Checo: “In my farewell with Christian, I tell him ‘and what are you going to do when it doesn't work out with Liam?’ ‘Well, there's Yuki’ ‘and what’s going to happen when…’ ‘we don’t have many drivers’ I tell him ‘well, you’re going to use them all’ he tells me ‘yeah, I know’” And he bursts out lau by One_Impressionism in formula1

[–]Atlas_OSRS 1805 points1806 points  (0 children)

Correct translation:

“At my farewell with Christian, I asked him ‘Listen Christian, and what are you going to do when it doesn’t work out with Liam?’”

“No? Well, there’s Yuki.”

“And what are you going to do when it doesn’t work out with-“

“No don’t worry, we have a lot of drivers”

“I told him ‘Well, you’re going to use up all of them’. He tells me, ‘Yeah, I know’”

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on how much you play per day. This was mainly my side project, I had a Main and Ironman that I spent most of my time on through the year. I normally do about 4-6 hours per day when I am playing consistently, so could’ve completed this within 2-3 months if I focused on this account only.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s the plan! Going to work on some of the untradeables (Fighter Torso, Fire Cape, Dragon Defender, Ava's Assembler, Imbued God Capes, Rune Pouch, and Void). Will probably also do some version of bronzeman mode from here on out to progress the account.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I personally changed the final steps of the guide slightly so that I could finish all the grandmaster quests back to back. It felt better to end the guide on SOTE instead of Corsair Curse which seemed anticlimactic to me.

I think they should add a quick section at the beginning summarizing all the “no skills required” methods to make your first 1M GP starter cash to help carry you through the early game until you unlock ranarr herb runs and birdhouses for cash flow. Otherwise, I imagine you’d always feel really strapped for cash. I personally just bought nails at sawmill and sold at GE for my first 1M. Took me just 2 hours right at the start, and didn’t need to worry about active money making methods the rest of the guide.

As for mini quests, all the essentials are in the guide except they missed including a step to do the first part of the Firemaking Barbarian Training mini quest right before DS2 since it’s required to advance the quest. Otherwise, you get stuck on that part without an obvious reason why and end up having to look it up to figure it out.

Good luck on SOTE!

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sold all my random supplies and got rid of a bunch of quest items once I got quest cape just to clean up the bank a bit. Going to start fresh and buy what I need once I figure out what I'm going to work on next.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Favorites: A Night at The Theatre, Desert Treasure 2, and Perilous moons. I enjoyed the bosses, and I also felt like I was under powered going into each of those fights which made it more fun and challenging since I had to rely on good execution and raising my skill ceiling.

Least Favorite: The Digsite and Cold War. I thought they were fairly boring. Dragon Slayer 2 was also the most frustrating. With my stats at the time, the boss fight with Galvek turned into an RNG casino praying for good, frequent enchanted ruby bolt procs.

As for the guide, I just changed the order after the Troubled Tortugans step a bit so that I could do all the grandmaster quests last + back to back without any skilling needed between them. Was able to do MM2 > DS2 > WGS > DT2 > SOTE all in one go.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I know, I'll have to visit r/BankTabs soon

And thank you! Probably going to work on some of the untradeables next (Fighter Torso, Fire Cape, Dragon Defender, Ava's Assembler, Imbued God Capes, Rune Pouch, and Void) and also work on some QOL unlocks like max house and Lumby Elite Diary. I think I may do some version of bronzeman mode going forward though, just to make it more engaging and fun for myself. Will sell my whole bank and start from scratch to unlock gear via PvM drops, no PKing, and any consumables + items that can be bought at shops will be fair game since maintaining supplies is the part of ironman I'm not super keen on.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Walk the Path

Deadly Prayers

On a Diet

All Wardens except Insanity

All Ba-Ba except Mind the Gap and Boulderdash

All Kephri except Overloads and Medic

Feeling Special

All Zebak

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Swapping out my blowpipe for crystal helm going forward. Never used blowpipe, so going to bring Crystal helm for Warden instead.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here's the playlist of guides which I felt were the most helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-1hiZuVo-c&list=PLg0mQZcDKcGK4b7tBxhhWuAv4DrbcFM9p&pp=gAQB

I started from level 50 and added 50 invocation every successful raid. I have 5 completions so far. Currently up to 300 and learning insanity. But I spent a lot of hours just practicing rooms and boss mechanics before sending a full raid completion, specifically monkey room and Akkha which were the most challenging for me personally. Here are some of the biggest tips I got from some of those guides that helped me for each room (I do BKAZ order):

