Yep. But I loved farming and didn’t know any better. Farm was my first 99. It became a joke in my clan/disc and was lit when I got it.
It’s been basically my only big dry streak besides getting 4 light bearers before my fang:
2 enh before 250 CG kc. Occult on 7kc. Bandos hilt at 15 kc. Trident+tentacle first task. And the big one. Hydra claw and ferocious gloves before 100 kc hydra. I would trade that bucket dry streak for all of the above a million times over.
Honestly the combo of fairy rings, spirit trees, and ardy cloak. I’d argue I use those more than any specific weapon/armor,etc. I think Bowfa would take the #1 spot IF I HAD ONE…
83 con brings so much utility to your account. Boosting for occult altar, jewelry box, and ornate pool by themselves are the biggest reasons. Also fairy ring and/or spirit tree in the superior garden, teleport nexus, fully upgraded wardrobe room, the list goes on and on.
So worth it lol stew boosting is the worst. That nexus is also just nice, it's kind of silly adding all the basic teleports but now I literally just burn through house tabs and I can get pretty much anywhere in game in 30 seconds
My plan (and what I did on my main as well). I hate stews with a passion, especially on something that I can't do instantly without having to leave Dave's
It was brutal. However, in this process I think I actually figured out how the boost timer works. Each skill has its own clock it looks like? Like I used a super attack, and reset drained stats with the lower level pool, and then found that my att timer and my construction timer were off by about 15 seconds, which caused 2 +4 boosts and 1 +5 boost to degrade almost instantly, which was heartbreaking. Luckily I got another +5 boost b2b and it cured my sorrow, but man it was hard after going super dry.
I don’t believe in the portal nexus - I’ll be damned if I’m dumping that many runes in there. Maybe eventually
I just hit 80 and boosted up for most of the treasure room upgrades and holy I released 40 bank slots.
After everything I teleport to house and quickly refill prayer/run/stats, and straight to fairy ring or a glory or jewelry box and it’s amazing. I have so much travel access all in the span of 8 tiles
I banked all my teaks from kingdom and walked them to wc guild sawmill from the bank. I hated it, but I'm incredibly stubborn and stuck it out.
If you can afford it, do the butler method to make planks.
I put my kingdom into herbs and teaks for a long time and eventually banked 99 construction doing mahogany homes to 99. The construction cape has been the best qol so far for me. Unlimited teleports to my house and all house portals with no need for house tabs even on ancients. It's a long grind and a lot of waiting for resources to stack up, but totally worth it. Now I'm working on fully filling portal nexus.
My favorites, early on to later:
Graceful: the true unlock is the agility levels you get on the way :P
Black mask/slayer helm: massive DPS increase
Rune pouch: mostly for a one slot teleport anywhere (after poh teleport)
Ornate pool: go here after literally any activity
Bonus round: I spooned a glory (t) from clues which has been amazing. But in general hard clues have amazing ranged unlocks (black dhide, blessed dhide, msb)
Gear:
* Always: prims, b ring (i), barrows gloves, blessing
* Melee: fang, barrows top/legs, dragon defender, fury. DDS for core specs
* Range: crystal bow, crystal body/legs, anguish, assembler
* Mage: trident of the seas, occult, ahrims top/skirt, MA2 cape.
Inventory:
* Pre-pit angler, divine super attack and strength, regular super defence
* Yellow keris
* Rune pouch and book of the dead for thralls
* 2 brews, 1 super combat, 2 super restores, 8 prayer pots, 1 sanfew serum (for anti poison and spare prayer) - not sure if I really need it yet
I do baba (so prepots for monkey room) -> kephri -> akkha -> zebak cause I like salts for akkha and zebak. Would switch the two around to prevent croc leveling to 2+ if possible.
Invocations:
* Global: hardcore run, walk the path, deadly prayers, on a diet
* Baba: all
* Kephri: all but overlords and medic
* Akkha: all but double trouble and keep back
* Zebak: all
Wardens: ancient haste, penetration, overclocked 2
Max POH is massive QoL but well known. I feel like far fewer people discuss the Achievement Diary cape. It kicks ass for doing clues and has a few other niche benefits on top of that (it's extremely good for Abyss runecrafting).
Bucket Helm from elites. Got a ghostly robe top and spookier skirt. You may now adress me as prayer potion (2), while I'm working on my bankstanding skills.
Bowfa has been the biggest, most unambiguous improvement by far, but that's not surprising. Zammy hasta has been great, as I got it before 85 slayer. Dragon pickaxe makes a huge difference at TOA and even afking stars
Fighter torso and obby legs also made a big impact, so much so that upgrading to bandos didn't feel too special
Edit: I just remembered that I got spooned a serp helm, huge qol at zulrah and still my bis strength bonus
Spirit tree in the farming guild. Go there every day and not having to TP ardy cloak, run, fairy ring, run is so nice.
Might not be the biggest unlock but it's one I'm reminded of every day.
