Everyone knows all about the Dragon Defenders, Slayer Helms, and the Zombie Axes, but this article’s all about spreading the love to the most underrated items that have a huge impact on the growth rate of an OSRS account that is massive relative to their requirements for ownership. Let’s begin:
1) Monk Robes Set
Growing an account through the Wilderness is tantamount to using cheat codes in OSRS; whether through slayer, hunter training, agility training, or bossing. This has been true ever since Jagex began tinkering with the wilderness content to make it a higher reward area in the game.
Through the Monk Robes Set, players have access to a completely free +11 prayer boost to take with them into the wilderness risk-free. This leaves additional slots open for stronger items, like a utilitarian amulet of glory for teleports alongside a dragon defender and weapon for bossing.
Prayer, against a number of bosses in the wilderness, acts as a full damage negation mechanic so long as the player in question has good movement, as is observed with the Crazy Archaeologist and Vet’ion.
The Monk Robes set also acts as an easily accessed alternative to high prayer bonus equipment such as the initiate set for players who haven’t completed the relevant quests to acquire them, even when not used for wilderness purposes.
2) Imcando Hammer
A hammer that can wielded in either the main or off-hand to save an inventory slot. Of course, this has no use case in Giant’s Foundry, where everyone and their mother rushes to 99 smithing. That also means that it has a rarer use case with anvils since people just aren’t using them very often.
As it happens, the Imcando Hammer is an insanely convenient, overlooked item for a few things in OSRS: Tempoross, Mahogany Homes, and Barbarian Assault.
When fighting Tempoross, the hammer is one of the prerequisites to running the boss with a completely free inventory. Additionally, it will not be deleted from your character when hit with waves or burned on a fire, unlike a normal hammer.
When playing barbarian assault, which everyone does for the legendary, and totally not overrated, Fighter Torso reward, the defender can use the Imcando Hammer to repair traps, saving them time in what is generally considered a rather tedious minigame.
When working with Mahogany Homes, the Hammer can be wielded in the off-hand slot alongside a crystal saw in the main hand slot to save up on a whopping two inventory spaces. Good for efficiency, which, after all, is what this game is usually about, is it not?
3) Explorer’s Ring
The Explorer’s Ring is useful from the first time you get it as a lil’ reward for doing various achievement diary tasks around Lumbridge. As a level 1 reward, it offers players a most overpowered perk of being able to replenish run energy, giving players access to efficient questing, farming, and an extra boost with a +1 prayer bonus.
At level 2, the Explorer’s Ring will offer what is arguably its second best bonus: a teleport to the cabbage patch just south of the Falador farming patch.
If three run replenishments per day are S-Tier bonuses, then being able to teleport to this patch without running from Falador or using a charge of your amulet of glory is god-like.
As a neat bonus, the ring also offers a +10% extra XP gained in the Tears of Guthix minigame at tier 3, which adds up to quite a bit of Runecraft (or construction, for you ironmen) XP.
At tier 4, this item is no longer underrated, but blatantly strong as hell thanks to its allowance to finally use fairy rings without a Dramen Staff. (There’s also something about a 7th slayer task, idk).
There’s always time for the great items in OSRS whose value is both high and appropriately recognized, but these items will offer the studious OSRS players access to convenience and efficiency that’s often overlooked by a great many scapers.
They’re easily accessed, have no risk associated with them, and their payoffs over the long term are essential for growing an OSRS account at a steady, healthy rate.
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