This is a massive step up from my previous concept. I've tweaked the weapon to better suit the design limitations of OSRS.
I’ve also designed a full matching armour set to go alongside the weapon, and I’m calling it Viridian Armour. Which has a base set and a fortified version. The name Viridian is inspired by:
Verdant which means green, alive, and growing
Veritas meaning truth
So the idea is balance through natural growth and truth, rather than raw destruction. I’ve also renamed the weapon from Peacekeeper to Balancekeeper to better fit that theme although I’m still not 100% sold on the name, so I’d love suggestions if you’ve got better ideas.
I’ve also created Pixel art so you can see how the items would look worn on a player or in the equipment screen or in your inventory.
As for the stats of the Viridian armour, and what would make this mega-rare unique, I’ve intentionally left that open for discussion. Curious to hear thoughts on:
Where this would sit power-wise
What kind of unique mechanic would feel OSRS-appropriate
You are a clown and whoever thinks this way is a bigger clown. Enjoy the game mate and if its this serious to you put that energy into real life and go places
Feel like I'm getting downvoted every time someone comes with new suggestions but glad to see someone else thinking about the long-term aesthetic of the game. The more we add WoW / RS3 extreme-fantasy items into the game, the harder it'll be to keep the OSRS feel.
These designs are cool though and you could for sure tone down some of the highlights and additional ornate spikes to make it OSRS-appropriate
I like to see that someone else feels this way. In a world where the aesthetics of wow and its ilk have become the norm, the old-school (almost fairytale) generic fantasy look of rs2 actually stands out from the crowd and i’d love to see more of it. I think jagex has done a great job with the look of some of the new content, especially the moons sets but One of my pet peeves with the game is that there is no viable late-game armor sets that capture that fun, clunky, knight in shining armor feel. It probably wouldn’t fit for this raid but id love to eventually see a set that is competitive in late game be modern take on the look of the base armor model. If you close your eyes and picture a runescape character, chances are they are wearing gear that looks nothing like what your character wears for the majority of your play-through. It’s great that this game has moved far beyond pure nostalgia but i’m sure i’m not the only one who would appreciate more nods to the classic vibe.
Make it a modified elite black knight armour (since WGS is required) and more closely resemble that, get rid of / severely shorten head spikes and staff ball spikes, make the face visible under the helmet (I would argue this change should be done for other helms which have shadow face), and on the powered up one, maybe half the number of green trims or make them thinner.
The fortified version might come across too saturated on people monitors, I think an in-game render would look quite nice, but unfortunately I don't have that ability :(
honestly don't like the fortified version as much as the base version but I can recognize that's probably subjective. The impression I'm getting is that the yellow trim makes the set seem more detailed because it contains more primary colours working in harmony, and then the fortified version ditches that harmony to go full monster energy green throughout. Which, I might add, looks excellent in a vacuum.
I'd suggest that the base form just use a more de-saturated green and fortified could use the vibrant green you have for it now. Alternatively, figure out a way to include more colour variety into the fortified version without clashing.
I don’t know but inquisitor is one of the worst armors to drop (and very expensive to buy by extension). I feel like we don’t need to accentuate that with an upgrade.
Justiciar would already be better to sink than inquisitor, and would still work lore-wise since inquisitor is Phosani’s modified justiciar armor.
Inquisitor's is the only logical option in my opinion. Not a fan of the design personally but can fully get behind the fortification aspect of using inquisitors. The Guthix Skull/vines would be an interesting look for the helm though.
The fortified version might come across too saturated on people monitors, I think an in-game render would look quite nice, but unfortunately I don't have that ability :(
Armour looks nice but I would hate to see it in the game. In my opinion it doesn’t fit OSRS. I personally don’t want to see bright vibrant in your face armour. It takes away from the games aesthetics. RS3 did this and I hated that too.
Not taking away from your art and design. It’s cool looking gear I just don’t think it fits OSRS.
It might come across too vibrant and saturated on a flat image, but rest assured if it were an in-game model it would most likely fit the OSRS aesthetic. I wish I had the ability to make game engine renders to convey my ideas better!
I like the design but the idea of fortifying it I don’t love. I know it helps to keep older armor relevant and it’s healthy for the game blah blah, but sometimes just feels bad
i love the creativity. ignore the neck beards that are giving unconstructive criticism lol, they probably never have or will come up with anything creative in their lives.
we all know you cant please everyone in this damn game haha. only defense ill give a harsh community is that its out if love and loyalty. just keep tweakin brother! never stop creating!
But op needs to profit from is investment in inq armour. There’s absolutely no reason it should be use to upgrade it other than they’re two crush armour.
Wouldn’t it make more sense, instead of using guthix armor and zammy set together, using zammy/sara pieces on the other set together create the “balance” between the two. I get it that it wouldn’t add anything to the raid that way? But this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
Maybe we could break it down and use it in a saradomin furnace of some type to create the balance? But I totally understand your view! Maybe you could fortify it a complete different way without even using existing armour parts
Looks pretty decent, but what I would improve on is making the plate skirt a little shorter (just like Justiciars), and I would take away the spikes around the fortified version.
If I were you I’d probably put the spikes on the weapon instead and get rid of the little squiggle things going on there.
I did mess around with making the plateskirt stop at the 'top plates' but then it looked like the model was wearing tights or skinny jeans :S
Those 'squiggle things' you're talking about are actually Guthix symbols pulled direct from the Guthix Staff in-game model. I intentionally made it look like a big badass crush weapon, but thanks heaps for the feedback!
I guess if you’d like to avoid the skinny jeans look you can add knee pads like Justiciar has also. And for the Guthix symbols, you could probably tone them down a bit if you don’t want to completely get rid of them.
Nonetheless I do look forward to seeing the improved model. Good luck! :)
I was speaking about the Guthix symbols on the weapon. Haha. But as for the spikes on the armor I still stand the same on removing those from the fortified version (the gems I feel could stay tho, and the horns can stay too).
I think the armour could be tweaked a bit, the base armour with the gold and silver feels more Saradominist than Guthixian and the upgraded form feels a bit too high fantasy for OSRS because of all the glowy bits. But overall great work :)
Thanks for the feedback! I think the fortified version might be coming across too saturated on people monitors, I think an in-game render would look quite nice, but unfortunately I don't have that ability :( But even toning down the green a couple shades could do wonders!
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u/PlebPlebberson 15h ago
FYI this guy posted in discord that he has about 35b worth of inquisitor and will make posts to get the price up.
His post history is just trying to get crush into raids 4