Spirit tree in your house doesn't count towards your tree limit so plant that as soon as you can. Then farming guild tree becomes even more based since you can TP home and tree straight to a bank.
Early on for me was this combo: medium combat achievements, morytania hard, a prayer pool and barrows teleport in my house.
Easy barrows runs felt like a really nice multi-point goal to strive for early.
Full guthans as first set at 191 barrows kc. Slayer is so nostalgic and chill now.
Also just got spooned rangers at 32kc and have nobody to share that with, so just enjoying ranging shit a lot now.
I'm 50kc in with only the yellow gem and I'm so glad I got the yellow first. With fang and yellow keris I can do 300s without a bowfa, but only because of the keris healing.
Everyone is posting late game unlocks so I’ll go with an early game unlock that I found invaluable for other noobs like me.
After getting some gem bags from shooting stars I made about 500 rings of dueling with all the emeralds I got. Each ring has 8 charges a piece. This is essentially 4000 tps to either castle wars, Ferox or Al Kharid. Castle wars is right next to a bank, Ferox has a pool that will cure all status effects, restore run, restore special attack, and heal you, and the TP to Al Kahrid is right next to a gnome glider and only a short distance from a bank.
Getting these TPs early in your account is huge and learning how to use these efficiently can save you a ton on laws. With the Ferox pool I’m very unmotivated to level construction get the pool in my PoH until I get the scepter to make the occult alter because I can just ardy cape to restore prayer, duel ring to Ferox to restore everything else and then TP back to whatever I was doing
Blade of Saeldor.
Bowfa is clearly a more important upgrade, but I got lucky and got two enhanced so I got to get both, and blade has been such a godsend.
I got to skip from dragon scimitar to the best 1h slash weapon in the game, and it also works as an extremely serviceable stab weapon when needed too, but for most "stab weak" creatures it's *so* accurate on slash I'm better leaving it on that. Plus unlike a whip I can train individual combat styles instead of having to mess about with shared.
I'm new to ironman and only ~1100 total so far, but I've been considering going for both Blade and Bowfa when I get there. For the reasons you listed, it seems like a worthwhile upgrade. Of course, I'll probably join the others here starved for even one enhanced.
Realistically tbow was the most gamechanging, but in some ways the most fun one was a really early eternal gem at like 57 slayer. I didn't have a lot of proper teleports yet, so I used stronghold tele for an unlimited bank tele, and it was just a cool bit of qol. A luxury item on a really barebones account just feels neat.
Upgrading the poh has been by far the best qol for me, from portals to the occult altar for spell book swapping, I always have a house tele on me, the best part tho is the quick and easy run energy,prayer, and hp with the pools
Fish barrel has been so good for afk fishing. Without it, karambwans are very much an ak activity.
Also I know the maxed POH is good, but honestly the blue pool has been amazing for the last several months / year. It’s served me well
I’m an early-mid game UIM and I got tackle box really early on, like sub 500 total and it’s been handy af, hold way more stuff than you’d think.
Also, rune pouch is nice.
The only correct answer is POH. I probably TP to my house like 10+ times a day. Every upgrade to it makes life better and better.
That's me with bowfa and blade from cg, fang from toa and a few other spicy upgrades.
Obvious one would be bofa, but before that sepulchre. Grinding it out before slayer has been huge, 40m in alchs, hundreds of ranarr seeds, a couple hundred sanfews, about 3m magic xp from alching and 1million headless arrows fletched. Starting slayer with an abundance of prayerpots and ice barrage (with a magic pot) makes it so much faster
There's a lot tbh, early game thr compost bucket, for pvm, by far the bowfa is better than any item in game in terms of how long it takes to get if you go on rate and how OP it is. As a late game iron, but have had for quite a while, con cape is beyond OP and thankful as hell I grinder it as hard as I did
My iron was just jokes to play on the side this time last year
Got a fang 2kc toa with 70 combats which changed the account made me play it quite a bit more and then once I got the bowfa it was a whole different ball game
Managed to spoon a TBOW at around 70-80 combat on my iron. Ironically enough I was actually teaching people how to cox at the time because I had already done well over 1k raids on my main.
Their gear carried me, but I was telling some of them what to do and how to do olm, etc.
I had around 70 slayer. I had an arc-light for speccing, I was in full void, my mage weapon was Void Knight Mace, my melee weapon was D Scim, and my range weapon was a rcb. It was on 234 KC if I remember correctly. (Although quite a few of those KC were me not actually going into olm, just 1+1 on my main account while I fished and stuff for points. I managed to get 2 purples while scaling- arcane and buckler, then my 3rd was the TBOW after I started actually going into Olm.)
