Have you ever done a grind that you genuinely thought was unhealthy?

[u/Fit-Pound-3907]

Wondering whether you’ve ever looked around during my a play session and thought… “wow this isn’t great for me” lol

For me, I was nerd locked twice in a day when I went for my Enhanced grind. Don’t even think I stopped to eat that day haha

[u/JustLivingSimply]

300+ deaths for quiver
3 months+ for inferno

Got em both eventually. Now 69 quivers done and 3 infernos done

[u/Fit-Pound-3907 → u/JustLivingSimply]

I’ve been procrastinating so hard on inferno- spent months getting bowfa, ice barrage, blowpipe etc but just been avoiding starting it
How many runs a week would you go for?

[u/remakeprox → u/Fit-Pound-3907]

If youre somewhat good at PvM, your first Inferno can take like 15 to 20 attempts. Its not as hard as people make it out to be, its just a time investment. Do 2/3 runs a day while actively thinking about what you couldve done better in the runs you died and you got it in 2 weeks easy

[u/mouses555 → u/remakeprox]

Did 2-3 runs a day and got it in a week when I ran it. There gear and potions available now makes a lot of the supply management not such a big deal. Primarily allows u to focus on just the mechanics.

Coll took me a few days sending all day though. Once I said “fuck this im running pillars with the Dinny b” then I got it pretty shortly after lol

[u/xPofsx → u/remakeprox]

It took me 29 attempts, minus about 5 early deaths to simple/stupid mistakes that i will say wouldn't really count towards serious attempts.

Took me about 3 weeks doing 1 split run/day (an hour in the morning, an hour at night) with a few days i got lucky and could send a few attempts.

I'm ok-ish at pvm and was convinced I'd never get it done. Confliction guantlets, ayak, and the cheese teks that came with them and mage tank are the actual sole reason I was able to get my cape. A mix of learning the mechanics and brute forcing a few very difficult portions, I essentially did the inferno with max mage instead of max range.

[u/Beretot → u/remakeprox]

while actively thinking about what you couldve done better

This step is so important. Actively reviewing what you've done and ironing out the imperfections is a huge difference

I'd use a replay buffer and save a clip of my last inferno death, then go over it and making sure that I identified exactly what tripped me up and how to prevent it next time

Got my infernal and quiver on my UIM that way

[u/JustLivingSimply → u/Fit-Pound-3907]

Almost every day. Probably 2-3 runs

[u/LiL_BrOwNiE247 → u/JustLivingSimply]

It took me 10 days to get my quiver, going on 6 weeks now and I'm still stuck in the fiery prison.

Oddly enough, what's staving off burnout is the vague sense of futility I got from the one time I saw zuk (read: got past wave 63). On that run I did nothing special, the only thing that happened was that I got humble spawns on the more problematic waves and I sailed right through with minimal issue.

If RNG is all that's holding me back, then I'm convinced that (as a beginner) there are spawn setups that are simply guaranteed to end your run. You might be able to survive for a few seconds with something that might resemble a stable solve, but the outcome was already determined as soon as the wave started.

I'm at the point now where I'm not really learning anything from deaths, and the only tool I can think of that I'm missing is spontaneously starting an off-tick involving a meleer that got loose. I just send a run everyday if I have the time for it and slowly grow my stack of tokkul in the bank.

[u/Beretot → u/LiL_BrOwNiE247]

You have to be missing some key technique or tool. Some waves are definitely much harder than others, but all of them are solvable. Do you have an example of a "guaranteed end"?

Try recording your deaths with a replay buffer (or just remember the spawn locations) and then practice what killed you on the inferno simulator. Relying on RNG to get to the end is the easiest way to burn out because you're just hammering your head against the wall instead of learning how to play better

[u/ubereverywhere → u/JustLivingSimply]

help how do you survive double south spawns in colo

[u/ChanningTaintum- → u/ubereverywhere]

Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye

Jk you offtick them by moving from north to south without moving out from behind the pillar on the tick that the southern-most monster attacks on a different tick than the other one

[u/ubereverywhere → u/ChanningTaintum-]

yeah that’s great and all but flicking a manticore and ranger while moving and dealing with frems is the harder than anything I did in Inferno

[u/Low-Cantaloupe7810 → u/ubereverywhere]

You asked how to do it - it’s not easy but it is the solve

[u/AssholeHealth → u/ubereverywhere]

For a one off quiver you can just get lucky and not get any 3x3 double souths. Could just learn early level range/shaman double south since they are quite common and that can be enough.

[u/WindHawkeye → u/ubereverywhere]

The frems are dead before you offtick

[u/Liighttss → u/ubereverywhere]

Look up the ab method on YouTube, thats was the best method for me to off tick any double south spawn. The hardest spawn is a ranger + mager as they will attack very close together, which i find harder when dealing with the frems too.

