Stuck in the early game (Medium Combat Achievement rewards, JAD, Skilling)

[viral obsidian]

Hello!

I'm a GIM who's group quit.

I'm struggling to find a few tasks to focus on. My 3 main goals at the moment are 1.) Get JAD cape (I think I have the stats, and gear, but IDK if i have the supplies. I have 200 prayer pots no sara brews, restores or their blighted versions, but I have ancient magics).
2.) Medium Combat Achievement complete, but I'm struggling to find another 39 points without wilderness tasks (I'm thinking about Entry TOA and regular TOA for a lot, but I don't know if I have the stats/gear), Dag Rex, and Royal Titans (don't have friends). TOB if some rando's will carry me.
3.) Stats for hard Mort and western province for diary.

Are my current stats too low for my plan? Should I do something different?

[grizzled star]

Honestly, it sounds like a lot of detours to avoid going for sote and bowfa 😛

lots of the methods you have in your list are pretty bad

[vital nymph]

Daily reminder to keep up with farming contracts

[viral obsidian]

Brother. That's why I'm asking. I started this 2 months ago after not playing since like 2008

[grizzled star]

in short: skip barrows, dont do GF for smithing, do bstaves for money and do BF gold for smith

[vital nymph]

Green drags for piety

[grizzled star]

for prayer go kill green drags in wildy

shards are bad

dont touch slayer at all really

bwans are your main food, dont need monkfish

elite void is good, but thats for chinning to get 92 range

def wouldnt buy slayer ring this early

black mask is good yeah

dont need to worry about mory hard or med combats

fire cape isnt a rush

you can just wait till bowfa

you can do mahog homes to 70 for plank sack and sote reqs

as for gear, need to go get bring

[tardy linden]

Hi! I think your account is progressing nicely, though I'd say you are squarely in the early game and not the midgame. I recommend focusing on farming and questing, with the medium term goal of going for Song of the Elves, piety and 80 hunter

Your melee stats are well ahead of some of your supporting skills, and I'd avoid combat for a while to let those catch up

Also sorry if I overlooked it, but do you have a berserker ring (i)? The three big melee upgrades of the early game are b ring (i), piety and thralls.

[viral obsidian]

Stuck in the early (Medium Combat Achievement rewards, JAD, Skilling)

Stuck in the early game (Medium Combat Achievement rewards, JAD, Skilling)

[viral obsidian]

Hello, no I do not have B ring I was thinking about camping Drex. I've been running Perilous Moons the last ~week since I unlocked it doing 5ish per day trying to get bone shards, orbs and gear upgrades. I haven't unlocked thralls yet. SOTE and Arc spell book were on my radar, but even if i did them my only experience with gauntlet was Grid master where I completed it prob ~20 times with 90-92 ranged and i think only 2 or 3 of the combat unlocks. I assumed i'd need like 90+ ranged before I really attempted CG, and may have not seen the value in doing it before then.

[grizzled star]

unfortunately, perilous moons isnt that great either

[tardy linden]

I think CG is a good longer term goal but not immediately relevant

[grizzled star]

and you can easily get 92 before cg with chinning

but yeah, working to SotE itself is gonna take a while

[tardy linden]

Barrows and Moons are really popular content but, in my opinion, total bait. If you enjoy it go for it, but it won't really progress your account.
Also if you go for moons, absolutely get a berserker ring, thralls and piety from green dragons first (in that order). They will make a massive difference

I would personally move away from the bone shards training asap

[viral obsidian]

It seems silly to say, but there is too much to do.

[tardy linden]

More generally though this is kind of the opposite of not doing much combat for a while 😅

[tardy linden]

yep, its a huge game and getting much bigger in 2.5 days

[viral obsidian]

Thanks for the info, guys. I'll work on those.

[brittle radish]

Hey brother. I see you say this often. My question is … When you need good range or mage gear and you are coming from rags (blue mystic and black d’hide)… and you are considering going for quest cape or other hard bosses with sub 90 stats… why is barrows or moons a bad idea?

What do you use for range and mage gear before ancestral Virtis? You go straight from blue mystic to these end game grinds?

[vital nymph]

Crystal, bloodbark

[brittle radish]

Ok, so to grind 92+ range which is recommended for CG grind, you do that in black d’hide?

