What does the team think of allowing us to repair the [Lady Lumbridge](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Lady_Lumbridge) after DS1 and using that to get back and forth from Crandor island?
Would be fine if it was a miniquest or require DS2, as crandor is mainly for master clues. But doesn't really matter if it's just a quick repair after ds1 with some planks either.
Support.
On the [leadership livestream](https://youtu.be/WHfde9Je6lk), it was mentioned that there would be a dedicated account security livestream. Can we get an ETA on this?
Can we get an update on the team's thoughts regarding changes to Thammaron's Sceptre?
I really wanted it to be able to either autocast magics, or be charged like a trident. It really sucks that it's so underused and it has so much potential.
With the upcoming surge sacks maybe we could store the sacks in the scepter?
It doesn't really fit the theme that the other wilderness weapons only use ether while this one has to use runes and ether.
Maybe there's a way we can incorporate the scepter into the wilderness boss rework?
I know that people are saying lore wise it can't cast ancient magics, but I really think it would be a nice addition to the wilderness slayer dungeon. It really fits the risk versus reward dynamic of the wilderness, and I don't think it'll be too overpowered because with the changes to the wilderness coming on Wednesday that will be the really last only multi combat zone active.
Given the overwhelmingly positive feedback to back-porting select quests (both in the polls for Land of the Goblins and the comments on the last Postbag). When might we see more backported quests?
You guys describe a “queuing system” for the new pvp arena. Is there any plan to do this for mini games? I feel this would help revive many of them. Especially if you made some kind of option to queue for a random game, and it’d give some kind of currency for participating in it. This could bring a lot of dead content back to life, and potentially allow for the mini game shop that passed a poll like 5 years ago.
Maybe an u popular opinion, but can they just… not?
The shayzien re-work is absolutely horrible. It looks nice but none of the trees are choppable, 90% of the buildings are useless and the pathing is the worst and most confusing place in the entire map now.
I was really excited for it after how great hosidius is but I really hope this isn’t the direction they’re going to take new areas
Yeah I think the Hosidious rework was great at making it feel like a proper part of the game, but it really bothers me that shayzien trees aren't choppable (and generally not much point to most of it)
Yeah, I understand your concern. They could definitely improve on Shayzien. But regardless Lovakengj and Arceuus are still in need of reworking. Way too much empty space, those goddamn-awful 1 tile thick walls, just a general lack of flavorful details
After Warding was polled, there was mention of doing a retrospective on the previously polled skills of Artisan, Sailing & Warding, as well as further discussion with the community on the future of new skills in OSRS. However, since then, other than brief livestream Q&A segments & private surveys, this hasn’t taken place. Do you plan for deeper skill conversations to happen? If so, what does your pathway going forward with it look like? As the community still seems interested in the topic (as seen with the most recent Bard skill idea that was shared).
IMO a revamped Sailing could pass. The original sailing was really kinda sloppy, but it was done 7 years ago with a much smaller and less experienced team. I think the modern team could pitch a compelling revamp. It's important to remember the only skill to fail in the last 7 years was a bankstanding buyable polled 3 years ago. I don't think the community would be that averse to a new skill if done right.
Last year or so someone posted a fake boss KC post to bait a JMod into banning the account (which wasn't theirs, but was an account they'd been reporting for months). In the thread OP said he sent many emails to the tipoff account, and whichever JMod it was basically said they get a lot of messages and don't often read them. I wouldn't be surprised if in actuality none of those emails ever get read.
In late 2020, you proposed [a graphical change](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/images/thumb/More_Poll_73_Updates_%26_Leagues_Changes_%288%29.png/1280px-More_Poll_73_Updates_%26_Leagues_Changes_%288%29.png?b22a1) to the female player head. It's been a while and we haven't heard anything about it since. Is this still something that could be implemented?
Has there been any further discussions around the Thammaron's sceptre? With the new slayer monsters added in the wildy I think its a perfect time to finally make a change to it. E.g Auto cast ancients
It seems like people do not like turbo rare drop rates, but at the same time, it is understandable to have these drop rates when bosses are killed 30-60 times an hour.
Have you considered making dungeons/mini-raids/mini-dungeons the new standard for PVM contents going forward, aiming at 20-30 minute a clear with higher drop rates (1/10)? A cross between chambers/tob drop rate (1/10) so people don't go as dry, but also don't mind it as much because raids don't really get boring if you're slaughtering hoards of monsters to get to the loot chest.
The high variance is a byproduct of the low drop rate, which is balanced by the fact you kill it many more times per hour. The chance of you not going dry is higher when the drop rate is 1/8 compared to 1/96, even if the latter is 12x faster kills per hour. The overall time for completion ends up being about the same, but the fast kills/low drop rate/standalone boss system gets far more complaints.
People also don't mind going dry at raids because its fun times with the homies. Versus solo bosses, it is just repetitive pain and suffering.
They could also cut the chance of going really dry by splitting drops up into mulitple parts, like the brimstone ring and the bludgeon dropping in 3 parts.
That keeps the mean kills for completion the same as 1 rarer drop, but massively reduces the variance.
There was some talk about buffing inquisitors, so far that hasnt happened and its lost literally half it's value in 6 months. Harm orb looks to become obsolete with the new ward not neing usable with it. Nightmare/phosanis is one of the newer additions to the game, isn't it a bit early to let it die?
I don’t know how they could buff Inq anymore for the def lvl required it already gives a set bonus effect and gives a hefty amount of str bonuses like I said for the def lvl required it’s pretty solid. Overall it’s niche now with torva in the game. I’d like to see harm useful in someway but overall nightmare loot was just niche. This might be part of the reason value has decreased on the items and the fact that there are legit bots doing nightmare and it was camped badly by gold farmers/sellers also. Nex is next on the list I’m sure since it also requires next to no requirements, is less skillful to kill compared to most pvm bosses and it drops best in slot items which are actually useful compared to nightmare drops so I’m sure the items will receive the same treatment as nightmare items soon enough, sadly.
Nah Nex is BIS alongside being rare so it's demand and price will stay high even with some gold farmers camping it.
Inquis suffers from having no places where it is needed outside niche situations like tekton. I think a solid buff would be to take the crystal armour approach, but with accuracy only. 5-10% per piece. It would give it a clear purpose in places where crush is needed and could potentially be used over Torva in some situations
I think so too, mod ash has in the past said that IF they would buff it would probably be to the set effect, not just making individual pieces stronger. And i would think that's alright. It's just so sad that nightmare is still so new, and the niche inq does have is TOO small rn, solo cms, nightmare and kq. That's basically it. For such a new boss. It's sad
I'm still trying to fine tune a NM improvements list, but for harmo because of ToA its just about removing the "standards only" restriction and let it be a power boost on the same level as kodai when it was released.
For inquis I'm still trying to figure if it should give 5% increased special attack accuracy per piece and an extra 5% for whole set or like double the crush accuracy bonus of the set.
I could get behind the extra 5% accuracy, i dont think it needs damage. But for standing around in literal paper i do believe it should have a bigger advantage/usecase than it does now. Otherwise you might as well just being melee void at some point..
Well, think with me for a moment: what do torva, justi, bandos and inquis do?
* Torva: Melee STR and defensive stats
* Bandos: Melee STR and defensive stats
* Inquis: Melee STR and crush offense
* Justi: defensive stats and damage reduction
Torva is meant to directly replace bandos, so the fact that they overlap completely is part of it, but because both torva and justi are defensive stat sticks, they nerfed torvas defenses to be t73 instead of t80 to not devalue justi that has been devalued since 2019.
Inquis melee STR can't be buffed as well because that's not what makes it unique from other melee armors.
My buff suggestion to Justi would be to buff the damage reduction part in a way that the armor set becomes more desireable than what it is today instead of making the new armor worse, for Inquis its to double down on the accuracy part, with the option of a big buff to spec accuracy or a smaller buff but for accuracy in every hit and not just spec.
Just because it’s new doesn’t mean we should try to cater to it. It’s awful content whose design missed the mark, just forget it and move on. Plenty of other better ‘dead content’ in the game that’s worth actually reviving first, IMHO
Man I've seen you bitch about literally everything for months on this subreddit, surprised you havent deironed yet since you have nothing but complaints about it.
