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Opinion: Chambers prayer scroll weighting

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Opinion: Chambers prayer scroll weighting

Opinion: Chambers prayer scroll weighting
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2026-06-04, latest 2026-06-04)
Main source The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS)

Opinion: Chambers prayer scroll weighting is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2026-06-04. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says reducing the Chambers prayer scroll weighting, as many players suggest in line with the Theatre of Blood hard mode Avernic change, has some merit but he would not do it.1
  • Gnomonkey argues the Theatre of Blood hard mode Avernic change is really dumb, because the Avernic defender hilt is not a worse drop than the others, and he would rather have an Avernic than Justiciar or even a Sanguinesti staff or Ghrazi rapier these days.2
  • Gnomonkey says the Avernic hilt makes up about half of Theatre of Blood's total profit, so hard mode ToB now being less profitable than normal ToB shows the long-term problem of a short-term loot-weighting change.3
  • Gnomonkey argues that if Jagex later adds a Prayer upgrade (e.g. a stronger Augury or Rigor needing arcane or dexterous scrolls), the scrolls could become expensive and the same problem as Theatre of Blood would appear for CoX.4
  • Gnomonkey notes that even now a dexterous prayer scroll is more valuable than Dinh's bulwark and the twisted buckler, so reducing the dex weighting could increase rates of those cheaper items, and arcane is the cheapest on the table.5
  • Gnomonkey says item values shift over time, citing the Sanguinesti staff getting cheap, and that DHCB could drop in value while dexterous scrolls could rise if many new players chase prayers.6
  • Gnomonkey says reducing scroll weight and nothing else is bad because it puts downward pressure on every unique, and items like the twisted buckler, Dinh's bulwark, DHCB and dragon claws cannot absorb that without losing value.7
  • Gnomonkey says the second approach, reducing scroll weight and purple chance, is a very silly change, because purples in Chambers are already too infrequent and no one would like making them rarer.8
  • Gnomonkey prefers the third approach, increasing the purple chance, and thinks it makes the most sense because the raid should be faster than it is.9
  • Gnomonkey describes a fourth approach, moving purples off the CoX table, and agrees CoX has too many purples, but says there is currently no endgame content where the removed drops fit.10
  • Gnomonkey considers Dinh's bulwark and the twisted buckler the best options to move to other bosses, since they still feel raid-worthy.11
  • Gnomonkey suggests dragon claws could go on Vardorvis (slash weak), maybe at 1 in 2,000, but notes there are not really obvious bosses to move items to; Yama, Nex and Nightmare do not make sense for various reasons such as burning claws being better on Yama and drop tables already being stacked.11
  • Gnomonkey thinks Jagex could move items off the drop table later if future endgame content makes the drop sensible, and says a Blooming boss dropping range upgrades would not suit the buckler since it cannot be used with arrows.12
  • Gnomonkey says the arcane re-roll idea is the same as reducing scroll weight but feels awful as a player, since players could get nothing, comparing it to the destroy system at Araxxor, and he says never do the re-roll thing and just reduce the weight instead.13

Events

  • The blog lists three approaches to the scroll problem: reduce scroll weight only, reduce scroll weight and reduce purple chance, or increase purple chance.7
  • The blog floats a hypothetical where a player who obtains an arcane scroll can withdraw it or re-roll it for a 1 in X chance to roll the unique table again without the arcane scroll, and if the 1 in X chance is missed the arcane scroll is deleted.14

Revision history

Date Video Change
2026-06-04 The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS) Page created: 16 statements (event, opinion)
## References

  1. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 22:01 ↩

  2. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 22:30 ↩

  3. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 23:04 ↩

  4. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 23:34 ↩

  5. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 24:05 ↩

  6. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 24:35 ↩

  7. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 25:08 ↩↩

  8. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 26:36 ↩

  9. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 27:16 ↩

  10. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 27:39 ↩

  11. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 28:34 ↩↩

  12. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 30:07 ↩

  13. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 31:34 ↩

  14. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 31:07 ↩

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