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When Will the Runescape Wilderness Return?

by Cod, May 27, 2008

The Wilderness was an important, celebrated part of the RuneScape community. It is what made RuneScape unique from many other MMORPGs.

As we all know, it was taken out as an update on December 10, 2007. Along with it, Bounty Hunter and Clan Wars were added; also Duel Arena was made available for Free Players. Instead of Player-Killers (PKers) in the Wilderness as a danger, there were Revenants that replaced them.

Why did JaGeX decide to do this? To stop Real-World Item Trading, or RWT. All those yellow-shirted, bald bots were part of that, and now there are nearly none of them. There is also a limit of how much you give to another player, which is at most 3,000 gp for Free Players. There are also Gravemarkers if you die, which maintain all your items for a period of time and lets you gain them back; if you don't get there in time, they disappear to everybody.

Many people were upset about this, but JaGeX still did not change the Wilderness and people still seem to be upset, even after six months. We all have to not live in the past and move on. Instead of the old features that were replaced, think of alternatives.

Instead of ... Merchanting

Invest or item flip on the Grand Exchange. You can easily make the same amount, or even more, on GE instead of merchanting. This can be done by investing, which is where you track an item and buy it low, then sell it at a high price in hopes of making a profit. Then, there is item flipping, which is when you buy a large quantity of an item at maybe the Market Value, then sell it at the Maximum price (on GE).

Instead of ... Staking

PK in Bounty Hunter (BH) or stake 3k against friends, or compete in Duel Tournaments. You should to PK in BH if you were good at staking. You might have to train your stats up a little to get within the ideal levels of BH. However, if the staking stats were not meant for PKing, you can always stake with your friends, stake 3k against others (every 15 minutes), or make awesome Duel Arena videos. For Duel Tournaments, you can get quite a lot of money too.

Instead of ... Intense Clan Wars at Level 40 Wilderness

Go to Clan Wars arena with friends or join some body else's clan. Even though it is a safe mini-game, you can still have a great thrill trying this, especially if there are good and many players on each side. Additionally, there are multiple strategies, even though many people think there are not, to clan wars, such as diversions, sneaking up, grouping, etc. So in Clan Wars, you can have a fun time, without losing all your stuff if you die.

Instead of ... PK Trips

Go join, or make, a clan for Bounty Hunter. You can then all stand in the middle and try and kill gruesome opponents. This is a great substitute for crazy PK Trips. At one moment it will be completely calm, and the next it will be complete chaos. Get some friends together and get out there! Additionally, you could go for a Revenant trip, which is when you and a few others try to seek and kill Revenants. Since they do not drop the best drops (mostly coins), they are mostly for fun.

Instead of ... Drop Parties

Try the party room. Get together a bunch of friends, and if you drop a high amount of money, the party room will be packed with other people, too. You could also drop items less than 3k in value, except you can only drop items up to 3k in 15 minutes.

Instead of ... Bots

There are next to no bots at all, so everybody can mine, cut or fish better than ever. The bots used to always hog the yew trees, which was upsetting for me since I used to woodcut quite frequently. Also, the bots made the economy unstable since there were high quantities of raw material around, which made them valued less (supply & demand).

Instead of ... Helping People with a Skill

Use the Assist System. It is a great alternative and helps stop scammers since you basically “lend” another player you skill level.

Instead of ... Item Lending

There will be an Item Lending feature in the future. JaGeX is currently working on it and the details will come out, hopefully, soon.

Instead of ... Sharing Monster Drops

You can all be in the same Clan Chat and turn LootShare, with or without CoinShare on. This system is quite fair in splitting the assets gained from a strong monster drop (such as the King Black Dragon, Chaos Elemental, Kalphite Queen, etc.)

Instead of ... PKing

You can always use Bounty Hunter. Actually, I think I enjoy BH better than the old Wilderness because you cannot teleport in the midst of a battle in BH. Even though you can exit the crater, you could do that with the old wilderness too (by running in to lower level wilderness). Bounty hunter really gets your adrenaline pumping and if you haven't tried it yet with a good account to, I suggest you do.