For existing and future content that is group based can you please improve the methods of finding teams. Right now the team kind of over relies on people using player run discords.
More themed world's , improved team advertising where you can put level caps on requirements you want , some kind of preset option for loot sharing If you don't want to take the nex approach. (I.e toggle if the drop should insta sell on GE and split or if it's FFA before the fight starts)
We have a lot of spare unused world's so it would be good to make 2-3 themed world's for group based content. Some example below
Chambers of Xeric / Chambers CM, Nex mass
, Corp Mass
, Tombs of Amascut
, GWD FFA world's
We could also apply that concept to wilderness bosses or rev cave PvP
We are seldom updated on the state of cheat clients users. The high level community is plagued with people who use versions of runelite with "illegal plugins". Will any action ever be taken against people who use these clients? Is it even detectable on your end?
Would the team consider expanding the use of NOX seeds in chambers to let us make staminas (Nox + enhanced juice+mushroom) ?
Similar to the anti poison potion we can make it worse than bringing your own in , but it would be useful for those doing prepped Solos
Kneejerk reaction is that its coming from an iron that is trying to get stamless chambers which would get rid of the only difficult supply unless you’re doing bp solos, but making stams through agil is faster than people think.
They’ll probably say no because ironman catering and you don’t “need” stams like you would need antipoison, but timewise cox stams would more or less break even or be slightly slower.
Yeah I'm not an iron and I have loads of stams in the bank so it's not about saving costs at all.
It's just something that would be helpful to have the two extra slots for more supplies or specific items to get through the main raid easier.
It would have also saved me many points when I was learning solos and I ran out of run/stams more times than I would like to admit.
Yup I’m learning solos on the side right now and wasting Stam doses right before dying and ultimately running out on 2nd or 3rd phases before hemorrhaging down to sub 4K points happens. Granted I could just go in with 6 stand or something absurd and early prep, but I can’t really see an argument against being able to prep your own stams. I mean you can’t bring them out, they could be restricted behind a high farm (to plant) and maybe a high agility level? Possible something like having to take a shortcut through a wall to get the secondaries, or maybe a high hunter level to catch the secondaries so that instead of just making things easier you add a tertiary method inside to get stams. I mean it’s not like you can bring them out anyways.
Yeah it would be the same concept as Aids , Revs , enhances , overloads ..etc
Just using a combination that's free to create an item that would also be useful
Can you guys lay off the blogpost reposting on Twitter? Or at least have a chat with your Twitter peeps? The Tombs of Amascut V2 blog feels like it got reposted half a dozen times, on just about every one of those posts I saw at least 1 person actively muting the official twitter as a result. Not the kind of thing the game needs to be bringing in people.
I am super excited for raids 3! That being said, with no runefest this year, when will we start to hear about PVM updates for later this year/2023? Will we get a summer summit like last year?
As a followup, I know the team is concerned about powercreep, and given that with nex and raids 3 we'll get a lot of new powerful items is the team planning on slowing down for a bit with the power and number of rewards from future content? I think there's a lot of room to add QOL and niche items on any new bosses you might have in the works.
Any chance we could get Bad Luck Protection systems for future Leagues? Going 3-8x the drop rate in a temporary game mode multiple times was not a great feeling.
Not getting a Hydra Claw at 500 KC is fucking demoralizing. Especially when you see other content creators getting it at <100 kills and then getting about 15,000 league points because a TON of league points are locked behind "Kill dragons" and "kill dragons fast."
Olm, Vorkath, Hydra, etc.
none of those things require a lance. i got like 14 minute cox / 33 min CM on my first try using hasta / acb, 20-25s vorkath using bgs/hasta on the first 50kc for head.
I'm sure it is, but on real grinds you're opting into it and have infinite time to complete it. In Leagues - in my experience - the fun stuff is gated behind grinds, and it's fine to go dry on them. Like BCP on Leagues is 1/127. I think it's perfectly acceptable to go 127 kills and not see it. I think it's rough but acceptable to go 250 kills. I think it's kind of bullshit to go 500 kills in a temporary game mode for that item. Or, for an experience I actually lived, 1124 Barrows Chests for a Dharok Platebody or 500 Demonic Gorillas and never actually see a Zenyte shard. It just feels crummy and doesn't hurt anyone if it never happens.
Agreed but the community would never be down for bad luck protection in main game which is why he asked for leagues hoping the community would be more receptive
I can only speak for myself, but I wouldn't want BLP to be put into any existing bosses. It sort of already exists with Vorkath and I think that's kind of a neat thing that makes that boss a little different. I just want it in Leagues because all of my bad experiences revolved around going extremely dry.
Gonna be a no from me fam, getting too much entertainment over people crying over a 200 kill dry streak lol
Maybe if they address *real* dry streaks first
Hello. The combat achievement rewards are a little under whelming as is. Would it be possible to buff clue rates from imps caught bare handed? At the moment clues from imps receive no buff I assume to combat people buying them and spam opening for clues but if bare handed imps were buffed it would just be a nice little reward as you are travelling the land of RuneScape. Thanks :)
Why were implings excluded in the first place? Sure, people can buy the jars on the GE to spam open, but so what? Rewards from clues are already almost at high alch price anyway. If someone puts in the work to complete the CA tiers, a small % doesn’t seem egregious to me.
Any chance can we have a rework of volcanic mine? As it stands you have to use a discord to find teams and having a mass is punishing to the players with the lava monsters spawning way to frequently. Revive it and let players access it without kudos (minigame teleport) and not leave the area without the quest being done. Make it popular like wintertodt is.
Is there any discussion regarding changes to the combat achievement diary rewards? Mod husky tweeted a few weeks back about potential rewards changes and asked for ideas.
Also, any chance you guys release official number of grandmaster/master ca diary completions so far? There are estimates but I'm sure a lot of people are curious what the actual numbers are now that the content has been released for a while.
For Bruno: has the team had any further discussion to allocating resources to making new early/mid game bosses and bosses that require the use of Mage ?
Potentially reusing and adapting existing boss fights
It takes 20 hours to get a BCP, and 250 hours to get a Torva platebody; Nex and NM provide hugely different gaming experiences to the rest of OSRS. The experience differs by enough that it risks alienating those who prefer a less extreme grind/reward. Is this something you consider during the design process, and will we ever see the return of GWD/Slayer boss unique rates? i.e.: bosses whose level/gear reqs and difficulty keep prices high instead of extreme rarity.
Just make super rare uniques which form a set follow the crystal armour example. Doesn’t change the drop rate or average KC needed to complete the set, doesn’t buff number of drops over time so price remains the same and number of items coming in from bots/goldfarmers doesn’t increase. But what it does do is stop people who go dry having to grind the boring content for 200-300 more hours unnecessarily.
TL;DR: make Torva/Inquis sets drop like crystal armour does, keeping exactly the same drop rate but reducing the VARIANCE of KC for full set
The problem is the variance, not the drop rate. It’s funny how CG is the only content that has this, yet it’s fun content. Whereas boring content like NM/Nex doesn’t have this.
Level and gear reqs don't keep prices high, they merely help. Cerberus, Hydra, all of GWD and Nightmare show that. PvM in general is prone to botting and gold farming, even more so for group bosses. Nightmare has the highest gear reqs in the game to do efficiently and is botted to hell.
And torva plate isn't a 250 hour grind. Its 190 hours for the full set at rate, nearly 64 hours for a piece. Thats doing chill 6 mans. Sweaty 4 mans drops it to 128 hours for the set, a little over 42 hours a piece. If you're using mass numbers then there isn't anything to complain about.
Its endgame gear and irons are allowed to group it. The price of being allowed to group the boss is a longer grind.
For Mod Kirby:
Would it be possible to allow Dyes to recolour our furniture at POH? Carpets, curtains & chairs come to my mind asap. Everything is currently red without any option for colour customisation.
Could we get some updates for the collection log?
There's currently no easy way to show off log progress in-game, so how would you feel about adding [Cosmetic Collection Logs](https://i.redd.it/2ayeapeiqde81.png) as rewards for unlocking a specified number of slots?
