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Opinion: Sailing as released

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Opinion: Sailing as released

Opinion: Sailing as released
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2025-11-26, latest 2025-11-26)
Main source Sailing's Future in OSRS

Opinion: Sailing as released is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-11-26. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says Sailing had been in development for three years, so he argues it is fair to judge it right after release, which is when feedback matters most.1
  • Gnomonkey says that with three years of dev time it is frustrating that Sailing is not more fleshed out; he says it does not have something for everyone the way fully fleshed-out skills have a method for every playstyle.2
  • Gnomonkey says he generally dislikes Sailing and thinks it is not impossible for it to become good, but right now considers Sailing very weak.3
  • Gnomonkey says some of his Sailing complaints are subjective, but there are many objectively bad things such as balance problems, many bugs, and friction in training the skill.4
  • Gnomonkey thinks Sailing needed a whole other year to be in an acceptable state for Old School, whether as a part two or a further delay, despite taking about three years to develop.5
  • Gnomonkey argues the three years of Sailing development could have been spent fleshing out weak skills such as Firemaking, early Hunter and Agility, which people compare Sailing favourably against.6
  • Gnomonkey argues Sailing came at a cost to other updates because it had basically the entire dev team working on it to some extent, so it is not fair to say it cost nothing.7
  • Gnomonkey says he is not sure he fully trusts Jagex to fix Sailing with a part two; he expects clickboxes and bugs to be ironed out but doubts major issues like the combat will be fixed.8
  • Gnomonkey thinks the big thing Jagex needs to focus on is making Sailing training more interesting and varied, especially with more Barracuda Trials.8

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-11-26 Sailing's Future in OSRS Page created: 9 statements (opinion)
## References

  1. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 12:37 ↩

  2. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 13:08 ↩

  3. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 15:42 ↩

  4. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 16:15 ↩

  5. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:13:12 ↩

  6. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:14:11 ↩

  7. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:15:41 ↩

  8. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 1:21:23 ↩↩

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