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When a user cynically joked that they wouldn't be shocked to discover if a redesign for Virtus was scrapped in favor of using it as a MTX promotion, shockingly a Jmod replied seriously.

"It has always been the plan to add the new graphically update armor as part of a promotion. Hence it got updated in the first place." - a JMod

When Mod MIC tries to tell you that MTX-free worlds would look rather drab...boy howdy, seems like you're right. And that's a problem.

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over 5 years ago - /u/JagexMIC - Direct link

Hey there. Mod Poerkie was just saying that we didn't do that (ie use an existing update for MTX). We updated the armour to differentiate it from the existing set in the same way as other rare luckies eg Lucky Garb of Subjugation.

As I said on the stream yesterday, no current plans to follow suit with Pernix and Torva. I also asked Mod Shauny previously if people want us to make an upgrade kit - happy to pick this up again if you want us to make this happen.