As finals week is getting dangerously close, I find myself desperately searching for more ways to procrastinate (this blog post being one of them- I've got a speech to do in 2 hours. Oops.)

And what better way to waste time than to get back online and start playing runescape again?

After catching back up on the things I've missed in the last few months, I'm excited for a fresh new month of updates. And here's my thoughts on today's Behind The Scenes.

Capes of Distinction

Well... they tried. I feel like many people are rather disappointed after seeing the spoiler pictures posted on twitter and facebook, and I kind of feel the same way. I think that putting the cape design up to a majority vote was probably a bad idea. Particularly since it was separated into so many parts- no one could have had any idea what each section would look like when combined with the others. Oh well. It probably could have been a lot worse. In any case, I look forward to wearing it around for a few hours. I do like the idea of the milestone capes. Perhaps this will encourage more people to do what I've done for years- keep their skill set decently rounded instead of rushing for one 'easy' 99 after another while ignoring skills that they don't really like. Skillers will probably be annoyed that they they can't wear any of the capes, but I don't think that's anything new.

Dwarf Lava Flow Mine

I just have one thing to say.. Why? We already have the LRC for "mid-to-high-level" mining purposes. I suppose this is for people who are kinda-almost-able-to-use-LRC-but-not-quite. The exp boosting outfit sounds nice though. It would save you around 1 mil exp or so on your way to 99, so I can't really argue with that.

Death Hats

"Death Hats" sounds more like the title of one of their april fool's prank updates. I can't say I'm really all that interested in this update since I don't do pvp, but I'm sure there are pking pures out there who feel like they don't do enough bragging and boasting already. This will be a glorious update for them.

Upgrades Week / Graphical Improvements

The little updates are usually my favorites. Most of the small upgrades won't affect me much, though (I've never hammered coconuts before, as delightfully dirty as it sounds). But I'm always happy to see when Jagex takes player's suggestions and does something about it. I'm sure the new graphics update will look good too. I think they're doing a great job so far- last weekend, my boyfriend mistook me playing runescape for WoW, because the graphics were so nice.

Fremennik Sagas

I think I'm most excited about this one. Kind of a like a quest, but repeatable, and has something to with dungeoneering? Sounds like a good combination to me. Hopefully it'll provide an alternative way to get exp for dung while still gaining tokens. I'm sure the f2p players will appreciate it as well. It's nice to see them getting more updates these days.