I remember watching Chris Arches ok vids back in the day. Using unregistered hypercam, no commentary, just adrenaline filled music. Forgot what his rs name was back then, but he ended up joing and working for jagex.. might try and find him.
I miss the old days of PKing, when people really didn't know what they were doing and you could actually kill someone with the only switch you had being a spec weapon
@@ebkjug tribridding was a thing back in the day just not anywhere near the level it is now, i remember like 2008-2010 the barrage g maul fighters at edge that was the beginning of the end ;p and then they had prods with those strategies and it was just insanity you couldnt fight proper fights it was just a rush fest
One of my greatest memories was when I was soloing in Edge, and a guy asked if I wanted to duo and go to MTI, he said he was Elvemage and I called BS. He said "one minute wait here" and here appeared Elvemage beside me doing emotes since he was Perm muted. Those days make me wish I could go back.
Haha I did the same thing. I met him in a Boxxy Group when we were trying to figure out who she was and he asked if I played RuneScape, I told him yeah. He said he was Elvemage I called BS we logged in and sure enough there he was and everybody started following him. He made me a mod in his friends chat. I have him on Steam, but he hasn't been active in awhile.
I did not expect this throwback to Zezima = Mod Mark ( 16:58 ) after nearly a year. It's good to hear voiced chat messages again too. Great video as always!
@@MrSideQuest95 It's a reference to Will's April Fools video from last year. In it, he makes a pretty convincing case for Zezima secretly being Mod Mark. Despite being an obvious April Fools joke (as he also pointed out in his next video), it was really well made and tricked a lot of people. Link -> th-cam.com/video/CZIzItu6X4s/w-d-xo.html
@@MrSideQuest95 it was an april fools day video th-cam.com/video/CZIzItu6X4s/w-d-xo.html there is also a followup video explaining how it happened th-cam.com/video/7jL_PIhenUw/w-d-xo.html
@@MrSideQuest95 No he is not, but it had been a long running joke in game that Zezima was secretly played by a lot of things... like Mod Mark, several old ladies in a wifi parlor taking turns on the acc, the Chess playing supercomputer Blue Dream, a Chinese goldfarming shop---you name it. Of course younger players coming into the game passed the rumors of who Zezima might be to their friends, and so on.
I remember for a brief time there was a Clan called the Black Knights , they used to wear full black or full black g and dominate the free to play streets back in the Rs classic days haha.
Yeah it's crazy. I played in 04-07 and I literally never knew about ANY of this stuff. All my friends and I did was run around falador and mine iron and chill. God I fucking miss it
I was a pmod during this time. My friend convinced me to start luring with him because all he did was pk, Two weeks after we had started luring people it became against the rules. They never took my pmod status for it, interesting times.
I started in 2006 and I remember trying scam a guy for 6k for 2 addy arrows and a PMOD called me out for it. I straight begged him not to report me for 5 mins, I was terrified of you guys haha
We still lured after the update, we just kept the chat in the IRC back then, we lured all the way up to the removal of wild. Frozen Wild Down outlawz for life hahaha
By 2006 there were so many people following Zezima around in the overworld, that when he clicked on the world to move, it took ~5 minutes each time for the game to visually move to that tile, it was all he could do to move in game when it was happening. People would make "search parties" at Lumby who spread out around the map until they found where in-game Zezima was training at the time or gave up. I expect Elvemage had a similar problem once it started happening to him, where he couldn't even do anything in game for all the lag from people following him. He could no longer do the one thing in game he enjoyed the most-- go into the wild and find a worthy opponent. Which is probably a large factor of why he started openly luring.
My favorite pker was jiglojay, even made it into one of his older videos because i turned the tables and hit a massive dds spec on him, he prob also helped me get into hardstyle music
Soon as i seen the thumbnail i knew it was elvemage. Me and my 7year just watched some old pking videos. Elvemage was definitely my favorite to watch back in the day.
Easy sub. I love these deep dives you do into oldscape. You also touch on what the norms and taboos were in that time period for context. Thanks for all your hard work. I also love those voiced animated cuts you throw in there too.
Man this video took me to my days playing Rs. I even remember fighting with the pinkies to defeat the brown aprons. What good fun days. I remember that I got membership to get Ancient magic and be like Elvemage.
The skit around (11:14) was criminally well done. It had the same vibes as the south park wow episode, and you should honestly be incredibly proud. Dropping an indefinite like!
This is a long shot but does anyone else remember the BH PKer 3rd B4ng? He had the best PK videos I ever saw but they've been gone for years and I can't even find reuploads.
Makes you wonder if he had to go off to college or something and instead of announcing it he used his fame to sell his account for cash. Then the new owner started luring everyone.
The Old Nite- Rip my friend.. Wont forget when you gave me my first set of Saradomin rune armor after watching me grind for 3 weeks straight on crafting and still falling short on gp for a set.😂🤣 Later I paid that set forward as I know thats what he wud want. Thank you!! Cheers old friend!!!
