Current Events > So, Runescape still exists and they added a Necromancy skill...

(+) Yeah! (+)

Who even asked for that, I wonder...

Reminder that the game was hinting at a Necromancy skill as far back as 2005
https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Malignius_Mortifer

OldSchool Runescape is also in the process of adding the Sailing skill

I got back into OSRS about a month ago after not playing it since 07-09-ish. I barely knew about all the stuff you could do at the time and now there's more even for F2P folks. It kind of overwhelms me, for lack of a better term. Haven't played in weeks though. I thought I'd get addicted to it.

OSRS is, like, the third largest MMO currently lol.

Wooah is this for osrs? All previous skills polled were shot down. What changed

BlackOmnimon posted...

Who even asked for that, I wonder...

People in like 2002

Ohhh it for runescape 3. Figures

I doubt a new skill will ever be added for osrs

Ratchetrockon posted...

Ohhh it for runescape 3. Figures

I doubt a new skill will ever be added for osrs

Sailing is about to be added to OSRS

Pogo_Marimo posted...

Sailing is about to be added to OSRS

No way man really???

Id love to max out sailing skill to go with my fishing skill ?. I can do sailor roleplay

might get back into osrs

i just can't grind like i could 15 years ago

BlackOmnimon posted...

i just can't grind like i could 15 years ago

I miss those days of having that much free time

BlackOmnimon posted...

i just can't grind like i could 15 years ago

emblem-man posted...

I miss those days of having that much free time

that's another issue for me. I kinda miss being able to just sit back and grind while listening to Iron Maiden and Blind Guardian. I'll always associate Maiden's Powerslave album with RS because I would listen to it so much while playing.

Runescape 3 is a version of the game that began in like 2011, the Runescape most people know (Runescape 2) shut down roughly around the same time that 3 came out. Jagex was bought out by a Chinese company who made a lot of unpopular changes, like blatant gacha mechanics with a prize wheel and changing the combat system to be more "immersive" - Jagex has since been sold to a UK-based developer, and changes like the prize wheel and Evolution of Combat have been walked back.

Runescape 2 was summarily rebooted as Old-School Runescape, which is what I play. Right now I'm trying to raise my woodcutting level so I can cut down magic trees, I'm chasing a clue scroll with a big reward and I need an axe that requires lvl 85 firemaking to craft.

The Necromancy skill is being added to Runescape 3. Runescape 2 does have a new skill on the way, but we're getting Sailing instead. It'll be the first new skill in almost twenty years.

So to sum up - it's less that Runescape *still* exists, and more that Runescape has had a long history of multiple versions that have existed from 1999 to today, with this Necromancy skill existing in the most recent version of the game. There's more than one version of Runescape and this change isn't uniform across the board.

Also, I'm just mentioning this for shits and giggles, but Runescape 2 kind of already has a necromancy activity. Some monsters have a low chance of dropping an ensouled head - you can take that head to an island called Kourend and reanimate it with a spell, and defeating the reanimated Monster gives you a ton of Prayer experience. I'm actually fighting through about 100 ensouled chaos monk heads to help develop my archery skill and to buff my prayer skill.

What's it like now?
Is my vision of weary 20/30-somethings dragging themselves up and down Varrock minmaxing for the smallest hit of dopamine every few days real?

ViewtifulJoe posted...

What's it like now?
Is my vision of weary 20/30-somethings dragging themselves up and down Varrock minmaxing for the smallest hit of dopamine every few days real?

It's real. Training firemaking is a real drag, it looks ugly on the overworld and it feels demeaning to do. You're literally jumping through hoops to make a number go up so you can do something somewhere else in the game.

That being said, I've been playing since I was 10 years old and I kind of love it. I've been paying for a membership for like three years.