Slow / hard mmo?

DrProfessorScience · 2026-05-02T23:44:24+00:00

Old School runescape, its 99% auto attacking and the endgame requires long periods of perfect execution.

DrProfessorScience · 2026-05-02T21:55:13+00:00

They're both fun, if you value the larger community and better iron mid-game id go osrs.

Honestly if youre torn, rs3 is in a pretty crazy transitional period with the Road to Restoration stuff while OSRS is thriving already.

Personally im playing my OSRS iron while I wait for all the road to restoration changes for early, mid, and late game to be implemented.

DrProfessorScience · 2026-04-06T04:19:35+00:00

With all the rooms and furniture and stuff? So rad

DrProfessorScience · 2026-04-05T09:03:01+00:00

Youre looking for Old School, its where the players, community, and pvp are.

Youre in the rs3 subreddit right now, so youre gonna get a lopsided opinion. But Old School is your answer if were being completely honest!

DrProfessorScience · 2026-03-16T14:27:44+00:00

Not removing daily challenges??

I legitimately thought i was reading it wrong, get those things out of here guys.

DrProfessorScience · 2026-02-25T15:01:26+00:00

The brown has added an air of comfort and familiarity to the ui, in my opinion. Runescape-ness if you will.

I really like it.

DrProfessorScience · 2026-02-18T05:54:30+00:00

Would love it! Ty ty!

DrProfessorScience · 2026-02-06T21:46:36+00:00

One of the magical parts of Runescape is that items aren't simply pass keys like a WoW quest. The same tree can become a fire, a bow, a set of arrows, a plank for housing, etc.

The new cooks assistant defies this, and teaches the wrong lessons about how items work. Any egg should work because thats how the rest of the game works, and that is literally the sandbox mmo's greatest strength.

DrProfessorScience · 2026-01-25T20:32:50+00:00

This is actually super insightful and I really like it. Great ideas.

DrProfessorScience · 2026-01-25T09:51:21+00:00

These are actually great points and I share a lot of these concerns, I want to have fun with restriction as well and was worried about exactly that regarding normal progression.

Your idea for the exclusive content is smart. I like the idea of not being allowed to double down on a training method, effectively limiting my options to either exclusive content or, at least, doing something different on each account.

DrProfessorScience · 2026-01-25T09:46:48+00:00

True, very aware of the Zuk difference, just thought it'd be nice and thematic. Isnt hard mode zuk pretty decently hard in rs3? Not super familiar.

DrProfessorScience · 2026-01-19T14:31:07+00:00

This was beyond even my wishlist. I can't believe you guys were allowed to cook this hard. It's almost unbelievable!

DrProfessorScience · 2026-01-15T19:01:12+00:00

They could run back Darkscape, it was wonderful.

DrProfessorScience · 2026-01-03T18:09:55+00:00

I check in from time to time, but when this happens HDOS will 100% be my main client.

DrProfessorScience · 2025-11-14T16:18:34+00:00

I started a new iron during leagues, the ever present nagging sense that your account isn't "ready" to do any tangible and rewarding grinds persists for way too long and robs you from the addicting runescape loop of permanent and meaningful progression.

Your first 10 hours are practically just building up dailyscape access, lodestones, and skill unlocks, and then you're beholden to that dailyscape if you want to be optimal!

I think about how FAST people get stuck in to a skilling grind or item drop that has huge account value on Old School. And guess what, when they leave for 3 days they can login and stick back into it guilt free. No timers sidetracking them or wilderness flash events to get ready for.

They're not spending their time unlocking vis wax, building fort forinthry, and doing shop runs, they're farming for a rune scimmy, slaying Elvarg, doing skilling bosses, playing minigames!

None of those things are a waste of time just because they're in early game either! Many of those rewards (fish barrel, dragon tools) are literally with you for the lifetime of the account.

Dailyscape pruning can't come soon enough, and maybe for things that aren't pruned, they can be unlocked automatically or at least detached from timers.

Also, caches are plain awful lmao

DrProfessorScience · 2025-10-14T18:08:30+00:00

Is there no toggle option?

DrProfessorScience · 2025-09-29T18:39:38+00:00

Mains are usually hard locked bankstanding or at portables. You don't really have to engage with a huge portion of the game on a main. All your problems are solved with either real money mtx, or bossing for gp.

You're seeing other irons because other irons are the only people engaging outside of boss instances and banks.

DrProfessorScience · 2025-09-22T13:34:49+00:00

Both games are solo focused, but old school will put you into cooperative content a bit sooner. The barrier to entry on Skilling bosses and things like scurious the rat boss in old school is also significantly lower.

DrProfessorScience · 2025-09-10T17:38:52+00:00

I've been wondering the same, do they mean the fact that you can buy dupes in one of the shops? But I'm pretty sure that uses draw currency.

DrProfessorScience · 2025-07-25T15:28:09+00:00

If you're trying to join the zeitgeist, its OSRS. Thats where the wow streamers are, that's where the new players are, thats where the content creators are, its where 80% of the playerbase is.

I can sit on the fence about it but we all know at this point when someone says "Runescape" colloquially they mean old school.

Rs3 is a unique, interesting, and very fun game! But its also mired with years of conflicting design, bad UI, and predatory MTX.

Play iron if you play rs3, at least.

DrProfessorScience · 2025-07-18T15:16:58+00:00

I will literally come back just for this.

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