OSRS Nightmare Zone Guide

By Ollie Green | December 3rd, 2018 | Categories: RuneScape

Are you looking for the best OSRS Nightmare Zone Points Guide? We’ve got you covered. In this article, we’ll offer everything there is to know about the minigame.

We’ll cover everything from the best strategies, the necessary requirements, and the OSRS Nightmare Zone rewards available, and help you gain averagely 300,000 points per hour.

What are the OSRS Nightmare Zone requirements?

Complete 5 quests from the list below
Have enough coins to enter the mini-game (at least 1,000)

Before we share our optimal strategy for the Nightmare Zone, let’s take a look at how to do Nightmare Zone in OSRS to start the minigame in the first place.

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Complete 5 of the following quests:

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
Vampire Slayer

Afterward, put coins in the coffer in the Nightmare Zone lobby:

Endurance normal mode needs 1,000 coins
Endurance hard mode needs 5,000 coins
Rumble normal mode needs 2,000 coins
Rumble hard mode needs 6,000 coins
Customizable rumble needs 22,000 or 26,000 for normal/hard

If you have completed all OSRS Nightmare Zone quests from the list above, you can get a discount of 10,000 on customizable rumbles.

Finally, there is a practice mode that requires no coins.

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What are the different modes?

Nightmare zone has three modes
Practice mode, endurance mode, and rumble mode
Each mode also has a normal and hard modifier

In the Nightmare Zone, you get to fight quest bosses you have fought in the past. The more quests you have completed, the more NMZ bosses will be available.

There are three different Nightmare Zone modes – Endurance, Rumble, and Practice. Each of these three also has a normal and hard difficulty modifier.

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1. Practice Mode

In Practice mode, you get to choose a specific quest boss to fight. This lets you practice your strategy for that fight. No experience or points are given. You will still get item drops, however.

3. Endurance Mode

In Endurance mode, you must fight each boss 1 on 1 until you either defeat all unlocked bosses or you die. You gain points for each boss you kill.

3. Rumble Mode

In Rumble mode, you can play solo or group up with friends. You will fight randomly selected bosses that all drop into the arena at once. When you kill one boss, another will spawn in its place. Rumble mode only ends when all players are dead. Once again, points are rewarded for each boss kill.

With customizable Rumble mode, you can pay more to choose which bosses spawn.

What about normal and hard mode?

Normal: you fight monsters from quests at their original level
Hard: the quest monsters have double HP, attack, strength, ranged, and magic stats. You get far more points per kill.

How about the recommended skills?

43 – Prayer
51 – HP
70 – Attack
70 – Defense
70 – Strength
75 – Ranged
86 – Magic

Once you have completed at least 5 of the required quests, you should also make sure you have the recommended stats.

Nightmare Zone is a safe minigame so you won’t lose gear when you die, but these stats are necessary for the most optimal results.

Recommended Stats

Prayer – Level 43
Health Points – Level 51
Attack, Strength, Defense – Level 70
Ranged – Level 75
Magic – Level 86

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How about the best NMZ Strategies for the most points?

Avoid the monsters from the list below
Use the recommended equipment below
Fill your inventory with 4-5 overloads, prayer potions, and a Saradomin Godsword

There are many popularized strategies for Nightmare Zone that have been refined to help you earn the most experience and Nightmare Zone points per hour.

There is one in particular that stands out. We will be sharing this one below.

Before we share that strategy, though, it should be mentioned that the best option is to choose a customized Rumble mode, then have every boss enabled, with some exceptions.

Avoid these quests and their respective monsters:

Dragon Slayer (Elvarg)
Fairytale I – 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)
Recipe for Disaster

Whilst Rumble is the most optimal strategy, Endurance is slightly easier as you only fight one boss at once. You can use the following loadout in either Rumble or Endurance.

Top Nightmare Zone Strategy

This is the most optimal method that takes the least amount of concentration, gives you the highest XP per hour and the highest Nightmare Zone points per hour.

Take 4-5 overloads, your godsword, and one space for coins. The rest of your inventory can be used for prayer potions.

Use your Saradomin Godsword special to keep your prayer points up for longer.

Helmet – Helm of Neitiznot
Amulet – Amulet of glory (or fury)
Ring – Berserker ring
Cape – Ardougne cloak 4, Fire cape, or Obsidian cape
Body – Proselyte hauberk
Legs – Proselyte cuisse
Gloves – Barrows gloves
Boots – Primordial boots
Main hand – Abyssal whip
Second hand – Dragon defender
Quiver – God blessing
For special attack – Saradomin godsword

Which rewards does the Nightmare Zone have?

Three reward types – Upgrade, resource, and benefits
Benefits are potions exclusive to Nightmare Zone
Resources are standard skilling resources
Upgrades can upgrade existing items

In Nightmare Zone, you are rewarded with points for each NMZ boss you kill. For reference, our strategy above can net you roughly 300,000 points per hour, on average.

The points you earn can be spent on a variety of items. The items are split into three different categories: Resources, Upgrades, and Benefits.

Benefits include potions that can only be used in the Nightmare Zone.

Upgrade rewards are different – they provide upgrades to existing items. You spend points to NMZ imbue that base item to give it more power.