14 Deadly OSRS Mistakes You're Probably Making! ⚠️ 

My girlfriend just started playing, and I want to let her know about easier ways of playing the game but I don’t want to take the freedom of the game away from her. Sometimes I feel like the more we look for efficiency the farther away from the pure joy we get from the game

The part about getting down about exp rates is important. I wasn't having fun or feeling like I was looking at my total exp at the end of the day rather than exp/hr. You forget about slow rates when you can see you're making 1-3% total progress each day.

This was a surprisingly original and outstanding video. Hadn't seen your channel before, but definitely subscribed now. Really appreciate the genuine care for the game and the players.

Goals are absolutely vital to keep the game going. My original goal after hitting that "What do I do now" point was to get barrows gloves. Then I found out i needed to do all these quests to RFD, then when I got the gloves I diced to get the quest cape, after that I wanted to do the achievement diary (currently still grinding slayer for this) and also a side goal of making enough GP/grinding content to get that next item upgrade

A big thing i learned to start doing is trying out new things, even if its weird. Ive been doing Shades of Morton just cause i want to authenically craft a set of Splitbark for my HCIM and ite actually been alot of fun to turn of mind for 3/4 things required for it.

Usually, videos like this are pretentious and care way too much about how other people play the game. They'll list things like not instantly getting barrows gloves or a fire cape as "mistakes", for example. So thank you for actually being helpful instead of judgmental.

I have never seen someone explain away the anxiety that OSRS breeds so effortlessly. 10/10

You’re up and coming man, love these videos. Super informative and fun to watch

Another tip: the game gives you the option to redeem 3 bonds at the same time to receive 45 days of membership instead of the usual 42. *Don’t do this.* Committing to playing the same game every day for 45 straight days is a lot. You’re going to have some days where you can’t or just don’t feel like logging on. Always redeem bonds one at a time so that you allow yourself the option of just quitting for a while without feeling like you’re wasting a shit ton of membership. The flexibility is more important than 3 extra days that you have to bend over backwards to use.

Your videos on the more abstract aspects of osrs are really useful and fun to listen to :)

i like the note about dailies. when i first realized how great they were i got really into basically all the recurrent training methods and money makers but eventually i stopped bc it felt like it was ALL i was doing. if u do tree runs, herb runs, bird houses, magic saplings, and palm saplings, by the time you’re done you’ll probably be ready for another bird house run, and then probably another herb run. and you’re just stuck in a loop. Even though all of those tasks are _supposed_ to only take 5-10min each. That assumes you gear up and fill your inventory with max efficiency. I think most people’s brains take a minute to adjust to all the logistical work required to switch into doing all these different tasks every few minutes. Theyre good money and xp and I at least recommend doing tree runs at a _minimum_ whenever ur hardwood trees are up. but in general yeah… there’s nothing wrong w just ignoring birdhouse runs and just driftnet fishing when u actually decide to get some hunter training done

I've been moving to more AFK methods like stars and NMZ recently and it's refreshing

I just started my OSRS journey around a month ago and your content is a blessing 🙏 Keep pumping out the banger videos

Another Elysian video! Really been enjoying your content, congrats on the RU-vid success so far! I can see this channel becoming a staple

It really shows in your videos your love for the game which honestly makes them that much better as opposed to just saying what people want to hear all the time!

I've been playing an unrestricted ultimate iron man account on and off since February of last year, and I have to say it's really helped me reshape my perspective on grinding in this game. Even from day one, I knew that I was gonna have to approach things with clear, concrete goals. Because my focus shifted from the generally vague concept of maxing and making a bunch of money to unlocking things that will make the rest of the game easier to play, I really came to appreciate the results of the grinds I've undertaken a lot more than on my main. Knowing ahead of time that my grinds were automatically gonna take quite a lot longer than normal due to not having a bank, I just came to accept that slower methods were okay, because all progress is progress. Also, I always make sure to pick grinds that will benefit me in multiple ways through various content unlocks, because then it makes the time feel that much more worth it. After watching this video, I've found that playing this way for long enough helps you unlearn all of the deadly mistakes you covered, hahaha.

genuinely, you sound like my therapist (in a good way) these all boil down to "be kind to yourself, its okay" thanks for your positive content :)

Point 2 - Don't do dailies. For real I only do dailies if I'm going to the place anyway. I only do mahogany as my farm run. Doing dailies just felt like a chore interrupting what I was already doing. If you like to break things up then maybe they are a good thing for you but I like to set up camp somewhere and grind it for ages so dailies felt like impositions.

