OSRS Nightmare Zone Guide

Looking for an easy guide to the Nightmare Zone? Look no further because we have you covered! In the following article, we’ll be discussing everything there is to know about the minigame. For instance, the strategies, required equipment, rewards, the best way to earn points, etc.

Requirements

You need to complete at least any 5 quests mentioned in the following list:

Contact, Desert Treasure, Dragon Slayer, Dream Mentor, Fairy Tale I – Growing Pains, Family Crest, Fight Arena, The Depths of Despair, The Fremennik Isles, The Grand Tree, The Great Brain Robbery, Grim Tales, The Corsair Curse, Haunted Mine, Holy Grail, Horror from the Deep, In Search of the Myreque, Legends’ Quest, Lost City, Lunar Diplomacy, Mountain Daughter, My Arm’s Big Adventure, One Small Favour, Tale of the Righteous, Recipe for Disaster, Roving Elves, Shadow of the Storm, Shilo Village, Tree Gnome Village, Troll Romance, Troll Stronghold, What Lies Below, Witch’s House, and Vampire Slayer.

You’ll also need osrsgold to add to the coffer, depending on which game mode you choose.

Endurance Normal Mode required 1,000 RSGP, Endurance Hard Mode requires 5,000 coins, Rumble Normal Mode required 2,000 coins, Rumble Hard Mode requires 6,000, and Customizable Rumble Mode requires 22,000 to 26,000 Runescape Gold (Normal/Hard).

If you’ve completed all the Nightmare Zone quests listed above, you’ll get a discount of 10,000 OSRS GP on the Customizable Rumble Mode. There’s also a Practice Mode for starters to get familiar with the gameplay.

Modes Explained

There are a total of three modes in the Nightmare Zone: Practice, Endurance, and Rumble. Each of these modes has different difficulty levels to choose from.

Practice Mode allows you to choose a specific quest boss to battle. It lets you practice different strategies on how to efficiently defeat it. However, as the name mentions, you don’t get any experience or points from it. Hey, but you can get item drops.

In the Endurance Mode, you have to fight every boss in a 1 Vs 1 battle until you defeat them or end up dead. You get a good stack of points for each kill!

Rumble Mode allows you to play solo or with a group. In this mode, you’ll have to fight randomly selected bosses all at once. The game only ends when all the players are dead. You also get points for each kill.

Normal or Hard?

In Normal Mode, you have to fight monsters at their original level (same as during the quests). Whereas, in Hard Mode, the same monsters will have an increase in their combat stats and HP.

Recommended Stats

You’ll need at least 43 Prayer, 51 Hit Points, 70 Attack, 70 Strength, 70 Defense, 75 Ranged, and 86 Magic to last long enough.

What to Avoid

There are several popular strategies while playing the Nightmare Zone, and some have been refined to even give you the best XP rate every hour.

Before you start approaching the best option, which is obviously Customized Rumble Mode, let’s have a look at what quests and monsters you should avoid.

Dragon Slayer (Elvarg), Fairytale 1 Growing Pains (Tanglefoot), The Family Crest (Chronozon), The Fremennik Isles (Ice Troll King), The Great Brain Robbery (Barrelchest), Grim Tales (Glod), Haunted Mine (Treus Dayth), Horror from the Deep (Dagannoth mother), My Arm’s Big Adventure (Giant Roc), One Small Favour (Slagilith), Shadow of the Storm (Agrith-Naar), Tale of the Righteous (Corrupt Lizardman), Troll Stronghold (Dad), Shilo Village (Nazastarool), Witch’s House (Witch’s experiment), and Recipe for Disaster.

Recommended Items

Grab 4 to 5 Overloads, a God Sword, Coins, and the rest of the inventory filled with Prayer Pots. You can use the Saradomin God Sword special attack to keep your Prayer Potions up for a longer duration.

Besides that, equip a Helm of Neitiznot, Amulet of glory/Fury, Berserker Ring, Ardougne Cloak 4/Fire Cape/Obsidian Cape, Proselyte Hauberk, Proselyte Cuisse, Barrows Gloves, Primordial Boots, Abyssal Whip, Dragon Defender, and Quiver God Blessing.

Rewards

First, which you already know about, are Nightmare Zone points that are rewarded for every boss you kill. Keeping the above tips in mind, you can easily earn up to 300k points per hour.

Speaking of item rewards, they are split into three categories. Benefits that are exclusive to the Nightmare Zone, Resources that grant skilling necessities, and Upgrades that allow you to enhance existing items.

Benefit Rewards

Super range costs 250 points, Super magic costs 250 points, Overload costs 1,500 points, and Absorption costs 1,000 points.

Resource Rewards

Runes cost 25 points, Rune essence costs 60 points, Pure essence costs 70 points, Flax costs 75 points, Vial of water costs 145 points, Snape Grass costs 175 points, Bucket of sand costs 200 points, Seaweed costs 200 points, Red Spiders’ Eggs cost 300 points, Dragon scale dust costs 750 points, Scroll of redirection costs 775 points, Potato cactus costs 1,250 points, Compost potion costs 5,000 points, and Herb box costs 9,500 points.

Upgrade Rewards

Black mask costs 1.25M points, Slayer helmet costs 1.25M points, Salve amulet costs 800K points, Salve amulet (e) costs 800K points, Ring of suffering costs 725K points, Berserker/Warrior/Archers Rings cost 650K points each, Treasonous ring/Ring of gods/Seers’ ring costs 650K points each, Granite ring costs 500K points, and Crystal bow/shield/halberd costs 20K points each.

Conclusion

That’s the end of your guide. We hope you have everything you need to survive in that dreadful, yet beneficial place called the Nightmare Zone. Good luck!