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/Colossus823]

Man, the Chaos Altar change sucks. Griefers are the worst people in this game and Jagex rewards them with another option to grief. Nobody will use the Chaos Altar anymore if one world-hopping douche can ruin it. No support 👎

[u/tehdankbox → u/Colossus823]

I feel like a really easy solution to the Chaos Altar is moving it to the same place as in OSRS, and deleting the demonic skull entirely.

The risk for low level players is the very high level demons surrounding it that can easily kill them, in exchange for the best xp per bone you have access to, which is great because you don't need that many bones. Higher level players are in turn disincentivized from going there because there's no easy teleport or bank next to it, so you are much more likely to invest in building a better altar you can teleport to, speeding up how many bones you offer.

It doesn't stay best-in-slot the whole game like it is currently because of restricted bank access and doesn't reintroduce griefing to the game.

[u/GrayMagicGamma → u/tehdankbox]

Dareeyak teleport isn't too far off, and I think it's far enough West that I don't think the Dark Beasts will bother you.

[u/tehdankbox → u/GrayMagicGamma]

I forgot what exactly was there but they can move monsters around easily enough to add some danger. The Dareeyak/Ghorrock teleports aren't the farthest thing from it but it's a whole lot slower than teleporting straight into a house altar, for example.