The Complete Timeline of RuneScape's Best Items

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While regularly staying up late at night with my newborn, I had plenty of time to study all of RuneScape's earliest update logs and Bluerose13x history in order to create the perfect list of Best in Slot combat gear with way too much precision. I hope you enjoy it. Share your thoughts about ANYTHING - did I miss one?
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00:00 Intro
00:44 2001 1/2
08:55 2001 2/2
15:07 2002
21:58 2003
24:06 2004
26:46 2005
31:52 2006
32:36 2007
Inspired by: Cudabear, J1mmy, Colonello, July the RuneScape Historian, Mote Plox, and Settled
Thumbnail: / theskulled
Music used from @UnpragmaticCovers with permission.
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  • Hey, everyone. Thank you all so much for the kind words and support on this video. I'm looking forward to making many more nostalgic videos similar to this one in the near future. Stay tuned! I also want to share some incredibly helpful additional insights from the comments that slightly change some considerations from the video: There were no stat checks for gear at release so you could wear adamant at level 1 instead of level 30. Black, Red, and Blue Capes had different stats until the ability to dye capes made them all equal - blue was best followed by red then black. In RS2 it was possible to change Family Crest Gauntlets but not until August 2005 (not March 2004). Dragon plateskirts were released a couple months after the legs in March 2005. Metal boots didn't have a strength bonus until 2006 or so. The Abyssal Whip was released on February 15th (misspoke), not January 15th. The first Whip was supposedly received at the end of February 2005. I also discovered that the Green Day album came out a year earlier than I said in September of 2004 so it's me. I'm the American idiot.

    @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • Lol "I'm the American idiot," got me. Good content, keep it up! The nostalgia train is real. Started playing in what must've been 2003/4. Just got back into it.

      @123zB3avisz123@123zB3avisz1232 ай бұрын
    • early rs2 post-launch platebodies still had gloves attached, so wearing gauntlets with platebody wouldn't be possible 25:20

      @pkermen@pkermen2 ай бұрын
    • @@pkermenRS2 Beta is not part of this video so that's not accurate here.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • pp

      @JimMilton-ej6zi@JimMilton-ej6zi12 күн бұрын
  • A small story of how I got my first whip. I was a pretty big noob and could never afford one. My brother was a much bigger player and he had a friend who lived in Europe, we were in the US. His European friend had the slayer level to kill Abyssal Demoms and while he slept, my brother would use his account to grind demons for whips to sell and split the profits. One day while my brother was at a party and I was at home, I snuck into my brothers room, found the paper with the login info and got on. I grinded out demons til a whip dropped, took about 3 hours. I traded it to my account and replaced all the food and supplies I had used on the account and put it back where he was originally logged out at. They never knew and that’s how a total noob was able to get a whip.

    @austinwilburn1772@austinwilburn17722 ай бұрын
    • Absolutely devious and yet something we all would have done if given the opportunity.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • Pretty smart thinking for a kid

      @Non-disjunction@Non-disjunction2 ай бұрын
    • I woulda took everything 😂

      @ryanmsch14@ryanmsch142 ай бұрын
    • I joined a clan and won a whip about a week later from some celebration event. Needless to say, all the OG clan members were PISSED that some FNG took the top prize of the day 😂😂 I will never forget that day 😊

      @DadyVersys@DadyVersys2 ай бұрын
    • I also had to grind all weekend because I didn’t have the attack level to wield it lol.

      @austinwilburn1772@austinwilburn17722 ай бұрын
  • It really felt like Jagex was timing their updates just to crush BlueRose. We will never stop stanning our queen.

    @Prefury@Prefury2 ай бұрын
    • Yes, they were stopping monopolizing gear 😂

      @snoopdogg2912@snoopdogg2912Ай бұрын
    • Jagex par excellence lmfao

      @Rspknlikeab0ssxd@Rspknlikeab0ssxd21 күн бұрын
  • The funnest part watching this was seeing Classic's BIS gear development largely be "Bluerose gets an important Smithing level milestone and Jagex comes in with the steel chair" numerous times

    @michelleneous6480@michelleneous64802 ай бұрын
    • "Jagex comes in with the steel chair". What does this mean?

