Rules

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Rules

Welcome to the Taskman ruleset.

This page is relevant for you if you intend to play a Taskman. A Taskman is a freshly created ironman account whose progression is dictated entirely by the task on their dashboard. You can select your account type (Taskman vs. TaskMAIN) by expanding the menu in the top right of this page and selecting “settings”.

This page is intended as an encyclopedia, not a novel. You are not expected to immediately memorise it all, but please refer back to it and use your browser's search to find specific key words!

The Taskman Admins reserve the right to revoke the Taskman status after fair warning, if a Taskman does not follow the rules, or plays against the intended spirit of the mode by exploiting potential loopholes.

§0 Have Fun

Any attempt to encourage lack of fun, or suggest that fun is in some way inferior to efficiency, will be met by somewhat deadly force.

Enjoy the game within these rules, and allow others to do the same.

§1 Active Tasks

When working on your active task and other activities…

1. You are not allowed to work towards uncompleted (active) tasks, if it can be avoided.
2. Avoid gaining experience in skills unless it’s necessary to progress your task.
3. Do not go out of your way to obtain items other than those that benefit your active task.
4. You are allowed to (re)complete previously fully completed tiers at will, when new tasks are added.
5. You are allowed to buy skill mastery capes (and mark their tasks as complete) as soon as you achieve level 99 or 120 in a skill.
6. Utilizing boosting services through any means is strictly prohibited.

§2 Valid training methods

When choosing a method or activity for your active task…

1. You must use methods that you already have access to, or that do not require you to level skills above the softcaps of your current tier. Softcaps, and a proper definition of them, can be found at the bottom of the page._[5]
2. You are allowed to use any method granting only experience in your task-related skill(s), unless a specific method(s) is stated in the tasks description.
3. Methods/activities which have tasks requiring you to obtain uniques from them must be avoided, unless the uniques you have left from the activity are pet items, items on the General section of the Slayer collection log or have a base drop-rate of 1/2000 or rarer.
4. Items that are required for supply tasks_[1] may be created, and the relevant tasks marked complete, if creating the item benefits your active task.
5. Activities which may incidentally complete an active task or an achievement can be used.
6. Activities rewarding you with currencies/reputation, which can be spent in a reward shop or award consumables only, can be utilised. You may keep the currency for later tasks. If you use it off-task, it must be spent on non-task items or items previously obtained.
7. Bonus experience, whether in the form of items or Fort Forinthry bonuses can be applied to any skill. Any other items that increase your total experience gain by 10% or more (such as Brawling gloves), may not be used if your task does not require experience, unless said items actively benefit your task. All boosts are allowed for Farming and Prayer experience.
8. You may not use Nastroth to block experience in skills or make use of minor or major skill resets.

§2.1 Combat

Combat skills in the Taskman mode refers only to the Attack, Strength, Ranged, Magic, Constitution and Defence Skills.

During activities, in which you are required to engage in combat, you may...

1. Utilise any "Combat skill" including ones that are already past the softcap of your tier.
2. Train personally preferred "Combat skills" up to level 30, if you fail to kill relevant monsters or quest bosses for your active task.
3. Utilise combat assisting tools including, but not limited to, the (Attuned) ectoplasmator, bonecrusher, seedicide, herbicide, charming imp, spring cleaner and the sunspear.

§3 Progression between tiers

To progress from one tier (difficulty) of tasks to another…

1. You must first complete all tasks within your current tier.
2. A number of passive tasks must also be completed…
   • 25 passive tasks in total are required to progress from Beginner to Easy.
   • 70 passive tasks in total are required to progress from Easy to Medium.
   • 130 passive tasks in total are required to progress from Medium to Hard.
   • 245 passive tasks in total are required to progress from Hard to Elite.
   • 400 passive tasks in total are required to progress from Elite to Master.
   • 565 passive tasks in total are required to progress from Master to Legendary.
   • 670 passive tasks in total are required to progress from Legendary to God.
3. A number of group PvM unique tasks must be completed, starting from the Hard tier…
   • 10/12 Hard tier group PvM tasks are required to progress from Hard to Elite.
   • 30/35 Elite tier group PvM tasks and all Hard tier tasks are required to progress from Elite to Master.
   • 45/53 Master tier group PvM tasks and all Elite tier tasks are required to progress from Master to Legendary.

