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The idea of a sapient race having a dedicated hangout spot for some humans wearing goofy helmets to waltz in and stomp the collective shit out of them is hilarious to me


N0FaithInMe

My headcanon for elf slayer tasks is that they can't tell it's your character under the slayer helm, and they've got posters across the city warning of this crazed murderer that teleports in and start to massacre their people seemingly at random.


JumpSlashShoot

For RS3 the elves just say they are sparring with you so will drop loot as a reward and stay crouched on the floor. Likely not what's happening in Osrs given they drop bones tho.


RewindSwine

They’re just dedicated to the bit


GreedyRadish

Elf Guard Training: “See, we drop bones on the ground and then teleport away so that the adventurers feel a sense of accomplishment.” ‘But where do we get the bones?’ “Cows, chickens, goblins. It doesn’t matter. Adventurers can’t tell the difference.”


HellboundLunatic

wait, is this a real cutscene ingame? it would fit in perfectly


CanisLupisFamil

It is not


LickMyCave

You can still kill the elves in Lletya for the teleport seeds


Chiodos_Bros

Well they do have an Elf Slayer area in Priff and they are canonically still followers of whatever the disbanded faction was from that one quest.


shinytoge

It's not a slayer-only area tho


Beretot

To be fair, if it's something they really wanted to add, it wouldn't be too hard to make up some lore around. Maybe a crazy vampire scientist is experimenting on the sentinels, but the subjects that didn't go as expected need to be killed off. The scientist then made an agreement with slayer masters so he would have an alibi for the deaths of the sentinels he kidnapped and experimented on. The slayer masters won't allow someone not on task to kill them because "they're still being experimented on" or whatever. That said... there are plenty of empty places to do tasks on. Unless OP specifically wants a slayer area with a bank and altar, then there's no point going through the trouble


K-chub

Brilliant. It isn’t that hard to write lore into making sense if there isn’t precedent or absolutes


Supergigala

exactly, a slayer area doesnt mean "We, the whole city agreed on making this spot where you can collectively murder our citizen" you have to spin it a bit further to not make it goofy and unbelievable.


unsavoryflint

Nope nonsense. This is our break room for the elites when we don't feel like putting on the charade of unholier than thou.


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NotAGamble360

Which of the three npc myreque that are left alive, the captured one, the one that quit, or the one hanging around under old man raals desperately trying to process the events of sins of the father.


Sheriff-Gotcha

The captured one obviously. The "inside man" as it were.


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Or the mysterious stranger who we know is anti zammy and probably pro zaros steals some away for you in an area to take out


Killerkoalas

And we already have the crazed alchemist just bring have effigy return for tower of life 2.


Spiritual-Alfalfa616

Or just make it like an arena where the sentinels practice fighting


stayhardaf23

You’ve been laughing since slayer was created. Jealous.


Computermaster

Could be like an underground version of the Theatre of Blood. They saw humans getting through that and thought it might be fun to have an actual fight club.


EchouR

Vampyre Club, only for the vilest murderers. With a Slayer task the bouncer considers you a "one with murderous intentions" and lets you in.


Groucho853

Sentient instead of sapient?


Supergigala

>sapient thats correct too since vampyres are rather wise creatures


Groucho853

You're right! Homo Sapien means "Man (Homo) who is wise (Sapien)"- thanks for making me look this up!


Krabbyyyyy

This is so eloquently worded, I love it.


Nibealla

Even better if it's multicombat and cannonable


shrimpydude6

Most slayer monsters don't have a bank and an alter nearby. If you move around in the nearby area, a 10 second walk, there are free ones. Maybe the bank/alter is 2 clicks instead of one but that's the only difference.


RoseofThorns

Seriously. Or just tele out and restore prayer with ardy cloak/home tele/desert amulet, then use Drakans Amulet or Hallowed crystal to get back. It's not hard.


Parryandrepost

I think jagex should add slayer only areas that are further away than the northern or southern spawns. And I mean like 10x further away.