      @quirkyelephant@quirkyelephant2 ай бұрын
    • think a chair match in WWE or w/e lol

      @Turbo-DF@Turbo-DF2 ай бұрын
    • “WATCH OUT WATCH OUT WTCH OUT”

      @babel_fishing@babel_fishing2 ай бұрын
    • ​@@quirkyelephant punish/hurt them out of spite From wrestling, where they hit each other with steel chairs

      @seeker296@seeker29613 күн бұрын
  • >Bluerose grinds her ass off to get to new most powerful item Jagex: I'm about to end this items whole career

    @AmiiboDoctor@AmiiboDoctor2 ай бұрын
    • The timing makes me really wonder whether it was intentional or not. Was it really just a coincidence that it was quite literally the very next day?

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • ​Definitely not, but she would have become way too rich otherwise. She would have had a literal monopoly on the item production.​@HamOSRS

      @Jpbawlings@Jpbawlings2 ай бұрын
    • Blue rose was scummy. Price gouged worse than the guy who jacked up the aids medications 700%

      @steveprefontaine5977@steveprefontaine59772 ай бұрын
    • Rune was definitely planned ahead of time anyways, the levels to 99 and name just make sense. Clearly they did seem to rush the update out after she got the smithing level though. Maybe they didn't like her or thought she was botting.

      @GhostLyricist@GhostLyricist2 ай бұрын
    • ​@@GhostLyricistI suspect it was shock. "Wait, someone ALREADY got there? God, we need new content for her."

      @Abigail-hu5wf@Abigail-hu5wf2 ай бұрын
  • As a guy that's been playing since early February 2002, this video is top quality content and took me down memory lane. Thank you

    @Radtastical@Radtastical2 ай бұрын
    • I'm glad you enjoyed the trip down memory lane! The new series hitting the channel next will scratch that same itch.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • @@HamOSRS Sounds great bro. Earned a new subscriber, and I'll turn the bell on. Can't wait.

      @Radtastical@Radtastical2 ай бұрын
    • I know I started in 3rd grade which was 01/02 but how in gods name do you know the month

      @G-bl8hj@G-bl8hj2 ай бұрын
    • @@HamOSRSvideo question I started in 01/02 but I’m wondering when I started jagex had stated the game had been available since 99 you just stated 01 . Edit this based on the copyright for RuneScape starting in 99

      @G-bl8hj@G-bl8hj2 ай бұрын
    • @@G-bl8hjRuneScape opened in January 2001. Prior to that, there was a web game called DeviousMUD made by the Gower brothers but that very quickly shut down while they began working on RuneScape. You can find out the age of an account by talking to Hans in Lumbridge, but be careful keep his answer to yourself because that info can be used to steal an account via account recovery.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • I wonder if they are holding a smithing update hostage, out of spite for Bluerose13x

    @jonathanshort62@jonathanshort622 ай бұрын
  • "You probably still have an obsidian cape and a combat bracelet today in old school" I DO NOT LIKE BEING CALLED OUT LIKE THAT THOOO

    @Senor_Penor@Senor_Penor2 ай бұрын
    • I used to be pretty bad at bossing, but I found Vorkath in 2018 to be the confidence boost that I needed to tackle other bosses as well. You should check out the new rat boss Scurrius if you want to get better at PvM mechanics. It does a really good job of teaching you the basics and giving you the confidence you need to utilize the skills you already have. Good luck against Jad and the Culinaromancer! You've got this!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • I have 94 strength and have never even ATTEMPTED to get a fire cape yet. Or fight any boss for that matter, outside of simple quest bosses. I've been playing RuneScape since 2005, and I've only died once. Because I'm way too scared. I don't really take risks. Though I have completed 102 quests and have 203 quest points. I just don't try anything with advanced combat mechanics, like prayer flicking, or anything where you really have to learn patterns and timing, etc. My health pretty much *never* goes below half, because I'd panic too much if it did. If I ever got hit for 20+ damage, I'd probably react by screaming and closing my laptop 😂

      @ShizuruNakatsu@ShizuruNakatsu2 ай бұрын
    • I did do Recipe for Disaster last year though, so I have the Barrows gloves.

