RuneScape Removed Auras: A Rant

RuneScape Removed Auras: A Rant

So RuneScape has removed auras from the game. While I am not too offended by this as I only really used two auras routinely - wisdeom and vampirism - I am not amused with the fact I have been playing on my Hardcore Ironman character for over two years now, and the two main tools I had saved up for and worked on unlocking are now removed from the game, or made available to later progression, with no refunds or unlocks despite the fact I spent the time to unlock them.

Vampirism Aura

I have been playing on my Hardcore Ironman character for over two years now, and I have been using the vampirism aura to primarily make up for the absence of reliable AFK healing and training methods on the melee skills. While the aura is still available on the game, I find it annoying that one of my main tools has been temporarily removed from my character and I need to work on unlocking it doing harder content then I feel comfortable doing on my hardcore character currently, AGAIN. In the twenty plus years I have been playing RuneScape, I have been primarily playing as a free to play character when I was a teenager and couldn't afford membership, and even after I had money for membership I still played on a normal character as a skiller at the grand exchange. I started my hardcore character a few years ago and spent a good few months preparing to start the easiest bosses I had never bothered with before, as I could get what I needed from skilling and the grand exchange, to get the aura. To put this in perspective, I had absolutely no idea what a "Chaos Elemental" was when I started my hardcore character. So now I have one spare life left on my character and I am now torn between risking it to get my melee aura back, or continuing to level and advance in bossing with magic, ranged, and necromancy. (Don't ask how I lost the first life, the Mimic somehow ate it, I don't know how but it did.)

Wisdom Aura

I am just going to open this section of the rant with some maths, sorry to anyone who is scared of math. Alright so my Legendary Wisdom Aura. It cost 240,000 loyal points to unlock. At the maximum points per month of 15,000 per month that takes 16 months to unlock. However this was the Aura I prioritised unlocking because it was an exp boost aura, so it actually took more then 16 months to unlock as you start at only 500 points per month on the first month of subscription and it scales up. I spent over two years unlocking this Aura personally, and the developets gave us ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for it in return for removing it. Some of the other auras were given perks that can be unlocked in game now, but did they give us credit for these auras that take over a year to save up for and unlock? No. I am not amused. If I had known the skilling auras were going to be implemented as perks into the game, I would have spent two years of my life saving and unlocking those so I could have at least kept the dang perks when Auras were removed. Thanks Jagex, at least you made it easier for me in months I don't want to, am too busy, to play RuneScape to pause my subscription instead of giving you my money.

Siphoning Aura

Actually not that angry, I had it at max level, could have saved a few points as it only needed tier 3 not 4 for the perk to be automatically unlocked. I also like the fact it's ALWAYS active now, so I don't need to worry about being distracted and "wasting" time on it anymore.

Conclusion

Anyways that's my rant, I'm not to mad about the tier 1 skilling auras I had started unlocking, a few of those were either given lower level in game perks as replacements, or just removed and backed into the skills anyways. I'm just a tad miffed that my two main auras have been removed and either been locked behind later progression, or not available at all, with no refunds or credits to the new skilling perk unlocks.

Thanks for reading,
-XerShade