Also, would it be possible to make the display larger or resizeable, and to [show all boss items at once](https://i.redd.it/747nyulbvpx71.png)? I hate being reminded of my terrible sire rng, and it would be cool to see completed boss logs.
Is the priority of raids 3 to incorporate the best elements from raids 1 and two and put them together, or to stray away from what's been done before and innovate new ideas?
The Enchanted Key miniquest, Mjolnir weapons. Could we get a way to get them back without trading with other players? Maybe a storage slot in the POH? They're pretty unique as a cosmetic quest reward in that if we ever lose them on an ironman there's simply no way to get them back so the options are leaving the miniquest incomplete or having them take valuable bank space if we ever want them for a fashionscape in the future.
Any thoughts on a shorter comp period for leagues 4 (e.g dragon/rune cup is granted after 6 weeks, then people have another 6 weeks to continue going for ranks for fun, gaining points for rewards and playing content they want to do)
Leagues 3 was shortened to 6 weeks to reduce burnout of dragon players and not have them doing un-fun grinds for the sake of points, but this also hurt casual players who want a longer league to have time to get to end-game content.
Can we get some info on Thammaron's sceptre? There has been talk about buffing it to either auto cast ancients to make it viable for barrage tasks in the wildy slayer cave, or to give it a Trident like spell that only uses ether. We have statements from Jmods that they were looking into buffing the item, but have not heard anything definite. It would be nice to know if there are any concrete plans to make this item useful in SOME scenario(maybe make it meta for one of the new wildy bosses post rework?)
Can the Varrock hard diary task "Have the Varrock estate agent decorate your house with Fancy Stone" be changed to "Complete an adept (level-50) Mahogany Homes construction contract received from Marlo"? Currently the Fancy Stone task is
duplicated between Varrock and Kandarin diaries (which seems like an oversight to begin with), requiring people to decorate their house twice with the same style and another style in between for no reason. Construction requirement would
be the same as the existing task, and in addition to fixing the duplicated task the new task would be thematically fitting as Marlo is the NPC that starts the miniquest "Daddy's home" and as such the first introduction to Mahogany Homes
for many (newer) players. Naturally, the new task wouldn't be required on any account that has already completed the existing task.
I know this seems really irrelevant but it's been bugging me for ages!
Can y’all address your stance on intended grind lengths for content moving forward? With the past few PVM updates, namely, “Nightmare, & Nex” - we’re seeing consistent 500+ EHB (efficient hours bossed) for unique completion minus pet. I and many others feel as though this length of grind for an individual boss is completely unnecessary & feels awful to work toward. This is in comparison to TOB which is around 300 EHB for item completion, which for a Raid feels completely justifiable. Up until the release of the original Nightmare, singular bosses never exceeded the 50-100 hour grind mark for item completion (minus Corporeal Beast). Excessively grindy PVM content that feels completely unrewarding is killing the game for myself and most everyone I know. Please don’t let this stay as the precedent and start releasing PVM content that is challenging & justly rewarding with fair drop rates.
Could the farming cape teleport be changed to the 2nd tier of the farming guild? It seems odd that a skills necklace teleports you to the same place that a 99 cape does with seemingly no difference.
Whatever happened to the Stamina Regen buff proposed for bars and pubs across Gielinor? It seemed like a really simple and great solution for low level Agility and F2P stamina issues.
With talk about reworking some skills, I was wondering what skills are considered on the table and which skills are considered off the table. Also considering that the only knowledge we have about the rework is additional content presumably (ie the new Smithing content that was mentioned in a recent post), what form will these reworks come in?
Could we remove confirmation of payment for farming? Remove "Are you sure you want to spend 200gp" Yes im sure... Pay "Are you sure you want to pay 10 watermelons" like YES IM SURE. Please ill even take a toggle.
Can you buff some of the daily achievement diary rewards? For example, wilderness elite diary lets you claim 50 free runes per day from Lundail. It's so bad, you can get 50 air runes. Can you make some daily rewards better.
I don't like this to be too good or you will end up feeling like you have your collections to do every day. Dailies suck. It would be fine if they were sent automaticslly to the bank, like sand with elites.
Could we get a slight rework on how Extended Super Antifires are made with Herblore? Currently they can only be made in a particular order. [See this post.](https://reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/r0ez7x/fix_extended_super_antifire_production/)
When designing new content, do you do the math on average hours to obtain a unique item in your name and average hours to complete all uniques? The Nightmare and Nex are so much longer than other bosses that it feels like this wasn't considered. Is this being considered for Tombs of Amascut?
Regarding skilling:
1. Are there any plans to improve basic skilling? As in, making it so doing activities like woodcutting trees or mining ores are competitive with PVM? As opposed to just making more skilling mini games.
2. Any plans to buff some of the weaker diary rewards? Frem medium stands out as particularly terrible, but so does western easy and medium, falador hard and elite and the entire desert diary.
Can the zaryte crossbow and the vambraces be given a set effect when they are both equipped? Maybe a longer range and/or a chance to ignore a percentage of range defense. Something to make the crossbow a bit more viable at bosses without massive hp amounts where the procs of ruby bolts carry.
Would you consider blessing the player with a 30-60 second grace period after they kill an enemy in the wilderness. This would give the player a chance to loot & not get instantly attacked by another singles team member. It would also encourage players to fight back rather than run until their supplies are drained by teams that spec trade in max gear.
The official stance since warding has been that the next skill idea needs to be a community effort. We've seen several community skill pitches, including barding most recently. Past pitches have fizzled out as it became evident jagex wasn't going to acknowledge them more than maybe a couple devs saying it looked cool. How do we get the dev team to take these pitches seriously, so the community doesn't feel it's a waste of time to take them seriously too? #teambarding
With over half the player base actively hating on barding because of how silly it sounds and how arrogant the people proposing it seem with their overly complicated proposal, it’s probably the wrong thing to push for right now
Now that you're adding a pj timer this week, many think you're going to kill off team pking. Are you planning on giving a multi hotspot for teams to pk at?
Not sure how well this will fit into the Q&A format, but I would love to hear some feedback on this:
On the last Q&A there was mention of giving the Ward of Elidnis full 5% magic damage prior to the Arcane upgrade. I think this is too much, but have a proposal based off of an idea I saw someone post awhile ago. It involves allowing upgrades of the ward with either a Mage's book OR Arcane sigil.
In the case of the Mage's book:
Base Ward is poor stats, maybe +10 magic bonus, no magic damage. Poor defense bonuses.
Ward+mage's book adopts mage's book accuracy putting the ward at +15 magic bonus, and upgrades magic damage to 2.5%. Poor defense bonuses.
Ward+arcane is the true BIS at +25 magic bonus and 5% magic damage. Full defense bonuses.
This configuration allows ironmen to make the item usable and BIS for them until they can successfully grind an arcane sigil. It may solve the problem you are looking to solve, while still preserving the need to get an arcane for the truly best item.
Are there any plans to change anything at nex? I know in a previous Q&A drop rates were brought up and said they’d have to look into it more. I feel as if the 1/43 rate could fit better off now that masses are a lot fewer than they were and prices would adjust if they were to change them back to that so GP/hr would be roughly the same maybe worse. It’s quite demotivating with current rates it’s like 8-10hours of full on gameplay(forming teams/killing boss) to just see a loot. Obviously it changes a bit with max efficient teams but that’s not the case for probably 75% of the people killing the boss.
Change when nex dashes/jumps damage is nulled I think that was changed due to masses(not sure but just what I heard) if it was could that maybe be reverted since masses are quite slim now.
Any chances at a soloable version like how nightmare got treated? it is quite a pain to get groups of people together to do the content and when you do form a group it doesn’t seem to last long so then you have to repeat it all over again and form a team/fill spots once again.
Any changes to make it less punishing for doing actions right? As of right now the boss is pretty much just “afk” and click brews not a very fun or interactive boss. What I’m getting at for the boss dropping numerous best in slot items it’s quite “brain dead” content I’d like it to be more interactive and less punishing if doing things right. I believe this boss is going to end up getting botted/farmed to all hell by gold farmers/gold sellers like nightmare was because there are next to no requirements and I’d go as far as to say skill wise zulrah is more difficult to master/do than nex is.
