Then you're not a new or returning player that this video is aimed at :P But yeah, i got my stuff much cheaper than what it is now also, crazy how much alchemicals have gone up with archaeology and hydrix
Honestly though, we might put the noob label on ourselves, and I wouldn’t excuse the ignorance; but once you see the difference just the one time, you never go back, you always move forward with your gaming. Only thing that matters is the fact that you take honest criticism and make it work for you!
Off hand glaive does have one very important perk: it doesn't require ammo. If you use a main hand without ammo, you want the offhand without ammo as well
Piggying on this: there's *one* situation where the glaive actually *does* increase damage, due to the fact that the it doesn't use ammo, and that's when using bane bolts, which are tier 60 ammo. Your main hand crossbow will be capped at t60 damage, but the glaive will do t80 damage while still benefiting from the bane effect. This feature is also shared with darts and crystal chakrams, though darts have the downside of having a slightly shorter range than crossbows.
So many new/returning players on Reddit recently, all asking for advice of some kind. This is a great vid for them and a series would be well received I am sure. Much more useful than getting a couple sentences on Reddit, and a nice segue into your guides for slayer/bossing etc as they often ask those questions as well.
What do you mean IF we find it helpful? Your guides make runescape navigable and are the main reason why i can get things done efficiently Your tips and tricks videos taught me personally so much. So thank you for all youve taught me so far!
They really need to buff tank armour to not be trash compared to power armour tiers below it. I understand not giving tank armour comparable damage to power armour because tank duh, but atleast give it more stuff to make it really worth it as a "tank"
@@samme79 yeah, similar to how achto has a set effect that helps 'tank' Kinda crazy how the armour with one of the best tank set effects is in power armour and trimmed masterwork
Man.. you're so frikkin helpful. I took a 8 year break and only came back a year ago.. you've helped me since I started as you were the first rs3 TH-camr I subscribed to!! Every video you've put out has helped me to go from a 20m bank to a now 1.3 bil bank.. if I ever win the lottery you're getting a hefty donation. Love MrCAMeaney. Btw you get my name wrong on every stream 🤣 it's Mr c a Meaney ... Love you and see you for the Sunday mass!!
Been playing RS3 on/off for years but always been overwhelmed by the amount of weapons/armour etc so stuck to pure skilling, will use this and branch out into PVM as always wanted to give it a proper go, cheers!
Brought my lotd for 19m cashed out at 70m. Been trying to get more people to realise that it’s not needed unless super high tier shit. Will be selling my mw tomorrow and getting another set of bandos to get with my augd masutas. Great vid! Keep it up over the new year
Oh nice! Masutas is super underrated aswell. Really good weapon man. Good luck with the gains and nice profit on the lotd! Thanks for the kind words ❤️
Absolutely loved this video! I'm coming back to rs3 after a while and this kind of info is priceless since it helps for sure in the long run of things. Thanks for making it!
These tips are huge; a lot of these mistakes were ones I made as a newer player, or even just a player on a budget getting conflicting tips as to where to allocate my earned GP. Thanks yet again Maikeru! Glad you stick with us even through all the at times frustrating comments that can come through. Just know we appreciate you
been correcting this for YEARS, but the thing about t85 gwd2 offhands is only fully correct for melee and ranged. when casting spells from your spellbook such as vuln or entangle or ancient spells and dual wielding with mage, the hand that is used for casting the spell ROTATES between the two. by using a t80 mage offhand instead of a cwyir orb, you are really hurting your debuff and ancient spell accuracy.
I don't play rs3. I only play osrs. Didn't understand most of the things you talked about. Still watched the entire thing, because this legitimately sounds like a really good guide.
Great video man! I heard about the off-hand damage thing before in some video but I couldn't remember and it's not on the wiki. Thanks for bringing it up
Learned a couple things here as a returning player. I didn't make the LOTD mistake though! Rocking a sweet blood fury with bandos and a masuta's warspear at the moment.
Thank you very much for making a video like this. There are alot of people throwing irl cash into the game without givng the game a chance to make gp for them. When, like you said, alot of the higher priced beginner gear is simply not worth it. I hope more people find you video and watch it. Thank you again! Im an osrs player returning to rs3 and always need help haha
Great video man, ive been trying to guide my returning friend's, while not scaring them off overloading them with info. These vids are great in bursts keeps them interested without overloading them with info and tips tricks turning them off. This approach is 👍🏻
I appreciate your insight on the video. If I may, I would like to point some things out. if I understand it right, the idea right now is to focus on the offensive moreso on the defensive. This is definitely the right move, but there's a catch to this strategy. this strategy works IF you are very well aware of what's happening around you, you know the mechanics of things and boss fights, and you have really good reflexes. unfortunately, not everyone is that well aware, and not everyone has well refined reflexes. that is not to say that people can't learn, but you can't learn without being punished for it. I like to think of tank armor being something like training wheels: you can learn how to develop your awareness and reflexes with it, but you dont wan't to get too comfortable with it. you only would want to have that tank armor long enough to help you develop the reflexes and awareness needed. When you have enough experience with the game, then it would be appropriate to go full on offensive with power armor. Going full offensive too early without the reflex and awareness skills may be a bit dangerous, but everyone's case is different. on top of that, it also depends on how the boss fight works and how hard hitting everything is. now that i think about it, it very well could be that the balance on armor and damage on bosses and whatnot may not be so finely tuned that it may actually be more punishing to wear tank armor.
Yeah i understand that. But you also need to remember. Typically things people die to, or need to improve on is typeless damage or other things that don't actually get solved by armour on gear. For example, at rax the blob kills a lot of people, alongside the insta kill spider, web and mirrorback. Tank armour would not save you against these things, practice will. Same applies for a decent amount of other bosses. Not to mention, the faster you phase a boss, the hard you hit, the easier the kills normally are at so many different places. You get punished for bad dps, and gear can be a factor in that.
