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Two items right off the bat. This post will be long. My apologies, please try to RuneScape gold keep with me. While this post is extremely critical of recent changes to RuneScape -- real and proposed -- I want to stress that I am thankful for all the hard work Jagex staff have put into RuneScape. I appreciate attempts and your passion. However, the hard work of Jagex does not obviate certain issues I have for the future of RuneScape. As a community we should be concerned with the slayer upgrade that is proposed. Not simply because of the upgrade itself, but what it means to development decisions.
I fear Jagex has lost sight of everything OSRS is; this is concerning from the company that gave us EOC. There has been backlash against the Slayer upgrade Since the Reddit community is aware. Criticisms have concentrated on a plethora of problems, but perhaps the biggest is that applying the 15% damage/accurate bonus of this Slayer Helmet into a boss-only Slayer Master, would be incredibly overpowered and would forcefully shift the whole PvM meta.
Rather than address this foundational problem -- that this update is too large, too meta-shifting, too much buff -- Jagex, in a tone-deaf reply, has focused on smaller"concessions" (more about this later). Jagex's strategy is not malicious by any stretch, but it's a good example of"losing the forest for the trees" This update cannot and shouldn't be viewed as a collection of suggestions that are discrete to be viewed in vacuum.
Well, let us think foundationally: what is OSRS? OSRS is significantly more popular than RS3 as most know. There are a lot of reasons for this, however, most fundamentally, it comes down to nostalgia (for childhood); and also a string of exceptionally unpopular changes in RS3. The tiniest changes include, most notably EOC, free commerce removals and wilderness, as well as a general push towards Microtransactions, EzScape, and DailyScape. In other words, the success of OSRS can be viewed as a backlash against RS3: and, even more specifically, a backlash to the base game against many changes.
It's unsurprising that in OSRS Jagex has polled many of the alterations that are in-game that are most significant. They want to avoid the pitfalls that led to RS3. Given the background of the failures of RS3, I write to remind we need updates, which don't fundamentally change RuneScape. Mind you, that does NOT mean"no new upgrades." New content is absolutely required to keep RuneScape fresh and individuals. At precisely the same time, people are tired of content that lacks an old-school feel: content that is overly meta-shifting and rs 2007 gold too overpowered. The projected Slayer update ventures in this territory.