§3.1 Passive tasks

When working on passive tasks…

1. Minigames and D&Ds awarding no experience, or solely experience in combat, can be participated in whenever.
2. Minigames or D&Ds awarding experience in skills other than combat can be participated in if you need the experience for your active task, or if you can avoid gaining the experience.
3. You are allowed to assemble any item you have obtained the necessary skill levels, components and materials for throughout your Taskman journey.

§3.2 Group PvM requirements

Newly added group PvM bosses will have a month-long grace period during which uniques from the new boss are not required to progress. Uniques obtained from a new boss during this period will still count towards your total.

§3.2.1 Group encounters

Taskman mode considers some tasks in the following to be group encounters_{[2]: Liberation of Mazcab, Elite Dungeons 1-4, Nex, Kerapac, Kalphite King, Barrows: Rise of the Six, Nex - Angel of Death, Raksha - the Shadow Colossus, Vorago, Solak, Croesus and Araxxi. Tasks considered to be group encounters are stated as being so in the task description. Group encounters…}

1. Can be attempted as soon as you enter a new tier, and as long as you have tasks remaining (unique drops or achievements) from the encounter in your tier or lower tiers.
2. Must be abandoned on expiry of an instance if you finish your last task for that encounter in your active tier and all lower tiers.
3. Have no gear, Herblore, Prayer or Summoning restrictions regardless of who you are in a group with.
4. Are subject to the Placeholder system_[3].
5. Attempted solo must be abandoned as soon as you have no tasks remaining for the encounter in your tier and lower tiers.

§3.2.2 Arch-Glacor

While Arch-Glacor is subject to the placeholder system in the Master tier due to components for its uniques having Group PvM requirements, it is not itself a group boss. The only group encounter rule the Arch-Glacor adheres to, is §5.1 d, meaning it may only be fought for the purposes of obtaining uniques when required to by your active task.

§3.2.3 Araxxi

While Araxxi is generally considered a solo-encounter, the time-gated nature of its enrage mechanic entitles it to be subject to §3.2.1, sections a-d.

§3.2.4 Admin-approved group encounter events

You are allowed to participate in admin-approved group PvM encounters whenever they take place if...

1. The boss is available in your highest unlocked tier and either
2. You have uniques left for the boss in your tier or
3. You are at at least 90% completion of your current tier, regardless of whether you have tasks left in your tier.

§4 Non-group encounters with other players

Taskman mode considers all PVM encounters not listed in §3.2.1 to be non-group encounters. Lootshare is allowed. In order to attempt non-group encounters, you must have the encounter for your active task or otherwise be allowed to kill the boss. If you are grouping, you may…

1. No longer continue the grouping upon completion of your task.
2. Group without gear restrictions, if your partner(s) is a Taskman in the same tier as yourself.
3. Only do so with a non-Taskman account or a Taskman in a different tier than yourself, if weapon and armour tier, as well as any Herblore, Prayer or Summoning benefits are within 5 levels of the participating Taskman with the lowest levels.

§5 Special tasks in the active tiers

Some tasks in the active tiers are not your average tasks. Therefore…

1. If an active task has a time-gate (real-life time must pass), you have to complete as much of the task as you can. If you still cannot proceed, you are allowed to mark the task complete. You must return to and finish it as soon as possible.

§6 Item acquisition

When obtaining an item which is required for your active task, if…

1. The task specifically states where or how to obtain an item, do that.
2. It is in stock in a store you already have access to, buy it.
3. It cannot be bought, choose a method adhering to §2, c. You may choose to level up skills, if the required item can be obtained within the softcap_[5] for the skills in your tier.

As a general note - if the obvious (skilling) route for an item is above the softcap of the tier, another method exists that can be used within the rules!

§6.1 Creation of beneficial consumable items and tools

When your activities would benefit from a consumable item or tool you do not currently possess…

1. You are allowed to create them, provided you have the raw or processed materials for them already banked.
2. You cannot gather items unless in accordance with §1, b.
3. You may create the minimum you estimate your task to require.

§6.2 Items previously obtained for task completions

When an item would benefit your activities, you may, provided you have the relevant currency or materials, recreate or re-obtain items that you have previously been required to create or obtain.

§6.3 Minigame & D&D items

When purchasing from a minigame or D&D reward shop, you may, provided you have the relevant currency, freely purchase items that have no active tasks.

You may not sell purchased items to a reward shop once their respective task (if any) has been marked as completed.

