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 Now available on Windows / MacOS / Linux / Android / iOS / Steam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0qqjyY-v1U Returning player? Relapsing addict? Check out the list of recent updates for RuneScape and OldSchool RuneScape to see what you've missed. 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰   Join the Discord Server The Official Goonscape Discord The discord server has an automated auth system in place now. In the event that fails, we're pretty quick about manually authorizing entry. Useful links: RuneScape Website / Clients
Alt1 is a tremendously useful toolkit that assists in a wide variety of ways for RuneScape and will help you do clues, track your experience gains, and more. OldSchool RuneScape Website / Clients
As Alt1 is to RuneScape, RuneLite is to OSRS. Runelite is a full client that includes numerous plug-ins that help with bossing, questing, experience tracking, graphics mods, and more. Moreover, it's approved and available through Jagex's official launcher now. Go get it. Alternatively, HDOS is also available as an OSRS client, and will appear in the Jagex launcher if installed. It appears that HDOS is better optimized than Runelite, and is capable of utilizing Runelite plugins, so the tide may be turning in favor of this launcher moving forward. For more information, on HDOS, refer to Nobody Interesting's post below. The official wikis (do not use, link to, or otherwise access the Fandom-based wikis, they are ad-encrusted pieces of poo poo): 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9zSvzIGETY What is RuneScape? RuneScape (aka RS3) is the third iteration of one of the longest-running MMORPGs in existence. Originally released in 2001, it has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest and most-updated free MMORPG with over 200 million accounts created. If you played in the past, your stats and items are probably on this version of the game. OldSchool RuneScape is an official splinter server based on the second iteration of RuneScape that you probably remember playing back in middle school, at the local library, or through MiniClip, because you are thirty years old just like every other person here. It has since received numerous content and quality of life updates, but still has AFK click-and-wait gameplay at its core. OSRS currently has the larger player base by a fairly wide margin. RuneScape Classic is dead, but was the first full release of RuneScape as we know it. It was a browser-based java game that laid the foundation for much of what you see in OldSchool RuneScape and RS3. The servers were finally shut down in 2018. Goodnight you princes of Lumbridge, you kings of Gielinor. All three versions of the game are set in the land of Gielinor. Your mission as the Adventurer, our World Guardian, and a struggling MMO Addict, is to Make Number Go Up in a variety of Skills, solve the problems of the world through Quests, and murder Bosses to While there are Free servers for both games, Members servers are highly recommended for the sheer amount of content locked behind membership. Check Twitch/Amazon Prime for free membership promos, or ask in the clan for a bond to redeem for a week or two of membership if you want to try-before-you-buy. A membership on one account transfers to all versions of the game, so you can try both OSRS and RS3 with one login (but you can't be logged in on the same account at the same time on both games). The primary differences between the games are their Quests, Skills, Combat Systems, Bosses, and Microtransactions. 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Quests are arguably the lifeblood of RuneScape. In RuneScape, you do not simply collect 20 Bear Asses and turn them in to [NPC_QuestGiver_269]. Quests on RuneScape are more akin to adventure games, where you will be tasked to solve the many problems presented to you by NPCs through liberal application of booze, violence, weaponized ignorance, and Using [item] on [thing]. In your questing adventures you will:
Regions, gear, and experience lamps are all locked behind quests, and I'd recommend pursuing a Quest Cape as the first major overarching goal for any new player looking to get a taste of what either version of RuneScape has to offer. Full list of RS3 quests Full list of OSRS quests 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Skills are varied and many. There are currently 29 skills in RuneScape and 23 (soon to be 24!) in OldSchool RuneScape. Almost everything revolves around training them to their maximum level of 99 (or 120 for new/updated skills on RS3) and beyond, and below are quick and brief descriptions about each of them. Members-only skills that are capped at level 5/20 for non-members are designated with  , RS3-only skills with a  , and OSRS-only skills with a  .
