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Adventure Mode Preliminary Guide | Adventure Mode Preliminary Guide | ||
Written by /u/Steelsauce, with help from adventure-mode-chat on | |||
Written by /u/Steelsauce, with help from adventure-mode-chat on discord, and the [[HCCO/Guide]]. | |||
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== Starting out == | == Starting out == | ||
First you need to do some basic melee combat to get some combat levels and cash for a first skill. Equip your | First you need to do some basic melee combat to get some combat levels and cash for a first skill. Equip your [[Bronze Sword]] and[[Shrimp]] and start whacking some [[Plant|Plants]]. Remember to press the collect loot button to keep your potatoes! Change styles to keep your stats somewhat equal. | ||
With a stack of potatoes, you can branch out to other monsters to earn new gear. Read the [[HCCO/Guide]] to learn which mobs drop gear, but note that some mobs require you to unlock slayer first. | With a stack of potatoes, you can branch out to other monsters to earn new gear. Read the [[HCCO/Guide]] to learn which mobs drop gear, but note that some mobs require you to unlock slayer first. | ||
=== Early money making === | === Early money making === | ||
Your first money maker will be fighting [[Cow]]. Collect their [[Leather]], and then go to the shop and purchase as many [[Green Dragonhide]] as you can, then sell the green hides. This gives an extra 50gp compared to just selling the plain leather. | Your first money maker will be fighting [[Cow|Cows]]. Collect their [[Leather]], and then go to the shop and purchase as many [[Green Dragonhide]] as you can, then sell the green hides. This gives an extra 50gp compared to just selling the plain leather. | ||
Once you have some better gear and levels, killing [[Master Farmer]] and selling the seeds is more profitable than cows. You can earn more money with some mid game items, such as [[Gloves of Silence]], [[Almighty Lute]], [[Sand Treaders]], [[Chapeau Noir]], and if you are lucky [[Aorpheat's Signet Ring]]. | Once you have some better gear and levels, killing [[Master Farmer]] and selling the seeds is more profitable than cows. You can earn more money with some mid game items, such as [[Gloves of Silence]], [[Almighty Lute]], [[Sand Treaders]], [[Chapeau Noir]], and if you are lucky [[Aorpheat's Signet Ring]]. | ||
If you don’t want to keep hitting the collect loot button, you can earn money slowly by mining, fishing, woodcutting, or agility to earn some gp while afk. | If you don’t want to keep hitting the collect loot button, you can earn money slowly by mining, fishing, woodcutting, or agility to earn some gp while afk. | ||
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==== {{Skill|Attack}}, {{Skill|Strength}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Attack}}, {{Skill|Strength}} ==== | ||
'''Pros:''' Unlocked at start. No ammo needed to train. Can get starter weapon/armor quickly. Will need to use it for a while at the start. Fishing lets | '''Pros:''' Unlocked at start. No ammo needed to train. Can get starter weapon/armor quickly. Will need to use it for a while at the start. Fishing lets you train strength afk. Melee is the easiest way to idle the first two difficult dungeons. | ||
'''Cons:''' Hard to get more mid/late game weapons and armor. Very weak to magic enemies. Not as strong as magic late game. Only contributes to combat level if higher level than other combat styles. Need to train two skills instead of one. | '''Cons:''' Hard to get more mid/late game weapons and armor. Very weak to magic enemies. Not as strong as magic late game. Only contributes to combat level if higher level than other combat styles. Need to train two skills instead of one. | ||
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Pros: Very strong, especially in the end game. Great for killing hard enemies and dungeons. Many enemies are melee. Alt magic lets you gain prayer points easily, plus (low) offline xp. Can craft good weapons/armor with runecrafting. | Pros: Very strong, especially in the end game. Great for killing hard enemies and dungeons. Many enemies are melee. Alt magic lets you gain prayer points easily, plus (low) offline xp. Can craft good weapons/armor with runecrafting. | ||
Cons: Need mining + runecrafting before you can start. Takes | Cons: Need mining + runecrafting before you can start. Takes time to farm runes. You need woodcutting or thieving to make elemental staves, otherwise they are monster drops. Prayer points can come from fishing. Needs ancient magic to reach full potential. Best runes are locked behind a high runecrafting level. Only contributes to combat level if higher level than other combat styles. | ||
Recommended to unlock: Mid game | Recommended to unlock: Mid/Late game | ||
==== {{Skill|Prayer}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Prayer}} ==== | ||
Pros: Helps a ton in combat, especially in difficult combat or late game. You get bones from everything. | Pros: Helps a ton in combat, especially in difficult combat or late game. You get bones from everything. Always contributes to combat level. | ||
Cons: Needs a supply of prayer points, bone drops aren’t enough. Best ways for that are | Cons: Needs a supply of prayer points, bone drops aren’t enough. Best ways for that are [[Raw Skeleton Fish]] from fishing or [[blessed offering]] from alt magic. | ||
Recommended to unlock: Mid game | Recommended to unlock: Mid game | ||
==== {{Skill|Slayer}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Slayer}} ==== | ||
