Opinion: Drop-before-completion and endgame moneymakers
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| Type | Opinion |
| Videos | 1 (first 2025-10-01, latest 2025-10-01) |
| Main source | Sunfire Splinters are NOT the Problem (OSRS) |
Opinion: Drop-before-completion and endgame moneymakers is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-10-01. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.
Gnomonkey's opinion
- Gnomonkey argues that dropping rare items early in Doom devalues items like the Tumeken's shadow, citing the shadow's price falling from about 960m to 930m after a week and continuing down after Doom's release.1
- Gnomonkey compares Doom with other content: a scythe cannot drop if you leave Theatre of Blood at Bloat, a shadow needs a Warden kill, and you must clear a Tombs of Amascut room, yet Doom drops uniques before the boss is cleared.2
- Gnomonkey says the problem predates Doom: he points to the Torva platebody price falling around Yama's release on 14 May, and says Torva platebody is much rarer per kill and requires a harder boss than Yama but is objectively worse than Oathplate.3
- Gnomonkey says Oathplate is always better than Torva except with a Osmumten's fang, and even then Oathplate has arguments because it boosts the BGS.3
- Gnomonkey says he cares about endgame moneymakers, that hard bosses should be rewarding, and that there is no reason endgame bosses should make less money than Hydra.4
- Gnomonkey points out that Jagex said it does not want the Colosseum to give super good common loot, so he argues they should stop rewarding people on delve 3 with common loot, saying they are failing their own objective of chasing uniques when uniques drop on delve 2.5
- Gnomonkey says he loves OSRS progression of early, mid and endgame bosses, and fears that making endgame bosses feel nice for mid-level players will leave all mega rares under a bill and everything being as good as Hydra.6
- Gnomonkey wants bosses that are super difficult to be super rewarding, citing a boss like Phosani's Nightmare at about 3m an hour as sad to see, and says hard bosses should typically be better than other options.7
Revision history
| Date | Video | Change |
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| 2025-10-01 | Sunfire Splinters are NOT the Problem (OSRS) | Page created: 8 statements (opinion) |
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