In Conclusion

So far, instead of the old Wilderness and trade limit, there has been Bounty Hunter, Clan Wars, Fist of Guthix, Grand Exchange, Gravestones, F2P Duel Arena, F2P Party Room, LootShare and CoinShare, Revenants, Assist System, and probably even more that I am forgetting. There will also be more in the future, says JaGeX themselves. One example: “Next year, we have planned a chase-based PKing game where some players are trying to survive/escape while others try to hunt them down.” There has also been talk of a dangerous (you lose your items), multi-combat mini-game.

Many people think that RuneScape has been ruined, but I believe that the future is looking quite bright and this is only the beginning.

“Alea jacta est.” (The die has been cast.) - Julius Caesar

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#1 by zarzema, May 27, 2008

Pretty nice article.

#2 by runescapepro, May 27, 2008

lol nice article.
I hope those ppl who are planning to quit Runescape because of the removal of the Wilderness read this.
Good job. ;-)

#3 by LOLLL, May 28, 2008

man runescape is only good for the skillers now....

#4 by codcod, May 28, 2008

@runescape pro: thanks. ^_^ that was my intention by writing this article, for anybody who is quitting or has quit that they take a moment and read this and reconsider. it also reminds people that there really has been improvement of this game, and in the last paragraph, the vast list of updates i put ONLY included the ones that pertained to the subject i was talking about. heck, there's been wayyyy more updates than that.

@LOLLL: what makes it bad for pures (i currently manage one) or mains? there has and continue to be very good updates for both different players.

#5 by chance, May 28, 2008

that article was awesome, i liked it! =]

#6 by thebizom456, May 29, 2008

lol great point

runescape hasnt ben ruined

it has been enhanced

(yes its me)

#7 by 0wn3dpur32k8-my name in rs-hey nice points i like it!, May 29, 2008

hey nice points !

#8 by lol ruined, May 30, 2008

RUNESCAPEhas been ruined even tho i lost 2 mil but i liked it and the GE !!!!!!!!!!! sooo all u lvl 80s or above i got 1 word for you get a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

#9 by keith1124, May 30, 2008

this is stupid, runescape is ruined!!! without pking, when ppl get bored, theyll instantly quit, and not go lose all their stuff in wildy for fun

#10 by Cod, May 30, 2008

@lol ruined + keith: wow. it seems like both of you haven't even read the article but only the title. seriously. or, you might not have tried the alternatives. i currently manage a pure, and trust me. i think bh is better than the old wildy. you didn't get as many kills since you had to run all over the place... and lol ruined: im 80+. i have no life either so take that. thanks for your comments. and keith. i think people get bored all the time... lol? especially when their trying to get like a 99 or something but how come i see a bunch of ppl with like a bajillion xp? well yeah they have no life but still you'd think they'd be slightly bored, but they make goals and stuff soz. they don't quit in the process though.

thanks for your lovely comments.

#11 by Donovan, May 31, 2008

Me and my cousin made 2 pures last year to go pking. My cousin went on vacation and when he came back to pk the wildy was gone.I tried Bounty Hunter but I'm a level 60 and the lvl 90s pwn me.The Bounty Hunter range should be every 20 levels in my opinion.

#12 by strisbetter, May 31, 2008

dude the bad thing about bh there is alot of tankers and everyone is going in and comng out they should make a time limit for that

#13 by Silvercooney, Jun 1, 2008

Well many pures lived from the drops in Wilderness and now you have to hunt ur target or leave the BH right before the red bar above ur kill is gone and you have to find the drop again.

I used to make a lot of money from PK'ing

I'd say Jagex has lost a lot of pures/pk'ers because of that update.

#14 by Saberwolf, Jun 2, 2008

I already quit and I assume that some people in this topic also quited already.

#15 by Saberwolf, Jun 2, 2008

Talking about against the rules in #17. Isn't there like sooooo many rule-breaking tricks in Runescape? Like the Range then Melee attack strategy, which makes you hit TWICE in a roll. I find it a very dirty trick and would probably be against the rules if Jagex ever find out.