RuneScape Skills OldSchool RuneScape Skills 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Combat Systems & Bossing These are very different between games, even when dealing with bosses that have been ported from one version to the other, and may well be why you choose to play one version of the game over the other. RuneScape uses a system of action bars and abilities, similar to conventional MMO gameplay. Combat in mainline RuneScape comes in three flavors: Full Manual (conventional MMO style), Revolution (queue a rotation of abilities to fire automatically), and Legacy (click-and-wait style with nerfed poo poo damage. lol, gently caress this, just use Revolution). For better or for worse, attacks are on a global attack cycle (though there are means of exploiting auto-attacks outside the global cooldown to exploit extra damage). Combat style restrictions are enforced in varying ways, but generally speaking, if you're not exploiting the combat triangle, you're not going to be capable of hitting the broad side of a barn. Likewise, gear tiers matter more on RuneScape. Good luck fighting something with T90 defense when you only have T60 weapons. Combat levels themselves only really matter for unlocking gear tiers on RuneScape. Bossing in RuneScape offers a variety of challenges at all skill levels, starting around T60 gear. You'll find that there's a variety of your run-of-the-mill DPS race bosses that can be bodied in 10 seconds flat up to full raid-length encounters with five or more phases and tight timing for ability use. Rapidly switching gear and managing a significant number of abilities becomes a necessary skill as you approach high-end encounters for maximum optimization of kill times. All but very few key high-end bosses can be soloed with patience and practice. At max levels, you can boss all day with minimal resources required to sustain you. There is also one skilling-based boss on RuneScape currently, Croesus. List of RuneScape Bosses Raids and Elite Dungeons OldSchool RuneScape comes in one flavor: click-and-wait style combat. You click, and the combat code rolls damage based on your accuracy/damage/defense bonuses with varied attack speeds based on the weapon you use. There is a wide and varied set of possible best-in-slot gear depending on what niche content you're tackling, and gear tiers matter less than your combat levels on OSRS, generally speaking. Hybridizing your armor is more viable on OSRS, as accuracy is almost exclusively based on your weapon and relevant combat skill. Want to mage something while wearing full plate armor? Go for it. Want to fight slayer monsters with melee while wearing ranged armor? Perfectly viable, if not necessary. Bossing and high-end content for OSRS consists of conventional DPS-check bosses with limited mechanics in the God Wars Dungeon, several raids offering best-in-slot endgame gear, designed for 1-5 players, and large group bosses like The Nightmare of Ashihama. As with RuneScape, most bosses can be soloed, but I would say, with very few exceptions, there's more hard skill level requirements and less sustainability to soloing most boss encounters on OSRS. There are several skilling-focused "bosses" on OSRS as well, which play out in short rounds similar to mini-games, and which offer convenient and sometimes extremely efficient skilling experience rewards. List of OldSchool RuneScape Bosses Skilling Bosses Raids 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Microtransactions The elephant in the room. RuneScape is absolutely loaded with microtransaction bullshit, but you can ignore most of it, especially if you're playing an Ironman account (Ironmen cannot trade with other players or utilize MTX to my knowledge). Current systems in place include:
Bonds can also be used to change your username in-game, so don't fret if you regret signing up as Sir_Tenley1997 when you were 13. We all made embarassing mistakes back then. Refer to the in-game examples below for some suggestions of more appropriate names for your character (and feel free to post any you find in-game in the discord).  Name censorship is basically non-existent nowadays, so you can become your true self as SonicMukbangToeVoreLuvr42069 and spam public chat with your fetishes at the seasonal Dung Hole / Wintertodt as you please. 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Miscellaneous Information If all of the above wasnt enough to lure you into a years-long addiction, RuneScape and OldSchool RuneScape also offer:
〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Clan / Social Information Please review the following video for instructions on how to make your own Clan Uniform before continuing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx3ORAO1Y6s Join the Discord Server The Official Goonscape Discord The discord server has an automated auth system in place now, but in the event that fails, we're pretty quick about manually authorizing entry. To join the RuneScape 3 clan in-game, perform the following:
To join the OSRS Clan in-game, perform the following:
〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Useful tips Spreadsheet of useful Runelite plugins and tips for new/returning players, courtesy of DongleDingus/Badplayer0 If you're using RuneLite, I recommend enabling the Chat Filter in the settings menu and adding the text at the following link to the Filtered Regex field to get rid of useless spam messages in chat around the Grand Exchange and elsewhere. bread/Sanarr Reed's OSRS Regex Chat Filter It should look like this if you've entered them correctly:  Alternatively, there's also DongleDingus/Badplayer0's OSRS Regex Chat Filter which appears to be fairly extensive. YMMV on both of these as spammers find new and innovative ways of avoiding the filter. 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Historical: Thread 8 can be found here. Thread 7 can be found here. Thread 6 can be found here. Thread 5 can be found here. Thread 4 can be found here. Thread 3 can be found here. Thread 2 can be found here. Thread 1 can be found here. Soulhunter fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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Attack - Determines melee combat accuracy and ability to equip (most) melee weapons. Melee combat is strong against ranged, but weak against magic.
Strength - Determines how hard you hit with melee combat, and whether or not you can lift boulders above your head.
Defence - Your chance of avoiding taking damage, as well as what armors you’re capable of equipping.
Ranged - Your skill with ranged weapons, from bows to crossbows, and even chakrams for the Xenas at heart. Ranged is weak to melee, but strong against magic.