      @ShizuruNakatsu@ShizuruNakatsu2 ай бұрын
    • @@ShizuruNakatsuI too still play like a HCIM 20 years after losing all my items by dying to a Dwarf in the Mines in Classic 😂. You know, you can practice the Jad fight risk free on an alternate profile if you head to a quest speed running world and select Beneath Cursed Sands. You will start with a fire cape so you can use that to get into the inner circle of the TzHaar city and practice the 1 Jad challenge as many times as you like risk free. You've got this!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • NOOB

      @_Professor_Oak@_Professor_Oak2 ай бұрын
  • I still remember the first time I saw a dragonfire shield, was just outside of castle wars, loads of people were following this guy around :D

    @Yotimbo7@Yotimbo72 ай бұрын
  • Good vid, I remember collecting runes to trade bluerose to make my rune square shield when it first came out, also I was one of the people perma banned for pvping with the knife bug. Good times

    @valetudo5952@valetudo59522 ай бұрын
  • 9:24 the teacups in the water was an AWESOME and underrated visual gag. That was great lol 10/10 great video, this is the kind of content i love to see. Interesting & informative, no clickbait thumbnail, just enough humor and perfectly paced and not one subject is drawn out too much. Genuinely loved the video and you got my subscription!

    @RickyThaRat@RickyThaRat2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and that gag. It was one of my favorites to sneak into the video.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • @@HamOSRScant be understated how great this video was to watch. Long time player since classic and watching this kind of thing always sparks my interest Ill be watching the next upload for sure

      @RickyThaRat@RickyThaRat2 ай бұрын
    • @@RickyThaRat You're going to love the main series on this channel coming very soon then. It's in the same spirit as this video but it's not in video essay format.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • I was just a kid, maybe 6 or 7 when I played for the first time way back near the beginning. This game’s been with me for life. What a nostalgia trip. Great video!

    @mendelson6052@mendelson60522 ай бұрын
    • I'm glad to hear you were able to enjoy a stroll down memory lane! Stay tuned for more!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • throwback af, andrew gowers new game is gnna be so hype

    @DeadBotting@DeadBottingАй бұрын
    • It really does look like it has a lot of potential to be great.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRSАй бұрын
  • Hit me right in the nostalgia. I spammed lyrics to American idiot at castle wars all day everyday as a little kid. Good times, good times.

    @erikstrand9876@erikstrand98762 ай бұрын
  • The quality, editing, and attention to detail in storytelling is crazy good. Wow. Keep it up dude. I enjoyed every video edit and visualization.

    @dajcomputer6514@dajcomputer65142 ай бұрын
    • The editing really is incredible, but it's not my own. I'm a pretty big fan of their work too needless to say.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Great video man, keep it up. I loved the references to your personal rs experience.

    @Jpbawlings@Jpbawlings2 ай бұрын
  • I watched this video and was amazed by the amount of research and dedication you created for this. I started RS just as the construction skill went live, so this was a great trip down memory lane. I went to your channel, and you only have 500 subscribers?! This is top tier content, and I can't wait for the many more videos to come.

    @mccarruthers@mccarruthers2 ай бұрын
    • Half of my subscribers are from 4 years of making videos up until 16 years ago. The other half are from yesterday!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • This was great, love this kind of content. Would love to see more video essays/time pieces.

    @connbreezy6156@connbreezy61562 ай бұрын
    • The main series on this channel coming soon won't be in that same format, but it should be very similar in spirit to what you're looking for.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • i miss these days so much.. I have vivid memories of being in 5th grade, sitting at school drawing zammy armor, thinking about how the night prior i unlocked water bolt and was excited to run home and train with it.. Ugh... I need to go back.

    @DavidOrz@DavidOrz2 ай бұрын
  • Just checked your channel, and you casually come back after 14 years and drop this fire? Sheeesh, gj bro, subscribed!

    @AcesPrune@AcesPrune2 ай бұрын
    • Debating whether or not to make some old videos public again, but we'll see. It was a different game on KZhead 15 years ago.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Cool video my guy. Great editing and quality.

    @maxbarry8548@maxbarry85482 ай бұрын
  • Great video! Love the in depth research! Keep it up!

    @CaptainFrandy@CaptainFrandy2 ай бұрын
  • So incredibly well researched!

    @freebird2468@freebird24682 ай бұрын
  • Love this video, I hope this video leverages your content to the right people and you smash it!

    @BestiaryYT@BestiaryYT2 ай бұрын
  • This was great make another. I went to your channel thinking you have been doing this forever because of how well polished it was

    @andrewlively1926@andrewlively19262 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! To be fair, I did start making videos on this channel in 2007. Just a very long break in between.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • I got a good laugh out of the mind goblin joke 🤣 Love the illustration of it!

