NEW Alternative Route to Get into Endgame on Ironman 

If there's something you'd do differently to reach endgame, please leave a comment! ⬇ I'd love to make this a discussion & hear what you think is the best way! 🙌🏻❤

As an 1800+ total level HC ironman, I feel like I have the levels to start making some insane progress into late game content, but I don't wanna die. I know my HC status is a hindrance at this point in the game, so I'm tempted to just go for risky stuff and if I die a whole new world will open up to me. It will be bittersweet but I think I'm ready to move on to the normal iron life.

As an ironman, one should figure our farming first & continue doing that daily. Or get Agility to 60 or better yet to 70 as it will help you a lot by unlocking lots of shortcuts & you can run longer. After that.. I feel like quests (unlock fairy rings, spirit trees, balloons, gliders for travel), diaries (Ardy diary easy & medium for Ardy cloak 2; Karamja for Karamja gloves that are the first gloves that provide bonuses), clue scroll stashes (keeping the clue emote items, making & filling the stashes with them) are the ones to aim for. Of course you gotta do some skilling along the way for quest requirements. After that.. Working on slayer & getting your melee stats (ATT+STR) to 130 so you can enter Warriors Guild for one of the best food vendors (Potato with cheese; 9 coin item that heals for 16) & access to cheap ATT & STR potions so you can always have boosted stats in every melee scenario from here onwards. Dragon Defender will also come in handy of course. Can also AFK sand crabs if one desires. After that.. I feel like as an Ironman, one should get all skills to 70+ which should slowly get you out of mid game. Bunch of minigames to play as well that provide useful unlocks (like Barbarian Training or Tithe Farm). EXTRA INFO: Easy way to train crafting is with molten glass that is cheap to get from Port Khazard. Once you reach unpowered orbs, I'd keep doing those, later you can power them & craft them into more exp & HA them into a few mil profit. Easy way to start with construction is by starting with "Daddy's Home" miniquest. And after that continue doing construction contracts at least until 27 construction to build easy clue stashes. Gather 1k planks near Barbarian Outpost (4 planks spawn there, just hop worlds for an hour). Nails I recommend you smith yourself. I highly recommend RuneLite with plugins. Look up a video that recommends OSRS plugins. Has stuff to protect you better from PK'ers & lots of other quality of life improvements.

CG rush for bowfa is literally all you need to do anything. Go to toa, get fang (and if very lucky staff) and you win

I haven't played OSRSfor 1 year almost, but this video motivated me to finally create my own Ironman and start actually enjoying the game (I wanted to build my Main before starting Ironman)

If I started over, it would look something like this. Gauntlet + wildy rush into Raids sounds much more fun than getting 87 slayer with a scimitar.

Thank you so much man, you really motivated me getting voidwaker and the dagonhai gear

Would love a more in depth video on this topic. i'm a midgame ironman now and am very interested in going this way.

would love an updated video on this Zepa! so much new content out

1. You completly overlooked the mage training minigame, great for early lvls, wand, bones to peaches, inf boots 2. You dont need a bowfa, the crystal armour gives you enough bonus till you get higher lvls for cg 3. The zombie axe. Overpowered meta for ironman, get a zombie axe and do some sarachinis (D-Bones.D-Hides,Herbs,Super pots, Restores, SaraBrews) 4. Slayer is still good, just dont do all the quests, no unlocks means 0 defence monsters, range or mage em and ur chilling 5. aim for bonuses over minor gear upgrades, e.g salve, slayer helm, leaf blades (YES LEAF BLADED IS A BONUS, those turoths and kurasks are underrated ironman monsters for early game melee) 6. Get void early, its a long grind but you can literally get in there just with a few magic lvls that you got from mage training arena, this will be handy for ur ranged and mage setup for maximum cheese. the extra hit rate saves you on some cost and till you get blessed hides and ahrims void is decent. You can use this to start off ur melee stats or if you only have magic lvls ranged. if you follow the logic here, its a great method, leveling through 0 defence monsters, bones to peaches for heals at kurasks/godwars. This means you would easily have some good ranged and magic levels for gauntlet, melees long and you can save training melee from slayer tasks to get the most bonuses you can (Slayer helm, salve, Fighter torso). The focus should still be on slayer, it has more bonuses available and will get you closer to bigger upgrades, gets you gp for kingdoms later on. wildy slayer isnt a bad idea but in terms of rev weapons and gp but you also potentially risk it, konar is a more reliable option and has benifits for later on (dark totems and shards for arclight get bonuses for cerb and demons, konar keys can give you some good stuff) and also gives you alot of wyrm tasks, which helps towards 60 prayer for piety. Something most people overlook is doing barrows early, you can start barrows the moment you have a ibans and void, this can give you a chance at getting full sets early and you can work around that, e.g i got spooned a dh set, so ima be using that for some melee training, thats all a game of rng there tho. Main thing is to get mage arena and void early, and do not do quests, sure you wont get the quest unlocks, but with void you dont need a glove slot, this means you can replace getting barrows gloves sooner with a slayer helm. Dont perfecty but you will get much faster ranged/magic xp which you will need for gauntlet and cheesing bosses, barrows gloves are great but will slow your slayer down alot. essentially you can sacrafice your melee stats for better slayer, ranged and magic xp, without quests you can hit on low defence monsters all the way till nechs, even then you can use chins or burst them( dt1 also unlocks dust devils, be prepared for rune costs if you do dt1)

