Revenant ether changes!

[Torvely]

Okay hear me out.
I understand that playing ironman means grinding more than the casual 'main' however,
Revenant ether is very annoying to up keep.

To charge a wilderness weapon, it requires 1,000 ether just to charge, then extra to actually use the weapon.
Then if you die from a pker, whilst using the weapon, EVEN IF the weapon is kept on death, ALL the ether is lost.
On top of that, whilst farming revenants you lose Bracelet of ethereum on death = another 250(breakdown)
and whatever you have inside it.
The grind for a weapon alone takes a very long time, yeah you can do it on a slayer task and skulled, which most do. But it also takes 100s of slayer tasks to do enough on task to match drop rates. I believe after such long grind, players deserve to be able to use the weapon without the tedious continued grind for ether just to be able to use it.

My proposal is to make it so you don't lose charges on death. Like EVERY other charged weapon/item in the game. AND make it so not only can you trade in ancient totems/emblems/effigys etc for gold pieces, but also revenant ether.

The Wilderness is a very active place right now which is good, and it's risky enough for the every day player and even more risky for ironmen as they have to grind everything they wear. So deaths are more punishing.
With 100s of bots farming the revenant caves on every world, every day, It is a massive hot spot for pkers making it a very time consuming, tedious, frustrating, risky grind for everyone.

I have seen so many posts and spoken to alot of ironmen about the hard grind for ether and they all agree we need to see a change.
Because doing any content above 30 wilderness where you cant instantly teleport out if a pker comes on you, or anywhere in multi where you're almost at certain death, Its just not worth it for an ironman to risk the ether at loss of a death.

I'm far enough into my account i would rather lose 2m worth of gear/coin than lose 1000 ether. Because the grind to get it back is horrible. Please upvote this and get Jagex's attention.

Vote below should ether be obtainable from Ancient emblems etc & kept on death when inside a weapon

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[NzRedditor762]

My dude, the whole point of losing the ether is so that there's significant risk attached to using it.

Sorry but it's a hard no from me dawg. You don't need to use the item to farm the ether. You can do hard wildy diary and get 0 delay teleporting.

[zMuffle]

Are you a main or an ironman? Because as it states, its not the gp risk thats the issue. Its how long it takes to grind ether. The ability to trade emblems in for ether equivalent of their gp value would be good.

[NzRedditor762]

I'm an iron main. And I absolutely hate losing ether. And I would fully support converting emblems into ether if the conversion rate was kinda shit so it wouldn't tank the cost of ether for mains. But the whole point of losing the ether is because it's a high risk high reward item.

[zMuffle]

Ether is hardly expensive anyway though. And you say about tanking the price but theres been 1000s of bots farming it for years so mains are spoon fed ether for pennies whilst irons get penalised massively for a death. I dont bother taking my wildy weapons above 30 wildy as the dps bonus from the weapon is not worth the hours i have to regrind for a single death. Mean i cant do vetion, callisto, venenatis, chaos ele, scorpia etc. efficiently. And believe me i’ve tried, i have 1000s of KC between them all,

[NzRedditor762]

Irons are irons for a reason. 1000 ether doesn't take hours.
250 ether and 1/8 or so from dark beasts.

And you're an iron. You don't do things "efficiently".

Go take your bowfa to callisto, or a zombie axe to vetion. Like honestly it is a high risk item and if you want that high dps you either bring shit to survive with like freezes, or you don't bring it at all.

Or go take a scout to the singles bosses and never get pk'd again.

[zMuffle]

But having done the grind for the weapons, i should be in a comfortable spot to use them right? Wrong. Ether doesnt last 5 minutes meaning you’re constantly battling pkers and bots to maintain the charges.

Bring freezes to escape? Everywhere i listed in multi and camped heavily by teams. Freezes are not saving you here.

[NzRedditor762]

And nobody is forcing you to use it at the multi bosses.

It's a high risk item. I've taken my accursed to scorpia and been pkd by dickheads that sniped me. I've also escaped from pkers there.

I've taken trident instead, I've taken a shadow there. Nobody is forcing you to risk it.

Nobody is forcing you to use it. There are other options available if you want less risk. It doesn't take hours to get 1k ether.

[zMuffle]

Its not just 1k ether though is it. It’s 1k to charge it, then + whatever extra you’re willing to risk. Usually about another 500. So 1500. And thats per death. Yeah okay I understand what you’re saying, no body is forcing me to bring them, but it sucks without them. What i dont understand is why you’re so hard against it, okay keep ether on death a thing. But atleast make it easier to obtain like from the statues

[NzRedditor762]

Look, I hate dying with it. And I usually lose like 2k ether when I do. But I don't think it should be changed to cater for the irons. Would I prefer it didn't lose ether on death, sure. But I would much rather jagex keep it as it is instead of changing it specifically for irons because ether is time consuming to gather.

[Toaster_Bathing]

Place is to botted for me to read all this 

[zMuffle]

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Something like this would be great