The irony is that while gamers loathed the'final' armor revealed earlier this year, they loved the prototypes shown while the raid was announced. Initially, the Justicar armor was part of RuneScape gold a trio of armor sets, West informs me, but since the Theatre of Blood went from vague idea to real material, the armor changed with it. Participants said there was sufficient DPS equipment but insufficient tank equipment, so it was narrowed down to just 1 armor set. And when they were only going to use one set, Jagex figured they might as well create a new one based on the armor worn by the raid's huge bad.

"We believed changing it up a bit made sense," West says,"but players were not quite on board with all the original proposal we shared on stream. And then, well, Reddit went crazy."

The memes came out hard and quick. Most demanded a return to the prototype designs. Others believed the new armor did not look tanky enough and liberally provided a few alternatives, with some calling for cheap OSRS gold a more extreme redesign.