§7 Quests and experience rewards

You can only start a quest or miniquest when it is required for your active task. While questing…

1. You are allowed to finish any quest your task has forced you to start.
2. Post-quest lamps and other experience rewards from your tasks, can be used on any skill for which you have the appropriate level, or saved for later if possible (or desirable).
3. Treat each subquest of special quests - Recipe for Disaster and Dimension of Disaster - as its own quest.

§8 Clue scrolls

When your active task requires you to obtain treasure trail uniques, you are allowed to...

1. Train skills up to their softcap_[5] in your tier, if this allows you to complete the step.
2. Complete quests.
3. Gather items as required for the clue steps you roll.

And may not...

1. Reroll the loot of any clue if a master clue is part of that loot.
2. Downgrade master clues into any other tier clue.

§8.1 Easy clues

If you need flowers for Easy clues, you are allowed to complete the Waterfall Quest. If the 40 mithril seeds are insufficient for the colour of flower you need, you are out of luck until you reach the medium tier.

§8.2 Master clues

§8.2.1 Master clue emote steps

For Master clue emote steps, if…

1. You are missing an item that is obtained from other-task-completing activities, you get one shot at the item each time you roll the step. You may do the other-task-completing activity, until you have received ONE unique from it. Downgrade or re-roll the clue if you do not get the item you’re looking for.
2. An item would fill both a Player Owned House slot and a hidey hole but you are not in possession of a second one, you get ONE shot at a duplicate as in a.

§8.2.2 Running out of Master clue scrolls

When you are out of Master clues during a Master clue unique task, you may...

1. Complete the Archaeology collections Urns of the Empire OR Green Gobbo Goodies I for tetracompass pieces. These compasses may be repaired and opened for clues.
2. Open other types of clue scrolls if adhering to §2, c.

§9 Regarding specific skills

The following sections contain rulings on specific skills.

§9.1 Agility

You are allowed to use shortcuts and segments of Agility courses if they allow you to get to your point of interest faster.

§9.2 Archaeology

§9.2.1 Experience and chronotes

When doing an Archaeology task that requires experience or chronotes, you may…

1. Excavate and restore any artefacts, as well as gather and create their secondary non-archaeology ingredients, if applicable.
2. Complete mysteries.
3. Hand in any collection you complete.
4. Only offer relic items to the monolith on an appropriate task.

§9.2.2 Achievements

When working on Archaeology tasks that do not require experience or chronotes, you should aim to reduce experience gain where possible, including prioritising excavating and restoring low level artefacts from scratch over restoring higher level items. You may…

1. Excavate and restore any artefact(s) your task specifically asks for.
2. Excavate and restore artefacts from the Venator remains excavation hotspot to further your Discoverer and Restorer achievements.

§9.3 Construction

When your active task requires Construction experience...

1. You may turn any type of log in your possession into planks.
2. Provided you have already exhausted all logs/planks of that type in your possession, you may chop any type of log you have the Construction level to process.

§9.4 Cooking

There are no special rules or exceptions for this skill at present, outside of its associated unlocks.

§9.5 Crafting

When your active task requires Crafting experience, you may…

1. Mine and cut gems from gem rocks despite receiving Mining experience
2. Play and repair the harps in the Ithell district of Prifddinas, despite receiving Construction experience.

Crystal keys may be assembled whenever.

§9.6 Divination

There are no special rules or exceptions for this skill at present, outside of its associated unlocks.

§9.7 Dungeoneering

§9.7.1 Training in Daemonheim

When training Dungeoneering in the depths of Daemonheim, you may...

1. Open as many doors as possible regardless of experience received in skills other than Dungeoneering in doing so.
2. Gather and process items that would immediately speed up your Dungeoneering training or are otherwise required for completing your dungeon/task.
3. Only group with Taskmen in the same tier or players whose Dungeoneering levels correspond to your own_[4]. Medium tier taskmen and above may group with anyone.
4. Collect any journal entry, Fremennik Saga items or Elven unreadable pages found, during your activities.

§9.7.2 Obtaining Dungeoneering tokens

When you are obtaining Dungeoneering tokens, you may...

1. use both the Depths of Daemonheim and the Elite Dungeons (if it can be done in accordance with §2, c).
2. group for Elite Dungeons with other players in your tier, or if your gear, Herblore, Prayer and Summoning benefits are within 5 levels of each other.
3. use lucky charms in Elite Dungeons, if the uniques you have left have a drop rate of 1/2000 or rarer (refer to §2, c).

§9.8 Farming

The Farming skill is considered a passive skill. Therefore, earning Farming experience is allowed whenever. You may utilise any seeds you have the Farming level to plant, even if the seed yields experience in skills other than Farming, unless doing so would conflict with §1, a).

