dmp gains

hcim guide

To start things off, you’re going to stop anything you’re doing in terms of work, as this is the most competitive game mode on Runescape, and if you’re not serious about the game, then quit now. This grind will take over 35,OOO hours so family, friends, and work will be put on hold.

I’ve gone from working at a hospital, to a fine Italian restaurant, and even exiled my entire family to play at the competitive level I’m at today (Approaching 2050 total).

Your house has to have a basement, preferably where you can also smoke inside. When you’re gaming, the sunlight will hinder your vision and will be bad for your eyes long term. If you need to go outside for a smoke break, this is not a big deal since it’s more important to need to keep the nicotine levels up to perform better at gaming.

You’ll most likely want to move in with someone in your family, preferably your grandma as she has free internet, and most likely won't have many devices connected to the wifi. Make sure to keep your grandma alive, so you won’t get kicked out of the house.

To fund your hcim career, start streaming on twitch. Do not accept bits from the viewers, and demand that you get donations through Paypal, as you can immediately cash it out to your bank with a 1% fee.

Start off in pay to play immediately. If you cannot afford a bond, beg your viewers for one while chopping trees in lumbridge to train fm.

Train 50 fm and go to wintertodt. Get 200m fm straight away without any breaks, it’s quite hard as it took me over 6 months to do it.

Wintertodt Loot
Extra wintertodt pieces - Exchange for burnt pages to sell to general store to purchase Fire Runes
Tome of Fire - Essentially junk, and should be sold at the general store to purchase fire runes.
Extra Dragon Axes - If you have more than 1, alch the rest (Low alch if you can't High alch yet)
Gems - Sapphires for bracelets of clay (Teletabs for slayer), Emeralds for Binding necklaces for 200m Runecrafting Daeyalt Lavas, Ruby for Strength Amulet to Nightmare Zone in, rest will be used for ruby bracelets to alch, Diamond can just be dropped.
Fish - Cook all of the anchovies/trout given to you from 200m FM, this will net you around 1m cooking xp, so essentially 1/200th was 0 time
Seeds - Keep all seeds besides Snapdragon, as the secondary is red spider eggs, and can only be obtained in the Edgeville dungeon wilderness area.




Once you have finished 200m fm, home tele and buy a chronicle. Start working on all of the crafting to make your combat bracelet, as it will be your best in slot for the rest of the game. Barrows gloves are irrelevant as nobody at the top including me are pvming.

Unlock Nightmare Zone immediately by only doing the 5 quests you’ll need, and whenever you need to break is when you head into zone. Personally for me, I like to head to zone whenever I need to have a smoke break, eat food, or walk around the house.

Diaries are worthless since the XP rewards don’t outweigh you training the actual skill. Don’t listen to anyone else that says they’re good, it’s just them being lazy.

Whatever you do, do NOT do kingdom. You will get all the herbs you need during the second 20k hours of the account from consistent hourly farm runs (I like to say I do 14 a day) and you will get the logs you need from afk chopping mahoganies while smoking/laying in bed/sitting at the computer (0 time).


Nightmare Zone
NMZ is potentially the most important aspect of any competitive HCIM account. Nearly every cent you make early on selling wintertodt items to the general store should be stored in the coffer and converted to melee exp. Many see NMZ as 0 time, something you do during work or school, but it is actually much more. By selling every item you get to the general store for gp, you’re essentially converting useless exp like crafting into useful melee exp, which is 100% necessary for reaching top 100 (exp) in your first year of HCIM.

At this point you’ve already done the quests for 5 easy NMZ bosses and you’ve got gp in the coffer so you’re ready to go. Ideally, 40-80% of your total weekly exp gains should be from zone. Remember, it’s 0 time, which means you can spend all day laying in bed watching movies and zoning. Don’t be afraid to spend your entire cash stack either, I personally have about 500k total on the account but I have utilized this extreme poverty to overtake rank 21 total exp, including burnt people before me, HCIM only, only on temple.

This is likely one of the most controversial sections of the guide, as many low-tier random ironmen will disagree with this mentality, but the results speak for themselves. I used this strategy to overtake main top page for years and have done the same on HCIM. Remember, EHP is just a social construct created by virgins, exp is the only true measure of progress. The idiots who have more “EHP” than me will burn out and I will catch them, just like I did so on my main (Baile y).

Prayer
Kill red dragons in Forthos Dungeon with a dhcb, should have enough broad bolts from fletching.

Runecrafting
Bloods and souls for GP. Do not do Kourend diary for extra blood runes, as that time is better spent making blood runes.

Construction
Mahogany homes with mahogany planks. Teaks are inefficient and I’ve already passed anyone who has used teak planks.

Agility
Rooftop agility and 0 time barb fishing. Do not do herb runs or birdhouse runs while training agility, because they’re going to lower your xp rates. Sepulchre is not worth it despite giving a free 1b in a game mode where gp is scarce. It’s too much of a risk killing the quest bosses and high level hardcores do not take these sort of risks (the other high level hardcores doing sepulchre started as regular iron, so they don’t count).

Herblore
Make the best and easiest things you can, and make the Zamorak Brews with your torstols. Don’t worry about needing super combats, as you’ll be using overloads in zone instead.

Thieving
Autoclick Ardy knights. Too many raggers at gem knights despite the fact that I’ve never been ragged there. If you happen to get two day’d autoclicking these just bunker down in your La-Z boy, slap that sock on your wrist and CLICK BABY CLICK.

Crafting
Killing brutal black dragons with tbow. Red dragons with DHCB. Honestly fuck crafting, I’ll never finish it and you shouldn’t either. If nobody finishes the skill we can all be top page forever.

Fletching
Make enough broad arrows for killing brutal black dragons with a dhcb, and finish the rest with broad bolts. Broad bolts are used for training prayer.

Slayer
For Slayer, you’re going to want to Melee just about every task, as barraging will take up too much cash including the gp you’ll have to drop over to afford a bond on your main. You’ll want to extend aberrant spectres for the herbs to 0 time herblore, and hell hounds for the hard clues to land a magic shortbow and 0 time the Ranged in zone.

Hunter
Herbibore - I’m like John Locke nigga. Chins are worthless for an iron account as you’ll get 200m range from killing brutal black dragons with your tbow and red dragons with a dhcb.

Mining
Because you’re playing hcim, you cannot do granite because you’re going to die to the desert heat eventually. Do all the xp at Motherlode Mine while not streaming.

Smithing
Blast furnace gold. Well-known ironman meta training method. The entire account should be focused on getting 200m smithing, as it will take the entirety of your gp. Since you’re not doing sepulchre for the free 1b, you’ll need to use every cent you make that isn’t spend on NMZ buying gold ore.
Fishing
The new fishing boss coming out may be dangerous, so I would just avoid it at all cost. Stick to 5t fishing at barb since you will 0 time Agility/Strength.

Cooking
For cooking you’re going to buy karambwans from the shop, and try your best to 1T cook them. You’ll most likely just end up afking them as I couldn’t do it for more than 8 minutes. The most important factor here is that One GP is one Cooking XP.

Woodcutting
0 time afk cutting mahoganies for construction.

Farming
You’ll want to be doing as many trees as possible, even if you don’t have the seed to replant it, just hit it with a driveby for the xp drop, and keep on running. Farming contracts are just about a waste of time, as I’ve spent a few days trying them, but Jane was just a real bitch and didn’t give me the Contracts I wanted.