Blood bark good alternate for sure, way less time spent I suppose

[vital nymph]

You don't even get black in meta progression, you chin from 60 with void

You just scrape by with whatever needed for early range, msb if you have to for stuff like kingdom divided

[brittle radish]

👌

[blazing haven]

I did the catch chin -> throw chin in mm2 -> cg route. 93 range with full crystal and bowfa now and have never equipped black d hide, rune cross bow, or an MSB. Getting quest cape soon though so I’ll at least use RCB for some of those.

You throw chins in elite void

[somber jackal]

I used a yew/magic shortbow for early questing with any range gear I could find

[tardy linden]

As others pointed out ranging is kind of just a bad skill early. You make it sound like you need some way to utilise it. Actually it's good to just ignore it until you make this big chins push. The meta is to not use ranged at that stage.
If you want to use it anyway, and many people do, black dhide and a shortbow are perfectly serviceable. But the more you try to use ranged the worse off you are at that stage of progression

There isn't much mage gear, period. Ahrim's, bloodbark and blue moon are very similar so you can pick one of those and it'll be good for a long time. Bloodbark is recommended as it's much faster to get than the other two since rc is good on its own, but many people enjoy going for one of the other two sets. Just make sure you check the numbers - barrows and moons become a LOT faster later, and the mage gear isn't that useful early, and the other items from the minigames are pretty lousy, and the coupon collector rates are deceptively unfriendly.

[shy jay]

Worth noting that coupon collector doesn't apply to moons due to dupe protection, it's a lot faster to greenlog

[somber jackal]

it's faster than full ahrim but still quite slow compared to bloodbark especially early on

assuming you were going to get the rc level anyways ofc

[lyric niche]

yea blue moon isn't totally insane to get especially if you care about master clues, it is just moderately slower than bloodbark. ahrim's on the other hand is hardcore trolling, as is trying to get any specific barrows item thanks to how beyond horrible the per-item rates are

[viral obsidian]

https://youtu.be/Y_AjFOmrktY?si=2SowdhT0jB6zoNsq

it’s like he knew I needed help.

[lyric niche]

hmm, i wonder how good this guide will be 🤔

[muted terrace]

rice cup has done a similar video that also covers game mechanics

https://i.imgur.com/4BK0ZXj.jpeg
i dont think this is late game lol

[vital nymph]

lmao I was just about to send the same pic

[muted terrace]

end game doesnt even have cox prayers lol

[brittle herald]

blood moon late game

[viral obsidian]

Main thing I took out of it that wasn’t previously mentioned for recommendations was to do Royal Titans for prayers before I go for SoTE, farming another ~6k chins and sit CG.

Videos on YouTube seem to define early/mid/late/end game differently depending on who I’m watching. What’re some channels you’d recommend?

Current plan B ring, thralls, piety. Some Moons and Titans while skilling for SoTE, probably 80 hunter getting the chins I need, MM2 CG after prayers from titans and 92 range.

Is regular gauntlet worth doing if I’m under leveled for CG?

Lmk if I should make any more changes or something else I should prioritize/add.

[grizzled star]

Thats cause titan prayers arent worth it for what you said youd use em for

Tbh pretty much all YouTube creators are content focused and I wouldnt recommend much of any of them for any sort of progression guide

[viral obsidian]

No titan prayer for CG?

[grizzled star]

Lots of them are good for mechanics and stuff for specific bosses

[grizzled star]

Nope, not worth it

You save barely any time that you waste by doing titans with rags

[pale forge]

Bowfa good at titans

[viral obsidian]

So im doing titans after CG for… staff?

[grizzled star]

No for prayers

The prayers are good

Getting then for CG/Chinning is not

[viral obsidian]

K but you all have to call me a gamer in a couple months when I kill them.

[grizzled star]

I mean its not hard to kill them without bowfa

Just a waste of time

[lyric niche]

bowfa and hasta that bowfa enables you to get quickly

oh dear this video fell for the steel ring trap

dawg where the fuck is zerker ring 😭

bro is in full oathplate+infernal and wearing suffering

diabolical

i'm not gonna listen to all 23 minutes of this but based on that alone i'm gonna say there is probably a lot more bad advice in this guide

OK he does mention zerker at 12 minutes

but it's a very brief mention with a "you may want to get this"

i've never seen such a good item get disrespected so badly

[onyx star]

Would hasta be straight after getting bowfa or maybe Im wait on def lvls or with door method maybe stams?

Wud stams be needed at around 75 agil?

[tardy linden]

You don't need stams or def levels, but get a task

[onyx star]

Worth getting ancient icon ?

