Ironman Mode Guide and Early Game Progression Suggestions

Ironman Modes and early game progression for iron players

Ironman Modes:

Ironman ━ Cannot trade or gamble with anyone, 55% base drop rate, 1 combat stat added to account (stab, slash, crush, magic, range) for every 21 npc kills\*

Group Ironman ━ Only able to trade with group members, groups can be formed by taking the ladder down at ::home; 50% base drop rate bonus. 1 combat stat added to account (stab, slash, crush, magic, range) for every 21 npc kills\*

Elite ━ Cannot trade or gamble with anyone, 150% base droprate and an 30% account-bound damage bonus (incoming and outgoing damage) 1 combat stat added to account (stab, slash, crush, magic, range) for every 18 npc kills\*

All ironmen have access to the ironman shop at ::shops, containing potions and other resources which help a lot with early game. They also have access to ::ironz, a zone with 3 shops which you spend points obtained by killing the 3 different NPCs in the zone. This zone isn't really great until you have an aoe weapon and npc aggro. All of these shops refresh on the 1st and 15th of each month.

The official MagePS Start guide can be found here: All in one Mage Guide - Owner made and approved! - Getting started - MagePS

After completing these early steps (for free to play players,) It is highly recommended to kill the Rangers in the green area at ::tri for keys and opening the chest at ::tri with those keys until you have obtained the full set with bow and armor.

Then, it is recommended to utilize double melee/range str potions using either your hellfire set or range set to quickly grind through east ::slayer tasks. This will quickly clear ::zones and allow you to purchase elite slayer keys, which can unlock some gear that will significantly speed up the early game if obtained. (blood staff, trident of the seas, red light saber, 007 ppz, red lazergun, and golden black dragon staff.)

Whenever someone is available to carry you through it, i recommend killing ::evil for loot (including the early game aoe magic set and hell chests/keys, which are needed for skilling.

Once you have a nice amount of hell keys/chests (there are more in the mboxes) and Gkeys, you are ready to grind through the easy and medium achievements to unlock your first 4 relics.

I recommend prioritizing skilling in the following order. Keep stock of logs,  seeds, bird snares, box traps, etc. so that you can utilize the skill of the day for 150% base exp!

1. Thieving \*\* thieve the jungle chests for as much time as you can bare (dont waste exp buffs on this, since you wont move on to blood thieving for a long time.) If you make it to ice chests before you have the resources to grind hunter, you can skip hunter, since ice chests contain wolf ribs. Thus, it is highly recommended to grind thieving all the way to max before doing other skilling, since

2. Woodcutting/Firemaking \*\*\* Getting a ton of Elder logs early on might be boring, but it will make the game go a lot faster later. TIP: If Firemaking is SOTD, burn all your logs that you have banked, and log out when done, then only log in for SOTD until you run out of buffs.

3. Hunter \*\*\*\* highly recommended to do early for wolf ribs and raptor meat, which are shorter term double exp potions. You will need logs from woodcutting and/or traps from thieivng to start this.

4. Farming/Herblore - do these on skill of the day fully buffed to obtain space potions, which will allow you to work through achievements more quickly. You need the secondaries for this from ::evil.

5. Fishing - you have to do it to train cooking to use the wolf ribs if you don't sta

6. Cooking - you need to cook the wolf ribs from hunter early on if you don't do thieving to max immediately, and late game aligator gar.

7. Crafting -- you're going to have to make box traps at some point, because you won't get enough from thieving, otherwise this would be lower priority.

8. Mining - you'll be able to use a rune pickaxe at first while you save up hellpowder from ::evil, you can also use

9. Smithing - needed for higher level fishing and speeds up mining and woodcutting, but not a top priority, as it uses a lot of hellpowder, which is beter utilizing leveling herblore in the early game

10. Runecrafting - boosts magic damage once you have your full evil set

Credits: Kriim who offered a lot of advice for my early game and is always available for questions, myself (IGN AmaraRomani) for putting this together and adding tips, and all the other irons who have provided feedback.

* NPC Kill stat bonuses are reduced at certain NPC Kill amount levels. For further details see: NPC Kill Stat Boost