@@MaikeruRS ah okay. i didn't think about the typeless damage. It would only make sense to just straight up go full on offensive no matter what and just take some time to practice the bosses like you've explained in the video. I apologize for the redundancy of my comment. My speculations were based on the thought of if typeless damage was not a thing, which was beyond my clarity. i appreciate you clearing things up for me.
Never have to say sorry my man :) Always love a good chat and discussion about different things! Hope the gains are treating you well and thanks for the comments
100% agree with u with not buying lotd but imagine getting the drop and not having ring my heart would shatter lol + didn't know about ripper claw thanks
Saw this video linked somewhere and assumed it would be old, but the mention of LotD price made me realize it's actually really new. Don't think I was making any of these mistakes, but it was informative all the same.
Huge video, thanks for the information. I’m a failure that can’t do more than 3 rax kills per rotation even with pernix and ascensions, it’s a hard life
For what it’s worth, even at lower levels there are some pretty effective methods to make several mil an hour. Easy clue scrolls can be gathered and completed in under 5 minutes each if you’re fast, and you’re more likely than not going to get a 1m drop inside most of those clues
if you have the stats to even consider any gear in this video while 3m only being the most money you've had, what are you even doing with your time in the game?? he had a f2p video series making a mill an hour at like 40 crafting haha
Power armour arguement has some nuance, most people in mmo's fail to realise. It's not as simple as more dmg, less dmg taken, more kill. No. In a group fight, or slayer, yes I'd recommend it. However, if you're soloing a boss, especially one's heavy on mechanics, that argument is faulty. People will always vary on reaction time, and skill. Having armour that can keep you alive, can mean you get kills, rather than none at all. And No, its not necessarily slower. If you are terrible with your power armour, u'd be forced to camp your food and have low dmg output. Don't be afraid to take your "inferior" tank armour, to places your learning alone or struggle constantly. They can provide alot of quality of life. Once you've mastered the mechanics, you can then switch to power arnour, which will then make things faster.
Things that the LOTD can do that the Ring of Fortune can't: - Teleport to Keldagrim. - (very slightly) increase chance to receive a unique drop from: Araxxi, Barrows: Rise of the Six, Beastmaster Durzag, Nex: Angel of Death, Solak, The Magister, Telos, the Warden, Vorago, and Yakamaru, not including boss pets. The 1% increase actually means 99% of the denominator (1/x), rounded up. - 2% chance of upgrading your trash geode when mining into a metamorphic geode. RoF only had 2% - +1% for rare clue-specific loot from elite and master clue scrolls, while RoF only had this boost up to hard clues. - 3% chance more to get rare drops from crystal chest and triskelions, when it was 2% with RoF. - Removes flax, raw lobsters, and molten glass from RDT. Used to be trash. Some are actually valuable now. - Chance to get Vecna skull and HSR from RDT - Destroy your cash stack.
The armor part makes good point, and RS3 players know it, in a general sense. For beginners, tank armor is probably best, but once you start getting to bosses that dish out damage- tank armor helps a lot for low level players; because tank armor has the same defense stats as power armor 5 lvls below it. Ports (t85) armor has t90 power armor def, plus extra life points QBD range armor(t65) has t70 def stats and so forth It allows you higher defense at lower levels. Also, unless you have a good dps rotation- which you likely won't due to the time and money the needed abilities take to acquire -worry more about negating damage.
I'm not doing too bad but man did I get lucky. To not look like a noob even though I had 0 of the knowledge you just blessed me with. All of this makes sense, Great vid!
Super usefull "guide" i guess, i'm a returning player playing on main to make money to pay mi ironman memb and I realize a did a big mistake buying a LoTD. Allways super usefull content :)
Yeah, it's literally crazy. Something like 15k gp/kill added to rax legs chance or something tiny haha! Definitely not worth the 67.5m when starting out.
I would also say that a mistakes a lot of player make when starting to pvm is to not use ultimate ability such as beserker, death's swiftness and sunshine.
Learning so much from you man thank you. Honestly though dude, I watxh so many bossing guides and action bar set ups. I’m maxed combat stats, with overloads and 99 summoning but I’m still so so so bad at bossing :(((((
I recommend trying to learn GW2 especially vindicata. Go with a Yak full of shark until you get the hang of it, then work toward using a ripper demon instead. Use Penance to help you focus on mechanics (there's not many) and less on healing, prayer restore, and juggling mechanics. Try to learn solo if possible so you are forced to understand it better, but duo is viable too. As for a bar set up, Google whatever your using dual/single, and get gw1 abilities unlocked (Sacrifice, Devoted) as well as Mazcab if you're using range/mage. As long as you use minimum t80 equipment, you should be alright getting 3 or 4 kills per trip while learning :)
@@Beit_sitti Just practice friend, keep at it, if you eat 1 yak full for 1 kill then try to look at where you're going wrong, and fix it. (In that case, you either need better gear, or you need to move out of the fire xD) Keep pushing till you understand the mechanics :)
Have to disagree with the whole power armor is king and better than tank armor. You can really see when some people have been doing high level pvm for so long they tend to forget how amazing tank armor can be for low to mid level players and for HCIM/IM. I mean i thought this was for NEW and RETURNING PLAYERS. New players and some Returning Players will not have access to Scrimshaws/ss/auras and ect 1) Tank armor isn't for high level pvm its for low to mid level pvm. It's for the players that don't have scrimshaws/SS/auras to help heal themselves or they just don't do enough dps to make these items useful YET. 2) Tank armor is also situational ie ( Guthans is better than Bandos at frost dragons when you don't have any other healing methods other than the armor and weapons themselves at the same level.) Guess what this can help you get your 92 prayer for SS so you can start using power armor over tank armor even faster if you don't want to buy prayer. 3) When you dont have Scrims/SS/Auras Tank armor allows for greater heals over power armor when using your Healing abilities, which almost NO HIGH LEVEL PVM'er really uses these days because they have Scrims/SS/Auras. Overall this video make me feel sad as its ONLY from a HIGH LEVEL PVM perspective and not for new players. New players should be taught when they should start making the transition not just being taught TANK ARMOR BAD.