#16 by Saberwolf, Jun 2, 2008

Also, I bought a set of Full Rune G for less than 1.2 mill before I quit Runescape 2 years ago. (Should've bought 2 or more). And when I log on this year, it's worth 1.8 mill or something in the Grand Exchange and 1.999 Mill or something in trading (which is technically 2 mill). Isn't that sort of "Jagex-cheating" rather than as you mentioned, Cod, that Jagex has created all these new rules because they think that people should earn their money fairly? I mean I earned like 800k by selling/trading it to a random person.

#17 by Saberwolf, Jun 2, 2008

Jagex\'s \"LITTLE\" Updates made the price gone up way too high and people are making money they otherwise couldn\'t have made.

#18 by Saberwolf, Jun 3, 2008

Another thing. Technically speaking you can't PK in BH from lvl 3~40+, lvl 56~80+, or lvl 100~110+. Since you can't really beat lvl 50+, 90+, 130+ unless you are very close lvl to them, it's going to be a slaughter when a team of lvl 40 or lower fought against a team of 50+. Also, I don't think you can teleport away like you usually can in the old free wilderness. (Never tried, but I'm positive that's true.)

#19 by Cod, Jun 3, 2008

Thanks for the comments, Saberwolf. The range/r2h k0 isn't really a bug in my opinion; it's more of a PK strategy. I know I use it... games kinda have to have those type of little "secrets." For the next comment, a lot of the prices have gone up or down. I remember that rune boots could sell for like 200k or so but now they're what.. like 40k? (I'm not sure, somewhere round there.) That's kind of how you make money on GE too, investing. I know some people who have made hundreds of mil doing that. Another item that has gone down are like r2hs, mostly because of supply/demand. Also connecting to supply/demand, yew logs used to be 250-300 (I remember selling for 200) but are now like around 415. That's because there were many bots cutting yews and the supply has gone down so the price rises. Same with most fish, ores and logs. To your last comment. You really should train to like 50s in the low level, 90s in med, 110s in high. If you can't do it then you can't PK really. You have to train to earn it; no more iron 2h pking, lol. And no, you can't teleport away in the old wilderness (trust me.. I've tried.)

#20 by Saberwolf, Jun 4, 2008

I never used teleport in Wilderness myself DURING COMBAT since my pures don've have teleport unfortunately (except for my mage, though mages are always too expensive and underleveled so I always quit them after a while), though I am pretty sure that you CAN teleport below lvl 20 Wilderness DURING COMBAT. I've seen soooo many people do it, mostly mage. Now, they could be out of combat or something but they did teleport at Low Lvl Wilderness and Lvl 15 Wilderness, where the Dark Warrior's Fortress, which almost every high lvl Pk'er goes=VERY FUN.

#21 by Dark Ranger, Jun 4, 2008

Dark Warrior's Fortress= lvl 70+ clans (lots of people each clan) vs other high lvl clans=FUN=VERY FUN=LoL.

#22 by Cod, Jun 11, 2008

"And no, you can't teleport away in the old wilderness (trust me.. I've tried.) " (#23 by Cod) Wasn't thinking straight lol... I meant you can't teleport away in BH (not the old wilderness) during combat to your target. You'll just run to him/her instead. And yeah, I remember Dark Warriors' Fortress. There's still crazy wars in Clan Wars though, but without people losing their items.

HOWEVER: JaGeX has promised a NEW MULTICOMBAT NON-SAFE (you lose your items) MINI-GAME, from what I've read.

#23 by Oolti5, Jun 12, 2008

According to me BH is ok. fine u cant choose who to kill. there is a lvl limit, u never know who the hell is gonna pwn u or him.
its a game. its just a game.its not the end of the world ok. fine i like runescape.but just becuz its new jagex is just trying to help all of us. jagex provided stability to this game. What u ppl cant see is that stability is needed almost everywere(probably everywere). So i gues u guys shud thank JAGEX for wat they have done. \\\"Stability is needed in every aspect of life\\\".(Johannes Gutenberg). lol jking its me. i said that. right now. lol it aint that good i know.