Magic - A skill that works in both combat and skilling. You can cast spells using runes to hurt monsters, enchant jewelry, teleport and more. Magic is strong against melee but weak against ranged.
Constitution – Your health. If it hits 0, you die. Raise it to improve your HP and healing from various foods.
Prayer - How much the gods of Gielinor will grant benefits to you. Burying, offering and scattering bits of dead monsters and players will get this stat up.
Mining - Harvest ore used in Smithing and Crafting. Received a major overhaul in recent years.
Fishing - The primary diet in Gielinor appears to be seafood, based on the sheer volume of fish consumed by players.
Woodcutting - Harvest lumber for use in the Fletching and Firemaking skills.
Crafting - The root skill for making leather, pottery, cloth, wood, and other non-smithable products.
Smithing - Use your ore to craft weapons and armor, including some of the strongest obtainable melee armor in the game. Received a major overhaul in recent years alongside mining.
Cooking - Creates food used as the primary healing method in combat.
Firemaking - Originally a test skill, somehow they left it in to become benchmark for the least interesting skill possible.
Runecrafting - Craft runes used to power Magic spells. Since the introduction of the Runespan mini-game and its rewards, this has significantly improved.
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Post reserved for GoonScape Fridge Art and future creative monstrosities. Feel free to send me abominations so I can put them on display and we can let you know how proud we are of you. Here's ZANIK  Zanik Pizza  Zanihegaorts, now available in clan colors  don't forget  did you know you can change your username once a month? our clan has a spooky ghost haunting it    clan extracurricular activities outside of RuneScape include flushing our pal Zordon down the toilet  
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Necromancy is good and Scape Jazz is good
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Jeffery for the love of god please just buy Jagex and put an end to this misery
Putty fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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Soulhunter posted:
still the worst post anyone made so far IMO
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why is this game
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Sorry I said the shrek pizza was the worst. I just saw the shorts. Who is responsible, I simply want a word?
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the clan shorts are perfect and beautiful
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Good OP, Time to order Jorts for the guildmates.
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HDOS is not a new client for OSRS, but aside from RuneLite it is the only other Jagex-approved client. It was recently given support for the new Jagex Launcher so it's one-click login now. The main goal of the client is to give OSRS the 2008-but-pre-EOC coat of paint. It's pretty good. Because Runelite plugins are basically all MIT-licensed, HDOS directly incorporates RL plugins from the RL source tree, so it has very similar functionality to RL but with the different look. But what's amazing is that somehow the client actually performs better. I don't really understand how or why, but I am finding the game is running at a stable framerate even with maxed out draw distance. I think this speaks more to how Runelite is unoptimised, moreso than how HDOS is performing some kinda miracle. It's also neat that the client UI is directly using the design language of the in-game UI, so everything feels like it's all a part of the same package. The dev throws in RL plugins on a case-by-case basis but already there a bunch of really good ones included by default, with only some niche weird ones missing, but he seems open to adding a bunch. I'd honestly say this is the preferred client over RL now, unless the 2008 look throws you off too much. Which is fair.
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I'm sorry it does what? It has Runelite plugins baked in?? I thought it was just a HD makeover but essentially playing on the vanilla default client. Gonna have to give it a spin see how I feel about it.
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Reoxygenation posted:It has Runelite plugins baked in?? It's a curated bunch, so it's not like you can browse the hub and install whatever you want, but all the basics and some quirky ones are there. Like Dance Party and Door Kicker are included by default (but disabled, obviously). More plugins get added all the time. And since they're pulled directly from the RL source tree they function exactly the same. There's even a button to import most if not all of your settings from Runelite.
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Play ironman; it's the only good mode.
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I'm here for the good vibes.
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Sorted thanks
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Sep 19, 2023 18:10
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maybe the osrs team will realize that 2h axes in its state is not a good idea and will also walk it back kinda funny that they updated star mining and everyone went lol lmao this is what forestry should've been the only 2h axe i need is soulreaper my beloved please do not take it away from me.
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PAGE ONE AND I'M POOPSOCKIN FOR XP
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A heads up for anyone that hasn't tried it yet: Necromancy is absolutely busted. With t70 gear you can afk any gwd1 boss an hour at a time as long as you have vampirism up. If you afk on kril, you'll get the materials you need to upgrade to t80 about the same time as you get to level 80. After that the world is your oyster, the damage and sustain you can put out with a relatively cheap setup is second to none. I'm getting similarish kill times at arch Glacor with t70 necro as I do with g conc and cywir, but I'm way healthier.
