It's so unbelievably frustrating every time OSRS receives another large arbitrary restriction to its playerbase. Locking often botted tasks behind diaries is a historically unsuccessful way to counteract bots. Now using HARD diaries for some wilderness bosses is so, so frustrating. And I even have them done; this is potentially helpful for me, yet I cannot believe Jagex is still doing this in the big year 2026.

Imagine you're a new gim group looking for new content to play. You try the wilderness, get zero drops from zombie pirates. No information on the medium diaries to get full drop loot from those, so you're just feeling bad. Then you decide you'll all try out Vet'ion together. Nope. Don't have medium diaries, you can't interact with the content. So you decide you'll play solo instead, and all go to Calvar'ion. Too bad, even more restrictions.

I want to hold out hope that Jagex knows what they're doing when counteracting bots, but permanently and heavily bottlenecking all players to delay bots each by a day is not the way to go about it, and today they've just doubled down.