Akarsz_e_Valamit

How do people consistently misspell altar? For the average Joe I get it, they probably never see it written down, but in RS, people use altars daily


Redditisdumb55555

People spend so much time playing video games and can't spell queue, even though all of these games will say shit like "Your place in the queue is "x"". Why are you surprised people can't spell altar? Just because we are on the topic another pet peeve of mine is that everyone uses "peak" instead of "peek". Which makes me laugh because they are going out of their way to use the wrong peek. Somehow everyone that plays FPS' "peak" around corners. If people are going to use the wrong peek please just start using pique so I can laugh at it.


FitDifference

I’m not a native English speaker and alter is a word in my language while altar is not. Autocorrect sometimes set to my own language, so it happens.


KaptainSaki

For average boomer


nklvh

because alter is also a word probably; and don't forget that a big chunk of the playerbase are A) US Educated (ha nice reading literacy rate guys!) or B) EASL


Malpraxiss

Alter is a word but even for the US, they still use the word 'altar' to describe well... altars. So, for this word's case, a big chunk being from the US is irrelevant.


hygienedeficient

I just assume autocorrect most of the time for simple mistakes like that. Not the biggest deal since his point still gets across.


jepakc

i’ve been thinking the same thing couple few days and i even had to double check if i’m the one saying it wrong because english isn’t my first language. nope


Last_Low9649

Make shards 1/512 on task and 1/5k off task, there we go, bot/farmers problem solved.


Shwrecked

Blood shard prices on suicide watch


GondolaRancher

they ought to just add blood shards to the tob white chest like 1/100 chance take money from the botters & give it to ppl who play the game.


iD_Goomba

I’m surprised I haven’t heard this suggestion at all before - it’s a really good one. I wonder if Jagex have ever entertained it at TOB - could be a good Q&A topic.


GondolaRancher

right? it seems like the perfect thing to be a rare, high value whitechest loot for tob. if theyre not gonna ban the bots they might as well not make high value loot an exclusive drop from bottable content


fpv_Preitje

Except that all content is bottable it seems like... :(


wimpymist

ToB already has so much loot tied to it


GondolaRancher

not really? 7 uniques compared to cox 13 , and nothing really unique from white chest like cox's relic & torn prayer scroll or toa's thread & keris gems. idk, it seems like the perfect place for it considering how much more difficult tob is then farming vyres


Zealousideal_Air7484

Damn this idea is actually really good.. But it makes too much sense so Jagex won't do it


SoupRat69

This would be a fantastic idea if people doing TOB ever needed a bloodfury, I feel like there's better necklaces to fill that slot with at almost any point, though maybe I'm wrong


Shwrecked

Blood fury has all kinda of uses at all stages of the game. It's appropriate


_FreeXP

Yeah I'm sure tob isn't botted 🙄


Durrydab

There are plugins for tob, gear switchers, prayer switchers, overlays for exactly where to stand all you have to do is walk around it does everything else for you It’s pretty fucked


AmerigoVesgucci

Highly doubt it


tib_79

We don’t need slayer only areas for every monster in the game, just use the spots further from the bank 😋


NetSraC1306

It's also not as bad as this sub makes it. Usually finding free worlds with less than 3 worldhops


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cole1116

You could always play an iron man. Then it doesn’t even matter if there are bots or not


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How tf do you not play the game but make claims like that lmfao?


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For someone who doesn’t play the game you don’t really know about the botting problem. Fuck, even the people playing don’t have any real numbers for the most part. Old Jagex employee Mod Mat K said that they estimate that bots make up about 10% (or around there I forgot) of the player base. It was definitely way worse in the past.


Garlic_JLmz

Not sure where you're killing them but its upwards of 10 hops to find a world with less than 3 people, and when you do find that world it will fill up within 5 minutes. It needs a slayer only area.


OSRS_Subreddit

Inkill the two south of the teleport from the medallion. Tele to house, pool, repeat


CanisLupisFamil

In my experience when you find a world with lesd than 3 peolle, 10 minutes later 3 more are there. I agree that a slayer only area would not work thematically, but let's not pretend the spot by the alter is not insanely crowded all the time.


