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Emo Bee

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The wyvern Sigil in its current stat state would ONLY be acceptable if it attached to arcane shield. Otherwise it needs to lose at least 5 magic attack or 30+ defensive stats.

If it lost 30 defensive stats and attached to DFS as well as degraded, that'd be cool too.

13-Apr-2017 17:58:09

Blackout20XX

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The problem with efficient xp updates is that it essentially just takes people from one area and moves them to another, while simultaneously making the skill less difficult is some way and so less rewarding to rank up.

At least this type of update targeted at low/med levels theoretically would engage new players to stick around for the long-haul, but just about any xp desirable to high levels I'd advise be avoided, unless the goal is to repeat history.

13-Apr-2017 18:31:28 - Last edited on 13-Apr-2017 18:34:00 by Blackout20XX

Kegs
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Kegs

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Ancient Wyverns have too low of slayer level requirement, push it to 82
(yes base the slayer level requirement off of the boots)

- At level 80 slayer we get rune boots as a possible drop
- At level 83 slayer we get dragon boots as a possible drop

Slayer requirement of 66 is way way too low, they're going to drop a visage that attaches to an Elemental shield which then becomes comparable to an Arcane Spirit Shield, just imagine all the bots at Skeletal Wyverns just simply migrating over to Ancient Wyverns which are lower level combat but will be dropping a better item(?)

It'd make good sense to attach it to a Dragonfire Shield as they're nearly useless and too cheap as being a rare drop only costing 10m.

13-Apr-2017 21:38:11

Green Era

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(This is a copy and paste - but none the less I agree, being an ironman this raises red flags)

The level required to kill the wyverns concerns me, and I believe it should be higher. Somewhere in the 80s. My reasoning is that you get addy boots from lvl 75 Gargoyles, and rune boots from lvl 80 Nechs. Why would a lvl 66 slayer creature drop granite boots that are better then both? That's not including all the other good drops it has. Putting the slayer requirement around 81 or 82 would keep it consistent, and put it before Spiritual Mages at lvl 83 that drop the dragon boots.

14-Apr-2017 00:12:41

Sirumdum

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why do they keep pushing and rushing all these new updates. were we get left with a shit ton of half ass content that is either missing a ton or just meh i like the fossil island idea i do just why not finish zeah/great kourend or gielinor first
and why spend all this time and workings into content that haven't even hit polls yet and then force it upon us because you got too much invested into it.

sorry for the rant carry on ohh what about a forgotten hidden zarros area deep in wildy that zamorak didn't know about ;) always been a zaros and guthix fan for some reason. content suggestion because i know they wont stick to one thing so mise well help add more.

also when i first heard of the great kourend i thought it was gonna need quest requirements and good skills/stats to get to but was kinda disappointed in that department then to find out it was released with pretty much nothing kinda suck even more.

14-Apr-2017 03:31:51

Death Waltz
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Death Waltz

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Instead of a wyvern visage as a drop why not a "wyvern tear" that you can use on a draconic visage to create a draconic visage (w) that you then would use on a elemental shield. Draconic visage/dfs has been steadily declining and I believe this would at the very least slow down the process. Bwuh

14-Apr-2017 17:54:46

WayTooPosted

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I think it is so funny how everyone is complaining about the DFS crash. Did you not vote for the KBD timer to be reduced to 10 seconds?!?! I personally voted no for that update but it passed thus the price has crashed. What did you think was going to happen when you significantly reduce the respawn time of the highest drop rate for DFS.

Smh.

On a side note, I think it is stupid to base the entire slayer requirement off of one item. Rune boots are garbage anyway, bring on the granite!

14-Apr-2017 18:55:53

KG4
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KG4

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Faraday12 said :
If you're going to keep cramming new content into the game at this rate and turning it into something completely different can those of us who liked the game how it was have an old-oldschool? Just the game from 2007 with bug fixes

As a long-time Veteran, I concur. If I remember correctly, the original "blurb" on the main site was clear in stating that OSRS was/would be a nostalgic time capsule based on the game as it was in 2007. The current server has strayed far from that.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not against updates in general. But when you start to make fundamental changes to many aspects of the game, it erodes at the integrity and spirit of "Old School". It would be nice having a "classic" RS2 version for those like us, and it would make future updates to the main OSRS more tolerable.

I suppose, at the root of this dillema, is the reality that there were and are two different demographics. The old-school veteran types who came back for nostalgia, and those who were actively playing at the time of EoC and simply wanted a game with the old combat system.

Opening up a classic world (or two, or three) would be in the spirit of the game and consistent with the diverse playing options that we can choose from currently with DMM, Ironman, and such. I could see myself playing both versions, personally, as they would each serve a unique need or want.

I will say I am a bit disappointed that the game has been updated as aggressively as it has - I don't think many, at the start, would have envisioned how different things would end up being, even knowing that updates would happen. I find the current OSRS fun to play, don't get me wrong, but knowing that there would always be that nostalgic time-capsule there would be nice, similar to how RS Classic is available as a time-capsule for players of that time. But as this is unlikely to happen, I digress. These are merely my own views.

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14-Apr-2017 19:56:53 - Last edited on 14-Apr-2017 20:17:46 by KG4

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