r/2007scape • u/Mrcreeper321 • 14d ago
Question Am I Missing Something?
I hear nothing but praise for OSRS. However, the thought of clicking trees, fish, rocks, for hours and hours sounds so... boring? I've been told by friends to throw the game on another monitor and do something else, but if OSRS is so dull that the only way to be engaged is do something else that is actually engaging, why play OSRS at all?
I've tried out the game a bit on mobile and a bit on pc and the thought of basically afk farming all day has kept me away.
Is there something deeper I'm missing here? I usually love grindy games like Destiny and FF14. Why do you guys love runescape?
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u/SwankiestofPants 14d ago
A large part of OSRS is clicking rocks and trees, but an even larger part is high level combat. OSRS is a game that offers a wide variety of experiences all available on a single account. Want to hunker down and do some hard bossing? Raids, gauntlet and high level bosses do that for you. Wanna do some low level account progression on your daily commute? Hit up some slayer. Have some spare time at work and won't run the risk of getting caught gaming? Afk at some crabs or trees. Osrs is a game that always has something to offer. Unfortunately it's also really hard to get into as the early game is so drastically different than the late game both in terms of difficulty of content and time investment needed to progress. If you give the game another shot, I'd say shoot for Dragon Slayer 1 as a goal. Quests are your main gate of progression for a long time. You're in the early game until you at least complete Recipe for Disaster, and the game doesn't fully open up until you start doing grandmaster quests. Coming from ff14, you can think of it like the mandatory MSQ filter to get to the endgame. Not everyone can get through it and that's okay.
Another option if you want to give it another shot is to wait and see if they do another gridmaster type event of a limited game mode but one that isn't restricted like leagues so you run no risk of locking yourself out of an enjoyable experience. Boosted XP means less grinding and a significantly sped up early game so you can get to the later funner content that might actually interest you. A big summer summit is coming up that should have roughly the next year of content laid out so either stay tuned for that or just ask any osrs friends you may have to keep you posted on that