▲ 268 r/runescape
POV: you’re a Draynor bank guard and tomorrow is your retirement day
Drawn mostly in Krita, except for the stars which were done in Blender. No AI used.
u/Brvcifer — 6 days ago
u/Brvcifer
▲ 32 r/2007scape
POV: You're a Draynor bank guard and tomorrow is your retirement day
Done mostly in Krita, with the star background done in Blender. No AI. For a recent Wise Old Man commission I received.
u/Brvcifer — 6 days ago
▲ 10 r/2007scape
POV: You're a bank guard in Draynor and tomorrow is your retirement day
From a recent Wise Old Man art piece I was commissioned to do!
u/Brvcifer — 7 days ago
▲ 111 r/2007scape
I've been afking the Inferno up to triple Jads recently in order to bust out the tasks for 10 and 15 Zuk kc. This alone isn't really anything crazy to anyone familiar with how disgusting the water thorns build is at this point; in fact, even my much weaker alt with only 24 pacts managed to do the same last night with just an air battlestaff, barrows armor, and a ring of suffering.
What I was not expecting, though, is what occurred just now:
I forgot that I was AFK in the Inferno when suddenly I get a Runelite low health notification. I tab into my client and find myself in the middle of wave 69, Zuk is at full HP, both the healers and Jad are out. And then to make matters worse, seconds after I tabbed into the client I also watch Jad destroy the shield.
In my panic I chugged my flask of fervor and swapped to my mage gear, and then just started frantically praying against Jad and killing the healers even though I knew for sure that the fight was probably over at this point and there would be no hope, but... nope. I sat there in absolute awe as my guy just proceeded to eat zuk's fireballs like he was at a fucking all you can eat buffet, then went on to absolutely clap his cheeks with zero additional input from my end.
Unfortunately I only caught the last few seconds of this since I only started recording once the situation became manageable enough that I could take my hands off the fight. Apologies for the weird crop as well, I think my capture area in OBS got messed up due to me resizing my client and I didn't check before hitting record.
u/Brvcifer — 19 days ago
▲ 988 r/2007scape
I'm currently playing through Leagues again on a second account in order to play alongside my wife, who is essentially your definition of the average, casual midgame player. It's no secret that everyone generally shares the opinion of "questing in Leagues sucks", however this experience has made me realize two additional things that I think make it detrimental to the game experience for these types of casual players:
1) You're essentially spoiling a whole storyline by throwing people straight toward the end of a questline. In this particular case, she hasn't done A Taste of Hope and is being sent straight into Sins of the Father without any of the prior story context.
2) These are, once again, casual players; they are absolutely not going to want to have to then work through this content a second time in the main game, especially if they only really play for a few hours a week.
For veteran players like you and I, having to run through Sins of the Father is annoying because we've already done it and it's just a 45 minute nuisance derailing us from our Leagues experience. In her case though, she is currently on day 3 of spending her daily hour or so of active (non-AFK) playtime trying to complete SotF instead of actually engaging with all of the fun content Leagues has to offer. I cannot imagine a world where she then returns to the main game and decides to complete A Taste of Hope, followed by the repeated entirety of SotF any time soon, which is really unfortunate.
As someone who really truly loves quests in OSRS and considers them to be one of the best parts of the game, I think this is such a shame. The Myreque questline in particular is really awesome, and I wish she'd been able to enjoy and experience it properly. And yet casual players like her likely represent a hidden majority of the playerbase, which is easy to forget if you're like me and the people you interact with in-game are mostly people who live and breathe OSRS. Hell, if you're this far into reading a several paragraph long text post to the 2007scape subreddit, you likely aren't part of this casual playerbase either.
TL;DR - Leagues questing makes the Leagues experience worse for veteran players, but also makes the main game experience worse for your average, casual players. Which is really unfortunate, because the quests in this game are genuinely so good
u/Brvcifer — 23 days ago