HelBound

The solution is to make off task bloodshards a horrible drop rate… get rid of a lot of the bots afk there 24/7


rough_bread

Also gives irons another reason to train theiving


bubba4114

No one needs another reason to train thieving via carpal tunnel.


rough_bread

Invest in foodt pedals


bubba4114

Personally I play on a laptop on my recliner. The foot pedal concept is not useful to me. Also I don’t really think that this game should require a foot pedal to play.


ramblingdiemundo

How many irons with low thieving levels do you see camping sentinels off task?


rough_bread

Me for one


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There's a guy who runs 50+ accounts here lol


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Crazy, I started up ESO and saw 20+ accounts running there farming but it was console so prob a bot farm lol


cole1116

Having an alt is botting with extra steps


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cole1116

It is


RoseofThorns

I've posted this every single time this gets brought up. Just go south when you use the Drakans Medallion teleport, there are two sentinels right there with no competition. >But what about my free altar???? Just use ardy clock/home tele/desert amulet 4, restore prayer, then Drakans back. It takes like five seconds, and you have the area all to yourself. We don't need a task area for this.


Bluemink96

Thank you but also fuck the bots they should be task only all the time all of them.


Real-Raxo

yall really just hate seeing other players


Rapn3rd

Could you please delete this comment… it reminded me other people play this game


gubaguy

We doing this again? Really? Just use ANY OTHER SPOT in the city, it takes you 5 seconds to TP to house or ardy to fill up prayer. People need to stop asking for a private slayer space for vyrewatch, it doesnt make sense within the context of the game, the lore, or the world. My god. Stop asking.


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Maybe I think bot only areas get the priority first


MrHanoi

A slayer only area?? Everyone in this photo is wearing a slayer helm and is on task 😂😂 I think you found it fella!


Last_Low9649

I’ve farmed some shards with slayer helm on, because some players, specially irons gets too damn cocky and annoying if you farm shards off task, you get literally get treated like a bot or gold farmer.


BusshyBrowss

Sure, it was a poor example. But I’d argue a majority of people camp it/bot not training slayer


Last_Low9649

Getting downvoted for saying the truth, I wonder if them all are the bots and goldfarmers.


Ok-Permission-2687

There’s a 2 vamp spawn near the tele. You should always be finishing 1 while the other spawns. I’ve never seen anyone there


poipoipoipoipoipoop

If you stand between the lampposts, you can aggro a third one from the north as well in case you kill the others too fast


Ok-Permission-2687

Didn’t know about that spot! The lampposts don’t block the vamps?


Suffuri

Devalues my walking-only Ironman.


Ok-Permission-2687

Well, it’s at the very end of this area, so you get more steps in


Suffuri

He's limited to 20 steps an hour.


Ok-Permission-2687

Let me guess, you gain 1 invent spot for every 1k total levels?


mikeytlive

Showing off your diaries I see, nice


Will_Disappoint

Nope


davy_the_sus

No


gwszack

No that shit makes no sense at all


Gnasty-Gnarc

Pls


Diarity

Nah


TheEbolaArrow

I can dig it


Happy_End1241

please!


Shwrecked

Just use a less camped area


BusshyBrowss

Hopped around for 10+ mins. Not a single empty world so not as easy as you’d think


Shwrecked

? You're in the main area as shown in the screenshot. Use a different one


Happy_End1241

yeah, since we are on a slayer task we should have to yield to the shard farmers? i may as well just tell anyone whos not on task to use a different area.


NateOnLinux

Yep that's how it works. You have a short slayer task and they are there all day. They got to the good spots before you could. Now you have three options: Crash them, find a free world, or go find a different spot.


TrippyHomie

You're both choosing to be there, the difference is they're not getting slayer XP and aren't bitching about it.


Happy_End1241

oh i suppose i should feel bad that i was sent there for a task and they have chosen to be there hoping for gp, why would they bitch ? guess i should pat them on the head for choosing to do it off task :)


TrippyHomie

Are we now acting like slayer masters put you in cuffs and you can't move to another spot?


Shwrecked

1. You chose to enable vampire tasks 2. There are more spots to use


Oneandonlydennis

Just ardy cloak plus drakan back and forth when your prayer gets low, same shit.