Good information. Just got a computer today to get back into the game. I’m looking forward to it. Been lacking a way to get on it. I have Apple on my phone side so the beta is not out yet last I knew.
LOTD is an amazing puck up if your a skill player. Instant GE teleport, especially if you're in the Wilderness, plus the occasional lucky drop. IMO, it pays for itself for its ease of use. If the old RS bank/GE mobile app came back, than I'd never recommend getting LOTD ever again and spend my days forever grinding out urns or bars for masterworked armour.
i would never wear a 75m ring into the wildy, too many pker groups around looking to pick off people like us and take our hard earned gainz. ferocious ring gives insta-teleports and you'll have a stack of them after running slayer tasks for kurvadel
Not really, those things are typically bought as a luxury, helping with porters and a little money back from RDT + chance at HSR. I guess brooch pays for itself if you're going for 120 buyables on portables, but again has a hefty buy-in cost. Typically just buy those things if/when your budget allow and it makes sense to with your goals. If 120 skills aren't your goal, they're not going to be anywhere near as worth.
For skilling, get a gote asap if you plan to do allot of gathering skills. Gathering skills typically (but not always) do not cost you anything to do, so the cost of investment into a gote is not a problem, because you don’t really have anything else the money could be going to. The sooner you get a gote, the sooner it will pay for itself, and it does so pretty quickly. If you are skilling focused then ya get gote asap,even avoid doing gathering skills till you have it if possible. As for lotd, useless for skilling without the gote, and even with the gote the chances you get a hsr are low af (higher then chance from lvl though because of how many rolls you get skilling) so not a huge priority to get this, but still good to get eventually to avoid the heartbreak of a roll on the hsr table without the ring on.
i would still recommend tank armour for mage though if you use the animate dead spell, even after the recent rebalance. especially for bossing and slayer. the other styles, 100% go power armour, but i wouldnt go power for mage unless youre already quite good at pvm. the amount of extra damage youd do with power armour compared to animate dead's added survivability doesnt really win out in my books.
Coming back from what is technically a 4 year layoff and not originally being a PVMer (bosses), this was very informative. Thanks man. I'm looking at getting Invention up before I start bossing just since I gather augmented gear with perks are almost essential to do them efficiently. Which bosses would you recommend I do first to get a feel for mechanics and stuff? Something like a Vindicta?
Yeah indeed! Vindicta and QBD are my favourite "entry" bosses. Then moving to stuff like helwyr for increased defensive use over vindicta. Then stuff like Ed2/Rax :D Gl with the gains!
Not much of a mistake, but I think people should remember that buying equipment means investment so they shouldn't be afraid of buying degrade-to-dust equipment. Morrigan's Chaps is 1.26m at the moment and is better than 7m Armadyl skirt. Unless you do aggression potion slayer often those chaps will serve you for a long time, I mean really long. And for Armadyl Skirt price you can buy almost 6 of them. These will pay back really quickly. Even cheaper option is Spined Armour (or any Fremennik Armour) with Fremennik Patch. It degrades to dust but you have a full mid level power armour for less than 200k. With hands for ranged you can buy Royal Spiky Vambs for 5k so the whole cost will be closer to 150k. Insane.
damion currier it is a waste because now he can’t have 3 active/useful arch slots, only 2 (plus power can be a problem early lvls) Arch slots are way more important then inventory slots, and that’s all you save with that ability, the invo slot of a lotd switch.
@@LegDayLas a lot of people don't like playing switch-scape, especially new or returning players. For them the convenience likely far outweighs the negatives. I personally have my lotd as a relic purely because I already switch between 2 rings and 4-5 weapons with each combat style, and needing to remember my lotd as well was just annoying.
Lol I made almost every mistake u covered in this video after returning after almost 9 years sweet 🤣🤣🤣 should have watched more videos but the amount if info in this game is overwhelming at times. Thanks for the video!!
Coming back from a 6 year break im still just sitting here smelting the 80,000 gold ore i got from getting mining to 99 when i was last active, ill use those to get the gold for members and eventually would like to get into PvM to keep up with member these were good tips. Im still a bit overwhelmed with all the updates but will get used to it
It's like you knew I was coming back.... I haven't played since the week after Arch came out. I wanted to come back to do some killing. Thank you for this.
Wow I still make 1-2 mistakes. One being I put my ancient perks on a nox. I would advise, get t92 weapon first then put perks on it, less you have 115 invention or smtg.
Hi Maikeru! Loved the video. I used to have a maxed main before I quit, now Archeology came out, and I'm no longer max. I decided to start an ironman. I would love it if you could make a video on the things are best worth it to focus on a returning player / new ironman guide! :)
Ironman guide content would be quite fun. Just not 100% sure what people want to know / struggle with on ironmen. Anything in particular you are struggling with or would like more info on?
@@MaikeruRS Hmm. Things I'm mostly thinking about are things like the most important quests / quest rewards, not sure what bosses to start doing after getting power armor in GWD1.. Important Invention perks to focus on, stuff like that. I started playing mainly because of Dovydas being back, and since, I have seen a crapload of ironmen around my level, so I think there might be a decent audience looking for this info. :)
I saw some noob rocking dual wield dragon crossbows with like 77 range or so. Told them to switch to black salamander or armadyl crossbows instead, and asked why they were using t60 dragon crossbows. The answer was they thought the crossbows were better because they are so much more expensive lol.
Yeah, sometimes it makes sense to assume expensive weapons are better haha - completely understand that thought process for sure. But hopefully videos like this can help those people if they see it :D Gj on helping them either way my man, im sure they were greatful. Gl with the gains!
