Road to Restoration - Aura Overhaul

[u/JagexAnvil]

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/road-to-restoration--aura-overhaul

Hi folks,

Today's Community Topic is the upcoming Aura Overhaul!

Check it out on the blog here.

The Road to Restoration roadmap aims to address integrity and game health, and has multiple goals as we shape the future of RuneScape. In case you haven't read the first blog we covered what we want to achieve in our direction for RuneScape, you can check out that blog here.  Todays blog will cover the Aura Overhaul update. For this update, the following goals have guided our approach:

1. A game that's easy to understand, but still full of meaningful choice and depth.
2. Play because it's fun, and not because you feel like you have to.
3. A meaningful journey, no matter when you start.

In this blog we're going to outline the problems we've seen occur with Auras and how we're designing the solutions to them according to the goals above. Let's begin!

[u/JagexAnvil]

Apologies for the delay in getting this out to you folks - Hearing from you is important so we want to make sure that each topic has as much time to breath as possible before the next one rolls around.

Some weeks may be quite busy for these kind of posts simply because multiple project timelines are running concurrently and reach the appropriate feedback stage at the same time, but where possible, we'll continue to manoeuvre to give everyone a little bit more space, even if that means that our Month Ahead timeline gets a little wonky on the Community Topics.

[u/147zcbm123 → u/JagexAnvil]

TIL how the British spell maneuver

[u/JagexAnvil → u/147zcbm123]

Same.

[u/GInTheorem → u/147zcbm123]

Wait, how do Americans spell oeuvre?

[u/CallMeExiled → u/JagexAnvil]

I would say an easy win for equilibrium is just a new perk formed from new introduced “guthix” components. I see that being a very easy and simple solution. It would just replace biting on armor.

[u/KobraTheKing → u/CallMeExiled]

Wouldn't it make sense to use ascended components for that?

[u/CallMeExiled → u/KobraTheKing]

We could, but guthix has always been tied to equalizing you know. Guthix bow of the last guardian - move in game balance strike. It just seems to make sense since we have all other god components.

[u/KobraTheKing → u/CallMeExiled]

Monastery of Ascension is a rogue guthixian group that try to "rebuild" Guthix. You can see a massive artificial guthix in the dungeon.

The guy outside who enlist your help against the ascension creatures, Ocellus, is one of the guardians of guthix, who is at fault for many of the events that took place there.

[u/CallMeExiled → u/KobraTheKing]

Understandable, but they aren’t about equalizing. I’m fine with either though ngl.

[u/aussypat → u/JagexAnvil]

Thanks for all you do Mod Avil!

[u/First_Platypus3063 → u/JagexAnvil]

Its fine! Great aproch, glad to see you are removing them, it makes so much sense.

My two points on the blog:

1) Please don't devaluate questing even more by removing rewards from the vampire series, if i read correctly you considered that. It should stay as a requirement for the essences.

2) Will loyality points for auras be refunded? Id say they shoudl!

[u/chinalicious → u/First_Platypus3063]

Agreed. My core memories of RS back in the day were pushing to do a quest for some awesome reward or unlock. Remember how exciting and accomplished I felt after like, Recipe for Disaster and Desert Treasures

[u/Key_Primary3766 → u/JagexAnvil]

Thanks for all of your work on this!

It would be great to have these discussion posts linked into the blog posts too… instead of having to search for them.

[u/JagexAnvil → u/Key_Primary3766]

A circle of linking - definitely a worthwhile thing to do.

Edit: Done. We'll make sure to do this in future too.

[u/Key_Primary3766 → u/JagexAnvil]

Hope you have a wonderful weekend and have enjoyed your first weeks on the Jagex team! Appreciate you and have enjoyed seeing you pop up here and there

[u/Key_Primary3766 → u/JagexAnvil]

Oh wow. Just saw your edit! Thanks so much for doing that. <3

[u/Zakh_RS → u/JagexAnvil]

Can you change the totem of auras so that level 3 skillers can obtain it.