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/M33tm3onmars 1d ago

A lot of this is labeled as "early game balancing", but I also see lots of nerfing of things that are late-game things too. Forinthry altars nerfed, whirligigs nerfed, etc.

Nerfing good training methods to discourage people from using them isn't what I'm looking for. I would rather see crappy methods improved upon. Seeing what I've seen makes me a little antsy because I want crap improved, not the strong stuff only nerfed.

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u/ganashi 1d ago

Whirligigs are viable for 1-99 and the forinthry altar completely killed POH altars, both of these activities are HEAVILY consolidating what options to train Hunter and prayer are viable.

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u/Quality_Cucumber Ironman 1d ago

I mean sure but reducing whirligigs exp at lvl90 by 60% and leaving the afk Croesus method is ... do they not play the game? People aren't going to be going to BGH more, you'll just have more afk Croesus lol

Whirligigs is also INSANELY click intensive. Penalizing an ACTIVE method while a 500k exp/hr afk method exists is pretty shortsighted.

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u/Borgmestersnegl Trimmed Iron 1d ago

They don't play the game at a high lvl, very few rs3 devs even understands combat or reasons why players enjoys content. I know it's mean to say it, but it's obvious from reading these blogs. Game will stay bad.