It was exhilarating to return to the Grand Exchange and see people dressed in RuneScape Gold armor and wielding swords that seemed to use god-killing power to smash my old, high-gloss dragon's armour, and an abyssal whip (that'd look impressive if played the game back in my day and teen years).

even though the nice people at Jagex have set up a lot of support for players with a long history and even a nostalgic menu mode. In another nod towards old players, I extremely happy to learn that if I went to Lumbridge and spoke to Hans who was a famous NPC since the beginning, Hans would reward me with 5-10-, fifteen-year cape for veterans. The cape that has 15 years of service is something to behold, it's got fire burning in the lowest part of the.

When I was overwhelmed, I decided to focus on a lifetime goal of mine: to master firemaking. Skill mastery consists of hours and hours of repetitive movements until you reach the levels 99 (now 120 in a handful of abilities) In the end, it is rewarded with a cape worthy of the title of a master. This cape is trimmed. It's bright.

It shows the symbol of whatever talent and includes a hood to match. My brother and a trusted friend--who claimed to be a powerful mage--also joined in the MMO fun. After re-exploring this RuneScape the world (and constantly reminding my group on their Discord conversation that I'm among the best among us), it was time to get started.

This crew would become some of the most legendary craftsmen Gielinor's ever encountered, me with my arson and my friend with his magic and my brother using herblore (potion-making) the latter of which he selected because the cape of his skill has the appearance of a weed leaf.

This mission ushered in the most enjoyable month of the pandemic. It was certainly boring, but RuneScape does such a fantastic job at rewarding the grind that it was just me and my friends going off playing Discord just like we do, but with a goal-setting feature.

Also, RuneScape isn't free of microtransactions. It's the most vile aspect of gaming in which MMOs include like RuneScape along with World of Warcraft all but invented, but today, with my adult dollars the cost of a membership wasn't a problem and, beyond membership, everything else--cool cosmetics to runescape 07 gold draw attention to other players or boost XP levels, in-game money--is almost completely optional.