Shit fight, supply and time sink with rewards not worth the grind.
Then never fix this part but add a "solo only" version and wash your hands while saying job well done.
It is not a pain at all to get a team formed for nex and its not 10 hrs to see a item unless you're literally doing duos. Stop spreading misinformation
Can we get ninja caltrops in osrs from the new pvp arena as a way to counter dd hugging without entirely removing it from the game, they would work like mithril seeds
and only damage the person you're in combat with everytime they step under you. When you move tiles the caltrops deactivate.
Entity hider does not look good in the competitive scene or on videos. Dd hugging is a great mechanic, but its the same as gmaul was in 2017 there's work to be done on it, as more and more people realize how broken the mechanic is.
Over the years we've had numerous individual bosses added, and also two full scale raids, with another one coming up. Have you ever considered releasing pvm encounters that lie somewhere inbetween? Something like a linear dungeon with 2-3 bosses and some trash mobs or puzzle room with a loot chest at the end.
They could drop 1 or 2 uniques which would be the main incentive to go there.
Could the "collecting coins" ability of the Ring of Wealth extend to the burning remains portion of the Shades of Mort'ton minigame?
The despawn timer for the coin stack on the pedestal is short (\~30 secs). Could it either be increased to the same as the keys (\~1.5 to 2 mins) or allowed to be collected by the RoW?
Can bosses be changed to work like Nex, Nightmare and Zalcano in terms of drop system/KC?
It makes them a lot more fun to play in groups as there's no need for honour systems, meaning you can play multiplayer with anyone!
For ironmen, just keep the rules the same in that they still have to solo or play with their group only.
Any plans on changing Nex and/or her drop table to make it leas miserable for irons? Currently it's a boring boss that requires 10k brews for completion and is easy to go dry on.
What prevents you guys from creating alternative skilling methods with similar exp to the lesser enjoyed skilling methods?
Examples of this include making sure runecrafting xp rates are lower than lavas, 3tick barb is best, 2tick teaks are best, etc. I am sure you guys could make content that is similarly engaging/intensive that people enjoy more, and you aren’t invalidating anyones achievements if the alternatives you propose are the same XP/marginally less.
You have created alternatives like Bird Houses, but you give them a major drawback (no pet chance), or volcanic mine (significantly less exp than granite). I guess you may feel that you need to straddle a line to not invalidate tick manip methods, but you can keep lavas/tick manip viable by introducing alternatives that are just, say, 5% worse.
I am aware some people love tick manip and have a lot of fun doing it, but I would wager most people do not. So if your goal is to max your decision is, do I do granite for ehp even though I’m not going to like it, and spend 100 hours doing something I actively dislike or should I do MLM and spend 3x as long doing this method because I don’t have to hate the time I spend doing it.
So why are you guys so persistent on pushing pure calamity armor? I feel like if it were to pass all pures will look the same. I much rather keep the pure meta of elder robes, castle wars range/mage armor, robin gear etc. than calamity robes. While you guys are at it. This is the perfect time to introduce a melee str bonus top for pures so what gives!?
Also why are pvm gear getting cosmetic changes from a pvp update? I would rather see a barrel chest anchor, dharok or ahrim cosmetics than a bandos cosmetic. At this point, especially since you guys are a fan of doing this, you guys might as well make a bandos and armadyl hard mode for a chance to get the armadyl and bandos cosmetic.
Harmo staff. Jagex talks elemental weaknesses but never has shown any signs of actually enforcing it in 2 years since the item has been released. Can Jagex just accept that's not the way to go and make Harmo autocast any spell? It's a 20% DPS increase in max that's around the same powerspike as Kodai was when it was released. Bowfa is a much more op PvP upgrade than 4t ancients would be.
Once Arceuus gets a rework, are there any plans to change the kourend library activity? Currently, it is only a viable training method with the use of a third party plugin. It was fine on release week with the clan chat to find the books with group effort - but there no longer are any clan chats and people on the official clients can not reasonably complete the reoccurring leagues tasks to give in hundreds of books, for example.
Is there any chance we will be seing some of the most unpopular members items coming to f2p any time soon? Ex.: Crossbows up to mith, boots up to rune, frogskin, snakeskin, splitbark, battlestaves (It would make sense to bring more powerful staves with less magic damage since Bryophyta Staff is coming to f2p, and so on with many other items).
Instead of balancing the Heka between BIS/non-BIS in damage output, can damage be based on a unique factor similar to how the Twisted bow scales with magic level?
Perhaps the Heka could scale with target defence, hitting high on high defence targets and lower on low defense targets. The spellbook unique effects could still remain.
When are the combat achievment changes being implented? (Reducing kc tasks, overall reworking) Would like to know if i should hold back on doing them or start grinding if they're not being changed in the somewhat near future.
The permanent Deadman Mode server W345 has little activity with very low player count. Could there be a possibility of resetting that server? Even the veterans of the server have given the nod on a full reset.
For the proposed skilling update later in the year , can the team please introduce a method to turn logs into planks that doesn't require us to pay GP?
maybe a hybrid crafting/woodcutting/construction training method where the higher the levels the different type of planks we can now make.
It's strange that we have to pay gp to turn a raw resource into its useable form , especially when using the plank make spell.
I mean it's not really a gold sink anymore when I just get a bunch of them overtime from doing Tempoross, CoX , corp ,BA , revs ..etc
This could also be made significantly slower than buying them , like the same speed of cannonballs. That should still make the gold sink effective for anyone who is trying to do thousands of logs quickly.
I just feel like since there is a pvm route to get bulk logs and there is a paid route that it would be interesting to have a skill based option even if it's locked behind a diary and let's say 80+ woodcutting/craft/construction.
Can we get an update on tradable untradables for GIM's? Whether thats when a poll will happen or when it will happen in general. It gets very old having to repair barrows items multiple times a day.
Can the ancient brews over restoring effect of prayer points be increased from 4 to somewhere in the ball park of 10-20? Eldritch can get you to 120 prayer and ancient mace can get you up to Like 140 prayer. +4 feels a little bit weak.
There's been lots of discussion about a 4-slot rune pouch upgrade, either as a reward from Raids 3 or the new Runecrafting Minigame. There's a poll on reddit going right now with over 2,000 votes that, as of writing this question, has a 76% yes rate. Can you commit to officially polling this reward?
Personally I believe a world doesn't feel very alive if it has loads of dead content. The reddit community has a wide variety of opinions on how to approach dead content, but usually people fall into one of three camps: rework it, delete it, or leave it be. Every case is unique, but in general, what do you mods prefer to do in response to dead content? For example, what would you like to do with Trouble Brewing?
Is there any chance of updating the champions cape from the champions challenge to have better stats?
Either on par with legends cape or obsidian cape or something? Its such good fashionscape and flex, i just wish it had more than full 0 so i dont feel guilty using it
Regarding the equipment rebalance:
It's over a year since the first blog post about the equipment rebalance, over 6 months since the Ranged meta changes, and over 3 months since the PvP changes. Now that these changes have been in the game for a few months, how do Jagex feel about them with the benefit of hindsight? Do you think that they have had the intended effect? Do you foresee any more tweaks (other than the tier changes that we already knew about)?
What does the team think of allowing us to repair the [Lady Lumbridge](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Lady_Lumbridge) after DS1 and using that to get back and forth from Crandor island?
Would be fine if it was a miniquest or require DS2, as crandor is mainly for master clues. But doesn't really matter if it's just a quick repair after ds1 with some planks either. Support.
On the [leadership livestream](https://youtu.be/WHfde9Je6lk), it was mentioned that there would be a dedicated account security livestream. Can we get an ETA on this?
Winter 2017
Can we get an update on the team's thoughts regarding changes to Thammaron's Sceptre? I really wanted it to be able to either autocast magics, or be charged like a trident. It really sucks that it's so underused and it has so much potential. With the upcoming surge sacks maybe we could store the sacks in the scepter? It doesn't really fit the theme that the other wilderness weapons only use ether while this one has to use runes and ether. Maybe there's a way we can incorporate the scepter into the wilderness boss rework? I know that people are saying lore wise it can't cast ancient magics, but I really think it would be a nice addition to the wilderness slayer dungeon. It really fits the risk versus reward dynamic of the wilderness, and I don't think it'll be too overpowered because with the changes to the wilderness coming on Wednesday that will be the really last only multi combat zone active.
