What drives you crazy that happens on RS? I have one, and I'm sorry if this offends anyone. "Can I barrow someones sgs?" Barrowing items just drives me crazy. It's not like it's one or two people. It's like an epidemic of barrowing.

Anyone else have something that happens on RS that bugs them... besides the everpresent "I'm poor.."?

Yeah, the whole "cen i barow ur godsword" that I don't even own gets annoying. It happens nonstop at edgeville.

Another is when someone asks my level in x skill, I say it, and they ask me to say it in quick chat for proof. It's like "I'm level 135, why would I lie?"

I hate people who are a lower level than me asking whether I have been a member. When I say no, they call me a noob even though I have a better total level, combat and skills than them and have achieved all of that without ever becoming a member.

I agree with both of you. I also hate someone asks for help and you go out of your way to actually help them, and they don't even thank you. The sense of entitlement is infuriating.

I have to say people who always insult you, calling you sad or noob, just because they are mad at you. This happens ALOT while pking. It just pisses me off.

Anytime someone calls me a noob, I just tell them that they have a limited vocabulary. Is noob the best you can do?

Yeah, I hate that. I usually make a comment about it if they don't.

I'd have to say that some people's complete lack of initiative to find information or discover content for themselves infuriates me the most.

As well as but not limited too;
-'Merchant' clan spam bots.
-Unbalanced teams in Castle Wars, Trouble Brewing, Soul Wars etc.
-Black cavaliers and generic outfits
-"wat was update?"
-People who think the trade limit was imposed to prevent scamming
-People who think that 99 Fletching or Cooking is an achievement worthy of celebration

Prepare yourself for everything that annoys me in Runescape:

1. Noobs. Not the "New" people, the people who seem to have something wrong with them that allows them to beg you for 3k non stop and when you finally tell them you won't give them anything, they call you a noob. Like sorry, but if I was a noob, I wouldn't be the one asking for pixelated cash.

2. Retarded Spellers. I don't know how these people get through school, but when you use 1337 speak or even MSN chat like "l8ter m8, u r kewl" (I mean wtf, l8ter isn't even a damn abbreviation, it's the same amount of letters, it just makes you look like a 10 year old) I instantly look down on you and pity you. Sure, you can get away with it, EXCEPT when you use your abbreviations and STILL MAKE NO SENSE. Saying "Wat u 4?" is just plan stupid. Not only are you using stupid MSN chat, but your sentance doesn't make SENSE! It's like the people who say "It was lol." No it wasn't lol because lol isn't a noun, you can' do a lol. Which leads me onto...

3. Lol. Why does everyone say LOL after every phrase? "I'm training attack." "lol" Do you actually find that funny? Do you actually laugh out loud when you see someone training attack? I don't. What's worse is that lol is said for everything that isn't funny. Lol is like the "I couldn't be stuffed to actually put thought into what I type next" phrase which every Runescape player learns from the beginning.

4. Try-Hards. Runescape is NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS. It isn't a game that involves mad skills that you can some how hone. It's the whole "I have skills at pk'ing" thing that every wanna-be pk'er claims to have. Skills? Anyone can pk. Find an opponent, click attack, watch. When you are on low health eat, and at times pull out your DDS and spec. Sorry but that involves no skill. Sure, I'm told there is skill in eating at the right time and swapping at the right time. Yeah sure, eat when your almost about to die. No skill required there... Runescape does not require skill. Sure it can still be fun, but I hate people who somehow think they have the gift of pro skills when it comes to Runescape. Go play an FPS or RTS if you want a game that actually requires you to think.

5. Wanna-bes. Anyone with the name "Zezima152" or "Mahatma Pk" or the notorious and overused "Rangskill99" or variations on the same theme. I don't know how anyone thinks being called "Zezima12415" or "ProStrKO99" is actually original or how such names even pop into their head. They somehow think that because they are called "Zezima15235" that everyone will go "Wow, it's Zezima, lets follow him for he is so mighty." Or the wanna-be pures think that by having "Prostr99" in their name it some how lets everyone know , watch out, this guy is pro and has 99 str. The biggest joke is that they are always level 22 and although they gurantee they'll be the next Fear Figment, you know they'll never make it past 30 str.

6. Pures. Yeah, so I'm a hypocrite because the only account I ever go on anymore is a pure. But hey, I can still hate them. Why? Because pures somehow think that pures are the best thing in Runescape and that even if your defence level is 99 that they will kill you. When you tell them otherwise, they flame you and call you a def noob, although deep down they know that they couldn't win. They somehow think that anyone with over 1 def is a noob and that their 30 str is completely awesome. They are usually wanna-bes and tell you they'd own you when they get 99 str, which they won't.