@@MaikeruRS Especially when item prices are high because of invention, its really hard for new players to know if something is good or bad unless they know to seek information from other players or sources outside the game.
not at all, a big chunk of damage that will kill you from bosses is typeless, that doesnt change with tank armour and 80% of bosses you dont use soulsplit.
I'm not basing this on ancient invention. Just mentioning perks aren't worth before that. So no point in discussing anything other than ancient. But regardless, Not using a lotd early even without invention would be tons of money saving. Offhands with or without invention are still only used for damage not accuracy. Tank armour still sucks compared to gwd1 armour, if they're both unaugmented just like how if they were both augmented. Ancient invention perks are just super useful. And on rs3 nowadays, xp is super fast so invention is actually one of the first big goals people set themselves.
Worst thing I see new players do is spend their bank on LOTD and can't even but a t80 wep or full t80 armour. I also ring it in their ears to buy ROF instead whenever they ask questions to other at G.E. I also tell them to only buy LOTD when you own 2 or 3 sets of different combat in t80-90 in both weps and armour and gain some experience under your belt at G.W.D 1 before end game boss like Telos where LOTD is useful.
I didnt even get a GOTE or LOTD till I reached +2500 total levels. I dont regret not getting a LOTD earlier, but I do regret not getting a GOTE for skilling back when most of my skills were below 90.
Ive switched to osrs and havent played rs3 in 4 years. What gear should i get? Ive still got full pernix nox bow, full malevolent dont think i have melee weps. Im maxed combat and slayer with 80+skills apart from the new skills. I have about 400/500m in shards i could spend
My masterwork and LotD were made by me, with no GE involved (I've since sold more for additional upgrades). I have no clue what they cost at the time I made the upgrades. The guy in trim mw with garbo weapon has no excuses though. Either that was bought, or he's able to farm RotS and Nex and should have a better weapon by now anyway, at least gwd2 weapons should be quite manageable if you can do those
I bought a Lotd and A grace of the elves because, even though I am a returning player, I intend to do A LOT of skilling before seriously getting into pvm. I figured it might be worth it to get early to increase the gp/h (even slightly assuming I wont get a hezel ring) until I get into pvm later on. Small edit: I returned to my first account after I realized it was 15 years old and the best stat I had was 88 wc besides that it was 47 smithing at best. So when I say I will skill I mean that I start super low leveled
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As an Osrs player I’m finding myself watching more RS3 videos recently, I’m glad it seems to be doing well!
Jokes on you I got a LOTD and an Elves Necklace when they were only 20m each :)
Then you're not a new or returning player that this video is aimed at :P
But yeah, i got my stuff much cheaper than what it is now also, crazy how much alchemicals have gone up with archaeology and hydrix
I made the mistake of upgrading my ROF to a LOTF... Just before it doubled price. Happy mistake. :)
@@MaikeruRS maybe he's a returning player who bought those items a long time ago :)
jokes on him again i got hsr during some arch training
Same and I’m a returning player. I bought both right before I stopped playing and I’m glad I did
Just realised how much of a noob I am now :/
Honestly, same
@@MaikeruRS my tetsu has betrayed me
Honestly though, we might put the noob label on ourselves, and I wouldn’t excuse the ignorance; but once you see the difference just the one time, you never go back, you always move forward with your gaming. Only thing that matters is the fact that you take honest criticism and make it work for you!
Same
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I love how you made this video slightly after A Friend came back haha
Very useful for them though
Yeah! Exactly why i decided to make this, because of a lot of people returning recently - good to know what is now change and considered good/bad :D
I'm new to runescape 3 and even tho I can't quite relate to an 80m pvm gear set I do appreciate the video
That's literally why I'm here. Just started after watching A Friend play so much and I'm so lost after not playing it for years.
Off hand glaive does have one very important perk: it doesn't require ammo. If you use a main hand without ammo, you want the offhand without ammo as well
Piggying on this: there's *one* situation where the glaive actually *does* increase damage, due to the fact that the it doesn't use ammo, and that's when using bane bolts, which are tier 60 ammo. Your main hand crossbow will be capped at t60 damage, but the glaive will do t80 damage while still benefiting from the bane effect.
This feature is also shared with darts and crystal chakrams, though darts have the downside of having a slightly shorter range than crossbows.
Don't tell me what to do, streamer
So many new/returning players on Reddit recently, all asking for advice of some kind. This is a great vid for them and a series would be well received I am sure. Much more useful than getting a couple sentences on Reddit, and a nice segue into your guides for slayer/bossing etc as they often ask those questions as well.
What do you mean IF we find it helpful? Your guides make runescape navigable and are the main reason why i can get things done efficiently Your tips and tricks videos taught me personally so much. So thank you for all youve taught me so far!
Thanks for the really really kind words! :D Glad its useful info to you and happy to help, gl with the gains!
I’ve been using higher tier armour instead of power armour since I got back. Thanks for letting us know.
Glad I could help :D
It's pretty crazy how good GWD1 armour still is even this far into the evolution of the game
Gl with the gains!
They really need to buff tank armour to not be trash compared to power armour tiers below it. I understand not giving tank armour comparable damage to power armour because tank duh, but atleast give it more stuff to make it really worth it as a "tank"
@@samme79 yeah, similar to how achto has a set effect that helps 'tank'
Kinda crazy how the armour with one of the best tank set effects is in power armour and trimmed masterwork
Unless you have good dps, don't bother with low defense armor.
@@SmithCommaBenjamin ??
Just asked my clan about LOTD and they sent me this video...this video is so helpful that I'll take it as a compliment
Ey! Happy to help and thanks to your clan for sending you here haha :D
gl with the gains!
Damn I just did them all.
Man.. you're so frikkin helpful. I took a 8 year break and only came back a year ago.. you've helped me since I started as you were the first rs3 TH-camr I subscribed to!! Every video you've put out has helped me to go from a 20m bank to a now 1.3 bil bank.. if I ever win the lottery you're getting a hefty donation. Love MrCAMeaney. Btw you get my name wrong on every stream 🤣 it's Mr c a Meaney ... Love you and see you for the Sunday mass!!
