How difficult is MA and can it be quickly learned? Also which ring is best to imbue that can be put to use almost everywhere meaning bosses, slayer, ect.. How long does it take to get the points needed to imbue and is it worth my time?

If you want to imbue fremy/onyx rings, then by the time you get to 300 rank you should be able to imbune all five rings while buying the superior locator and all the clothing.

25 hours is the set amount at 12 ranks/hour (capped by jagex)

most important is a b ring(i)

warrior has no use, onyx is 10m for +1 more bonus than dstone (i)

if you're trying to cut down on cost go with a b ring and a dstone to start, and buy more rings as you make money

How difficult is MA and can it be quickly learned? Also which ring is best to imbue that can be put to use almost everywhere meaning bosses, slayer, ect.. How long does it take to get the points needed to imbue and is it worth my time?

You can get 12 rank/h, so I'm guessing 25h of MA.

The most common strategy to quick/easy MA rank is called "suiciding". Basically you get 10 light squads and 5 cannons, then play siege mode. When the game starts, have all of your squads start attacking the wall closest to you, which will damage them. Once the game timer goes down from 30 minutes to 26 minutes (i.e. 4 minutes have passed), use your cannons to finish killing your own squads. This earns you a rank, and is decently semi-AFKable.

 

As you get more experienced you can spot ways to sometimes win the match and get 2 ranks instead, i.e. if you're up against 3 others using the same strategy, you can wait and use your cannons to help kill them off instead of yourself. However, as stated by I_am, rank gain is capped at 12 per hour.

 

Unless money is a serious issue for you, always invest the maximum number of investment credits for each game. This only costs a few million anyway. Although it's true that you get more reward per investment at higher ranks, this doesn't make up for the fact that you'll be playing 250+ games as you rank up. After you've played MA for 25 hours, the last thing you want is to have to play more because you don't have enough reward credits for what you want.

 

It should be noted that some players on siege mode use heavy squads, which means they can always win against other players who use only light squads. However, personally I don't recommend this - when you run into other players also with heavy squads (~50% of the time), you'll be in for a long game, since neither each other or the walls can kill heavy squads very rapidly.

Onyx i does have some uses. Its the best defense item for the ring slot.

 

If you're going to be mage always, seers i is pretty good, but dstone has a +1 boost over regular seers

Likewise with range. +8 is a huge boost, but dstone is still +5 *over +4 of normal archers)

Warrior is pretty useless. +8 slash a/d. Woo. Bad... and again, dstone has +5 over +4/+8

Zerker is by far the best. +8 over +4 (as onyx or dstone have str bonus). Has uses everywhere that you are meleeing. If you have a zerker, get it imbuned. You can't re-sell it, but it is an investment nonethe less.

Onyx is basically wearing a regular seers, archer, warrior and zerker (ONLY zerker's crush def) at once, with a boost. It is +6 all attack and +6 all defense, whereas the dedicated rings are +8 attack +8 defense.

 

I personally use onyx i at places where I'm using all 3 combat styles. Dag kings come to mind. fairly good accuracy boost AND a defense boost. But again, you're paying 15m for a +6 boost opver 100k for a +5 boost.

 

 

tl;dr, rings to get imbued in order:

if you're not rich: zerker, dstone, archers, seers, warrior

if you're rich: zerker, onyx, archers, seers (if you barrage lobs), no warrior

Damn thank you all, thats the most in-depth answer I've ever gotten on here! It actually gave me motivation to try it. :lol: Appreciate all the details!

One word of advice

 

Watch something while you play MA. I got through the entire seiries of Futurama while I got 300 rank and while I sold fire runes for onyx. Thiw was long before before they capped ranks/hr and disallowed selling runes for tokkul, but the basis is the same.

AFK, but not so much that you don't get 1 rank.