    @jeremyzwicker@jeremyzwicker2 ай бұрын
  • Awesome and very well made video man very interesting and chill watch keep it up bro :)

    @chikenCx@chikenCx2 ай бұрын
  • Been waiting on a new video ever since your falador park one!

    @Stijn23789@Stijn237892 ай бұрын
  • Class video this is a proper nostalgia trip and it's well presented! And humorous :D Looking forward to future content!

    @tdeikon@tdeikon2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! Stay tuned for more very soon.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Wow, this was an incredible deep dive into Runescape's development history. Honestly even with all the research I did for Time Traveller Ironman I still learned so much. Nice work!

    @Cudascubby@Cudascubby2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! This means a lot coming from one of my biggest inspirations for resurrecting my channel. Love your series!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • insane commitment and well elaborated research!!!

    @lucaskonstantyner8566@lucaskonstantyner85662 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! It was a lot of fun to put together and it was a very nostalgic journey for me.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • This brought back so many good memories, thank you for making it! Also, the level of research and time it would have taken to make this video shouldn't go unnoticed. Well done!

    @TotallydubbedHD@TotallydubbedHD2 ай бұрын
    • Glad to hear it, stay tuned for more nostalgia trips coming soon!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Dude nice I love these timeline videos!

    @Beware_Of_Dogg@Beware_Of_Dogg2 ай бұрын
    • I'm glad you enjoyed it - stay tuned for more!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • This was a very well made video, definitely earned a sub

    @YeaSoWhatBigBoiiii@YeaSoWhatBigBoiiii2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! We are hoping to release many more very well made videos in the near future as well.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • this is the runescape we all would want to play again, if the devs ever bring it back, its the graphics that captivated all of us to play this game. The amount of players playing was insane. The diffciculty of making money back was really hard,, like i remember when cowhides were the best money maker back then. Also the highwayman was definitely the npc i always had to avoid XD. As a f2p player back then, dragon slayer was the hardest quest I ever tried and was also very scary to do.

    @tritale5891@tritale58912 ай бұрын
    • I remember training on hill giants with my buddy man. For a few hours just two kids talking shit and clicking on game. Those were the days...training with someone and setting training times for logins. It was sad when I realized I would never talk to some of those people again...

      @cheetah219@cheetah2192 ай бұрын
  • Great video pal, I hope you make more!

    @3MinuteLeagueofLegends@3MinuteLeagueofLegends2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! We weren't originally planning on making more video essays but we've been blown away by the response to this one so we'll have to add more to the docket now. I've got a fresh idea for the next one that I will start writing soon. In the meantime, please stay tuned for the main series of the channel hopefully premiering later this week or early next week if everything goes according to plan.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Great video - glad I got recommended it by the algorithm! :)

    @Pimp_Shrimp@Pimp_Shrimp2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! I'm really glad to see the algorithm pushing the video to the right audience.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Damn, that I Mahatma I pk video really brings back some nostalgia. Great video. :)

    @Orangesoda65@Orangesoda654 күн бұрын
  • Keep it up hamosrs this was a great video and concept keep it up brother ✊👍💪

    @conradical5941@conradical59412 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! Stay tuned for the main series of the channel which will be very similar in spirit, but a totally different concept.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • It's worth noting that when whips came out, they cost ~60m gp, and they attacked as fast as throwing knives which made them massively op... Jagex had to nerf to what it is today.

    @ellinasgolfer2430@ellinasgolfer24302 ай бұрын
  • 31:38 That makes me wonder what would have happened if Jagex had never tried to put a combat triangle in Runescape, but had made a different method of comparing the different combat styles. If Jagex had decided that melee would be tanky, and magic would be a glass cannon, I wonder how different OSRS would be now.

    @Sir_Lagg_A_Lot@Sir_Lagg_A_Lot2 ай бұрын
    • I just wish we had a 2004 melee only Castle Wars server before the combat triable without ancients.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • @@HamOSRS I started playing in 2004, but I didn't become a member till like 2006 iirc. I have never experienced that. I am not sure that old servers would bring back the nostalgia, since people mostly play for the gains rather than for fun. How many people play castle wars on OSRS now? To my knowledge, players are afking for the collection slots rather than for fun. If it is the mindset rather than the mechanics, a new old server won't fix it.

