Why Everyone Hated Barrows On Release

Back in my day I had to walk backwards uphill through the swamp for 50 miles to get to Barrows.

The fact Barrows is still relevant (and is still rewarding) all these years later is a feat in and of itself.

Back in the day fun fact: back when you died and your loot instantly dropped to the ground. i used to go to popular worlds and high alch inside dharoks grave until someone got clapped 😅

I remember the week barrows came out. There was a method at barrows that was way better than doing barrows itself. It was from looting people that died there. I remember me and my cousin made almost 100m in the first month of barrows. I miss those times so much!

Some of my favorite nuggets of osrs content is the stuff that was made 2007 and earlier that still has major relevance today and isn't just dead content, i.e. dks, quests like rfd, dt, mm, and clues. But Barrows to me is the perfect example of this. Such a great variety of possible unique drops and is popular with players of a wide level range. Very accessible content that doesn't really get easier with better gear just faster.

The armor till this date looks fire still. Amazing work by the art team here.

klanks gauntlets is such a forgotten throwback

Late night doomscrolling interrupted by quality Colenello content.

I was doing low level barrows at the start of my account, had a frw dozen kc and got cocky. Trying to save on prayer pots (my only real cost) I turned off my prayer when i landed the last hit on Dharok. But it wasn't the last hit, he had 1 hp left. Then he did what Dharok does and hit me for max damage and kills me instantly.

The Mr. Krabs meme got me 🤣

I remember being the ''safespot'' guy for random noobs then stepping aside when Dharok was low health and after they died I looted their grave. Then I proceeded to loot the chest too. Now with the safe kiddy deaths it's no longer possible

ole Billy Boy is a hacker having a legends cape without DT being completed.

Poor Torags. I remember Barrows on launch and the insane outcry from d chain owners, my first thought was "Oh sweet, I might finally afford a d chain"

The story you told of Billy is exactly how I did barrows back then and I also got nuked by dharok and devastated and didn't play for like a week. It was the first time I died ever aside from messing around in the wilderness with no real gear as I was super careful all the time back then because of how hardcore the stakes were. The worst part was even figuring out how to get back quest items that were bis back then like klank's gauntlets and having to go through the underground pass again which was way, way more annoying than it is now.

As a kid, I wasn't a huge fan of Barrows. The ghasts always went through half my food, I wasn't skilled enough at the time to really understand the mechanics (I even used poison to kill them, while sitting and waiting for them to die), and it was an absolute pain to get to. Now, it's one of my favorite bosses to kill while chilling.

Runescape was much more fun back in the days when we didn't know how the mechanics worked

Torag needs a rework. I still think it's the coolest looking set. I looooove them hammmers smackkks

Barrows is the best content to have been introduced to the game.

It's almost as if, if someone spends an insane amount of time grinding for something, developers probably shouldn't just casually throw away that investment. It seems that's a lesson Jagex is struggling to hang onto. But still, it's crazy how Barrows is still relevant and useful to this day (even if a lot less so than back then).

I can remember doing Barrows in 2006 before the rework where the brothers wouldn't pop up on the screen all the time and the rooms were similar to any other underground cave instead of the Sleske powered rooms existed. But dying was so unforgiving so you only bring enough stuff you were willing to lose. And no one knew about the 83% to 88% for no bolt racks so every run was 100%