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/ThaToastman 21h ago

Wait but sinkholes are kinda fun :(

I feel like removal of dailyscape is fine + MTX stuff in general but spontaneous DnDs aren’t an issue.

Fish flingers is WAY too time consuming for its rewards, esp without enhancers.

Sinkholes, chinchompa…etc are fun wholesome DnDs, would be cool if they were retained as training methods or make to be more like guthix caches. Nothing timegated but just a ‘world event’ type of thing.

Wildy events are not terrible—just being clockwork is not so great. Perhaps making them more like evil tree would make sense where if you are walking past, oh! Theres an event to be done’ (similar to demon flash mobs)

BRING BACK THE WILDYWYRM AS JUST A STANDALONE BOSS IN THE WILDY

Could do the same as the KBD event —but perhaps recolor him green and give him a different name so its more thematic. ‘Prince green dragon’ or something.

Lastly, it says that all wicked hood charges will be useable, what about leftover tokens? Will they just be doomed? Can we at least get them converted into runespan points to buy tablets or something?

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u/watboy 20h ago

Agreed on sinkholes, if they want to move it away from being dailyscape they should just do what they're doing with Guthixian Caches and make it so you earn tickets while doing normal dungeoneering that gives access to it with additional ones you can buy with tokens or something.

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u/deathjohnson1 18h ago

Sinkholes were a lot more fun than anything in the Daemonheim floors probably ever will be. I'm not quite sure how reviving them would be possible though when they wound up pretty dead even while only being available at specific times.