One of the nicest players in the game hands down. I wonder how he would have handled Zezima's level of fame. Obviously he was an intelligent and solid idol to look up to filled with wisdom and care, but he was only a fraction as famous as Zez. Would've been interested. RIP that Old Nite, though. Fuck cancer.
BRUH the old nite just took me down memory lane. He was #2 behind Zez forever, right? Always remembered the old nite and Zezima, have no fucking clue who #3 was though funny enough.
I used to lure in 2006 too. I would get my victim to pick up 4 mystic tops at low hp whilst holding a Abysal whip, then kill them. The victim would keep the 4 tops worth around 100k each and drop the 3m whip.
The story of my account is the most early 00's ever. When I was in 4th grade I started playing RS. I was pretty bad and did not really understood anything. A guy that was 1 year older then me was really good and he had done Dragon Slayer (which was a big deal back then). He offered me his account in exchange of 2 Yu Gi Oh cards (a blue eye and a fake gods card, can't remember the name). I got his account and I would wear rune plate and green dragonhide. He had some stats in the 40's! I still to this day play on the same account that this guy "sold" me!
@@Karthikkun2805 yes I still have the account and it's my only account. My rsn is: U2U but I still login with the original username of the account. Haven't played much in the last 6-8months
Started runescape during middle school I made my account in the library , I would get off school and run to the library every day , I will begg my mom to take me and my grandma on Saturdays yo the library too . I went as far to ask all my relatives to lend me their library cards so I can get more hours on the library's computer .this game was and is my childhood I mean I did what I could to play as much as I wanted since my parents couldn't afford a computer and internet. Games come and go but runescape will always be there for me even now as an adult I love it even more .
Yup same here. Saw 2 kids playing it in the library and tried it out. It was literal heroin in my 12 year old veins, up until EoC which made me quit. Fast forward to college when a friend of a friend mentioned that it had come out on mobile. I swear the only reason I got my degree was because I could afk things while studying and doing homework. What a game man. It feels like a second job, but goddammit it’s the best second job you could get
@@dawn-blade yeah man definitely. Its such a great constructive game. As a kid you learn how to make friends, how to have an adventure, how to type fast. As an adult you might learn time management skills, or organizational skills, or the value of hard work. I swear rs got me into the gym and Ironman specifically got me better at being organized and planning things. And I graduated from an engineering degree last year man, hbu?
@@dawn-blade I understand what you’re going through man. My life isn’t as marvelous as you’re imagining-I’m really just a normal dude. I think with the advent of social media it’s easy to compare your lows with other people’s highs. We are with ourselves all the time so of course we’re intimate with our own failures and shortcomings, and we constantly compare that to other people’s highlights that they post. Just know that if you are making progress in something, anything at all, you’re winning. If you find joy in any little thing then you’re in a good position, even if that joy is an hour of Wild Rift a day or whatever you might choose. Life is fucking crazy for everyone. I don’t think anyone has it figured out. Maybe by the time you hit 40 is when you start figuring it out, *maybe*. What has worked for me is: meditating, working out (both weight training and cardio. Don’t skip cardio!), drinking enough water, getting 15 min of sunlight every morning. I’ve learned that big change comes from doing little things like that, consistently. You mind clears and the negative thoughts have gone down for me. Wish you the best bro. And yeah sure add me my RSN is TradeFor200k
@@dawn-blade no worries dude. Right after graduating i didnt want to keep doing engineering so I joined a coding bootcamp to learn how to code. Been working as a software developer for like 7 months now
To be fair, Zezima got so constantly flooded with messages and swarmed wherever he went that it was basically impossible for him to hold a conversation with a player. Have you ever seen the video where he turned his PMs on?
Thank you for putting the timestamps into the video. I usually always click off a video when I see a R4lD advertisement, but if a channel is willing to say "this is where the advertisement begins, and this is where it ends", I tend to respect it and finish the video.
I found Runescape on Miniclip too and it was the only multiplayer game that didn't require an email. That probably also contributed to its popularity considering most if not all its players were kids at the time.
Mahatma has always been my favorite pking he was a beast back in the day. Him and Mayham makers were amazing pure pkers. Mayham makers was the clan he was in then
oh man that miniclip car game in the city just got me good. That was the game I played the most on miniclip, and I remember I was playing that game literally right before making my first runescape account good times.
I’m 99% sure I mahatma I was the most popular for the time and kids ranqe was the one to surpass him rather than elvemage Everyone was doing I _ I names during this time to be like him. He was huge. Another top contender would be 3 Hit You
I just got back to RS on mobile and it’s so unfathomable to see these names again. I remember pk’ing with mahatma and even sold death runes to zezima back in the days. Insane that they garnered such fame! I was fangirling so much when zezima said «ty» after our trade😂😂
The fact that I new who this video was about, I remember waking up 6 am with keyboard markings on my forehead from falling asleep on the keyboard either fishing or “looting”
I havn't started watching yet but this better be about Elvemage brah 1:18 in This is already hitting me in the nostalgia feels too hard man, great video 😢🔥🔥
I was obsessed with Kid ranqe! Used to just log on and try and find him! I also remember being on the forums when people were complaining about the new mini clip kids! Crazy how it was so long ago.