Been playing RS3 on/off for years but always been overwhelmed by the amount of weapons/armour etc so stuck to pure skilling, will use this and branch out into PVM as always wanted to give it a proper go, cheers!
Would absolutely love to see more videos like this one!
Maybe add to your "Tips and Tricks" playlist?
Thanks for the video
Good idea and thanks for the comment/feedback :D
Thanks, Maikeru. You’ve been my hero since I came back to the game about 6 months ago 🙌🏻🙌🏻
this content is massively important, for the playerbase. Great job
Thanks man, much love❤️
Honestly not buying a stockpile of cinderbane gloves at 1m is the biggest oof moment of my career.
tru
Brought my lotd for 19m cashed out at 70m. Been trying to get more people to realise that it’s not needed unless super high tier shit. Will be selling my mw tomorrow and getting another set of bandos to get with my augd masutas. Great vid! Keep it up over the new year
Oh nice! Masutas is super underrated aswell. Really good weapon man.
Good luck with the gains and nice profit on the lotd!
Thanks for the kind words ❤️
I bought my LOTD early a long time ago, but it was only 20m at the time haha.
Yeah, at that price it was fine imo
Same lol
Very helpful video. Thank you. Returning from OSRS after a 5-year hiatus
Absolutely loved this video!
I'm coming back to rs3 after a while and this kind of info is priceless since it helps for sure in the long run of things. Thanks for making it!
These tips are huge; a lot of these mistakes were ones I made as a newer player, or even just a player on a budget getting conflicting tips as to where to allocate my earned GP. Thanks yet again Maikeru! Glad you stick with us even through all the at times frustrating comments that can come through. Just know we appreciate you
Just started playing again after 9 years. pretty much done everything on this list LOL
This is why we(people who don't play often) love you ❤❤❤❤❤
This is great! I am sending this video to several people I know who are fairly new/returning player. It is a huge help.
been correcting this for YEARS, but the thing about t85 gwd2 offhands is only fully correct for melee and ranged. when casting spells from your spellbook such as vuln or entangle or ancient spells and dual wielding with mage, the hand that is used for casting the spell ROTATES between the two. by using a t80 mage offhand instead of a cwyir orb, you are really hurting your debuff and ancient spell accuracy.
I don't play rs3. I only play osrs. Didn't understand most of the things you talked about. Still watched the entire thing, because this legitimately sounds like a really good guide.
Great video man! I heard about the off-hand damage thing before in some video but I couldn't remember and it's not on the wiki. Thanks for bringing it up
Happy to help as always man, thanks for the kind words and for watching :)
Learned a couple things here as a returning player. I didn't make the LOTD mistake though! Rocking a sweet blood fury with bandos and a masuta's warspear at the moment.
Definitely would appreciate more vids like this, super helpful mate thanks! :D
Maikeru merching Ripper Claws over here ;)
Thank you very much for making a video like this. There are alot of people throwing irl cash into the game without givng the game a chance to make gp for them. When, like you said, alot of the higher priced beginner gear is simply not worth it. I hope more people find you video and watch it. Thank you again! Im an osrs player returning to rs3 and always need help haha
Awesome! This is the kind of information that I find super useful and helpful. I was clueless about weapon upgrades and Ancient perks!
I found it very helpful personally. Keep bringing these types of videos for those of us who do enjoy them and get good information from them.
Great video man, ive been trying to guide my returning friend's, while not scaring them off overloading them with info. These vids are great in bursts keeps them interested without overloading them with info and tips tricks turning them off. This approach is 👍🏻
Nice video man! I always like these type of vids, although it seems like you saw me in the past with the armour upgrades first 😂
The "hi guys, maikeru here" is at the same tier as "hello everyone, this is your daily dose of internet"
its rs3`s equivelant to hi.. and welcome to my guide.. slayermusiq1
Great video Maikeru!
I appreciate your insight on the video. If I may, I would like to point some things out.
if I understand it right, the idea right now is to focus on the offensive moreso on the defensive. This is definitely the right move, but there's a catch to this strategy. this strategy works IF you are very well aware of what's happening around you, you know the mechanics of things and boss fights, and you have really good reflexes. unfortunately, not everyone is that well aware, and not everyone has well refined reflexes. that is not to say that people can't learn, but you can't learn without being punished for it. I like to think of tank armor being something like training wheels: you can learn how to develop your awareness and reflexes with it, but you dont wan't to get too comfortable with it. you only would want to have that tank armor long enough to help you develop the reflexes and awareness needed. When you have enough experience with the game, then it would be appropriate to go full on offensive with power armor. Going full offensive too early without the reflex and awareness skills may be a bit dangerous, but everyone's case is different. on top of that, it also depends on how the boss fight works and how hard hitting everything is. now that i think about it, it very well could be that the balance on armor and damage on bosses and whatnot may not be so finely tuned that it may actually be more punishing to wear tank armor.
Yeah i understand that.
But you also need to remember. Typically things people die to, or need to improve on is typeless damage or other things that don't actually get solved by armour on gear.
For example, at rax the blob kills a lot of people, alongside the insta kill spider, web and mirrorback. Tank armour would not save you against these things, practice will. Same applies for a decent amount of other bosses.
Not to mention, the faster you phase a boss, the hard you hit, the easier the kills normally are at so many different places. You get punished for bad dps, and gear can be a factor in that.
@@MaikeruRS ah okay. i didn't think about the typeless damage. It would only make sense to just straight up go full on offensive no matter what and just take some time to practice the bosses like you've explained in the video. I apologize for the redundancy of my comment. My speculations were based on the thought of if typeless damage was not a thing, which was beyond my clarity. i appreciate you clearing things up for me.
Never have to say sorry my man :) Always love a good chat and discussion about different things!
