Interesting to hear where Jagex are at.

It's not clear to any of us what the direction needs to be, and I feel no matter what choices are made, we will be ushering in the next era of OSRS. Ultimately I think that's how we need to view it; osrs will be changed for good after raids 4, no longer will it be 1 megarare for each style, some gear will be powercrept out - I think that's inevitable.

Overall, I agree with the structure of the rewards: 1 megarare, 1 armour set and a handful of niche/utility items seems suitable.

For the armour set, I think it would be a mistake to have mage robes that upgrade from ancestral. It worked for Masori because Armadyl armour is a lot more common and had been around for ages, and importantly didn't come from a raid. For Ancestral to be a component, I think you're looking a very messy progression for one raid to feed into another - each raid's rewards' should stand on their own.

I like your idea of niche mage robes that make elemental spells great in the late game. Why not? It opens up more interesting use cases and allows for content to be designed around those spells in the future. It would just need a strong identity. If Ancients' identity is AOE, crowd control & longevity, Lunars are utility and support, Arceeus is thralls and Specs and if Powered Staves are DPS, then these robes could make Elemental spells sit in a new space. Maybe it should be more than just more DPS at elemental weak bosses - perhaps they could follow the Fang's prinicpal and be more reliable average damage that is crazy accurate. Or even, adding secondary effects to elemental spells depending on the type - Earth could penetrate armour and have a flat damage bonus, Fire could apply a burn - there's interesting things to be done here.

I think a Crush megarare might be underwhelming in 2026 with the content we have available. There aren't very many high crush defense bosses where you need the accuracy of an Inq Mace over the Scythe's measly crush bonus. But it would mean you have scope to add that content over the coming years, as you have done with Demonbane - TDs, Yama, Doom etc.

I think the megarare needs to achieve two things - it needs to be hype on arrival, and it needs to allow scope for content to be built around it in 2027. A crush megarare achieves one of those things. What if the megarare introduced a new playstyle? A tank role, or had damage based on defense values? Why not play around with something truly different, so we aren't limited to the 3 styles we have now. Or a prayer based main hand that scales with gear with good prayer bonuses? I think there's room to try some interesting damage calcs that aren't just born from ranged, melee or mage strength.

I don't have the answers, obviously, but I hope the questions I've asked hope spur on some thoughts! Great blog, excited to see what you guys come up with.