I met the guy who created miniclip,and his name was Rob, he made the site at university n was set for life when he sold it. He viewed a house to purchase, he'd arrived in a 63 AMG at the time which he said he had to buy as he ferrari didn't fit a child seat (newly a father) he was really a top dude!
i wish that Hero would get more recognition, she had started pking in classic in to RS2 and was one of the best brawlers to ever exist. was also super humble and polite outside of the wilderness. a top tier player
I like how the intro frames the early 2000s as not having pc games. I had a flash drive with halo and several dozen snes and n64 games that I'd run on school computers in middle school, around 2004. We had a 16 player lan party in my study hall every friday for the entirety of 9th grade. Flash games were just cheeky fun in a different way. If anything, the ignorance of adults back then made it easier to play games.
Lol speaking about 2004-2007 scape being the best, as much as I loved 2005-2007 rs, I was just a kid who kept making new accounts for the free 2 week trial you’d get. I guess I never really thought about progression at the time. Would always end up going to Burthorpe and loved doing the quest over there. Wish I knew how to access one of my old accounts from then. But nowadays when I think of RuneScape, I think of While Guthix Sleeps. Probably the best quest ever released. Sadly that was around the time Jagex started making bad decisions.
Love the content! I remember when I finally got an account with similar stats. Felt amazing. I do have to disagree with what you said in regards to him being an average pker at best. During this time there were no F-Keys, nobody even came close to being able to pull this style off in members. He became big because he was a pioneer of bridding and one of the best at it during the time. Great content man!
Personally, I agree: I think a lot of people who claimed he was average in 2009 went by 2009 standards and not what was available in 2007. Though I do think there would've been better PKers out there, considering recording tools meant additional CPU usage on already not so powerful computers in 2007. Some of the top shelf ones likely didn't feel the need or could record and upload videos. I am however a documentarist and I go by the facts available to me, and they say Elvemage was average, so that's what I have to showcase :P
@@rswillmissit most of the 05-07 community used filesharing sites for their videos (filefront/megaupload etc yt wasnt really a thing then) there were plenty across the couple main forums. elvemage was not a good pker. his vids were killing pvers, as is clear in the clips even you chose. he was a joke among the core os pvp community
@@Mark-xb8ydfacts. However IMHO, pking and pvping aren't exactly the same. Pking has no real rules. Pvp is more standardized. If I pk you while you're mining, it's still fair. However if we both decide to pvp it's different. In layman's terms, pking can be anything from a Mexican standoff to an assassin backstabbing and killing you. It doesn't have to be honorable if you know what I mean. Pvp is more of an "honorable" fight. Pking is just straight up killing another player character whether they're ready for it or not. Lol. Just my take on it the way I see it
You should really make a video on Sverige (Kids Ranqe).... thats one HELL of a rabbit hole, talkin about famous PKers. Google his name and you will be amazed.
Try to find some info on 3 hit u (three spaces). He was the first pking legend I can remember.... His name being testament of that, in RuneScape Classic you had the hit someone a minimum of three times before they could die. Man... there were so many people I remember. I remember the famous defence pure D3filed who got outed for posing as a girl. I remember Slayerbelle, they had a dope skiller and one of the coolest alt accounts ever. They had the only untrimmed slayer cape in the game.(ellebreyals) The Fatality clan was legendary back then too, good times.
Good job on the content Will! I used to know you somewhat on RS. My IGN was LightDaNight or Fexo. I went from lvl 3 to comp cape after EOC started, I used to wear a Red/Black santa often. I gotta get into playing more again. Have a good one!
Listen, I had hours of enjoyment at the school library playing that skiing game where you'd flop your mouse about and try and do flips but mostly just crashed.
I love your videos! I would just like to add that Elvemage was never an elite pker, he was a noob in mystic and magic short bow that everyone made fun of. Runescape already had a lot of maxed pures/rune pures that Elvemage would teleport from on sight. Good pkers were posting videos on other sites where you had to download them. He became famous because he was one of the first to post pking videos on youtube ( we used to make fun of youtube because it was 360p and it had 10 minutes time limit). We had no idea how big it would become. 😄
I remember all of this like it was Yesterday, I was 100-110 Combat at the time, I remember the whole clan comunity, I remember being in The Dynasty, 'The' Clan, Damage inc was probably the best clan out there, I remember the leader ghjjf or something, I remember Bubbles, RS Shark, Smiller, DarkL0rd and a bunch of others, EvilPixel, MEX1C0, Good old times man, But Elvemage wasnt even top tbh, I remember Ultimate Aries being big, maybe as far as videos yeah but I dont even think I ever saw Elvemage Pking in the mage bank and I was there most of the time.
