Opinion: Skills most in need of updates
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| Type | Opinion |
| Videos | 2 (first 2025-03-26, latest 2025-10-15) |
| Main source | Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS) |
Opinion: Skills most in need of updates is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2025-03-26 and 2025-10-15. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.
Gnomonkey's opinion
- Gnomonkey says Firemaking has nothing to it until Wintertodt at 50 to 99, with no other real options.1
- Gnomonkey appreciates that Jagex's summer cleanup includes cleaning up Slayer points and the way tasks are obtained, but wishes more time went into skills that do not feel fun to train.1
- Gnomonkey says Mining is a huge pain point for many players, awful early with only okay methods later, and needs interesting methods and more AFK options.2
- Gnomonkey says the Slayer points system is a slog, with many things costing many points for no reason, made tedious on purpose.3
- Gnomonkey hopes Jagex adds more interactive methods like Sepulchre across a majority of skills, as cleanup has value for the game's longevity.4
- Gnomonkey considers Crafting the skill most in need of an update, calling it so bad after he tried Ironman for the first time about a year and a half earlier, and saying it needs a Tempoross-style or Fletching-activity-style addition.5
- Gnomonkey says Farming is one of his most hated skills and that Tithe Farm is one of the worst minigames in the game; he suggests cleaning it up or making an entirely new fun Farming minigame.6
- Gnomonkey says Thieving lacks variety, being Ardougne Knights, stealing artefacts, Blackjacking and Pyramid Plunder at 91, all medium to high intensity, and he wants a couple of properly AFK options.7
- Gnomonkey says Fishing has never had many methods and he would like a couple of new Fishing methods.8
- Gnomonkey says the Slayer meta is still burst everything and cannon everything; Tormented Demons helped as a mini boss for XP and Araxxor gives about 60k XP an hour, but he wants Slayer tasks that are weak to specific things or have more mechanical variety while still giving good XP.8
Revision history
| Date | Video | Change |
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| 2025-10-15 | Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS) | Added: 5 statements (opinion) |
| 2025-03-26 | Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS) | Page created: 5 statements (opinion) |
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Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 24:48 ↩↩
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Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 25:14 ↩
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Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 26:14 ↩
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Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 32:51 ↩
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Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 3:47 ↩
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Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 4:16 ↩
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Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 4:42 ↩
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Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 5:13 ↩↩
Category: Opinions