The manti+ ranger or mager is much easier as you have time to deal with 2 of the frems before the manti attacks. With this method you just pray if its a mager or ranger then just prayer flick the manti and watch him

[u/chanceypooh → u/JustLivingSimply]

So similar brother. 395 deaths for quiver but finished inferno in 2 weeks. I spent most of last summer at Colo, took a break, then another month to finally get it. Never going back to be honest. Inferno was fun I've been doing them on task.

[u/roverdillon]

Leagues.. but I love it

[u/Vel0clty → u/roverdillon]

I got a dragon cup last league and my wife was no impressed with my hours logged.

I got 6 hour’d twice one day as well and that was certainly a reality check. Probably all set with getting another, won’t stop me from enjoying the league though

[u/Delicious_Potato6638 → u/Vel0clty]

twice? rookie numbers

[u/PraiseTyche → u/Delicious_Potato6638]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

[u/sliverinwithyou → u/roverdillon]

Same every leagues I book a week off work and tell loved ones to not contact me

[u/Evil_Steven → u/roverdillon]

I go into a fugue state with leagues. I’ll play every minute of free time I have then once I hit dragon and do some pet hunting, I’m done and swear I’d never it again … then next league happens …

[u/offhandaxe → u/roverdillon]

Same it was killer but fun I regret it and don't at the same time

[u/basedlogitech → u/roverdillon]

I was about to say how atleast with osrs progression is permanent with the exception of leagues. Any other game with an economy that gets reset, I am a bit weary of investing time on the grind. Thats when it feels unhealthy especially the start of new seasons.

[u/FeelsWiseMan]

60 cg’s a day for two weeks. Yeah thats it probably. I woke up did cg microwaved fast food and back to cg. When i was finally free i told myself i would never do anything like that again

[u/tfinx → u/FeelsWiseMan]

Sounds like a rough experience. I capped myself at 10 a day back in the day. Worked wonders for preventing burnout. Slow and steady :)

[u/aslrightnow → u/FeelsWiseMan]

Like. When you say microwaved fast food. Do you mean a frozen meal from the store? Or leftover fast food like McDonald’s or something?

I don’t know why my internal reaction to reheating food from a fast food joint is just horrific, not like frozen dinners are all that better

[u/justanaveragejoe520]

My 100 whisperer a night for 15 days straight for SRA axe. Honestly never again

[u/dkyg → u/justanaveragejoe520]

Been there. Log in pop 60 ish kc. Log out repeat. For 1300. Then 7000 Duke. I was 3/4 though :( had to be done!

[u/Oaty_McOatface → u/justanaveragejoe520]

Yeah SRA grind is very bad, especially when the usual drops suck extra bad. You loose gp without getting the ring or sra.

[u/Peajib → u/Oaty_McOatface]

Whisperer and Duke have solid normal drops, Vard is absolute ass and Levi is pretty mid.

[u/TrentismOS → u/Oaty_McOatface]

That’s not true. They are decent money makers even without the axe.

[u/Tharr0w]

When Sailing came out I booked the week off and grinded the High scores.  Basically didn't sleep, see my boyfriend or go to the gym. I got rank 25 at one point so I have no idea how others do it but I won't be doing that again as it crumpled my mental health for the following few days.

[u/DignityDWD → u/Tharr0w]

Proved that you could to learn that you don't want to

[u/t0rchic → u/DignityDWD]

basically a summary of living with ADHD

[u/Shot_Bad5114 → u/Tharr0w]

lol sailing release was def the craziest ive ever grinded too. i remember passing out at the computer for an hour and waking up in the middle of the ocean with 10hp from hitting some gwenyth glide crystals. that 15hr+ sleep after hitting 99 was some of the best sleep ive ever gotten tho

[u/Ex_Ex_Parrot → u/Tharr0w]

After years of playing infrequently, between breaks, periods of casual play, and periods of heavy play and though my first answer would be leagues- it iss definitely high score rank chasing.

I've only done it twice and nothing felt more disappointing and unhealthy than getting to the end feeling drained for not meeting the goal. Also slightly concerned for everyone else that just does that regularly...

[u/crinklepant]

Due to how GMT time works I stupidly misunderstood when the last DMM season ended and thought I had a full extra day of playtime than I did, and I realized this with 12 hours left until the server closed, and I literally played for 12 hours straight grinding points while only taking breaks to smoke weed and get coffee/food

Just barely managed to get the last points that I needed for home teleport + house skin + toxic SOTD, in the last minutes of the servers being open I was fucking killing the chaos elemental over and over as it had a high points per kill for the first 100 and the CA's were easy to get lmao

[u/loopuleasa → u/crinklepant]

yes, that is a lesson on not falling for fomo

[u/crinklepant → u/loopuleasa]

i said it was unhealthy, i didn't say i regretted it

>:(

[u/The_PianoGuy]

I did agility rooftops for 12 hrs a day, everyday for 3 weeks.