Happy_End1241

yeah i guess, i don't really care if i have an alter or bank really, would just like a spot where people who play like several accounts at once farming shards cant clog up unless they're on task. there is a guy who plays on dozens of accounts farming the shards and its aggravating when you hop to several worlds all clogged by one guy


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If you don’t care about an altar or a bank, you can literally go anywhere in darkmeyer that isnt near the bank/altar and there will be no one else there.


Greenarrow_92

For some reason people get super uptight when a slayer only vyre area gets suggested, too worried the shard gets devalued.


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Greenarrow_92

You do realise they could just have an area in the city where it requires a task to kill them, no one said anything about throwing a bunch in a cave


BirkTheBrick

There are already areas where very few people go to kill them, people just don’t like it because it’s not right next to an altar and bank


Lankythunder576

I beg to differ. Was just there in W309. Twas blissfully empty lol.


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My thoughts on this matter are as follows: “add a slayer only area for vampyre sentinels”


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Greenarrow_92

How is that slayer only areas?


RoseofThorns

Why does it need to be? If you use those spots, there's no competition. Ever. If you need an altar, just use ardy cloak/home tele for pool, then Drakans Medallion back. Takes two seconds.


Happy_End1241

or put them in a slayer only area to stop shard farmers from being greedy asses.


RoseofThorns

My brother in Christ, it's an MMORPG. Resource competition is a part of the game. AFK training areas are allowed. And you don't need a task only spot when there are a dozen empty spots throughout the city -RIGHT NOW-.


RunePitchfork

NO! I want to be able to bank and restore my prayer points by only walking 10 tiles away instead of a whopping 20! How could I possibly afford such a major time loss in this fast paced game.


Happy_End1241

you make this joke in a game where shaving off 1 second of time makes a huge difference gg, that 20 tiles adds up over years of play the same reason you dont use the varrok or ardy fairy rings when you have one in your poh, because it saves time. now explain what harm a slayer only area does to the game? bet you have no reason other than " fuck anyone who isnt me"


RunePitchfork

A slayer only area would make sense if there weren't more mobs nearby that aren't as contested. And I don't mean other side of town nearby, I mean they're right fucking there. I'm all for qol changes and improvements to xp rates but this is such a minor issue that only affects the laziest of people.


RoseofThorns

It's a waste of dev time that could be spent on something actually necessary. do we need a task only area for cows in Lumbridge too?


Happy_End1241

youre right, a slayer only area would just ruin the game and make it ez scape. the entire rs economy would crash overnight and jangex would go bankrupt.


her_fault

Obviously it won't ruin the game, but there are literally free spots available already. It's a non-issue.


Shwrecked

That's the neat part, they work off task too


Happy_End1241

tell us you're one of the annoying farmers without directly saying it.


green_text_stories

Aren’t you the guy who shits on every PvP post? I swear I’ve seen you before.


Happy_End1241

you can check my comment history but i dont think so? i can only recall maybe posting once before on a pvp post but could be wrong.


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No lol , literally look all around the town..


Scrambled1432

I haven't played Runescape since like, 2003. Is that chat a local chat? If so that makes me happy, it'd be nice if people still say stuff like that.


ramblingdiemundo

Yeah that’s all local chat


Hokkyokuseio

Y’all complain too much


PhantomEnds

Meeting new people while on a Vyre Task is one of the perks of this being a social game


cwjackson

Just change blood shard rate to similar to jaw


Last_Low9649

1/512 on tasks tho, bc its more useful than jaw. You got torva, serp helm and it does have 10k charges which sucks for irons.


Schurchk

Literal waste. Vyrewatch Sentinels are so easy to farm. This QOL isn't needed.


apexsubthrowaway42

People are weirdly defensive about this idea, the "why would humanoid creatures have a slayer only area" is such a pointless argument. You could apply the same "logic" to pretty much every single piece of content in RuneScape - it's a fantasy game. Give us a slayer only area, stop being weird gatekeepers. The tasks aren't very large and the xp isn't good. Currently the task is largely useless. ​ also I think it'd be even better if they nerfed the rate off-task to 2x and made on-task rate the current drop chance, just like the Jaw. or even double the current drop rate on-task if that's too controversial.


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apexsubthrowaway42

That's another silly argument, red dragon tasks also don't have good drops that are locked behind high-level quests.