      @Sir_Lagg_A_Lot@Sir_Lagg_A_Lot2 ай бұрын
    • @@Sir_Lagg_A_LotOh sorry I meant literally just one world on otherwise vanilla OSRS servers where we could play vanilla Castle Wars not a whole competing version of the game.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • me currently rocking the 2007 bis because I just started again and wanted it from my childhood.

    @CaptainRicky19@CaptainRicky192 ай бұрын
  • great video, i hope you keep at it

    @assm0nk@assm0nk2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you, I appreciate it! We are launching episode 1 of a brand new series that we are so excited to share with the world in about a week and a half or so. Stay tuned for more very soon.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • S tier video! Thank you for sharing this with us all, it's great

    @realityChemist@realityChemist2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! Check out some of my inspirations if you haven't for some great content: Colonello, Mote Plox, and July the RuneScape Historian.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Yo this video rules! Hope to see you do more in the genre :)

    @TheK3vin@TheK3vin2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! Definitely more to come. The main series hitting the channel soon will be similar in spirit but a unique twist on how it's presented.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • @@HamOSRS That's awesome ^_^ personally my favorite part about this one was seeing an overview of the game's development over the years, because it helped me understand how the development of skills like smithing and slayer corresponded with where people's characters were at the time. As someone who played a stint in 2006-8 but never had membership, it's been fascinating seeing the progression of skills, items, and regions over the years since now that I'm playing more "seriously" all these years later. Really makes everything feel more cohesive and logical. Anyway, rant over! Excited to see the next video, regardless of whether it does more of what I described :)

      @TheK3vin@TheK3vin2 ай бұрын
  • I didn't know like ANY of this :)

    @WeSkillNow@WeSkillNow2 ай бұрын
    • Glad you could learn something new! Lining up everything to happen in timeline order revealed a lot of interesting patterns.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • I love the video and the info is way neat. But that Boston Harbor line got me good 😂 Thank you for that

    @geoffshaw2775@geoffshaw27752 ай бұрын
    • I'm glad you enjoyed it!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Very cool to see this in a video. Some of these things you've always just wondered

    @WofRS@WofRSАй бұрын
  • Deserve more subs for sure! Amazing vid

    @Boshidobrown219@Boshidobrown2192 ай бұрын
  • People had the levels to obtain whips a good bit before the d scim came out; you can view historical hi-scores using the wayback machine. For example, as of March 4th, 2005, at least 21 people had 85+ Slayer.

    @Avellianna@Avellianna2 ай бұрын
    • 3 or 4 commenters have confirmed the same - thank you for the clarification.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • I played RS around 2005-2010 then stopped. But started watching content about it just recently starting 2020, and lemme tell you this video in particular is hitting me with tons of nostalgia lol. I specifically remember working my 15 yr old ass off to get the "meta" items of the era back in 2010.

    @TobyKBTY@TobyKBTY2 ай бұрын
  • Ayy, 1000th subscriber! Great video keep up the great work :)

    @alexanderburgess@alexanderburgess2 ай бұрын
  • I think the first time i ever saw runescape, i was about 8 years old. Making the year 2004ish. I could not believe my best friend was playing such a real looking game. Took about a year after that before i was able to play at my own house on a the new computer my family got. The first skill i ever got to 99 was woodcutting, and id like to say it took about a year to do it. Couldnt grind/didnt have the patience i do now as an adult. Also, there was no profit doing it, either i didnt know how cause obviously noob, the GE didnt exist and or i was just lazy. Now 20 years later i started playing again this year and its still just as good if not better than i remember, now that im older can understand what's going on alot better. RuneScape really was my first video game love ❤️

    @gagecox1407@gagecox1407Ай бұрын
  • As someone who's also super intrigued in runescape classic and rs2, this video was a real treat!

    @TheFleshPrevails@TheFleshPrevailsАй бұрын
    • I'm glad you enjoyed it! The next video was delayed unexpectedly but it will be a nice tribute mostly to some niche memories from RS2 as well as a couple from Classic. Stay tuned!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRSАй бұрын
  • The biggest thing i miss about runescape 2, is there was a short time where you could rest on the ground almost anywhere, and it would regen your stamina faster than just standing there, and your character would sit with their legs out and laying back onto their hands. It was neat and made chatting with people much more casual. Now everyone just feels like robots and its kind of sad

    @MrHangman56@MrHangman56Ай бұрын
    • There are rumors that resting is making a comeback in Old School

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRSАй бұрын
  • Me thinking how have i not seen this channel before these are some good quality vids, then seeing the subscriber count. I see a golden gnome in your future!

