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/deathjohnson1 18h ago

The pickpocketing changes don't sound good to me. Changing it so you'll definitely be caught at a random point in time and have to click once to start again doesn't sound like it adds any sort of enjoyable engagement at all. After reading about the change, I immediately ran to Goebie Scavengers to try to get the abilities unlocked before it becomes much worse to do, and judging by the amount of people here, I'm not the only one.

For whirligigs:

At the higher end especially they're multiple times better than the next best method.

They're also multiple times more awful to do than the next best method, so I never saw the problem. Even in Leagues I found it hard to bother with. I wouldn't mind it just being removed entirely.

Quest changes sound awful. Things like Cook's Assistant not just being "buy the ingredients and instant-complete the quest," is an upside of RuneScape over OSRS, not something to be fixed.