The previous soapbox article I posted was not specifically a complaint about the fire cape requirement for the new Slayer monsters. This one is. If you don’t like that, then don’t read it. You have been warned.
What strikes me most about the debate over this subject is that some players seem to have absolutely no capacity for understanding that people have differences. Getting a fire cape requires a specific skill set that some people have and some do not. This situation is not like having a high level in a particular skill, which just takes time and determination. There are some people who simply cannot do things like this.
I’ve also noticed something else: a disproportionate number of high level players who have issues with getting the fire cape are adults, sometimes older adults. Not all, of course, but a much higher percentage of players who have issues in this regard are older than those who are mocking them with idiotic comments about how they are “nubs” because “Jad is easy”.
I don’t have a fire cape. I’ve never tried to get one. I don’t want to get one. I have decided I may not even try to get one. In part because I am annoyed that Jagex is trying to force me to do it. But more because this is not the sort of content I play RuneScape for. (EDIT: I did try. It went as expected.)
I am not a twitch gamer. If I were, I would have no problem with Jad. But you know what? If I were a twitch gamer I also probably wouldn’t be on RuneScape. There are a lot of other players who are in exactly the same situation. They are in many cases, a lot of RuneScape’s longest-paying and most dedicated players.
RuneScape should provide a breadth of content for all sorts of players. I have no problem with there being aspects of the game that don’t appeal to me, and that I have no desire or even ability to do. I am fine with missing out on the direct rewards of that content. But I do have a problem with having those styles of gameplay shoved down my throat in order to do other things that have nothing to do with them.
If Jagex wants there to be “twitch” style gameplay in RuneScape fine—but don’t conflate it with the usual “achievement” style of gaming that is what drew many of us here in the first place. Getting 93 Slayer requires hours of time and dedication; we’ve earned the right to kill these monsters. Being deprived of one of the Slayer skill’s best rewards over a bad Internet connection or a physical lack of reaction speed is simply unfair. And no number of inconsiderate, childish “twitch gamers” deriding me will change that.
I will make a comment on getting the cape. I did manage to kill jad (some luck there) but am unable to kill nomad to date. I am one of the older adult users mentioned, and I’ll admit my reflexes are slow, and I don’t ever see myself killing him. hopefully I won’t need to to do other questes or skills.
good article.
I’m sorry but I don’t agree with your argument here. If you can’t get the fire cape then you don’t have the right to kill those monsters, it’s as simple as that in my opinion. It’s not even difficult at all, I have done it many times just for fun and to be honest a lot of those times I was very relaxed, there’s no need to panic or mass click (twitch). Like you mentioned in the previous article it has got easier these days, Jad will use ranged 90% of the time so keep that prayer on, when he is about to mage he will give a VERY early warning, so if anything it should be made tougher and more challenging.
I’m surprised that you of all people are complaining of something like this when all you do is write about how other people should stop complaining about stuff. Not as nice when it’s happening to you is it..?
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I beat him at level 113. Try getting 80 prayer and using Leech Magic, Ranged and Defence, it makes him so much easier. I had 23 Sara Brew doses left while using a Terrorbird familiar because of my curses. Also, take a super attack and strength pot before getting out sara brews, then bank them to make room for said brews. At the start of the fight, use a BGS Spec, which lowers his Defence level by the amount hit (29 in my winning fight, although I have specced on him up to 48)
Also, have you been using the safespot range method?
fonere: JaGEx have stated that it was for people with disability, mainly hearing problems, who have an unfair disadvantage at beating Jad. You may not realise it, but what you’re saying is the equivalent of “if you can’t get up these stairs (as a result of your wheelchair) then you don’t deserve to be up here”
I would rather see more content like the fire cape requirement. RS players have gotten lazy and think that just becuase they have the time to dump into a section of a the game that they should get all of the rewards. If people are unwilling to adapt to a style of gameplay that moves beyond the level 99 cap and into more chalenging requirments the game will stagnate. unless harder to acess content starts to become a reality there will not be a challenge in the game for max leveled players. If a player is unwilling to atempt something becuase they think it is too hard then they don’t deserve the privilage of acessing new content. By saying that a requirement is to hard or discriminates agianst a group of players is just defeatism plain and simple.