Befote it for blood spells

[tardy linden]

I don't think it's necessary

[visual lantern]

If you’re talking blood scepter that’s budget muspah, probably without teles into budget vard again without teles, to potentially overheal 7hp/kill

[lyric niche]

might just mean sceptre for the 5%

[onyx star]

Yh

Was referring to this for extra 5percent

[viral obsidian]

17 kc for black mask and 79 kc for zerker ring 😄

[viral obsidian]

For those with the spoon emoji... it was clearly a skill issue, and I deserved that item. I'm sure I wont pay for this in CG 😂

[opaque raptor]

Just an FYI Kaoz is someone who shit talks Ironman mode, and has literally admitted to buying bonds bit by bit, month over month to aford his megarares. Dude is a complete clown and I would not listen to any of his advice

[glacial matrix]

late game LMAO

thats a good one

bro rocking an accumulator steel ring and titan prayer and calling it lategame he has to be trolling

[cedar dust]

Lol finally made it to early game calls it late game

[lyric niche]

it gets worse

infernal, full oathplate, rancour, suffering

[prime schooner]

Hey, wanted to check in and see how you feel your account is progressing now.

I wanted to advocate for less of the big milestone items and more of the chores or grindy ones. The impact that keeping on top of your farming contracts, bird houses and herb runs on keeping your supplies high is very understated.

The easiest way to go dry on an item is to go dry on the resources you need to grind it out!

Happy scaping and feel free to hit me up if you're looking for duo content

[viral obsidian]

It is getting slightly annoying doing the daily chores. Gotta do my tree runs, kill Hesporia, check my farm contract, do some herb runs, put off doing my bird runs and seaweed runs, spend my wages at Varrocks battle staves. Since I’m not doing Moons anymore I don’t have powered orbs I’m getting passively so every few days I gotta do an hour of charging orbs. I’m trying to get my slayer mask, and spending some time doing mahogany homes and mastering mixology for SoTE and MM2.

[tardy linden]

Good news:

• Daily staves arent a thing. I dont know why you are doing this. If you enjoy it, go for it. It sounds like you do not though?
• Herb runs aren't important
• Tree runs don't need to be done daily, and should only take a few minutes if you do them so often
• Seaweed is done in a few weeks, it's a joke in the community that people say they 'have their seaweed banked' because it's so fast it really doesn't matter
• It sounds like you're actively doing regular moneymaking. You wouldn't happen to be pissing that away at miscellania, right?
• Mahogany homes aren't considered good after level 70 cons, so even if you aren't quite there yet you should be done very shortly
• Mixology is only good after 81 herblore, very nice that you got such a high level already!

[viral obsidian]

I’m a poor man and think of it as 138k I’m leaving on the table everyday I don’t buy battlestaves, until I can get reliable money from CG and bossing. I assume I need a bunch of money for planks.

I still need 70 herbalore. From my herb runs I’m mostly making super attk/str/def/energy/restore and prayer/prayer regen potions because I assume I’ll need them eventually anyways.

I just hit 70 over the weekend so I stopped doing daily at least for now.

I don’t have strong feelings about seaweed runs but I’ve been real inconsistent with my birdhouse/seaweed runs since I hit 72 hunting like a month ago.

I have spent some money at Miscellania (probably like 3-4 mil since I unlocked it a couple months ago) but it was mainly to get supplies for 70 herb, 70 construction. Now that I’m close to the stat requirements for SoTE I haven’t thrown much into it for like a week or so. All my money is tied up in battle staves ATM

I almost have enough teak to get me to 70 from MH. I assume after I get 70 construction I just WC at fossil island? But idk if I teak or mahogany? The online guides say teak but 🤷‍♂️ the guides I find aren’t consistent with the comments/recommendations here.

I need 4 more levels for herbalore and I’m out of quests to get herb xp or get lamps I can reasonably do. While guthix sleeps and sins of the father are the only two that stand out to me that I haven’t done. So I guess… thankfully all that money I spent at miscellania gave my enough Irit, Tarromin, harrlander etc to get me across the finish line. 😂

[tardy linden]

Stop buying battlestaves. The daily is only a 14 gp discount per staff over the regular shop. You are not missing out on anything by not buying them

Seaweed and bird houses aren't related. Bird runs are really good. Seaweed you just knock out whenever

Definitely do not spend money at misc on herblore. Misc is mostly for cons, with 5 workers on anything you like (admittedly, 5 herb is fine). I'm afraid you might have really made life a lot more difficult for yourself than it had to be