7. Mains. No, I don't hate main accounts. I hate people who tell you they have a main and that he'll totally kick your mains butt. They always crave attention and can't stand losing. A typical converstation goes along the lines of:
Noob 1: Noob
Me: ...
Noob 1: My main could own you, fight him in Duel Arena
Me: (No response)
Noob 1: Don't believe me? I'll bring him here then we can fight.

Bear in mind that even if you don't ask to see their main (because obviously no one actually cares) they'll bring them round. Another thing is that they always want to fight the account the level 20 pure account your training, despite their main being level 83. (As though a level 20 vs a 83 is fair and proves anything) Of course, they think noone in the world is actually better than them so the notion of you having a main is a lie and you'll just be called a lying noob. Of course if you troll them to going to Duel Arena and then meet them with your level 123, they cry, log out and perhaps even change their tone and start asking to be your friend and if you have any free gp.

8. Fist of Guthix. A fun minigame (the only minigame if your f2p.) A place where using tactics is "nooby" and is guranteed to get you flamed. I've played quite a lot of FoG in my time on my level 56 pure and almost always win, easily defeating level 120s and anyone else who dares to challenge me. The problem? Using tactics is not allowed apparently. They are so intellectually challenged that they actually think the point of the game is to teleport to the middle and just stand there and let the other person kill you. Of course, this is what all high levels do because they are silly enough to think that their opponent will do the same. As soon as you start running, tree hugging, portal hopping, teleporting or any other FoG tricks you get called a sad noob and start getting flamed by level 118s who are unable to defeat a level 56 with 1 defence and 1 prayer who is running around in green dhide and leather. The stupidest thing is that they say "Noob, don't run, stay and fight." Now it doesn't take much common sense to realise that I'd be an idiot to stand around with 1 defence and prayer while up against 99 attack. I wonder if they even think before they type... Needless to say, much pleasure is had from defeating them a laughing at their pathetic attempts to insult you despite the fact they were just defeated by someone less than half the level of them.

9. RSOF. No comment. Worst community area EVER! Guranteed to complain about EVERYTHING.

10. Stupid Updates that clearly haven't had any thought put into them. Example: Extreme Herblore potions. Although it doesn't affect me in the slightest, it was hilarious when Jagex released these potions and initially allowed you to use them in PvP. This was changed to exclude PvP due to the angry response on the RSOF (makes you wonder why they just don't update the game because people complain every update.) The funniest thing was that Jagex's reasoning for making the potions unusable in PvP was because:
Apparently they didn't think that the potions would upset PvP. I mean easily two hitting people with new potions, that's of course not going to effect PvP. Sometimes they just seem to lack common sense...

11. Player Mods - The ones who don't know the rules, flame people and then when someone asks them "How did you become a mod?" they say "I reported a lot of people. I've only been playing 3 months."

12. The people who say "Wat was update." Like, read the front page you drop kick and stop annoying everyone with your idiocy.

13. Trade Limit - No fun there...

14. G.E. The cause of so many problems such as incredibly easy price manipulation. Another example of Jagex's "Oops, we didn't look far enough into how this would effect the game." Now they are trying to mop up a problem they created to stop the initial RWT problem.

15. PVP. Player vs Player? Yeah sure, sit around for an hour, fight one person, smile as your EP goes down and repeat.

16. People who claim your a nerd who sits in their basement. Your insulting me while you're also playing Runescape. Nice try...

17. Tyras Helmets, D meds - They just scream noob when you see someone wearing them

18. Members. People who think that because they pay for the game, they are the best thing on earth. Of course, if your f2p it means you're too poor to pay $9.50 a month. Members complain about f2p and all the updates that benefit f2p (which are almost none). Every update they recieve, they complain about but if F2p also get it, they complain even more.

19. People who actually think Runescape 3 is coming out.

20. Hitting 0's on an unarmoured level 60 even though you have 99 attack. You subsequently cry because you wasted such a long time for another skill which is based purely on luck.

21. The Runescape homepage which displays characters fighting Orcs Goblins while wearing no items that you can actually find in game. Pretty much the front page could also be used for WoW (although WoW actually does have items that look like them.)

22. People who complain when you start attacking "their" monster or cutting "their" tree. They somehow think that they are special enough to deserve an entire area of the game for themselves and never consider hopping worlds because "they were there first."

