WIKI GUIDES - GIANT MOLE (OSRS)
| Date | 2024-05-20 |
| Type | challenge |
| Video | youtu.be/NSiTMTXHDXQ |
Summary
Gnomonkey tries Giant Mole using the OSRS Wiki's lowest-budget melee gear, first at max combat and then brewed down to roughly 60-65 stats to mimic a fresh low-level Iron Man without the Falador shield. He calls the low-level kill miserable, around 10 to 15 minutes, and tells viewers not to do it.
Outline
- 0:00 Choosing a setup from the wiki's Giant Mole downgrade options
- 1:01 First kill at max combat in the wiki melee budget gear, without the Falador shield
- 2:54 Second kill without a thrall
- 3:27 Iron Man challenge: brewing down to about 60-65 stats with no stamina potions
- 6:00 Struggling to find and hit the mole; a roughly 10 minute kill
- 8:01 Checking Gearscape for a better budget setup
- 9:04 Testing the Gearscape setup with a bone dagger and dragon sword, brewed down
- 11:51 Hunting for the mole and finishing around 11 minutes
- 15:37 Verdict on low-level Giant Mole and advice to get help
Topics covered
Giant Mole
- (0:00) The wiki's Giant Mole downgrade page offers ranged (ACB or a bow with void), magic (lowest downgrade is a Sanguinesti staff), melee Dharok-style gear, and a melee budget setup; Gnomonkey picked the melee budget setup, with a dragon dagger as the special attack weapon.
- (1:01) Gnomonkey does not use the Falador shield in the wiki budget gear challenge, assuming anyone with that budget has not completed the Falador hard diary.
- (1:28) A thrall makes Giant Mole dig, but Gnomonkey finds the thrall useful as a locator to tell where the mole is.
- (1:28) Gnomonkey notes Giant Mole's slash defence is 80 and its other defence 200 in the clip where he checks it.
- (2:23) Giant Mole does not dig any more once it is below 5% health, so the rest of the fight is free.
- (2:23) With max combat stats and the wiki budget gear, Gnomonkey's first Giant Mole kill was about three minutes and a later kill took about a minute.
- (3:27) For the Iron Man simulation, Gnomonkey brewed down to roughly 60-65 stats, used no stamina potions and counted two strange fruit random events, to represent a low-level Iron Man doing the wiki setup.
- (5:00) The brewed-down wiki-gear Giant Mole kill took about 1,000 ticks, roughly 10 minutes, and ended with Gnomonkey one damage short of 5% before finally landing the kill.
- (5:00) In the brewed-down run Gnomonkey estimates the kill is slower than a Vorkath kill and says Giant Mole at those stats is probably about 30m gp/hr, as he guesses.
- (9:08) Gnomonkey thinks the bone dagger special (40% spec, 25% increased accuracy and damage) is probably better than a dragon dagger special at Giant Mole because it is stab, mole is weak to stab, and it does not hit twice so it does not trigger a dig.
- (10:29) A trick with the budget bone dagger setup: if Giant Mole is never brought below 50% health it never digs, so until then you are fine.
- (15:37) Gnomonkey says 15 minute Giant Mole kills are not worth it and should not be suggested by any guide, and calls the low-level kill miserable and absurd.
- (15:37) Gnomonkey advises a low-level Iron Man at about 60 base stats needing the Falador hard diary kill to get help from a friend with a shield, or to make two ultracompost bottles and dig them in the corners of the room, which he says takes less time than doing the wiki setup.
- (16:12) Gnomonkey says the wiki's downgrades for Giant Mole are not even bad and the wiki kind of gets a stamp of approval, but he stresses that the kill is miserable at that level whatever the gear.
- (17:38) The Gearscape-suggested budget setup, brewed down, killed Giant Mole in about eleven minutes and cost roughly 1.3 million gp to assemble, with Gnomonkey saying the first half of the kill went well.
Opinion: OSRS Wiki downgrade gear charts
- (0:00) In the description Gnomonkey says he did this Giant Mole wiki-gear challenge so viewers would not have to, calling it the longest Wiki Guide challenge he had done even with edits.
- (0:00) Gnomonkey says doing Giant Mole in the wiki gear at normal max combat was not too bad, but not having max combat and wearing that gear as the wiki suggests makes it absurd, and that people who did it would quit the game.
- (0:00) Gnomonkey says this Wiki Guides series is recorded in the morning on Twitch and YouTube and then continues on Kick.
- (0:29) Gnomonkey finds it strange that the wiki's Giant Mole page mentions a bow of Faerdhinen with no crystal armour and no explanation, calling it there for no reason.
- (17:38) Gnomonkey says even Gearscape could not really save the low-level Giant Mole setup, adding that you know it is bad when Gearscape cannot come up with a better solution.
Gearscape
- (8:01) Gnomonkey asks Gearscape for a Giant Mole setup while telling it he has 60 stats; it suggests a dragon sword and blood moon-style items and an unimbued treasonous ring, which he equips even though he thinks it will not be much better.
- (9:08) Gnomonkey says he did not know the dragon sword existed as an option until Gearscape suggested it, and calls its special very good.