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Update: Sailing 10k XP hotfix

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Update: Sailing 10k XP hotfix

Update: Sailing 10k XP hotfix
Type Update
Videos 1 (first 2025-11-26, latest 2025-11-26)
Main source Sailing's Future in OSRS

Update: Sailing 10k XP hotfix is an update 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 players racing for the first 99 lost an hour and a half to two hours of progress compared with those who got the XP, and that Jagex handled this very poorly.1
  • Gnomonkey says the only party to blame is Jagex because he found something that existed in the game and Jagex removed it, and says some people still comment that he should be banned for bug abuse.2
  • Gnomonkey says that if Jagex was going to patch it out they should have taken the XP away from those who used it, since 10k XP at level 10 Sailing is several hours of progress and gives an unfair advantage in a race to 99.3
  • Gnomonkey thinks Jagex should have left the 10k XP potion in, since it was a one-time effective XP lamp and early Sailing was very slow, or at least left it for a day so the integrity of the race to 99 stayed intact.4
  • Gnomonkey says the hotfix brought the mood down tremendously on day one, with players quitting Sailing, and he hopes Jagex handles a future new skill better; he notes RS3 had a similar skip-then-removed situation.5

Events

  • On Sailing day one, training was very slow, with Gnomonkey describing about 2k XP an hour, and after about four and a half hours of streaming he was around level 24 or 25 Sailing.6
  • A chatter named Thorbeers told Gnomonkey about a charting potion north of Rellekka... as transcribed 'above Relica', which gave 10,000 experience.7
  • Gnomonkey reached the potion after about 10 minutes of sailing from Port Piscarilius; drinking it took him to an arena fighting three trolls, each dropping a potion that gave a 3,333 XP drop, 10,000 XP in total.8
  • Crowds of players sailed to the spot after hearing about the 10,000 XP, which equalled about four hours of Sailing XP at that point, before Jagex hotfixed it within about five minutes.9
  • Jagex nerfed the troll potion from a total of 10,000 XP to 300 XP (100 per troll) and did not revert the XP of those who had already used it, so the first couple hundred players doubled their XP.10
  • Gnomonkey was accused in chat of being a bug abuser and told he should be banned; he says people even set up cannons in World 2 in protest, and that Fox and Bodhi also got the XP while Hebox narrowly missed it.11

Revision history

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

  1. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 29:26 ↩

  2. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 31:29 ↩

  3. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 31:58 ↩

  4. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 32:52 ↩

  5. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 33:50 ↩

  6. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 25:55 ↩

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

  8. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 27:29 ↩

  9. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 28:24 ↩

  10. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 28:57 ↩

  11. Sailing's Future in OSRS, 2025-11-26. ▶ 30:27 ↩

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