As someone who has felt really frustrated with my progress, I really like your type of content. It has helped me tackle this game with a new mentality.

Your content is a breath of fresh air for my OSRS feed. Love the great work. Keep up the awesome vibe!

Great content. Extremely underrated content creator.

I feel like the biggest trap people fall into is feeling like they need to rush or even partake in raids. Been playing Runescape on and off for nearly 20 years now and essentially never have done any raids in RS2/3 or OSRS. The only time I have ever done a raid so far is when an account needs 1 kc for zeah elite diary. There is plenty of content in the game to never need to step foot in raids if not a fan of the content. Even on my harcore ironman I have mostly avoided raids asides from the 1 required kill. Gauntlet covers range completely and melee partially, godwars dungeon covers most of melee between bandos and torva, and the new desert treasure 2 bosses can now cover magic.

Yeah I agree with most of these, I rushed maxing on main and didn't enjoy playing the game. I skipped out on bossing and ended up quitting main to play iron mode. You will start realize that gp isn't really important, besides early game where you struggling to get early cash via pyramid or other methods lol. I learned to work with what I have and not worry too much on gear. Setting small goals like gaining a certain level in order to do clue steps or finishing a quest can make it less daunting. Graceful is good on iron, but like you said its not really needed. On my uim I barely use it , and I carry heavy gear in my inventory. Walking around Gielinor isn't that bad. I would say to others play how you wanna play and enjoy the journey. Don't compare yourself to others or beat yourself up for not having current bis. If playing uim mode be patience with yourself, it is very tedious and sometime feels endless, but just know once you get the stats, its forever.

The gear upgrades thing is so true. I recently started an Ironman and while on the defender grind I saw multiple people with bandos chest and tassets and no other strength bonus gear. These guys could’ve had 3x the DPS for a major fraction of the price.

Another good one! I’m kind of burnt out right now. I have been setting crazy goals. I’m going to try and keep them smaller. Maybe I will actually play when I log in. Thanks for the content!

@6:35 - Funny thing, my original RuneScape account I made back in 2006 on original RS before it become the garbage it is today had over 4,000 hours and not a single 99 (except for Quest Cape) because yeah... I didn't focus on maxing out skills, just playing the content that I enjoyed and letting my skills naturally go up as I play or need them to go up for a quest. Am retiring that account completely and been working on a brand new one in OSRS though and been having fun again. Setting goals also helps a lot, which I am glad that was the first thing mention in this list.

Love the videos! Trying to get back into OSRS after a lengthy leave of absence! Keep up the good work! 😃

So many RS players seem to forget that games are for fun. If you find being perfectly efficient fun, that's great, but you don't need to feel that way to being playing the game "right".

Thanks so much Elysian! New sub here :) I'm getting back into OSRS after a strong 1+ year hiatus! Thanks for all you're doing, keep up the great work my friend!

Setting goals is huge - i’ve set my sights on a quest cape and base 75s. Makes me motivated to train a bunch of different skills and avoid burnout!

You're one of two RS content creators I like to watch and when I first heard you mention addons in wow in the plugin video I had to do a second take for a minute there lol. That came so out of the woodwork it was weird. Feels like there's not many people doing that switch, usually it's to something like FF14 or some other game with more wow-like combat. Going from being a cutting edge and a semi high-end mythic+ tank to struggling doing my first kills of barrows when i got base 40s/50s and 50 ranged and magic for msb and ibans, was a weird change. But regardless of what I do in OSRS at least I feel like whatever I'm wasting my time on I'm progressing in some way, unlike in wow. Keep up the awesome content, I'm happy to be so early in following the channel and I look forward to watching it grow and learning more about the game on the way!

