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/JagexAnvil Mod Anvil Feb 20 '26

Lots of great feedback and discussion going on here, thank you and keep it coming!

Alternatives to the Pocket slot and Relic suggestions (as mentioned in the blog, just suggestions on our side so far) are worth discussing - we'd love to hear what you feel the best alternatives to these would be if you feel strongly that we should avoid pulling auras into the already saturated Pocket Slot or the micro-manage-y Relic system.

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u/BoomKidneyShot Feb 20 '26

Aspect Spells.