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Opinion: Quality-of-life updates

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Opinion: Quality-of-life updates

Opinion: Quality-of-life updates
Type Opinion
Videos 2 (first 2025-09-11, latest 2025-10-15)
Main source Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS)

Opinion: Quality-of-life updates is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2025-09-11 and 2025-10-15. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says the best content Jagex releases are QoL updates, and that the Chambers of Xeric QoL update is probably his favourite update of all time because it cleaned up the raid and made it more fun.1
  • Gnomonkey says the summer sweep-up and all the Slayer changes were so good, and that Jagex should do the same for Combat Achievements.1
  • Gnomonkey says a CA clean-up would give players like him more to do and push lower-tier PvMers to try new content, and that he mostly wants to see more people doing PvM.2
  • Gnomonkey considers the Slayer QOL update one of the best updates of the year and the Chambers of Xeric QOL update from a couple of years ago one of his favourite updates of all time.3
  • Gnomonkey wants Jagex to go back to old content that has a major flaw or missed the mark and do quality-of-life work on it, and as a PvMer says Colosseum and Doom need this most because they had a ton of dev time and passion but have things that suck.4
  • Gnomonkey was neutral on previous QOL updates the survey listed as examples (interface uplift, Castle Wars changes, clan broadcasts), calling them poor examples, though he is very satisfied with QOL updates in general.5
  • Gnomonkey says it does not matter to him whether QOL updates are delivered as themed groups (interface, transport, Castle Wars) or as individual unrelated updates.6
  • Gnomonkey calls the mage rebalance one of the worst updates ever, says it did not fix everything with mage gear, and wishes Jagex would undo it.6
  • Gnomonkey ranks team bosses as the QOL theme he most wants addressed, wanting a next-drop system so Ironmen can also kill groupable bosses such as Corporeal Beast, God Wars bosses and anything else killable in groups on a main.7
  • Gnomonkey wants Jagex to revisit how Ironmen work in raids: in Chambers of Xeric, items put into shared storage are gone forever, even for a solo player who accidentally does it.7
  • Gnomonkey says Ironmen in Chambers of Xeric must get a drop and pick it up before teammates do or they do not get an overload, and he thinks raid supplies should be shareable among Ironmen to make team raiding easier, even if some would use that to boost accounts.8
  • Gnomonkey does not care much about reworking Mining and Smithing and thinks they are fine, because as an RS3 player he knows how long such a rework took and how much content players were deprived of because of it.9
  • Gnomonkey believes minigames have the most room for QOL, saying Tithe Farm is terrible and there is lots of dead content in minigames.10
  • Gnomonkey considers Driftnet fishing actually good but rarely done, especially by Ironmen, because you must make the nets by weaving them on a loom; he wants a way to get nets without weaving them.10
  • Gnomonkey notes that underwater Thieving, underwater Agility and a lot of Fossil Island content are unknown to many players, and that old scaling activities could be reworked and bettered.11
  • Gnomonkey does not think range gear, magic gear or melee gear need reworks, saying they are quite fleshed out, and ranks those QOL themes at the bottom.11
  • Gnomonkey says raid reworks are his favourite updates period and that Jagex should do more work on old, huge content.12
  • Gnomonkey does not want old content like Barrows turned into a completely different boss with depth and mechanics (he does not want to be forced to kite Dharok); he says old content is fine, nostalgic and classic.13
  • Gnomonkey argues the content most worth reworking is what Jagex made semi-recently, within the past few years, naming Colosseum, Doom and Yama, which did some things well but majorly screwed up others.13
  • Gnomonkey reasons that more recent updates have less 'spaghetti' tying them up and so should be easier for Jagex to tweak, though he admits he could be wrong.14
  • Gnomonkey says the Colosseum invocation system is horrendous and that if Jagex reworked Colosseum invocations the content could be better than the Inferno, going from a six out of ten to an eleven out of ten.15
  • Gnomonkey calls Giants' Foundry, a semi-recent minigame, very bad because the way you interact with it is not satisfying, and says it could be much better with some tweaking.16
  • Gnomonkey says very old updates have stood the test of time and are mostly fine, so recent updates are the ones Jagex should look at for QOL.17

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-10-15 Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS) Added: 20 statements (opinion)
2025-09-11 How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better Page created: 3 statements (opinion)
## See also

References

  1. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 57:26 ↩↩

  2. How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better, 2025-09-11. ▶ 57:58 ↩

  3. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 1:03 ↩

  4. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 1:23 ↩

  5. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 29:14 ↩

  6. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 29:41 ↩↩

  7. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 30:12 ↩↩

  8. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 30:45 ↩

  9. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 31:13 ↩

  10. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 31:43 ↩↩

  11. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 32:14 ↩↩

  12. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 32:41 ↩

  13. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 33:12 ↩↩

  14. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 33:43 ↩

  15. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 34:12 ↩

  16. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 34:42 ↩

  17. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 35:16 ↩

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