Jagex trollin?

Well I definitly will not be renuing my membership for april after seeing yesterday's behind the scenes (unless they drop a super duper unannounced update that counteracts how stupid they've gotten this month).

"Please note that the death mechanic used in the Wilderness and other dangerous PvP activities will not be changing from how it currently is, other than that your most valuable items will be decided by their Grand Exchange guide price, not their alch value."

So basically. Chaotic will drop if you are pking with something more expensive on the ge than it's alch value? Well have fun with all the maul/cls/clr welfarers. Not only this, but whip/claw/ags luring will be GONE.

But that brings me to the most important part of this update, MERCH CLANS CAN CONTROL WHAT YOU PROTECT ON DEATH. Blizzard/Bioware - if you are listening - here is your chance to drop runescape as a competitor. Invest $100,000 into runescape gold, thats at least 125 billion gold - then tell smoking mils, and all the other merchanting clans on runescape "Rune platelegs - 25m". With at least 200b combined gold buying out rune platelegs, it will take over 5 million sets of rune platelegs to sell, which simply won't happen for 3 reasons.

1.) There is a limited store supply thanks to the shop update by Jagex.
2.) Players also need them for PK'ng - especially f2p players and rune pures, so that's more than just merchanting clans buying them out.
3.)The other two ways are from monster drops (which isn't a threat at all because they aren't dropped consistently), and smithing - which rune bars are already needed for other rune armour and rune minotaur pouches.

This means that rune platelegs are practically guaranteed to hit at least 10m. At this point, you take the accounts with rune platelegs, die somewhere remotely, and remove them from the game so it will take years for the supply to be replenished. Even if they are dumped they will still cost so much that they will protect over some of the more expensive items in the game such as whips... and will no longer be an option to pk with, which will leave alot of players with little options for an alternative.

The best part of this all will be watching Jagex try to panic-fix this when they realize whats happening - their only options would be to make it so easily obtainable - that it would be a worthless item if one were to dump millions of sets on the grand exchange so they wouldn't sell. Or to put a trade limit back in place reset the GE and thousands of players would quit again.

Congratulations, you have crashed the runescape economy. Great update jagex, can't wait to see the day every day items are merched to protect over OP gear.

Anyway, as said before I'll be taking april off, I'll still try to keep posting on my blog in the meantime. I'm actually really wanting to play Star Wars: The Old Republic when it comes out. I'd like to make a Zabrak Sith Inquisitor - Assassin Specialization (think darth maul). The class is pretty much a magic class - the two specializations are Sorcerer and Assassin. Sorcerer focuses more on using the force for magic/crowd control, Assassin uses to force to buff melee in speed and stealth (kind of like a hybrid). Hope it comes out soon.