How a lot of Reddit memes became the best armor in RuneScape gold.Old School Runescape, the proudly antiquated version of Runescape that still looks and performs like the match I sank countless hours into when I really should've been studying, is getting a raid. Its second raid, as it happens: The Theatre of Blood.

A good raid needs good rewards, therefore when the Theatre of Blood was declared late last year, players were not able to find out what clearing the multi-man challenge would earn them. Jagex reacted with Justicar armor, a brand new best-in-slot armor set (above). There was one little problem: players absolutely hated it.

In fact, they hated it so much that, for months, the Old School community dogpiled the armor on the 2007scape subreddit and memed it into hell and backagain. They memed onto it so hard that Jagex is currently completely changing the armor's design.

And not only that, the artist behind the Justicar armor,"Mod West," is using designs submitted and voted on by players. Almost all of Old School Runescape's updates go through player polls, but that is the first time a suit of armor was forged in a fire of memes.

The irony is that while players loathed the'closing' armor buy RS gold earlier this year, they loved the prototypes revealed while the raid was announced. Originally, the Justicar armor was part of a trio of armor sets, West tells me, but as the Theatre of Blood moved from obscure concept to real content, the armor changed with it.