Ok. So we have all heard rants and complaints about the changes Jagex made. Taking away Pking, adding BH, Clan Wars, etc. But for once, I think I have a logical argument as to what went wrong besides the “OMG LOL HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MAKE MONEYS?” and the “WHY YOU DO DAT? HIT SYSTUM RESTUR!!!!” arguments. Hear me out.
My main problem with these updates are in fact that Jagex didn’t give us any warning before doing it. I know that that takes away the ability to buy money before the deadline, but most of us deal better with being told something in advance. It is a lot easier to say goodbye to a friend if he tells you he is moving a month before he does rather than calling you as he is packing. People logged onto their accounts to find that they were in a wilderness that was safe (kind of… read on). They were shocked. Shocking events usually have worse responses than planned out events. This isn’t really a problem with the update (I find most of it actually better, as a person who blew at pking…) but more of a problem of execution.
A bit late, I know, but still.
Now onto Part 2: Revenants.
I feel that revenants were not the way to make the wilderness perilous again. To me, they make the wilderness more dangerous than before. Of course, the wilderness was no cake walk with pking, but it was simple to escape pkers. Not every pker had ice barrage, or could teleblock and freeze. The revenants may not be in strategic places, but if they find you, they will follow you. I once picked up a level 120 some revenant in the level 50+ wilderness. It followed me from Ardy Lever to the Rogue’s Castle.
Basically, I am ranting because revenants get on my nerves.
I don’t really have solution for them except weaken them… or something.
Anyways, until next time,
Guerrillero Heroico
Short and sweet – I think some of your points are valid, although for the revenants I think they would have been better off simply trying something completely different; not trying to virtually add PKers with artificial intelligence
Teleblock and barrage should definitely not be cast-able by the same revenant. Agree with having them be be weaker :p
Well said, the revenants are, in essence, a super pker. Extremly hard to kill, and teleblock and barrage mix make them tough as nails. I do hear that the spirit wolf special makes them run away, but have not confirmed that. If that’s true you may want to bring a spirit wolf pouch and scroll on your next wildy trip.
I must agree that the Revenants are Super Pkers. Not only is it hard to kill, but they don’t drop anything good either! In the past wilderness, the dead players dropped extremely tasty stuff (:p) now, I would just run and bother fighting it.
I can confirm that the spirit wolf does scare them away with it’s scroll!
I just want to start off saying that revs are bad ass. They are fun to hunt with a group of friends because they are so unpredictable, even though they don’t have the best drops. But W-T-F Jagex, taking away the classic wildy. I will always be pissed of because when I first found the game, the wildy was up and running and I never had the time to create a pure b4 they shut it down. Dammit.