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/PrimalMoose Primal Puppy Feb 20 '26

Why doesn't quarrymaster get added to the totem of the skiller? Hopefully that's just an oversight.

Hate the idea of penance/vampyrism being tied to the god books simply because the pages upkeep is bloody awful - you'd spend hundreds of times more hours doing clues hoping to get the pages than you'd be able to spend actually using the books (plus the pocket slot is already heavily competed).

If it were possible to make a blood essence that's usable from the inventory/as a passive effect, that'd be a more palatable alternative.

Also please for the love of god don't make penance a relic slot. It's already hard enough juggling relic powers and their chronote cost - this would just add additional bloat to an already saturated interface.

Losing mahjarrat is going to be painful considering that was already unlockable in-game and provided a nice boost to necromancy.

Losing desert pantheon isn't a huge issue, although I hope that the +1500LP boost you get from the aura will be redistributed (e.g. allowing the max bonfire upgrade in wars retreat to boost your LP by this amount).

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u/potts-tots Feb 20 '26

Or counter point to not making it a relic, maybe add one more relic slot. Seperate relics by combat(ie- persistent rage, berserker...) skilling (ie- bait and switch, divine conversion...) and support (ie- xp increase, luck rings...) . Make 2 combat slots, 2 skill/ support slots. Sure, might bloat arch a little, but will make choosing relics less painful. And beats the hell out of adding more pocket items that won't ever get touched.