JagexLight

Originally posted by cyanblur

I think if Shamanism moves forwards the next hot debate would be over whether or not to include the gear augments, but is there any point without the augments? Do you think you can assuage the community, or do you have back up ideas to make training the skill still worth while without the augments?

Originally posted by Rickard58

How many attempts at refinement will the first skill get if continuously voted against?

Originally posted by AlternativeAge2

Did you consider polling Question #2 as a ranked voting question?

For people who don't know what this is:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_votingTl;Dr you vote by putting them in order. After round one the least popular one gets removed (if no >50% majority) and the votes get redistributed. This way a vote for the 'losing' party is not a lost vote.

Originally posted by Astatos159

How would you rank the 3 pitches in regards to difficulty to implement?

Originally posted by Raisoshi

From the skilling blog:

Our third pitch presents a solution to this problem, incorporating the item sink into the reward space rather than the training method.

It wasn't clear to me what kind of item sink is happening in the reward space for Shamanism, care to clarify?

Originally posted by Howl106

Is there a possibility to have all three?

i understand its more work, but it could be spread out

Originally posted by DrYoshiyahu

Are there any elements of these skills you haven't seen much discussion about that you think the community needs to be talking about more? Anything you think we may have neglected to talk or ask you about?

Originally posted by XVUltima

Was Summoning ever considered?

Originally posted by Dankest_of_Meme

First and foremost thank you all for the amazing job you’ve all done. All the pitches look quite fun.

In regards to taming what sort of emergent gameplay could a player expect to see? A lot of focus has been put on the training of our new friends and I was curious about how procuring them could potentially function.

Originally posted by spirit_vice

When the skills move forward into refinement will there be any thought about how well the skill will function for ultimate ironman?

This is primarily about shamanism with most of the components being untradeable (and presumably not stackable?) I am worried that it might be extremely tedious for UIM to train with lots of back and forth between different sources of components. The closest comparison that currently exists is herblore, but at least one of the components (herbs) are easily stackable, which makes it much less tedious than it would be if you had to fill half of your inventory with two unstackable components.

I know it is a small community, but I am curious nonetheless. Regardless of the answer I am sure an effective training method will be found, just wondering if you put any thought into it when designing the content.

Thanks for all your hard work communicating details around the pitches, can't wait to finally have a new skill added to the game.

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Originally posted by UIMHolo

Hey Light!

First off, congratulations for the successful launch of a widely well received skill poll. I think all three concepts are awesome!

My question for the team: Will all three skills be able to be trained by a level 3 skiller? Ironman skillers?

Thanks for the AMA and to the team for how much communication there’s been on the skills.

Originally posted by ashlaked1

I know this might be nitpicky, but if shamanism is chosen, could we please have poll about changing the name of it?

Originally posted by ArrgsVsZuk

Will the name of Shamanism be changed or was your internal decision finalised already? I’ve seen many people suggest a dislike for it already.

Originally posted by Blue_Dew

Assuming a perfect scenario, is there an ETA on when a new skill will be fully released?

Originally posted by SorbetAny289

If something like Shamanism passes. Is the spirit realm going to be separate from other realms? Just trying to see how it'd interact with like the Mahjarrat and such. Would any quests retroactively have certain skill reqs?

Originally posted by Bucky640

I love the idea of Shamaning introducing augmentations. Could these be focused towards skilling gear to reduce people’s fears about power creep?

This seems to have been left intentionally very vague, but that seems to have just drummed up anxiety in the community.

Originally posted by SevenEightFour

I'm sorry, but a "limit on survey responses" does not seem like a very good reason not to run a survey. Presumably this limit can be increased by paying the survey company, and presumably Jagex can afford to do so. The surveys are by far the best ways to collect this feedback, as they are the only form of feedback not to have responses influenced by the social pressure of the social media platforms where you otherwise collect feedback.

Originally posted by secret759

It feels like most of the initial useful feedback on the skills has already been gathered, what with the survey, multiple discord chats and livestreams. What sort of feedback do you most want to see at this stage?

Originally posted by levian_durai

I know you guys have said that you can vote saying you like multiple skills, but ultimately only one can pass.

I personally think Shamanism looks the best immediately, but that sailing has the most potential to add to the world - it will just take a long time to implement.

Would it be possible to have a poll that isn't years away to ask about sailing, if it doesn't pass this round?

Originally posted by Shoop_de_Yoop

There has been lots of focus on what skill the community wants, which we all appreciate, but not much talk about what the jagex team wants to get from a skill.

Which skill do you think would have the healthiest impact on the game? For example, would sailing help create an easier format for expanding the RuneScape map further without risking breaking existing areas? Would taming help create a way to correct longtime design issues that don't have a clear solve? Would shamanism add another layer of item sink to help prop up the value of skilling items?

Thanks!