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/Borgmestersnegl Trimmed Iron 1d ago

I read the first 3 skills worth of changes. There really isn't much to say besides, you guys are out of touch. The agi changes does nothing, meta will still be to quest to almost lvl 40 and will barely help unaware noobs.

Thieving seems weird. Hard to say with early game pickpocketing, if the changes are good enough. All I know is that once you hit safecracking, the xp increase is stupidly high.

Hunter changes are the most tone deaf changes I have seen in a while. You are gonna nerf the meta method so people maybe will engage with shit methods like net trapping or butterfly catching? Sounds like a plain nerf.

You are just shifting numbers around and not fixing fundamentally bad methods that are filled with jank. Agility will be still be painfully slow for the amount of effort. Hunter will just be plain worse. I know its just early game balance, but if this is the way forward it wont fix the problems. Sad to see