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Bentoki
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From the mood in the livestream last night I almost got the feeling that 120 Slayer may not be a confirmed requirement for the comp cape next year. Mod Osborne mentioned polling the requirement, that they might be better off not spending all that time developing an expansion of such a size if the community doesn't really want it.

I realise that these are merely the words of a couple jmods on stream and aren't indicative of the Jagex team but if they were to go back on a pretty darn concrete announcement at Runefest to "well the compers don't really want it now that its going to be a comp requirement" I think that would be a little disappointing. They gave everyone equal grounds and said that you had a year to achieve the xp required; everyone has been slowly chipping away at the xp needed... and now it just seems like they might not even really go ahead with it.

Irregardless of whether you actually feel like 120 Slayer should be a requirement, what are your reactions to a particularly soft approach to something that was so clear and concise and such an exciting expansion in Menaphos not so long ago?

EDIT: Doesn't seem like this is the case if you watch the more recent dev blogs

09-Nov-2016 04:50:33 - Last edited on 09-Feb-2017 18:46:46 by Bentoki

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I think it is great that they might not do 120 slayer. Skills should stop at lvl 99, there is plenty of skills that have no use right now and could really use a big update (like agility/firemaking ect).

Though i am still going to get 120 slayer, i was planning to do that before they even said it and i still want to get there

09-Nov-2016 08:11:06

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I think this really depends on where you fall as to what you think a skill means. If you view a skill as a time sink for a requirement, then 120 probably doesn't bother you. If you view a skill as piece of content intended to serve a purpose differently from a separate piece of content, then you should probably not be in favor of 120.

Slayer's purpose is to be an additional pre-requisite requirement for killing a monster. Releasing a high slayer level monster was intended to separate high level players from one another. This has clearly lost its purpose, and by stretching it to 120, and giving players a year notice isn't going to address this problem. By expanding to 120 slayer all you're doing is adding a longer skill time sink into the completionist cape. You're not at all adding any value to the slayer skill itself, since so many people will achieve 120 by the time those monsters are released, that you'll end up right back at where we are now.

On the flipside, if all you care about is time sinks for the completionist cape, and love reading players "cry" over requirements on the forums, then Im sure this sort of change is great for you. I really hope we can get back to giving skills a unique purpose to one another, thats how they're designed. Right now they're just placeholders for total experience, and I hope players can realize that theres potential to make the skills unique and worthwhile, and in their heart of hearts realize that the game can be about much more than achieving the maximum amount of pixel experience.

09-Nov-2016 08:29:25

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Yeah, I didn't like how it seemed Jagex are still undecided about Slayer to a certain degree. Even though I'm not very enthusiastic about raising existing skills to 120, I think they should stick to the plan announced at Runefest and just go ahead with this.

I've already started work on Slayer, got over 20m experience since the announcement. If they cancel this at some point in the coming months, I will not be happy. Join the RuneScape community on Reddit in
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09-Nov-2016 08:57:26

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Mr Power said :
^Because gaining exp and GP was a 'waste of time'?
Let me put it this way, I have other things I'd rather be doing instead of this. I'm not particularly interested in GP or XP right now. While profiting off Slayer is not a "waste of time", I have other goals and priorities. Join the RuneScape community on Reddit in
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09-Nov-2016 09:23:35

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09-Nov-2016 10:40:14

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Scouse said :
Bentoki said :
they might be better off not spending all that time developing an expansion of such a size



Removing the option to wear a comp cape until you have 120 slayer surely won't take too long?
I wasn't really arguing whether it would or wouldn't

09-Nov-2016 14:16:15

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