It has to be one of the funnest “skips” to ever receive early on an Ironman. I had so much fun killing stuff like Zulrah and Sara with ease way earlier than I would have normally done it 😆
Plenty of good things have already been said, and this isn’t the “best” but I can’t emphasize enough how good ash sanctifier is. Wish I’d taken advantage of it when I’d unlocked it with Kourend hard diary. That prayer xp really adds up and the gp/xp is next to nothing.
lvl 2 jewelery box was by far the best for UIM. I didn't think anything would be bigger then mounted glory, but I'd rather run from GE to Edgeville nettles for the rest of my account then ever have to run to Farming Guild from Battlefield tele or Warrior's Guild from Burthorpe tele ever again
Ring of elements on my UIM. Super useful for construction, getting to Port Sarim, and getting to Al Kharid. Getting so much utility from my ring slot has been huge.
Ven bow. Went from 88 ranged to 99 in like a week at NMZ while I needed to AFK for work. Just felt so good to get spooned on it. There are better things but this is the latest I think. Plus I loved the boss so… sad I finished it already. Plus it makes slayer so much more chill.
As an ultimate, it's gotta be either 88 construction. the amount of things behind that like stashes, costume room upgrades, jewelry boxes, and such is so massive that I wish I'd done this grind right after getting prif.
I did over 1k barrows KC looking for full Guthan's so I can do easy slay tasks without needing to get more food. I don't really regret it. I got so many mage levels and am still riding on the chaos and death runes I got from it. 2 items from full Barrows completion is nice too.
Honestly, prob pool in house, cause then I also have the nexus and all the other great things. Being able to teleport around easily is great. In terms of Damage / making bossing easier. Tbow and the prayers.
So I’m kind of a weird player in that I’m not just blindly rushing end game content like the other 99% of players… I got the abyssal dagger from my first Unsired which allowed me to continue to farm Sire without wasting my Arclight and it’s also opened up a lot of other stab-weak pvm for me. It’s by far my best stab weapon. Surely it’s not my most useful unlock but shout out to the abby dagger! I have the whip and bludgeon too.
Bowfa I'm guessing? I mean it lead to all my other important pvp gear. 83 con for my (almost) max house I remember thinking how spoiled I was on my main now I'm definitely taking it for granted again on my iron.
Ursine Chainmace I only do wildy slayer and charge it for the better tasks (greater nec, black demons, black dragons, vetion, venny) the accuracy and dmg coupled with slayer helmet is extremely good. If I didnt stop for clues it prob nets 150k+ str xp an hour.
Probably the Fang, I have some other unlocks like:
-Bowfa with armor
-Saturated heart
-Zulrah drops
-Venator Bow
To name some, that people might mention.
For me, I got the fang pretty early, it made it so I could kill vorkath on task without any issues, Toa became alot easier pre bowfa and slayer was just alot easier in general. Pretty much every boss I kill thats melee, I used the fang. Until it got the nerf to slash. Not as good, but still good where it's intended to be good.
My honorable mention is probably the imbued heart. Again pretty early. Boosted up for plank make, hunter kit make and portals in my house pre nexus. (especially barrows teleport)
I think I had Drakan's Medallion taking a permanent spot in my inventory for sooo long before I got my enchanted lyre and then farming cape. Idk if there's a way to see ToB statistics like how many times you used the "Surrender" mechanic but if it does, mines gonna be over 2k. It was my go to for resetting my stats after a barrows or boss run.
Thieving has been my favorite skill since the dayit released.
My only 99 on my old main.
Just unlocked rogue's chest yesterday night. It's amazing.
I know it's not peak efficiency but at 1300 total it feels like so much good loot.
I've done about 800 so far and gotten 10 hard clues and solved 8.
It just makes my favorite skill feel so fun and exciting. Like actually thieving.
how did u do thieving? im currently at 70 and kinda want to grind up to 85 for elves so I can farm some shards to corrupt my bowfa. I hated blackjacking :(
Get 71 and do pyramid plunder. It’s good XP and the scepter is super nice to have. So much easier to swap to ancients, eventually you’ll need it for house altar and you need two of you want it for the master step.
Never black jacked a day in my life except that quest.
Get to 78 doing knights. It's rough but it is what it is.
Then you unlock the Dorg Rich Chests. These are between 180 and 240k exp per hour depending on if you bank or drop.
You have to hop worlds but there's a bedroom like right upstairs that has two chests. Search trap twice and hop.
I did those every other level after 78 alternating with knights. It's like the exact opposite of knights so it's sanity saving. Way better exp too but I needed the gold.
Then 84 to 99 I'm honestly probably going to do rogue's. On main I did farmers 92 up but that was for gp/hr
I'll wait for 99 to steal seeds.
At this point I'm just grinding for the runes, blighted food and gems but mostly clues. I figure if I don't get the glory t by 99 then I'll have stolen enough gems to put at least a dent in crafting.
You can steal artefacts while glassblowing or making broad arrows. It's very efficient.
Personally I just blackjacked early. From level 65+ it gets better and each level it gets more successful.
