In fact, they hated it so much that, for months, the Old School community dogpiled the armor on the 2007scape subreddit and memed it to hell and backagain. They memed on it so hard that Jagex is now totally changing the armor's design. Almost all of Old School Runescape's upgrades go through participant OSRS buy gold, but that is the first time that the suit of armor has been forged in a passion of memes.
The irony is that while gamers hated the'closing' armor shown earlier this year, they adored the prototypes revealed when the raid was announced. Originally, the Justicar armor was bulkier and part of a trio of new armor sets, West tells me, but since the Theatre of Blood moved from obscure idea to actual material, the armor shifted with it.
Participants said there was sufficient DPS gear but not enough tank gear, so it had been narrowed down to only 1 armor set. And if they were only going to use one group, Jagex figured they might also create a new one based on the armor worn by the raid's huge bad.
"We believed changing it up a bit made sense," West says,"but players were not quite on board with the cheap RS gold original proposal we shared on stream.The memes came hard and quick. Many demanded a return to the model designs. Others thought the new armor did not seem tanky enough and liberally provided some choices, with some calling for a more drastic redesign.
It got so bad that some players began to seriously believe a meme that the upgraded armor was by a different artist, which the artist that left the prototypes had abandoned Jagex. But then something amazing occurred. Even as memes blotted out the sun, slowly but certainly serious suggestions began to shine through.