Pros: Rerolling easy tasks is free, so you can always gain slayer coins and xp from what you want to fighting. | Pros: Rerolling easy tasks is free, so you can always gain slayer coins and xp from what you want to fighting. If you are willing to reroll tasks, it gives free slayer xp. Coins can be spent on important upgrades and resupply which gives food, bones and ammo. Unlocks slayer areas with important mobs, like mummy for gold emerald ring and gold topaz ring. | ||
Cons: | Cons: Acquiring slayer coins requires you to manually reroll tasks, or at least switch to your current task, which is inconvenient for mostly idling/afk players. You can still earn some slayer xp by fighting in a slayer area. Takes a while to earn up coins to buy anything. Does not contribute to combat level! | ||
Recommended to unlock: early game for active players, else mid/late | Recommended to unlock: early game for active players, else mid/late | ||
==== {{Skill|Woodcutting}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Woodcutting}} ==== | ||
Pros: Easy to train afk, can make decent gp/hr at higher levels. Get logs for magic staves, arrows. Birds nest are a decent source of seeds. | Pros: Easy to train afk, can make decent gp/hr at higher levels. Get logs for magic staves, arrows. Birds nest are a decent source of seeds. Level 99 needed to efficiently create [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies. | ||
Cons: Everything you can get here you can get from thieving, and the gp/hr is worse than gem gloves. | Cons: Everything you can get here you can get from thieving, and the gp/hr is worse than gem gloves until a high level. | ||
Recommended to unlock: Late/end game | Recommended to unlock: Late/end game | ||
==== {{Skill|Fishing}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Fishing}} ==== | ||
Pros: With cooking, easy and afk food supply. Get | Pros: With cooking, easy and afk food supply. Get [[ARoS]] if you are lucky. Chance to get [[Message in a Bottle]], which unlocks [[Raw Skeleton Fish]] which are a great source of prayer points. Train strength afk with barb fishing. Can make some money offline. | ||
Cons: You can get food from | Cons: You can get food from farming or combat. Prayer points can come from alt magic. The gp/hr is worse than gem gloves until high levels, can’t get that sweet whale+fishing cape gp/hr for a long time. | ||
Recommended to unlock: early or Late/end game | Recommended to unlock: early or Late/end game | ||
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==== {{Skill|Cooking}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Cooking}} ==== | ||
Pros: Easy and quick afk food with fishing | Pros: Easy and quick afk food with fishing. | ||
Cons: You can get food and lots of other items from | Cons: You can get food and lots of other items from farming or combat. Does not give any advantage besides food. | ||
Recommended to unlock: early or Late/end game | Recommended to unlock: early or Late/end game | ||
==== {{Skill|Mining}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Mining}} ==== | ||
Pros: Mining with gem gloves is the best money making strat early on, plus it's mostly afk. Need essence for magic and gloop for farming. With smithing, you can get bars for armor trimming, and ranged ammo | Pros: Mining with gem gloves is the best money making strat early on, plus it's mostly afk. Can earn some offline gp before gem gloves. Need essence for magic and gloop for farming. With smithing, you can get bars for armor trimming, and ranged ammo. Level 99 needed to efficiently create [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies. | ||
Cons: Need 500k for first pair of gem gloves | Cons: Need 500k for first pair of gem gloves. | ||
Recommended to unlock: early game | Recommended to unlock: early game | ||
==== {{Skill|Smithing}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Smithing}} ==== | ||
Pros: Make silver/gold bars for trimming and gp before you can afford gem gloves. Make ranged ammo. Make melee weapons/armor | Pros: Make silver/gold bars for armor trimming and gp before you can afford gem gloves. Make ranged ammo. Make melee weapons/armor. If you get to combat level 99 and 99 smithing, you can make dragon armor and trim it in order to afk volcano easier. Level 99 needed to efficiently create [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies. | ||
Cons: You can kill knights for melee weapons/armor far sooner than you unlock with smithing (except gloves). | Cons: You can kill knights for melee weapons/armor far sooner than you unlock with smithing (except gloves). You can earn gold and silver bars from monster drops, although smithing is far quicker. Can get ranged ammo from mob drops. | ||
Recommended to unlock: Late | Recommended to unlock: Mid/Late game | ||
==== {{Skill|Thieving}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Thieving}} ==== | ||
Pros: Get decent (?) gp/hr while getting other materials like food and logs and seeds. | Pros: Get decent (?) gp/hr while getting other materials like food and logs and seeds. | ||
Cons: Hard to get started, will want to be naked before getting auto eat. You can get everything here from other places | Cons: Hard to get started, will want to be naked before getting auto eat. You can get everything here from other places. | ||
Recommended to unlock: early/mid/late game | Recommended to unlock: early/mid/late game | ||
==== {{Skill|Farming}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Farming}} ==== | ||
Pros: Food with no ingame time spent. After a few days you make a ton of food | Pros: Food with no ingame time spent. After a few days you make a ton of food every few hours. Only viable way to get herbs. Get most types of logs. Earn some decent gp with no in game time spent if you sell herbs/logs. Get most seeds from combat, or thieving or woodcutting. | ||
