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about 5 years ago - /u/JagexOsborne - Direct link

Originally posted by Feralcreator

Excited to see what it is, hoping that there's the "no lamp/bxp" amnesty period like there was for invention.

There will indeed be an embargo period, same as previous skill launches.

about 5 years ago - /u/JagexRowley - Direct link

Originally posted by Sebastiaan_RS

Personal opinion:

Unsure myself. I want to know more about what it is and what it will do before overly judging the skill itself.

However, I do think it's peculiar since they previously said there won't be a new skill for 5 years in their previous 2 runefests and they also said that they will be making two skills 120 (also revealed which ones at runefest, might be a new elite skill that uses those two skills) and prefer reworking existing skills.

I am going to go on a limb and say that the big update for 2020 that is being worked on by one of the current teams is the new skill.

Purely to correct one point (and not to sway anyone's opinions), but if you were you referring to this Runefest 2017 skilling talk, a new skill was mentioned as part of the five-year plan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5NoNenZZU&t=89

(At that timestamp.)

If other things were said afterwards that contradict this, however, I'm unaware of it.