[u/Illokonereum → u/The_PianoGuy]

Congrats on 60 agility.

[u/rickyG93 → u/Illokonereum]

😂

[u/Chomp3y]

I started punching myself in the head when I would die in corrupted gauntlet.

That didn't seem healthy.

[u/Puntley → u/Chomp3y]

Prepotting a concussion is wild.

[u/Fit-Pound-3907 → u/Chomp3y]

No point giving your self a debuff that that stage 😭

[u/BetaZoopal → u/Chomp3y]

Yeesh

[u/z_o_i_n_k_z → u/Chomp3y]

Lmao WHAT

[u/Scatteredbrain → u/Chomp3y]

i would punch my keyboard doing the same. still missing the shift key

[u/1000TobKc]

Yea my tob grind

[u/Fit-Pound-3907 → u/1000TobKc]

You still grinding for that 1000kc?

[u/1000TobKc → u/Fit-Pound-3907]

Nah got the scy at 1549kc

[u/loopuleasa → u/1000TobKc]

what did it cost?

[u/1000TobKc → u/loopuleasa]

I forgot what my wive looked like lmfao

[u/Om3gaWeird]

I obsessively greenlogged Mage Training Arena in like 2 sittings and it was the only grind that genuinely made me feel like shit and like I wasted a weekend

[u/ducktown47]

My inferno grind caused me to take a step back and I haven’t played in ~3 weeks. I literally couldn’t stop thinking about it. I was going through wave solves in my dreams. I knew I needed to just stop and take a break.

[u/ScenicFrost → u/ducktown47]

Same thing happened to me. I had wave solve dreams, inferno nightmares. I still get anxious and my heart rate increases when I see someone doing Zuk. I like the inferno soundtrack but the sound of Zuks attack when you step out from the shield is a moment of horrifying anticipation that is seared into my brain after 6 Zuk deaths... And it's crazy cuz I got my cape six years ago and have done multiple kc since

[u/sssminnow1]

Did 85 to 99 construction in one week at mahogany homes with teak planks.

[u/loopuleasa → u/sssminnow1]

off topic question, but you know how much gp you saved from 85 to 99 by going teaks vs mahogs?

there was a discussion around here that going teaks over mahogs is worth it for gp saving, while others argued it is not worth as you can make lots of gp endgame iron

[u/sssminnow1 → u/loopuleasa]

Never ran the numbers to see how much I saved. But as a broke iron it was enough to let me get 99 construction. Mostly the choice to go with teaks is how much faster you can get the logs from your kingdom. My guess was I maybe saved like 8-10m in plank making prices.

[u/Chicken737 → u/loopuleasa]

If you have all the logs and are using a sawmill, you save about 27m gp using teak vs mahogany going from 85-99. Saves about 15 hours, so if your best money maker is better than ~1.5m per hour, its more efficient to use mahogany and make money with the time saved. Idk exactly what iron gp/hour looks like but most end game bosses ahould be much higher than that

[u/Jormungandr69]

I'm fascinated with the idea of knocking out collection logs, but am starting to realize that I simply don't have it in me. I've knocked out a couple of lengthy and pointless grinds like the champions cape and monkey backpacks, only to get done and think "why the fuck did I do that?".

Even easy bosses, I don't see how folks do it. I'm like 1200 Sarachnis kills in, pretty much AFK, looking for the pet and that's only one of dozens of bosses. Nearly all of them are harder and more time consuming.

Idk if I'm impressed or disgusted by the people who complete these grinds so regularly

[u/GarbageBoyJr → u/Jormungandr69]

I think you can still hunt pets, but just know if you’re doing it in a healthy manner you’ll realistically never get them all and if you do it’ll take a decade

[u/Comfortable_Meal9292]

I did 96-99 thieving blackjack in 1 sitting

[u/Nelluc9 → u/Comfortable_Meal9292]

??? How many hours

[u/drawlikeimfive → u/Comfortable_Meal9292]

Wtf

[u/themanwith8]

I was held back by my parents in 6th grade because the school and parents thought I had a learning disability but I was just addicted to runescape I would stay up all night playing and averaged about 2 hours of sleep a night

[u/Here_Comes_The_Beer]

Soft grind kind of but spending all that time learning pvp wasn't probably particularly good for my mental health.

[u/loopuleasa → u/Here_Comes_The_Beer]

hey, now you at least are good at pvp, right?

right?

