Skill pures have a bit of a tainted reputation, which I attribute to the moronic "core" players of Runescape. Yes I'm insulting and being stereotypical, not to this board just to the people I consider to be the typical bona-fide "I think in one dimensional terms" people.
Point is that "core" section isn't too bright, they tend to think of some crazy stuff. Point in case, myself, if I'm picking flax some passing group will say "What's your main..." "Dude that's her flax picking account!" "What a noob" etc etc.
The ironic thing is, no matter which way you slice it I gaurentee you I will get those comments REGARDLESS of what I'm doing. If I cut trees I'm a "oh she's a wc account" I fish, i'm a "cooking account". People don't stop to think I do OTHER things, in fact some are very surprised when I inform them rather haughtily that I DO play the game as a whole, I'm not rich enough to BUY MEMBERS for every single skill...
Some people actually take OFFENSE if I inform them of this, others can't believe it, they have this agenda that I *HAVE* to be a singular account for a single skill, while this is pure narrow mindedness and idiocity it is plainly to be expected.
Myself I made Flare Ember simply because I felt the game was getting tedious, I was hounded by morons due to my "superior" level I was finding random events constantly interupting my game-time, to the point I only had to LOG IN to get a random event -.-
Regardless as a level 3, I find myself enjoying the game more because people tend to ignore level 3's, except of course that core group of players who flip at the very sight of "3" and those who have no knowledge of the game whatsoever, (i.e. I had a massive flame war in Falador erupt because some twit thought a level 3 couldn't appear on the highscores, while another thought that leveling fishing levels your combat!)
Anyway, point in case, "skill pures" have too much of a lame reputation, I don't think you're helping, then again I don't see the difference between a level 90 and a level 3 cutting the same tree. I also don't see why you're singling OUT level 3's specifically for being there when they have an entire right to be there.
Secondly, I notice I'm being a hypocrite myself, but I'm not discerning this fact. It's my personal opinion that there is a core group of people who really need a smack in the face with reality specifically in the game, sadly this will never happen, however I learnt to deal with it, in my own little way. Some of you may agree, others disagree I don't expect everyone to understand what I'm getting at.
Thirdly regarding pures in the wild, I have a pure for wildy myself, I enjoy pking because I really enjoy the sense of danger it's almost like an entirely different game in itself, ironically I play as one of the very rare black pures, the downside to it being that I tend to get WAILED on by mages and rangers. I could complain I guess, but to me that's part of the fun, I literally freak out everytime I see a mage and I have a laugh because of it.
Point is, it's a game overall, something to enjoy and have fun with. Over-analysing and complaining ruins it, I hate those "core" players but I push it to one side and do what I enjoy doing, I get a gross satisfaction defeating someone who does exactly what chives me the, "OMG YOU NOOB" brigade that think the wild is a nice soft battlefield that you pay 2gp a day for a tour. (Why people go there and not expect to be attacked I DONT know but that's their fault for being you know...)
I guess what I'm saying is there's a fine line between over-reacting and actually playing the game. To me gaining enjoyment playing the game is something everyone should aim for, sadly like I said most people aim to "enjoy" the game by being critical, ignorant, rude and generally moronic either in attitude, by complaining at EVERY SINGLE THING JAGEX DOES or just by being themselves.
How such people were allowed to be born I don't know, but then I'm sure someone will say the same about me
I think I've said enough, hopefully I didn't go overboard and be "insulting" or breach the rules of this site because I don't wish to be banned from this site, however I felt this needed to be said. If you don't like something, move on.
/Flare ember,
signing off.
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. It's a massive, uncontrolled market, and trying to judge it and make good decisions is very hard (I've tried and failed). Aaaanyway, on the topic of pures. Pure fights are always fun to watch in the wildy, they hit massive constantly. But at the end of the day, what are they going to pk? Monk robes and a DDS? Hardly seems worth the effort.