Lol d4rkl0rd was my high school best friend. We used to play any chance we got and showed up to school tired af from playing late at night. Those were the days…
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The best Runescape stories were born with unregistered HyperCam.
Honestly holy. Those were the days
You are a real OG.
@@nickt.2238your dad
I remember watching Chris Arches ok vids back in the day. Using unregistered hypercam, no commentary, just adrenaline filled music. Forgot what his rs name was back then, but he ended up joing and working for jagex.. might try and find him.
Followed by fraps
I miss the old days of PKing, when people really didn't know what they were doing and you could actually kill someone with the only switch you had being a spec weapon
Stop before I tear up :,(
Yeah hybriding is on a whole other level haha
@@oregongreen969 I think you mean Tribriding.... Hybriding is just 2... Now when you add tri in, you add prayer too.
@@ebkjug tribridding was a thing back in the day just not anywhere near the level it is now, i remember like 2008-2010 the barrage g maul fighters at edge that was the beginning of the end ;p and then they had prods with those strategies and it was just insanity you couldnt fight proper fights it was just a rush fest
Yep...
One of my greatest memories was when I was soloing in Edge, and a guy asked if I wanted to duo and go to MTI, he said he was Elvemage and I called BS. He said "one minute wait here" and here appeared Elvemage beside me doing emotes since he was Perm muted. Those days make me wish I could go back.
Haha I did the same thing. I met him in a Boxxy Group when we were trying to figure out who she was and he asked if I played RuneScape, I told him yeah. He said he was Elvemage I called BS we logged in and sure enough there he was and everybody started following him. He made me a mod in his friends chat. I have him on Steam, but he hasn't been active in awhile.
@@AlphexGamer hahaha thats awesome! I will never forget when he logged on, he started dancing etc because he was perm muted hahahaha
@@AlphexGamer The oc asking who elvemage really is maybe you can help him out since you have him on steam maybe he could pk im oldschool on twitch.
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Elvemage era of RS were the golden years guys. I am happy that I was there for them.
He's back being a fishfarmer like his parents now
I did not expect this throwback to Zezima = Mod Mark ( 16:58 ) after nearly a year.
It's good to hear voiced chat messages again too. Great video as always!
This! xD
Wait mod mark is Zezima?
@@MrSideQuest95 It's a reference to Will's April Fools video from last year. In it, he makes a pretty convincing case for Zezima secretly being Mod Mark. Despite being an obvious April Fools joke (as he also pointed out in his next video), it was really well made and tricked a lot of people. Link -> th-cam.com/video/CZIzItu6X4s/w-d-xo.html
@@MrSideQuest95 it was an april fools day video th-cam.com/video/CZIzItu6X4s/w-d-xo.html there is also a followup video explaining how it happened th-cam.com/video/7jL_PIhenUw/w-d-xo.html
@@MrSideQuest95 No he is not, but it had been a long running joke in game that Zezima was secretly played by a lot of things... like Mod Mark, several old ladies in a wifi parlor taking turns on the acc, the Chess playing supercomputer Blue Dream, a Chinese goldfarming shop---you name it. Of course younger players coming into the game passed the rumors of who Zezima might be to their friends, and so on.
I remember for a brief time there was a Clan called the Black Knights , they used to wear full black or full black g and dominate the free to play streets back in the Rs classic days haha.
Blacknights! The k is shared!
Those are npc’s bud
There wasn't trimmed armor in runescape classic tho
@@abooga8 think he meant classic before rs3 not rs2
I remember something very distinct I was so little so its hard to recall
got sad seeing the old nite. dude was so nice to everyone who spoke to him back in the day. rest easy bruv.
You might be my favorite youtuber right now. quality editing, storytelling and this 04-07 content is so fascinating and nostalgic
Yeah it's crazy. I played in 04-07 and I literally never knew about ANY of this stuff. All my friends and I did was run around falador and mine iron and chill.
God I fucking miss it
@@SetariM I stayed home from school back in the day just to chop damn trees and I thought that was exciting lmao
I was a pmod during this time. My friend convinced me to start luring with him because all he did was pk, Two weeks after we had started luring people it became against the rules. They never took my pmod status for it, interesting times.
I started in 2006 and I remember trying scam a guy for 6k for 2 addy arrows and a PMOD called me out for it. I straight begged him not to report me for 5 mins, I was terrified of you guys haha
We still lured after the update, we just kept the chat in the IRC back then, we lured all the way up to the removal of wild. Frozen Wild Down outlawz for life hahaha
@@Whatupitskevin how much did you make?!
What was your Rsn?
