Old School Runescape Dev Tracker

Thank you. Big props to both /u/JagexAcorn and /u/JagexWest, who have tried to take on as much feedback as possible in this latest design.

For those who haven't read it, I really urge you to. If you don't like the design, absolutely fair enough. But please make sure you give it a read before passing judgement as it's changed quite a lot from the last version.

You just said it. They asked for raids, not chambers of xeric, why is this any different? There’s a huge skilling community that want a new skill.

100% no. I wasn't a fan of Runespan and have 0 intention of ever adding anything like that. The XP from the minigame would be worse than conventional training methods by a lot, but the process would be less repetitive.

How much of Construction is just Crafting/Smithing? Runecraft could just be Magic. Hunter? Didn't we do that already with ranged and chompy birds? I don't mean to sound defensive here, it's just that this reasoning doesn't hold much water. I do understand where you're coming from, but very few skills are as unique as players seem to think/want.

That being said, if you're not sold on the idea, that's totally fair. Thanks for your feedback (:

Whilst I agree, and I think most the others do too, this is something that's been established for awhile - and when we explored that option players made it clear it's just super frustrating to have something like that change - whether we remove existing imbues or not.

It'll be an easier transition to remove them from NMZ's shop once warding is established, should we want to explore it at that stage.

Fair enough. Could you elaborate on which skills you feel need some attention? With Warding we wanted to improve the viability of other skills at the same time (Magic, Hunter and Runecraft were the focus) and I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether there are others that need more attention.

Don't see this as the only opportunity for OSRS to have a new skill. If this fails, we'll take what we've learned from Warding and try something else, much like how we learnt from Sailing and Artisan. It's a very divisive update and the way we decide future projects has changed quite a bit since we pitched Warding at RuneFest, so I expect the process will be quite different if we are to do it again.

And that's totally fine.

The first question in the blog is what you're asking for and this is the first time it will be polled. I'm unsure where you got 'It failed 3 polls' from.

I wouldn't say we're desperate for this update, we're just giving it the best chance possible of passing much like we do with every update we pitch. Sure, this one has had a few more revisions than most, but skills are quite complex as they impact larger elements of the game when compared to other types of updates. Wouldn't you rather we took care and thought it through as much as possible rather than doing half a job?

We have a polling system for a reason - to assure we're making something the players want! If the super-majority don't want it, we'll move onto something else.

Yikers.

To clarify, the reasoning I'm highlighting the effort put in by the team is that some people have preset judgements on Warding that may no longer be relevant based on the changes from this blog. I'm simply asking to perhaps give the blog a read before giving out an opinion based on older blogs.

If your opinion is still no, that's fine. Feel free to vote no.

Work is already being put into these initiatives as you've seen with the account security blogs.

That being said, the people working on this are not the same people who are working on security initiatives - nor could they be. That's like asking a police officer to be a doctor as more doctors are desired.

Yep (:

I'm not personally working on Warding but the effort put into this by the people involved is extremely large.

They've tried their hardest to implement all feedback given and have worked out a lot of the kinks people had with the initial design.

If nothing more, I implore anyone and everyone to at least give the updated blog a full read and vote with an open mind and fresh slate as the changes made may change your opinion. If that vote is a no, so be it, but as Kieren says in the video: we truly just want to make something you all want.

Since you don't have access to your registered email you should go through the steps needed to change your registered email.

That support page tells you what you should do if you do have access to your registered email, and what you should do if you don't have access to your registered email (this is the one for you).

Like others have said - the email itself is fake.

The sender ([email protected]) is a legitimate sending mail, but emails can be easily spoofed.