Cons: Need to open the game every so often to get the most food. Need to buy | Cons: Need to open the game every so often to get the most food. Need to buy [[Compost]] or kill farmers for it. Need mining to get [[Weird Gloop]] for best xp and food rate. Thieving or woodcutting is required to get [[Carrot Seeds]]. | ||
Recommended to unlock: early/mid game | Recommended to unlock: early/mid game | ||
==== {{Skill|Fletching}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Fletching}} ==== | ||
Pros: | Pros: Needed for arrows. Level 99 needed to fletch [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies. | ||
Cons: Ranged is not the strongest, and you can get arrows from drops. Fletching djavs for money is not viable until combat level 99. | Cons: Ranged is not the strongest, and you can get arrows from drops. Fletching djavs for money is not viable until combat level 99. | ||
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==== {{Skill|Runecrafting}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Runecrafting}} ==== | ||
Pros: Lets you use magic, the strongest end game combat style. Also required for alt magic for prayer points. Curses and auras make you stronger until you become OP with ancient magic. | Pros: Lets you use magic, the strongest end game combat style. Also required for alt magic for prayer points. Curses and auras make you stronger until you become OP with ancient magic. | ||
Cons: Need mining first. Doesn’t do anything before unlocking magic. | Cons: Need mining first. Doesn’t do anything before unlocking magic. Higher tier runes require a high level, which means a high combat level. | ||
Recommended to unlock: mid game | Recommended to unlock: mid game | ||
==== {{Skill|Herblore}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Herblore}} ==== | ||
Pros: Makes other skills more efficient, | Pros: Makes other skills more efficient. Combat potions provide a boost, but [[Diamond Luck Potion]] and [[Damage Reduction Potion]] are essential for late game combat. Level 53 needed to efficiently create [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies. | ||
Cons: Needs farming for herbs, some secondary materials are hard to get. Need a high combat level to get the best combat potions | Cons: Needs farming for herbs, some secondary materials are hard to get. Need a high combat level to get the best combat potions. Slow to train. | ||
Recommended to unlock: Mid/Late game | Recommended to unlock: Mid/Late game | ||
==== {{Skill|Agility}} ==== | ==== {{Skill|Agility}} ==== | ||
Pros: | Pros: Provides small buffs to other skills, increasing XP, mastery, item preservation, combat buffs, etc. Easy afk way to make some gp/hr, with some increasingly steep startup costs. Does not surpass gem gloves until at least level 70, unless you have [[Aorpheat's Signet Ring]]. | ||
Cons: | Cons: Many obstacles require skills or items you have not unlocked yet. Obstacles become increasingly expensive, and some have large debuffs. | ||
Recommended to unlock: mid/Late game | Recommended to unlock: mid/Late game | ||
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== FAQ == | == FAQ == | ||
Written by Jeff | |||
(Q) Why Slayer? | (Q) Why Slayer? | ||
(A) Slayer is going to be your best friend for a while. Unless you plan on making money off feathers Slayer is pretty much the go to for first or second unlock. Think of it this way: you're already pretty much forced to start with combat. Why not make the best of it and unlock everything slayer has to offer from the get go? | (A) Slayer is going to be your best friend for a while. Unless you plan on making money off feathers Slayer is pretty much the go to for first or second unlock. Think of it this way: you're already pretty much forced to start with combat. Why not make the best of it and unlock everything slayer has to offer from the get go? | ||
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(Q) What should I be aiming for? | (Q) What should I be aiming for? | ||
(A) These are merely based on personal opinion but can be beneficial: You might want to prioritize combat. Getting your Auto Slayer and Auto Eats will define how long you are manually doing things. Slayer Farming are generally good first unlocks. You set your own goals and play your own way | (A) These are merely based on personal opinion but can be beneficial: You might want to prioritize combat. Getting your Auto Slayer and Auto Eats will define how long you are manually doing things. Slayer Farming are generally good first unlocks. You set your own goals and play your own way. | ||
== Potential Skill Order == | == Potential Skill Order == | ||
We are still figuring this out, and it depends greatly on how often you are actively playing the game, and if you can let the combat run on your device while you are afk. The start of the game requires a lot of attention to progress efficiently, until you unlock auto eat and looting amulet. | We are still figuring this out, and it depends greatly on how often you are actively playing the game, and if you can let the combat run on your device while you are afk. The start of the game requires a lot of attention to progress efficiently, until you unlock auto eat and looting amulet. | ||
This is by no means a final guide, just some theory crafting | This is by no means a final guide, just some theory crafting. | ||
==== Active playing, magic main skill order: ==== | ==== Active playing, magic main skill order: ==== | ||