I N 3 V 3 R
By 2006 there were so many people following Zezima around in the overworld, that when he clicked on the world to move, it took ~5 minutes each time for the game to visually move to that tile, it was all he could do to move in game when it was happening. People would make "search parties" at Lumby who spread out around the map until they found where in-game Zezima was training at the time or gave up. I expect Elvemage had a similar problem once it started happening to him, where he couldn't even do anything in game for all the lag from people following him. He could no longer do the one thing in game he enjoyed the most-- go into the wild and find a worthy opponent. Which is probably a large factor of why he started openly luring.
I seen zezima at varrock bank around 2007. He had at least 40 players following him trying to get him to talk or 1v1
Another great vid.
I still remember the shock I had when I found out people could actually film themselves playing RuneScape!
I couldn't figure out how they did it, lol. There were so many shady recorders in the early days :P
BIMD, it was either Fraps or Hypercam. Fraps cost money, and the free version of Hypercam had its watermark on the topleft.
unregistered hypercam2
Shooting a video with my old Sony Ericsson v630 and uploading it
Unregistered hypercam!! Watermark and all
My favorite pker was jiglojay, even made it into one of his older videos because i turned the tables and hit a massive dds spec on him, he prob also helped me get into hardstyle music
Same here!
*Bigger spec*
Bbbbbbbs
WillMissIt better do a video why Hardstyle is the music of choice for RuneScape. Lol
I still listen to Hardstyle and I’m 26 lmao
@@kirkendauhl6990 same though, they still do tons of live shows and its still one of my favorite genres
Soon as i seen the thumbnail i knew it was elvemage. Me and my 7year just watched some old pking videos. Elvemage was definitely my favorite to watch back in the day.
It’s pretty special to have a game with such a dedicated fan base and so much lore.
rs has the most heart per capita
Easy sub. I love these deep dives you do into oldscape. You also touch on what the norms and taboos were in that time period for context. Thanks for all your hard work. I also love those voiced animated cuts you throw in there too.
Man this video took me to my days playing Rs. I even remember fighting with the pinkies to defeat the brown aprons. What good fun days. I remember that I got membership to get Ancient magic and be like Elvemage.
As soon as I saw this vid I said Elvemage in hopes it was him that this video was about. Sure enough!!!! So long ago but never forgotten!
The skit around (11:14) was criminally well done. It had the same vibes as the south park wow episode, and you should honestly be incredibly proud. Dropping an indefinite like!
This is a long shot but does anyone else remember the BH PKer 3rd B4ng? He had the best PK videos I ever saw but they've been gone for years and I can't even find reuploads.
Makes you wonder if he had to go off to college or something and instead of announcing it he used his fame to sell his account for cash. Then the new owner started luring everyone.
He became a dice host in 2011 when free trade came out. I think he sold his gold and quit and persuade something else
@@andrewevans6826 I remember that guy his name was WTF_Elvemage. He wasn't the original Elvemage. He got exposed multiple times
I've never skipped an advertisement so fast.
The Old Nite- Rip my friend.. Wont forget when you gave me my first set of Saradomin rune armor after watching me grind for 3 weeks straight on crafting and still falling short on gp for a set.😂🤣 Later I paid that set forward as I know thats what he wud want. Thank you!! Cheers old friend!!!
One of the nicest players in the game hands down. I wonder how he would have handled Zezima's level of fame. Obviously he was an intelligent and solid idol to look up to filled with wisdom and care, but he was only a fraction as famous as Zez. Would've been interested. RIP that Old Nite, though. Fuck cancer.
BRUH the old nite just took me down memory lane. He was #2 behind Zez forever, right? Always remembered the old nite and Zezima, have no fucking clue who #3 was though funny enough.
You never knew him…
The Old Nite.... I ended up creating accounts which were spin offs of his name. Noob accounts like witenite, darknite, etc etc. A real legend. RIP.
I used to lure in 2006 too. I would get my victim to pick up 4 mystic tops at low hp whilst holding a Abysal whip, then kill them. The victim would keep the 4 tops worth around 100k each and drop the 3m whip.
That's why they all weared splitbark top :D
I liked kinds ranqe videos more than any other pkers because his taste in music was great. He put me on a lot of good songs
Wow I haven’t heard that name in so long!
Its wild to see what his life is like now lol. His youtube channel is sv3rige. Hes a bit of a wacko
I have seen in 2 or 3 times ingame lol not so long ago
@@austn8675 i dont know what i looked at or if i searched right but i dont think i will se kid range with the same eyed ever again "vegan weirdo"
Elvemage was definitely the most talked about pker when I played back then
The story of my account is the most early 00's ever. When I was in 4th grade I started playing RS. I was pretty bad and did not really understood anything. A guy that was 1 year older then me was really good and he had done Dragon Slayer (which was a big deal back then). He offered me his account in exchange of 2 Yu Gi Oh cards (a blue eye and a fake gods card, can't remember the name). I got his account and I would wear rune plate and green dragonhide. He had some stats in the 40's!