Hope the gains are treating you well and thanks for the comments
100% agree with u with not buying lotd but imagine getting the drop and not having ring my heart would shatter lol + didn't know about ripper claw thanks
Yeah, I understand that - but honestly it's worth taking the risk for a little while :D
Happy to help with the claws info :)
this reminds me of the week of the luck rework, i got a cheese plus tom batta from airuts...
Yo Maikeru I love your videos, as I am a returning player!
Always spot on:)
Anyone else say “Hi guys, Maikeru here” at the same time as him?
LOL
Every video.
I mean I'll say, "Hi guys, microwave here," yeah
"Hi guys, Maicibai here"
Saw this video linked somewhere and assumed it would be old, but the mention of LotD price made me realize it's actually really new.
Don't think I was making any of these mistakes, but it was informative all the same.
Huge video, thanks for the information. I’m a failure that can’t do more than 3 rax kills per rotation even with pernix and ascensions, it’s a hard life
Gotta start somewhere bud!
Good luck :D
I got the LOTD pretty early on. No crazy drops yet, but the free GE teleports made it worth it for me.
but you get that with the ring of fortune, unlimited too for a tiny fraction of the price
“Budget build at 80M”
Meanwhile there’s me with 3M in the bank being the most I’ve ever had.
Ikr he's so unaware of lower budget players he thinks everyone has 100m to spend smh
For what it’s worth, even at lower levels there are some pretty effective methods to make several mil an hour. Easy clue scrolls can be gathered and completed in under 5 minutes each if you’re fast, and you’re more likely than not going to get a 1m drop inside most of those clues
@@michaelscofield6721 But 100mil isn't that difficult to achieve anymore.
1m+ in an hour is available at extremely low levels. Money making isn’t as much of a grind as was in the old days.
if you have the stats to even consider any gear in this video while 3m only being the most money you've had, what are you even doing with your time in the game??
he had a f2p video series making a mill an hour at like 40 crafting haha
i came back to the game 5 days ago after a 4 year break really needed this vid thank you
Welcome back! Hope yoyre enjoying rs3 again and happy to help ❤️ thanks for watching
Power armour arguement has some nuance, most people in mmo's fail to realise. It's not as simple as more dmg, less dmg taken, more kill. No.
In a group fight, or slayer, yes I'd recommend it. However, if you're soloing a boss, especially one's heavy on mechanics, that argument is faulty.
People will always vary on reaction time, and skill. Having armour that can keep you alive, can mean you get kills, rather than none at all.
And No, its not necessarily slower. If you are terrible with your power armour, u'd be forced to camp your food and have low dmg output.
Don't be afraid to take your "inferior" tank armour, to places your learning alone or struggle constantly. They can provide alot of quality of life. Once you've mastered the mechanics, you can then switch to power arnour, which will then make things faster.
This should get more attention, it's so helpful and I'd also love it if you made a second episode
Useful guide as always. I love hearing the Welsh words in runescape being said by an Englishman 👍 it makes my day.
Sorry if i butchered the words haha
Well someone saw this and took advantage because ripper claws aren't even buying at 2M now
Yeah it really sucks when new players acquire knowledge and can no longer be screwed over as easily.
@@joshuaroe1402 he means someone possibly may have bought a large quantity with the intention to flip
This was very helpful and I hope you do make more of this type video.
tyvm!
wow im not a noob lol, other than offhands i thought they worked the otherway around and gave acc not damage
Very useful for a returning player, thanks!
Awesome video! It’s like a mini skill guide for levelling gear 😂
Things that the LOTD can do that the Ring of Fortune can't:
- Teleport to Keldagrim.
- (very slightly) increase chance to receive a unique drop from: Araxxi, Barrows: Rise of the Six, Beastmaster Durzag, Nex: Angel of Death, Solak, The Magister, Telos, the Warden, Vorago, and Yakamaru, not including boss pets. The 1% increase actually means 99% of the denominator (1/x), rounded up.
- 2% chance of upgrading your trash geode when mining into a metamorphic geode. RoF only had 2%
- +1% for rare clue-specific loot from elite and master clue scrolls, while RoF only had this boost up to hard clues.
- 3% chance more to get rare drops from crystal chest and triskelions, when it was 2% with RoF.
- Removes flax, raw lobsters, and molten glass from RDT. Used to be trash. Some are actually valuable now.
- Chance to get Vecna skull and HSR from RDT
- Destroy your cash stack.
The armor part makes good point, and RS3 players know it, in a general sense. For beginners, tank armor is probably best, but once you start getting to bosses that dish out damage- tank armor helps a lot for low level players; because tank armor has the same defense stats as power armor 5 lvls below it.
Ports (t85) armor has t90 power armor def, plus extra life points
QBD range armor(t65) has t70 def stats
and so forth
It allows you higher defense at lower levels. Also, unless you have a good dps rotation- which you likely won't due to the time and money the needed abilities take to acquire -worry more about negating damage.
I'm not doing too bad but man did I get lucky. To not look like a noob even though I had 0 of the knowledge you just blessed me with. All of this makes sense, Great vid!
Super usefull "guide" i guess, i'm a returning player playing on main to make money to pay mi ironman memb and I realize a did a big mistake buying a LoTD. Allways super usefull content :)
Tetsu was released post EOC buddy
Excellent content as always
Luck of the Dwarves increases droprates by like 1% in most cases, it's almost nothing. Good video, would like more in the future.
Yeah, it's literally crazy.
Something like 15k gp/kill added to rax legs chance or something tiny haha! Definitely not worth the 67.5m when starting out.
I would also say that a mistakes a lot of player make when starting to pvm is to not use ultimate ability such as beserker, death's swiftness and sunshine.
Yeah that's definitely true, alongside adren pots being hugely useful
@@MaikeruRS that's really true! Adrenaline potion give a big boost in dps and only require 84 herblore!