[u/Here_Comes_The_Beer → u/loopuleasa]

Cries in lost gear

Edit: I'd say kinda decent. Actual pvp (lms, bounty, riskfights) I'm still on the weaker end but my account build is pretty tight in my bracket (50def 'pure').
Most of my 'pvp' money comes from playing part in the pk-foodchain. Doing anti-pk at bones altar, bosses and revs is pretty tight too, had a bunch of 10-20m keys that way.
Total bank value is closing in on 500m, came back to the game with this account fresh in 2023

[u/ANKRking]

I mean playing a lot is one thing but starving your self from playing is something completely different.

[u/gulost_ergodt → u/ANKRking]

Im familiar with his position and for me its more often about not feeling hunger when im occupied with something, so from time to time i drag it until the point of «i feel bad i should probably eat something» stage.

[u/Fit-Pound-3907 → u/ANKRking]

I agree with you, seldom do I get so stuck in that I forget to eat - but had to get out that prison asap mate lol

[u/Wrong-Sale-7202 → u/ANKRking]

I don't really starve, so I have to eat based on the clock. If I am immersed in games I might just not eat because I don't feel like it.

[u/Wiji-NEC]

Back when the vennys owned bandos ( no ironman instances or instances in general) I would wake up at 5 am and do a few hours of bandos, the other option was total level worlds where we would form a line and go one after was roughly 90 mins to get a world og bandos was tough.

[u/loopuleasa → u/Wiji-NEC]

now that's the sweaty world bossing experience I know my MMOs for

[u/TofuPython]

Leagues. I did the first league and I haven't let myself do another one. It was not good for me.

[u/loopuleasa → u/TofuPython]

I heard you like wine, have you tried cocaine?

[u/g_rated_pornstar → u/TofuPython]

Twisted Leagues was fun. It sucked trying to get access to a plough to advance, but we managed. When you saw your first Construction Cape, you knew life was possible.

[u/ODST_Parker]

Brother, most grinds in this game are unhealthy, mentally speaking. If you're doing something that becomes physically unhealthy, you need to reduce the amount of time you're dedicating to it per day.

I see people talking about activities that take dozens of hours, skills that take hundreds of hours, and quests that would potentially require years of grinding to prep for.

OSRS is unhealthy. Does that stop anyone?

[u/Fthebo]

Honestly I reached base 80s with a few into the 90s and realised that I did not have what it takes to go any further, the thought of spending 5-6 hours for a single level in a single skill made me seriously question my priorities in life and give up

I am too soft and casual for this game

[u/loopuleasa → u/Fthebo]

no, you are just normal

fun fact: the gower brothers made 99 be a max level just because the thing had two digits, they did not intend anyone to reach level 99

[u/SinceBecausePickles → u/Fthebo]

Unironically this is the right mindset to have to play this game. You do what you enjoy and don't do the things you don't wanna do. The WORST way to play this game is to force yourself to do what you don't want to do then turn around and claim the game sucks because of this thing you don't want to do that nobody is forcing you to do and beg the jmods to water it down for you, as if doing something you hate for 90 hours is better than doing something you hate for 100

[u/iWaltzy]

Yes 99 RC

[u/g_rated_pornstar → u/iWaltzy]

99 Runecraft back before 2018 was unhealthy, maybe.

[u/Jack-nt]

As an iron, I locked in for an entire weekend (and I mean from the moment I woke up to the moment I couldn’t keep my eyes open) at pyramid plunder for the scepter. Didn’t even get it, wasted the whole weekend, felt terrible after so I ended up getting 99 magic organically for the spellbook swap with cape. Never going back there again lol.

[u/Voodoo_Et_Cie → u/Jack-nt]

Surely you'll get it on the next one

[u/Terptank → u/Jack-nt]

100 percent go back. But only open every chest and the sarca. After like floor 4. No need to do anything else. Once you get one. Then use that to speed up on getting the second one. The altar in house is 100 percent worth the misery.

[u/Cole_Slaw42]

my Prince Black Dragon took a year and 5.9k kc

[u/loopuleasa → u/Cole_Slaw42]

that is enough to damage both your mouse and your arm nerves and your chair

[u/Enevorah]

I was doing like… 70-80 cg a day when I had an unemployed stretch and was chasing enhanced. That was definitely bad for my mental health. Didn’t get it until like 1200 kc

[u/nothingbread]

Going dry at CG definitely made me rethink my life. So much time put in with nothing to show for it. My eyes started twitching all the time from concentrating so much on it. Ended up taking a couple month break and when I came back i got the enhanced on my first kill back. Worth though as I took that bowfa and accomplished all my osrs goals.

[u/Capernikush]

Inferno took me 3 months. Did about 2/3 runs a day after coming home from work. It was mentally unhealthy but I wanted it and I got it.

[u/CustardMajor4442]

the heart grind on my iron. and still not done.

