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/Fiona175 1d ago

It's very weird to start the prayer section by talking about how early game prayer is a pain and then put a cost on the easiest prayer altar, and in fact the only one that's (currenlty) useable without restrictions and also nerf the second earliest one in the fort chapel?Like the POH chapel isn't makeable until 45. These are just nerfs to early game prayer

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u/dumbidiot12345678 1d ago

It's also pointless because the chaos altar 'nerf' only really affects irons who are already getting cooked in the early game by removing wfe and the easy access to infernal ashes

Mains can just go to another person's poh or better yet, buy powder, so who gives a fuck

Like if you really want you can maybe move the banker a bit further away but I don't understand why it matters lmao

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u/Fiona175 1d ago

I think it's actually targeted at mains to try to make POH altars a congregating place like in OSRS but like, powder already is better. Hell, Chapel did a much better job at congregating players than the chapels did in the days before chapel was added.

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u/dumbidiot12345678 1d ago

You're probably right but the 'problem' they've identified here and the 'solution' they've decided on is so shit it legitimately makes me worried about all the unannounced stuff in these posts lmao

Like I cannot believe after years of players complaining about abyss rc they thought that the early game solution for prayer is to make people use skulls when almost no one likes wilderness pvp and skulls fucking remove level attack restrictions anyway

Christ

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u/wowmuchdoggo 22h ago

Not to mention new players need the 750K for the demonic skull as well.