adoorknob7053: This is a great breakdown of the nuance of both games combat. Subbed.

popNdawg: When I took time to read and checked out pvme, I eventually came to maining and maxing out on RS3. CBA to do that on OSRS, but I do love doing leagues on OSRS.

init_yeah: The peak of rs3 is harder than osrs imo

MegaChickenfish: It was wild how much the recent simple change of "squaring" the tiles and npc tile highlights helped me snap into the osrs muscle memory of viewing the map as a grid. It's far easier to do things like determine if my halberd's aoe will hit things, for example. The change semi-recently of showing things like abilities/channeled abilities in ticks instead of seconds also helped.

MegaChickenfish: I know they're relatively comparable in difficulty mainly because I can't get above Hard combat achievements in either one.

MegaChickenfish: With OSRS high end pvm (and even some skilling like sepulchre) growing very reliant on plugins, it'll be really interesting to see how rs3 combat evolves with whatever tools are developed there. Will we see more strict and precise movement required in bosses with true tile, like how osrs whisperer relies on the previously obscure "run tile skipping" mechanic?

BudzxBunni-fy3js: just to say in the food section on osrs that is called combo eating when u eat two food on same tick where as tick eating is where u would eat a food where u would have died on the same tick that the moster attacks you good expample is soteseg ball in tob

scofer13: Rs3 & Osrs aren't at war. Osrs players have no idea whats going on in Rs3.

Rs3 is just the estranged meth addicted big brother of osrs. Who might have gone back to rehab?

LazyScaper69: As someone who's played both games for over a decade both are difficult in very different ways.

Osrs is difficult in a sense of the game is just clunky, and getting used to how important the tic system is takes time, but once you get over that hill its smooth sailing.

RS3 however, all the difficulty comes in rotational difficulty. Unlike OSRS, you have to have a standard rotation of abilities you use AND you need to learn boss mechanics.

There are 2 layers to RS3 combat, where as osrs only has really one layer to it.

rottalive: banger vid and songs used, im in a weird spot where i play on the master/gm level on both games so im not one of those civil war people cause i love both equally, lol.

minime1988: I think OSRS is "harder" for more people because of familiarity with control schemes and overall timing/feel that most people have with mainstream MMO's. RS3 is closer to a traditional MMO or something like a "PvE MOBA" something most people have experienced in many popular games(WoW/LoL) whereas OSRS is completely unique relative to other MMO's and games in general. I think if people get enough experience and care enough to progress to high lvl PvM they're about the same although OSRS also has a way better PvP scene and that's a whole other beast.

kamerondonaldson5976: inventory management. you can only carry 28 pieces of food to heal damage. and thats if youre not carrying any quest items. there's almost no healing in the standard spellbook, bones to fruit spells create items that dont heal that much, and if you use lunar you're locked out of magic type damaging options until lategame. on top of that enemies hit very hard, despawn or fully heal themselves if you take too long to kill them, and are often only vulnerable to a specific kind of damage which you need to switch equipment for, denying you even more inventory space.

Emptynogin1: I feel like RS3 makes you learn lots of different skills, whereas OSRS demands that you really master the skills that you can. I've struggled with some pretty simple mechanics on RS3 just because I needed to keep my DPS high while doing them, but at the same time OSRS can take a mechanic like movement and tune it up to 11 like in Yama's sensory clouding contract

killler240: I can do the RS3 systems with keybinds, but I can't do the percise clicks needed in OSRS (but I have way less exp on this, so with time maybe)

vdk255: I heard Malenia's theme and tensed up irl

MegaChickenfish: 23:30 to any osrs players overwhelmed by those action bars, I've played since the eoc beta and I'm STILL overwhelmed looking at that. XD FIVE action bars? I don't even know how I'd start keybinding that without one of those fancy gaming mice.

Jepicosity: Besides the fact that PvM is only a part of both games and not representative of the difficulty differences described in "EZ Scape," this just highlights how RS3 isn't Runescape anymore. Now it's discount every other action MMO when it comes to combat.

OSRS is the favorite by a long shot for a good reason.

aryman6589: I wish RS3 had even half the genius gear progression design that OSRS does. Instead, power creep and boring ever-increasing tiers are all they do.

ayrieton: both versions are shit, i hate them both proceeds to play for 22yrs

dronez4dronezy590: even though i agree with everything you've said, objectively out of everything in osrs and everything in RS3

RS3's absolutely hardest content is 60k zammy

I doubt anything is harder than that in osrs, unless someone can show me proof?

Ceraxy: Thanks for the video, this was actually refreshing to watch

pashalecqua: thousands of hours in osrs and have never touched rs3 but every time I see footage of its bossing I think it looks so sick!! is it as fun as it looks??

psyshadowxx: This is an incredibly valuable video that I hope people start to use as a reference for people who don’t want play both games to understand the different TYPES of difficulty between the games

RsStroke: Great breakdown!

ifisandor7844: While having a preference for console gaming I just couldn't really train myself enough to be be decent with a keyboard

hikkikimori: more persona 5 music pls

Milkcartonkevin: i like for the gwyn theme

Jun 19 2026

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