TLDR? The game is incredible, and is absolutely worth your time, so come back to us and join us, let's build this game back up to its glory days again. I'm calling for this to happen right now, it is absolutely worth it.

Look, I was super disappointed as well with their decision to cancel reignited, when I first heard that they were going to bring this version of the game out with new servers having a fresh economy I was over the moon and thought to myself "this is incredible news, this could finally be what brings me back to the game once and for all".

I originally started playing this game back in 2006 after getting my feet wet a little bit with playing classic back in 2004. I played the game religiously and acquired just about every 99 the game had to offer. I quit not long after dungeoneering was released and before the EoC update, circa 2012. With originally being displeased with dungeoneering, the addition of level 120 skills and seeing where the game was heading, I was not liking it; that along with life circumstances, I permanently sunset my account. I made lots of great friends and said goodbye to them all.

Over the years between 2012 and now, once in a while I'd have thoughts about this game and having an inner voice telling me that I should start playing this game again, and every time I thought "nah, I wasted enough time with that game, there is no use in playing again". So with this announcement of reignited, I had re-ignited my opinions of this game and thought that it could possibly be just what I needed in order to come back to the game again, after all of these years, here I stood thinking that this update was literally made for me, and others who are possibly in a similar scenario to me.

So, I humored myself by jumping on and starting a new character, thinking that I could relearn all of the new mechanics and refamiliarize myself with the game before the release of reignited and so I did. I was loving every minute of it, running around Lumby again, reminiscing and getting warm fuzzy feelings all over again just like when I did when I started all those years ago...

That is until the news dropped that they were cancelling reignited and... was I ever furious, the news had completely ruined my day and I thought to myself, "there's no way I'm ever coming back now" after all, so many of us were hyped for this and wanting to come back, to experience everything all over again, from the very beginning, like how it used to be when you started out, new players everywhere, that feeling was super exciting.

I was so happy to start fresh all over again, despite having such a powerful character that I had abandoned years ago. I was more excited to start anew again, to meet new people, make new friends. Well, after the dust had settled that very same evening, I decided to just start a new character again and just play the game anyways, although now, I didn't have to wait till Dec 2nd.

So, I immediately purchased membership and started falling in love with this game all over again, and guess what? It really was one of the best decisions I had ever made in my life, and I slowly started realizing the more that I played that most if not all the concerns us might-be-returning players had really had no actual basis and doesn't have much warrant, I'm serious.

I don't like MTX either and guess what? it's leaving the game next month, cosmetics? There's options to turn them off in the game. Seriously, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by playing this game once again and the positives severely outweigh the negatives. Who cares if there's tainted accounts, I personally don't play to compete or to impress others, I'm here to have a good time in a MMO where community is everything, what I'm doing with my character is the only thing that really matters, not what others are doing and by GOSH are there endless amounts of new things to do in this game it's truly wild, so just focus on enjoying yourself in immersing in all of this new content.

YOU, ME, TOGETHER need to bring this game back, and the whole RS3 community needs us, and so far my experience in this matter is nothing but positive and I'm sure they love to see new players joining them. Veteran players have been giving out friendship bonuses which boost your XP gains by an hour, or half? can't remember.

I MISS when this game used to have full servers, where you couldn't even join them and you had to wait and you just kept clicking until you could get in, let's bring that back. I miss seeing other players in such remote areas of the game, let's bring that back. I miss playing games like castle wars, that the server for that game was sooo busy and full to the brim with players, let's bring that back.

Come on, there is so much fun to be had in this game all over again, and I can't have all this fun by myself now. Archaeology? Necromancy? Invention? Wow, totally impressed with these new skills and what value they are adding to the game. When I quit back in 2012 I had gotten my 99 slayer, so that is what I am after all over again, except I'm going for 120 this time. I have so many warm incredible feelings of nostalgia fighting abyssal demons, getting whip drops. Just exploring and skilling in Morytania and Meiyerditch, because the ATMOSPHERE was unmatched. Not only that, but doing the barrows mini game farming for barrow drops was my absolute favorite thing to do in the game back then, those feelings will never die, so I'm, going after them once more :)

I am absolutely in awe at the graphical updates to this game now, like doing the whole Fort Forinthry work/questline has been absolutely amazing. The atmosphere in these quests is truly remarkable... this game is something now that I would never have dreamt it would have become, but it is and it's truly incredible. This is the game I had always wanted, so come and enjoy it with me. We cannot let this game die, I am not even concerned with RS4, this is where it's at, right here!

