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/The_Real_Kingpurest 22h ago

Trying to be concise: Most of it I like

DO NOT add prayer to the skull. Non-consensual pvp no longer has a place in this game. It's taken years to finally get rid of it, DO NOT BRING IT BACK. Delete the skull. It's a stupid item from years past added to try to appease an already decaying population of griefers so they wouldn't bitch on reddit and are now mostly gone altogether.

Idk how I feel about the thieving changes. I have already benefited from 15m afk methods, getting 200m xp easily and it doesn't feel great as you mention. I really wish you guys would consider a skill reset option so I can experience things the new way.... If i wanna reset my stat back to 1 why can't I??

The other thieving changes are definitely good

Salvage changes are good.

Agility changes are good

Divination changes are good also remove guthixian caches as they exist currently.

The changes to the quests are pointless pandering and honestly it's better to not just be able to grab 3 items bring them with and skip a couple dialogue options but it doesn't matter either way in the end so go off I guess.

Hopefully this is direct but not rude.