Devious also has a good sense of humour about the achievement, and takes the usual internet shellacking with grace. Another remarkable element of this achievement is that those 19,000-odd hours were logged while the player was also engaged competitively in PUBG, Call of Duty: Warzone, and other games. "That alone was insane compared to now you can just do the Runecrafting minigame." The Herblore skill on Ultimate Ironman was apparently the toughest of the lot, because it requires amassing lots of rare items in specific combinations and your character's pockets are only so big.Īs Devious would himself put it in a quick Q&A on the OSRS subreddit: "Life?: No."ĭevious produces YouTube videos about his OSRS exploits, as well as detailing his successful career in esports. "To get 99 Runecrafting, for example, you would kill around 10,000 Zulrah bosses to get 1 million pure essence and then use the essence making lava runes for 99," said Devious. Players were still feeling out the mode, and strategies that Devious would use later hadn't been discovered or weren't in the game. 19100_hours_and_85_years_later_i_have_maxed_4 from r/2007scapeĪs you might expect, the first maxed-out Ironman was the hardest, or at least took the most time, despite being technically the easiest option. Thus when the Group Ironman option was added, he decided to go for the four-piece. At the time he was racing another player to max all three, a race Devious narrowly lost. But nothing like when Ironman came out."ĭevious' played a ton of the mode and, after maxing his first Ironman account, decided to move on to the Hardcore and Ultimate modes. I also made a few of the first dragonfire shields that came into the game because my Smithing was so high, so that was cool. I was within the top 10 people to get 99 in the Smithing skill on the game's release, and around top 200 for 99 Slayer. When OSRS came out I grinded pretty hard. "I never maxed my RS3 account although it does have a lot of 99s. "I played casually when I was a kid," Devious told GamesRadar+. Maxing out one is an incredibly rare feat, and arguably not something the mode was ever designed to particularly accommodate, so the commitment here to the ways of OSRS is astounding.ĭevious has a long history with RuneScape, having got into the game as a kid, but it was the release of the Ironman mode in 2014 that tempted him back. Ironman characters are supposed to make even playing the game 'normally' a challenge. You'll have to play carefully and pick your battles if you hope to survive this - the toughest of all RuneScape challenges.Eight-and-a-half years and approximately 19,128 hours later, Devious is the first and will possibly be the only OSRS player to have maxed a Normal Ironman, an Ultimate Ironman, a Hardcore Ironman, and a Hardcore Group Ironman (which is allowed a small circle of in-game friends).
if someone else is fighting it as well)Ī Hardcore Ironman account has all of the above restrictions, with one addition: when you die to a non-safe in-game activity, your account will no longer be playable. Combat XP is reduced if you do less than 100% of the damage needed to kill an enemy (i.e.You must deal more than half the total damage to a monster before you will receive drops from it.Any group abilities or spells cast by an Ironman players will only affect the caster.No benefit will be received from group buffs, abilities or spells cast by others.Daily challenge rewards and Clan Citadel XP are reduced.Most facilities in other players' houses cannot be used.Rewards from multiplayer minigames are greatly limited.No Lootshare, except in Ironman-only groups.Ironman accounts have the following restrictions:
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