MMO gets its first new skill in 17 years, or it will when players stop fighting over which one should be added

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Old School RuneScape (OSRS) was just 'RuneScape' the last time it got a new skill. Back in November 2006, developer Jagex added the Hunter ability(opens in new tab), bringing the game's roster of skills up to 23. While modern RuneScape (also called RuneScape 3) has added five new skills(opens in new tab) since then, OSRS has stuck stubbornly to the 23 from 2006 ever since it released ten years ago. But now Jagex wants to add another, and debate is raging among the playerbase.

As reported by GamesRadar(opens in new tab), Jagex is pitching three new skills(opens in new tab) to OSRS players: Sailing, Taming, and Shamanism. Sailing, as you might imagine, would let players explore the game in a boat and level up by completing tasks on the high seas; Shamanism would let players commune with the spiritual plane, gather new resources and boost themselves with new, spooky abilities; and Taming would let you pick up a furry (or scaly, or chitinous) companion to help you out, distinct from the game's currently-existing pet system.

Once players vote through one of those skills, Jagex will refine it, pin down the details, present it to the community again to make sure people are happy with it, and then push it through to the game after a beta period, creating OSRS' first new skill since its release one decade ago. Time for an argument.

Players are mostly having fun with it, maintaining their good humour even while they argue about which skill—if any—should make the cut, but that doesn't make their opinions any less strident. Wherever you look on the OSRS subreddit(opens in new tab), players are making pitches, pleas, and entreaties to their fellow RuneScapers, imploring them to back this or that skill, or prophesying misfortune if