One that was probably said and I'm just saying it a bit differently: Don't worry about doing the best method to level a skill. The best method to level a skill is the one that makes you keep clicking and getting XP. People swear by 3t mining because it's the fastest, best xp for mining, but I can't be assed so I MLM, especially because it saves me money for blast furnace smithing XP later with all the gold ore you get. For you, you might like blast mining more. Similarly you might be the type of person who gets bored doing wintertodt for firemaking. Go chop some logs and burn some logs if it makes you feel better. People also swear by superior dragon bones because "they're so fast for prayer XP" when really, they ARE faster, but at some point when you train your prayer high enough, you're still going to be clicking the altar for thousands of bones anyway, so even if you do dragon bones or lava dragon bones, you're still getting a ton of XP, just 5-10% less than if you used superiors and you're saving money in your bank too. I get given shit ALL the time for not doing the best methods because they'll somehow magically "make me a better player" if I do them. 9/10 times though? The same people that spout this bullshit at me are lower level than me in that given skill because they got bored of training it that way. They ask me how I still do it and I say "because I don't train it when I don't want to and I'm not a meta whore when it comes to how I train. I click something, I watch numbers go up. Even if it's inefficient, I'm still getting XP and you're not." TL;DR unless you're some burned out high level streamer/player on your third HCIM account OR you're a speedrunner trying to speed run maxing or w.e arbitrary weird goal you have, stop worrying about being giga efficient all the time. Stop turning games into work. Your boss isn't over your shoulder demanding you meet some arbitrary deadline. Punch out and have fun playing your game.

great quality content you have here! I really like the ideas you come up for videos specially this one! Very useful :)

One of the best tips I got from you was your video on Max hits and what’s most efficient! Makes me feel better now having the max gear haha, just gonna focus on stats while saving money, was glad to see that tip here as well appreciate your content it’s very helpful!!

Great tips. I love seeing how many herb runs I can get in in a single day, especially now that I have all patches unlocked except for 1. That's a mil for less than 15 minutes of playing, and I can do it over and over, every day - if I set alarms and hit every patch in that 20 minute window. But if I don't want to, I don't. Sometimes I just wander around Gielinor for days, with absolutely no goal. I just do whatever. With skis on, sometimes. Sometimes I fashionscape and just walk around the map. I don't run. I don't use any energy. Just chill and see what all new I can discover. Then I can get KC if I want to. Or I can work on a skill. Or I can do clues. Or I can quest. Or I can fish. Or WC. That's why OSRS is so awesome. You can't burn out if you're aware of the burnout and are totally fine with smiling at it as it passes you by. It's a game. If you're not having fun - what are you even doing?

everyone is different. Just know that not being able to hold onto a massive grind doesn't make you "worse" than someone else. I always find myself feeling my willpower is inferior to these people as if I'm failing some right of passage. I try to remind myself that runescape isn't a relationship, and chores like birdhouse runs or herb runs are a choice, not a responsibility.

Good points. These are exactly the things I have run across though in my journey to max. Also don't be alarmed: I set max as my goal for the sake of maxing, not per se for the cape. During that time I ran into a lot of the problems you described and found very similar solutions.

The point about doing what you enjoy, and that being better exp overall really struck home with me. That is how I personally got through maxing, myself. AFK at work, getting paid to do blood/soul runes was a great time XD

Great video Btw, to all, the best training method is the one you actually enjoy doing Like at Tempoross, crystal harpoon is like +5k xp/hr ,but i enjoy using the infernal harpoon MUCH more, its the difference between 4m30s games and 9 minute games. Gaining smaller is better than dreading and never doing

Tips to the vid: Dailys are fine if that are in line with whatever you're doing; don't pause content to do dailies, almost ever. Having fun is also under rated, theres also content that will fit you mood, heboxjorge made a video about it a while ago where he says just have fun and find the content that fits your mood and it goes so well & true to this game! OSRS Has gotten a lot of new players so I think some sort of progression based video would be good like quest -> diary -> max; so sprinkle in ca's pvming etc.

Elysian is growing quickly. Im glad, its all very deserved!

The tips about dailies is really helpful, I find myself falling in that trap far too often.