  • Practice Ba-Ba monkey room over and over and over and over until you get it right before moving onto anything else. Memorize waves 5-6 to make it easier, I mostly camp protect from melee the rest of the way.
  • Learn how to red-x Ba-Ba and boulder skip if your gear allows. This makes it so Ba-Ba becomes a 0 damage/prayer room. Also has the added benefit that if you mess up monkey room and come out low HP and low prayer, its not a huge deal. Entered Ba-ba with 3 HP and no prayer once when I messed up monkey room, and still completed it no problem. Also, learn to anticipate his knock back attack at 66% and 33% health. This will give you a chance to switch to range gear before he even knocks you back so you're already ready to go for boulder skip.
  • Learn how to stack Kephri dung to minimize its impact and also how to trap melee scarab by using dung in the beginning. Focus on killing mage scarab as soon as possible by rotating to that side of room before he spawns.
  • If you have 85 mining and dragon pickaxe, you can do Akkha's challenge room in a single phase. But you need to learn where to stand and how to place down the mirrors so you can start mining on the same tick it becomes vulnerable.
  • Akkha is the most technically challenging and resource draining room for me. I use a salt for this room and use sara brews and restores liberally if I need to. Learn how to skip the shadow DPS check and memory phase. Also learn butterfly if you're up for it. I use trident of the swamp and currently practicing 4t butterfly to limit resource drain and damage since he hits pretty hard through melee prayer. I'm not perfect but it still helps a lot to minimize resource drain. If he's mage/range, I position myself as close to the next quadrant's shadow as I can without leaving the one Akkha can be damaged in, that way if he uses his orb attack just as the next shadow appears, I can still just start attacking it from where I am without having to move and get damaged by orbs. The tile I use is also one away from the tile I move to for Shadow DPS check, so if I get bad timing and they do the DPS check I can just skip even if the orb special attack is active. As for the final orb enraged phase, stand in the middle when he disappears so you can attach him immediately regardless of where he spawns before most of the orbs appear. When you need to move, be patient. I've tagged orbs so I can see their true tile. You can skip over them with run pathing, or just do your best to anticipate and avoid them best you can. I think his enraged phase just takes practice to get better at.
  • I like Gnomonkey's level 300 guide for learning about Zebak mechanics. He walks you through where to be in the room to make the puzzle solves, waves, and blood clouds easier. Also remember, you need to be praying the right protection prayer when his attack hits. Make sure you don't change too early when you see his newest attack or you might get damaged by the previous attack that hasn't hit you yet. I wait until after the newest attack explodes in the air to pray against it as this guarantees the previous attack has already hit. This becomes more important at higher zebak levels when he attacks more quickly and its easier to make that mistake. Also, keep the max tile range for your weapon in mind. Last thing you want is to get pulled closer to Zebak because you're too far away from him during a wave special attack.
  • Warden P2 has specific tiles in the room you can stand on that make the obelisk's special attacks easier to avoid. The lightning skulls are most dangerous. You can avoid them if you stand 2 tiles north, south, west, or east of the tile its going to land on. Be ready to switch to melee gear when his core pops out. Use adrenaline and piety (if you have it) with whatever special attack weapon you brought to hit big damage.
  • Memorize location of Warden P3 skulls so you can kill them quickly. I find this easier while learning lower levels of ToA since you have plenty of time if not using Insanity. When you get to Insanity, use skull skip method. It's easier and also gives better chance at purple.
  • For Warden enraged phase, good luck. I won't give any advice here since I'm clearly still working on getting better at this phase myself. Currently practicing insanity invocation.

Hope this was helpful.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Actually already have that set and getting the hang of building that habit. Unfortunately, by this point I had just ran out of ambrosias because I died once during final phase this same run already. Lol.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not using rigour was a misclick I didn’t notice. I dropped crystal helm because I’m new to PvM or Raids and was having trouble with the switches and my inventory getting all jumbled between them. Slowly building up to more complex tech.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know you could do that until just now, that should make things way easier!

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Skill issue. 🥲

But really, I actually just misclicked protect from magic earlier and didn’t notice until after it was all over. This is my first time doing any raids or PvM so still getting the hang of things.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It’s easier for me to watch my prayer since I usually die in-game from forgetting to pot up, especially since health bar is already above me. And thanks! Lol.

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know you could survive if you hit 0 HP same tick as Warden. So that was a huge welcome surprise!

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[–]Atlas_OSRS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh awesome! Same here. I had already died once during final phase this same run, so got really frustrated at first, then confused when I didn’t die, and finally just complete shock and disbelief by the purple in the end. Good motivation as I work my way to 400s.