23. The fact that Jagex still claim Runescape teaches children about live economies.

24. Jagex claiming on their corporate site that Runescape is aimed at an older audience.

25. People who buy gold. I.e. Timmy. After watching the YouTube video I actually wanted to go and 1. Laugh at him 2. Yell at his ignorant grandma 3. Totally lose it at Jagex for appologising about the incident despite the fact he broke multiple rules. His stupid grandma says that he was 'lured' to a replica RS site and he stupidly put his account details in. Prior to that, he spent $140 on Runecape items. In a prank call interview where the caller pretended he was the owner of YouTube (which the stupid grandma believed because she was angry that everyone was now flaming Timmy) the caller says "Do you realise that buying Runescape gold is agains the rules?" She answers "But the site said that it was 100% legal and was allowed by Jagex." What an absolute fool! So by her reasoning, if someone robbed her house but said "Hey lady, the police say this is 100% legal" she'd be fine with that.

What was worse was that the reporters who wrote the story had no idea how Runescape was played and ignored the fact that Timmy was a massive rule breaker and made him out to be the victim. If you'd never played Runescape and you watched the video, you'd think that in Runescape you gathered "Points" and that people looked up to "11 year old Timmy" (who his Grandma said was adored and sought after by Runescapians) in game and that buying RS Gp was allowed. You'd also think that you HAD to pay $60 a year to play and that by doing so, you gained "power."

You'd think that buying Runescape Gold was legit because Jagex themselves don't condone the kid in the news story but instead tell the brain dead grandma that they are doing everything in their power to find the culprit.



Tell me what is wrong with this screenshot from the report. Oh, maybe because Jagex always have said "We never return items, it's against our policy." Now they are sucking up to the media. Way to go...

Watch the video, it's hilarious but will also make you rage. (The reporter sounds so fake. "Wow, you caught a shark?" Timmy: (Stoned voice) "It's worth 1000 coins.)

I think that's it. Man, it's fun having a massive rant.

EDIT: Remembered another.
26. People who think Runescape HD actually competes with WoW and other MMOs out their in terms of graphics. Runescape is definitely more fun than most MMOs, but claiming that the graphics are uber awesome is ridiculous. Super Mario 64 had see through water; it isn't revolutionary.

27. People who complained when HD came out because they said their computer couldn't play it. I can run Runescape on our old Windows 98, I have no idea what they are using if they can't run it...

EDIT 2: I went out to make the school lunches for my brother and sister and realised how many things I hadn't included:

28. Ban System. This should probably be number 1. Although we are constantly told that Jagex read all our appeals, that's a joke. We all know that a bot reads them or a trained chimpanze. There is so much evidence to support this claim that it has actually given Jagex's customer support a reputation for being plain bad. The fact that a member of my old clan got muted for saying "Z on *Insert name*" in a Castle Wars game (because apparently this is offensive language, although anyone with a brain who actually participated in clan events would realise that this is how clans fight. Back then, it was common knowledge that a lot of Jagex members didn't know anything about Runescape) and that the picture board of Zybez is always filled with the "LUL APPEAL ACCEPTED" after sending in the message "My cat danced all over my keyboard and made those swear words appear, it wasn't me." or the people who say "I'll bomb you if you don't unban me" proves that their is a broken bot answering these appeals.

29. This kid (The guy who gets hacked) :

Two I can think of right now:

1) Everyone with the same clothing, like Black Cavalier with Black Flared pants and a black top while holding flowers, that type of RS Fashion thing.

2) People who think it is cool to say things like "Waffles" and "Pancakes".

Might add some more later.

So, almost everything?

Dude, I agree. The only people who say "Waffles, Pancakes or Cookies" are the people who are trying to impress the girls in Runescape. The worst part is that the girls respond...

You know the guys... the ones in members gear who sit near Varrock Castle with their possy of ladies. They are the Waffle-sayers.

Yeah, Hayaemsay, I pretty much could've just put:

1. Runescape

But it is lots of fun to write a massive rant, it puts a smile on your face ;)

Well you're right there, first smile of the day.

Edit: Okay, here's another one.

Ranging across the river near the stepping stones at Castle Wars and moon walking backwards when your target goes out of your range.

OR the people who purposely moonwalk at Draynor Willows and get people to pay them to find out how to do it.

Oh, and on the Castle Wars topic: the level 46 who always manages to get the flag before you do...

Agreed with John's entire list. Rs wins the most jackass community in the world award.

Or when they rattle off every skill in game.
"What's your attack level?"
"What's your strength level?"
"What's your defence level?"
"What's your magic level?"
"What's your range level?"

I would basically tell those people to check the high scores if they wanted to know...

Edited. Not really suitable for the forums tbh.

