Runescape Blog

With the update of Wednesday regarding changes to pvp (player vs player) worlds where players would be skulled once logged in and that the protect item prayer would no longer work on these worlds, there was pandemonium.

Many pvpers/pkers ran to the Grand Exchange (GE) to sell their items expecting all the expensive ones to crash in price. Dragon claws and godswords were selling at their lowest price. Owners of these items were trying to salvage as much of their fortune as possible that was invested in these items. Buyers of these items thought that it was now a perfect opportunity to buy one of these much desired items for a lower price.

Runescape forums were going crazy with rants regarding this update. I’m not a pvper nor pker, so I wasn’t directly affected by this update, but even I thought that it was not a good one and suspected that Jagex would try and rectify it (like some of their other updates).

Friday, about midday GMT, Jagex released another update. Yes, it was to rectify the update of Wednesday. A new world was designated and on this world, players would be allowed to keep their most expensive item, namely their weapon.

With this update, prices of weapons shot up and were now selling at maximum price. Those not online at the release of this update and still had items on for sale lost out as buyers bought all available weapons on the GE in order to make a profit.

Pkers/pvpers have been having an unfair advantage over skillers as they receive huge gains for their little time and effort. The main point I play Runescape is for fun and not to make loads of gold in game. The gold I receive in game comes automatically as I skill a lot when I do play.