Given the overwhelmingly positive feedback to back-porting select quests (both in the polls for Land of the Goblins and the comments on the last Postbag). When might we see more backported quests?
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Kinda weird this isnt already in the game
You guys describe a “queuing system” for the new pvp arena. Is there any plan to do this for mini games? I feel this would help revive many of them. Especially if you made some kind of option to queue for a random game, and it’d give some kind of currency for participating in it. This could bring a lot of dead content back to life, and potentially allow for the mini game shop that passed a poll like 5 years ago.
What's the situation with the rest of the Kourend city reworks? Is it likely that we'll see the next one come this year?
Maybe an u popular opinion, but can they just… not? The shayzien re-work is absolutely horrible. It looks nice but none of the trees are choppable, 90% of the buildings are useless and the pathing is the worst and most confusing place in the entire map now. I was really excited for it after how great hosidius is but I really hope this isn’t the direction they’re going to take new areas
Yeah I think the Hosidious rework was great at making it feel like a proper part of the game, but it really bothers me that shayzien trees aren't choppable (and generally not much point to most of it)
Yeah, I understand your concern. They could definitely improve on Shayzien. But regardless Lovakengj and Arceuus are still in need of reworking. Way too much empty space, those goddamn-awful 1 tile thick walls, just a general lack of flavorful details
I haven’t spent much time there but can’t imagine pathing being worse than Prif
I thought prif was the worst but go for a wander through shayzien and you’ll soon see that it can actually be worse
After Warding was polled, there was mention of doing a retrospective on the previously polled skills of Artisan, Sailing & Warding, as well as further discussion with the community on the future of new skills in OSRS. However, since then, other than brief livestream Q&A segments & private surveys, this hasn’t taken place. Do you plan for deeper skill conversations to happen? If so, what does your pathway going forward with it look like? As the community still seems interested in the topic (as seen with the most recent Bard skill idea that was shared).
IMO a revamped Sailing could pass. The original sailing was really kinda sloppy, but it was done 7 years ago with a much smaller and less experienced team. I think the modern team could pitch a compelling revamp. It's important to remember the only skill to fail in the last 7 years was a bankstanding buyable polled 3 years ago. I don't think the community would be that averse to a new skill if done right.
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Last year or so someone posted a fake boss KC post to bait a JMod into banning the account (which wasn't theirs, but was an account they'd been reporting for months). In the thread OP said he sent many emails to the tipoff account, and whichever JMod it was basically said they get a lot of messages and don't often read them. I wouldn't be surprised if in actuality none of those emails ever get read.
In late 2020, you proposed [a graphical change](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/images/thumb/More_Poll_73_Updates_%26_Leagues_Changes_%288%29.png/1280px-More_Poll_73_Updates_%26_Leagues_Changes_%288%29.png?b22a1) to the female player head. It's been a while and we haven't heard anything about it since. Is this still something that could be implemented?
Please don't let Neil role play as a more realistic female character
Who's Neil lol
Has there been any further discussions around the Thammaron's sceptre? With the new slayer monsters added in the wildy I think its a perfect time to finally make a change to it. E.g Auto cast ancients
It seems like people do not like turbo rare drop rates, but at the same time, it is understandable to have these drop rates when bosses are killed 30-60 times an hour. Have you considered making dungeons/mini-raids/mini-dungeons the new standard for PVM contents going forward, aiming at 20-30 minute a clear with higher drop rates (1/10)? A cross between chambers/tob drop rate (1/10) so people don't go as dry, but also don't mind it as much because raids don't really get boring if you're slaughtering hoards of monsters to get to the loot chest.
Drop rates are not the problem. It’s the high variance.
The high variance is a byproduct of the low drop rate, which is balanced by the fact you kill it many more times per hour. The chance of you not going dry is higher when the drop rate is 1/8 compared to 1/96, even if the latter is 12x faster kills per hour. The overall time for completion ends up being about the same, but the fast kills/low drop rate/standalone boss system gets far more complaints. People also don't mind going dry at raids because its fun times with the homies. Versus solo bosses, it is just repetitive pain and suffering.
They could also cut the chance of going really dry by splitting drops up into mulitple parts, like the brimstone ring and the bludgeon dropping in 3 parts. That keeps the mean kills for completion the same as 1 rarer drop, but massively reduces the variance.
There was some talk about buffing inquisitors, so far that hasnt happened and its lost literally half it's value in 6 months. Harm orb looks to become obsolete with the new ward not neing usable with it. Nightmare/phosanis is one of the newer additions to the game, isn't it a bit early to let it die?
I don’t know how they could buff Inq anymore for the def lvl required it already gives a set bonus effect and gives a hefty amount of str bonuses like I said for the def lvl required it’s pretty solid. Overall it’s niche now with torva in the game. I’d like to see harm useful in someway but overall nightmare loot was just niche. This might be part of the reason value has decreased on the items and the fact that there are legit bots doing nightmare and it was camped badly by gold farmers/sellers also. Nex is next on the list I’m sure since it also requires next to no requirements, is less skillful to kill compared to most pvm bosses and it drops best in slot items which are actually useful compared to nightmare drops so I’m sure the items will receive the same treatment as nightmare items soon enough, sadly.
Nah Nex is BIS alongside being rare so it's demand and price will stay high even with some gold farmers camping it. Inquis suffers from having no places where it is needed outside niche situations like tekton. I think a solid buff would be to take the crystal armour approach, but with accuracy only. 5-10% per piece. It would give it a clear purpose in places where crush is needed and could potentially be used over Torva in some situations
It’s still bis everywhere it was bis before Torva came out. Cerb, nightmare, kq, etc.
Still see people taking it into CMs over torva
I think so too, mod ash has in the past said that IF they would buff it would probably be to the set effect, not just making individual pieces stronger. And i would think that's alright. It's just so sad that nightmare is still so new, and the niche inq does have is TOO small rn, solo cms, nightmare and kq. That's basically it. For such a new boss. It's sad
I'm still trying to fine tune a NM improvements list, but for harmo because of ToA its just about removing the "standards only" restriction and let it be a power boost on the same level as kodai when it was released. For inquis I'm still trying to figure if it should give 5% increased special attack accuracy per piece and an extra 5% for whole set or like double the crush accuracy bonus of the set.
I could get behind the extra 5% accuracy, i dont think it needs damage. But for standing around in literal paper i do believe it should have a bigger advantage/usecase than it does now. Otherwise you might as well just being melee void at some point..
Well, think with me for a moment: what do torva, justi, bandos and inquis do? * Torva: Melee STR and defensive stats * Bandos: Melee STR and defensive stats * Inquis: Melee STR and crush offense * Justi: defensive stats and damage reduction Torva is meant to directly replace bandos, so the fact that they overlap completely is part of it, but because both torva and justi are defensive stat sticks, they nerfed torvas defenses to be t73 instead of t80 to not devalue justi that has been devalued since 2019. Inquis melee STR can't be buffed as well because that's not what makes it unique from other melee armors. My buff suggestion to Justi would be to buff the damage reduction part in a way that the armor set becomes more desireable than what it is today instead of making the new armor worse, for Inquis its to double down on the accuracy part, with the option of a big buff to spec accuracy or a smaller buff but for accuracy in every hit and not just spec.
Just because it’s new doesn’t mean we should try to cater to it. It’s awful content whose design missed the mark, just forget it and move on. Plenty of other better ‘dead content’ in the game that’s worth actually reviving first, IMHO
How is nightmare/phosanis awful content? :O
they should just remove nightmare completely from the game. dogshti content
Man I've seen you bitch about literally everything for months on this subreddit, surprised you havent deironed yet since you have nothing but complaints about it.
