Tool stack
The OSRS account toolkit
The five tools that cover the full lifecycle of an Old School RuneScape account —play, decide, measure, optimize, and fund—. The baseline stack any player serious about progressing keeps on hand.
Old School RuneScape is a deliberately opaque game: it won't tell you what to train, what a boss drops, what gear to bring, or how to make gold. That friction is part of its charm, but it would be unbearable without a handful of external tools filling the gap. This stack gathers the five that cover the full lifecycle of an account, each in a distinct layer of the workflow, without overlapping.
The flow
Everything starts with RuneLite: the client you play on and the base that integrates the rest —overlays, automatic tracking, and Grand Exchange prices all live inside it—. While you play, OSRS Wiki answers "what do I do": where that item is, how a quest is completed, which money-making method suits your level, what the optimal quest route is.
As you progress, Wise Old Man measures: it records your XP, your EHP, and your boss kills, turning your progress into comparable stats and concrete goals instead of a vague sense of "I'm improving." When it's time for PvM, OSRS Wiki DPS Calculator decides which loadout to bring to each boss —max hit, accuracy, DPS— before dying by trial in-game. And underneath it all, GE Tracker is the economy layer: live prices, margins, and alerts to fund the gear, runes, and consumables the rest of the stack tells you that you need.
Why these five
They cover the full lifecycle of an account without redundancy, each in its layer:
- Play → RuneLite
- Decide what to do → OSRS Wiki
- Measure progress → Wise Old Man
- Optimize combat → OSRS Wiki DPS Calculator
- Fund it all → GE Tracker
You don't need all five to log in, but you do to progress consistently: one tells you what to do, another whether you're doing it well, another how to hit harder, and another how to pay for it. Each tool has its full analysis in the codex.
What's in this stack
- RuneLiteFree
The client everything runs on. The base of the stack: it integrates the tracking, GE prices, and overlays that the rest of the tools feed.
The open-source, Jagex-approved client with 1,000+ quality-of-life plugins; the de facto standard for playing Old School RuneScape
- OSRS WikiFree
The reference that answers "what do I do": drops, money-making methods, quest requirements, and the optimal quest route.
The canonical Old School RuneScape wiki: items, monsters, quests, drops, maps, calculators, and guides; the game's primary reference
- Wise Old ManFree
The tracker that measures your progress —XP, EHP, boss kills— and turns your account into comparable stats and concrete goals.
Open-source OSRS progress tracker covering XP, EHP, EHB, competitions and an official RuneLite plugin that auto-updates your stats.
- OSRS Wiki DPS CalculatorFree
The calculator that decides which loadout to bring to each boss: max hit, accuracy, and DPS before dying by trial in-game.
The canonical OSRS DPS calculator maintained by Weirdgloop: build a loadout and get exact max hit, accuracy, DPS and time-to-kill.
- GE TrackerFree
The economy layer: live prices, margins, and alerts to fund everything else by making gold.
Freemium OSRS flipping suite: live prices, margin calculators with GE tax, watchlists and alerts, with the advanced features locked behind a subscription.
