Evergreen MMO Old School RuneScape recently released its first new skill, Sailing, which prompted a rare race to become the first player in the world to reach the maximum skill level of 99. Countless diehard grinders showed up for the race, and after a few days, a player named AsianGrinder took first place. In a post-mortem of the Sailing grind, AsianGrinder says it was anything but easy, complaining of physical pain from long gaming hours.
Sailing, as the name suggests, is about maintaining a boat, fishing, delivering supplies, exploring uncharted lands, battling sea creatures, navigating nautical routes, and other seaside adventures. OSRS players have already begun mathing out optimal training methods, but at launch, everyone was flying – rather, sailing – mostly blind, following their best guess, beta findings, and emerging anecdotal wisdom. For his part, AsianGrinder says he did "mainly Barracuda Trials" to train, but the grind started well before the skill was even released on November 19.