[lyric niche]

bstaves can be shopscaped whenever you want, the daily doesn't do anything other than save you some world hopping

zero need to obligate yourself to do it

herb runs do need to be done, but they're gated by seeds, not by actually growing the herbs. farming contracts are the "daily" (hourly) chore that actually matters when it comes to herblore

super sets and energy pots become a non-issue pretty quickly, so you should probably focus on making whatever gives you the best herb xp unless you are actively running out of something

and prayer regens are very niche, don't waste your time doing shitty pre-81 mixology to stock up on them

[viral obsidian]

I had no idea there was little difference in the daily bstaves purchase.

I'm mastering my mixology just to get to 70 ATM for SoTE. I simply do not have the seeds/herbs to get ~1300 Cadantine, snapdragon, and kwuarm to get from 67 to 70. After that I'll stop until 81.

I was looking at while Guthix sleeps and IDK if it's out of my capability ATM. Have a few quests I'll need to do before it's unlocked. For sins of the father I'll have to do the 2 quests leading up to it.

Thanks for the info, guys.

[somber jackal]

If you want you could have a look into the farming guide in #1052266500041478246 . Maybe you can improve something, especially contracts can be vastly improved with the right preplants

[tardy linden]

Not having seeds is normal. That's why early contracts are so important. You will forever be out of seeds, they are much slower to obtain than to grow. If you want to train herblore, and not do bad methods like pre-81 mixology, the only viable long term plan is to unlock steady sources of herb seeds.

[pastel brook]

Toa cas are pretty easy

[ripe steeple]

I’m a slow progressor but I’m enjoying the ladlor chart as a guideline. Classic caveat is if you’re enjoying a piece of content (moons, whatever) then do your thing, but if you’re looking at progression getting your skills into SOTE shape is probably a good way to narrow down your options in game. Contracts are always good if you don’t have direction and then go from there into your skills

Miscellania always felt like an easy solution to herbs and planks but is probably way less expensive to cut your own teaks and spend your money on something else. Otherwise you could get into the sepulchre if you want to tunnel deep

[grizzled star]

Misc is just bad for herbs

But is good for hardwood

[tardy linden]

Hunter rumours, moonlight moths and shards are all really slow methods

if you enjoy them go for it, but none of them are a recommended training option

yes

[spiral pine]

Cox has 20 odd pts of super easy CAs you can mop up in an hour. I'm way lower combat level than you and I got my mediums the other day.

Obor and bryo should also be easy pts to get there.

[ornate cipher]

This is why I always suggest people read the BRUHsailer guide before hating on guided play. They usually end up boxing themselves into bad situations and getting frustrated with the game.

My brother actually did the exact same thing.

“Go to Wintertodt”

“No I’m getting a fire cape”

speeds through quests and gets to DT1 without magic logs or the level to get them
proceeds to spend hours chopping to 75

🫠

[viral obsidian]

I’ll take a look at his guide. There’s so many written guides/video gear progressions with conflicting info. An example being blast furnace and giants foundry.

Buying gold ore at the blast furnace doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Idk how much money y’all got but it seems wasteful where I’m at currently to spend that kind of money there. I blasted about 2k gold bars, 800 Mith and 1k-1.5k steel bars that I got from motherlode but I had to spend a decent amount of levels to get to 70 at giants. I still don’t know WTF to do with the gold bars. Do I make cannon balls? Do I make bracers and alch? Do they just sit there?

Coming from being semi sweat on wow to this, outside looking in, you got a bunch of super sweaty/high skill or XPph guides and a bunch of shit ones and I probably spent a bunch of time doing shit ones and sometimes I can’t do the sweat ones due to skill/gear.

I thought I was a gamer, but I died at Klaus like 5 or 6 times in phase 2 on sins of the father because the guides I found didn’t mention a stat reduction, and I didn’t notice the first two attempts. None recommended ring of efaritay but suggested explorers 4.

I got the stats for SoTE now, but I’m probably going to do mage training 1 and 2 so I can have some extra magic attack. (I did a couple more moons and got blue helm, and chest to go with the staff. So it should make it easier)

In a previous comment when I was sub 70 herb I suggested I might do the while guthix sleeps quest. After watching some videos and doing sins of the father, I do not have the stats/supplies to even attempt it.

I’m not trying to come across as just bitching but it’s hard out here for a no main first time Ironman. I appreciate everyone’s input on guiding me to the mid game.

