Ironman Dragon Slayer?
6 years ago
United States

So, a couple months ago, I ran an Ultimate Ironwoman through from character creation to Dragon Slayer completion in 12 hours and 27 minutes. A lot of improvements to be made, a lot of RNG involved, etc, etc.

I'm having trouble with motivation now and was wondering, if I can get a decent run put together for submission, can we add an Ironman category to the Dragon Slayer speed run?

Thomesh likes this
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Ooo, someone else brave enough to run UIM/IM Dragon Slayer. Was the run you did F2P or Members? I'm interested in your route.

But on the topic of getting it submitted as a category, I wouldn't have a problem setting up a F2P/Mems IM/UIM Dragon Slayer category, provided that there's at least one run of it. Probably something I could run by the other moderators and gauge their opinions on it.

By the way, assuming your run was F2P, how did you get enough money for everything?

I've tried routing F2P IM Dragon Slayer, but the run died to Melzar's Maze and I feel like money was tight. My rough route of it: https://pastebin.com/9EwG5FgY (hasn't been tested fully)

LadyRedpool likes this

If there is demand for a leaderboard then it will be created.

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So yes, I ran it F2P. In answer: I didn't need to buy a lot of things. Mithril Scimitar for training, adamant shortsword for the fight itself. Between Black Knight's Fortress and the Stronghold of Security I had enough to buy the ship and the map piece. The big thing was selling what I made while grinding mining/smithing(30/32 iirc).

I looked through your notes and noticed several things:

  1. I don't do demon slayer. On an Ultimate Ironwoman you don't have the inventory space to justify it until almost the end, and I found it unnecessary. I do Doric's quest, Knight's sword, and sheep shearer(right off tutorial island) instead. Sheep Shearer+Misthlain mystery+Goblin Diplomacy= Level 8 crafting for the unfired bowl. Demon slayer is just quest points.
  2. I don't buy the chronicle, or teleport cards. I lose some time but it's a money issue, it's too expensive for me to reliably account for and I would use it a grand total of 3 times I think for my route.
  3. My last set of notes(not updated) are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K0t7EfdKDLXcG0ou-KZwElAHaSpjoh1F6TUZqGMH7jo/edit?usp=sharing
  4. My best time was 10 hours and 45 minutes. Would have been faster, but someone interrupted my dragon fight and I had to home-tele out and come back and set it back up.
TheDarkestUno likes this
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Interesting

I look forward to seeing you post a run in the future. :)

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Yea! I can't wait to submit one! I'm actually working on a new strat which may or may not just get me killed. I do have a couple questions though, in regards to posting runs:

I know video is necessary, but does it need to be live-streamed? Asking because I'm not running fantastic hardware here, and I'm running Ubuntu on said hardware(still learning how to use it), and while I can record easily enough, streaming is a challenge.

What would you suggest for splits? I don't use the same quests and I do them in a different order than the champion's guild runs, but in general what would be some decent split guidelines I guess?

Thanks in advance!

United States

It doesn't have to be livestreamed, otherwise I couldn't do runs myself either. (Not-so-good PC as well).

Recording and having video proof is substantial enough.

As for splits, it's really up to you. I personally like them being after quest completions or after a significant block of time. (i.e. mining/smithing section, or maybe a training split).

United States

Alright, that theoretically won't kill me. I'll see if I can figure out how to get a split timer set up on linux and get running. Hopefully have something up by the end of the weekend(even if it isn't fantastic, just to get a run posted and get the category started).

Edited by the author 6 years ago
United States

Update: Ran into technical issues. Most of the split timers really don't like Ubuntu. However, I've changed/streamlined my route for this, and found a split timer that should work well enough. Unfortunately, I'm not going to get a run done tonight, so it'll happen at some point soon, just not tonight.

TheDarkestUno likes this

Recently been watching some OSRS F2P Ironman speedruns for fun, and I was wondering if you had one of an Ironman/Ironwoman doing Dragon Slayer? I would love to see it!

United States

I don't know if there is an official guide/route out there for a F2P Ironman Dragon Slayer run yet, but there definitely have been a few theory routes floating around here and there.

I don't have the links directly, but I'm sure you could ask around in the discord and see what comes up! The main problem with Dragon Slayer as a F2P Ironman are the steel nails. 33 smithing takes awfully long (1-2 hours mining alone, fighting against bots), and the other alternative is killing Moss Giants for steel bars which is more RNG based.

But yeah, I would recommend hopping on discord if you have any questions or want to discuss more about OSRS speedruns. We don't bite :)

United States

If there were a better way to get the nails, then this would already be a category probably. I've tried to find a better way to either get steel bars, or iron and coal, but there isn't a good answer as far as I can tell.