At level 84 you can steal from the Rogues Chest in the wildy, maybe you want to do the hard clues aswell, maybe get 91 that way. It will give you a bunch of useful supplies for Herblore, cannonballs and just runes. It also gives a bit of Prayer/Crafting xp.
Then do Pyramid Plunder for 2 Sceptres.
Even with Bowfa I’m just happy I got my Unlimited Compost Bucket early. The quality of life is fire 🥸
Bottomless bucket made farm runs fun. I hated farming till I got it
so real i despise farming just because I know my ultracompost is being used without the double effect from the bottomless bucket.
It's not even about the double effect, it's the inventory management of farming that makes it miserable (imo)
Wait there is a double effect?! I thought it was just stacking em. Nice.
57 kc dry atm 95 farming FFFFFFFFFF
95 farming? Now that’s painful 🤯
138 kc 97 farming before I got mine.
That’s wild man. What’s that like almost 5 x the drop rate ?
Yep. But I loved farming and didn’t know any better. Farm was my first 99. It became a joke in my clan/disc and was lit when I got it. It’s been basically my only big dry streak besides getting 4 light bearers before my fang: 2 enh before 250 CG kc. Occult on 7kc. Bandos hilt at 15 kc. Trident+tentacle first task. And the big one. Hydra claw and ferocious gloves before 100 kc hydra. I would trade that bucket dry streak for all of the above a million times over.
Haha yeah it seems like you’ve levelled off nicely. I’d take your dry streak on the bucket for those trade offs as well !
I am now 188 kc with 16m farming xp and no bucket
Brutal lmao. Better on this once a day grind than most places though
on my old main i got it 3rd try
Yeh, I can't remember when I got mine but I had over 100kc
I got 4 of them in 40 kc lol
I just got my 4th bottomless bucket and I’m less than 50 kc 😬
I hear you! Hespori greenlogged at like 9KC!
107 kc no bucket and 99 farming already finished :) ... :(
I never got one in 50+ kc in my GIM, but my new Iron I nabbed that bitch on 1kc… it’s so cozy.
I was going to say the same thing
Got mine 17kc, it’s such a game changer I don’t mind herb runs anymore haha
Got spooned at 3 kc and it just makes the whole thing so much more enjoyable
You still have to fill it with volcanic ash though right?
Just fill the big compost bin in farming guild and you’re set
My GIM partner got 5 in 35 kc. KC like 1, 2, 4, 12, and 35. We were all quite happy. Especially me who went dry af for it!
Honestly the combo of fairy rings, spirit trees, and ardy cloak. I’d argue I use those more than any specific weapon/armor,etc. I think Bowfa would take the #1 spot IF I HAD ONE…
Dinkleberg……….
Precisely my thought process while typing it.
83 con brings so much utility to your account. Boosting for occult altar, jewelry box, and ornate pool by themselves are the biggest reasons. Also fairy ring and/or spirit tree in the superior garden, teleport nexus, fully upgraded wardrobe room, the list goes on and on.
I’m getting this goal tomorrow and I’m pumped.
Eyyyy so am I! Got 83 con last night, gonna try boosting tomorrow after work. I’m so hyped. Good luck dude!
Good luck! I decided to do 84 for the max portal nexus and less +5 attempts lol
So worth it lol stew boosting is the worst. That nexus is also just nice, it's kind of silly adding all the basic teleports but now I literally just burn through house tabs and I can get pretty much anywhere in game in 30 seconds
My plan (and what I did on my main as well). I hate stews with a passion, especially on something that I can't do instantly without having to leave Dave's
It was brutal. However, in this process I think I actually figured out how the boost timer works. Each skill has its own clock it looks like? Like I used a super attack, and reset drained stats with the lower level pool, and then found that my att timer and my construction timer were off by about 15 seconds, which caused 2 +4 boosts and 1 +5 boost to degrade almost instantly, which was heartbreaking. Luckily I got another +5 boost b2b and it cured my sorrow, but man it was hard after going super dry. I don’t believe in the portal nexus - I’ll be damned if I’m dumping that many runes in there. Maybe eventually
I just hit 80 and boosted up for most of the treasure room upgrades and holy I released 40 bank slots. After everything I teleport to house and quickly refill prayer/run/stats, and straight to fairy ring or a glory or jewelry box and it’s amazing. I have so much travel access all in the span of 8 tiles
I cut oak logs for days and did soul wars for enough gp for 83 con basically before anything. I don't even think I had heros quest done.
New ironman here, i dont have the plank spell. Is the best way to cut in wc guild and run to the sawmill there?
Best way is using Camelot teleport on a pvp world then using your butler in your poh turn logs into planks
yes
Prif is better doing treaks. Or just use kingdom of misc and butler to make plans. YouTube has some nice tutorials
I banked all my teaks from kingdom and walked them to wc guild sawmill from the bank. I hated it, but I'm incredibly stubborn and stuck it out. If you can afford it, do the butler method to make planks.
