using Gearscape to find a setup for 15 million gp
- 11:54 Testing the Gearscape setup with Maracas
- 17:04 Result: about 11 minutes, takeaways on Gearscape versus the wiki
- 18:37 Criticism of the wiki downgrade charts
Topics covered
Phosani's Nightmare
- (0:26) Gnomonkey says Phosani's Nightmare has a really good hitbox, one of the best in the game, with clickboxes on its runes and a full box around it, making it hard to misclick.
- (0:26) The wiki's Phosani's Nightmare downgrade setup used a Dwarven helmet for crush bonus, an amulet of glory, an obsidian cape, Verac's armour, an obsidian shield, a combat bracelet, guardian boots, a ring of suffering, a dragon mace as the special weapon and a Trident of the Swamp.
- (0:55) Gnomonkey mocks the wiki setup's use of Verac's at Phosani's Nightmare, saying the hits are guaranteed and cannot be blocked so you might as well wear nothing, and that a ring of suffering does nothing there.
- (0:55) Gnomonkey notes the Osmumten's fang does not benefit from the Dwarven helmet's crush bonus, so the helmet gives no strength bonus with a fang.
- (5:22) Gnomonkey says the Osmumten's fang is not good on Phosani's Nightmare, even if every hit maxes it would not get a grandmaster time, and that a cudgel is still better.
- (6:17) Gnomonkey says the fang worked better on Phosani's Nightmare before its first nerf, and that the fang special does not bind her.
- (6:17) In the video Gnomonkey finds the wiki-recommended dragon mace special one-shots a parasite, though he later notes parasites may have around 55 HP and that it does not always do so.
- (8:42) Gnomonkey completed a Phosani's Nightmare kill in the wiki's recommended downgrade gear in about 13 minutes, using four pieces of food, three restores and a dose, and called it surprisingly not that bad.
- (10:25) Gnomonkey says the fight shows why bots can kill Phosani's Nightmare in terrible gear.
- (17:04) With the Gearscape-suggested Maracas setup, Gnomonkey killed Phosani's Nightmare in about eleven minutes, roughly two and a half minutes faster than with the wiki setup despite making mistakes and taking a triple parasite heal.
Gearscape
- (0:00) In the description Gnomonkey says that with the new Gearscape.net tool the OSRS Wiki is pretty obsolete for gear setups and that, for gear setups, the wiki can be thrown in the trash.
- (10:48) Gearscape lets you input as many gear setups as you want and compare them, with a best setup tab on the left that gives the best setup for a given gp budget.
- (10:48) Gnomonkey says he was using Gearscape to calculate Tombs of Amascut DPS for which setup to use on each Warden phase.
- (11:18) Gnomonkey notes Gearscape includes untradeable items and counts them as having no value, so you may have to exclude some things to make it work properly.
- (11:18) Asking Gearscape for a Phosani's Nightmare setup at a 15 million gp budget recommended Maracas, with a DPS of 7.3.
- (17:38) Gnomonkey says Gearscape can completely replace the wiki's downgrade charts and gives the exact best DPS for any given gp budget, and says the video is not sponsored.
- (17:38) As an example, asking Gearscape for a 100 million gp setup against Giant Mole recommended mixed hide armour with a fang, which Gnomonkey says looks goofy but will be correct every time.
- (18:09) Gnomonkey says you can exclude boosts, prayers and items you do not own in Gearscape, such as telling it to exclude the Infernal cape so it recommends the fire cape instead.
Opinion: OSRS Wiki downgrade gear charts
- (0:00) In the description Gnomonkey says he cannot tell people to look at the Wiki for gear advice because it is so bad, and that the Gear Discords do not keep up with new meta changes quickly either.
- (0:00) Gnomonkey considers the OSRS Wiki's strategy guide downgrade charts really stupid, and plans a mini series where he completes bosses the way the wiki thinks they should be completed.
- (0:00) In the description Gnomonkey says he still thinks the information on the Wiki is accurate and good otherwise.
- (18:37) Gnomonkey calls the wiki's downgrade charts a blight on what he considers the best wiki for any game, and says they are the only thing wrong with it that he can think of.
- (18:37) Gnomonkey says the wiki downgrade charts are misleading because they lack context, for example recommending a Dwarven helmet for crush bonus as the worst downgrade and also a fang, which stabs.
- (18:37) Gnomonkey says the downgrade charts should be deleted, or at least replaced by a small tool like Gearscape where you enter a gp amount and it recommends items.
Maracas
- (11:54) Gnomonkey was surprised that Gearscape picked the Maracas for a 15 million gp Phosani's Nightmare setup, and thought it must be the play.
- (12:54) Gnomonkey says the Maracas' special hurts you to hurt the boss, costing 25% of current health, and that it is a three tick weapon that hits a little harder.
- (15:30) Gnomonkey says the Maracas' special one-shot a parasite in his Phosani's Nightmare run.