I still to this day play on the same account that this guy "sold" me!
What's your rsn now?
Edit: do you still have the first account you mentioned?
@@Karthikkun2805 yes I still have the account and it's my only account. My rsn is: U2U but I still login with the original username of the account.
Haven't played much in the last 6-8months
Started runescape during middle school I made my account in the library , I would get off school and run to the library every day , I will begg my mom to take me and my grandma on Saturdays yo the library too . I went as far to ask all my relatives to lend me their library cards so I can get more hours on the library's computer .this game was and is my childhood I mean I did what I could to play as much as I wanted since my parents couldn't afford a computer and internet. Games come and go but runescape will always be there for me even now as an adult I love it even more .
Yup same here. Saw 2 kids playing it in the library and tried it out. It was literal heroin in my 12 year old veins, up until EoC which made me quit. Fast forward to college when a friend of a friend mentioned that it had come out on mobile. I swear the only reason I got my degree was because I could afk things while studying and doing homework. What a game man. It feels like a second job, but goddammit it’s the best second job you could get
@@dawn-blade yeah man definitely. Its such a great constructive game. As a kid you learn how to make friends, how to have an adventure, how to type fast. As an adult you might learn time management skills, or organizational skills, or the value of hard work. I swear rs got me into the gym and Ironman specifically got me better at being organized and planning things. And I graduated from an engineering degree last year man, hbu?
@@dawn-blade I understand what you’re going through man. My life isn’t as marvelous as you’re imagining-I’m really just a normal dude. I think with the advent of social media it’s easy to compare your lows with other people’s highs. We are with ourselves all the time so of course we’re intimate with our own failures and shortcomings, and we constantly compare that to other people’s highlights that they post.
Just know that if you are making progress in something, anything at all, you’re winning. If you find joy in any little thing then you’re in a good position, even if that joy is an hour of Wild Rift a day or whatever you might choose.
Life is fucking crazy for everyone. I don’t think anyone has it figured out. Maybe by the time you hit 40 is when you start figuring it out, *maybe*. What has worked for me is: meditating, working out (both weight training and cardio. Don’t skip cardio!), drinking enough water, getting 15 min of sunlight every morning. I’ve learned that big change comes from doing little things like that, consistently. You mind clears and the negative thoughts have gone down for me. Wish you the best bro. And yeah sure add me my RSN is TradeFor200k
@@dawn-blade no worries dude. Right after graduating i didnt want to keep doing engineering so I joined a coding bootcamp to learn how to code. Been working as a software developer for like 7 months now
I do not watch many TH-cam videos, but I must admit I love every single piece of content by you.
You are a legend! Keep it up!
So good seeing old nights name in the ranks, he was so humble and polite, always interacted with player unlike zezima
To be fair, Zezima got so constantly flooded with messages and swarmed wherever he went that it was basically impossible for him to hold a conversation with a player. Have you ever seen the video where he turned his PMs on?
Because zezima was 3 different people. Confirmed fact btw.
@@zerg113 lml shut up guy if Zezima was 3 players Lynx Titan was 30.
@@biggirih7225 could be
@@zerg113 when and where confirmed?
Thank you for putting the timestamps into the video. I usually always click off a video when I see a R4lD advertisement, but if a channel is willing to say "this is where the advertisement begins, and this is where it ends", I tend to respect it and finish the video.
I found Runescape on Miniclip too and it was the only multiplayer game that didn't require an email. That probably also contributed to its popularity considering most if not all its players were kids at the time.
I remember playing games on miniclip back in 2001 at school during lunch breaks. Good memories :)
Miniclips takes me way back, thank you
That's where I found an ad of runescape classic then rs2
One word for this clip (nostalgic)
Brought back so many good memories
"something he was probably naturally good at given he's British"
Hahahaha instalike
british pepole are good at making terrible food.
Only real og's remember I kasoy I and Darker Manz
I just randomly came across this channel and now I want to go play rune scape again, its been about 20 years since I logged in last
I was a Mahatma fan, he was the best pker without question during his time and raised the bar for pking as a whole
W take
He was the original blueprint
Mahatma has always been my favorite pking he was a beast back in the day. Him and Mayham makers were amazing pure pkers. Mayham makers was the clan he was in then
Yeah, Ive been around since full 2d models, like '01, and Mahatma is the one name that always stands out as the best OG.
Elvemage brought PK on screen.
Without Elvemage, PKers wouldnt see success on TH-cam.
Elvemage: *Lures people*
*nobody liked that.*
Torvesta: *Skull tricks, Lures, basically scams people for their gear.*
*Everybody liked that.*
Saw the mystic and immediately knew it was Elvemage. Legends never die
oh man that miniclip car game in the city just got me good. That was the game I played the most on miniclip, and I remember I was playing that game literally right before making my first runescape account good times.
same 😅
The editing and passion that goes into each of these vids is amazing
I’m 99% sure I mahatma I was the most popular for the time and kids ranqe was the one to surpass him rather than elvemage
Everyone was doing I _ I names during this time to be like him. He was huge.
