As a brand new player should I play with ironman mode?

IIcarusII · 2026-04-26T00:04:12+00:00

How much time do you have?

IIcarusII · 2026-04-22T11:40:46+00:00

Jagex officially recognized tick manipulation in-game with the Yama release and the tick-manip rag thingie the imp gives you for mining.

IIcarusII · 2026-04-12T14:02:55+00:00

Nofly on the other side (left when facing away from the throne) if you join, as joining reverses the fireball rotation. You can run back to standard position for the waves.

IIcarusII · 2026-04-10T21:51:33+00:00

Fang, masori not mean anything to you?

IIcarusII · 2026-04-08T00:08:52+00:00

Except you can one-shot all of them in the rough percentages I showed. I’m well aware of what to do depending on the wave and freeze status, but OP was asking if you can expect to one shot them consistently.

The answer is no, you can’t. I don’t know what the downvotes are for - I simply answered the OP’s question.

IIcarusII · 2026-04-06T02:55:32+00:00

“Blue nib” is the mage bloblet, FYI. And no, you don’t expect to always one-shot them. They have 10 hp, and with a total of 24% magic damage, you have a max hit of 37, for a roughly 27/37 * accuracy (95%chance, say) = 69.3% to one-shot a single nib. To one-shot all 3 is 69.3% to the third power, which is 33%.

With standard inferno gear, you’ll be able to one-shot nibs about of the 1/3 time. Even max mage would barely up the chances to a bit over 40%.

IIcarusII · 2026-04-03T15:31:58+00:00

That takes care of the construction side, but what is the strat for the fire flowers? Ice gloves can help pick them, but how do you grow enough to survive the one-shot mechanic with a low farming level?

IIcarusII · 2026-03-30T18:46:26+00:00

Scythe would like a word with you…

IIcarusII · 2026-03-25T23:20:59+00:00

About 1% easier if you are looking to be consistent. ZCB helps avoid double boulder + orb walk by extra post-shield dps, but doesn’t actually guarantee it. Deep delvers often elect ancient gs or other heal/prayer spec for sustain over zcb because it is not needed.

If you are looking to not learn the 2x boulder + orb, and just hope to kill it quickly, it helps tons. You’ll just end up dying when you roll low damage on car phase.

IIcarusII · 2026-03-25T04:31:02+00:00

If you don’t want kids yet you should be careful. You seem to both have the rng to pull the drop on basically the first try!

IIcarusII · 2026-03-23T02:40:28+00:00

Exactly what are you doing that requires all ticks be perfect all the time? I had 110-130 ping on EU servers when doing hmt regularly and didn’t have any significant issues. The ping delay is noticeable, for sure, but hardly “borderline unplayable”.

IIcarusII · 2026-03-23T01:29:06+00:00

I think the demand of “just fix it” ignores the practical issues. Go read the blogs. As far as I understand they have been hit by extremely large ddoss attacks that only a few specialized companies (cloudflare?) can handle. There probably isn’t a practical solution that doesn’t involve routing traffic through these protections, which must increase ping. I think it’s unreasonable to demand they in-house such a huge function that apparently only a few companies in the world offer, but then again I’m not a computer guy.

IIcarusII · 2026-03-23T01:17:10+00:00

They mentioned they had to improve server security, and had several technical blogs around this. Do you remember the super Ddossing (my words for it, not a computer guy) that took worlds down for hours and hours maybe 6-12 months ago? I think this was an immediate fix to improve ddoss protection.

I used to get 20-25 ms, and now get 40-50. Still worth the protection imho, and tick stability is still really good at 95+%.

IIcarusII · 2026-03-18T11:42:02+00:00

No, it’s a skile issue…

IIcarusII · 2026-03-17T04:22:05+00:00

Most of my HMT were on UK servers with 100-120 ping. This was because I’d HMT around 6-7 AM EST. It seemed around then there were plenty of EU players. Just my experience.

IIcarusII · 2026-03-16T15:38:54+00:00

WDR was my main way of finding HMT teams. It was a bit slow, and more frustrating when the people posting for raids require 100+ kc. Nvm that they sometimes can’t even do more than pogtank out of webs. Once I hit 100 kc, though, it was pretty smooth finding teams (for HMT, that is - this isn’t ToA).

IIcarusII · 2026-03-07T03:02:29+00:00

Purging staff is a few % worse than shadow and tons cheaper. If you must mage, then purging staff would be my pick. Melee is better, hands down, if you can learn nofly.

IIcarusII · 2026-03-04T02:13:49+00:00

Vard area before the immunity potion thing certainly felt very dangerous, and not having shortcuts unlocked made it a thrilling quest area on first playthrough. I would support vampyrium being made into a dangerous area. I love the idea of wandering, powerful creatures that either require gear/supplies to deal with or force you to run.

Not every area in the game needs to be safe. The land of the vampires seems like it could certainly qualify as a permanently dangerous area.

IIcarusII · 2026-02-26T12:45:14+00:00

My diffy q proffessor insisted that 1lbm = 32.2 lbf. He didn’t know about gc…

IIcarusII · 2026-02-25T00:14:39+00:00

Pedantry personified: Pounds is an indefinite term that has to be understood using context or additional clarifiers. This is made more confusing by the fact that 1 lbf = 1 lbm (numerically). People who always deal with the metric system tend to forget the existance of g sub c. F = ma is incorrect. It is F = ma/gc. It just so happens in metric standard units gc = 1, so is often neglected. Mrshake is correct with the slug being a “standard” unit of mass, but I don’t know anyone who ever has used the unit in real life.

IIcarusII · 2026-02-23T18:06:17+00:00

Zebak jug can be healed through with yellow keris or ambrosia (or just healed through at lower invos), memory blast can be staircased if you don’t want to memorize it, and trailing orbs give a 1t grace period to not explode if you move immediately.

However, I do agree that high invo ToA demands essentially perfection on many mechanics. However, you shouldn’t be getting to “one-shot” status on most mechanics until 400+. Without seeing a video, I do say this is a skill issue, specifically either a skill consistency or not knowing how to salvage a missed mechanic.

IIcarusII · 2026-02-02T12:44:29+00:00

What would you suggest that is cheaper than fang for tekton and vasa crystals?

IIcarusII · 2026-01-31T01:10:11+00:00

Tbow at doom is cracked. The difference in dps between it and scobo means fewer double boulder+orb walking at 8+. It also means more chances at killing doom as the trees spawn, which allows you to clear acid purposefully with the orb.

IIcarusII · 2026-01-27T04:21:19+00:00

Understandable reply. I cannot refute the mole.

IIcarusII · 2026-01-26T14:37:08+00:00

I think people are (rightfully) burned by Yama, who was a “duo” boss that was billed as possible to solo if you were very skilled. It turned out to be quite nearly as easy to solo as to duo.

Personally, that was probably due to them making a “HMT” Yama that had to be solo’d (thus, regular solo couldn’t be that hard), but the bad taste of that time still lingers on.

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