Obtaurian

It's No Shave March for me. I have an impressive beard going on right now.

What in the world are you talking about? I wasn't aware that anyone involved in this argument was of the opinion that this quest is "a clear indicator that 100% (and not 40%) of the devs are working on lame low level content for the whole of 2010." Is this your own opinion? I can't imagine why else you would say it. Because you are being a broken record. A brief comment on how this update is, followed by an avalanche of posts on how we need more high level content. That is something many players are aware of, that has nothing to do with this update, and you're better off creating a entirely new thread to discuss suggestions for high level content instead. No one is arguing with you over the need of high level content in the game per se, but rather your reasoning that one low level update = we need more high level content. Like I mentioned earlier, point noted with regards to the need of high level content. If you want to discuss about whether the graphics could be better, whether the rewards of the quests are fitting to the target group, or whether the storyline was nice, what rating would you give the quest, that would be proper discussion for this update. And this update isn't just a low level update either, it's a low level update for F2P, and a tutorial on the combat triangle, along with an expanded area for low level training besides cows and goblins, which is pretty essential in my opinion. *imaginary crowds shouting "WE NEED MOAR HIGH LEVEL UPDATE! NO MERCH CLANS! FREE TRADE PL0X! BRING BACK WILD!" next to me* Once again you completely misinterpret my thoughts on this update, skewing what I said into what you wish I said. We both appear to be broken records; I think we're due for high level content, and you think... well, actually, I don't know. You don't seem to have a point other than mindlessly arguing for the sake of arguing. I think we're done here.

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What in the world are you talking about? I wasn't aware that anyone involved in this argument was of the opinion that this quest is "a clear indicator that 100% (and not 40%) of the devs are working on lame low level content for the whole of 2010." Is this your own opinion? I can't imagine why else you would say it.

Playing a lot of BA this past week.

Why is the first response to any form of complaint, "cancel your membership," as if the lack of high-level content in certain skills and areas somehow diminishes all other forms of fun that I may have playing this game? You should take a few courses in logic and critical thinking. Your other points are immaterial. I've been playing this game for nearly a decade, and I'd like to wear armor worthy of my defense level. My point is that I'd like this armor SOONER rather than LATER; sooner being within the next few months. Runescape is the only MMO that I know of that has a veritable glut of low-level content and arguably no real high-level content (with the exception of the Corporeal Beast, perhaps, as good teams require extremely high levels in multiple skills). Call me a broken record if you'd like, but I'm far from the only player who feels the exact same way. EDIT: Yes, my entire point was about BUTTERFLIES. Way to argue, champ. :rolleyes: You really think that high level content cannot take up the majority of my gameplay? Have you ever played or at least looked into any other MMO's? Once you get to the high levels, that's ALL YOU DO. Strangely enough, it works. High level players immersing themselves in high level content?! What a concept! It also happens to be the opposite of what we have in Runescape, which is entirely counterintuitive, though I'm glad to see that it's finally being remedied (agility, herblore, slayer to some extent). High level diaries and quests can provide high level rewards that benefit us for the rest of our Runescape careers, so I have no idea what you're on about there. I agree with you in that content requiring skill with a mouse ("twitch skills") should not be nerfed. I will be more than happy to work for my level 80 armor and weapons.

Yeah, I even killed the guy who looked remorseful. :D Oh, and a big old DERP to the morningrise guy, who gives a flying ... I don't normally pull this card, but if I could see your levels I bet they'd explain why you don't give a flying whatever about high-level content.

You play with the big kids.