Love the video man. Subbed

i just started an ironman so this was helpful. i wanted to go for a TOA rush and was thinking what would be the best route. I didnt even think of the void waker.long ass grind but damn that would be so sick. I think a couple of videos of even more detailed ironman routes would be an awesome video.

Been starting this particular route. Had some very incredible luck at Revs so far as I've received a 8M Emblem and the Chainmace in under 500 kills. This has really propelled my account forward! I am currently learning the Artio stepback method so I can upgrade my mace :)

I keep coming back to this video

I getting into uim and I’m planning on going cg-> zul -> toa/gwd->cox -> everything else

450 Cg deep right now, that’s like 70 hours in. I’m deadass just as close to getting a bowfa as when I started…. I’m 6x dry at zulrah too. Not really sure what to do besides stick with it.

Yeah I watch this as a new player and idk any of what the bosses and items you just said I need pictures :(

it'd be sick if u did an in depth like guide kinda on void waker route. my ironman is 104cb and i have bowfa and almost done with cg, getting quest cape, and i have 70 slayer. i was gonna decide which way to progress my account it would be cool to see like "ok u need this much materials stored up for your void waker grind, these stats, etc." not sure if my guy is ready or not

Best part is that you can juggle between old and new methods. I see the new methods as chances to skip parts. Eventually you'll wa t to do the slayer grind but this opens more pthways along the way. As you said, mix things up to prevent burning out.

can totally agree with wildy slayer , transfered a craws bow to my zerker i build , had a slayer helm at like 49CB made like 75m from 1-82. its so good and you get so many points

Made my first ironman like a week ago. I played Osrs like the first year it was out then quit but still stayed up to date with what goes on and watched progress series for it. I’m going to try this alternate gear route because I actually thing it’s a lot faster.

I did bowfa rush after 87 slayer on my UIM, and into zulrah for magic fang. I don’t regret a single thing, recommending this path to everyone!

Tbh, this guide kind of seems like rushing bofa + extra steps. After you get a bofa, it is very very easy to grind for a zammy hasta. And magic damage doesn't really matter for TOA. Corrupted Gauntlet gives insane gp in alchables. So if the goal is rushing for Toa, Bofa + Zammy Hasta + Ivan's Blast (or w/e is bis for magic without any grind) should be the fastest route. I don't rly see the point of all this extra wilderness grind

I did the exact path you described on the GIMP but combined the original path with wildy slayer early. I got the group all the slayer items, d boots, prims, whip, tridents, occults, as well as Hydra items and have finished 99 Slay and done 2.5m over 99. Slay is just my favourite skill so no brainer for me. Only thing I would say is rev task weighting is AWFUL I'm on dr now for first weapon but honestly the amount of points I wasted getting the tasks I would consider grinding revs off task it's what I'm going to resort to now I am on rate. At this point I am on over 1k total tasks that's how many points it wasted, with efficient blocks on as well.

love to see your channel growing brother i have listened to all your videos now! keep up :D

would love to see suggested skills to train for an hardcore ironman, to make things the easiest, example teleports before clue scrolls/slayer etc! or what skill before another for benefits

This is almost exactly what I'm doing right now. 2/3 pieces of voidwaker and webweaver so far. Currently camping for the last piece and then back to rev tasks. The antipks should fund bonds for the account. Having much more fun than normal slayer.

you can still get a whip with wildy slayer too!

