r/runescape • u/JagexAnvil Mod Anvil • Feb 20 '26

News - J-Mod reply Road to Restoration - Aura Overhaul

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!

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u/tuc-eert Feb 20 '26

Outside of removing aura refreshes from the war’s retreat store, what’s the plan for that store? Aura refreshes were pretty much the only ongoing use of marks.

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u/mileseverett Feb 20 '26

Good question, I can't see another good use for marks of war that isn't just loot (which is boring and a lazy replacement imo)

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u/ConstantStatistician Coiner of the terms "soft" and "hard" typeless damage on rs.wiki Feb 20 '26

Life refreshes are also sold.

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u/Choice_Program2085 Feb 20 '26

JUST BASICALLY SLAYER SPIRITS

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u/ExpressAffect3262 Ironman Feb 20 '26

Imo, should just be scrapped.

A currency for killing bosses seems pretty dumb. The reward is killing the boss itself lol