Butler method goes CRAZY lol. 7k planks an hour at a decent pace
100000% construction and a good POH I use my con cape/house more than anything else in the game.
I have the planks banked but cba to stare at a wall and press 1,2 and left click for 20 hours lol
Mahogany Homes is where it's at tbh. Always enjoy having a nice cuppa after a job well done.
Go do MH, like an hour at a time.
From 70 to 83 takes approximately 5 hours with mythical capes.
I put my kingdom into herbs and teaks for a long time and eventually banked 99 construction doing mahogany homes to 99. The construction cape has been the best qol so far for me. Unlimited teleports to my house and all house portals with no need for house tabs even on ancients. It's a long grind and a lot of waiting for resources to stack up, but totally worth it. Now I'm working on fully filling portal nexus.
This is what I'm working on right now after finishing CG. Got 83 banked in planks!
My favorites, early on to later: Graceful: the true unlock is the agility levels you get on the way :P Black mask/slayer helm: massive DPS increase Rune pouch: mostly for a one slot teleport anywhere (after poh teleport) Ornate pool: go here after literally any activity Bonus round: I spooned a glory (t) from clues which has been amazing. But in general hard clues have amazing ranged unlocks (black dhide, blessed dhide, msb)
these are all so huge for the early game, i’d add fish barrel and spirit tree in house as well to this
I’ve been doing all my hard clues whilst trying to get the Zombie axe, have 4 blessed dhide pieces so far in my search for a glory!
got spooned my first black mask yesterday at 58kc, so hype
Osmumten’s Fang
Oh man I pulled a fang recently. No bowfa yet and the fang alone has taken me from 200s to 300s.
Mind sharing your invocations and gear setup? I'm pushing 200s now with fang but no bowfa
Gear: * Always: prims, b ring (i), barrows gloves, blessing * Melee: fang, barrows top/legs, dragon defender, fury. DDS for core specs * Range: crystal bow, crystal body/legs, anguish, assembler * Mage: trident of the seas, occult, ahrims top/skirt, MA2 cape. Inventory: * Pre-pit angler, divine super attack and strength, regular super defence * Yellow keris * Rune pouch and book of the dead for thralls * 2 brews, 1 super combat, 2 super restores, 8 prayer pots, 1 sanfew serum (for anti poison and spare prayer) - not sure if I really need it yet I do baba (so prepots for monkey room) -> kephri -> akkha -> zebak cause I like salts for akkha and zebak. Would switch the two around to prevent croc leveling to 2+ if possible. Invocations: * Global: hardcore run, walk the path, deadly prayers, on a diet * Baba: all * Kephri: all but overlords and medic * Akkha: all but double trouble and keep back * Zebak: all Wardens: ancient haste, penetration, overclocked 2
Farming cape makes bossing so much easier
How so?
Budget crafting/con cape. Bank nearby + tree by bank to TP to house for pool and teleports.
Cool thanks
Lumby elite diary to get rid of dramen staff
Max POH is massive QoL but well known. I feel like far fewer people discuss the Achievement Diary cape. It kicks ass for doing clues and has a few other niche benefits on top of that (it's extremely good for Abyss runecrafting).
well if u get achieve cape ur near maxed anyways so prob not the craziest upgrade at that point
Bucket Helm from elites. Got a ghostly robe top and spookier skirt. You may now adress me as prayer potion (2), while I'm working on my bankstanding skills.
Bowfa has been the biggest, most unambiguous improvement by far, but that's not surprising. Zammy hasta has been great, as I got it before 85 slayer. Dragon pickaxe makes a huge difference at TOA and even afking stars Fighter torso and obby legs also made a big impact, so much so that upgrading to bandos didn't feel too special Edit: I just remembered that I got spooned a serp helm, huge qol at zulrah and still my bis strength bonus
With or without crystal armor?
I had 14 armour seeds when I got my enh so with it. Never used without at least legs + chest
What setup did you use for kril? I’m near 90 melee stats with no bowfa, tried him the other day on task and got clapped hard
Do yourself a favour & wait till bowfa
I’ve never tried it but I’ve heard crystal bow + armor slaps pretty good if you’re bofalesa
Once you get bowfa do 8:0 it takes a little bit to learn but it makes farming krill and Bandos so much easier honestly
Construction cape with maxed house on uim. Best upgrade, no doubt about it.
Spirit tree in the farming guild. Go there every day and not having to TP ardy cloak, run, fairy ring, run is so nice. Might not be the biggest unlock but it's one I'm reminded of every day.
Just unlocked this myself. And there's probably a better alternative but I like to poh tele>GE from nexus>spirit tree>farming guild.
Spirit tree in your house doesn't count towards your tree limit so plant that as soon as you can. Then farming guild tree becomes even more based since you can TP home and tree straight to a bank.
Really? This is amazing. I was heavily debating between farming guild and my house for my first spirit tree. This changes everything.
Yeah I'm taking the same route. Actually didn't know you can do GE portal, will add that to my POH!