    @jonathancooper5104@jonathancooper51042 ай бұрын
    • There's a small chance you saw some old videos on this channel 15 years ago on my first try at video making, but my best video back then only had about 86k views. In any case, I'm no stranger to this game even after a long break. Either way, thank you for the kind words!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • The video i never thought i needed but definitely did. Very well done sir! Sub well earned!

    @ChrisMcGiggity@ChrisMcGiggity2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! Stay tuned for more very soon.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Incredibly underrated video! 10/10 loved it!

    @FenerAttack@FenerAttack2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • amazing video man, little time capsule

    @Markjameslee@MarkjamesleeАй бұрын
  • This video really shows how backwards smithing is in 2024. Why the fuck is the progression of that skill based on equipment progression that is out of date by 20 fucking years? RuneScape needs to figure something out, the longer this goes on the more comical it becomes.

    @KVirello@KVirello2 ай бұрын
    • its simple allow a new quest where you can mine dragon ore and make dragon items, except dragon plate body. you would need 99 smithing you can make all items.

      @grandcanyon2@grandcanyon22 ай бұрын
  • A quality made video, only a few minutes in but going to sub and like to show support.

    @TrevorWing@TrevorWing2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you so much! We have big plans for a unique new series coming soon that you won't want to miss.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • That was a really well made and interesting video!! 😃👍🏼👍🏼 I’ve been playing since roughly ‘05/‘06 and I learned a lot there, particularly about classic, which I never actually got to play. Nice job! Subscribed! - Machinist_2

    @Machinist_2@Machinist_22 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! I always say that any day that you learn something new is a good day.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • High quality video... I love those kind of stuff, maybe consider making Ranged/Magic BiS for RS2/2004 onwards

    @12pure@12pure2 ай бұрын
  • Mam comes outta a 14 year dry streak with some decent content. Nice one fella

    @OD3E@OD3E2 ай бұрын
  • Oh man. I'm looking forward to more of this haha

    @771shadowolf@771shadowolf2 ай бұрын
  • Really nice content

    @QueenKitty08@QueenKitty082 ай бұрын
  • I vaguely recall people getting abby whips on day 2 or so. There was a bug where you could use ring of recoil or whatever, and someone eventually got it. Not sure if Jagex took it away though, but most likely banned the few who got it. I think granite mauls were within first few weeks for sure though. Everyone went crazy over them for several weeks until abby whip became more available, then the price plummeted. I believe it was like 1-2m, then crashed to like 100-200k in a few days. Whips starting at 40m, and in a few months heading into 3-5m.

    @VeNoM0619@VeNoM0619Ай бұрын
  • wow this is amazing thanks :)

    @ardy6241@ardy62412 ай бұрын
  • I hope we can expect more content out of you. This was great

    @stvnshrules@stvnshrules2 ай бұрын
    • The main series of this channel is premiering very soon. Stay tuned!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Awesome video 😊

    @silverscreen4522@silverscreen45222 ай бұрын
    • Thank you!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • It’s crazy how I’ve been watching these videos and I haven’t played RuneScape since 2007 I’m 24 now I miss it sometimes

    @BigLongJohnson79@BigLongJohnson79Ай бұрын
    • Check out Old School RuneScape for a fun nostalgia trip.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRSАй бұрын
  • 13:58 was hilarious lol

    @emma_tm@emma_tm2 ай бұрын
    • To be fair it would have been consistent with the pattern of Jagex betraying her the day after all of her achievements.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • @@HamOSRS right? I felt so bad for her and was about to get angry when you started the joke. Like NAH they're not about to do her like that AGAIN 😭

      @emma_tm@emma_tm2 ай бұрын
    • @@emma_tmIf I were her I probably would have ragequit after the addy 2h situation so we're lucky she was so resilient instead.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Cripes, I remember living through some of these. Abyssal Whips were the shit for awhile, especially with their special that guaranteed a max hit. You saw someone in Castle Wars with one, you died.

    @BlueShellshock@BlueShellshockАй бұрын
  • this was fantastic

    @win9xse@win9xse2 ай бұрын
  • Some people got whips before getting 85 slayer. There was a developer oversight for a while where rings of recoil worked on slayer monsters. So with some rings of recoil and an inhuman amount of patience, it was possible to kill abyssal demons without the slayer level requirement.

