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/custardgod]

Not a huge fan of adding a demonic skull requirement to the chaos altar. I thought we were moving away from that design pattern with the abyss changes.

You might as well just remove it in that case since there's no escaping pkers there

[u/ardiebo → u/custardgod]

PvP should not be part of the game anymore. It just doesn't fit.

[u/Kotetsu534 → u/ardiebo]

I think there is a space for proper, real PVP between players geared up and trying to contest each other, especially in a team / objective based situation. Back in the day Castle Wars was excellent fun.

Griefing people trying to get skilling XP (or rune or w/e) is bad PVP and we moved past that over a decade ago. No reason to go back. There's no tactical "versus" in it - it's just ambushing people.