I'm already almost maxed and endgame on my iron but I've been grinding voidwaker and thought about this exact route. I'm banking 99 con from artio mahogany log drops. I have got a sceptre and webweaver bow in 4k Rev kills 1k ish on task. Got Dagon Hai robe bottoms which is nice for like solo cox over ahrims too. Craws/webweaver bow is actually powerful for out of wilderness content probably similar to a karils bow. I imagine zulrah would be viable with it and the sceptre Doing wildy slayer at low combat would cut down on who can attack you too I imagine someone doing this route could be a 13 Def pure or berserker to minimize how much gear they need to risk and who can attack them. Gf just started an iron but is new to the game and not a fan of pvp so not gonna suggest it to her. I've considered joining her on a group iron with this route and staying a pure to slow me down compared to a new player. Also you can delay getting high fishing because blighted food drops and maybe only need 65 for Karambwans. And I forgot to add that accursed sceptre defence draining spec could make dwh grind less important.

Great vid!

great video man, really like the theory crafting here!

you should redo this video now that there is new sceptre out and also other new quests like DT2 and potentially other paths and weapons, you last video did really well and you had great insight

this is exactly what im doing on my early game iron, people sleep on the webweaver outside of wilderness though, its actually really good.

Maybe you forgot to mention the slayer staff (e) from Wildy Slayer? Its pretty much a trident for wildy, so might be good idk?

I'm 1760TL on my first acc which is an iron, not enjoying the slayer grind at 74 rn, not sure wildy/revs is the answer (seems scary) but hey I'll give it a try :)

fire wave with tome of fire does as good as trident of the seas and only a little worse than trident of the swamp. Only problem is you need 77 runecrafting for the blood runes.

Interested to follow this guide. I was also following the ironman guide v4 from oziris. Would it be ok to first get b gloves before starting with wildy slayer? Or would you start earlier with wildy slayer? Can you give a guideline before which combat you should have certain unlocks like how to craft: slayer helm, slay ring and broad arrows? I am not sure to continue with questing before starting with wildy slayer atm.

Upon checking the dps calculator, the voidwaker is 5.15% worse at stab than a zammy hasta on TOA bosses. However, early TOAers should also consider it's a great way to get guaranteed damage via the spec, where your other options for a spec weap would be a bone dagger or dds if you don't have a bgs. It wouldn't wake baba during boulder phase and it could come in clutch at p4 warden or speed up p1.

Really great video! What would take your channel to the next level is probably some graphics. But overall, this was really informative! 🙏

Great video! Let's see if I'm brave enough to try some wilderness content and corrupted gauntlet on my hardcore 😬

Great videos man!

Very nice ideas! Like others mentioned, missing stuff like rigour, augury, occult, lance from the plan but definitely interesting options to consider if not for the best overall efficiency, great fun options. I'm following the bruhsailer guide and going for bofa before major slayer (helps with at least Vorkath head, muspah scepter, bandos, zammy hasta, demonics, shamans, metal dragons, d-pick). They haven't updated to include Toa for the bossing ladder yet so I haven't given much thought when is most helpful to do some. Cg grind is very slow and I've been doing a few things here and there with regular crystal bow with the armour. Now I feel like I can go do more fun stuff and not just wait for the cg grind to finish so thanks!

I started a uim 2 weeks ago and i was thinking about doing some wildy slayer just for a boost of points at first but this video convinced me to do it until 87 if i don't get anything good beforehand honestly maining a voidwaker would be so cool

This is so cool I'm saving this

I love yr idea very different route!

What stats would you recommend to start learning Corrupted Gauntlet though? I'm currently following your advice but curious about what stats you recommend for what part.

This sounds like a lot of fun makes me want to do it 😂

Awesome videos! what about a video with said amount of konar tasks vs same amount of wildy slayer? Would be great to compare loot then compare the keys.

I'm just going to vent about it here. Why are all good ranged boots from clue scrolls. I'm so dry I barely want to play. Can't get rangers for the pegasian crystal I've had sitting in bank and can't even get blessed boots. Full gear with shayzien boots feels wild lol

Miss you Zepa!

Great video! I would love to see a detailed expansion to this video. For now though, at what combat lvl would you start wilderness slayer?

