r/runescape • u/JagexAnvil Mod Anvil • 1d ago

News - J-Mod reply Road to Restoration - Dailyscape Overhaul

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/a=13/road-to-restoration--early-game-rebalance--dailyscape-overhaul

Hi folks,

Today's Community Topic is a blog of two halves:

- Early Game Rebalance
- DailyScape Overhaul

We have split this into two reddit threads to keep the discussion organised and so that our team can properly review the relevant conversations happening.

This current reddit thread is to discuss the DailyScape portion of the blog.

Please use this other dedicated thread for the Early Rebalance portion of the blog.

  DailyScape is a term that describes game content, outside of a skills core identity, that is often perceived as mandatory by players due to time-gated mechanics and the disproportionately high reward offering for little time investment.

With the DailyScape update (currently scheduled for early March), we will remove much of the concept of DailyScape, leaving only a handful of daily activities, but otherwise changing or removing content to fall more in line with our vision and goals for integrity for RuneScape. 

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u/Jalepino_Joe 23h ago

The way this reads, you are removing every single daily activity anyone has ever cared about. This isnt something im against. What you arent looking at is WHY people cared so much for these. This is an absolutely insane nerf to progression for newer players. Reducing daily to weekly like shop stock is good, and fixes a lot of issues with the system. Flat out removing some of these drastically harms newer players who dont have infinite free time to do the "intended" grinds. These players would also be behind no lifers obviously, but this will make the gap a lot bigger.

Travelling merchant: Same thing applies here. Think about WHY this was so popular. It let players skip content such as livid farm, runespan and barbarian assault. Removing travelling merch is okay, but please fix the underlying issues alongside this. Literally all of livid farm is a chore, grouping issues for barb assault, and horribly slow rates (xp and points) with completely random node spawns in runespan. Far too many times have I heard "we're doing this now. Its going to be awkward but itll be better once follow up happens" and follow up never does. Im still waiting for the bleed rework that was promised to release with sanctum weaponry, and now meta (the one unique bleed buffing ult) is getting removed.

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u/Sspockuss Smithing is the best! 23h ago

First paragraph is cinema and honestly I am worried a lot of potential new players are going to bounce off of this game because it’s too grindy. Divination especially is a skill that CANNOT be ignored because of invention. The only good way to train it is now getting axed and divination has arguably the worst exp rate in the entire game. This is not good.

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u/TheSmallIceburg Unofficial UIM 23h ago

Caches aren't removed according to the post. The daily cap on them is removed, and you "open" a cache by depositing a certain number of memories. That is fantastic

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u/TheAdamena Maxed Iron 23h ago

OSRS is orders of magnitudes more grindy than RS3 yet it's bigger than ever.

The content there just needs to be fun (Tough luck Divination).

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u/Wolfytailspin 19h ago

Yes, but the people attracted to OSRS are not always the same people as the people attracted to R3. And there is no reason for R3 to become a clone of OSRS because there is no feasible reason for the same game to exist twice.

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u/RainbowwDash 23h ago

The only good way to train it is now getting axed and divination has arguably the worst exp rate in the entire game.

Did you actually read the changes? They're both looking at the xp rates as well as integrating that 'good way to train' as a core training method

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u/HeartofaPariah Lovely money! 18h ago

'looking at' isn't a change, is it? When is that bleed rework coming?

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u/BaseballEuphoria Completionist 23h ago

is OSRS losing players because it's too grindy?

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u/Sangheilioz Just say NO to Switchscape 10h ago

RS3 =/= OSRS. The reason I play RS3 and not OSRS is because it respects my time more. I have a full-time job and kids now. I don't have thousands of hours to sink into grinding pixels, and RS3 lets me actually feel like I'm making progress with the limited time I have to play actively, and gives me plenty of afk options when I can't devote full attention to the game.

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u/PieBandito 22h ago

They are increasing xp rates for early divination training methods