#24 by Oolti5, Jun 12, 2008

Oh yah cod gr8 article.luv it. It really teaches people to be thankful of what JAGEX has given to them.;-)

#25 by mr j.b jagex, Jun 20, 2008

wilderness back 2 3 june 08; be there

#26 by anonimo56,ipwnuwitrang,mylastanon, Jun 21, 2008

well first of all cod, nice guide men, this will teach ppl that runecape is not a bad game just beacause wild is gone. in my opinion runescape will never be so kool like it was when wild was there(just my opinion).
Also i really think bh would be quite good if you do it rite, i earn 2m in the first week of bh, never used it again.
in old wild i had like 11 pking pures, wat i have done is that i have stayed with some since i cant maintaim em all since u know its not easy to supply items for every single pure, especcially if u got so many.
I decided to post here so i could tell ppl that wild wasnt all, even tho wild was there i got bored of it once in a while. as cod said above set some goals and get ur skillz up after u try it ul like it. just another idea of what you can do when your playing runescape.

#27 by Cod, Jun 23, 2008

Thanks for your comments.

Like I said in my article, say you train a pure to like level 55. It might take a while but you'll be having lots of fun pwning in bh. There will also be another dangerous minigame in the future and we'll have to wait to see how good it is.

#28 by Wtf N God, Jul 24, 2008

Cod you are mistaken.

Runescape maynot be a completely piece of ruine for the players who pays for this game, but in the free to plays worlds things are far worse than ever before since the removal of Pvp and wilderness and unbalanced trade.

In f2p, the only player bonding experiance existed was this so called "Pking". Many players made friends through Pk, many players lived on Pk. There was no other form of bonding existing in f2p that's greater than meeting a friend then goes on the hunt for joy of the loot than Pking.

There is no, alternative ways, in free to play worlds, to enjoy runescape ever the same again. Bounty hunter, as you have suggested, is pure hell. Hell. Pure Pkers have failed to strive in Bounty hunter because of the level differences other players impose. In bounty hunter, only the highest level with the most defense could survive, but unlike wilderness which had a multi/single zone, Bounty hunter is interchangable, shifts from one on one to a possible three on one unfair challenge.

Tear of Guthix is another futile attempt made by JeGax to reverse the damage caused of Pking Removal. People enjoyed Pking because of it's random factor, you never know what you will get after you succed. In tear of Guthix, there is no random factor, it is plain, it's repetitive, lacks of a random factor for anyone to like.

Runescape days are completely over for me. All my friends have quitted Runescape for much better games. Without Pking, perhaps I will never meet another friend in f2p world ever again. Runescape had always been a Pvp Game in my opinion, and it's a huge mistake to eliminate the factor.

#29 by Wtf N God, Jul 24, 2008

Cod nor by any means do I attempt to refute your opinion. It should be looked at as a nice guide, a very persumputious guide though, which would have made sense if hadn't the emotional, social factors got in the way while playing this sabotage piece of java rpg.

Good luck. Message from a true Runescape fan. 2005-2007.

#30 by trout, Jul 29, 2008

cod is just trying to say that jagex are changing things, trying to make rs better, yes it would be nice to have the wildy back but you have to get over it, a lot more things have been brought in and i think that less rules are being broken now so give cod a break, he was just trying to help and say that for every 3-4 things that jagex take away like 12 more come in making rs way better.

#31 by LP, Jul 31, 2008

runescape still sucks no more fun things in wildy with 150+ returning opts and fights such as that when you see another clan down another one

#32 by rs ruined, Aug 13, 2008

rs is ruined wilderness pkin was a massive part of rs most people played to pk now uv got bh with penalties and pjers everywhere the level difference is stupid in bh ppl pked because it was exciting all real runescape players have quit its just not the same and wont be unless pk is returned if pk was returned i think rs wud be an absoltely amazing game especially with new graphics ect...

#33 by be happy not, Aug 18, 2008

rs is not ruined but atill sucks

#34 by anna, Aug 19, 2008

nicely done articlee. kudos on that.

but i dont really like the updates, the wilderness really was a big party of rs and it should be back. and yeah the GE is good but i really liked selling things old fashion by the banks.
:(
though the lending i really like(:

#35 by martin0406, Aug 22, 2008

wow i like this update but i seriosly want the wild back = |

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