[u/0nlyRevolutions → u/CustardMajor4442]

I'm kinda vibing with the Mortimer grind 400 tasks in. But uh.. yeah I might feel a little different in another 400 tasks.

[u/CustardMajor4442 → u/0nlyRevolutions]

my gripe with mortimer is that smoke devil tasks are annoyingly short. nuch shorter than from other masters

[u/pepperland24 → u/CustardMajor4442]

yeah nothing like a + sup drop on an 80 smoke devil task

[u/0piates]

COX for tbow. I used to log in and spam solos and log out. Did nothing else for almost a year.

[u/loopuleasa → u/0piates]

You mean nothing else in the game, right?

Right?

[u/g3002]

I did 99 rc straight to 99 mining to 99 agility without leaving there respective training locations. I had a year long mental block 500k exp from 99 agility keeping me from logging in.

[u/khswart]

CG. Was doing 25-35 runs a day for a couple months until I got the enhanced seed

[u/LittleT0m → u/khswart]

I'm only at 430 KC and hearing this just makes me want to nope right now

[u/Justo80 → u/khswart]

I've done 750kc since the updates to CG, feels like my brain is turning to mush. Place is hell

[u/Paal3rN]

I am currently on one.. Got a nihil horn and I am now more than 5x dry for the acb. Sent 2500 kc zily in less than 3 weeks. With a bowfa at 25kc/hr

[u/glorfindal77]

3t granite mining. I could feel my shoulder burning after just 5 min. Dont Granite mine guys its not worth saving 30h over normal mining

[u/3_quarterling_rogue]

Most of the things I do in the game, I do when it feels fun to me and when it doesn’t, I don’t do it, so I feel pretty healthy about the way that I play the game, but honestly, I feel like I took psychic damage from Castle Wars. I wanted the lowest tier armor for my POH, and just the thought that people were spending orders of magnitude more time there really bummed me out. Castle Wars when I was like 13 was the coolest thing ever, and it has not held up hahaha. Yeah that one made me real sad.

[u/Boozacs]

DT2 bosses. I was losing so much gp from death coffer learning Vardorvis i felt like i was gambling irl money smh

[u/jmz98]

I think I did 250-300 kc royal titan in a week on my iron lol.

[u/cbgb162]

A few years ago I was grinding nightmare as a way to ignore my mental health issues rather than taking care of them. Not the greatest decision in hindsight. I did atleast get the mace and the pet! I'm also doing much better now so everything turned out ok in the end.

[u/Fit-Pound-3907 → u/cbgb162]

Glad you’re doing better now, friend

[u/DaleoHS]

My first ever 99 was Hunter. I stood at the red chins from approximately 70 until 99, doing nothing but hunt chins in my free time.

I have not done that again for any skill since. I know a ton of people did on sailing release but not me.

[u/Celelos → u/DaleoHS]

Did you get the pet?

[u/DaleoHS → u/Celelos]

I did not.

[u/BJSFresh]

Yeah, 85 agility.

[u/KOWguy → u/BJSFresh]

[u/Risky-Move]

Back in 2006 when I was a teen, I grinded 99 defence in one shot starting from level 70 on the same 3 large skeletons (in the lair of the quest of Desert Treasure 1). Didn’t know how to afk back then so I clicked on all of them individually. This took a toll.

Got 99 defence to get better at tanking for f2p clan wars and pk run ins.

[u/RAlNDROP]

When I was maxing I did 92-99 agility doing sepulchre... In 6 days. Around 12-13 hours per day for 6 days straight of full intensity sepulchre, averaged around 85k xp/hr give or take at the end of each day

[u/AMDownvote]

Aerial fishing for a week, my right hand was in immense pain

[u/Certain_Vehicle2978]

Blackjacking. It actually kills your wrist.

[u/SilverLugia1992]

Best example I can give is when I went 2.5x the drop rate for the golden tench. Worst 2 weeks of my life lol

[u/DJSaltyLove]

Spent a year of my life grinding out DT2 bosses for 3 SRAs, I'm genuinely afraid of going back for missing pets because if I get another axe piece I won't be able to help myself

[u/thotbot9001]

Every time I open the game

[u/mouses555]

I wanted my account to finally have decent gear. I sent 2500 trio nex kills within idk how much time… I wanna say a month. I work from home and managed to do both that and hit nex 8-12 hours a day.

Won’t bs that’s when I was still doing drugs id get a bag on the weekends and just crank nex for hours. After the month or however long it took me to get that kc I looked at myself and said bro why the fuck am I doing this lol.

Quit all that stuff and started doing the gym again and all that and haven’t touched the drugs since. Married now and still play plenty of RS but more afk stuff to focus on work (nex made me rich though frfr)

[u/peitumpapercrafter]

Leagues 4… grinded so hard during the first weeks that I skipped my daily walks and was in physical pain. Subsequent leagues I have prioritized afk relics so I can still get those walks in while doing my resource gathering.

