Never played rs3 tried it out when they made the switch and then they brought out old school and been playing ever since. Few of my buddies are telling me rs3 is good now way better then when it first came out.

What are you opinions on this.

Id have to do a complete remake as idr my old rs3 account anymore

But im interested in thoughts of anyone who has switched from osrs to rs3

Rs3 is fun for a lot of different reasons than OSRS. it has its shortcomings because its still rooted in a 17 year old system, but there are a lot of ways to enjoy the game.

Combat has been tuned a lot since EoC first released and a lot of the major issues have been dealt with. It's not perfect, but it's definitely not the abomination that EoC release was. There's also a pretty good linear progression in difficulty and mechanics as you learn the system and progress.


if you like stories and quests, then you'll really enjoy the game. there's now over 400 QPs worth of content (226 total quests, and most quests for the last decade have only been 1-2 QPs worth.

as for skilling, a lot of skills have multiple training styles available to them, rather than there being only one way to train the skill from 1-99, ranging from afk low xp rates to semi-active moderate reward rates to intensive high xp/reward rate methods.

if you're opposed to MTX stuff, I'd really recommend Iron mode. even if you're not a fan of it on OSRS, i'd recommend it on rs3. its a very different experience and offers a lot more variety of play in the early stages.

never converted from osrs to rs3, but i enjoy rs3 alot. pretty much every aspect of it is customizable to your liking.

How are skills that are really dreadful like agility and thieving in osrs?

Ultimate Ironman > rs3 hcim > p2w garbage rs3 / osrs > osrs dirthelm

agility is better than osrs, especially once you get over 70.

thieving is one of those skills that has options between high intensity/high xp to afk/moderate xp. you can pretty easily netflix and skill it to 99 right from the start, and a lot of irons do that to unlock player owned ports right away. I personally prefer getting 92 rcing at runespan first thing on an iron, because the ports rewards from runecrafting are significantly better than thieving, and double natures are really valuable to have from an early point.

one thing i really like about RS3 ironman is that there's a lot of overlap between skills. you can map out your progress in one skill in a way that benefits another. you'll continuously find yourself getting a level in X skill so that you can do something else in Y skill so that you can use its products in Z skill which will make skill A more efficient.

for example, the best way to get 99 fletching is to do rune darts or arrows from 75-99. with the new mining and smithing xp rates, overall rates for mining don't change much based on what you're mining, so you can mine runite and luminite until you have 9k rune bars. smelting and smithing those bars will get you from 50-84 smithing, kinda vaulting you up to higher tier smithing. you can then make rune arrows or rune darts. darts are a lot faster as their make X function is quicker and they need fewer feathers as well as not needing arrow shafts to be fletched. the choice comes down to whether you want invention components or GP. arrows give more GP which can then be used for other skills like summoning which require GP input, whereas darts give arguably better components.

or the crossover from mining to archaeology. you mine gem rocks for crafting xp which you then turn into necklaces for more xp, and combine them with energy harvested from divination to make porters which make gathering skills, particularly archaeology, a lot more tolerable because you don't need to bank as often.

This post was edited by Sonicgundam on May 19 2020 05:11pm

Anyone else have any input ?

Input on what specifically?

rs3 is a great game the pvm is alot of fun, much higher skill ceiling than osrs but it really just comes down to personal preference which you prefer

I would really have to disagree and say OSRS's skill ceiling is way higher. Theres nothing hard about Rs3.

Ask anyone that has experience with Rs3 and osrs solo raids, Inferno, etc. Much, much harder.

This post was edited by Semptra on May 26 2020 03:15pm