Been obsessed with your videos lately, literally one of the most helpful osrs RU-vid accounts for information

Really nice video! The goals part, as obvious as it sounds, really was the difference for me to get to play the game. I started years ago with no idea what to do, then later I set myself a dumb goal, and after a while my friend told me that smithing your own armor is not actually a reasonable way to go, because smithing goes much much slower. Nowadays what I do is look at one grind I want to do, and sink some cash into it, maybe a mil maybe a bit more. All my grinds end up cash positive, but once I'm committed, I Know what I'm supposed to do. And on the other hand, I have a visual indicator of how I'm progressing as I see the number of items in the bank decrease. Instead of saying "i'll get 80 smithing", I said "i'll drop a mil in mithril bars and see where that (and reinvestments) takes me". seeing the dwindling stacks was always a boost in morale, especially every time I bought a smaller stack (also for giveaway, I'm GwenTheKween)

Honestly man. You've got very refreshing and honest content. Great videos keep it up.

You are definitely right about setting incremental goals For example : I am training for 90 strength It is a lofty grind when that’s all I’m doing- however, I’m doing it at moss Giants for mossy keys chasing the essence drop. They also dropping loads of clue scrolls for collection log. So I get hits of dopamine throughout my grind, as well as collecting loads of seeds loads of herbs and loads of ensouled heads which will help me and other grinds down the road, so finding something that rewards you along the way rather than a thankless grind like rock, crabs, or whatever. Anyways, happy scaping!

Quality tips mate, hope this helps people get past burnout and the midgame slump.

I'm actually coming back to play runescape and this video hepls a lot ,tysm for the information

Slightly off-topic but during your footage of TOA you had these very helpful digits next to your character. I believe it displayed run energy and prayer status. I looked everywhere but I couldn't find how to do it..

Excellent video, 100% could relate with a fair few of these! Possibly a basic one but a budget/barrows GWD guide, and not the crazy fly around the room ranging/maging but more concentrated on the prayer flicking? if ppl understand that it, unlocks so much content for them.. Well done Ely :)

I can relate to all these mistakes, and have been doing what I find enjoying the last year, and I probably have had the best time playing my GIM compared to my old ironman where I was playing for efficiency. Sadly some of my GIM teammates have been burnt out because of some grinds.

I first got into osrs because I had two friends that kept on telling me I should play it with them. At first, all I did when I played with them was kill cows and collect their cowhide. I ended up getting around base 60 combats and 43 prayer from just killing cows. Eventually, they talked me into getting membership after I complete all the f2p quests. My first goal as a member was to complete something that they hadn't done yet. So my first goal ended up getting the quest cape. This took me roughly 2 years to get. After that, I wanted my first 99 which ended up being farming. My next goal was to get the achievement cape (I found it funny that you mentioned that in your video haha). I'm currently 4 Elite diaries away from completing my goal. I completely agree with your points. I had pretty high goals and at times it was disheartening when I realized it would take a long time to do, but the thing that helped me the most was taking a break from my grinds and trying new stuff or doing content with my buddies. Great video. Good luck to everyone on their grinds and have fun playing osrs!

Another banger! A budget nex set up would be nice. So far, I’ve seen set ups with god dhide + arma cbow, then straight to Masori with zcb/ tbow or Masori with fang/voidwaker. Something in between would be beneficial to players who can afford more than an acb but less than full max gear. Also, letting us know when and what to upgrade to like a gear progression guide would be nice. Gear progression guides in general would be nice for certain bosses but I understand would be redundant for a lot of bosses. After a few of those kind of vids, maybe make a tier list of really nice gear to have for general bossing /pvm and a separate vid of overrated weapons?

Im getting into late mid-game at this point, and my biggest advice would be to aim for a quest cape (im about 2 quests off), and if youre struggling qith things to do, try to get all your skills up to a threshold (i.e. base 50s or 70s.) This has rhe advantage of allowing you to do lots of smaller grinds rather than the ones you will burn out on

A great tip for old players with near max main accounts that keep burning out is to bite the bullet and make a Ironman. It genuinely charges your whole look on the game and all the “useless” content as a main becomes not only useful but a fun experience most the time as the content usually gives big upgrades which would be junk usually. Stuff like mini games and quests not only become a challenge but they result in rewards that you wouldn’t care about as a main

I literally love this game because of the variety in goals you can set yourself. Absolutely the golden rule!