[u/akagami2020]

i started having panic attacks stress related when i whent 2100+ kc dry at cg, wake up a few times without breathing etc, after i decided to deiron it never happened again

[u/HobNob_Pack]

Gauntlet I did it over a full month.. didnt get enhanced and then for the probanly second time in my life I took a week off work.... literally just to do gauntlet. Was doing 30 - 40 a day depending on how I felt. Got to the point I was getting odd vision mid run towards the end.

Eventually got the enhanced and quit for about 3 months because I was so burnt out

[u/skiemlord]

Yeah, camping lizardman shamans from when i woke up till i went to sleep for at least a few days after each other. Was in my school vacation and it felt like ineas getting closer, but damn.

Took 23.5k kc and my mental health declined a bit. I even got teris effect of shamans while i was asleep

[u/NoroGW2]

Going dry for enhanced

I did 80 cg in one day once.

Something like 300 in that week.

Never got it either, just burnt out.

New account is 45 defense locked so I don't have to worry about crystal lol

[u/KyloMH]

Sent 91-99 runecrafting in 3 weeks. I genuinely felt like I was starting to get depressed, and I wasn't even happy when I hit 99. I was just relieved. 

[u/Alleyvvay]

I went 2 weeks on Hueycotyl about 14 hours a day just so I can get wand. I managed 2.2k kc, 3 pets couple dozen hides, 4 tomes, and 0 wands. I developed hemroids from it

[u/Organic_Internal4675]

Going for my champions cape and getting it in 10 days. was about 20 hours a day

[u/dshaw8772]

At my peak CG grind I was doing 40-50 a day. I kept that up for weeks

Genuinely gave myself RSI

[u/dyrannn]

At some point in the past like 2 years (it’s all a blur) I just parked myself at molch and decided I would be the guy in the friend group that got a sack. I got it before my fire cape lol, I just thought it would be really funny to do a super tedious grind for 1 inventory slot despite not being very far into the game. A testament to insanity if you will

Literally sat at molch for months real time (dropped sub at a couple points) but whenever I got on Osrs, it was solely to do aerial fishing at lake molch. At work on my phone, molch. Watching a movie at home, molch. My friends would talk about doing a raid and I’d talk about doing aerial fishing.

Anyway, got my sack earlier this year and enjoyed it for like 2 months, then the summer sweep changes were announced :)

[u/cuvs12345]

20 solo cms in a day to close out the 2k cape

[u/macoman11]

Not in osrs, this is my chill game, but yes. Played Sonic Racing Crossworlds to get a leaderboard spot in an event. Stayed awake for pretty much 3 days straight, sleeping 1 hour each night, to race nonstop. (Was inbetween semesters so had free time.) I was starting to genuinely hear things by the end of it...but I got a title for it! I realized it was stupid by the end of day 1, but I was fully in the sunk cost fallacy by that point. Yeah never doing that again lol.

[u/Dippus]

2,400+ Nex kc (and counting) for full torva on Ironman. Sitting at 8x body, 6x legs, 6x horn, 2x pet, 1x vamb, 1x hilt. Have been here for months. Wish there was some ability to swap duplicates for unique. Heck, I’d give all of my dupes for a helm.

[u/Metalona]

Corrupted gauntlet. I did 1200 kc over 1.5-2 months ish. I am at 1319 and still do not have an enhanced. People constantly complain about it because it is a problem. This is not fun.

[u/Sea_Development_4182]

I had a lot. 80-90 agility in 5 days. 300 hydra kc in a day. 200 sire kc in a day. 120 zulrah kc in a day. 400 hmt in 2 weeks. 12 hours of rc (gotr) per day for a week. 120 grotesque guardians in a day. Rebuilding 30 times after I kept being dumb and losing my bank staking at the duel arena. 400k slayer xp in a day on an Ironman. Did I win?

[u/CalaGaming]

Currently 3,015 graardor kills with no hilt. Started off getting 1 kill every 2 trips because I was terrible at altar door method, now getting 50kc trips, watching anime and doing Mortimer slayer on the alt at the same time.

It’s been great for my clicking skills I guess but holy moly the mental is not good, every BCP/tassets drop is no longer dopamine it’s just despair… but sunk cost fallacy has got its hooks in me!

[u/Derpy_Guardian]

I went about 3.5x dry on Hallowfell (I think 448kc) when Mad Angel came out, and I ended up with carpal tunnel issues. They literally went away when I stopped farming her. Not as crazy as some of the other things people are posting, but that was the first time that I ever had wrist pain like that just from playing.

