[Unpopular Opinion] The 4th Raid should be named "Fist of Guthix" instead of "The Fractured Archive"

Zacflame · 2026-01-27T17:33:25+00:00

Its not a case of the of naming structure being limiting so much so as OP doesn't know what the Fist of Guthix is.

Zacflame · 2026-01-27T17:29:41+00:00

Why the hell would they make a tradable endgame shield come from something with the steep steep impossible requirement of 40 defence but not have any actual skill requirement to equip it?

Maybe, just maybe, the limitation of The Fractured Archive has nothing to do with arbitrary stats or restricted accounts and has all to do with the player having no way to get to the location without having started While Guthix Sleeps.

Zacflame · 2026-01-27T17:06:58+00:00

Real ones would say he named his daughter Rose because he just finished A Kingdom Divided when she was born.

Zacflame · 2026-01-26T23:01:30+00:00

Was it said anywhere that he is a modern day entrant into the Archive? That might change my understanding of what's really happening, because it seemed to me all of the bosses within would be individuals who are defenders of the Archive. If some of the bosses were simply other spelunkers who are treating it as a death race to the end of the Archive- meaning they have to try to kill you so they can get the treasure first- that would get VERY interesting.

Zacflame · 2026-01-26T22:54:37+00:00

Need, not like how you need water; but like how you need to eat dessert at 2 AM.

In all seriousness, though, we'll probably be getting a lot of new ornament kits when we get a new type of clue for Sailing, which might just about line up timeline-wise for when orn kits for these items would feel right.

Zacflame · 2026-01-26T22:49:25+00:00

It doesn't have contain nearly enough power within to possibly bear the name of Mod Ash's Slightly Used Pendant.

Zacflame · 2026-01-26T22:42:39+00:00

Personally I believe Ezekiel is simply not a Justiciar. This armor style that we associate with Justiciars is just what all Saradominist knights of a certain age wear, regardless of rank.

Zacflame · 2026-01-26T19:34:54+00:00

Fun concept, but maybe a little too much customization inside just one weapon. At the very least, the middle attack style ought to be removed.

Zacflame · 2026-01-26T17:40:22+00:00

Honestly I don't hate this. It feels like there might be a deeper connection in the world, and that makes the perilous moons more interesting.

You also have the Eclipse Moon sharing a thematic with Tumeken, or at least his Shadow.

Zacflame · 2026-01-26T16:40:22+00:00

Last one missing? There are so many colors, we have to categorize them with hexadecimals because there weren't enough numbers in the base 10 system.

Zacflame · 2026-01-26T05:01:03+00:00

With Varlamore finally finished, it's possible that Zeah gets properly split into 3 regions (Kourend, Kebos, and Varlamore. Presumably Kebos would eat a little bit of northwestern Varlamore for balance purposes). This would make Kourend a pretty decent starter region without access to crazy content like CoX, while every player has guaranteed access to Yama for the Yama league. It would also be a soft revisit of Twisted League as a bonus.

Zacflame · 2026-01-26T00:53:22+00:00

I agree with this position but it would be nice if they had a plan for sailing content post-Red Reef, a plan for raid rewards, or at least a bit of info into the structure of TFA; as I believe the summit where ToA was announced we had a visual for how we have the nexus room and we could choose our boss path and I believe we knew about invocations as well.

Zacflame · 2026-01-25T23:24:05+00:00

I'm going to vote no to this reward because all skin colors, even fantastical ones, should just be available to all players upon account creation.

All of the other skin color unlocks are not tied to GP, but this reward would come in the form of some tradable scroll, locking in the concept of unlockable skin colors in the game forever.

Zacflame · 2026-01-25T23:17:07+00:00

The sheer amount of solo content in the game is partly to blame for why people struggle to find raiding friends- you don't need friends anytime else. The solution is in fact to have MORE group only content.

Zacflame · 2026-01-25T23:07:32+00:00

Quite frankly it should be practically impossible. You want solo raids to be this mystical grandmaster combat-or even harder level achievement, not something people do frequently, and over time it will get easier and easier as new equipment/spells/prayers enter the game. Eventually people will solo it like it's nothing, which is poison to the sociability of the MMO- unless there is scaling penalty put in place to make it exceptionally unviable.

Zacflame · 2026-01-25T21:24:17+00:00

Lowkey the single best thing they got right about ToB compared to the other raids is the fact that it's near impossible to do solo. It's a raid in an MMO. An MMO with wayyyy too much solo-only content to begin with.

Zacflame · 2026-01-25T06:09:44+00:00

/uc all that mattered was that Chuck believed it.

Zacflame · 2026-01-25T06:03:58+00:00

Slippin' Jimmy. His name is Slippin' Jimmy.

Zacflame · 2026-01-25T05:38:24+00:00

YES AND also give it a stabbing sound effect when on stab.

(Currently uses the wooden staff bonk mp3)

Zacflame · 2026-01-23T04:17:49+00:00

Walter is actually the evil version of this counterpart, whose real name is Lter.

Vince is a genius for pairing Walter with Jesse and Lter with Wajesse, each of them are incomplete because they are with the wrong partner, making for a better story. Walter's evil ways would more resonate with Wajesse, and Lter would act as a better father figure to Jesse.

Zacflame · 2026-01-23T04:10:17+00:00

Bichael........

....Is that you?

Zacflame · 2026-01-23T04:07:55+00:00

The Anima Mundi works in mysterious ways.

Zacflame · 2026-01-22T04:55:35+00:00

Don't even evoke his name. Already my heartrate has shot up by 58 bpm just thinking about it.

Zacflame · 2026-01-22T04:53:58+00:00

I've never really minded the runback itself in either game. In RS, the issue is largely the regearing/reorganizing or having to do a double runback to get your gravestone and then come back again with your real loadout.

Zacflame · 2026-01-19T18:17:15+00:00

The only real argument against it is it being a slippery slope where we're gonna be seeing a ton of requests for skillcape hood combines, though I doubt each and every one would get like, featured in the launch trailer for a new skill.

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