My big one is people who are like "Barrowing borrows armor!" I smack myself. Corrected someone at the GE a few days ago, actually, she was like "O really? K". I made a difference

Im making a list of how these nerds/noobs would respond to lord john's post.

1. Ther s lke nthng wrng with contnuosly cllng peple newbs NOOB!.

2. Every0ne m@kes spelling mist@kes dummy!

3. Its funny to say lol, we say lawl to lawl more.

4. Do you even know how HARD it is to click on your mouse on a SHARK to eat it AND swapping weapons and armour?

5. Those aren't wanabees but people who are inspired by them.

6. Pures <3 People who think they are cool even when they are not, MEANS they are rlly i mean rlly cool.

7. Its good to annoy people by showing them off like that if you have a more powerful account it means you pwn.

8. Using those tricks are really unfair in the game not allowing me and others not to win.

9. RSOF is a lovely place full of contructive,mature and true place.
Gotta <3 people who say jagex fail.

10. Extreme pots should be banned!
Then un-ban them when i get my herblore to 96 for overload.

11. Only way to become a player mod is for not knowing the rules.

12. There are people who have troubles loading a front page on runescape.

13. Trade limit... Yeah no fun.... i wanted to make my bot give me 50 mil.

14. The g,e was made by jagex for us to change prices to our pleasure.

15. NAO! it is great Lordy! 1 hour of our life gone! AND I HATE LIFE! GF LIFE!

16. Upstairs in your room is a basement DUMMY!

17. RED HELM!!?!?!? NOOB1#1

18. Paying 10$ really proves your more powerful than others in life.

19. Runescape 3 is coming out! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN

20. I HATE 0s!

21. Yeah i know the goblin/orcs armour is really wow.

22. HEY I WAS THERE FIRST! by your logic becoming first in a race doesn't make you have the right to have a medal.

23. IT DOES! G.e price of bread lowering 10 gp!

24. IT IS! 4-10 year olds is really an old audience.

25. Poor Timmy.... you should feel sorry for the 11 year old....

26. Runescape Hd can beat Eve's graphics.

27. My Windows 1 couldn't!

28. Jagex reads reports. Haven't you seen the un banning for spamming shit all the time on runescape?

29. Poor guy! His fire cape! i feel sorry for you...

This is a sarcastic joke.^

People who think that just because they have a "better" 99, someone's hard-earned 99 cook isn't worth jack. Especially if they don't have a 99 themselves or don't bother to ask how the person trained for that skill.

My rant has to be people who think they are entitled to see my thief emote. I don't like showing it often, and if you don't mind your ps and qs I'm very unlikely to reply at all.

Ok i got some more

People who think that trade limit was put in because of scamming

people who still want the old wildy back

People who 100% hate and riot about every update

People who think my questcape is the easy to achieve

People who say "U" and "R"

ppl who talk like dis...wat idits

People who act tough about being pkers or pretending to be someone they're not IRL.

People who ask for my thieving emote and then laugh at it.

People who think the word "borrow" is spelled with an a. I LEARNED THAT IT WAS "BORROW" IN FUCKING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

Some runescape players aren't that far into their education yet......

As a female player, one of my pet peeves is when I'm training combat, say at daggonaths. I'm over combat level 100, so I won't die unless I'm just reallllyyy not paying attention. Almost every time I'm there a guy will come over and finish one of my kills. He'll say something like he thought I needed help. Then he'll walk away. This has happening over the years on RS. I'm there for the xp!! Why would I need help with my kills??

People do that regardless, they just have a different reason each time.

All the more reason they need to stop. :p

People who think every update will bring the end of the world, or who care far too much about the economy and all that boring stuff when this is a game yo.

Haha, My best friend I've known for years is exactly like that!

The people who say "I think it's wildy coming back" everytime there's a system update.

Oh and the people who complain about the most trivial thing.

Ages ago when Varrock had it's graphical update and they added the stray dog, some fools decided to rant about this saying it was cruelty to animals because your character would go "Thhhbbbtt" (Oh so very offensive and scary) to the dog. I mean, complaining about this is so stupid that those people should be permanently banned for idiocy. It's a game. If you want to complain about animal cruelty, go to Lumbridge where the entire population of farm animals are killed daily for no reason.

How about the people who stand in small banks with possibly two people in them, constantly repeating "buying 500 sharks" or something. Repeat it when new people come in, don't spam the two other people in the bank with you.

Looks like I should have been more specific; people who power-level to 99 Fletching or Cooking and then think they're awesome because they have a 99 stat.