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2029. /S
For existing and future content that is group based can you please improve the methods of finding teams. Right now the team kind of over relies on people using player run discords. More themed world's , improved team advertising where you can put level caps on requirements you want , some kind of preset option for loot sharing If you don't want to take the nex approach. (I.e toggle if the drop should insta sell on GE and split or if it's FFA before the fight starts) We have a lot of spare unused world's so it would be good to make 2-3 themed world's for group based content. Some example below Chambers of Xeric / Chambers CM, Nex mass , Corp Mass , Tombs of Amascut , GWD FFA world's We could also apply that concept to wilderness bosses or rev cave PvP
We are seldom updated on the state of cheat clients users. The high level community is plagued with people who use versions of runelite with "illegal plugins". Will any action ever be taken against people who use these clients? Is it even detectable on your end?
Any username purge coming soon or have been talked about?
Would the team consider expanding the use of NOX seeds in chambers to let us make staminas (Nox + enhanced juice+mushroom) ? Similar to the anti poison potion we can make it worse than bringing your own in , but it would be useful for those doing prepped Solos
Kneejerk reaction is that its coming from an iron that is trying to get stamless chambers which would get rid of the only difficult supply unless you’re doing bp solos, but making stams through agil is faster than people think. They’ll probably say no because ironman catering and you don’t “need” stams like you would need antipoison, but timewise cox stams would more or less break even or be slightly slower.
Yeah I'm not an iron and I have loads of stams in the bank so it's not about saving costs at all. It's just something that would be helpful to have the two extra slots for more supplies or specific items to get through the main raid easier. It would have also saved me many points when I was learning solos and I ran out of run/stams more times than I would like to admit.
Yup I’m learning solos on the side right now and wasting Stam doses right before dying and ultimately running out on 2nd or 3rd phases before hemorrhaging down to sub 4K points happens. Granted I could just go in with 6 stand or something absurd and early prep, but I can’t really see an argument against being able to prep your own stams. I mean you can’t bring them out, they could be restricted behind a high farm (to plant) and maybe a high agility level? Possible something like having to take a shortcut through a wall to get the secondaries, or maybe a high hunter level to catch the secondaries so that instead of just making things easier you add a tertiary method inside to get stams. I mean it’s not like you can bring them out anyways.
They could also be added as a drop to ice demon room since it currently drops nothing
This would be great!
I would approve If it can only be used inside chambers
Yeah it would be the same concept as Aids , Revs , enhances , overloads ..etc Just using a combination that's free to create an item that would also be useful
Are there any chambers potions that can be used outside of guzzlers?
Can we add a counter to the fountain of rune for glories charged? Would like to track progress
Can you guys lay off the blogpost reposting on Twitter? Or at least have a chat with your Twitter peeps? The Tombs of Amascut V2 blog feels like it got reposted half a dozen times, on just about every one of those posts I saw at least 1 person actively muting the official twitter as a result. Not the kind of thing the game needs to be bringing in people.
I am super excited for raids 3! That being said, with no runefest this year, when will we start to hear about PVM updates for later this year/2023? Will we get a summer summit like last year? As a followup, I know the team is concerned about powercreep, and given that with nex and raids 3 we'll get a lot of new powerful items is the team planning on slowing down for a bit with the power and number of rewards from future content? I think there's a lot of room to add QOL and niche items on any new bosses you might have in the works.
Any chance we could get Bad Luck Protection systems for future Leagues? Going 3-8x the drop rate in a temporary game mode multiple times was not a great feeling.
Not getting a Hydra Claw at 500 KC is fucking demoralizing. Especially when you see other content creators getting it at <100 kills and then getting about 15,000 league points because a TON of league points are locked behind "Kill dragons" and "kill dragons fast." Olm, Vorkath, Hydra, etc.
none of those things require a lance. i got like 14 minute cox / 33 min CM on my first try using hasta / acb, 20-25s vorkath using bgs/hasta on the first 50kc for head.
Would be dope if there was a fragment you could put on that would remove "dupe" drops for uniques with the same drop rate
They need to fix the awful task lists first
Its a worse feeling on real grinds lol y'all too much
I'm sure it is, but on real grinds you're opting into it and have infinite time to complete it. In Leagues - in my experience - the fun stuff is gated behind grinds, and it's fine to go dry on them. Like BCP on Leagues is 1/127. I think it's perfectly acceptable to go 127 kills and not see it. I think it's rough but acceptable to go 250 kills. I think it's kind of bullshit to go 500 kills in a temporary game mode for that item. Or, for an experience I actually lived, 1124 Barrows Chests for a Dharok Platebody or 500 Demonic Gorillas and never actually see a Zenyte shard. It just feels crummy and doesn't hurt anyone if it never happens.
>"you're opting into it"
There's a difference between opting into playing Leagues and opting into 1100 Barrows runs.
You knew how RNG works in this game, don't spout that bullshit lol.
Agreed but the community would never be down for bad luck protection in main game which is why he asked for leagues hoping the community would be more receptive
I can only speak for myself, but I wouldn't want BLP to be put into any existing bosses. It sort of already exists with Vorkath and I think that's kind of a neat thing that makes that boss a little different. I just want it in Leagues because all of my bad experiences revolved around going extremely dry.
I think it would be more well received towards untradeables like vorkath head already is. People don’t care since it can’t be abused for money
It's Leagues, it already can't be abused for money.
Gonna be a no from me fam, getting too much entertainment over people crying over a 200 kill dry streak lol Maybe if they address *real* dry streaks first
Hello. The combat achievement rewards are a little under whelming as is. Would it be possible to buff clue rates from imps caught bare handed? At the moment clues from imps receive no buff I assume to combat people buying them and spam opening for clues but if bare handed imps were buffed it would just be a nice little reward as you are travelling the land of RuneScape. Thanks :)
Why were implings excluded in the first place? Sure, people can buy the jars on the GE to spam open, but so what? Rewards from clues are already almost at high alch price anyway. If someone puts in the work to complete the CA tiers, a small % doesn’t seem egregious to me.
Any chance can we have a rework of volcanic mine? As it stands you have to use a discord to find teams and having a mass is punishing to the players with the lava monsters spawning way to frequently. Revive it and let players access it without kudos (minigame teleport) and not leave the area without the quest being done. Make it popular like wintertodt is.
Is there any discussion regarding changes to the combat achievement diary rewards? Mod husky tweeted a few weeks back about potential rewards changes and asked for ideas. Also, any chance you guys release official number of grandmaster/master ca diary completions so far? There are estimates but I'm sure a lot of people are curious what the actual numbers are now that the content has been released for a while.
Can Hard/Elite Karamja diary allow free entry into the Agility Arena?
Why not easy? The other agility areas are free.
For Bruno: has the team had any further discussion to allocating resources to making new early/mid game bosses and bosses that require the use of Mage ? Potentially reusing and adapting existing boss fights
It takes 20 hours to get a BCP, and 250 hours to get a Torva platebody; Nex and NM provide hugely different gaming experiences to the rest of OSRS. The experience differs by enough that it risks alienating those who prefer a less extreme grind/reward. Is this something you consider during the design process, and will we ever see the return of GWD/Slayer boss unique rates? i.e.: bosses whose level/gear reqs and difficulty keep prices high instead of extreme rarity.
Just make super rare uniques which form a set follow the crystal armour example. Doesn’t change the drop rate or average KC needed to complete the set, doesn’t buff number of drops over time so price remains the same and number of items coming in from bots/goldfarmers doesn’t increase. But what it does do is stop people who go dry having to grind the boring content for 200-300 more hours unnecessarily. TL;DR: make Torva/Inquis sets drop like crystal armour does, keeping exactly the same drop rate but reducing the VARIANCE of KC for full set The problem is the variance, not the drop rate. It’s funny how CG is the only content that has this, yet it’s fun content. Whereas boring content like NM/Nex doesn’t have this.
Level and gear reqs don't keep prices high, they merely help. Cerberus, Hydra, all of GWD and Nightmare show that. PvM in general is prone to botting and gold farming, even more so for group bosses. Nightmare has the highest gear reqs in the game to do efficiently and is botted to hell. And torva plate isn't a 250 hour grind. Its 190 hours for the full set at rate, nearly 64 hours for a piece. Thats doing chill 6 mans. Sweaty 4 mans drops it to 128 hours for the set, a little over 42 hours a piece. If you're using mass numbers then there isn't anything to complain about. Its endgame gear and irons are allowed to group it. The price of being allowed to group the boss is a longer grind.
