How to start RuneScape Classic? Help

[Ducky_Inc]

Hi there,

 

I'm looking forward to play RuneScape classic! Does anyone have some good guides? Im level 1 everything and a n00b. I'd like to train combat. :)

 

Where to train? How? Armour? Etc.. How im gonne do it! Im a noob in RSC!

[Ducky_Inc]

Help mE!

[evil_mumm_ra]

it's almost exactly the same as starting rs2 lol. rsc tipit go there for guides and stuff and for starting out. it's quite simple.

[quiksilver]

Chickens. Pick feathers. Sell. Advance.

[JeremyM]

Do you need members to play rsc or what? I havent been runescape in a year or two and just saw this new classic thing

[Tim]

yes its members only, Feathers dont even sell for 1gp at stores. so far, there's barely any money flowing thru the new RSC anyway so you'll simply have to start from bare scratch: make it all.

[nerdboyxxx]

Yes you need membership.

 

I've been saying that mining iron is the way to go. I got to 30 mining from 15 on iron, banked it all and stuff. Made 20K+ from all the iron ore certs I sold, and it only took a few minutes in draynor to sell the certs :)

[evil_mumm_ra]

silly me, i've been smelting the ore into bars then smithing the bars! and here i am at 40 mining having wasted all that ore on smithing. BAH.

[Teh_Miirshak]

silly me, i've been smelting the ore into bars then smithing the bars! and here i am at 40 mining having wasted all that ore on smithing. BAH.

 

No shame in that really. the money is alot slower ( since i suppose you sell your smithed stuff to the general store ) but you'll get smithing, wich is nice cause you'll be able to sell your own iron / steel sets to the lower level players soon ;) and if you're dedicated even mith! :)

 

it's how i first started rsc back in the day lol.

 

 

a good tip is also: flyfishing! low level pkers use trout and salmon as food and they buy for like 200/250 each :) i used to make some money doing that! or else lobsters :)

[quiksilver]

yes its members only, Feathers dont even sell for 1gp at stores. so far, there's barely any money flowing thru the new RSC anyway so you'll simply have to start from bare scratch: make it all.

 

Cool. I sold about 100k feathers for 700k the other day. Weird with no money flowing.

[meili]

Combat, dear. RSC isn't RS2. Don't get a pickaxe and start mining.

 

RSC is much more combat-based than RS2. To do most skills properly, you need combat levels. Just walking around many places requires combat levels. Even just going to Draynor (the nearest bank from the starting area in Lumbridge) you could randomly get killed by aggressive mobs (dark wizards).

 

Equip your starting axe, kill chickens. Cut wood and make fires to cook the meat. Move on to cows when ready (for the free food). Then kill goblins for the gp they drop. This is all near the starting area in Lumbridge.

 

When you start to need food, fish.

 

Then do Dark wizards, right near bank. Or Wizards south of Draynor bank. Then pirates in the Ice Dungeon south of Port Sarim. Then the lower level skels under Karamja. Red spiders, also in Karamja.

[evil_mumm_ra]

rsc isn't necessarily more combat based, i just did combat till like level 10 then started mining and fishing and such. i did my mining and fishing goals first before i really started working on combat. also, i sold my smithed items to the specialized stores, swords to the swords store, etc etc, more money that way. i have 40 fishing 40 mining 33 smithing 35 cooking 30 attack 20 def and 24 str all in the first 6 days of rsc being open, anything i want to do in the game right now, i can do myself. i bought full mithril from the stores and my addy longsword from the stores too. it's all about how you play, you can do combat and then buy your stuff from other players, you won't make as much money imo that way though. i'm just trying to be self sufficient on rsc right now.

[Yes_Its_Ross]

I'm going to have to go with EMR on this one. You need to be a little self sufficient to start up.

[meili]

rsc isn't necessarily more combat based, i just did combat till like level 10 then started mining and fishing and such. i did my mining and fishing goals first before i really started working on combat. also, i sold my smithed items to the specialized stores, swords to the swords store, etc etc, more money that way. i have 40 fishing 40 mining 33 smithing 35 cooking 30 attack 20 def and 24 str all in the first 6 days of rsc being open, anything i want to do in the game right now, i can do myself. i bought full mithril from the stores and my addy longsword from the stores too. it's all about how you play, you can do combat and then buy your stuff from other players, you won't make as much money imo that way though. i'm just trying to be self sufficient on rsc right now.

 

You still leveled combat first, which is exactly what I suggested. If you re-read, I actually suggested doing both skills and combat - and not stay level 3. IMO you shouldn't approach RSC from an RS2 perspective and pick up skills right away at level 3. You'll die from muggers and dark wizards when you try to bank. :P

[nerdboyxxx]

Yeah thats true, but I mined till level 30 for the cash to buy full iron, then full black. I'll start mining again to buy full mith and addy, and if I save up a heap of cash I'll buy full rune when I can. I am not really setting out to train skills, but to get some cash :). You are right about combat though, don't stay a low level. You'll get massacred like I did (lost all my money on the first day. Got killed by a scorpion on karamja. Gf me -.-).