Definitely needed this to get my motivation back. Thanks ❤

This video has helped me, being nearly maxed being forced to do the remaining levels I get burnt out super quick, so end up doing other things and enjoy the game more, keep it up dude.

I highly recommended swapping stuff up every now amd then. Whether it be switching to a different method or skill. Took a slight detour on my 99 grinds and got a bunch of other benefits now

Thanks for the great video! I just started playing so this will totally help

Videos like this are usually a list chucked together just to get a video out. All of the points in here are really good. They all reasons I play for a week or so, then take another massive break, then come back and not stay or get anywhere

I saw some of your other videos and didn't even realize you only had a few thousand subs, awesome production quality man, keep it up.

I always see these videos and think it’s a huge channel making them, it amazes me every time I see the sub count. The editing and videos are always so high quality

Got into the game not long ago. Really enjoy your videos!

Pushing a grind I hated was the final straw that got me to quit RS3, and is why I have taken a different mentality with OSRS. Back in the day, I had started only logging in a few times a year, not even keeping up members, and all I wanted was 85 mining. I don't know why THAT was my focus, but it was. I pushed that to burnout every time I logged in, and when I finally hit it, they changed mining the next month. It was my personal burnout grind that I never got a chance to enjoy the reward for, and THE reason I approached osrs with the mindset of no burnout grinds.

OSRS is such a grindy game that you should focus on the progress rather than the finish line. I feel happy to see being 10% closer to a level rather than being annoyed I haven't leveled up. I'm learning to do Leviathan and happy to see I can get to its enraged phase consistently even though I haven't killed it yet. Even irl I learn to look at my progress more and more, especially since I'm writing a novel and I can tell you that's a big grind, but I always feel happy to find the perfect sentence and see my word count go up.

Honestly this is a quality video. It's insightful, easy to follow, and isn't the same recycled content over and over again.

I feel like I can thoroughly understand what you're saying. I love your inflection and voice man. You're the Man!

I find that having the attitude of “I don’t have to do that birdhouse run if I don’t want to” makes me do more birdhouse runs

I always have goals in this game. So many of them, some more long term or short term than others. I'm working on 99 Farming and 99 Construction right now. I got 98 Farming today, and my bank now has the exact amount of Oak Planks I need for 99 Construction. I went from level 81 - 83 today in about an hour, broken into three segments of 15 - 20 minutes. I'm at 2000 hours now and not close to maxing. BUT those 2000 hours include a few years stuck in f2p as a child.

just noticed how small your channel is dang, subbed. great stuff so far man cheers for the content

Cheers. Look forward to the content you'll provide us

I’ve always heard these same tips from other OSRS vids, but your words really got to me. Likely due to the firsthand experience you shared by doing opposite of what you said. Im an older player (early 2000s) that just came back to this game recently and got mem for the first time in my life. This vid helped me remind myself to not compare my account to the others around me. Thanks man.

If I can give my 2 cents on setting goals. I just recently came back from a long break because Im stuck on galveck on my Ironman. I always just kept thinking when I come back Ill try again. Well thankfully my coworker that brought me back got me out of that mindset, and put me in a mindset of getting my range a couple more levels before I go back. I decided I wanted to train range using chins. I am now almost 99 hunter getting chins for range and doing herbiboar for herbs. (Also got herbi so thats a plus) I set my goal at either 100 herbiboars or 1000 chins a day, I feel as I can do with my limited time well still having time to go do other things like achievement diaries.

keep it up ely! youre doin great bro! loving your vids. super calm and relaxing and organized presentation.

I will say, "don't do dailies" is pretty lethal advice for an ironman specifically. You knda have to keep up with at the very least daily herb runs, or there'll come a time where one of your next goals will require a high herblore level (whether that's SOTE or elite diaries or having access to divine supercombats) and you'll realize you're time gated behind months of farming that you've neglected. Also I actually completely agree with graceful being overrated, EVEN for irons. You can get dueling rings very easily and early, so when you really need run energy i.e. questing you can just pop into ferox and restore it while banking.