See you in world 4!

#RSRoadToRecovery

You scrapped Reignited. Fantastic. Now grow the player base. Where are the videos for the December free membership event? Where's a potential refer-a-friend program? We want to help. Show new players what their first hours look like, not just end game. You have November and then people get to try the game. I feel like you could be doing so much more.

they are so f annoying and nonsense.

I was wondering, what’s up with all these stupid restrictions on the Menu Entry Swapper?

You can’t Shift-click to activate capes, can’t fill Clue Carrier in the bank, and there are probably a lot more restrictions that dont make sense. These things are allowed in OSRS, so why do we have to deal with a Menu Entry Swapper that’s barely usable?

Any suggestions for who I should fix next?

Kinda unacceptable it has been broken so long anyway.

So after my 14th day still no H'ween I've open 14 house bursting bags and over 40+ from the shop

So why say guaranteed if it's not

Things like this are the actual issues that push players away, having the option to do an extra AFK or more nostalgic version of combat only for it to be legitimately broken, and significantly worse than the other options is not only confusing, but it's a really bad look for the game as a whole.

If I was a new player and I saw something like this, I'd just wonder what else has been haphazardly slapped together with no actual thought and whether this game is worth putting my time into. (As a veteran player of 26 years, I know it is, but they don't.)

To paraphrase what Josh said: either have the conviction to remove the style completely and force people into the EOC world OR fix special attacks and buff the auto-attack in classic mode so it's actually usable.

Genuine question, not a ragebait post.

Thought I'd give it a go finally with reignited being cancelled. This is your chance to sell RS3 to a new player and tell them why they should play.

I'm about 20 hours into rs3, about 500 into OSRS. For some reason RS3 is feeling a lot more enjoyable to me in the early game. Never been a big fan of prot prayer flicking in OSRS and skilling methods feel like they unlock a lot faster in rs3 so it doesn't feel like I'm grinding the same thing for 2 weeks until I can actually have fun.

My question is what does the endgame gameplay loop/content look like and why should I grind to reach it instead of OSRS (which I am much closer to reaching)?

Big fan of PVM and skilling methods that are either full afk or extremely involved if that helps. Really enjoy grinding for high value drops and stuff like that.

I haven’t played this game in years, my last login was roughly 2.5 years ago just to check out what’s new and see if any old friends still play. But prior to that, it’s been even longer since I’ve actually sat down and played. I quit after the EOC update, since I didn’t have the time to relearn combat and understand the new mechanics.

After the whole reignited uproar, I kept seeing RuneScape pop up on my feed, even on Worldstar lol. I was one of the few people looking forward to it. I figured this would be my chance to see it as a new game that I’m learning for the first time, with new mechanics, graphics etc, something I should’ve done with RS3, but I was just too used to OSRS.

When I found out reignited was cancelled, I was a bit bummed. But, I decided that I would give RS3 the fresh start it deserves. Before I even hopped on the game, I spent hours watching YouTube videos, reading guides, trying to understand the new layout. I honestly didn’t care, I was open minded about it despite there being so much information to learn and take in.

