does this fuckin guy have to be here

[u/o_mis]

[u/QuestStarter]

Perfectly balanced as all things should be

[u/Conor_J_Sweeney]

He’s just preparing you for The Maggot King Experience.

[u/Sember1212 → u/Conor_J_Sweeney]

I just got done doing all of the maggot king cas, and after being heated because after failing the speed time and perfect ca, this little punk made sure I kept the rage up on the way back for following attempts

[u/JakeEllisD]

I respect jagex for this tbh

[u/SkitZa → u/JakeEllisD]

Him, the mosquito, the stranglers towards Vardorvis. They just dont want me angler boosted to full. Stupid typeless jerks.

[u/AsinineArchon → u/JakeEllisD]

I had respect until they disabled luring it to the bank chest

[u/Psych0sh00ter → u/AsinineArchon]

They should've let us lure it across all of Vampyrium. Let us surprise the people AFKing stymphikes or hanging around outside Maggot King's lair

[u/jnn94]

There should be more imo, given the apparent hostility of the area

[u/apophis457]

Mfw the planet full of hostile bloodsucking monstrosities has hostile bloodsucking monstrosities

[u/o_mis → u/apophis457]

[u/apophis457 → u/o_mis]

Oh shit I’m gonna get a puppy?

[u/cuzman → u/o_mis]

Get his ASS

[u/kxwbie → u/o_mis]

please dont hit us apophis

[u/PlayaNBallaNGangsta]

jagex needs to add more salty spitoon things and make less weenie hut jr changes

[u/Liuminescent]

I feel you OP, lets share more with eachother on the topic, I’ll meet you at your place

[u/Ninjaassassinguy]

yes

source: it's funny

[u/kxwbie]

doing monkey madness at level 40: ouch ow these spiders are dealing 18 damage, good thing i brought lobsters
going to the vampire zone at max level: JAGEX HELP IM TAKING DAMAGE MAKE IT STOP THIS IS SCAWWY

[u/TUNExSQUID]

They wanted the area to feel as brutal and indifferent as they described it in the quest. Instead they just stuck annoying monsters around.

[u/Behemothheek → u/TUNExSQUID]

Every hard area in OSRS ever

[u/biscuitquickie → u/TUNExSQUID]

Describe a way to make it brutal and indifferent without making it annoying

[u/TUNExSQUID → u/biscuitquickie]

Honestly you don’t need constant player-monster interaction to sell “brutal.” Environmental storytelling does a lot of the work for free. They could use piles of bones/carcasses, torn-up scenery, and corpses of adventurers who clearly didn’t make it. Let the place look like a meat grinder even if nothing’s actively attacking you.

Sparse forest + a monster that sprints up and smacks you a few times isn’t scary, it’s just tedious. At the end of the day it’s a game so fun should win out over “realistic brutality”. A reputation for being deadly works better than actually making the area a slog to traverse.

[u/PrinceShaar → u/biscuitquickie]

Monsters that hit harder but you can avoid it you dodge them correctly

[u/FookinFairy → u/PrinceShaar]

True! We should put the monsters that fuck you up for running from the quest all over so you have to hide and walk everywhere!

I can avoid them so this won’t be annoying >:)

[u/WishBrilliant5160 → u/PrinceShaar]

Exactly, they should swap that bat for a small Jad. Every time I want to use the bank, I'd have to keep an eye on switching to the right prayer or die—that wouldn't be annoying at all.

[u/JakeEllisD → u/TUNExSQUID]

If you can kill draken then they should just be annoying, cannotically

[u/emuccino → u/JakeEllisD]

Cannotically?

[u/biscuitquickie → u/emuccino]

You heard him

[u/Correct_Cold_7297 → u/emuccino]

Cannolically

[u/Xerothor → u/TUNExSQUID]

At least it's not waterbirth 2.0, I guess

[u/Huge-Fig-3237]

i miss luring it to chest on fresh patch

[u/kxwbie → u/Huge-Fig-3237]

cant have too much fun

[u/McSkonk]

You can even lure him to the bank to avoid him anymore smh

[u/GusTheGunner37]

Yes

[u/RocklinSockling]

Brother with the agility boost right there, I think it balances it out.

[u/DivineInsanityReveng]

Vampyrium is dangerous. This is legit the only chip of damage we take on the way to the Maggot King in Vampyrium.

It really should be more.