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OSRS leagues november 15th for anyone interested, plenty of time to get prepped in advance of that is your thing!!
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Reoxygenation posted:OSRS leagues november 15th for anyone interested, plenty of time to get prepped in advance of that is your thing!! Oh gently caress yes, I really enjoyed the last one
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Hello I'm a new runescape player and I'm playing RS3 ironman and I'm doing all quests in release order. Game owns but a lot of guides tell me to do quests and that's why my summoning is level 2
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Eventually you will be allowed to do wolf whistle which could bring your summoning all the way up to level 4, or more! It's why I went with doing in-game timeline order. That way you still get all the newbie oriented quests while you're still a newbie. And not, say, putting off doing any summoning until you've done all the requirements for ritual of the mahjarrat
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I decided I wanted to try RS3 again. I played the crap out of OSRS on my phone at work but never thought I did much RS3 - until I looked at my bank and quest log and all that poo poo and was completely and totally overwhelmed. Do I just try to bash my head through the wall of figuring out what these 400 individual items were all for or should I just say gently caress it and start over?
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boho posted:I decided I wanted to try RS3 again. I played the crap out of OSRS on my phone at work but never thought I did much RS3 - until I looked at my bank and quest log and all that poo poo and was completely and totally overwhelmed. A little bank organization by goons goes a long way
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 Just got 98 Agility. I am not proud.
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boho posted:I decided I wanted to try RS3 again. I played the crap out of OSRS on my phone at work but never thought I did much RS3 - until I looked at my bank and quest log and all that poo poo and was completely and totally overwhelmed. Post screenshots here or in the discord and myself or some other kind goon can help you clear out junk, or sort it
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I've been away from this for ages, but from what I can tell on YouTube everyone is pissed about some RS3 stuff and is migrating to OSRS. Is that true?
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OSRS has like 5x the players of RS3 but idk about RS3 drama
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People were pissed that jagex was going to put in a battle pass, which they ended up not doing because everyone was pissed about it. There was something else as well recently but I forget what.
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RS3 already had a battle pass then decided it wasn't exploitative / pay2win enough, cranked that up to 11 with a new Hero Pass and tacked on some p2w buffs. Then they removed the existing daily challenge for free keys and experience system that was in place for years, which actually got people's attention and pissed off the crowd. People revolted, quit, got attention from streamers, news outlets, etc. Then Jagex slow-walked it back with several weeks of "feedback-seeking" bullshit and inexplicably took like a month to re-implement the daily challenges for keys/experience. After all this they said OK, OK, we'll remove hero pass. We've learned from the mistake. Also, less than a week later, have you heard about our Halloween event offering a bunch of buffs locked behind P2W?? Soulhunter fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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Oh god lmao, thank you for extrapolating Fuckin jagex man
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One thing that REALLY pissed people off is, on top of all of that, for months the RS3 devs were hyping up a Big New Mystery Game Feature and that's what the hero pass ended up being lol
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I opted to restart, though I’ll still come post my bank here or on Discord if only to extract whatever value is left in it. Instead of getting distracted by all the theme park rides 15 yards apart from eachother - all the updates and new graphics have made the F2P pen a VERY tiny place - I’m doing a strict timeline quest order combined with self-imposed pseudo-Ironman: I still want to be able to buy bonds, so my rules are I can SELL on the AH, but the only thing I’m allowed to buy are bonds. Bonus points if you know of a snappy name for this style, cause I couldn’t find one. It’s been fun thus far! boho fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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You're kinda describing bronzeman mode in OSRS, which is an unofficial game mode (runelite plugin I believe) where you can only buy stuff you've acquired before, either by pking or the normal method, what you're describing just seems to skip that part though, so ironman-mode lite maybe?
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Bronzeman mode lets you buy items you've unlocked, if boho only wants to sell I guess that's... Copperman mode? Tinman mode?
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Just made a cool 148mil with some dumb halloweeen mask.  It's probably worth like a billion cause it sold instantly but my logic is either to sell seasonal crap ASAP or sit on it for a long, long time.
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boho posted:I opted to restart, though I’ll still come post my bank here or on Discord if only to extract whatever value is left in it. I like this idea for a playthrough, if I ever feel like taking a new account all of the way I might steal it
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boho posted:Just made a cool 148mil with some dumb halloweeen mask. If it was one of the OGs (red/blue/green) you missed out on a couple bils at the very least
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Reoxygenation posted:If it was one of the OGs (red/blue/green) you missed out on a couple bils at the very least Orange, added this year. Seemed safe to sell!
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Ah ok then yeah you're relatively safe. This got me looking up the 2023 Hween event for rs3 and uhhh I understand why people were very mad now
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