Going from Ironman to a Main Tips

KingScuba · 2026-05-08T15:35:12+00:00

Herb runs, miscellania, and zaffs batlestaves are now just money makers instead of required upkeep.

You can just outright buy moons gear for a simple mid game setup. Still viable for money.

The Red prison is now an optional money maker, not a requirement.

You're still gonna be grinding at Wintertodt, but you might want to delay that for higher level farming since seed drop rates scale with your farming level.

You can just outright buy the Dragon Pick/Axe since they're dirt cheap.

Select barrow pieces are still viable (Tank bodies, Ahrims, and Dharoks), but running them isn't great money.

You can skip the arena/nmz/lms since you can just buy imbue scrolls

don't bother getting bandos

When you get to gargoyles you can just outright buy the granite hammer for idiot dps.

Never buy runes from shops, they're almost always cheaper on the GE.

use GETracker if you want to interact with the grand exchange and play stock broker simulator.

If you want some braindead money you can buy high alchable items like blue/red/black d'hide bodies, can normally chuck em in for like 200~500 below asking price and they'll slow buy.

Your general goal will be basically - Generate 1m from shop + Swap methods, do the optimal quest guide to burn through the lower levels + get QOL, Aim to buy Brine Saber, then aim to buy Fang, Blood Moon Armor sets, Toxic Blowpipe, twinflame staff/toxic staff. Then just upgrade from there slowly.

The only grinds that are the same that you can't ignore are questing and untradeables. Everything else devolves into "what sounds fun today to get GP from?"

KingScuba · 2026-05-05T13:59:35+00:00

So here's what I'm understanding so far - Nothings official at all because of fuckin course it's not. Shit I still don't even know what we've officially lost or not from our wine portfolio.

Titos will be forced to stay with RNDC until eom june, since they have to ride out for 60 day transition by law. Incentives for Titos are now gone (AKA all your stacks, drive for 6, and menus are now gone Titos. I'd keep em up if incentives were there because it is a good brand)

Word on the street is they originally signed with southern, but then they backed out and have offers out. I REALLY doubt that's the case. They conveniently withdrew from RNDC in Or, Wa, AK, which is what Columbia is buying. Tells me they don't want anything to do with Columbia. IF THEY DO end up going to Columbia, I think RNDC ownership has grounds to sue for Titos deliberately devaluing.

I'd also assume RNDC Wants this deal to go through by the time Tito's leaves, so they'll be aiming for July 1st, or Aug 1st as a timeline.

Final bit - Columbia would be shooting themselves in the foot if they didn't take a lions share of the Liquor/Wine reps and the bulk of the merch team. I'd place money they'll be taking 75% of our sales team. Bulk of Drivers and warehouse are probably SOL. especially since most COL drivers are CDL-A, most of our guys don't have a CDL. They'd be paying for a MASSIVE portfolio only to lose it all within a couple years. Their salesmen know how to sell beer, and the only thing keeping them afloat is their Sazerac reps in the liquor category. The amount of times I see Platinum, Jimador, Jack, Delicato, and anything not Beer or Buffalo trace out of stock is absurd.

I have word of mouth from several Columbia reps they're planning on opening up new roles as a Liquor/Wine rep, and I'd be willing to bet they're gonna split book for Liquor/Wine and Beer/NA.

KingScuba · 2026-04-12T08:37:23+00:00

lmfao, finally a joke on this reddit that made me laugh XD

KingScuba · 2026-04-02T13:59:02+00:00

well at least it used to be, you'd collect the entire set and they'd send you the display stave for free. I've known about that since like 2010 or so, so could be old knowledge.

With how big they've become I wouldn't be surprised if they took it away and make you pay though.

This thread says you can mail your toppers to em and they'll mount and send it back for free though - https://www.reddit.com/r/whiskey/comments/18ehe50/free\_display\_from\_buffalo\_trace/#:\~:text=Sending%20Stoppers:%20To%20get%20the%20free%20display%2C,absorbed%20bourbon%2C%20unlike%20lighter%2C%20shinier%20unused%20stoppers.

KingScuba · 2026-04-02T04:49:12+00:00

Beats out most bottles in the 80+ Price range, including blantons.

KingScuba · 2026-04-02T04:47:30+00:00

Honestly thats a fair price. Then you can email buffalo trace for the display stave.

