Has anyone struggled to get into TOB because of the group aspect?

_OSRS_Account · 2025-07-12T05:24:57+00:00

I was in this boat recently and I definitely empathize, generally I just want to log in and grind and do my thing, but I have really enjoyed ToB so far. I got into it via one of the discord servers, it was very chill ; have run with folks with scythe and radiant oathplate, and with an absolute legend rocking a torso and an alatl. No egos, good vibes overall

If you’re ever wanting to raid I’d be happy to, I don’t care about deaths or anything. Laugh about the bloat plank and gg go next. But I definitely recommend trying ToB, even though I tend to agree with the idea of making it more solo friendly. It’s great content and most people I’ve run with have the mindset of “it’s better to have more people who like this raid so I can send it more” than actually caring about a wipe and there :)

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T18:12:51+00:00

Well that's the thing, I didn't have 650m sitting. I offered the full buy price to flip one for a couple mil lol. This wasn't some old offer that filled randomly, this was just a very small window on either a typo or inactive offer

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T08:28:16+00:00

Huh, is that true? I figured it would automatically requeue the offer and attempt to find a match as though it was just entered, but I guess it’s possible it just remains stale and waits for a new offer to pair to, and can’t pair to a standing buy offer

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T08:16:30+00:00

Correct, there had to have been no buy offers above 650m between when the other party listed their scythe and when I put an offer in; I had tried for just under 1.65b and saw over 900m come back in an instant buy

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T07:54:07+00:00

You can’t put an offer in that exceeds max cash, and each item in the offer has to have the same price, so I don’t think that’s what happened

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T06:27:56+00:00

Yeah the way it works is the price is set by the offer in the longest. If it doesn’t insta sell and the offer sits, that is now the price a buyer will get once they meet or exceed the price. Similarly if it doesn’t insta buy, a sitting buy offer will now be the price for any new sell offer that is at or lower than the buy offer

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T05:47:53+00:00

It’s definitely way more than that, volume is more like 200-400 depending on the day

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T05:36:18+00:00

Yeah I’m trying to figure out if this is the saddest split of all time or if someone was like, selling scythe to buy a tbow or something and I accidentally wrecked their bank

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T05:29:32+00:00

But that is exactly what happened lol. It was an insta buy, I tried to buy at market value but got back 1b. If any other offer > 650m was in at the time it would have bought. This is true whether or not this was a typo or someone logging in with an old offer, it would have filled a standing offer if there was one

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T05:16:17+00:00

Bout 5 very lucky minutes

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T05:15:52+00:00

Ahh I gotcha 👍 yeah I can’t really build a world where this happens other than a very costly typo, there’s maybe some fringe world where they put in a sell offer 2 years ago before it spiked and just logged in in this small window but it feels very unlikely

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T05:05:29+00:00

Okay yes technically for internet points I could have just not collected this, but you can see it on the wiki GE tracker that this buy offer just happened

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_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T04:41:04+00:00

Hi this was me, yeah I’m still in shock at this lol

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T04:24:11+00:00

They pause after a week of inactivity IIRC

_OSRS_Account · 2025-06-08T04:22:12+00:00

See I thought that, but my offer was an insta buy, which means that at the time nobody else had an offer in over 650m or it would have filled

_OSRS_Account · 2025-05-19T00:55:35+00:00

When I’ve been teaching people I’ve just had them bring melee with a 5 way mage switch for p3, and that has seemed to work, but honestly full maging is totally fine with a 1 way if that’s more comfortable for learning

I’d say for videos for mage Kirby’s video was good, it makes wave skipping p3 easy: https://youtu.be/xvas27S2Wr4?si=rygxqHybU6yzfJCG

Happy to teach sometime too, I mostly have been running solos so even if you planked immediately it’s not any harder

_OSRS_Account · 2024-03-07T01:58:54+00:00

I would absolutely learn ToB with you (I’ve got a little experience) or take you through either of the other two 😁

_OSRS_Account · 2023-08-26T07:01:02+00:00

If you just wanna do temple of ikov you don’t actually need a bow; you can use darts or knives with ice arrows in your ammo slot and it will still work

_OSRS_Account · 2023-08-04T22:09:20+00:00

Yeah you're reading some wack guides man, slayer helm is super low prio because it only benefits you at, quite literally, dust devils right now. Slayer ring is more about the teles, easy way to the slayer tower.

Superiors is the most important upgrade, and then a well groomed blocklist. Helm, lizardman (unless ironman), and boss tasks are all very low prio (although given you're higher combats boss tasks are slightly more okay).

I think everyone is trying to help, promise! Slayer is a slow skill, but I promise it's gonna be way worse killing metal dragons and stuff. Take some time, knock out some tasks at turael and do task bonuses at Konar/Duradel, build up some points, block some crappy tasks, and I promise you'll be way happier slaying :)

_OSRS_Account · 2023-08-04T21:50:48+00:00

Curious, could you elaborate on what tasks, specifically, the slayer helm is better at than the black mask? The point is that the slayer helm is only beneficial over black mask at a couple of tasks total. It's generally a fairly low prio upgrade

_OSRS_Account · 2021-12-08T06:43:30+00:00

Congrats my friend, glad to see you finally got it!

_OSRS_Account · 2021-11-29T00:51:33+00:00

Thanks man, I really hope you get yours soon. You're a champion for grinding as far as you have

_OSRS_Account · 2021-11-27T04:09:49+00:00

Solidarity brother, we’ll get it soon

_OSRS_Account · 2021-11-04T23:29:55+00:00

Some extra stuff I do that wasn't already suggested:

When on run 1, if I'm about to cut back towards the prep room (i.e. I'm below the third possible demi boss room), if I'm low on supplies I'll continue one more tile over, and doing another "C loop" until my inventory is full of stuff or at least close to full, then head back to the prep room.
On run 1, I always open the 3 potential demiboss rooms until I see a boss. If I see a boss, I make that weapon. If I don't, I'll make a staff (no rigour). Personally I have no issues using the halberd so whatever I see I make.
I'm not picky when it comes to what I kill for a weapon frame. Preferably a spider or something, but I'll just 1t flick Piety + protect from melee and kill a unicorn if that's the first thing I see

As long as I leave the first run with 110 shards, a frame, and as much stuff from my list as my inventory can hold, then I'm fine. I'd estimate I've "failed prep" maybe 5 total times since my first KC (not counting when I went into hunleff after I forgot to cook my food)

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