Old School Runescape Players Vote for Sailing as the First New Skill In 17 Years
By: AwadGorg , Legend Apr 12 /2023
It's official. Following weeks of back-and-forth debate, Old School Runescape players have voted for a new skill to be further refined and hopefully added to the game. The Sailing skill has won a close vote as a collective "arrr" can be heard on the wind from all of the players who want to be pirates.
The Sailing skill line took the win with 59.1% of the votes (a total of 105,799 votes). 178,951 players took part in the poll to determine the next skill line to be refined in the game.
Here's a breakdown of how the votes went:
(Note that this was a multiple-choice vote, so totals equal more than 100% since players could choose multiple options)
Question 1 - After reading the new skill pitch blog, which concept(s) for a new skill in OSRS would you be happy to see refined further? Select all that apply.
-Sailing - 59.1% (105,799 votes)
-Shamanism - 58.8% (105,208 votes)
-Taming - 39.9% (71,290 votes)
Question 2 - Which new skill pitch is your favorite?
-Sailing - 36.4% (64,248 votes)
-Shamanism - 33.4% (58,926 votes)
-Taming - 17.9% (31,631 votes)
-I didn't like any of them - 12.4% (21,841 votes)
There you have it, Old School Runescape could soon be getting a feature a lot of other MMORPGs lack.