Account modes

Four ways to play

Every account picks one of four modes when it is created. No mode changes how combat works — 99 Strength hits the same on all four. A mode decides how fast you level, who you can trade with, and a few rules about what you may buy or pick up. Every mode can train combat and fight other players in the Wilderness.

At a glance

Chosen once, when the account is created

	Standard	PvP path	Iron Man	Group Iron Man
Combat XPAttack, Strength, Defence, Hitpoints, Ranged, Magic, Prayer	5x	7x	1x	1x
Skilling XPEvery other skill, Slayer included	2.5x	2.5x	1x	1x
Trading with players	Yes	Yes	No	Your group only
Grand Exchange	Yes	Yes	No	No
Picking up other players’ itemsDrops, PvP loot, player-sold shop stock	Yes	Yes	No	Your group’s only
NPC shops	Any	Any	The Iron Man shop list, the shop’s own stock only	The Iron Man shop list, the shop’s own stock only
Quests	Earned	Combat-unlock requirements waived (list below); every quest still earned	Earned	Earned
Can the choice be changed?	No	No	Once, one way: de-iron to Standard	No
PvP in the Wilderness	Yes	Yes	Yes — but you cannot take another player’s loot	Yes, as an Iron Man
Hiscores	Overall	Overall + PvP	Overall + Iron Man	Overall + Group Iron Man

Standard and the PvP path skill at the same rate, so they share the same Standard & PvP skilling boards. The PvP path’s one advantage is faster combat training — which also gets you to PvE content sooner. That is a real advantage and we do not pretend otherwise: the two paths are not competitively identical. Combat experience never counts toward the daily, weekly and monthly skilling competitions, in any mode.

Your choice is permanent

A mode cannot be switched, because modes level at different speeds — a mode you could leave is a mode everybody would enter whenever it happened to be faster.

Iron Man → Standard (“de-iron”) is the one exception. Type ::deiron request; after 7 days you may complete it with ::deiron confirm (cancel any time with ::deiron cancel). It is one-way: a de-ironed character can never be an Iron Man again, and the change is recorded. ::deiron permanent gives the option up for good instead.
Group Iron Men cannot de-iron. Leaving your group (::group leave) keeps you a Group Iron Man on your own.
A staff reset of your account setup does not give you a second starter kit or anything else you already had.

The combat XP lock

::xplock <stat|all|none|list> stops a combat stat gaining experience — useful for pures and skillers. A locked stat gains nothing from any source: combat, spells and prayers, burying bones, quest rewards, lamps and any other reward.

Only the seven combat stats can be locked; skills never are. Magic includes non-combat spells and Prayer includes bones. You can unlock again at any time.

Group Iron Man: group rules

The group’s shared storage belongs to the group. Leaving takes nothing from it.
Only the founder invites. If the founder leaves, the longest-standing member becomes founder.
You can only ever belong to one shared group. Once you have been in a group with anyone else, you cannot found or join another — items taken from one group must never reach a second. A group nobody else joined does not count.
If your account stops being a Group Iron Man, you leave your group immediately.

Iron Man shop list

Iron Men and Group Iron Men may buy only from these shops, and only the shop’s own stock — never what other players sold to it. Selling is allowed anywhere. New shops are added only after a review.

Lumbridge General Store — basic supplies at the shop’s own stock level.
Bob’s Brilliant Axes — the first gathering tools, which nobody else can give an Iron Man.

The PvP path’s quest rule

Waived combat requirements, not completed quests

A new PvP-path character has the quest requirements waived for the combat equipment, prayers and spellbooks below. A waiver is not a completion:

the quest is not completed — it stays in your quest list, and you can still do it for its real rewards;
you get no quest experience, items, quest points, completion messages or achievements from a waiver;
every other quest is earned, including every GG quest (such as Below the Castle).

Quest (requirement waived)	What it opens
A Taste of Hope	Ivandis flail
Animal Magnetism	Ava’s attractor and accumulator
Another Slice of H.A.M.	Ancient mace
Beneath Cursed Sands	Keris partisans
Big Chompy Bird Hunting	Ogre bow
Contact!	Keris
Demon Slayer	Silverlight
Desert Treasure I	Ancient Magicks; the ancient staff
Dragon Slayer I	Green d’hide body, anti-dragon-fire and wyvern shields
Dragon Slayer II	Ava’s assembler, ferocious gloves
Grim Tales	Dwarven helmet
Heroes’ Quest	Dragon battleaxe, dragon mace
In Aid of the Myreque	Gadderhammer
King’s Ransom	Chivalry and Piety
Legends’ Quest	Dark dagger
Lost City	Dragon dagger, dragon longsword
Lunar Diplomacy	The Lunar spellbook; lunar armour
Merlin’s Crystal	Excalibur
Monkey Madness I	Dragon scimitar
Priest in Peril	Wolfbane
Rag and Bone Man II	Ram skull helm
Recruitment Drive	Initiate armour
Regicide	Dragon halberd
Roving Elves	Crystal bow and shield
Secrets of the North	Ancient sceptre
Shadow of the Storm	Darklight, arclight
Sins of the Father	Blisterwood flail and sickle
The Final Dawn	Arkan blade
The Fremennik Exiles	Neitiznot faceguard, V’s shield
The Fremennik Isles	Helm of neitiznot
The Fremennik Trials	Fremennik helms, Dagannoth armour sets
The General’s Shadow	Shadow sword
The Great Brain Robbery	Barrelchest anchor
The Knight’s Sword	Falador sword, blurite crossbow
The Slug Menace	Proselyte armour
Underground Pass	Iban’s staff
Wanted!	White armour and weapons
While Guthix Sleeps	Purging staff, emberlight, scorching bow
Zogre Flesh Eaters	Composite ogre bow

Not waived: Song of the Elves — it gates only crystal axes, which are woodcutting tools, and the PvP path skills on the same boards as Standard.

Also worth knowing: a waiver counts wherever the game asks “has this quest been done?”, so where a boss’s entrance names one of these quests (Regicide, Dragon Slayer II, While Guthix Sleeps, Secrets of the North, The Final Dawn, Priest in Peril), a PvP-path character meets that requirement too. Rigour, Augury and Preserve are learned from their scrolls in every mode.

Accounts created before this change keep exactly what they already have.