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Lord Drakan
Sep Member 2010

Lord Drakan

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Lewis Shoot said :
All that being said, none of it really matters because the fundamental problems with this idea have not been addressed and arguable you've doubled down on them, which puts this update in a really bad starting position.

Lets start with the big one. Most rewards are almost exact copies of items that players play the game to get. They have slight stat tweaks and only work in PvP but it completely removes a huge chunk of making certain PvP builds and it allows some builds to access items that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
I feel like I shouldn't have to explain why this is bad but since the blog literally says "Do you hate having to complete quests..." and "We’ve come for quests, now it’s time for non-PvP minigames. Skip Barbarian Assault with our next item" then I am incredibly worried.

Questing and playing games for rewards is the backbone of OSRS. Every type of player has to do it. Some choose to avoid certain bits to gain advantages but generally that comes at a cost. These items bypass existing content and feel like the antithesis of the games progression. I question how they will "breath life" into the game and what the OSRS teams priorities are if you think this is a good idea. Clearly something is very wrong internally .

Another similar issue is sharing rewards with other minigames. Soul wars and nightmare zone already have the ability to imbue items. The reason you've provided is that this and soul wars are both PvP minigames, however why are you stopping at just these items? What makes these items different to castle wars armour or lil' creator?
Or on the other side, why is nightmare zone the only PvM minigame to have these items? You could add them to barbarian assault and pest control. \s
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19-Apr-2022 20:51:49 - Last edited on 19-Apr-2022 20:51:59 by Lord Drakan

Telezon

Telezon

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Honestly I love all of these rewards and the ways it seems it will spice up PvP builds and allow a great entry point for beginners in PvP. I think the introduction of the PvP arena will be my first foray into PvP in years. I like the arena, I like the rewards, I like direction this pushes the game. I also enjoy how balancing the new 'pvp void' gear around the repair price and money dropped on death will be very easy to tweak. These are changes that I feel like will benefit the way the way the game is played in a major way.

As an avid PvMer myself, I am somewhat concerned with how much of a damage boost these
'humble' prayers will give to pures who are hunting PvMers. Curious how this play out.

All in all, love the changes. Anything that I'm worried about is secondary to the fact that taking some risks to spice up the PvP game seems worth taking.

Cheers!

20-Apr-2022 17:41:00

G000B
Dec Member 2021

G000B

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Humble chivalry and piety should not be pvp only. Pvp built accounts are already severely hindered in pvm (voluntarily of course) but we do it anyways for fun. It's not like we'll be coming after people's world records or anything because we got a tiny offensive bonus. We will also have gained combat levels (that we don't want) and invested into a skill in exchange for a pvp only prayer? That's a serious tradeoff. It's not like it's some piece of gear we can take on and off, it's a substantial change to some accounts that have been honed and worked on for years. Make it worth it! Let me use my humble piety when I go to slug it out against phosani, it's still going to be horrible 5 minute kills! Come on fellas! On top of that, frankly it would just be weird and inconsistent to have pvp only prayers.

1.) Do not limit the humble piety and humble chivalry prayers to pvp onlly
2.) Adjust the prayer drain to 2/3 (since we are only gaining the offensive side of the prayers)
3.) Allow us to use steel skin simultaneously

21-Apr-2022 18:34:29

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