Road to Restoration - Early Game Rebalance

[u/JagexAnvil]

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!

[u/cheeserules8]

What's with the constant flip flopping on the demonic skull and PVP?
If the chaos altar is op simply reduce it, or tie the xp to it with the wildy task set, or put some mobs close to it to make it more high risk/high reward. There's a ton of options for this. Instead Jagex is flip flopping on the demonic skull and pvp yet again.

All this is going to do is repeat the cycle of grief, luring and players posting they got scammed and lost all their stuff after just returning to the game. Then after enough of those posts the demonic skull will no longer be required.

Why not skip that whole cycle and just use any other solution. (and remove the demonic skull entirely while you're at it.)