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Opinion: Rendy Slayer rollback

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Opinion: Rendy Slayer rollback

Opinion: Rendy Slayer rollback
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2026-05-07, latest 2026-05-07)
Main source What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?

Opinion: Rendy Slayer rollback is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2026-05-07. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Stats and numbers

  • Rendy said the 'current meta' for level 3 Slayer is 30k XP per hour and that his method gave an average of 15k more XP per hour, taking over 200 hours of in-game time; Gnomonkey notes that is a 50% increase, not a small one.1

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey notes the rollback came right after Rendy tweeted about getting untrimmed 99 Slayer on a level 3 combat account, and says Jagex calling it a routine check feels a little disingenuous, though other players probably were affected too.2
  • Gnomonkey says nobody has context on what exactly Rendy's method was, neither Rendy nor Jagex has said, so he does not want to side with either Rendy or Jagex until it is known.3
  • Gnomonkey says it is silly that people instantly jumped to Jagex bad, Rendy good without context, while acknowledging many people feel Jagex hates Rendy and retaliates against him.3
  • Gnomonkey thinks Rendy should probably have known better, but without the full context it may not have been obvious that the method was bug abuse.4
  • Gnomonkey says that if he got 50% faster XP on a level 3 account, he would not quietly train it for three months but would ask around first, especially someone like Rendy who has been banned before.5
  • Gnomonkey concludes that both Rendy and Jagex are at fault to some extent, and that both have poor track records.6

Events

  • Rendy had his Slayer level reverted by Jagex from 99 down to 78 overnight, which Gnomonkey jokingly calls the greatest drop in Slayer XP of all time, with a tweet mentioning a loss of 8.9 million Slayer XP.7
  • Rendy said he found a new method requiring him to proactively multi-log on many accounts, averaging 45k XP per hour, and spent three months on it, which is why he had not uploaded in three months.8
  • Jagex replied that during routine checks at the start of the week a number of accounts were flagged for abnormal amounts of XP, the bug was fixed the same day, and any accounts that abused it had their XP removed, not just Rendy's.9
  • Jagex said it would welcome opening an avenue to talk more directly about what is and is not deemed acceptable, to help avoid similar situations in the future.10

Revision history

Date Video Change
2026-05-07 What is Bug Abuse in OSRS? Page created: 11 statements (event, opinion, stat)
## References

  1. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 2:30 ↩

  2. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 1:29 ↩

  3. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 3:57 ↩↩

  4. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 21:41 ↩

  5. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 22:11 ↩

  6. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 22:41 ↩

  7. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 0:00 ↩

  8. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 0:26 ↩

  9. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 0:55 ↩

  10. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 3:00 ↩

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