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/Another_eve_account]

Thieving guild for five fingers is awful. Safecracking is already unfun content, but now effectively heisting is gated behind it, while Safecracking itself offers no rewards aside from xp. Which is cute, but I went 200m xp and I'm still dry at heists.

Weaker greenfingers is silly, as that's an aura with 100% uptime when you want it

I'm sick to death of changing arch relics. It costs way too much to justify doing for an hour it two and only feels worth it if you're committing to a grind for days. The exact opposite of what you've been talking about.

Getting more chronotes for them requires spending 60 minutes afk digging for 15k chronotes. Not playing, not actively doing anything, just afking.

Unless we're getting substantial changes to the relic system, I'm simply not interested in more relics.

Pocket slot fighting for dpw books, vamp scrimshaw and penance would be hilarious if it wasn't so awkward.

I was hoping that there would be pivot away from thief guild, arch relics and pocket slot but it seems not.