Learning so much from you man thank you. Honestly though dude, I watxh so many bossing guides and action bar set ups. I’m maxed combat stats, with overloads and 99 summoning but I’m still so so so bad at bossing :(((((
Honestly it's all practice makes perfect, even once you get the gear, abilities and rotations/bars.
Keep going and you'll keep improving my man!
I recommend trying to learn GW2 especially vindicata. Go with a Yak full of shark until you get the hang of it, then work toward using a ripper demon instead. Use Penance to help you focus on mechanics (there's not many) and less on healing, prayer restore, and juggling mechanics. Try to learn solo if possible so you are forced to understand it better, but duo is viable too. As for a bar set up, Google whatever your using dual/single, and get gw1 abilities unlocked (Sacrifice, Devoted) as well as Mazcab if you're using range/mage. As long as you use minimum t80 equipment, you should be alright getting 3 or 4 kills per trip while learning :)
@@sairentoeko damm you must be good I’m maxed and I’m so noob on it
@@Beit_sitti Just practice friend, keep at it, if you eat 1 yak full for 1 kill then try to look at where you're going wrong, and fix it. (In that case, you either need better gear, or you need to move out of the fire xD) Keep pushing till you understand the mechanics :)
Thanks for the helpful video!!
I haven't played in years and recently returned (mainly for osrs) but I been playing rs3 wrong :( good video btw
Have to disagree with the whole power armor is king and better than tank armor. You can really see when some people have been doing high level pvm for so long they tend to forget how amazing tank armor can be for low to mid level players and for HCIM/IM. I mean i thought this was for NEW and RETURNING PLAYERS. New players and some Returning Players will not have access to Scrimshaws/ss/auras and ect
1) Tank armor isn't for high level pvm its for low to mid level pvm. It's for the players that don't have scrimshaws/SS/auras to help heal themselves or they just don't do enough dps to make these items useful YET.
2) Tank armor is also situational ie ( Guthans is better than Bandos at frost dragons when you don't have any other healing methods other than the armor and weapons themselves at the same level.) Guess what this can help you get your 92 prayer for SS so you can start using power armor over tank armor even faster if you don't want to buy prayer.
3) When you dont have Scrims/SS/Auras Tank armor allows for greater heals over power armor when using your Healing abilities, which almost NO HIGH LEVEL PVM'er really uses these days because they have Scrims/SS/Auras.
Overall this video make me feel sad as its ONLY from a HIGH LEVEL PVM perspective and not for new players. New players should be taught when they should start making the transition not just being taught TANK ARMOR BAD.
Good information. Just got a computer today to get back into the game. I’m looking forward to it. Been lacking a way to get on it. I have Apple on my phone side so the beta is not out yet last I knew.
Love your videos bro, keep going 💪
LOTD is an amazing puck up if your a skill player. Instant GE teleport, especially if you're in the Wilderness, plus the occasional lucky drop. IMO, it pays for itself for its ease of use. If the old RS bank/GE mobile app came back, than I'd never recommend getting LOTD ever again and spend my days forever grinding out urns or bars for masterworked armour.
i would never wear a 75m ring into the wildy, too many pker groups around looking to pick off people like us and take our hard earned gainz. ferocious ring gives insta-teleports and you'll have a stack of them after running slayer tasks for kurvadel
Honestly quality vid man. I learned a lot!
Make more video like this that offer items bang for the gp. Like the wyvern c bow comparison to noxious bow
Is there a skilling counterpart? How and when is the best time to get all the fancy stuff like GoTE and stuff?
Not really, those things are typically bought as a luxury, helping with porters and a little money back from RDT + chance at HSR.
I guess brooch pays for itself if you're going for 120 buyables on portables, but again has a hefty buy-in cost.
Typically just buy those things if/when your budget allow and it makes sense to with your goals. If 120 skills aren't your goal, they're not going to be anywhere near as worth.
For skilling, get a gote asap if you plan to do allot of gathering skills.
Gathering skills typically (but not always) do not cost you anything to do, so the cost of investment into a gote is not a problem, because you don’t really have anything else the money could be going to.
The sooner you get a gote, the sooner it will pay for itself, and it does so pretty quickly. If you are skilling focused then ya get gote asap,even avoid doing gathering skills till you have it if possible. As for lotd, useless for skilling without the gote, and even with the gote the chances you get a hsr are low af (higher then chance from lvl though because of how many rolls you get skilling) so not a huge priority to get this, but still good to get eventually to avoid the heartbreak of a roll on the hsr table without the ring on.
i would still recommend tank armour for mage though if you use the animate dead spell, even after the recent rebalance.
especially for bossing and slayer. the other styles, 100% go power armour, but i wouldnt go power for mage unless youre already quite good at pvm.
the amount of extra damage youd do with power armour compared to animate dead's added survivability doesnt really win out in my books.
Coming back from what is technically a 4 year layoff and not originally being a PVMer (bosses), this was very informative. Thanks man.
I'm looking at getting Invention up before I start bossing just since I gather augmented gear with perks are almost essential to do them efficiently.
Which bosses would you recommend I do first to get a feel for mechanics and stuff? Something like a Vindicta?
Yeah indeed!
Vindicta and QBD are my favourite "entry" bosses.
Then moving to stuff like helwyr for increased defensive use over vindicta.
Then stuff like Ed2/Rax :D
Gl with the gains!
Not much of a mistake, but I think people should remember that buying equipment means investment so they shouldn't be afraid of buying degrade-to-dust equipment. Morrigan's Chaps is 1.26m at the moment and is better than 7m Armadyl skirt. Unless you do aggression potion slayer often those chaps will serve you for a long time, I mean really long. And for Armadyl Skirt price you can buy almost 6 of them. These will pay back really quickly. Even cheaper option is Spined Armour (or any Fremennik Armour) with Fremennik Patch. It degrades to dust but you have a full mid level power armour for less than 200k. With hands for ranged you can buy Royal Spiky Vambs for 5k so the whole cost will be closer to 150k. Insane.
literally just bought lotd like 2 weeks ago, then put it in the relic so I can't even return the investment lol...
oof 👀
not a waste though since you can have another ring now :)
damion currier it is a waste because now he can’t have 3 active/useful arch slots, only 2 (plus power can be a problem early lvls)
Arch slots are way more important then inventory slots, and that’s all you save with that ability, the invo slot of a lotd switch.
