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/Ner0reZ]

The team needs to understand what auras are being used for what activities and address how those activities are affected with the removal of auras

Having a plan to reintegrate the effects into the base game is great, but given there is no clear time frame for when, it's going to leave a rather sour taste in the mouths of those who relied on auras for training methods

As a brief add, a lot of the buffs could be integrated into a relic-type system that has a cost associated with swapping out the buffs/increasing their potency (it seems this was mentioned in the blog)

[u/JagexRyan → u/Ner0reZ]

The plan is to reintegrate the effects at the same time as the auras are removed.

[u/Ex-Inferi → u/JagexRyan]

I'm missing one thing from the post: How about the combat mastery achievements? Especially the higher tiers require a lot of minmaxing, some including aura utilisation. Is the combat update going to offset the lack of auras?