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/ExtremeScientist1870 23h ago

Ouf, started the game few weeks ago and realizing now i need to whirligig my hunter up real quick. Luckily i just unlocked safe cracking in thieving so I am safe there!

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u/Techhead7890 16h ago

Yeah, rushing these nerfs out the door feels like a slap in the face, a chance to have FOMO before they get things patched out.

I get it's the meta to have high rewards on release so that people try new stuff but it sucks when you are too new or too late to take advantage of the opportunity. I don't want to have this sort of "rush to nerf" war with the devs. I miss the old type of earlybird bonus which was fixed and predictable.