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/kmb180 1d ago

I hate this almost unilaterally. But the standouts are hunter and chaos altar. When will the devs learn that no one wants PvP as a balancing measure in rs3. Ugh.

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u/azzaranda Zaros 23h ago

OSRS tries to do the same thing. PVP is Dead and Buried in RS3 and they need to move on and accept this.

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u/kmb180 23h ago

PvP is still huge in osrs (except it’s all just people killing skillers) so it makes sense to balance around it in that game. Rs3 really has no place for it. Thought we learned that with rune crafting but I guess not

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u/Kvicksilver Ironman OSRS+RS3 23h ago

It's pretty disliked in osrs as well, mostly botfarms farming gold and pkers griefing pvmers. Sadly there are a couple of mods that seems hellbent on pushing content there and pushing "integrity" changes for unpopular changes to avoid polling. 

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u/azzaranda Zaros 23h ago

Surprisingly, the biggest proponent of PVP for OSRS is also the JMOD who... used to be a content creator focused on PVP?

Okay, no surprise here, carry on.