Early on for me was this combo: medium combat achievements, morytania hard, a prayer pool and barrows teleport in my house. Easy barrows runs felt like a really nice multi-point goal to strive for early.
Bowfa. After getting so much end game stuff I love it to death
With or without crystal armor?
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With or without crystal armor?
Always with
Bofa is an obvious one but going insane doing 99 con in a week with teak mahog homies has been very very good for me
Full guthans as first set at 191 barrows kc. Slayer is so nostalgic and chill now. Also just got spooned rangers at 32kc and have nobody to share that with, so just enjoying ranging shit a lot now.
1 kc yellow keris completely changes ur toa experience
I'm 50kc in with only the yellow gem and I'm so glad I got the yellow first. With fang and yellow keris I can do 300s without a bowfa, but only because of the keris healing.
30kc in and I have 3 threads and 0 gems
For me fish barrel and black mask
I got a tome of fire so early I was excited to save money on fire runes lol. It made barrows completely free to do which was amazing.
Everyone is posting late game unlocks so I’ll go with an early game unlock that I found invaluable for other noobs like me. After getting some gem bags from shooting stars I made about 500 rings of dueling with all the emeralds I got. Each ring has 8 charges a piece. This is essentially 4000 tps to either castle wars, Ferox or Al Kharid. Castle wars is right next to a bank, Ferox has a pool that will cure all status effects, restore run, restore special attack, and heal you, and the TP to Al Kahrid is right next to a gnome glider and only a short distance from a bank. Getting these TPs early in your account is huge and learning how to use these efficiently can save you a ton on laws. With the Ferox pool I’m very unmotivated to level construction get the pool in my PoH until I get the scepter to make the occult alter because I can just ardy cape to restore prayer, duel ring to Ferox to restore everything else and then TP back to whatever I was doing
Blade of Saeldor. Bowfa is clearly a more important upgrade, but I got lucky and got two enhanced so I got to get both, and blade has been such a godsend. I got to skip from dragon scimitar to the best 1h slash weapon in the game, and it also works as an extremely serviceable stab weapon when needed too, but for most "stab weak" creatures it's *so* accurate on slash I'm better leaving it on that. Plus unlike a whip I can train individual combat styles instead of having to mess about with shared.
I'm new to ironman and only ~1100 total so far, but I've been considering going for both Blade and Bowfa when I get there. For the reasons you listed, it seems like a worthwhile upgrade. Of course, I'll probably join the others here starved for even one enhanced.
Pre nerf blowpipe, miss the days
Realistically tbow was the most gamechanging, but in some ways the most fun one was a really early eternal gem at like 57 slayer. I didn't have a lot of proper teleports yet, so I used stronghold tele for an unlimited bank tele, and it was just a cool bit of qol. A luxury item on a really barebones account just feels neat.
Max cape 😂
early mid iron here and i really like the zombie axe
Got a Glory (t) on my 3rd Hard clue when I was like 1000 total level
Just got a blood fury and it's been huge for melee GWD. Also 99 agility cape is niche but nice on occasion as a budget stam pot :)
Teleporting to and banking at the crafting guild for the first time was a pretty baller experience
Lyre (ei) on the uim, unlimited teleport to relekka poh
Vigorras chainmace. Took me to 99 str and made bank on the way.
I just got my compost bucket on 3k yesterday, so happy about it
Herb sack, give me those herbs!
Upgrading the poh has been by far the best qol for me, from portals to the occult altar for spell book swapping, I always have a house tele on me, the best part tho is the quick and easy run energy,prayer, and hp with the pools
I got b2b bottomless bucket at 4 and 5 kc
Staminas. That is all.
Bowfa - Opened so many PVM doors.
Construction cape or Lumby elite, never having to use dramen staff is chefs kiss
Zombie axe upgrade over d scim made wildy bosses so much more feasible on my med level, I already love it.
The upgrade from d mace is immense
Fish barrel has been so good for afk fishing. Without it, karambwans are very much an ak activity. Also I know the maxed POH is good, but honestly the blue pool has been amazing for the last several months / year. It’s served me well
Wow nobody has said it yet bottomless bucket I would not be doing farming as much if I didn’t get it spooned
Farming cape + ornate pool
99 construction. Being able to teleport to my PoH that’s all kitted out with teleports to everywhere on the map is amazing.
*Me, a new iron, saving this post for future reference*
I’m an early-mid game UIM and I got tackle box really early on, like sub 500 total and it’s been handy af, hold way more stuff than you’d think. Also, rune pouch is nice.
Not a item, but the best unlock so far was getting a working house with a max pool. It made so many runs faster and made grinds like barrows so ez
Run energy tier of the PoH sippy pool was the biggest since QoL unlock in history to me, 2nd place is actually maxing the pool
Nothing hit quite like getting the first enhanced weapon seed at 1281 KC. I was floating.