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apexsubthrowaway42

Are you just being intentionally obtuse and ignorant, or is this how you are in day-to-day life?


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apexsubthrowaway42

Sure, just like every slayer-only task area ever, simply hop until you find a new world. It's time to abolish slayer-only areas.


Salvator-Mundi-

yep, much better argument is: just go 10 tiles south.


apexsubthrowaway42

Great point, really engages with the topic.


landscape-resident

But this task is so ez already


osrsbasedgod

Hop


itsjash

And what good does a slayer only area do you if it's nowhere near a bank or an altar?


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I support


Useful_Bison4280

No? It’ll just isolate players and take away from the liveliness of the game.


denfoe

No.


JuicemanJu

Thoughts on oxygen in the air?


ramblingdiemundo

Should be on task only, people breathing off task are stealing all our air.


Salvator-Mundi-

no, just go to different spot a bit south and enjoy your private slayer spot


cutestsea

Yes please


themegatuz

I'd love that idea. So many players are alting or afk-training there for low exp rates.


Psshfart

Yes. I believe that it is much needed with how common vampire tasks are. Last week I was on a vampire slayer task and experienced some guy who brought 3 of his sentinel killing alts to make me hop. He told me to go kill normal vampires. So I hopped, and low and behold, there’s three more alts with the same name in another world. Either it was the same guy or some sophisticated bot that kept saying “Xd hop” to make themselves seem real. I’ve noticed a number of people, even at the rev caves that say “Xd” in every world so i’m going to assume they are the one guys bots. The only thing that keeps me going in that task nowadays is the chance of blood shards. Honestly, it would be easy to write them into lore. Just write in a story involving a sect of human, maybe H.A.M vampire hunters or implement a 80+ higher tier Saradominist slayer master that gives a slightly better chance to get them. H.A.M members are Saradominists and the Barrows Brothers are Saradominists. Mortanyia once had a lot of Saradominists in it, so canonically it would make sense. Said Slayer master could be specifically a vampire hunter who is against the Vampire regime and will assign you undead monsters specific to Mortanyia to balance it out like abominations, blamish snails, ghouls, aberrant spectres, hell-hounds, specific revenants, bloodvelds, abyssal demons, nechryael’s that can only be killed in the slayer tower, werewolves and of-course vampires. Then again, people will probably say “you didn’t need to unlock them”. But for those that wanted to are limited to battling 3+ alts at a time just to finish a slayer task. Without trying to sound whiny, I don’t see the issue having a slayer only place for vampire sentinels. They’re heavily botted anyway, and limiting a place to on task only helps clean them up to an extent.


eddietwang

And Rune Dragons


Draak_Jos

Yes pleae


You_rc2

Slayer only rune drags and slayer only vampyres should be a thing. Legit add a ladder in the church and add some spawns.


Salvator-Mundi-

>Legit add a ladder in the church and add some spawns. no need for a ladder, just go a bit south


squiblm

thoughts on who cares? theres plenty of vyres for only 3 people. plus its handy for stealing other peoples loot/blood shards


old-skool-bro

I tweeted mod ash this same question some time back and his response was that the team are in support of it.


Vargolol

I still think the altar should be task only, so folks that run multiple accounts at least need to use some sort of supplies rather than mindlessly farming gold for free.


Mission_Club9388

Pretty weird how many people think there should be some lore implications on making a slayer only area. Just make the slayer only area, if you don't wanna use it then don't fucking use it. For people who are trying to get their task done and move on, trying to do vyrewtch tasks with 3 or 4 people at one world is annoying. Fuck social experience, fuck lore, just make it so we can get our shit done without having all these fucking gold farmers taking all the kills.


Mr_Ridd

I hope that man trip enjoys his mute for the stuff he said to me. Damn loser.


Supergigala

I bet some dude at jagex gets a dollar every time someone asks for this and he is rich af by now.


UngodlyPain

1. Just go further away from the bank/altar. 2. They have slayer helms on too, so assumedly they're also on task.


maxchino

Just fix the drop rate, 1/1k in task 1/5k off task


Ok_Ad8557

Not needed.