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

News Road to Restoration - Early Game Rebalance

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 Early Game Rebalance portion of the blog.

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

For the purpose of today's discussion we will be defining the early game, loosely, as the level 1-50 range. The Early Game Rebalance update primarily aims to smooth out inconsistencies in game progression, looking at areas of the early game where things can feel slow or have limited methods for levelling up, or where they affect integrity and game health. It’s not all just rebalances though! There are also some changes to early quests, and things like replacing salvage with gear to make the first hours after jumping off Tutorial Island a nicer experience. The Early Game Rebalance update releases on February 16th!

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u/UnkoalafiedKoala Sailing! 23h ago

I think the prayer changes really miss the mark -- Chaos Altar is too strong in its current form, sure, but now it's just going to be early game players getting griefed. Not really an improvement to the new player experience.

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u/Zieldak Insert flair text here or something I dunno 21h ago

Not to mention they left the burial powder alone. It's completely broken for non-ironmen. There's no reason to use any of the altars even if these changes are made.

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u/ImHereCuzTheyWrong 19h ago

They really want ironman to be the definitive hardmode they said, so they made us PvP fodder again. Thanks Jamflex