[muted terrace]

For smithing and construction it’s either spend gp and save time or spend time and save gp. Gold bars either sit in bank or you alch them (for magic xp not gp) some people make them into diamond bracelets and alch them but I don’t think I’ll ever do that unless they update how you make jewelry lol. And a lot of YouTube guides are made by people that look like this

[grizzled star]

There is a lot of bad information out there for sure, bruhsailer is one of the few pieces where the information is well researched and thought out and I fully trust it, so when in doubt check it out

As for GF vs BF, this is a common theme across multiple methods

Its typically always faster to make GP and do a better method, than to do a bad method

Also another trap is feeling that you need to do something with every item you get/make, some stuff is just trash that you made for XP and thats fine

Gold bars are actually pretty good in that they can be used for jewelry and alching

[lyric niche]

note: good for making certain kinds of jewelry
anything that you'll actually use (teleports and such) is good
ruby and diamond bracelets to alch are good, but anything below that isn't really worth making to alch
plain gold items are especially a big waste of time

gold bars are one of several items that every iron eventually ends up with a giant stack collecting dust in the bank, because you will never use as many as you need to make to level smithing, and processing all of them isn't worthwhile, but you don't wanna drop them either because you do need a few here and there
at your stage though you can go through quite a few by alching them for magic xp, they're roughly break-even with the cost of natures so they're good alch fodder

[brittle radish]

I feel you on this. 20 yr wow veteran, and I’m now 1970 TTL level, all quests completed, all hard diaries done. I feel like I just went through your struggle.

TLDR is this. This discord is for max efficiency. Not really geared towards first play through. Same with Ironman skilling methods discord. Almost nothing is a “waste” of time on an Ironman, because almost always you’ll end up using the materials or whatever XYZ thing you did that was inefficient. Also, you may be like me and play alot of mobile, and not a lot on Runelite, so that changes things as well.

As you progress maybe 1-2 years into the future when you have near max combat stats, and you are heavy into bossing, you will come across many supplies, items, etc that make your skilling journey more efficient etc. or maybe you don’t have GP now but you will in the future.

Anyways, all this to say… Do what you have fun doing brother. If it’s your first play through… just do what you enjoy, don’t burn yourself out doing the max efficiency stuff. (Just my 2 cents or less)

[lyric niche]

the flipside of all that is that being clued into efficient strategies can help prevent burning yourself out on shitty grinds that could have been done in a less shitty way

if you're some unfortunate soul sinking dozens of hours into barrows for full ahrim's, learning that you can just get bloodbark instead is liberating

[barren ridge]

It’s less about inefficient stuff not being useful (though sometimes that is the case) and more about the opportunity cost of not doing the efficient stuff

[lyric niche]

or maybe you really really like barrows and just keep doing it instead 😅

[barren ridge]

All a matter of perspective, though. I didn’t care much about efficiency at first, and as I progressed, I found the grinds getting longer and longer and so I wanted to make progress more quickly

[lyric niche]

was the same for me

[barren ridge]

And I still pick and choose what I do and don’t do efficiently, but I always like to know what the efficient option is (and preferably at least give it a try) before ruling it out preemptively

[glacial matrix]

hey im almost max gear and i didnt do anything from the guides, i pretty much did whatever i felt like and i didnt run into any mayor issues

the cool thing is if you play for long enough all the problems resolve themselves

the only thing i can recall hurting my progression where pray pots( didnt do any contracts or did sep)

but u get a lot of those from pvm so the problem kind of fixes itself

so if ur gonna be here for the long run yeah just do whatever

[valid ether]

i usually avoid efficient methods as an AFK gamer but blast furnace gold is just so much better than every other smithing method i would never do anything else.

[scenic vault]

This is the way I approach the game, I've got no problem choosing to do something inefficient for fun, but at the same time it's actually kinda fun giving the sweaty stuff a try, there's definitely things I wouldn't have found without the guide that I ended up enjoying e.g. hallowed sepulchre, artefact thieving multiskilling

[brittle radish]

I’m not opposed to the efficient stuff, hands why I’m in this discord. All I’m saying is that for your first play through, 1.5t manipulation and intense multi skilling following a 350 point road map on where to go and what to do at every turn, can be very over whelming.

I think if people just do what they find fun, and mix in some efficient progress… that’s the best combo

[viral obsidian]

For final boss on SoTE if i have plenty of blighted food should I do it on a pvp world, or is using redemption with extra prayer pots better? Or I could get my fishing up 3 more levels to get haddock.

