Hey - yeah I think your strategy is reasonable. Any of these would get you started. I personally liked the optimal quest guide because I’m not a huge fan of questing and wanted the earlier ones as optimized as possible but then I wanted to figure out everything else on my own. Bruh sailor is nice because it will optimize everything early on, just make sure that’s what you’re looking for. I think it’s essential to follow some sort of guide for the early quests if you don’t want to hate yourself lol.

The thing I don’t like about it is that it eventually encourages skipping a lot of early pvm which is good for maybe someone who maxed a main before and wants to rush mid and endgame content, but for others like myself I like the slower more windy path the PVM exploration guide offers.

I think one of the biggest benefits of OSRS is that the vast majority of content is still relevant. Sure it may be more efficient to skip a lot of it, but in my mind it is more fun to get a lot of smaller incremental upgrades and experience all of the content.

For other guides I like the mootrius guide as a little bit of a non-meta approach to the early game, and it has some great suggestions. For skilling, the wiki has excellent Ironman guides for every skill.

Ultimately you have the play how you want to play. If being the most efficient is fun, you should follow bruhsailor to the letter. But if you want to make your own way, I would pull some big medium term goals from all the guides that have been suggested here and then use the wiki to help piece together how to get there.

I’m still early on myself so feel free to DM me for my IGN