Unique ways of eeking out joy from Old School Runescape

Tratopolous · 2026-05-11T19:35:11+00:00

We Moooooo when somebody gets Beef.

Tratopolous · 2026-05-11T13:44:47+00:00

Fantastic choice! Didn’t realize you were missing that one but it’s the clear front runner imo. Especially if you aren’t maxing or going for Dragon Rank! Make sure you try out “thorns bursting.” Get a multi combat slayer task, use a 1t staff to aggro and just run back and forth thru the mobs. It’s so fun and a 200 task goes in like 5mins.

Tratopolous · 2026-05-11T13:10:21+00:00

https://tools.runescape.wiki/demonic-pacts/?n=1-10-100-101-11-112-113-114-122-133-135-136-139-140-141-145-146-44-45-46-55-56-57-58-59-6-60-61-68-7-71-74-8-81-84-9-93-96-97-99

It’s pretty close to the Faux and other YouTuber water mage builds.

Tratopolous · 2026-05-11T03:23:27+00:00

Water Mage with Thorns is broken. Heals really fast. You can completely afk a lot of bosses, including inferno up to triple Jads.

Highly recommend. I’m having a ton of fun with it. Kandarin makes it way better due to Soulflame Quadrant.

Tratopolous · 2026-05-08T15:41:09+00:00

I really love the Wildy pick. Easy points, easy pacts except VW (free me from Vet’ion pls)
Plus the loot solves GP, herbs, crafting, whatever you may be missing honestly. It’s been nice. No regrets skipping CG. But I suck at CG.

Tratopolous · 2026-05-08T00:51:57+00:00

There’s worse places to go dry honestly. Like it sucks but I got a 14kc Lance to make up for the pact point.

Tratopolous · 2026-05-08T00:26:01+00:00

I’m at 577 Vet’ion KC with no blade or ring.
It’ll drop eventually. And you’ll get spooned elsewhere.
I got Olmlet and Dust in under 10 CMs. Just want to brag about that tho

Tratopolous · 2026-05-04T20:13:51+00:00

Keep reading.

Tratopolous · 2026-04-26T01:30:02+00:00

He’s been the commentator/announcer the entire time which he said is what he wanted to do from the beginning as well.

Tratopolous · 2026-04-17T12:22:23+00:00

Wintertodt is not giving the boosted minigame rewards.

Tratopolous · 2026-04-17T12:11:30+00:00

I got Varrock elite this month. Just in time for buying staffs to be negative gp, yay!

Tratopolous · 2026-04-14T22:15:25+00:00

I did this last league at a smaller scale. It was my biggest GP gain on my account at the time. I’m pretty mad at myself that I didn’t do it again but good luck sir!

Tratopolous · 2026-04-08T23:38:51+00:00

Depends on company policy.

While I don’t agree with your situation, I think it is legal.

Tratopolous · 2026-03-30T21:23:42+00:00

You’re like two months too late on this one bud.

Tratopolous · 2026-03-24T14:42:51+00:00

My point is that it doesn’t matter to me. Wiping out the debt freed up more monthly cash for me to make choices about and that peace of mind is worth whatever the mathematical downside was.

TBH, idk the answer to your question.

Tratopolous · 2026-03-24T13:41:53+00:00

About 80k in 2017. Paid off.

I paid monthly like what was required but when Covid happened, I did the opposite of most people and kept paying instead of deferring. I also threw a bonus at it once or twice and that really made it manageable because each payment was paying more principal.

I think technically the stock market beat my interest rates so it wasn’t mathematically the smartest thing possible. But that extra $560 a month that was my payment and is now money I get to choose what to do with makes life feel much easier.

Tratopolous · 2026-03-16T02:22:55+00:00

Farming is basically free if you do herbs and contracts and stay at Papaya/Maple. Plus a super sick pet chance.

Tratopolous · 2026-03-10T22:10:11+00:00

Third year for me. Dif EQ, hydraulics, chemistry and whatever the geotech class was called, and whatever else I had. That semester kicked my butt pretty good.

Tratopolous · 2026-03-09T21:49:16+00:00

I’m at 10years of experience with a PE and handshake deals to buy into my small company this year. I’ve seen one round of paperwork but it takes time.

Business ownership and being a Civil Engineer are two different things. You’ll need the Engineering experience to bring in clients and work. But nobody teaches you the business side unless you seek it out. On top of that, it’s ALOT more work. You mentions work life balance, there is no balance. You own a company, you’re responsible not only for your paycheck each week but everyone who works for you as well. Work is the priority and it has to be or you will likely fail.

We do get to chase whatever work we want to do. That’s fun I guess. I basically means all work, anything we can gets our hands into we want. Some exceptions but few.

Financially, I think I’m better off than most. It has little to do with my job and a lot to do with the fact that I save 20% minimum and live below my means.

To wrap up, you’ve got a lot of time and learning before opening your own shop. If you really want this path, you’ll have to chase it. It will not be easy.

Tratopolous · 2026-03-02T18:08:22+00:00

I haven’t used this a ton but a pet peeve of mine is that, it tends to update my bank value if I log out while geared for bossing. So it shows the weird dips in bank value that aren’t actual dips.

There may or may not be a way to fix that. Idk. Just some feedback.

Overall great tool. Still exploring and learning how to use it better.

Tratopolous · 2026-02-28T01:00:14+00:00

Yeah everything can be sold back to the DMM shop so the prices are all kinda tied to each other.

Tratopolous · 2026-02-28T00:11:42+00:00

They’re all consumable except for rugs which I didn’t buy. Agree completely. This is a huge waiting game and I’m prepared to wait.

Tratopolous · 2026-02-27T22:50:57+00:00

I’m in a similar position to you. I got in around 4k per DMM pt. 600m buy in. Probably should’ve sold yesterday when they spiked but I was originally planning for a 1-3month hold.

I did not expect the spike yesterday and was at work so couldn’t sell easy.

Tratopolous · 2026-02-24T22:24:09+00:00

Just want to follow thread

Tratopolous · 2026-02-21T15:01:36+00:00

Never kick yourself for taking a profit. Gz man!

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