§9.8.1 The Player-owned Farm(s)

The tutorial for the Player-owned Farm as well as all pens for both farms have active tasks. The farms can be utilised to the extent you have completed these tasks. You may…

1. Buy the deeds of any pen to unlock its associated animals.
2. Consider the Player-owned Farm (and Ranch out of Time) animals a pet-item when deciding on a method for your active task (see §2, c).
3. Use any animal as soon as you obtain them.

§9.9 Firemaking

When your active task requires Firemaking experience...

1. You may burn any type of log in your possession.
2. Provided you have already exhausted all logs of that type in your possession, you may chop any type of log you have the Firemaking level to burn.

§9.10 Fishing

Fish can be caught when...

1. Your active task requires Cooking experience
2. You are out of relevant food for PvM. Your Cooking unlock determines the amount you are allowed to fish.

§9.11 Fletching

When your active task requires Fletching experience...

1. You may fletch any type of log in your possession.
2. Provided you have already exhausted all logs of that type in your possession, you may chop any type of log you have the Fletching level to process.

§9.12 Herblore

When your active task requires Herblore experience, or you are making potions according to an unlock, you may...

1. Kill monsters for seeds, herbs and secondaries in accordance with §2, c.
2. Obtain, craft and create secondaries

§9.13 Hunter

There are no special rules or exceptions for this skill at present, outside of its associated unlocks.

§9.14 Magic

You are allowed to cast any spell whenever doing so is beneficial to your activities.

§9.15 Necromancy

There are no special rules or exceptions for this skill at present, as it does not yet exist.

§9.16 Prayer

You are allowed to use bones and ashes for Prayer experience whenever you see fit, however you see fit. You may also freely hand in daily challenges for Prayer.

§9.17 Runecrafting

If your active task requires runes, and regular currency shops are out of stock, or do not sell the runes you need, you are allowed to Runecraft them, assuming you have the level and essence to do so.

§9.18 Slayer

§9.18.1 Slayer log uniques

When you roll a task to "Register a total of X unique item(s) in the [Area] section of your Slayer collection log", you may…

1. Go for any unique item in the dropdown of the task that is not locked by quests.
2. Level up Slayer high enough to access ANY unique in the dropdown.
3. Attempt to obtain any unique with a Slayer skill icon next to them, by completing Slayer assignments (see §9.11.2 to determine viable assignments).

You MUST complete any assignment that can complete your task, regardless of other possible uniques.

§9.18.2 Viable assignments

When you are doing Slayer assignments to level up, obtain on-assignment uniques, or working on a task requiring Slayer points, you can do any assignment...

1. Awarding unique items found in the dropdown of your task. These must be done.
2. That cannot award unowned unique items, lore books and pages, unless in adherence with §2, c), or forced by §9.11.2, a).
3. With a boss-version if your task requires Slayer experience and one of the following is true:
   1. The boss can be killed in adherence with §2
   2. You have an open group PvM placeholder for it
4. Including special Slayer assignments, if this can be achieved in adherence with §2, c.

Any assignment not in adherence with this must be skipped. This can be done using either Slayer points or skipping tasks with Turael or Spria, but it must be done.

§9.18.3 Toggling Slayer monsters

You are allowed to toggle the option to be assigned Aquanites, Glacors, Muspahs, Nihils, Tormented demons and Nightmare creatures as Slayer assignments whenever you have the points.

§9.18.4 Capturing souls

When you are hunting for a soul for a pokedex task, you are not allowed to complete slayer assignments. If you happen to have one for the creature you must obtain a soul from, it must be cancelled.

§9.18.5 Use of Reaper assingments

Reaper assignments may...

1. Only be completed once you have rolled the appropriate Medium tier unlock, and only for bosses you have unlocked the boss portal in War's retreat for.
2. Not be completed for bosses that require keys, unless you already own the amount of keys required to finish your reaper.
3. Not be completed for assignments that award you with 0 reaper points.
4. Only be completed if kills contribute to your reaper, e.g. DeathTouch Darts can not be used by you.
5. Not be completed for bosses that do not appear in your current or previous tier(s), even if you have one or more kill count from a Taskman Team-approved event as defined in §3.2.4

§9.19 Smithing

You are allowed to mine any ores necessary, when your active task requires you to smith an item or obtain Smithing experience. Regarding the Masterwork armour set, once you have completed the task to obtain it, you are allowed to gather and process resources for more glorious bars. These can be used to create new masterwork items, replace pieces of the set that have gone missing and as a one-off for cosmetic spikes for the Custom-fit, trimmed masterwork set.

