r/2007scape

I've been spending a lot of time around ToA and CoX lately and it honestly feels like you can't have a normal friendly conversation without wondering if you're being socially engineered. Someone asks you for a pot or something and acts super friendly to add you for a run. Obviously i'm not going to download sketchy plugins but I also don't spent all my time figuring out ways to manipulate and screw over people and who knows what they'll cook up. It sucks because you KNOW there are people out there willing to play the long con for months. Pretending to be your genuine friend just to eventually wait for you to slip up and f you over. I feel like it forces you to play with this cynical defensive mindset.

I was recently mining and chatted up with another player. Felt like we clicked. Same humor, vibe etc...but the second i invited them to my clan, they instantly went offline and deleted me. Looking back, i realized they probably thought that it was ME that was trying to scam THEM. since fake clan recruiting seems to be such a common phishing tactic. I'm not crying over a an "unrequited" friendship here but this is like the 3rd time this has happened and man it's just a bit depressing because friends really enhance this game.

I know scamming isn't new to runescape...i've played since 2005. But something about the new age scammers feels different. Idk...what do you think?

If this is the direction for PvM difficulty they're going for with Raids 4, I am really looking forward to it.

Drakan was fun as hell. Hope to see some of his mechanics implemented elsewhere

Increasing attack speed by 1 is basically the biggest single stat dps boost you can get on any weapon in this game. Every additional magic dmg only increases the gap. Harm staff was released in a time when elemental magic was shit but now that elemental weaknesses are a real approach to dps in this game, I suspect it will be hard to balance non harm staves around the harm orb existing without introducing more elemental compatible staves with special effects like the twinflame staff.

But there is basically no way to make traditional staves like kodai, etc... balanced in a world with the harm staff existing. Maybe that's fine but I feel like it compresses the design space down a bunch and it feels a bit of a shame that the best traditional magic staff in the game will never have a place with elemental magic. But maybe it's place will forever just be the best barraging staff.

The RNG on this run was TRULY insane - beating Kirby's world record by 3.6 seconds. I'd had a couple sub/low 1 minute runs that didn't quite get the right RNG, then this happened as I was winding down for the night.

Something I've not seen discussed following the release of vampyrium is just how great of a job the devs have done with agility shortcuts in the area. If you want to travel to venators from the medallion teleport for example, you can chain three agility shortcuts which cuts out a huge distance. Importantly, the shortcuts don't feel janky - your character's movement through them is super fluid and they really feel like a proper shortcut, as opposed to a lot of main game shortcuts that have awkward and slow animations.

Obviously a very small part of a huge update, but to me, it shows how agility could (and should) be integrated throughout the entire game.

Crimson Kisten was bugged in PVP, so many streamers and youtubers knew that, but still took it out to the wildy and used it. Westham, 61m, nish and almost every youtuber. Where does Jagex draw the line? Rendi finds an exploit that gets him 50% extra slayer xp/hr and they reset him. All these youtubers exploit a bug that costs innocent players their items and they just let it slide. If they're going to enforce the rules, they need to enforce them with everyone, not just who they choose to enforce them with.