Removing pure essence would be a disaster for everyone who has pure essence in their banks. You wouldn't get more profit from rcing either, runes would just drop in price ...
Why would this affect junk items? The one thing these items have in common is that no one is able to sell them in ge, because noone wants them... If they dont get sold, price wont change.
I don't think anyone really believes all that, they just WANT to believe it. But as far as I know, FFA does give better loot than LS/CS because you can use a row for FFA. A row is the only thing that has an effect on rare drops.
I agree, merchanting has become WAY out of hand. Clans would used to much things that people could live without for a few days like dragon boots, obby capes or things like that. But now prayer pots? Whats next hes gonna buy out sharks? Cut off pking, bossing and training? Its really stupid now merching clans on this scale ARE actually ruining the game for other people. Its even got so bad its come to this. A player moderator spamming to get people into a merch clan? How sad.. Can't we have the old days :( buy glorys 40k sell 50k :P W2 Fally =O So Jagex.... 1. Helpfull. Check. 2. Friendly. Check 3. Leading you to your nearest pyramid scheme scamming clan. Check.
Alot of people think that Sliske was the one who gave the Barrows brothers their powers, so I expect it to tie into one of the next mahjarrat quests eventually. Problem is that Jagex has released far too many quests and updates with loose ends, and it would take years of quests to clean all that a bit up. I also suspect that they just don't know what to do now, which might be why we still don't have access to Priffdinas.
There's also PvM... In my opinion we do not need weapons with alot higher strenght bonusses than the one we already have. What high levels really want(or just what I want : ) is armour/weapons with special abilities and set effects. An armour with defence bonus similar to statius that gives +5hp if you're wearing the full set for example, or a mage weapon with a special attack. A new continent, or a new world would be nice, and would also be the easiest way for Jagex to create better gear without making it overpowered.
Well, they could. WoW has high level content, Runescape doesn't. We really need something big, like a whole new world(maybe Freneskae) with stronger monsters that drop better armour/weapons, with new dungeons, and ofcourse new skill-related items.
As i have said the races can be introduced into the game through quests. It does not have to be perfect from the start. They can have the races without armoury and weapon appearence. Eventually they can update it and add armour and weapon to the races to make it look better. Runescape didn't go from low detail to high detail in a month. It took time, and races is same thing. Sounds like a very good idea. It would be next to impossible to allow people to start playing as anything else than a human. If different races are implemented as quest rewards it would just add something to the game, without needing a complete overhaul of all previous quests and runescape itself. A small special bonus related to a race sounds like a perfect reward for a quest granting us access to, for example, Priffdinas.
Oh yes, 1m/hr - and with those stats it certainly doesn't look like you pulled that number straight out of your [wagon]... You can easily lose money at GWD or any other boss. Pots and other supplies add up. It's stupid to try to put an estimate on how much you can earn per hour from a boss, since it all still relies on luck. If you're unlucky you might make -100k/hr, if you're lucky you can solo a hilt on your first kill ever. and you think CB isn't risky? try to go 4man it right now please. He's the only boss who hits 50s through protection prayers.