Opinion: Mage damage on Eternal boots and off-hands
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Opinion: Mage damage on Eternal boots and off-hands
| Type | Opinion |
| Videos | 1 (first 2024-04-18, latest 2024-04-18) |
| Main source | JAGEX RUINING EARLY GAME PVM (OSRS) |
Opinion: Mage damage on Eternal boots and off-hands is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2024-04-18. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.
Gnomonkey's opinion
- Gnomonkey says that on paper adding damage to Eternal boots sounds good, since a dead equipment slot is bad design, but in practice it encourages bad switching problems.1
- Gnomonkey says once boot switches matter, players are pushed toward nine-way switches, and with damage also added to off-hands like Mage's book, Malediction ward, Ancient wyvern shield and Arcane spirit shield, mid-game players would be encouraged to do up to ten-way switches.1
- Gnomonkey says nine-way switches are so difficult he put his pegasian boots back in the bank and stopped using them in Coliseum speedruns, even though they were worth it.2
- Gnomonkey finds it bizarre to encourage nine- and ten-way switches right after adding hybrid gear from the Moons update to get people into PvM.2
- Gnomonkey says primordial boots being the only useful boots is for a good reason: boot switches become a nightmare, and he rejects the argument that it is just 2% damage and optional.3
- Gnomonkey says in raids and speedruns every inventory slot has value; in CM speedruns he values each slot down to the second in time saved and drops the item with the least time save as new items come out.4
- Gnomonkey gives the example that if Eternal boots gain damage, a Tombs of Amascut Voidwaker plus claws switch for Akkha may no longer be worth it, so players would swap in the boots and face nine-way mage switches.4
- Gnomonkey says Jagex should not put mage damage on Eternal boots or off-hands, because encouraging more switches for mage damage is not the way to make mage usable and large numbers of switches are extremely annoying at a high level.5
Revision history
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| 2024-04-18 | JAGEX RUINING EARLY GAME PVM (OSRS) | Page created: 8 statements (opinion) |
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Category: Opinions