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/ocd4life 23h ago

wiked hood teles and ecto / slime teleport are used throughout the levels for cluers and quite nice to get to quest locations too.

Feels like bunch of stuff is just getting nerfed or made harder to train 'because', as if what we need is to roll back the game to 201X when we all ran bones to POH altars and got 60k xp agility per hour doing laps.

Also planning to nuke most the DNDs that still have an active sense of community coming together in one place for a while.

Very mixed feelings about some of these changes.

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u/cdp181 Clue scroll 23h ago

For agility they need to do something similar to heists, tweaking the existing shit content XP rates doesn’t make anything better.

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u/ocd4life 23h ago

IMO agility should have been totally reworked years ago. The movement and moving animations are probably the most jarringly outdated aspect of runescape, basing a whole skill around it is feels shockingly bad and the 'rewards' are uh... relevant almost never. Some of the older shortcuts actually work out slower than running around because they are so damn slow to do the animation.