G unit

Amazing OSRS videos

What route would you go as hcim out of curiosity? Bowfa into hasta and use the new warped sceptre potentially? Or would getting the whip/trident be just as fast?

Just an FYI “Scepter” is pronounced “septer” in english

Love the vid but the entire first quarter of it you talk about how you didn't want to do slayer, but then immediately went for wildy slayer?

On a sidenote: You will still have to do slayer eventually. Yes you can skip whip and yes you can skip trident but you cant skip occult and you cant really skip dhl either. Occult is one of the items that make shadow so insane and dhl is kinda unreplaceable on olm unless you get a scythe. Still. Occult is needed.

nice lure kid jk your recommendation makes a lot of sense, more so when I think about making an iron I wanna do phosani's nightmare and the ursine chainmace is the sweet spot between fang and bludgeon

Do you still think wildy is worth it on a low level iron with the new wilderness boss change, having to do multi until medium diary is complete seems like a pain.

"I'm so damn sick of Slayer. This is a problem. Hmmm.... I know! I'll do WILDY Slayer!"

Wait you can’t boost for trident, I had no idea … thought I was close at 80 slayer ..

By no means am I an endgame iron or even remotely close to midgame, but i started my uim (which inherently is a different approach) in early 2022 and started skilling my ass off, by may I had 99 rc, 800k blood runes, all rq for sote and many more high 80s low 90s stats, without touching combat skills apart from quest rewards and some minor quest requirements, I honestly dont know if anyone will find this helpful cause I haven't help me I don't want to skill anymore :((((((((

Would you recommend this route for new players? Not just new to ironman, new to OSRS entirely. This path seems a lot more difficult and I'm worried that if I tried I would just burn through precious supplies facing Wildy bosses I've never seen before

slayer just feels so lack luster...

funny i made an ironman 2 weeks ago and rushed for crystal bow for revs and just got the vig mace today lol

"I don't want to be a slave to slayer" "Do wildy slayer"

good idea but what about ether upkeep? almost impossible.

instead of getting a rapier from tob, it is probly better and easier to get a fang from toa

go go go zepaaaaaaaaaa nice vid

Is the classic 87 slayer > zulruh > cox still the meta in 2024?

ty friend

How does the new sceptre fit into this path?

Hey Dude, you're putting out great videos. 2 gripes I have. 1-You're missing out on rigour and augury from chambers, especially rigour is super powerful. 2-If you're gonna skip out on slayer, you will most likely be sitting in nightmare zone for extended periods of time which I'm not sure is super useful for ironmen. Othen than that, great video and I encourage you to put more pictures. perhaps from the wiki, monsters and their drop tables to spice things up.

are we turiel skipping to force rev task or are we just doing normal wilderness slayer until we naturally get rev task/naturally have lots of points for skips? Also, what do we do when we get a tough task like black demons?

Great idea, but sustaining ether for a sceptre would be awful

Love this start, am currently on the rev slayer grind portion hunting a wildy weapon since I already have trident whip I’m hoping for a craws bow to do Callisto with

How viable do you think this is for an ultimate ironman?

Great content. How did you get your UI like that?

With dt2 would this method still be the best or is there now a new route

im trying this with my uim wish me luck.

Yeah I stay clear of the wilderness. Nothing but death and pain in there

niceeeeee

2:20 *Wilderness Slayer - -

No mid ironmen can touch rev caves without losing their 100k entrance fee almost every time they go. pures are crawling there all day and all night.

VIDEO STARTS AT 3 MINUTES

Route I went and I don’t regret it. Voidwaker grind also got me 85 construction / 15m in dragon bones / heaps of supplies Got me set up pretty good

I just can't complete a toa. I fucking suck at PVM. I can do vorkath and giant mole and that's about it. 😂 I'm still rocking an obby cape at 1650ish total level.

Getting 82 smithing and crafting to create the weapons to skip having to get 87 slayer feels really weird to me

Fk the wildy bosses im a hciron, plus i hate pking and the pkers

Y'all are gonna want trusty clans for defense.

risky because im hcim

yeh im not doing wildy content

The cadence of your speech gives me anxiety for some reason, I need to see my therapist...

Dealing with PKers is complete AIDS, not worth the effort

horrible advice. goodbye 8 minutes of my life

Regular slayer for shamans, demonics for zenytes, Basilisks for Jaw, all that kinda stuff is still important to get passively as well tho. It's really a toss up. Lotta options

skepter