The memes came hard and fast. Some players said it was too much like existing armor, such as armor out of Runescape 3, the newer, mainline version of Runescape. Others believed the new armor didn't look tanky enough and
buy OSRS Gold generously provided a few alternatives, with some calling for a more drastic redesign.
It got so bad that a few players started to seriously feel a meme the upgraded armor was by another artist, and that the artist who left the prototypes had left Jagex. But then something amazing occurred. Even as memes blotted out the sun, gradually but surely severe suggestions began to glow through. It began with crude Photoshop tasks, but shortly appropriate examples and fan art began to crop up. Players rallied around the notion of a milder, blessed armor set inspired by the Runescape god Saradomin, so they moved back into West's prototype layouts and made a few adjustments.
Driven from the memes and motivated by elements of West's designs and other players' suggestions, legend_arts made a hybrid armor design so great it not merely silenced the memes, it got the attention of West himself.
"What the memes attracted"
"When I pitched it to the community over Twitch, I had been expecting a small response," West says. "Because when you're showing best-in-slot items, you have either got no answer --which is exactly what you're planning for really because that means they are happy--or you get a very loud response which, as we have seen on Reddit, is what happened. Obviously, what I did not expect was to get a different artist to pop up in. However, when Legend_Arts posted his theory where he left it shiny and bright, it got like 10,000 upvotes on Reddit, which is why I subsequently went onto the livestream to let them see me build it"
"It was almost like a collaborative strategy," says neighborhood manager"Mod Ayiza." "it is a much more positive position to be in than everybody just complaining and crying. We had been fortunate. Sure, there were a few memes here and there, and they were fairly great. But exactly what the memes attracted, which was so good about this instance, was real individuals who really wanted to put together fantastic layouts. As far as there were memes, the fantastic ideas that people liked were not overshadowed."
Legend_Arts submitted his hybrid on April 9. The same day, West chose some player-made theories to work with. Two days later, he staged the procedure for turning the most well-known ones into in-game versions. Two days after that, he shared a couple of variations full with polls to once again let players shape the armor. And he was not just spitballing. Players provided the metal,
Runescape gold and now Jagex is hammering it into form.