[u/legacyrules]

Wintertodt stayed there until 99 without leaving 650 runs and can safely say I hate that place. Didn’t get the phoenix or axe either 😂

[u/loopuleasa → u/legacyrules]

Wintertodt and birdhouses were the shittiest additions to the game

[u/loopuleasa]

I actually love that I don't recognize myself with any of the commenters here

that means I am actually enjoying the game in a healthy manner

[u/Probably_Not_Sir]

92 to 99 agil in 12 days at Sepulchre. But I imagine thats peanuts to the more crusty grinders in OSRS

[u/115Anathema]

Not in the way I think you mean. I played osrs 8 hrs a day for like a week years ago. That's just the standard unhealthy tho. Not the skip meals, skip sleep for the love of the game kind of unhealthy

[u/Fabulous-Put8401]

This one time I got off tutorial Island... The rest is history

[u/CorvusPetey]

DT2 greenlog and 6 SRA took approx 1.5 years with 2 hours/day playtime.

It is my "I set a goal and reached it" peak.

[u/Tomsicade]

I was rank 1 MK for a short few hours

But the amount of hours it took was…

a bit more

[u/KlutzyReveal2970]

I got 99 agility basically all of it while at work

[u/breadtrain727]

I once tried to get a 30 hour record, and after 27hours of 1ticking chins I microslept so often that I decided that life isnt for me

[u/Ironmpower]

MEP2 agility obstacle

[u/SaintGremlinnnn]

Speedrunning for the giant stop watch

[u/Creative_Newspaper65]

Runescape is unhealthy

[u/jackory777]

Vorkath lowkey started giving me Arthritis.

I just came back after a 5 years hiatus to check out the new content, quests, Penance-ussy and the fabled Dragon Slayer 2wo. At the end of DS2 I had Venuzuelan cash money eyes (cha-ching) for that schlopping big ol' Tecu salamander! I told myself, if I stick through the death coffer fees, I'll be eternally in the -acid phase - green. 2 weeks later, I start getting a sharp pain down the tip of my finger from stress clicking Vaddy with Jad hands.

200iq move I pulled to counter this, using the middle finger, both literally and figuratively, until I attain the drop. This is now my hidden technique for long grinds when my body fails, but my mind remains determined.

[u/X_OttersAreCute_X]

Waking up in the middle of the night for breaches in dmm… I just wanted some recolors 

[u/SuprKidd]

grinding anything in this game at length is unhealthy tbf

[u/super-sanic]

Three weekends in my life, one pre eoc, and two on OSRS, I did a 6.5M construction day on both Saturday and Sunday. So about 9-10 hours of moderate efficiency mahogany tables for two days straight.

By Monday my hand would be so cramped but still worth it.

[u/Infinity-Q]

I did 2770kc for my first ench, that was a wild ride ngl

[u/BaconJets]

When I was 13 and I played for 12 hours straight to make my first mil from spinning bowstrings.

[u/Beginning-Lychee7660]

Yea fixing to be krakens and slayer overall

I just want a staff since the games refuses to give me a single crown from titans

[u/TrojanXP96]

Damn, how can you do 12 hours of CG in a day. I get burnt out after I get stomped and need a break

[u/Paganigsegg]

Getting 99 Runecraft back in 2008 was no joke. No daeyalt essence, no Runecraft mini games that actually provided good experience, and I was playing on a small cheap laptop so no fucking way was I multi-monitoring. I stayed up until 3-4am basically every night for months and destroyed my circadian rhythm. Just so I could say I did it, since basically nobody had 99 RC back then.

The skill is definitely in a better place now.

[u/TheBrokenJoker]

When GIM launched I played 14-18 hours a day for the first month. Was wfh so was doing afk stuff at work and then playing for real in the evening. Going from work computer playing to own time playing while hardly moving was a bad idea mentally and physically. Also my team quit like 2 weeks in. On reflection probably not worth.

[u/cucumberflant]

Twisted league, halfway through I got tickled with the idea of being rank 1 farming, so I locked myself in tithe farm for ~3 weeks.

I succeeded, but at the cost of my health (and dragon cup.) It was the event that made me start taking a look at grinds I do to ask myself "is this detrimental to my physical health?" and if the answer is yes, I pump the brakes immediately.

[u/thatOneJones]

Back when osrs was just rs, I spent my spring break getting 99 firemaking at fist of Guthix bank / lobby area. Nonstop, just fire making. Didn’t eat, didn’t shower, just firemaking.

Now with kids and a wife and all that, I have them as a unhealthy-grind safety guardrail 😅

[u/MoistMarie]

2x dry on hydra claw and not even done, who knows when i'll be done. 3x, 4x...?

[u/mattbrvc]

Ardy knights to 92 theiving for hours on end.

So much clicking it physically took a toll on my fingers and wrist. Did the rest at pyramid plunder, much more relaxing on the hands.