This is the type of video i needed. big thanks to you Elysian!

keep pumping out vids and you’ll be big one day. make longer videos! osrs players love having background videos

Im a main account and when I was poor, I would play like an iron man. Herb runs, making my own potions, killing monsters for upgrades i needed (jaw, zenytes,etc.) and I had a lot of fun doing it. Was I doing things efficiently? Nope, definitely not. But I was having fun and enjoyed the game more than ever. I'm still a main, and richer now in game, but I find myself getting burnt out more often now than before. Now I only do things I enjoy and feel like doing, as opposed to doing some arbitrary grind.

I think I've made almost all of these mistakes. I played as a kid and quit around EoC, but didn't get that close to maxing anything. I came back to OSRS after HCIM was released and started over as that. Hated having such bad gear, deironed and played for a few years until I burnt out severely on the gp grinding gameplay loop. Started over again as HCIM thinking I could just hop back to my main if it ever got too much instead of deironing, but that just never happened. I'm still playing that ironman and it's way more progressed than the previous accounts. I did die at around 1700 total level, but I knew it was going to happen eventually anyways. I did get burnt out on various ironman grinds multiple times and just quit for months. I still have some massive grinds ahead of me, but I know better now. I'll break it up and go do something else for a while. No matter what I do it's progress. Burning out and staying away for half a year means no progress on anything. I'm also much more aware of what intensity of content I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I enjoy being laser focused on a boss or something, other times I just want something more chill and other times I want max afk. I know several things in all of those intensity levels that will progress me.

This guy has to be one of next golden gnome winners for osrs

One big thing I do to avoid burnout is simple: If whatever (grind) I’m currently working on is starting to become boring, I change it up to different content, whether it’s another grind or a quest/diary or just money making.

I think most of the tips in this video can be transfered over other games, even other hobbies! Very nice video, subscribed!

I’ve made my long term goal to unlock the bone crusher and the ash scattering thing. That 70 prayer is going to take a while but I cannot fathom how much exp I’ve just let vanish because I couldn’t be bothered.

I just restarted my membership, can’t wait to start playing again! Thanks for the content I just subbed 😊

I already do alot to avoid these things but I wanted to comment, and sub because I find it really difficult coming to YT for help as alot of the content creators talk fast or use alot of terminology that as a casual player I find too much of an information dump. This video was very simple and to the point and you took great care to explain things. I'll be visiting this channel alot from now on! Thanks for the help and advice this was a service!

When i went for graceful I did it by getting anything between 5-25 marks of grace. Sometimes i just played a bit of canifis rooftop between League matches. It took me close to a month to get it but doing it like that was not that bad :)

You’re right, i sometimes don’t feel like farming for days so I don’t and then when I finally do I actually enjoy doing it

I came back the game when the final sailing poll was out and a friend gave me a bond to vote. Basically i just bought bonds when they were selling for 9m+ grinded construction to 84 to max out my house. And with that done, made the plan to just bang out all the quests. I have since been playing almost daily raising my total from 1250 to almost almost 1750. Honestly the biggest takeaways are make goal roadmaps and understand your time's value.

the bird and farm runs are so real. it almost feels like a chore or job but i also learned to do it when i feel like it and its helped!

I am a relatively early player with not much to my name but I made the dumb mistake of not banking my first 2mil when going to fight a quest boss much stronger than expected and now I am doing slayer. Not because it help me recuperate at all but just for therapeutic effect

Great video, i was surprised at how original your takes were in comparison to the million other similar videos in this platform.

Great video. I’m finally really trying to learn the game and not just grind for money. Quests have been fun lately 🎉

Love your content bro!!! Your got my subscription! Keep up the good work!

Got it. Going into wilderness, doing quests, learning boss mechanics and having fun are the top 4 mistakes I’ve been making. I will not do any of those from now on

This channel will be one of the biggest osrs channels within a few years i'm calling it now. Deservedly so

I have had my breaks from OSRS though sometimes binge watching vids do make me want to come back and grind again

Your videos rock and you are super helpful and informative; thanks again Elysian!

Great video, glad I came across this channel! You’ve earned a sub. Keep up the great content bud!

Thanks for the informative video Elysian!