I've been playing a lot of Barbarian Assault lately. It is by far my favorite minigame activity in Runescape. I've been so busy with school that I haven't had a whole lot of time to play. I log in and do my dailies, then play some BA, mostly. I'm slowly saving up for 92 prayer (84 right now), and I just started saving up avantoes for herblore. I still have trouble defending in BA, so I'm gonna keep playing till I master that. I also want to get one of each penance item and fully charge my horn. Oh, and I want to join BAA (Barbarian Assault Addicts), which is a very exclusive BA clan. I've met a lot of really great people, too. It's so much easier to find good players when you have full penance. I'm gonna start working on getting 300 MA rank, as it's very AFKable. Too bad it sucks as a minigame. I was horribly sick for a week, so I missed a bunch of school. I'm playing catchup. I probably shouldn't have played Runescape at all today, haha, but I can't stand not being able to wear my quest cape, and I wanted to max my points in BA. 95 Slayer. Taking a break. When I slay, I slay hardcore, so I can't do it when I know I can only play for a couple hours. -Obtaurian

Did you actually read what I posted? I'm saying that we need more master and GM quests to balance out the HUGE amount of low-level quests. I didn't appreciate the quest? That's news to me. It's not the quest itself that bothers me. On the contrary, I think it's a great introduction to combat for beginners. What bothers me is the lack of content at the higher end of the level spectrum. Yes, I was totally hinting at a rollback. :rolleyes: Jagex SHOULD be putting 60% of their content designers on high-level content. We still have skills that pretty much end in the 80's and low 90's (catching butterflies for hunter does NOT count as high-level content, in my opinion). We have a serious lack of boss monsters, high-level quests, elite diaries (not for long, hopefully), and incentive to level most skills beyond 80.

Wow, 2 in a row? Jagex is really focusing on newbs. In fact this is the first newb level quest in years. The last 6 quests have been like this: Novice (todays) Novice Grandmaster Master Master Master That's not nearly enough. There is a plethora of low-level quests but only two grandmaster quests. If next week's update is the opening of the strange power dungeon, replete with boss monsters and high-level gear/weapons, I'll be satisfied. There is a huge gap of empty space between level 75 and level 99 in combat skills that DESPERATELY needs to be filled in.

Kinda disappointed that the helm has no stats. The new newb weapons look cool. Guess I'll do this after school and get that helmet.

ive seen quite a few 1 def pures at bandos, let alone zerkers and people with higher defence. its really not that hard Pures are exceptions to the rule, and can't get wear Bandos anyway. For average players with 65 defense, it's impossible without a huge team.

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In my opinion, there's something wrong when an item that has a defense requirement of level 65 is unattainable by players with 65 defense (unless that player happens to have a high level money making skill, but chances are that he/she does not).

I hope they never have another one. Should I hold onto my charms and herbs all year in anticipation of the next extra exp weekend? It's just too stressful for me. All I did was a little agility, firemaking, runecrafting, and then I played BA for the rest of the weekend.

The gnome course with summer pies would best, especially because it would get you those agility legs.

After reading some of the replies in this thread, I have to say that instances should only be applied to NEW bosses and not current ones. I also think that they'd work best with either untradable drops, or drops that are as rare as elysian or divine sigils from CB. I also agree with some of you who said that we need MORE bosses, as that would decrease the number of people at GWD by a significant amount if the boss dropped better or higher level gear. Competition is healthy, definitely, and I don't think that getting rid of competition is the best way to solve the problem per se. We just have too many players and too few bosses. It's so saturated that the competitive aspect is more of a SURVIVAL aspect, and I don't think that's quite right.

WOW. Two well-written and well-edited articles. There's a few tiny things, yeah, but nothing that distracts from the content of the articles themselves. This is exactly what I'd like to see every Sunday. :thumbup: :thumbup: for the editing team and the writers.

Pictures or it didn't happen. I refuse to believe that kingly imps drop onyx without proof of purchase or a receipt.

thats why I honestly prefer DKs now, not to mention tribrid dks is funner then any GWD boss but solo sara and arma IMO Take me DKing with you. :pray:

I agree. Every time I've been to GWD I've spent the majority of my time looking for worlds, then the rest of the time worrying about that team right outside the door.

If I didn't play Barbarian Assault tonight, I would have already gotten started on my essay for English. Gonna do that now.

Geyser titans are the first really badass combat familiar. I used mine a lot more than I used my unicorn, too, but I don't do a lot of boss hunting.

Nope, all three kings have AOE attacks.