Another top contender would be 3 Hit You
I was thinking the same thing
every noob was afraid of 3 Hit You. he had the glitched attack level (93?) and 99 strength, iirc. He was like 90 combat lmao
That hypercam ui is so nostalgic
I just got back to RS on mobile and it’s so unfathomable to see these names again. I remember pk’ing with mahatma and even sold death runes to zezima back in the days. Insane that they garnered such fame! I was fangirling so much when zezima said «ty» after our trade😂😂
i just love how your produce your videos man it's so enjoyable to watch
The quality of this video is amazing
Aww thank you
Bro the audio on this video was so good i fell asleep at my desk like I was watching a documentary
The fact that I new who this video was about, I remember waking up 6 am with keyboard markings on my forehead from falling asleep on the keyboard either fishing or “looting”
I love the editing of this vid, it's so smooth
I havn't started watching yet but this better be about Elvemage brah
1:18 in
This is already hitting me in the nostalgia feels too hard man, great video
😢🔥🔥
I was obsessed with Kid ranqe! Used to just log on and try and find him! I also remember being on the forums when people were complaining about the new mini clip kids! Crazy how it was so long ago.
He goes by sv3rige on youtube now.
I met the guy who created miniclip,and his name was Rob, he made the site at university n was set for life when he sold it. He viewed a house to purchase, he'd arrived in a 63 AMG at the time which he said he had to buy as he ferrari didn't fit a child seat (newly a father) he was really a top dude!
I used to watch his videos way back! Really cool to see a video about it all from you. Love these clips looking back into history.
These videos are amazing. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!!
I miss how popular varrock wilderness was…. All day every day it was packed filled with noobs, killing noobs, being noobs, together
i wish that Hero would get more recognition, she had started pking in classic in to RS2 and was one of the best brawlers to ever exist. was also super humble and polite outside of the wilderness. a top tier player
H E R O X V2??!
Never heard of that person
Ay those videos were on runehq back in the day, was the most epic of times. Ppl like purple ownz, fear figment.. damn those were my favs
Yes! I spiili I and 3njoy__Lumby too.
Also who remembers str3ngthz/tankstas pking in party hats?
omg hero's use dlongs was the best video on the runehq archive lol
@03:39 skip the raids add
This is a fantastic video essay on a wonderful time in RS history. Excellent job rswillmissit. You did it again!
With respect, it's not OSRS history. It's RS history.
@@powderedground78 very true! i'll do an edit
That unregistered hypercam banner just brought back so many memories
Please do Castle Wars and how the Trimmed completionist cape was stacked towards a now outdated playstyle
Great idea
What outdated pkay style ? Castle wars armor ?
I like how the intro frames the early 2000s as not having pc games.
I had a flash drive with halo and several dozen snes and n64 games that I'd run on school computers in middle school, around 2004. We had a 16 player lan party in my study hall every friday for the entirety of 9th grade. Flash games were just cheeky fun in a different way. If anything, the ignorance of adults back then made it easier to play games.
Lol speaking about 2004-2007 scape being the best, as much as I loved 2005-2007 rs, I was just a kid who kept making new accounts for the free 2 week trial you’d get. I guess I never really thought about progression at the time. Would always end up going to Burthorpe and loved doing the quest over there. Wish I knew how to access one of my old accounts from then. But nowadays when I think of RuneScape, I think of While Guthix Sleeps. Probably the best quest ever released. Sadly that was around the time Jagex started making bad decisions.
I Mahatma I was my favorite pker. I joined Mayhem Makers clan because of him.
I was in MM as well, just got back into OSRS about a month ago made a pure and was looking around to see if any MM were still around
The amount of shades in this video could block out the sun XD
I appreciate all of your videos mate. You are amazing! Thank you so much.
Spartacus121 was one of my favorites for sure
Love the content! I remember when I finally got an account with similar stats. Felt amazing.
I do have to disagree with what you said in regards to him being an average pker at best. During this time there were no F-Keys, nobody even came close to being able to pull this style off in members. He became big because he was a pioneer of bridding and one of the best at it during the time.
Great content man!
Personally, I agree: I think a lot of people who claimed he was average in 2009 went by 2009 standards and not what was available in 2007.
Though I do think there would've been better PKers out there, considering recording tools meant additional CPU usage on already not so powerful computers in 2007. Some of the top shelf ones likely didn't feel the need or could record and upload videos.
