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​Let's allocution about melancholia events

Oct-15-2018 PST

Impatience and its aftereffect on melancholia contest and the bold as a whole. So, let's allocution about melancholia events. I beggarly able ones, too-- the Bounce Fayre, the Beach, and Raktuberfest can go yield a hike, and I'm so animated that the closing never happened this year. I'm talking about Spring/Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving.


I've noticed a adjustment lately, that Jagex has replaced alternate melancholia contest (think Apparatus of Disaster, the 2007 snowman event, the Atramentous Zabath event) with chargeless XP buckets. The big barring to this is endure year's accomplished Halloween event, Ghosts of Gilenor. But aloft that, let's attending at contest from 2016 to 2018.


- 2016 Easter: Sliske and the Amber Factory. (Insert "Fuck Sliske" as abounding times as you feel appropriate.) This is, abnormally enough, assize in the game's belief (you see it in the annual he writes in Kindred Spirits) and has Sliske catechumen the Empyerian bastion into a amber factory. As the apple guardian, you accomplish it your job to bones everything. As a bonus, you got chargeless apparatus apparatus from it! Yaaay.


- Halloween 2016: Apparatus of Disaster. Apparatus had just arise out that year, and admitting the rather minimalist quest, bodies seemed to like Dimension of Disaster.


- Christmas 2016: A revisit of several Christmas events. Thematically appropriate, because that 2016 was Runescape's 15th anniversary, and the accomplished contest were appealing neat.


- Easter 2017: Guthixian Butterflies appeared, and the easter accident angry into the belief about Guthix. Didn't accord massive amounts of XP.


- Halloween 2017: Ghosts of Gilenor. This was polled to break in the bold as a abiding quest, and the actuality that this poll bootless makes me so fucking acrid I can't even. This could acquire accustomed us 400 adventure credibility if You Are It released.


- Christmas 2017: Massive XP buckets at the GE, basal accident that resulted in you accepting the Rudolf Reborn pet.


- Bounce 2018: Easter accident non-existent, replaced with Bounce Fayre. XP buckets all around!


- Halloween 2018: A big aperture accompanying to the belief of Moia and Xau-Tak opens arctic of Draynor Village. You carry four 5 pillars that accord massive amounts of XP.


Within the endure year, there has been a desperate about-face in how melancholia contest should work, and I feel like it's arise down to one big factor:


The community, as a whole, has developed added impatient. They ambition everything, and they ambition it now. 2017 saw the absolution of Menaphos, and Jagex saw how abrupt the association was if it came to accomplishing the atone cape claim for accepting Tier 10 rep in all of the factions, additional the city-limits itself, additional the four quests. The bullwork wasn't even that bad if you did physique obelisks.


This is aswell why so abounding contempo updates don't in actuality acquire that abounding atone requirements-- Player-Owned Farms basically amounted to "buy the seasonalizer wheel" for comped players, clue scrolls drops aren't a atone requirement, the Temple of Aminishi and Dragonkin Laboratory don't even acquire atone requirements alfresco of accepting a KC on all of the administration (you don't even charge to get all the belief journals for annihilation alfresco of the "get all the drops" feats!), and Abysmal Sea Fishing has in actuality aught atone requirements. This adeptness aswell acquire something to do with the actuality that the next two arise quests are amateur level-- they don't ambition abrupt atone players to cry.


Say what you will about OSRS, but I anticipate one of the big affidavit that Jagex is accommodating to absolution added aggressive updates there is because they do not acquire annihilation akin a Completionist cape. They acquire a Max cape, which agency some bodies are traveling to be pissed if Warding comes out, but they don't acquire anyone who's traveling to beef if it turns out Song of the Elves is traveling to yield 5 hours that they acquire to absorb afterwards a brainless fucking cape.


And now, let's attending at the Halloween event. The Halloween event, in my opinion, has belief that would plan bigger as a quest-- it involves the acceleration of Xau-Tak, something that we've apparent this accomplished year from Pieces of Abhorrence through the two aristocratic dungeons. Instead, it's relegated to an addition accident that amounts to massive XP buckets and chargeless boodle every reset. Why? Because Jagex has caved into abrupt players and comped players, and they're abashed to add added atone requirements afterwards the accomplished beating with Menaphos.


That accepting said: the Halloween Accident is acutely meant to be advance content. Bodies who are deriding it for accepting next-to-nothing at the moment are missing the accessible clues (like the urns not respawning at reset, rewards accepting connected beyond all players, there accepting one beneath of the atramentous easily afterwards every reset, the absence of the added three horsemen, and the actuality that the exhausted for accomplishing the agreeable is acutely meant to be abounding to a anniversary already every four trips into the vault.) So, please:


- Do your basement afterwards reset.

- Stabilize as about as accessible throughout the day.

- Acquire some absolute patience!



RSGOLDFAST Team