Elves have been fully optional since the crystal shard rebalance + bowfa corruption progression update. Arguably you're better off spending that time active thieving doing vyres as they're more xp/hr and blood shards are harder to come by.

This might be true for a given account at a given time, but overall it's not actually true. An enhanced is going for 136m at the moment and gives 1500 shards, so that's ~90k gp/shard in terms of raw gp.

For irons you can "buy" shards by purchasing crystal weapons for 750k each, reverting to weapon seeds, handing in for an acorn, and then growing a crystal tree. This essentially is a passive/daily that gives 30 shards for 750k, or 25k gp/shard. That'll be enough for maintaining potions + armour charges, and you don't even need to corrupt your bowfa in one go nowadays.

In other words raw GP needs to be worth about 3.5x more on your iron than on your main for it to be worth it. For early/mid game irons gp is harder to come by, but late game you end up with a huge amount that you can't use except for on bonds/buyable consumables.

Because some of the skillcapes are really powerful, which leads to people setting unreasonable goals of acquiring them. The max cape has a huge amount of utility behind it that it's night and day. Coming from someone not maxed that has a clan member that has one. This then leads to the game being changed considerably to make maxing easier.

Getting a 99 should just be a neat thing with a cape to show off the achievement.

That's 12k xp/hr, or roughly 1,100 hours of continuous running to max completely passively.

You really should be getting the noxious halberd before vard nowadays and that changes a lot. Similarly the dual maracas are a much quicker grind from moon, which you should be doing anyway for blood moon top + legs.

We need skillcapes to be less rewarding not more

Just a few more buffs to the xp/hr and yeah it will be

Jagex keeps pandering to this section of the community and it's so annoying. Every other piece of content has mechanics to restore your run energy constantly, and even something like GWD it's impossible to run out of energy now. We're sanding off everything that makes this game unique in search of efficiency scape.

It really didn't make sense to not split the strategy. You know you have better tyre wear, the mediums still feel ok, and you have better pace in clean air. So stay out and you might have better pace than those that pitted, plus there's the chance of a SC.

This is why Vet'ion is better for this because:

• PKers show up less often
• If you enter with a partially damaged boss then you still get loot finishing it off
• Better rates and loot for the time spent

Ofc it is multi so that has it's own pain points, but a scout is generally enough to deter most PKers. Crush accuracy is also more important due to Vet'ion's tankiness, I'd say that Zaxe is minimum whereas D Mace is enough for calv.

also nothing really changes. The weather, the state of the ships, it's all a time capsule

The weirdest thing for me with mixed hide is that you can pay to have it made from the furs and skip the crafting requirement. From that sense it's a bit too accessible on an iron with ~70 hunter required, but for a main who cares.

Fever Spiders was part of project rebalance and unpolled, so not really related to the point OP is making (100 times over in this comment section).

What are you talking about? Players should vote for Sailing based on whether they want it in the game.

If you're voting on questions based on what you hope it is, rather than what it says, then you're part of the problem and going to have a bad time

Let's not blame it solely on Jagex/QA, 88% of voters said yes to this as well.

Yeah cause they reward creep existing content. New content is always going to be slightly more rewarding than what came previously so people are going to do it.

Then we see posts asking for older content to be buffed because it's no longer worth doing.

It's not leagues anymore...

People already AFKed for the clog, we changed nothing to discourage that except add more rewards, why are people AFKing this harder???

Exactly. The standard + shared loot average is 350k from a master and Soup got pretty much that or even a bit higher than that due to the extra Mimic rolls. Over half of the 47 non-megarare uniques are basically worth nothing, 25/47 of them are worth less than 100k. And while 14 uniques are above 1 million of those only two uniques drop at the common rate of 1/851. Two of the 14 uniques drop at 1/3,404, and the remaining 10 are 1/12k or rarer.

Essentially Soup got all the 'common' uniques that are worthless which isn't particularly unlucky for 100 caskets.

Even without CW the meta now is picking up Eclipse Red from the Hunter guild and hopping. You can still bank at the guild because the chest doesn't have a level requirement, only the banker. Then you can sell them noted at 700gp each (without the price going down) to the brewery in Aldarin.

The requirements to do this is one zero level "Very Short" quest in Varrock.

I'm personally looking forward to Bludgeon crashing into the ground when Jagex removes all the slowdown mechanics from Sire this year. And then Reddit complaining about the unique values after it got 90% yes votes in the poll.

Also they changed it so you can use BH weaponry now, so even if you buy max gear from the GE you're at a disadvantage unless you do X hours of BH first. So you can get insta-frozen with Zuriel's and then be on the receiving end of a VLS.

And then Jagex can wonder why no-one wants to engage with that.

It's a bit more than 50%, broadly speaking by the time you hit droprate you had a 63% chance of getting the item.

Instead of AFKing on a random world with an alt you AFK on the official world now. If you're unlucky you get the same amount of points as random worlds, if you're lucky you get more points. And by AFKing on the official world you'll get reward crates as well from the plaudits so free supplies.