The Complete Timeline of RuneScape's Best Items

While regularly staying up late at night with my newborn, I had plenty of time to study all of RuneScape's earliest update logs and Bluerose13x history in order to create the perfect list of Best in Slot combat gear with way too much precision. I hope you enjoy it. Share your thoughts about ANYTHING - did I miss one?

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00:00 Intro
00:44 2001 1/2
08:55 2001 2/2
15:07 2002
21:58 2003
24:06 2004
26:46 2005
31:52 2006
32:36 2007

Inspired by: Cudabear, J1mmy, Colonello, July the RuneScape Historian, Mote Plox, and Settled

Music used from @UnpragmaticCovers with permission.
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[HamOSRS]

Hey, everyone. Thank you all so much for the kind words and support on this video. I'm looking forward to making many more nostalgic videos similar to this one in the near future. Stay tuned!

I also want to share some incredibly helpful additional insights from the comments that slightly change some considerations from the video:
There were no stat checks for gear at release so you could wear adamant at level 1 instead of level 30. Black, Red, and Blue Capes had different stats until the ability to dye capes made them all equal - blue was best followed by red then black. In RS2 it was possible to change Family Crest Gauntlets but not until August 2005 (not March 2004). Dragon plateskirts were released a couple months after the legs in March 2005. Metal boots didn't have a strength bonus until 2006 or so. The Abyssal Whip was released on February 15th (misspoke), not January 15th. The first Whip was supposedly received at the end of February 2005.

I also discovered that the Green Day album came out a year earlier than I said in September of 2004 so it's me. I'm the American idiot.

[austinwilburn]

A small story of how I got my first whip. I was a pretty big noob and could never afford one. My brother was a much bigger player and he had a friend who lived in Europe, we were in the US. His European friend had the slayer level to kill Abyssal Demoms and while he slept, my brother would use his account to grind demons for whips to sell and split the profits. One day while my brother was at a party and I was at home, I snuck into my brothers room, found the paper with the login info and got on. I grinded out demons til a whip dropped, took about 3 hours. I traded it to my account and replaced all the food and supplies I had used on the account and put it back where he was originally logged out at. They never knew and that’s how a total noob was able to get a whip.

[calebkeck]

Crazy to think at one time one person was solely responsible for armouring the entire population. Truely felt like a kingdom

[michelleneous]

The funnest part watching this was seeing Classic's BIS gear development largely be "Bluerose gets an important Smithing level milestone and Jagex comes in with the steel chair" numerous times

[AmiiboDoctor]

>Bluerose grinds her ass off to get to new most powerful item
Jagex: I'm about to end this items whole career

[Radtastical]

As a guy that's been playing since early February 2002, this video is top quality content and took me down memory lane. Thank you

[birdvapes]

I still play rs at age 33 these days. I will never forget when I heard a circle of friends in 4th grade talking about rs classic and wanting the coveted "blue mithril armor". Their rs names were " start_it, tacoswamper, and renegadeaxe. I will never forget the feelings I got when I first started playing, getting my first bronze armor...all of my firsts on rs are very heavily stored and adored.

I was an extremely poor family the pc I used was a giant cream colored dell that was donated from someone and I had to play in the living room. This game was my only escape from extreme abuse, neglect, depression and confusion.

Anyways nice video. Subscribed :)

[mendelson]

I was just a kid, maybe 6 or 7 when I played for the first time way back near the beginning. This game’s been with me for life. What a nostalgia trip. Great video!

[Prefury]

It really felt like Jagex was timing their updates just to crush BlueRose. We will never stop stanning our queen.

[daj]

The quality, editing, and attention to detail in storytelling is crazy good. Wow. Keep it up dude. I enjoyed every video edit and visualization.

[valetudo]

Good vid, I remember collecting runes to trade bluerose to make my rune square shield when it first came out, also I was one of the people perma banned for pvping with the knife bug. Good times

[AcesPrune]

Just checked your channel, and you casually come back after 14 years and drop this fire? Sheeesh, gj bro, subscribed!

[RickyThaRat]

9:24 the teacups in the water was an AWESOME and underrated visual gag. That was great lol

10/10 great video, this is the kind of content i love to see. Interesting & informative, no clickbait thumbnail, just enough humor and perfectly paced and not one subject is drawn out too much. Genuinely loved the video and you got my subscription!

[DavidOrz]

i miss these days so much.. I have vivid memories of being in 5th grade, sitting at school drawing zammy armor, thinking about how the night prior i unlocked water bolt and was excited to run home and train with it.. Ugh... I need to go back.

[erikstrand]

Hit me right in the nostalgia. I spammed lyrics to American idiot at castle wars all day everyday as a little kid. Good times, good times.

[Cudascubby]

Wow, this was an incredible deep dive into Runescape's development history. Honestly even with all the research I did for Time Traveller Ironman I still learned so much. Nice work!

[TotallydubbedHD]

This brought back so many good memories, thank you for making it!
Also, the level of research and time it would have taken to make this video shouldn't go unnoticed. Well done!

[Senor_Penor]

"You probably still have an obsidian cape and a combat bracelet today in old school" I DO NOT LIKE BEING CALLED OUT LIKE THAT THOOO

[andrewlively]

This was great make another. I went to your channel thinking you have been doing this forever because of how well polished it was

[xThalesx]

As a player of this game for 20 years, i would like to thank you for your time spent on the research and the quality of the video, Thank you her much for this nostalgia !!!