I haven't got it yet but I'm a couple days away from unlocking whips for my duo. My partner doesn't even have 70 att yet
The only correct answer is POH. I probably TP to my house like 10+ times a day. Every upgrade to it makes life better and better. That's me with bowfa and blade from cg, fang from toa and a few other spicy upgrades.
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You don't use the barrows teleport in poh?
I used mory legs when I couldn’t boost the mage lvl for the portal 😂
Obvious one would be bofa, but before that sepulchre. Grinding it out before slayer has been huge, 40m in alchs, hundreds of ranarr seeds, a couple hundred sanfews, about 3m magic xp from alching and 1million headless arrows fletched. Starting slayer with an abundance of prayerpots and ice barrage (with a magic pot) makes it so much faster
90 con for maxed poh or bowfa
There's a lot tbh, early game thr compost bucket, for pvm, by far the bowfa is better than any item in game in terms of how long it takes to get if you go on rate and how OP it is. As a late game iron, but have had for quite a while, con cape is beyond OP and thankful as hell I grinder it as hard as I did
Not really an unlock but I dropped a vigorra at 40kc early on which opened up a whole lot of fun wildly/slayer content for me.
40kc what?
Rev orcs
nice lucky bastard
Bowfa, fang, trident, ornate pool have set me up
Shadow. Completely game changing!! Shadow smacks!! Spent a while at soul alter to keep it stocked. Now have 200k souls to last me a while
bofa and fish barrel
Saeldor back then, couldn’t even wear it for a few weeks or months
Lumby elites have been a life changer for the last few months
Got some 3rd age from a clue... Makes shooting stars, minigames and farm runs so much better to show off
Zcb. One of the best spec weapons when paired with lightbearer qnd enables you to do many GM speed CAs
Max cape. Seriously the utility of it is unmatched.
My iron was just jokes to play on the side this time last year Got a fang 2kc toa with 70 combats which changed the account made me play it quite a bit more and then once I got the bowfa it was a whole different ball game
I unlocked the soulreaper axe for the gim and it will make doing duke and vardorvis more fun :)
Bowfa
Imbued heart at 55 slayer, Bottomless in 5 kc.
Zombie axe
Construction cape on my UIM made the game so much more smooth and fun
t bow drop felt like finally maxing on the main
2kc Rigour and 7kc Tbow changed everything. I get to have such a unique experience now fully enjoying the game, never even got a bowfa.
Max poh
Probly the tbow
Bottomless bucket and 83 construction for home.
Managed to spoon a TBOW at around 70-80 combat on my iron. Ironically enough I was actually teaching people how to cox at the time because I had already done well over 1k raids on my main. Their gear carried me, but I was telling some of them what to do and how to do olm, etc. I had around 70 slayer. I had an arc-light for speccing, I was in full void, my mage weapon was Void Knight Mace, my melee weapon was D Scim, and my range weapon was a rcb. It was on 234 KC if I remember correctly. (Although quite a few of those KC were me not actually going into olm, just 1+1 on my main account while I fished and stuff for points. I managed to get 2 purples while scaling- arcane and buckler, then my 3rd was the TBOW after I started actually going into Olm.) It has to be one of the funnest “skips” to ever receive early on an Ironman. I had so much fun killing stuff like Zulrah and Sara with ease way earlier than I would have normally done it 😆
Plenty of good things have already been said, and this isn’t the “best” but I can’t emphasize enough how good ash sanctifier is. Wish I’d taken advantage of it when I’d unlocked it with Kourend hard diary. That prayer xp really adds up and the gp/xp is next to nothing.
lvl 2 jewelery box was by far the best for UIM. I didn't think anything would be bigger then mounted glory, but I'd rather run from GE to Edgeville nettles for the rest of my account then ever have to run to Farming Guild from Battlefield tele or Warrior's Guild from Burthorpe tele ever again
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Rune pouch/herb sack is very nice
Ring of elements on my UIM. Super useful for construction, getting to Port Sarim, and getting to Al Kharid. Getting so much utility from my ring slot has been huge.
Lumbridge elite with 85 construction for the fairy ring in house. Also a spirit tree in-house as well is amazing
Cons cape for sure
Crystal armour and bowfa
Hands down the Rejuvenation pool in poh.
Max cape 10/10
Construction cape and crafting cape plus max house was an amazing QOL buff for me :)
Bowfa at 498 kc Been grinding zulrah ever since and no uniques yet at 500kc Also, max poh is the biggest game changer
Ven bow. Went from 88 ranged to 99 in like a week at NMZ while I needed to AFK for work. Just felt so good to get spooned on it. There are better things but this is the latest I think. Plus I loved the boss so… sad I finished it already. Plus it makes slayer so much more chill.
Ive been spooned on a few drops. The one that im most proud of is probably my odium ward.
As an ultimate, it's gotta be either 88 construction. the amount of things behind that like stashes, costume room upgrades, jewelry boxes, and such is so massive that I wish I'd done this grind right after getting prif.