[Ronan]

Definitely agree with the combat suggestions, although I'm focusing entirely on mining at the moment (61) and am only Level 9 Combat which is slightly contradictory.

 

It's fairly obvious though, given the nature of the 3-Round system of fighting. I couldn't mine Coal efficiently anywhere at such low combat - I had to all-out mine to get access to the Mining Guild. (Although that's fantastic at the moment, so empty! :)) Coal-trucks have bats, I can't run the Grand Tree quest as there's no chance of me getting by Jungle Spiders, let alone killing the Black Demon with Magic! :P

 

Simply buying Runes I was getting harassed by the Mugger, it's more and more evident that RSC almost requires Combat to be trained to progress! :^_^:

[meili]

You don't necessarily need HIGH combat to skill, but you do need some, IMO. :)

 

Hmmm general combat training tips for beginners:

 

In RSC you only get exp when you make a kill. Not per hit like RS2. The secret to training faster is to train on lower level npcs, preferably things that you can 2-3 hit at least.

 

Armor and weapons have a ladder type thing where every 10 levels of attack and def you can upgrade. But you might not *need* to upgrade. Why? If you are training and you can already 2-3 hit the mobs, don't bother upgrading to the next, it will probably only add +1 to your hit anyway. If the mobs aren't hurting you, same thing. Save up for rune instead of buying every single set of steel, black, mith and adam that you need. If you do buy and gp is problem, weapons are more important. If you kill them faster, you get hit less.

 

Try something fun - death train. What is death training? Have only 3 good items on you, don't bother healing. When you die you lose nothing and you can just go back to train. This is done near the respawn point in Lumbridge.

 

Barbarian Village bar is cool. There's barbarians to kill, free cooked meat, fly fishers who powerfish will sometimes drop their fish, nearly everlasting fire to cook the fish...and free beer. :)

[quiksilver]

Feels useless to write an encyclopedia about starting on RSC. The number of people who will actually follow up the guide will probably very low. I mean, who starts RSC now when there's only a few people playing? Even playing RSC as of today feels useless. I'm starting to think it was a bad idea to revive RSC, should have left it where it's been. Restain the memory at it's peak.

[evil_mumm_ra]

rsc isn't necessarily more combat based, i just did combat till like level 10 then started mining and fishing and such. i did my mining and fishing goals first before i really started working on combat. also, i sold my smithed items to the specialized stores, swords to the swords store, etc etc, more money that way. i have 40 fishing 40 mining 33 smithing 35 cooking 30 attack 20 def and 24 str all in the first 6 days of rsc being open, anything i want to do in the game right now, i can do myself. i bought full mithril from the stores and my addy longsword from the stores too. it's all about how you play, you can do combat and then buy your stuff from other players, you won't make as much money imo that way though. i'm just trying to be self sufficient on rsc right now.

 

You still leveled combat first, which is exactly what I suggested. If you re-read, I actually suggested doing both skills and combat - and not stay level 3. IMO you shouldn't approach RSC from an RS2 perspective and pick up skills right away at level 3. You'll die from muggers and dark wizards when you try to bank. :P

 

well, if you want to get technical i did woodcutting and firemaking first, i just didn't do much of it :D combat is definitely needed for most people during the start, personally i've never been attacked on the way to or from a bank yet, although i remembered my rsc days of dying from dark wizards and such :P

[meili]

Those dark wizards are killers! It's so cruel to put them where noobs will go lol. I wonder how many people started RS then quit at level 3 because they died to the highwayman?

[evil_mumm_ra]

man, when i first started back in the day and i met a highwayman i was already a higher level (i didn't know port sarim existed for ages) but i was still like "wtf stop attacking me" cause i didnt' realize right away it was an npc.

[Emmentail]

Never try to kill a wizard when you're level 3. That upset me as a noob on rsc... Haha! I'm currently combat 72, veteran on it. Hardly any items though, some nice person gave me a rune plate and 60k cash. :)

 

Meili, would you suggest a Dragon B'axe or a Longsword, and also Runechain & Klanks / Runeplate?

[evil_mumm_ra]

personally i say go with the dbaxe because all weapons have the same speed, just wear an ammy of accuracy or something to offset the accuracy and power of it, even them up a bit. as for chain vs plate, i have no clue, i never wore a rune plate in rsc, lol.

[meili]

Never try to kill a wizard when you're level 3. That upset me as a noob on rsc... Haha! I'm currently combat 72, veteran on it. Hardly any items though, some nice person gave me a rune plate and 60k cash. :)

 

Meili, would you suggest a Dragon B'axe or a Longsword, and also Runechain & Klanks / Runeplate?

 

Everyone who can uses d b'axe because it's far better to hit higher so you can kill your enemy faster to avoid getting hit and get faster exp. However, I suppose if you notice you hit a lot of 0s, you can switch to a weapon with more accuracy (dlong). Rune chain+gaunts is what pures wear because rune plate requires magic levels to equip. Chain+gaunts for more hitting power and plate for defense.

[Shangdi]

I quit after I died to a level 53 ogre near Yanville (some high levels escorted us over White Wolf) and lost my iron large.

 

Maybe now that I have an inkling of what to do I might go back...