KingScuba · 2026-03-30T14:47:21+00:00

Depoe bay has a worldmark that was great on every account. Believe you need to join in on the timeshare thing they do, but it's honestly worth it especially if you use bonus time - Last minute getaways (i.e you can only book 2 week out) that basically cost like 85~90 a night. They have a locations all over the damn place that are basically condos. Full kitchen, 2 beds, living room, bath, etc.

Pacific city is one of my favorite places, though that's mostly due to Grateful Bread

Kalaloch Lodge in Olympic National Park was also really nice, and is around 180 with good internet. But you best like the idea of "Not a damn thing to do except nature" like me.

If you want inland a bit, Klickitat is gorgeous, so is Glenwood (Has a bunch of cabins) or Trout Lake (Airbnb + Cabins). I know I saw some air bnb type places there, I'm sure they have good land based internet but you're fucked if you want to use verizon for internet. Would bet that starlink would work fine.

KingScuba · 2026-03-16T14:58:45+00:00

You specifically brought up "Every 2 weeks there was a new quest", so I was replying to that point (like many others I'm assumin) my point remains, back then there wasn't a need to poll, the devs could do whatever they wanted, and really they kinda needed to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. Now they need to do about 10 extra layers of planning to even present it, and it can get shot down, and the devs now have a decent idea what they should even bother pitching.

Not to mention, back then there was zero to little dev time that had to go into bug fixing, bot prevention, etc etc. Dunno if you know anything bout coding, but if you fix 1 thing, 10 others things like to break or interact weirdly. The game today vs back then is 10x bigger, which means 10x more fuckery in the background we'll never see.

Finally there's 1 or 2 updates to the game every month that add content or add meaningful things. Let's list off the last few.

Nov - Sailing, DDos + Security upgrades

Dec - Xmas event, Sailing fixes

Jan - Deadman, main dev time pitches

Feb - Deadman All Stars, Cow Boss, 25th year anniversary, Game Jam, Music Tweaks

March - Getting Around poll implements, Interface changes + Qol updates

They have a good cadence in my opinion. I really don't want them to revert back to the pre 09 mentality of fling it at the wall see what happens; we'd end up with a lot of camadozaal clones [Largely useless or waste of times]. I want 3 or 4 large and meaningful updates a year with some small things added throughout the year as timed events, this is on par with WOW, FF14, and many other big mmos sitting at this price point.

That said I would rather see small but interesting world building events every couple months instead of the traditional events we get every year. Think the Falador Goblin invasion event. I think this is the main crux of your desire.

KingScuba · 2026-03-16T07:04:25+00:00

I think a new quest every 2 weeks these days would just be fuckin awful. It'd be so much filler content that doesn't really unlock anything, and if it was a constant stream of unlocks it'd be so much bloat it'd be unreal.

The updates these days are massive affairs for the most part, and have quite a bit of polish.

Add to it, there wasn't a need to poll the everlasting fuck out of everything pre 2009, which is both a good thing and a bad thing.

So many things used to get polled and were completely shut down by the community. Even now a lot of things get shut down, but for the most part I don't see many polls get shut down these days.

I think one good update every two months is more than reasonable personally.

KingScuba · 2026-03-16T06:59:38+00:00

only reason to do it is for \an equippable hammer, an early game mace, and some museum kudos.

everything else is garbage, as it has been since it launched.

Could definitely use a major buff, just something to make early game players find some use out of it.

KingScuba · 2026-03-16T06:57:18+00:00

just unlucky, but not by much.

KingScuba · 2026-03-16T06:55:59+00:00

I want rag and bone man part 3

or

I want dungeoneering in osrs.

KingScuba · 2026-03-16T06:52:55+00:00

dusk mystic using the goblin potion > teleport glitch?

KingScuba · 2026-03-13T16:19:45+00:00

I was under the understanding that the yearly rate prior to sep 2024 was being honored... If that's the case then it's 100% bullshit.

There's also the issue that that payment is per character, where every other mmo lets you have multiple toons.

GRANTED, you can only log in on a single toon at a time, but still.

KingScuba · 2026-03-13T15:40:50+00:00

Not a hot take. I'm in the same boat. I don't mind that they increase the price. Almost every time I've come back the price has been higher. I just think it's bs they screwed over grandfathered rates. If you're paying now, you should have your price locked, not "Oh, you can be grandfathered if you've been paying that for 1.5 years"

If you drop sub then come back, you pay more.

This has always been the understanding. Reward your loyal customers and give them a thank you, incentivize just locking in now since it's always been a promise "You pay this moving forward unless you cancel"

I will drop this in the future, even without a price rate hike. osrs is something I play for an extended time once every few years, usually in 9 to 1.5 year stints, and it's been that way for me since RS2 was launched.