    @shoblette961@shoblette96119 күн бұрын
  • Your videos are really good, I hope you keep making them

    @JimMilton-ej6zi@JimMilton-ej6zi12 күн бұрын
    • Stay tuned for more soon! There was a delay with the third video, but we will resume work on it as soon as possible.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS11 күн бұрын
  • I remember being a total knob back in the day and I'd do sessions with a friend of mine almost like in a sweatshop just playing for hours and hours doing barrows in the most non-minmax way cuz we barely knew wtf we were doing and then 2 items dropped including the guthans spear which was worth a crapload of money back then and the dharok chestpiece. We were screaming like crazy haha

    @SimonRobeyns@SimonRobeynsАй бұрын
  • My journey didn't start until 2008 so i imagine those who were around in the early days think "damn things were different back in the day". This kind of stuff is cool to watch

    @austin8783@austin87832 ай бұрын
    • I'm glad to hear it! The new series dropping here soon should be of great interest to you then. Stay tuned!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • this was a fuckin trip man good work.

    @_Sawatis@_Sawatis2 ай бұрын
  • Forgotten but not lost, well done lad.

    @pk-tha-rapper@pk-tha-rapper2 ай бұрын
  • Whips were going around pretty soon after they released. I remember being dumbfounded how many people had high enough slayer that soon.

    @F23GreyGhost@F23GreyGhost2 ай бұрын
  • This is a great video. You can tell that you are a true fan of runescape.

    @WiscoDbo@WiscoDbo2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • great well put together video, subbed.

    @NervlessGaming@NervlessGaming2 ай бұрын
  • after my previously mentioned setup we got to use the dragong bax, full rune " often chain for looks"and a dragon med for the pimps

    @omanlady123456@omanlady1234562 ай бұрын
    • The rune chain was also crucial for getting that bonus power from Steel or Klank's Gauntlets that couldn't be paired up with the plate body or plate mail top.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Man Runescape was the most epic game of my childhood. I started in Late 2001. I personally love skilling and this was back when skilling was so important. Now its just watered down and it's all about PVM and PVP. I just recently picked Runescape back up again about 6 months ago and was saddened to see my favorite skillers in mining, smithing, and fishing were basically irrelevant lol

    @joechilders1@joechilders12 ай бұрын
    • You may want to check out OpenRSC then. Several different possible variations of the original game with like minded individuals in the community.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • If you make a Ironman account then they become very important 😂

      @iCuretheWorld@iCuretheWorld2 ай бұрын
    • skilling was insane in rs classics basically there was no ge and trading for items in bulk was hard. I got 2200+ skill total on osrs and 19x 99s and let me tell you i just got the 99s to max out, i never skilled to make money, as most gp is from pvm and or slayer. At the end of rs classcis i had 55 attack 73 stre, 53 defense, 67 hit points, 62 magic , 25 range 75 cooking 73 fishing, 62 mining, 53 smithing, 53 woodcut. I was proud of the 62 magic as you know in runescape classics magic was insanely expensive i remmeber spending one weekend getting earth staffs and steel plate bodies from the wildy maze then buying 2500 chaos runes.

      @grandcanyon2@grandcanyon22 ай бұрын
  • I remember in RS2 seeing two players in Edgeville trash talk each other to the point that they flew into a rage and did a risk fight for their dragon long swords.

    @redpepper313@redpepper313Ай бұрын
  • in the early days, after some months anyway.. everyone was aiming for typically using addy legs, plate, kite and Baxe " which i miss the aesthetics of" and then the rune med helm.

    @omanlady123456@omanlady1234562 ай бұрын
    • For sure, there is absolutely a difference between what we know as mathematically best today vs. what was wanted or even possible at the time.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • 19:59 leaving this mistake in and fixing it like this is so much better than just doing it right lmao

    @KVirello@KVirello2 ай бұрын
  • Great video! Are you gonna make videos for the other combat styles as well?

    @miiiiiiiiiiii@miiiiiiiiiiii2 ай бұрын
    • We did consider it and we might do so in a combined video later on, but trust me when I say melee gear is a much, much more interesting story.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • @@HamOSRS Thank you for your reply! I'm eagerly awaiting your future content, keep up the great work!