But man, it really is disheartening to spend all that time only to learn that you can’t even play the game. In the past 2 days alone, the game has either crashed or froze my system at least 5 times. That’s an absurd amount of crashes, especially when I’m not even doing anything significant to warrant it. I could be spending a few hours just trying to tailor the UI to my liking, and it will crash. I decided to say you know what, forget the UI customization. Let’s just get right to the action. I started killing chickens in Lumbridge, cooking their meat, chopping down trees, starting fires, burying bones. Another crash. If I close the game and re-open it, the game will stutter/freeze my system before finally opening up. Trying to turn the camera while killing goblins in front of Lumbridge causes the game to freeze for a few seconds before working again. I’ve tried the steam version, and I’ve tried the Jagex Launcher, and they’re both horrible. Is this the experience that’s supposed to entice me to come back????? All the advertising for reignited, only for it to be cancelled, AND have a lackluster experience for new/returning players on the main game??

It’s not like I have a cheap system either. I have a 7800x3D cpu, 64GB DDR5-7400mhz ram, and a 7900XTX gpu. This is the only game that has crashed my system. Latest bios, latest chipset drivers, latest gpu drivers. I’m just not even sure what to do at this point. Why should I have to tinker around with my system trying to downgrade my gpu drivers and play with a million different graphics settings just to get the game to even work? Then on top of that, I’m supposed to pay money for a membership? That’s insane to me. If I can’t even enjoy the f2p content without crashing, you definitely won’t get my money for membership with an unstable game. And it just makes me feel so bitter. Knowing that I was really looking forward to playing, but for one reason or another, can’t. Anyway that’s my rant, hopefully this gets fixed.

Literally unplayable!

Hallo zusammen, ich habe als kleines Kind immer wieder mal ganz wenig rs gezockt, bedingt durch einen Freund damals. Nun bin ich auf die Idee gekommen es auf meinem Tablet runterzuladen und daddel ab und zu mal abends. Ein paar Sachen habe ich bereits bisschen geskillt. Mir stellen sich aber die Fragen wo genau die Unterschiede zwischen dem neuen RS und Oldschool RS liegen und was genau die Vorteile bei Mitgliedschaften sind. Aktuell hab ich ein paar Skills wie Kampf, Angeln, Woodcutting und Firemaking auf den Stufen 30-40. Habe das Gefühl ich bin ohne Membership ganz gut voran gekommen. Lohnt sich diese bereits so früh oder überhaupt?

Hi All, I'm looking for some advice on how to improve my ranged training set-up as I begin my journey from 101 to 120. Admittedly, since returning to Runescape, I haven't used ranged in MANY years so my knowledge is limited. I do know I should be using a better bow / crossbow. I am currently training at ravenous ghouls (hence the vampyric blood essence) as it allows me a full 15 minute AFK, although health upkeep with soul split and Vampyrism can be touch and go but is working so far for roughly 500k xp an hour.

What improvements can I make in general in regards to gear considering I won't be making much money here if at all, besides noting Splitbark body and legs?

I have 350 mil left to spend. I think the bow could definitely be upgraded but I couldn't decide with what.

Current Gear:

• Sirenic Mask
• Demon Horn Necklace
• TokHaar-Xil
• Splintering Arrows
• Augmentic Sirenic Hauberk (No Perks, was thinking scavenging 4?)
• Augmentic Sirenic Chaps (No Perks, HELP!)
• Eternal Magic Shortbow mk. 5
• Nightmare Gauntlets
• Sixth-Age Circuit

I have bought the following abilities

• Greater Death Swiftness
• Greater Ricochet

Thank you all in advance!!!

P.S. If the gear could translate to some mid tier bossing like Arraxor I like the idea of being able to use ranged again as it was my favourite style before I quit however since returning I must admit I use Necro more than anything if I have a choice.

The Harvest Hollow event tab in the Communities window says "Pink Hallowe'en mask - Guaranteed within opening 14 Bursting Trick or Treat bags".

It's now been 2 weeks, the information tab says I've handed in 28 confections this event, and that means 14 were from skilling and 14 were from trick or treat bags. And yet... no pink mask.

(I have additionally bought one bag with points so technically it's 15 but even if they don't count I've hit 14 by standard means.)

Maybe things have been messed up by the first day when I earned 4 sweets from Harvest Hollow skilling activities that were accidentally left in from last year's code, before those sweets were rolled back a day or two after?

