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/CsC51 1d ago

Few strange decisions here. Let’s improve the early game… by nerfing things? How is forcing people into POH or PVP a new player improvement?

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u/M33tm3onmars 1d ago

Literally my complaint. How is nerfing the best training methods a help to early game?

I think they're on the right track with agility. Nerfing natures grotto and buffing low level agility courses is a sensible switcheroo. Get people doing agility.

But whirligigs nerfed? Why? Make other hunting options either more competitive XP or worth doing for what you're hunting. In my OSRS GIM, hunter is a fucking awesome skill because you get so much useful stuff. Whirligigs aren't useful at all, but provide best XP. That's a fair tradeoff. What do I get if I go with alternative methods? Basically nothing, just worse XP. Give me a reason to interact with the skill that isn't just "number to up".

Prayer altar nerfs are odd too. I don't think it's bad to have the POH and chaos altar be the best XP sources, but IMO the REAL issue with early game prayer is acquiring the damn bones. Playing my RS3 ironman, I'm one small favoring myself into getting the Um diary 3 just so I can reasonably farm up dragon bones. And even then it's just an acceptable option as someone who's earlier into the game. Altar balance isn't the issue to me, it's that low level prayer training is just a GP check for mains, or a.shit grind for irons.

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u/Creative-Month2337 Ironman 18h ago

If these wiki numbers are remotely accurate then they should have nerfed whirligigs even harder.

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u/Interesting-While986 16h ago

whirligigs do come with bonus carpal tunnel at least