@@LegDayLas a lot of people don't like playing switch-scape, especially new or returning players. For them the convenience likely far outweighs the negatives. I personally have my lotd as a relic purely because I already switch between 2 rings and 4-5 weapons with each combat style, and needing to remember my lotd as well was just annoying.
@@damioncurrier290 Yea but don't you need it equipped for the potential hsr drop?
Lol I made almost every mistake u covered in this video after returning after almost 9 years sweet 🤣🤣🤣 should have watched more videos but the amount if info in this game is overwhelming at times.
Thanks for the video!!
Coming back from a 6 year break im still just sitting here smelting the 80,000 gold ore i got from getting mining to 99 when i was last active, ill use those to get the gold for members and eventually would like to get into PvM to keep up with member these were good tips. Im still a bit overwhelmed with all the updates but will get used to it
As an iron man elder rune has been my best friend for many moons
It's like you knew I was coming back.... I haven't played since the week after Arch came out. I wanted to come back to do some killing. Thank you for this.
Wow I still make 1-2 mistakes. One being I put my ancient perks on a nox. I would advise, get t92 weapon first then put perks on it, less you have 115 invention or smtg.
Thank you for the content sir
Hi Maikeru! Loved the video. I used to have a maxed main before I quit, now Archeology came out, and I'm no longer max. I decided to start an ironman. I would love it if you could make a video on the things are best worth it to focus on a returning player / new ironman guide! :)
Ironman guide content would be quite fun. Just not 100% sure what people want to know / struggle with on ironmen.
Anything in particular you are struggling with or would like more info on?
@@MaikeruRS Hmm. Things I'm mostly thinking about are things like the most important quests / quest rewards, not sure what bosses to start doing after getting power armor in GWD1.. Important Invention perks to focus on, stuff like that. I started playing mainly because of Dovydas being back, and since, I have seen a crapload of ironmen around my level, so I think there might be a decent audience looking for this info. :)
getting back into it, damn theres alot
Glad I bought my LOTD when they first came out for 23m
I saw some noob rocking dual wield dragon crossbows with like 77 range or so. Told them to switch to black salamander or armadyl crossbows instead, and asked why they were using t60 dragon crossbows. The answer was they thought the crossbows were better because they are so much more expensive lol.
Yeah, sometimes it makes sense to assume expensive weapons are better haha - completely understand that thought process for sure. But hopefully videos like this can help those people if they see it :D Gj on helping them either way my man, im sure they were greatful.
Gl with the gains!
@@MaikeruRS Especially when item prices are high because of invention, its really hard for new players to know if something is good or bad unless they know to seek information from other players or sources outside the game.
Power armor only really outperforms tank armor at bosses once you get things like soul split.
not at all, a big chunk of damage that will kill you from bosses is typeless, that doesnt change with tank armour and 80% of bosses you dont use soulsplit.
Imagine making a guide for returning players and basing everything around them already having level 75+ invention.
75 invention is not high level can take less than few days to get
I'm not basing this on ancient invention. Just mentioning perks aren't worth before that. So no point in discussing anything other than ancient.
But regardless,
Not using a lotd early even without invention would be tons of money saving.
Offhands with or without invention are still only used for damage not accuracy.
Tank armour still sucks compared to gwd1 armour, if they're both unaugmented just like how if they were both augmented.
Ancient invention perks are just super useful.
And on rs3 nowadays, xp is super fast so invention is actually one of the first big goals people set themselves.
Wow I think I have a lucky off hand chaotic cbow.. going to replace my glaive today thanks for the info!
I saw someone with full bandos, trimmed ammy of fury, and a ZAROS GODSWORD. I was confused
Man got his priorities straight
Worst thing I see new players do is spend their bank on LOTD and can't even but a t80 wep or full t80 armour. I also ring it in their ears to buy ROF instead whenever they ask questions to other at G.E. I also tell them to only buy LOTD when you own 2 or 3 sets of different combat in t80-90 in both weps and armour and gain some experience under your belt at G.W.D 1 before end game boss like Telos where LOTD is useful.
I didnt even get a GOTE or LOTD till I reached +2500 total levels. I dont regret not getting a LOTD earlier, but I do regret not getting a GOTE for skilling back when most of my skills were below 90.
See i did the relic, but when I had thing ring on i got a HSR so I'm pro ring lol
another one of these please maiakru
Ive switched to osrs and havent played rs3 in 4 years. What gear should i get? Ive still got full pernix nox bow, full malevolent dont think i have melee weps. Im maxed combat and slayer with 80+skills apart from the new skills. I have about 400/500m in shards i could spend
My masterwork and LotD were made by me, with no GE involved (I've since sold more for additional upgrades). I have no clue what they cost at the time I made the upgrades. The guy in trim mw with garbo weapon has no excuses though. Either that was bought, or he's able to farm RotS and Nex and should have a better weapon by now anyway, at least gwd2 weapons should be quite manageable if you can do those
Not sure about the trim masterwork but it is quite common to see masterwork set with masuta warspear nowadays
Wow, this is not the kind of "returning players" video I expected. I have no idea about any of these things lol. Way too late game for me.
I bought a Lotd and A grace of the elves because, even though I am a returning player, I intend to do A LOT of skilling before seriously getting into pvm. I figured it might be worth it to get early to increase the gp/h (even slightly assuming I wont get a hezel ring) until I get into pvm later on.
Small edit: I returned to my first account after I realized it was 15 years old and the best stat I had was 88 wc besides that it was 47 smithing at best. So when I say I will skill I mean that I start super low leveled