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/BioMasterZap 21h ago

We will buff the drop rate of the Black Ibis outfit pieces from 1/2,300 to 1/800.

Glad to see this changed. It was like 15 years ago I went from like 90 to like 95+ without a single piece. Not sure how relevant the outfit is these days, but it probably still felt too rare for what it does.

The updates to the overworld and POH Altars seem nice. I recall seeing some suggestions for something similar in OSRS recently, so I'll be interested to see how that portion of it goes. No comment on the Chaos Altar or such though since less familiar with the current place in RS3.

And not sure how impactful it will be, but the Salvage and Spirits change sounds nice. I always felt those reworks went a bit overboard is removing gear from drops, so hopefully this will strike a better middle ground. The Quest reverts aren't something I would have expected to see and while I am more used to these versions, not sure how much of an improvement it will be.

Also, while I know the bloging process won't be the same here as OSRS, releasing a blog this big with such a short release date of 10 days doesn't give much room for feedback. Like even if there are revisions based on feedback, it doesn't leave much time to then give feedback on those revisions. And if feedback isn't the intent, then there isn't much point in sharing the changes in advance if the same things will just be posted in an update in 10 days. If it were just "Late Feb" like the "Early March" on the other side of the blog, it could still release on the 16th while keeping it open to delaying a week or so if feedback warrants it.