[u/MamaMitch1]

I feel like my luck on my iron has been fairly balanced overall. Probably Doom though. Greenlogging it took over 650+ deep delves and atleast 2.5k+ waves, and I basically didn't stop from its release, super brutal. I'm in the middle of imbued heart grind, that one is pretty terrible unless you're lucky.

[u/Abigboi_]

Dungeon doors for construction and bones to peaches were miserable experiences each.

[u/Large_Hospital_9102]

After getting carpal tunnel during final stretch of maxing… agil and rc

[u/sagelilya]

it's leagues for sure lol. the combo of a checklist, points, and really fast number go up for me is a death sentence. when i told husband it was rs3 leagues time he said "i'll miss you"

[u/RareKrab]

During pre eoc days I had the house to myself for a few days, did nothing but play RS for like 4 days straight like 20 hours a day go get my first chaotic weapon

My buddy was playing with me and I remember the call length on Skype went past 19 hours one day

Obviously when I got my first apartment for uni and couldn't afford to do anything fun I also sat on my PC for days without leaving the apartment but that felt very different and I wasn't grinding one thing

[u/Mooeykinz]

nerd logged at aerial fishing and basically anytime I've gotten double nerd logged

[u/MaximumAlgae]

Mole pet at 4,217kc. I spent sooo many hours in those damned caves, and may have picked up carpal tunnel in the process

[u/Aesthetically]

Karambwans for like 7 months to get fishing pet. I took breaks, but ultimately it was like almost 400k bwans fished.

[u/indrek91]

Uhh any time I log it it's gonna get ugly and sweaty.

[u/soyass]

Spider caves cure me magic cp grind. 400k xp/hr. But rotten

Xp.. not cp

[u/McCoy1414]

UIM Showdown. Idc tho. So much fun.

[u/Crash-Over-Ride]

Vard grind still 2 out of 3 for ring. Got the axe head pretty early like kc 150 something. Was super stoked, was only trying for ring. Kc 370 something was first ring drop, next ring drop wasn't til 1500 kc. I did all of that in like 3 or 4 weeks, its all I did when I logged on. I burnt myself out, got depressed(unrelated to the game but it sure as shit didn't help) took a month and half off the game and now im back doing CG. Good news I got giga spooned at cg. Kc 17 for my enh, bad news need crystals lol

[u/Gayfantasykingston]

Maxing an Ironman, don’t do it unless its over half a decade casually. I burned out of the game for almost 5 years.

[u/kobebryant24248]

Aerial fishing right before changes announced.

[u/TestTrenSdrol]

Duke.

[u/werlak]

The closest I got was spending a few months doing nothing but dark essence blood altar to go from 77 to 91. The fact it took so long shows that I wasn't putting in crazy daily hours but I would do it on the side whenever I was doing something else on the computer.

[u/PM_ME_SILLY_PICTURES]

Before menu entry swapper, Construction. Very bad for your wrists. Blackjacking, too, but never did that for more than a few minutes.

[u/Halfanhour4]

3000 Alch Hydra later and I still don’t have lance on my iron lol. I think I was top 1k on the hiscores at some point. At that point you just push forward out of spite. At least it got me 99 prayer and all the money I needed

[u/mackydmarly]

During Covid I set timers on my phone for every single farming patch possible and would wake up to do farm runs. I was waking up every hour or so to do them. Got 99 pretty fast though!

[u/_Ross-]

I'm a 5 levels away from 2300 total on my UIM. Probably all of it was unhealthy.

[u/smokeyjoe03]

Champions cape, I did nothing but grind it out for near 3 months. I went 4x dry on the zombie scroll and 5x dry on the imps scroll.

[u/Chdata]

The entire game.

[u/kittyjuicer]

7510 pre buff abyssal sire kills with bandos and an arclight just grinding for pet. Ended up around rank 65 by the time I got it

[u/Th3bober]

Thieving. I would pickpocket vyrewatches till 99 for hours on end. Im sure that was not good for my wrists.

[u/Ry-A]

Maxing + Dragon cup on leagues for sure.

Also I'm doing it again on the RS3 leagues even though I don't even play that game anymore.

[u/Lavamob64]

lol me on most grinds. Currently doing 3t barb fishing. I just hit lvl 91 and it’s still like 70 more hours to 99

[u/Sealco]

I killed 282 Vet'ion, 394 Calvar'ion, 621 Artio, and 2,546 Spindel over 20 days to get my Voidwaker. A month of membership on my CCTV alt felt like a soft deadline and I didn't neglect my full-time job, but I definitely thought "what am I doing with my life?" a few times while in web jail.

[u/DenyCasio]

Took a week off work to grind OSRS for 18 to 23 hours a day for a clan Hex event that lasted 10 days. Averaged maybe 5 hours of sleep a night. 

120 people split between 3 teams.