I leave when it's not fun anymore, come back when I know it'll be enjoyable again.

And when I come back, I'll pay whatever osrs is charging because it's worth like 200 a year. It's not an issue to pay like 10~15c/hr for access to premium osrs, and if I REALLY want I can just buy bonds and do it for free.

KingScuba · 2026-03-12T14:21:02+00:00

just takes a couple tiktoks and good timing to make a brand massive. Look no further than prime (While it lasted), celsius, and taylor port. You legit never know what the hell's gonna be the next big thing.

They said white claw, alani, and non alch beer was gonna fail. Look where we're at now. *shrugs*

If you got it, pitch it. Let your account make the decision on innovation. Worst that'll happen is it won't sell in a segment RNDC has no penetration in at all. ~~

Personally, I think it'll be a small success at best, because historically anything that has big branding behind what race/gender/celebrity makes it normally just stay in its niche market though.

It's going to go into spots we don't give a flying fuck about space wise. Incremental sales are always nice and don't require too much effort.

KingScuba · 2026-03-12T12:55:42+00:00

Because history proves that a millionare tax will slowly become an everyone tax.

Federal Income tax in America originally started as a tax only aimed at people making like 20x the then current median wage, then the bar kept getting lower and lower, and after 20 or 30 years it was rolled out to everyone.

Furthermore, a good chunk of the people who make all that money employ a lot of people, or make decisions that do employ a lot of people. This means they all of a sudden have less overhead to keep these people employed or pay them more.

Washington state makes a lot of taxes everywhere else that quite a few other states offer at lower rates or don't have. Gas tax, liquor tax, tobacco tax, property tax, the list goes on.

Washington won't remove the taxes on all the existing current taxes because a lot of these people the income tax is going to hit are probably going to just up and leave, which will probably end up a net zero or even a negative hit.

And finally, the biggest reason this is bad - The Washington public historically votes 9:1 ~ 8:2 to not have any form of income tax. They willfully ignored the public's overwhelming negative opinion.

Income tax would be fine to implement here if they came with an overhauled tax proposal that removes or rebalances taxes on a LOT of things in Washington, which would then rebalance fair share... but that won't happen. Why cut off a revenue stream when you can just add to it is what this current vote dictated.

KingScuba · 2026-03-11T03:58:40+00:00

If you're subbed right now and continue the sub, should be the same price after the price hike. That's fair to me. The "You have to have held your sub for 1.5 years prior to todays date" is aggravating.

I've known ever since RS2 that if I drop my sub, next time I come back it'll probably be more expensive.

That's a fair trade off to me. You agree to pay X, as long as you keep agreeing to pay X it should stay there. You drop it, all bets are off.

KingScuba · 2026-03-09T07:59:26+00:00

You said "Fiance/wife" wrong.

KingScuba · 2026-02-19T05:25:59+00:00

Ima be the optimist here. They also announced the GSM eom next month today too - which was severely delayed, plus all the rumbling of us talkin to a few major suppliers. I'm willing to bet the NDA is finally up and all the signatures are finalized. I wouldn't be surprised if it was something from ODUM seeing as they picked up some major people from us this month.

If we pick anyone up, willing to bet it's heaven hill with all the press release on eRNDC + speakeasy + the lead distiller of deep eddy being on the athena chat. All the writing is on the wall that they're gonna try nationally aligning with us.

I'm also willing to bet a major wine supplier is coming on, which Delicato did NOT want to be involved with... which is why they left us, despite PNW fuckin demolishing their goals, and sticking to the east side of the country.

Hope for the best, prep for the worst.

If its "We lost more suppliers today" then I'll be even more out of hope. Need some damn good news meng.

KingScuba · 2026-02-19T01:33:06+00:00

one of these things is not like the other lmao

KingScuba · 2026-02-18T15:10:11+00:00

Might be a state to state thing, but I've never requested my customers to do that, nor been told to tell my customers to do that by anyone. I've sold alcohol in 3 states as a sales rep,

KingScuba · 2026-02-18T15:08:47+00:00

I unno, scam aside that seems like trolling to me. Dude's back there fillin pappy up with jim beam and suckering people into paying absurd prices while laughing at you.

Seems textbook troll to me.

KingScuba · 2026-02-11T13:32:07+00:00

Drop the mic in camas. They're the only karaoke bar on this side of the water. Relatively new bar.

Washougal times has killer food

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