When Smithing in the Artisans' Workshop you may not complete ceremonial sword orders unless your task is to obtain one, until full completion of the blacksmith's outfit (excluding the helmet addon), since orders have a 1/100 (1/25 for perfect) chance to award a piece (see §2, c).

§9.20 Summoning

When your active task requires Summoning experience, you may...

1. Kill monsters for charms and tertiaries in accordance with §2, c.

§9.21 Thieving

There are no special rules or exceptions for this skill at present, outside of its associated unlocks.

§9.22 Woodcutting

There are no special rules or exceptions for this skill at present, outside of its associated unlocks.

§9.23 Invention

When training Invention for an active task requiring Invention experience, you may...

1. Research blueprints.
2. Level up augmented weapons and armour, and disassemble/siphon these.
3. Only use methods for Invention training that adhere to §2, c.

§9.23.1 Use of Invention

Once you unlock Invention, you may…

1. Use augmented, perked up gear, weapons and tools without any restrictions to their use.
2. Research, create and use any Invention item you have the levels and materials for.
3. Only siphon or disassemble Invention items, when your active task requires Invention experience.

Footnotes

1. Supply tasks

A supply task is a type of task requiring you to obtain a certain amount of a supply - for instance a type of fish, potion or Summoning pouch. They are tasks made specifically for Taskmen and are intended to smooth the training curve for particular skills or grant you useful consumables. While training skills for other tasks, items which are linked to supply tasks are not restricted. If, as a consequence, you already have enough of the required item(s) when you roll the supply task and the level required to make them, it must be automatically completed.

2. Group PVM encounters

Ultimately, the task admins decide whether an encounter classifies as group or solo. From the hard tier onwards, a boss might (but won't always) be considered a group encounter if:

The boss has no achievements saying: "Can only be completed in a solo instance".

The boss can be faced in a group, but the loot is distributed individually.

The boss has an enrage mechanic that resets with the in-game daily reset.

3. Placeholders

A placeholder is an artificial system implemented to ensure taskmen can always work on their active task. If you roll a group boss encounter, and cannot find a team at present, you're allowed to select a “Placeholder” in the unique-list, mark the task complete, and return to it later.

4. Unlocks

Unlocks are tied to completion of (some) tasks. They are intended to smooth your Taskman experience, allowing you to bypass the standard rules. All unlocks are in place to achieve a specific goal, and often have an expiration or limitation in the form of a period of time or a number of actions.

5. Softcaps

We've used a soft cap on the tiers to determine which content is destined for what tier. What it means is that a certain tier will have mostly content between levels X and levels Y. Not all skills are the same, and thus require different caps. Some tasks and rules may reference the soft caps to guide you towards certain methods and limit others. However, natural progression of skills beyond the caps is quite likely and you are NOT expected to stop using a skill entirely because it exceeds the stated level. You may also make use of any skill unlocks (better potions, food etc.) beyond the caps, provided you do so in accordance with the rest of the rules.

The softcaps can be viewed in the table below.

Combat Skills (not including Prayer / Summoning)

Tier	Range
Beginner	1-50
Easy	51-70
Medium	71-90
Hard	91-99
Elite	100-113
Master	113-120
Legendary	120-126
God	126

Regular Skills

Tier	Range
Beginner	1-30
Easy	31-50
Medium	51-70
Hard	71-80
Elite	81-90
Master	91-99
Legendary	100-113
God	114-126

120 Skills

Tier	Range
Beginner	1-30
Easy	31-60
Medium	61-80
Hard	81-95
Elite	96-105
Master	106-120
Legendary	120-126
God	126

Elite Skills

Tier	Range
Beginner	N/A
Easy	N/A
Medium	N/A
Hard	1-95
Elite	96-120
Master	120
Legendary	121-150
God	150

Notes

In some cases, the wording of these rules may differ from the website for reasons of readability. The website's word is final if there is any material differences between the two.

History

• 17th May 2023
  • Re-aligned rules with the Taskman site (again).
• 25th January 2021
  • Added section on Invention specific rulings.
• 1st January 2021
  • Once again re-synchronised rules from the Taskman website.
• 16th November 2020
  • Re-synchronised with rule changes from the Taskman site.
• 24th June 2020
  • Rules page brought back into alignment with the Taskman site.