22-Jul-2013 - RuneScape 3!

[Yoko Kurama]

Hopefully future world events are more limited in time span and/or involve shorter tasks, like a 20 minute deed that you can perform maybe 3 times per day/week at the most. Would still allow players to contribute to how a battle between the gods turns out, but avoids making it extremely grindy.

 

Despite this event's faults, at least it was in the summer where people theoretically have time. In November with school and no holidays, I can't imagine people being able to spend that sort of time (that was required for this event) as a sustained effort for 10 weeks. Particularly a few hours a day. So I agree with you there.

 

Tribute to Guthix was generous in its experience and they can't do that all the time. But a nice fun event like that seems the way to go. A few hours a day is a bit much. Even the Gelinor Games were done extremely well. Lots of experience (perhaps too much), and a decent time commitment (not too much) for cosmetic rewards and what not. I think they should use those events as models for future events of this sort.

[Blofeld]

Can someone please explain to me the problem with the cape going up 500 and causing an issue with tears in inventory because I really dont understand, i just put my tears in the pool each day.

 

Ive been enjoying using the BOL as a training method every day as fishing and agility are 2 of my last skills left to 99 in. I get around 40k an hour fishing xp an hour and getting the 2500 required for a huge lamp to spend on agility takes just over 2 hours. I leave it fishing afk while i write my dissertation and its a lovely free afk 63k agility xp a day that i have highly appreciated.. Sure 40k xp /hr fish and 25-30k xp/hr agility isnt the most efficient way but its so AFK its great for me. I cashed in a good 15k tokens this morning for 6 lamps.

 

So yes, im very confused as to what the problem is.

[Ammako]

If they didn't want people to switch sides to get both rewards, then they should just have made it impossible instead of making little changes aimed at annoying the player base.

[Saradomin_Mage]

People collected tears and cashed in just enough of them to have enough renown to buy all the tier 3 items/emotes of one team at anticipated prices. They then continued to collect tears but keep them in their inventory, so that after buying the items/emotes, they could switch to the other side and instantly dump their tears to make headway into that team's tier 3 rewards.

 

Extra 500 cost on cape threw a wrench into their calculations.

[Yoko Kurama]

If they didn't want people to switch sides to get both rewards, then they should just have made it impossible instead of making little changes aimed at annoying the player base.

 

Particularly well after the fact several weeks into it, when many people had already spent hours gathering tears in anticipation of switching.

[Calm Koala]

Any1 else just got d/ced and cant get back in the game?

[chenw]

Extra 500 cost on cape threw a wrench into their calculations.

 

More like throwing a wrench into their heads, you cannot control how many tears you dump, therefore if one needs to get more renown, they have absolutely no choice but to dump everything they have into the pool, which means a lot of that tear that is meant for the otherside is saying Sayonara!

 

I think i am lucky in that I lost only 3800 tears, so I just bought 3 extra large lamps for the road.

 

If it is any consolation, the higher level tier emotes and titles do not need the lower levels to be purchased, the t3 emote looks a lot better than t1 or t2 for sure.

[J35u5_M4]

I don't see the problem with the 500 increase, and I'm getting all rewards. I just switched teams every time a new tier of rewards was released and that didn't affect my calcs.

 

Started out as sara, got all tier 1, went zam and got all tier 1, hoarded tears and bought all tier 2 when they came out, swapped to sara, got all tier 2 and hoarded for tier 3, and now I'm like ~6k tears away from the final sara reward (emote for me), then swap back to zam for all tier 3 rewards.

 

The cape increase didn't affect me.

 

But I guess it did for people who stayed at one side from the beginning, had enough renown for all rewards and then hoarded tears for when they swapped sides when tier 3 was released. But still... I just changed sides when new tiers were released to avoid stuff like this from happening lol

 

EDIT: Then again, I think it would be wise to skip the cape, buy two lamps. Swap sides, get all rewards from the other side then go back to the original side to buy the cape, I think we have enough time for that (I've been getting 2,5k tears/day so in my case I'll manage to squeeze a few lamps after buying all rewards)

 

But this really depends on how many tears people had in their inv when they swapped sides

[Kaida23]

Yeah, but it's harder for free players and anyone who doesn't have 3+ hours a day to play so more planning ahead is required and the last minute change messed that all up.

[J35u5_M4]

I've been getting 2,5k tears a day in under hour and a half for quite some time now.

 

But I can see the problem on F2P with their limited cap.

 

Also, last time I checked F2P can't buy all rewards from both sides due to the cap they got (1320 a day x 70 days is only 92,4k tears)

 

I don't know if the 500 increase can affect them enough to not be able to get one extra item though

[Kaida23]

No we can't get everything, and overall it won't really affect people's ability to get the cape. It can really mess things up for people who had already deposited what they thought were enough tears for the helm and cape and were saving the others for switching (I had over a weeks worth saved up).

[strilmus]

i think the major sticking point is the excessively priced emote

 

without that, everything else would actually make sense

 

there's really no point in having things like lamps if they're going to make it a choice between that and the cosmetic rewards

[Platinum_Myr]

Yes the emote should not cost 20k.. I won't be able to get lamps much unless I don't get the emote.

[FrankerZ]

I choose not to get either the emotes or armor in favor of getting the more useful summoning exp.

 

So far, by not buying anything but lamps, I've gotten over 2m summoning exp.

[chenw]

Personally I avoid any and all XP rewards, especially if the event is time limited.

 

Items may not be useful, Emotes may do nothing in the long run, but I choose them because I know summoning XP isn't going anywhere anytime soon, if I am going to spend the time to do it, may as well do it in something I can show off later.

[Urza285]

Honestly I am dreading spending the last week buying the helm and cape. I want the set for if I ever go f2p for a while (highly unlikely).

[Hedgehog]

I bought warpriest for fashion scape and the cape/helm are ugly. Yay more agility xp

[brunokiller]

I bought warpriest for fashion scape and the cape/helm are ugly. Yay more agility xp

 

If it is possible to store it in your poh then you might need the full set.

[Wkw]

I have a feeling that the armor isn't going to be discontinued.

 

If you lose warpriest now, you can get it back for renown/tears.. If they remove BOL then they have to somehow keep tears in the game, as well as the shops where you buy warpriest from..

 

Afterall, it'll be pretty darn stupid to put in a t75 hybrid gear, only available for a few weeks, and once the event is done you can't get it...

[HunterDexter]

I bought warpriest for fashion scape and the cape/helm are ugly. Yay more agility xp

 

If it is possible to store it in your poh then you might need the full set.

 

You can indeed put them into the armour case. :)

[helring]

I have a feeling that the armor isn't going to be discontinued.

 

If you lose warpriest now, you can get it back for renown/tears.. If they remove BOL then they have to somehow keep tears in the game, as well as the shops where you buy warpriest from..

 

Afterall, it'll be pretty darn stupid to put in a t75 hybrid gear, only available for a few weeks, and once the event is done you can't get it...

 

They have said a few times that warpriest won't be retired. They plan to make it available but aren't sure (or weren't sure at the time) how they were going to do it. They did say that the method they chose would be harder than obtaining it from BOL.

[strilmus]

it will most likely involve faction tasks

[Kaida23]

And be members only. :P

[Quyneax]

And you still can't get replacements for keepsaked armour pieces >.>. Plus the helmet and cape are ridiculously overpriced, as are the emotes (but we knew that of course).

[Wkw]

I just want Zaros warpriest.