Or people who think they are awesome because they have any 99 stat. It's a game, you are not awesome for spending more time in it than someone else.

I don't hate people with 99s because when I played I got them too, I just dislike the people who think they rule Runescape because they have a pixelated cape with a picture of a fist on it. I mean, sure it's an *achievement* but it's not something your going to put on your resume when you apply for a job, because no one actually cares except the fan boys who follow you asking for the emote. Pretty much the attention seekers who really actually love the noobies following them saying "Emote pl0x!". You'll find them also in f2p because f2p are likely to suck up to you for free items and many believe anyone in members gear is God.

I hate people who call me sad and noob for not having a skillcape

Yeah, they are pretty much the people I described in the post above yours. The ones who think their skill cape makes them pure awesome and if you don't have one, you suck. If you do have one, they'll claim the skill you have it in is an easy skill compared to theirs.

Holy crap that annoys me so much.



It's still a lot of work to get any 99. I have 99 Fletching and Cooking, and I worked hard for them. Hell, cooking cost me 15m.

I'm aware of this.


Ugh, people like this annoy the hell out of me, I only took a fair amount of shit from people I've never met for only having one 99 at a fairly high combat level.

Edit: Spelling correction.

People who suddenly want to be friends after I've only said a few sentences to them.

Tell me about it.

I always would reply "I don't even know you." and then they'd leave after actually thinking about what they were asking.

Low-level players that ask a person who has a cape to "do emote pl0x". Although I don't have a 99 skill and have always been free to play, I have never asked someone to "do emote". The funny thing is, they seem to like people asking them to do it.

People saying "press 111 to be my gf/bf", "Dancing for cash" or "Join my clan, it pwns". They could go outside and get a real life girlfriend/boyfriend, They could skill for cash and they could actually build up a reputable clan that everyone knows instead of spamming people to join. Some of the best free to play clans I have seen only have three high-leveled players in, and they win all of the games that they play.

I hate when people say that graphics are BAD on Runescape. Of course its not as good as WoW or Aion or any game like that.. Why? Because its run in your browser. for a browser based game it has fantastic graphics. I also hate people that complain that they can't play HD that call you a noob when they take your monster or something. When you post a video of Runescape on youtube and all the WoW players come into say how I suck for playing Runescape and how I suck and that RS sucks and I should play WoW, Etc. (sorry that is just something that has been bugging me..) I honestly enjoy playing Runescape with my friends though (friends in real life that is) and that is what makes the game for me. I wish I could play with some of you guys occasionally.. Anyways back to my rants. *copies and paste lord Johns post here* THe end :D'

I think RuneScape's graphics are quite good.

When complete strangers ask me to add them (I have to delete somebody off my list to make room every time) after seeing one line of my text.

Then, a week later when I turn my PM on for once, people get mad because I deleted them. They were complete strangers, too.

ESPECIALLY when I never see them again after I add them.

My pet peeve is people asking for free stuff, because nothing is free i had to take the time to earn it, so its not free, your taking my hard work. Another one is when people see me killing something and they ask, "so your killing dragons huh" well yes u see me doing it.

I'd have to say my biggest pet peeve, being f2p is in The Great Orb Project; everyone leaves if they don't win the first altar, it's called TRYING....

Pretty much GOP as a whole too. If you lose every altar by 1 orb, its the same as if you lost every altar by 15.

I agree! That has to be the most frustrating game, unless you're in one of the clans that use it all the time. They work out the outcomes before you even enter the game, so you're set up to lose. P2P is no better than what you're describing. As an RC'er, the tabs would be so useful, but it's just not worth the frustration.

Those people who consider themselves to be automatically gangster when they put on their untrimmed cooking or fletching cape.
It's a fine cape, and I have nothing against it, but I don't think semi-easy capes or skill capes in general should give you the right to act like a total ass.

Threads like this: http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/foru...16,849,59874021

or post like this:



or this:



Not to mention the "press 111 if you like girls!" and "omfg u such noob im level 90".

Here's a dumb thing that happens once and a while:

Person a: whats the update?
Me: Read the front page
Person a: no wat is it?
Me: ...
Person a: T E L L M E

Lord John's list pretty much sums it up. What I really hate the most are the people who complain about everything. Some updates really do suck, but most don't even negatively effect anyone or are, god forbid, good. I don't like members who feel entitled to consistent updates, either -- In my eyes, the $5 or so subscription is for the Members version of the game, and the updates are a neat bonus.

"How many RuneScape members does it take to change a lightbulb? 2000. One to change it and 1999 to complain about how the old lightbulb was better."

That quote's a keeper.