| Yes it's sad but true. Personally I don't know why | | | | item is the party hat, sometimes called phats for |
| Jagex did this, but I'm sure they have their | | | | short. They come is 6 different colours, red, |
| reasons. | | | | yellow, blue, green, white and purple. |
| I suppose the holiday drops and rare items show | | | | Pretty bad graphics by it's one of the rare items |
| how long that someone has been playing, so you | | | | in runescape and presumably it's value will |
| can show them off as an achievement. Or | | | | constantly increase. |
| perhaps they don't like the fact that some people | | | | Another rare item is the Santa hat. This was a |
| (Smart people) will hoard loads of holiday drops | | | | Christmas holiday drop in 2002. Again, very rare |
| for themselves, buying them from anyone else | | | | and highly priced. Not sure about how much it |
| that has them, or starting bogus accounts and | | | | costs compared with the party hats. |
| collecting holiday drops, then when the holiday | | | | And finally, the last tradeable runescape rare item |
| drop event is over and it's not longer possible to | | | | holiday drop that I'm going to talk about, is the |
| get them, the hoarder would charge a TON of | | | | Halloween masks. As far as I know there were |
| money for each one. Since they're no longer | | | | only 3 colours and other than that, they looked |
| available, people will pay big money for them. | | | | exactly the same. It could have been picked up |
| Personally I don't think that it's a horrible thing, but | | | | on Halloween 2002. |
| it does present people with an opportunity to | | | | In 2003 and beyond, holiday drops were made to |
| collect large amounts of gold and sell it on eBay | | | | be no longer tradeable, and will never be tradeable |
| for example, that's a bad thing as it's against the | | | | for the forseeable future. So if you want holiday |
| rules and encourages people to use auto miners | | | | drops you'll have to either shell out massive sums |
| etc to gain gold. | | | | of money for the old ones that are tradeable, or |
| Okay, now that we've established a bit of | | | | wait until the next holiday event to be able to get |
| background information on the rare items in | | | | your own, for free of course :) I hope that has |
| runescape, it's time to get down to the specifics | | | | helped you gain a bit of insight into the world of |
| of a few of the more popular holiday drops. | | | | rare items and holiday drops in runescape. |
| The most commonly talked about runescape rare | | | | |