I started playing RuneScape 15 years ago and only played the main game since.
In Jan 2023 I gave OSRS a try with creating a Group Ironmen Account with a friend.
So after ~700 hours of Group Ironmen there are some points I came across, that annoyed me.
1. As a group we focused on questing together to get a quest cape really quick. While the newer quests worked mostly fine, some old quests have some real problems. If you quest together, especially old quests, one person often has to wait for items or monster to respawn until you can continue. Would be a real Quality of Life change, if old quests would work like the new ones with the item and monster spawns.
2. Coming from RS3 let me think, that Slaying together would be easy. Well the option is disabled for multiple years now. I mean if you can't make it work without people abusing it, just remove this option entirely. I can't imagine what makes duo slay so hard to fix.
3. The point that annoyes me the most is bossing. Yeah questing can lead to world hopping and waiting, but I can accept it. Duo Slay would be nice, but does not destroy my experience completely. Most of the endgame content ist bossing. So my group wanted to do some combat achievements together. We tried mole and Sarachnis. Well yeah that only one drop per kill is fine, but why isn't the Kill Count shared? Some guys from my clan say that Callisto Kill Count is shared, but Mole/Sarchnis not? Why? So basically we are in a group to do everything on ourself, without the group..
4. Just one thought I had. How about one world for HIM/IM/GIM only? A lot of shops are empty, because of bots. For example nails in Varrock, Astral Runes at Baba Yaga and so on. A HIM/IM/GIM world would make it easier to get such supplies for those player, with less chance of bots I guess, but nothing necessary.
So my summary:
1. Update old quest item and monster spawns (instanced?)
2. Bring back duo slayer
3. Share Kill Count at bosses
4. HIM/IM/GIM only world?
Kind regards
23-Jun-2023 14:25:57
