RuneScape:Wiki Post/Editorials/Quest Review - Elemental Workshop III

"New quest - best quest" was a phrase that was once bequeathed to me by a member of the RuneScape Forums, though now that I think about it he could have been some kind of goblin. All the same, it did indeed seem to be true. Quests are released all the time, about 12 a year, to be exact, and each one that is released is, generally, to a very high standard, and puts many of the old quests of RuneScape to shame.

The same is not true, however, of Elemental Workshop III. The quest has been planned for a long time, presumably since around the time Elemental Workshop II came out, and it had a small crowd of RuneScape players waiting for its arrival. Very small, mind. Still, no matter the number of those waiting for the quest to come out, they will all have been incredibly disappointed with the new addition to the series, which is just about the worst quest I have ever sat through, and I've done Ratcatchers.

When it was released I was mildly excited. I like the Elemental Workshop series - it always seems a bit different; not the same old "kill baddies and steal their jewels" nonsense that some quests have. There seems to be a sort of grandeur to the Workshop, and the mechanisms and machinery has always been very interesting to me (because I'm rather strange). The quest boasted that players will need a "puzzle-solving capacity to get the contraption hidden behind the body door working again", and that intrigued me. I like puzzles, for the most part. I enjoy using my brains as an adventurer, not just bashing things until they fall down and drop things, like some seem to.

That said, however, I did not expect the puzzle to be a Guthix-damned sliding puzzle. I hate sliding puzzles. What's more, I did not expect there to be THREE of them. One is bad enough! The one in Monkey Madness caused me to pull out my own hair and scream until my throat was hoarse and sore! This time I have to do it THREE TIMES! What in Gielinor were Jagex thinking? When was the board meeting held when Mod Ludicrous say to Mod Unnecessary "Hey you know what'd be great in the new quest? A slider puzzle. But you know what'd be even better? If players had to do the same thing thrice."

What could possibly be worse than doing a slider puzzle? A round of golf with Dad? A punching match with Glod? A freestyle rap with the Chaos Elemental? No. It's doing a slider puzzle. Three times.

I haven't even finished this quest. I have no intention of ever finishing this quest. No Quest Cape, no Helmet of Trials is ever worth the effort, nay, the self-control, to do three slider puzzles in a row for the ABILITY to make a new armour to go in a set I've never used! I don't even like the elemental set! The shield is heavy and unwieldy and the helmet looks like your avatar is wearing a thong on his or her head! This body is about the equivalent of someone giving me, after I have had to go through twelve labyrinths made of barbed wire and acid-spitting frogs who mock me constantly to get to their house, presenting me with a cake reading "Noob". A pox on you, Elemental Workshop III. A pox on you and all your kin.

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 * By Asparagoose. [[File:Silver sickle.png‎‎]] Asparagoose   18:44, May 26, 2010 (UTC)