Old School Runescape, the proudly antiquated model of Runescape tha
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still looks and performs like the match I sank countless hours in to
when I really should've been studying, is obtaining a raid. Its next
raid, as it happens: The Theatre of Blood. A fantastic raid requires
good rewards, therefore when the Theatre of Blood was declared late last
year, players were not able to see what clearing the multi-man
challenge could earn them. Jagex reacted with Justicar armor, a new
best-in-slot armor place (above). There was one small problem: players
totally hated it.
In fact, they hated it so much that, for
months, the Old School community dogpiled the horn on the 2007scape
subreddit and memed it into hell and back. They memed on it so hard that
Jagex is currently totally altering the armor's design. And not just
that, the artist behind the Justicar armor,"Mod West," is utilizing
designs submitted and voted on by players. Almost all of Old School
Runescape's updates undergo participant polls, but this is the first
time a suit of armor was forged in a passion of memes.
The irony
is that while gamers hated the'final' armor revealed earlier this year,
they loved the prototypes revealed while the raid was declared.
Originally, the Justicar armor was bulkier and part of a trio of new
armor sets, West informs me, but as the Theatre of Blood went from vague
idea to actual material, the armor changed with it. Players said there
was sufficient DPS gear but not enough tank equipment, so it had been
narrowed down to only 1 armor collection. And if they were just going to
use one group, Jagex guessed they might as well create a new one based
on the armor worn with the raid's big bad.
"We believed changing
it up a bit made sense," West says,"but players were not quite on board
with the first proposal we shared stream. And then, well, Reddit went
wild."
The memes came hard and fast. Some players said it was too much like existing armor, such as armor from Runescape 3, the newer
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mainline version of Runescape. Others thought the new armor did not
look tanky enough and liberally provided a few alternatives, with some
calling for a more extreme redesign.
