RuneScape’s legendary pet update is what I’ve wanted all this time

A very long time ago, I got myself a legendary pet on RuneScape in hopes that it would basically pick up all my drops for me.

When I first used it, I realized that it only loots about once every half minute or so, and when it does go to loot, it only picks up one random item and leaves the rest behind.

I was pretty disappointed that the legendary pet was so expensive, so I contacted RuneScape’s customer support to see if this was actually intended, and if so, to get a refund for the legendary pet because the description very clearly implied that it was basically an auto-looter.

We had an exchange back and forth, and ultimately, they said that they were unable to provide me with a refund because they are not able to remove in-game items from my account (or something along those lines).

However, if you know me, I’m very detailed, straightforward, and persistent, and it ended up working out for me – they returned all the RuneCoins I had spent on the pet, and let me keep the pet on the account. They told me that I could spend the RuneCoins on something else, and they did this to ensure that I, as a customer, was entirely satisfied.

I was pretty satisfied at the time, and I just assumed that the legendary pet just wasn’t quite legendary.

But, a recent update changed that.

In this last patch, the legendary pets’ functions were revamped for the better. The looting system, although it still doesn’t act like an auto-looter, is much better than before. It picks up items with much greater frequency, and it lets you know what it picked up in the chat box.

But my favorite part is the plethora of other features that were added to the legendary pets.

For example, the banking feature was improved such that it is now represented in the Summoning interface as an icon. You’re able to see when your pet will return from its trip to the bank, and when you can use it again. This is an important update to me because, prior to this update, I never actually knew when I would be able to use the skill again.

On top of that, the pet now provides you with a bunch of utility. Supposedly, you can only have three abilities active at the same time, but realistically, you can pretty much use all of them because you are able to swap out abilities at any desired frequency, with no penalties.

In summary, these are the kinds of updates I would like to see more of from RuneScape. RuneScape already has a ton of content, but a lot of the older content is either outdated, or isn’t up to the quality standards of modern-day gaming.

If Jagex goes back and improves the quality of older content, it can more or less become new content simply because people who never actually played the old content would have an incentive to play it.

The legendary pets are a good start, and I’m hoping that we’ll see some other things, like mini-games, revisited in the future.

 

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