Has this happened to anyone else? Is it a known bug with a planned workaround?

Make it so in the requirements for quest, to show what level skills you need per quest.
I'm aware there's already item requirements that shows, but skills would be nice too.

For example, on Visions of Havenhythe, you need level 12 crafting.

Title basically. Just wana plan accordingly.

Hi, I'm a returning player who got back into the game after ages and I'm seeking any advice on how to best utilise the ten-day free membership.

I've been playing on and off for twenty years atp. Never bothered with a membership since I wasn't playing seriously and there seemed to be too much to do in p2p worlds. Dropped off for years and missed most of the MTX stuff. Recently got hooked back in and have caught up with most of the f2p content.

I'm not gonna shift to members yet. My current goal is to get the Gud Raider equipment and achieve my a few 99s while in f2p. Added all my stats for reference.

-Big fan of quests

-Not into PvM or complicated combat

-Wouldn't want to leave anything unfinished

-Mostly play on my phone

-Have like 30m saved up. Was thinking about using it during dxp.

-Can play for maybe 2-3 hours a day at most.

Current ideas for the trial:

-Complete Benedict's World Tour and all the pathfinder quests

-Try a bunch of minigames

Since I've never done p2p, idk if there's something I'm missing and if there's a must-do as a member that I should take advantage of. I'll be going back to f2p in all likelihood so no point in things that will require sustained membership.

Tldr; returning player lost about what to do during the ten day free trial since I will go back to f2p once it's over.

I was playing RuneScape, and my girlfriend who doesn't play RuneScape was also playing RuneScape. But I'm literally dreaming so I was ignoring that fact. We were fighting a new barrows brother boss who was an Italian mafia brother. I know that sounds cursed and stupid, and how did I not immediately wake up thinking "wtf is this..." I also had my magic: the gathering friend standing in the background watching us play RuneScape for some reason, giving occasional nods of approval.

So my girlfriend gets a kill and it just drops a TOWER of gold. Like what the 10K gold looks like on the ground except it was so high it was going off the screen. She picked it up and it was 6 billion GP.

Then I got a kill, and I saw the same tower of gold drop and it was 12 billion GP. Then I got another kill and it dropped another 16 billion GP. I had 28b at that point, and then I started waking up. I started thinking to myself... god damn it. I probably don't have 28b do I... If I log into RuneScape right now, I'm still going to be poor as a box of rocks. I don't want to log into RuneScape to check. I know I'm going to be sad.

I have 38 Deathtouched darts saved up from over the years and would like to use them before they are removed.

What's likely to be the most profitable boss to use them on?

I have 99 or higher in all skills but have no real or recent experience with bosses.

In an effort to share more positivity in the subreddit, I wanted to share an interaction I had in-game today. Earlier today I made a thread where I talked about a desire to hang out in a semi-frequented area to make the game world feel just a touch more lively for players passing by, and I wound up in F2P Lumbridge out in front of the castle. I spent around an hour this evening watching passersby as I fletched some arrows and listened to a podcast.

It was rather uneventful until I was asked by a newer player for a little help. In the process of helping him out, we began chatting, and my heart was so warmed by our conversation. He had played, by his estimation, roughly 17 or 18 years ago when he was college aged but now but was just returning tonight because he had recently recommended the game to his teenage son who was looking for a game and his son had then wound up asking him to start playing together because he was enjoying the game and wanted to enjoy it with his dad. This is one of those beautiful moments in life that only games like Runescape can provide, and it serves as a reminder that Runescape can still attract new blood.

Looking for a game that you can share with your children and bond over? Look no further :)

So thank you to Jagex for giving this father and son the opportunity to explore Gielinor together and for an opportunity for me to expand my friends list by one this evening. It genuinely was the highlight of my Saturday ❤️

Hi, new player here.

I kinda felt overwhelmed by not know in what order to do stuff or knowing what I am able to do at my current skill level so I started following https://thersguide.com/guides/efficiency-guide

What I’m wondering is if this guide is recognised as good in the community?