[digital citrus]

phoenix necklace method

[viral obsidian]

I saw that one, but thought that was a weird one. It's better than overheals?

[tardy linden]

Yes

[daring spear]

for your ref #1052267908723654706 message

[viral obsidian]

Tomorrow marks one month since I solicited your expert opinions. I have made this much progress. Just finished SoTE and completed my first Gauntlet, medium CA were completed semi-unintentionally, slayer helmet, Berserker ring, almost 70 prayer (need about another 150 dragon bones)

I think my main goals now are to get 70 prayer, a kingdom divided, 69 slayer for MM2 so I can chin, farm chins, work towards corrupted gauntlet, probably JAD Maybe some hard western diary for elite void.

I'm not going to admit publicly how many times I died before I killed Seren.

[ripe steeple]

Let’s goooo! My goal is to bang out SotE before 2026 and this is a nice burst of inspo.

[viral obsidian]

Good luck!

I think I went in with 10 phoenix necklaces, 4 prayer pot (4), 2 strawberry baskets, ~14 belledona. The times I died I didnt even use a phoenix necklace, because I got the timing off. If i were to do it again i would have brought 6 prayer pots and lost the pizzas so i could keep mystic up the whole time. I used blood barrage until the end of 2nd special, and then switched to ice barrage after. I used a strawberry if my hp fell below 20.

I kid you not the last 2 full rotations of special attacks I missed so much i think it started and ended with the same HP. On the 2nd special of the last incomplete rotation of special attacks (right before her heal) is when i killed her. It was so close. I think I could have ate my pizzas and used a rest to get one more rotation if i didn't get the kill when I did. Ibans blast probably would have been a better call than blood/ice barrage because my max hit was only like ~20 or 21 with the +%magic I had.

Also took my like 4-5hrs from start to finish in one day. I took a couple breaks, but the no stamina potions for the puzzle I think took me like 1.5hrs.

[ripe steeple]

Planning on Ibans and carrying more food, I have stackable nightshades so should be okay. How many necklaces did you end up using ? 10 seems like a lot

[viral obsidian]

I used all 10, but I think i just got bad RNG for like a minute straight with a bunch of misses

[tardy linden]

if you're using ibans it might be good to make some guthix rests

[viral obsidian]

This was my drip

[ripe steeple]

I’ll plan on that. First loop I should be shields down so I can be knocked low on health right ? And then just maintain so I’m above like 15 before I pop necklace

[tardy linden]

there's a guide in the faq

[viral obsidian]

I dont think the rock cake works when you get tp'd, put on the necklace and then eat to reduce hp. I tried like 3 times using the rock cake to trigger the heal and died

[pale forge]

Ye rock cake won’t queue damage if you already have damage queued

[digital citrus]

Make sure to not neglect farming and ya u need elite void for chins anyways so good goal gl

[viral obsidian]

What time should i shoot for in regular gauntlet before I beat my head into corrupted gauntlet? I got 12 clears and I'm doing them in 10 minutes getting full T2, perfected weapons 3 pots and full food.

[muted terrace]

getting t1 will knock off time, really only need 2 pots as well

[viral obsidian]

That did shave a couple minutes off.

[spiral crest]

don’t need to shoot for a time, I would just do all of the regular CAs and you’ll be ready

[barren ridge]

I'd just jump into CG now. Not really worth putting off any longer than you have to

You can always go back and do regular CAs later, which will probably be a waste of time when you haven't mastered the content yet

[viral obsidian]

82 ranged 78 magic 74 defense enough for it with t1?

[grizzled star]

Yeah

Ranged being higher would be good tho

[barren ridge]

Yeah I'd get ranged up as a learner

Makes it tougher than it needs to be when you're learning, and you'll want a high ranged level to get the most out of the bowfa once you get it anyway

[cedar dust]

Once u do gauntlet once u should just start cg

[viral obsidian]

I'm sure no one thought to themselves over the past 3 months. "I wonder if that ironman gave up?" I did not. I have been grinding less, but I just sent a CG after not playing for a few days (previously tried and failed ~15 times over the last few months).

Major accomplishments/gear: Robin Hood hat, full blue moon, enough teak to get to 80 construction once I complete DS2 and have enough gold, 2 Glory ammies

Major setbacks: dying in wildy with muh dragon bones.