      @miiiiiiiiiiii@miiiiiiiiiiii2 ай бұрын
  • I still remember as a kid, everyone thought 99 mining + smithing was the way as you could create the best gear. We were so fucking wrong lmao. I guess it was an outdated belief going way back to classic RS.

    @hellowill@hellowillАй бұрын
    • It would have been completely true for all of 2001 though!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRSАй бұрын
  • Great vid man.

    @mw2104@mw2104Ай бұрын
    • Thank you! Working on another nostalgic video essay coming soon.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRSАй бұрын
  • I remember when trimmed armor came into RuneScape. It was so expensive. I was like 12 years old and I thought it was the craziest thing ever

    @TheRealDealNeal@TheRealDealNeal2 ай бұрын
    • Never forget the kind players who would offer to trim yours too for free.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • In my heart, I want to believe you had already written your Green Day joke and we just happened to upload our cover *the day* before this well researched and well written video was uploaded.

    @UnpragmaticCovers@UnpragmaticCovers2 ай бұрын
    • That's exactly what happened lmao

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • Really cool runescape history lesson, and clearly a lot of work was put into this video. Bravo

    @RandyLacrosse@RandyLacrosse2 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! Most of the research went toward the main series on the channel which will be premiering in about a week and a half. Stay tuned!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • what a video! well done.

    @Isawadigitalferrari@Isawadigitalferrari2 ай бұрын
  • The word 'rune' in Runescape is referencing the magically rocks used for magic spells, aka runes... Not rune armour.. That is why the word Runescape is spelt out on rocks... they're runes.

    @midaswell_vr@midaswell_vr2 ай бұрын
  • Dude doing regicide for the first time with a combat of of 60 somthing. That was the coolest wep. The d hally. We trained on dragons for months getting no where but we loved it

    @giveittomebaybe5112@giveittomebaybe51122 күн бұрын
  • This video was awesome! Will you make another from Old School moving forward? And even though I don't play it, and RS3 one would be neat just so I can see how that evolved too.

    @Inkfingers7@Inkfingers72 ай бұрын
    • We weren't originally planning on making an Old School version but there has certainly been enough demand in the comments here to begin looking into it more seriously. It's surprisingly complex given all of the niche gear in the game. For the split in the timeline after August 10, 2007 it would actually be considerably more difficult since most of that data up until EoC has been lost to time and EoC changed everything thereafter to a point that I never quite understood myself. I'm not against the idea of an RS3 timeline, but I also wouldn't be opposed if someone else more familiar with RS3 wanted to take the reins on that one.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • @@HamOSRS Ah makes a lot of sense. Yeah you may want to break up the BIS into the 3 combat styles, that may help simplify it. And to tackle the horizontal progression items, you could mention them, but having the overall BIS (items most applicable to the most content rather than the new best Crush weapon and such) be the focus could help. And gotcha regarding rs3, I don't blame ya haha. Maybe finding another content creator to collab with could help.

      @Inkfingers7@Inkfingers72 ай бұрын
  • great concept

    @evang909@evang9092 ай бұрын
    • Thank you!

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
  • I was playing during the slayer update. It definitely took a month or two for abyssal whips to start surfacing in low numbers on the market. Perhaps longer because there definitely was a brief era where granite malls were important.

    @AArdW01f@AArdW01f2 ай бұрын
    • Another commenter was saying the first whip entered the game near the end of February 2005, just 2 weeks after the whip was released, but I haven't confirmed that myself. Slayer had already been out for about 7 weeks by that point so it seems reasonable for a player who was already high combat level and focused on nothing but slayer since release. If that's true than the d scim was never BIS because whips had already entered the game by then.

      @HamOSRS@HamOSRS2 ай бұрын
    • ​@HamOSRS This timeline sounds accurate to me. I don't think we knew about whips until they started dropping. I could be making this up but I have an insanely vague memory of some early 85 slayer player on the forums raising hell because there weren't enough rewards to justify the brutal grind Og Slayer had on release. Maybe they kept it out of game to keep it a secret from the cache? I do remember seeing whips sell for 70-86 mill on the first day before slowly drifting to 30 some mil for a bit then 10 mil for awhile. The original special was better too if I remember. Early players who had it were super lethal in pvp if they were rolling out in blk hide there was little anyone could do. Great video! My account is turning 20 this October this brought some old memories back

      @AArdW01f@AArdW01f2 ай бұрын
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