I am however a documentarist and I go by the facts available to me, and they say Elvemage was average, so that's what I have to showcase :P
@@rswillmissit most of the 05-07 community used filesharing sites for their videos (filefront/megaupload etc yt wasnt really a thing then) there were plenty across the couple main forums. elvemage was not a good pker. his vids were killing pvers, as is clear in the clips even you chose. he was a joke among the core os pvp community
@@Mark-xb8ydfacts. However IMHO, pking and pvping aren't exactly the same. Pking has no real rules. Pvp is more standardized. If I pk you while you're mining, it's still fair. However if we both decide to pvp it's different. In layman's terms, pking can be anything from a Mexican standoff to an assassin backstabbing and killing you. It doesn't have to be honorable if you know what I mean. Pvp is more of an "honorable" fight. Pking is just straight up killing another player character whether they're ready for it or not. Lol. Just my take on it the way I see it
Most don’t know him but “ Elf mage pka” was my first fav pker. Not to get him confused with “elvemage”
Name rings a bell for sure
You should really make a video on Sverige (Kids Ranqe).... thats one HELL of a rabbit hole, talkin about famous PKers. Google his name and you will be amazed.
don't dare diss my boy Crypt Raider. That shit was my jam back on Miniclip.
My personal favourite pker was
'I Kasoy I'
thanks for the video! my day can truly begin now
Anyone here remember the legend Lord Makup? Man propelled the Dark Bow into the realms of legendary status.
loved his dark bow vids :)
Imagine one day searching your gamer tag on TH-cam and you see that someone made documentary about you
U forgot about bloodhoun34… he was the same pker style etc in that time
So much nostalgia..thank you
Love these types of videos!
Thank you so much :D
Try to find some info on 3 hit u (three spaces). He was the first pking legend I can remember.... His name being testament of that, in RuneScape Classic you had the hit someone a minimum of three times before they could die.
Man... there were so many people I remember. I remember the famous defence pure D3filed who got outed for posing as a girl.
I remember Slayerbelle, they had a dope skiller and one of the coolest alt accounts ever. They had the only untrimmed slayer cape in the game.(ellebreyals)
The Fatality clan was legendary back then too, good times.
That British Egyptian burn is 100% supported.
This unlocked a core memory of watching his vids with papa roach in the background
I last seen him Pking in OSRS in 2018-2019 and gave him some prayer potions. People were still walking up to him and calling him a Legend in-game.
god the namedrop at 1:18 blasted me back like 20 years
Good job on the content Will! I used to know you somewhat on RS. My IGN was LightDaNight or Fexo. I went from lvl 3 to comp cape after EOC started, I used to wear a Red/Black santa often. I gotta get into playing more again. Have a good one!
I already knew based on the thumbnail of the video alone that it was the muted PKer Elvemage.
Great video! Love the production value and storytelling :)
Mahatma was my personal favorite. He was just so good!
Legend says, after RWT'ing away his bank he retired to an island to sip mojitos and reminisce about owning all the nubs.
Just figured I'd let you know that your carrier pigeon is on the way.
I saw the title of the video and instantly thought Elvemage, so happy to see it
Bro you got me nostalgic as hell with the minclip page
That’s awesome! Seeing my old account being used in a documentary hahahaha
Who else remembers " 3_Hit_U " ?
He’s still around today and streams on TH-cam.
One pker I remember that wasn't mentioned was Hiei the pk , he was a 20 def initiate pure.
Always edge w53 pking xd
Listen, I had hours of enjoyment at the school library playing that skiing game where you'd flop your mouse about and try and do flips but mostly just crashed.
@OP what's the name of the song that starts at 6:50
I love your videos! I would just like to add that Elvemage was never an elite pker, he was a noob in mystic and magic short bow that everyone made fun of. Runescape already had a lot of maxed pures/rune pures that Elvemage would teleport from on sight. Good pkers were posting videos on other sites where you had to download them. He became famous because he was one of the first to post pking videos on youtube ( we used to make fun of youtube because it was 360p and it had 10 minutes time limit). We had no idea how big it would become. 😄
I've never heard of an Elvemage. 3 hit u would have been a better subject. every noob feared that guy. Cursed You was a good pker, as were many in DI
How fucking dare you, the heli-attack series is a certified banger
i was happy being in RS exactly at 2004 - 2007. Luring, BTW, was common and usual at this time.
I can't count how many accounts i've made to pk with mage f2p in varrock multi
I remember all of this like it was Yesterday, I was 100-110 Combat at the time, I remember the whole clan comunity, I remember being in The Dynasty, 'The' Clan, Damage inc was probably the best clan out there, I remember the leader ghjjf or something, I remember Bubbles, RS Shark, Smiller, DarkL0rd and a bunch of others, EvilPixel, MEX1C0, Good old times man, But Elvemage wasnt even top tbh, I remember Ultimate Aries being big, maybe as far as videos yeah but I dont even think I ever saw Elvemage Pking in the mage bank and I was there most of the time.
Lol d4rkl0rd was my high school best friend. We used to play any chance we got and showed up to school tired af from playing late at night. Those were the days…
@@AnthonyVlahovic Darklord667? Ewout?