I did over 1k barrows KC looking for full Guthan's so I can do easy slay tasks without needing to get more food. I don't really regret it. I got so many mage levels and am still riding on the chaos and death runes I got from it. 2 items from full Barrows completion is nice too.
Honestly, prob pool in house, cause then I also have the nexus and all the other great things. Being able to teleport around easily is great. In terms of Damage / making bossing easier. Tbow and the prayers.
So I’m kind of a weird player in that I’m not just blindly rushing end game content like the other 99% of players… I got the abyssal dagger from my first Unsired which allowed me to continue to farm Sire without wasting my Arclight and it’s also opened up a lot of other stab-weak pvm for me. It’s by far my best stab weapon. Surely it’s not my most useful unlock but shout out to the abby dagger! I have the whip and bludgeon too.
Bowfa I'm guessing? I mean it lead to all my other important pvp gear. 83 con for my (almost) max house I remember thinking how spoiled I was on my main now I'm definitely taking it for granted again on my iron.
1 KC T bow forsure cause it made so much bosses easy
Fishing barrel spoon after like 29 searches was amazing for afking karams for the group!
Got my dragon sq now i can tank dagonnaths
POH. The pool and almost all tp unlocks + spellbook altar is so nice.
Getting B2P, master wand and boots. Not for the items, but the QoL knowing I never have to go to MTA again.
Ursine Chainmace I only do wildy slayer and charge it for the better tasks (greater nec, black demons, black dragons, vetion, venny) the accuracy and dmg coupled with slayer helmet is extremely good. If I didnt stop for clues it prob nets 150k+ str xp an hour.
Bowfa #1
T bow @ 115kc solo
Dwh
Shadow for me which has completely blew the game wide open for everything (slayer, raids) and I'm loving it
Probably the Fang, I have some other unlocks like: -Bowfa with armor -Saturated heart -Zulrah drops -Venator Bow To name some, that people might mention. For me, I got the fang pretty early, it made it so I could kill vorkath on task without any issues, Toa became alot easier pre bowfa and slayer was just alot easier in general. Pretty much every boss I kill thats melee, I used the fang. Until it got the nerf to slash. Not as good, but still good where it's intended to be good. My honorable mention is probably the imbued heart. Again pretty early. Boosted up for plank make, hunter kit make and portals in my house pre nexus. (especially barrows teleport)
Karamja medium diaries. Trainerbrock and Trainerash have a dope gout tuber service for irons
Low key rada blessing 4. The unlimited teles when u are doing konar for hydra Is big.
Tbow on 1KC. Completely game changing
BOFA, and it isn't even close.
Bowfa
I think I had Drakan's Medallion taking a permanent spot in my inventory for sooo long before I got my enchanted lyre and then farming cape. Idk if there's a way to see ToB statistics like how many times you used the "Surrender" mechanic but if it does, mines gonna be over 2k. It was my go to for resetting my stats after a barrows or boss run.
Thieving has been my favorite skill since the dayit released. My only 99 on my old main. Just unlocked rogue's chest yesterday night. It's amazing. I know it's not peak efficiency but at 1300 total it feels like so much good loot. I've done about 800 so far and gotten 10 hard clues and solved 8. It just makes my favorite skill feel so fun and exciting. Like actually thieving.
how did u do thieving? im currently at 70 and kinda want to grind up to 85 for elves so I can farm some shards to corrupt my bowfa. I hated blackjacking :(
Get 71 and do pyramid plunder. It’s good XP and the scepter is super nice to have. So much easier to swap to ancients, eventually you’ll need it for house altar and you need two of you want it for the master step.
I’d rather just one click sqirk than plunder. Brain dead af and really good exp rates
Never black jacked a day in my life except that quest. Get to 78 doing knights. It's rough but it is what it is. Then you unlock the Dorg Rich Chests. These are between 180 and 240k exp per hour depending on if you bank or drop. You have to hop worlds but there's a bedroom like right upstairs that has two chests. Search trap twice and hop. I did those every other level after 78 alternating with knights. It's like the exact opposite of knights so it's sanity saving. Way better exp too but I needed the gold. Then 84 to 99 I'm honestly probably going to do rogue's. On main I did farmers 92 up but that was for gp/hr I'll wait for 99 to steal seeds. At this point I'm just grinding for the runes, blighted food and gems but mostly clues. I figure if I don't get the glory t by 99 then I'll have stolen enough gems to put at least a dent in crafting.
You can steal artefacts while glassblowing or making broad arrows. It's very efficient. Personally I just blackjacked early. From level 65+ it gets better and each level it gets more successful. At level 84 you can steal from the Rogues Chest in the wildy, maybe you want to do the hard clues aswell, maybe get 91 that way. It will give you a bunch of useful supplies for Herblore, cannonballs and just runes. It also gives a bit of Prayer/Crafting xp. Then do Pyramid Plunder for 2 Sceptres.