JagexLight

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!

Originally posted by moopsh

Love that you’re doing this AMA, and so appreciative of the community engagement with these skill pitches.

I have a question for each of my top 2: Shamanism and Sailing.

Shamanism: Have you spent much time brainstorming the spirit realm and how it might function? I personally can’t get A Link to the Past out of my head, and would love to hear what sort of existing inspiration you might be drawing from with this concept! Side question: would we be able to see ‘ghosts’ or outlines of nearby players who are currently in the opposite realm from us? Would help reduce player dispersion!

Sailing: On the topic of player dispersion, my biggest concern with Sailing is that we’re doubling the game geography, which means spreading out our players much further than today. Has the team thought at all about how to keep the game from feeling empty with so many players moving to the ocean to train existing skills? In a similar vain, I’m concerned that Sailing will bring many...

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Originally posted by aeeiku

With sailing, what would happen if you logged out in the middle of the sea?

Originally posted by Last-Philosopher8398

is there a possibility a new skill doesn't get added if the poll results repeatedly show players don't want any of them?

Originally posted by MathText

Why was bard not a consideration?

Originally posted by Agustinb14

Would the spirit realm be like the upside down from stranger things?

Originally posted by Billy-Bryant

Firstly, great job on all three skills. Even if the community doesn't end up going for them, i'm sure we all see the potential and the effort put in to making sure they could be a good fit.

My question is on Sailing: I would be worried that a lot of content would be directly locked behind Sailing including new areas of the map, is the idea that players would be able to sail nearly everywhere at lvl 1 (but perhaps slower, or unable to take shortcuts etc) or is the idea that you can go further out to sea with ship upgrades that you unlock at certain milestones.

If the latter, what would you comment be on concerns that this could lock more content behind a skill than perhaps anything else the game has seen.

Originally posted by Feeling_Jaded

Can't we just add all 3 skills in?

Originally posted by Bucky640

What do JMods feel about the new skill going to 120?

Originally posted by JagexLight

Missed opportunity.