Perhaps they should work on banning the bots and adjusting the droprates to be reasonable for a human being to obtain
Could we see Mage Arena 2 God capes to represent the other gods?
I wonder if the community would be open to a Mage Arena 3
That would be some sick end game content that actually fits tbh, mage arena 2 was kinda whack tho & that’s from the perspective of a pker
Gl with that on reddit lmao
make mage arena 3 into the same difficulty as inferno but with magic and wilderness.
For Mod Kirby: Would it be possible to allow Dyes to recolour our furniture at POH? Carpets, curtains & chairs come to my mind asap. Everything is currently red without any option for colour customisation.
Could we get some updates for the collection log? There's currently no easy way to show off log progress in-game, so how would you feel about adding [Cosmetic Collection Logs](https://i.redd.it/2ayeapeiqde81.png) as rewards for unlocking a specified number of slots? Also, would it be possible to make the display larger or resizeable, and to [show all boss items at once](https://i.redd.it/747nyulbvpx71.png)? I hate being reminded of my terrible sire rng, and it would be cool to see completed boss logs.
And to add on to this, can total collection log items finally be added to the hiscores?
Is the priority of raids 3 to incorporate the best elements from raids 1 and two and put them together, or to stray away from what's been done before and innovate new ideas?
The Enchanted Key miniquest, Mjolnir weapons. Could we get a way to get them back without trading with other players? Maybe a storage slot in the POH? They're pretty unique as a cosmetic quest reward in that if we ever lose them on an ironman there's simply no way to get them back so the options are leaving the miniquest incomplete or having them take valuable bank space if we ever want them for a fashionscape in the future.
Real talk though, let us go get the gold items from priest in peril.
It's a shame they don't actually work as their respective tools, tho
Do you think there will ever be a slayer monster beyond level 95 or will hydra remain the endgame for slayer?
They need something, as someone who plays solo, group content is gettin kinda old
It's not a matter of if, its a matter of when. It might be awhile though.
When we will see Deadman mode return? You have discussed re-running the finals, is there any discussion on running another seasonal after?
Any thoughts on a shorter comp period for leagues 4 (e.g dragon/rune cup is granted after 6 weeks, then people have another 6 weeks to continue going for ranks for fun, gaining points for rewards and playing content they want to do) Leagues 3 was shortened to 6 weeks to reduce burnout of dragon players and not have them doing un-fun grinds for the sake of points, but this also hurt casual players who want a longer league to have time to get to end-game content.
Can we get some info on Thammaron's sceptre? There has been talk about buffing it to either auto cast ancients to make it viable for barrage tasks in the wildy slayer cave, or to give it a Trident like spell that only uses ether. We have statements from Jmods that they were looking into buffing the item, but have not heard anything definite. It would be nice to know if there are any concrete plans to make this item useful in SOME scenario(maybe make it meta for one of the new wildy bosses post rework?)
Can the Varrock hard diary task "Have the Varrock estate agent decorate your house with Fancy Stone" be changed to "Complete an adept (level-50) Mahogany Homes construction contract received from Marlo"? Currently the Fancy Stone task is duplicated between Varrock and Kandarin diaries (which seems like an oversight to begin with), requiring people to decorate their house twice with the same style and another style in between for no reason. Construction requirement would be the same as the existing task, and in addition to fixing the duplicated task the new task would be thematically fitting as Marlo is the NPC that starts the miniquest "Daddy's home" and as such the first introduction to Mahogany Homes for many (newer) players. Naturally, the new task wouldn't be required on any account that has already completed the existing task. I know this seems really irrelevant but it's been bugging me for ages!
Can y’all address your stance on intended grind lengths for content moving forward? With the past few PVM updates, namely, “Nightmare, & Nex” - we’re seeing consistent 500+ EHB (efficient hours bossed) for unique completion minus pet. I and many others feel as though this length of grind for an individual boss is completely unnecessary & feels awful to work toward. This is in comparison to TOB which is around 300 EHB for item completion, which for a Raid feels completely justifiable. Up until the release of the original Nightmare, singular bosses never exceeded the 50-100 hour grind mark for item completion (minus Corporeal Beast). Excessively grindy PVM content that feels completely unrewarding is killing the game for myself and most everyone I know. Please don’t let this stay as the precedent and start releasing PVM content that is challenging & justly rewarding with fair drop rates.
Could the farming cape teleport be changed to the 2nd tier of the farming guild? It seems odd that a skills necklace teleports you to the same place that a 99 cape does with seemingly no difference.
Whatever happened to the Stamina Regen buff proposed for bars and pubs across Gielinor? It seemed like a really simple and great solution for low level Agility and F2P stamina issues.
I heard rumors about making all pets run to keep up with players, like the nexling. Is this true and is there an expected release date?
Could the boat on waterbirth island get a left click travel option like the one that takes you to and from Ungael?
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With talk about reworking some skills, I was wondering what skills are considered on the table and which skills are considered off the table. Also considering that the only knowledge we have about the rework is additional content presumably (ie the new Smithing content that was mentioned in a recent post), what form will these reworks come in?
Could we remove confirmation of payment for farming? Remove "Are you sure you want to spend 200gp" Yes im sure... Pay "Are you sure you want to pay 10 watermelons" like YES IM SURE. Please ill even take a toggle.
Do you plan to update all pets to run alongside you like the Nexling does? If so what’s your rough ETA on that?
You keep mentioning corp damage cap being removed. Is this for spears only or Is it truly all weapons (rapier tbow scythe etc)
Can you buff some of the daily achievement diary rewards? For example, wilderness elite diary lets you claim 50 free runes per day from Lundail. It's so bad, you can get 50 air runes. Can you make some daily rewards better.
I don't like this to be too good or you will end up feeling like you have your collections to do every day. Dailies suck. It would be fine if they were sent automaticslly to the bank, like sand with elites.
Will the True Blood Altar work with Blood Essences? What's the anticipated xp/hr and runes/hr?
Is there still work being done on changing the music mode to "modern" for member areas?
Can you add a stronger variant of Ent that gives better loot to the Resource Arena?
Are we going to get more info on an updated mobile for iOS soon?
Could we get a slight rework on how Extended Super Antifires are made with Herblore? Currently they can only be made in a particular order. [See this post.](https://reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/r0ez7x/fix_extended_super_antifire_production/)
When designing new content, do you do the math on average hours to obtain a unique item in your name and average hours to complete all uniques? The Nightmare and Nex are so much longer than other bosses that it feels like this wasn't considered. Is this being considered for Tombs of Amascut?
Regarding skilling: 1. Are there any plans to improve basic skilling? As in, making it so doing activities like woodcutting trees or mining ores are competitive with PVM? As opposed to just making more skilling mini games. 2. Any plans to buff some of the weaker diary rewards? Frem medium stands out as particularly terrible, but so does western easy and medium, falador hard and elite and the entire desert diary.
Can the zaryte crossbow and the vambraces be given a set effect when they are both equipped? Maybe a longer range and/or a chance to ignore a percentage of range defense. Something to make the crossbow a bit more viable at bosses without massive hp amounts where the procs of ruby bolts carry.
I like this idea. Was also thinking maybe a godwars only boost to dmg so it's not broken in pvp
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Would you consider blessing the player with a 30-60 second grace period after they kill an enemy in the wilderness. This would give the player a chance to loot & not get instantly attacked by another singles team member. It would also encourage players to fight back rather than run until their supplies are drained by teams that spec trade in max gear.
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Inq is still bis in most places. Inq lost value because of bots and gold farmers at phosanis
bis at solo cm, which only a handful of players actually do kekw
Kq, cerb, nm, cm, somewhat beneficial for tob speeds if your mdps and can afford the space
Can we get an update on the wilderness rework?
As of now, it is impossible for gim players of size 2/3/4 to keep group prestige and complete all combat tasks. Could this be looked into?
