
PKing at callisto has been pretty much the only main-scape content I enjoy for the past 3 years (I enjoy Ironman for everything else), and it's sad to say those days are over. 90% of worlds with activity in the caves are filled with this new wave of monk-robe-trident bots instead of actual players. Each of them is only worth 50-100k and just feels like killing an NPC (because technically, they are NPCs).
Sir Puggers most recent vid just gives us some insane numbers that explains why this new wave of bots is the most criminal yet:
– 4.6m an hour profit per acc
– from tutorial island to wildy-boss-ready in <24h
– will run for 24/7 because bond is re-payed in first 3h, rest is profit
– risks 5-100k at a time, previous bots would be 500k-1m, no1 kills them
In general, I can say I LOVE the wilderness and these bosses in theory are a good idea. They exemplify the risk-vs-reward concept and highlights one of the best parts of OSRS compared to other games, the "pvp but you get the losers items" is incredibly fun.
But this ain't it. Please, just disable these caves until you can come up with some solution to make the wilderness less of a Players vs. Bots ecosystem and bring it back to true Player vs. Player.
Edit: a lot of comments saying "go play LMS or duel arena or PVP worlds", none of that hits the same as deep-wildy skirmish between two small clans. If you've never gotten to experience that then I can see why the difference isn't appreciable, but for me there's nothing like it. Which is the main reason I'm sad to see deep wildy in the state it currently is.
Edit2: holy shit half the comments have turned into "predator vs prey" discourse. I need to emphasise the problem is that with the way things are going pretty soon there will no predators nor prey, its quickly becoming just BOTS. Whether you enjoy PVM or PVP or both, the problem affects everyone: the Wilderness is an iconic part of what makes Runescape special, leaving it in this dilapidated state is heading us in the direction of RS3's soulless wildy.
