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EOC vs Old School -- most active/best?


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I didn't really know how to word the title. What I mean; is OSRS growing and is jagex going to update the game with certain fixed/improvements? And how is EOC going at the moment? I am on a break and have been looking at getting rolling again, but I have been curious as to the state of the game at the moment. 

 

Any and ALL advice/input GREATLY appreciated! 

 

 

Thanks!

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Old school has had some pretty neat content, but there's no denying that it's much more boring and grindy than normal runescape and generally a less enjoyable game, although pking is supposedly fun once you get the stuff for it. I never enjoyed it, though. I heard they have a decent pvm endgame now, but I don't know much about it.

 

Runescape has gotten a lot better for low levels, but the endgame is pretty bad. You'll enjoy it more if you just want to do quests, skill, and talk to people.

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Personally I think EOC is great for bossing, definately makes it more skillful than using a protect prayer and a melee wep and simply waiting around. However I also think the JMOD team for OSRS is really awesome, judging by their livestreams on thursday. I guess give each a go and see what you think ;) 

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Both EoC and Oldschool have active communities. As to the subjective question which is better, that depends on which you prefer, I guess.

 

I'm not active on Oldschool, but from what I've seen here and on other fora, it has a steady community and an active PvP clanbase (don't know about PvM). There aren't over 9000 people who have maxed out on OSRS (9007 on EOC as of the making of this post), and you start from a clean slate yourself. To some people that comes as a breath of fresh air: being able to train up their stats again, do quests again, to see the rush for first or second place in a given skill etc. Personally, I'd have to agree with Hedgehog/Meredith, though. I find it's more grindy than EoC-scape, which caused me to turn away from it. That, and the prospect of having to train up my stats yet again.

 

The EoC community took a hit after the release of EoC - thousands of people quit. The rumours of its demise, as some would have it, are exaggerated however. There's still tens of thousands of players on every night. Plus, the botting/goldfarming 'community' seems to have taken a hit as well, which is a good thing. The PvP clanscene is as good as dead on EoC, but PvM is alive and kicking.

 

If you haven't experienced the EoC system itself: it's not too bad once you get the hang of it (which shouldn't be too long), and like digunderme/Exp Nerd says: it makes a lot more sense in certain important aspects. As an ex-PvP'er I never thought I'd say this, but I actually prefer EoC over the old system. The old system was simple which had its own elegance, but it was also rather limited (not to say one-sided).

 

I've played on and off over the past ten years and have savoured much of what the different 'eras' had to offer. I also recently came back to EoC after a hiatus of a couple of years, and I'd have to say I honestly prefer this era (say from 2011-now). The only thing I don't like about this period in the life cycle of the product that is RuneScape is the angle of microtransactions, but alas, that's the state of the industry these days.

 

These are just my personal opinions, and well, you know what Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry had to say about those... Like digunderme/Exp Nerd suggested: give them both a whirl and see which you prefer. ;-)

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