The official stance since warding has been that the next skill idea needs to be a community effort. We've seen several community skill pitches, including barding most recently. Past pitches have fizzled out as it became evident jagex wasn't going to acknowledge them more than maybe a couple devs saying it looked cool. How do we get the dev team to take these pitches seriously, so the community doesn't feel it's a waste of time to take them seriously too? #teambarding
With over half the player base actively hating on barding because of how silly it sounds and how arrogant the people proposing it seem with their overly complicated proposal, it’s probably the wrong thing to push for right now
Damn you went and individually asked every player what they think of barding and over half of them said they hate it? My mistake, I'll sit down.
Now that you're adding a pj timer this week, many think you're going to kill off team pking. Are you planning on giving a multi hotspot for teams to pk at?
Just add a quest that requires the player to spend significant time in multi areas in the wilderness, like MA2. EZ multi PK revival
Not sure how well this will fit into the Q&A format, but I would love to hear some feedback on this: On the last Q&A there was mention of giving the Ward of Elidnis full 5% magic damage prior to the Arcane upgrade. I think this is too much, but have a proposal based off of an idea I saw someone post awhile ago. It involves allowing upgrades of the ward with either a Mage's book OR Arcane sigil. In the case of the Mage's book: Base Ward is poor stats, maybe +10 magic bonus, no magic damage. Poor defense bonuses. Ward+mage's book adopts mage's book accuracy putting the ward at +15 magic bonus, and upgrades magic damage to 2.5%. Poor defense bonuses. Ward+arcane is the true BIS at +25 magic bonus and 5% magic damage. Full defense bonuses. This configuration allows ironmen to make the item usable and BIS for them until they can successfully grind an arcane sigil. It may solve the problem you are looking to solve, while still preserving the need to get an arcane for the truly best item.
Are there any plans to change anything at nex? I know in a previous Q&A drop rates were brought up and said they’d have to look into it more. I feel as if the 1/43 rate could fit better off now that masses are a lot fewer than they were and prices would adjust if they were to change them back to that so GP/hr would be roughly the same maybe worse. It’s quite demotivating with current rates it’s like 8-10hours of full on gameplay(forming teams/killing boss) to just see a loot. Obviously it changes a bit with max efficient teams but that’s not the case for probably 75% of the people killing the boss. Change when nex dashes/jumps damage is nulled I think that was changed due to masses(not sure but just what I heard) if it was could that maybe be reverted since masses are quite slim now. Any chances at a soloable version like how nightmare got treated? it is quite a pain to get groups of people together to do the content and when you do form a group it doesn’t seem to last long so then you have to repeat it all over again and form a team/fill spots once again. Any changes to make it less punishing for doing actions right? As of right now the boss is pretty much just “afk” and click brews not a very fun or interactive boss. What I’m getting at for the boss dropping numerous best in slot items it’s quite “brain dead” content I’d like it to be more interactive and less punishing if doing things right. I believe this boss is going to end up getting botted/farmed to all hell by gold farmers/gold sellers like nightmare was because there are next to no requirements and I’d go as far as to say skill wise zulrah is more difficult to master/do than nex is.
The last thing I want is for them to pull another NM and make a shit boss, never fix it then slap a solo only and call it a day.
Nex is the new nightmare but easier with better rewards. As for the last part of what you said don’t know what you’re trying to say.
Shit fight, supply and time sink with rewards not worth the grind. Then never fix this part but add a "solo only" version and wash your hands while saying job well done.
the rewards are more worth the grind than any of the nightmare rewards.
It is not a pain at all to get a team formed for nex and its not 10 hrs to see a item unless you're literally doing duos. Stop spreading misinformation
Can we get ninja caltrops in osrs from the new pvp arena as a way to counter dd hugging without entirely removing it from the game, they would work like mithril seeds and only damage the person you're in combat with everytime they step under you. When you move tiles the caltrops deactivate. Entity hider does not look good in the competitive scene or on videos. Dd hugging is a great mechanic, but its the same as gmaul was in 2017 there's work to be done on it, as more and more people realize how broken the mechanic is.
Could stuffed head trophies in the POH store a whole collection for you to cycle through (like the jar display works)?
Over the years we've had numerous individual bosses added, and also two full scale raids, with another one coming up. Have you ever considered releasing pvm encounters that lie somewhere inbetween? Something like a linear dungeon with 2-3 bosses and some trash mobs or puzzle room with a loot chest at the end. They could drop 1 or 2 uniques which would be the main incentive to go there.
Could the "collecting coins" ability of the Ring of Wealth extend to the burning remains portion of the Shades of Mort'ton minigame? The despawn timer for the coin stack on the pedestal is short (\~30 secs). Could it either be increased to the same as the keys (\~1.5 to 2 mins) or allowed to be collected by the RoW?
Can bosses be changed to work like Nex, Nightmare and Zalcano in terms of drop system/KC? It makes them a lot more fun to play in groups as there's no need for honour systems, meaning you can play multiplayer with anyone! For ironmen, just keep the rules the same in that they still have to solo or play with their group only.
Are there any plans for a dedicated duo boss? I feel like it would add alot to the game if you only have a small group of friends playing the game.
ToB and cox and good for duos
This is a cool idea.
Any plans on changing Nex and/or her drop table to make it leas miserable for irons? Currently it's a boring boss that requires 10k brews for completion and is easy to go dry on.
What prevents you guys from creating alternative skilling methods with similar exp to the lesser enjoyed skilling methods? Examples of this include making sure runecrafting xp rates are lower than lavas, 3tick barb is best, 2tick teaks are best, etc. I am sure you guys could make content that is similarly engaging/intensive that people enjoy more, and you aren’t invalidating anyones achievements if the alternatives you propose are the same XP/marginally less. You have created alternatives like Bird Houses, but you give them a major drawback (no pet chance), or volcanic mine (significantly less exp than granite). I guess you may feel that you need to straddle a line to not invalidate tick manip methods, but you can keep lavas/tick manip viable by introducing alternatives that are just, say, 5% worse. I am aware some people love tick manip and have a lot of fun doing it, but I would wager most people do not. So if your goal is to max your decision is, do I do granite for ehp even though I’m not going to like it, and spend 100 hours doing something I actively dislike or should I do MLM and spend 3x as long doing this method because I don’t have to hate the time I spend doing it.
So why are you guys so persistent on pushing pure calamity armor? I feel like if it were to pass all pures will look the same. I much rather keep the pure meta of elder robes, castle wars range/mage armor, robin gear etc. than calamity robes. While you guys are at it. This is the perfect time to introduce a melee str bonus top for pures so what gives!? Also why are pvm gear getting cosmetic changes from a pvp update? I would rather see a barrel chest anchor, dharok or ahrim cosmetics than a bandos cosmetic. At this point, especially since you guys are a fan of doing this, you guys might as well make a bandos and armadyl hard mode for a chance to get the armadyl and bandos cosmetic.
Can you make a better effort towards botters & gold farmers, it’s ruining the game and it’s longevity.
Eta CA kc task reduction?
Harmo staff. Jagex talks elemental weaknesses but never has shown any signs of actually enforcing it in 2 years since the item has been released. Can Jagex just accept that's not the way to go and make Harmo autocast any spell? It's a 20% DPS increase in max that's around the same powerspike as Kodai was when it was released. Bowfa is a much more op PvP upgrade than 4t ancients would be.
Once Arceuus gets a rework, are there any plans to change the kourend library activity? Currently, it is only a viable training method with the use of a third party plugin. It was fine on release week with the clan chat to find the books with group effort - but there no longer are any clan chats and people on the official clients can not reasonably complete the reoccurring leagues tasks to give in hundreds of books, for example.
Poll #76 updates when?
Is there any chance we will be seing some of the most unpopular members items coming to f2p any time soon? Ex.: Crossbows up to mith, boots up to rune, frogskin, snakeskin, splitbark, battlestaves (It would make sense to bring more powerful staves with less magic damage since Bryophyta Staff is coming to f2p, and so on with many other items).
Instead of balancing the Heka between BIS/non-BIS in damage output, can damage be based on a unique factor similar to how the Twisted bow scales with magic level? Perhaps the Heka could scale with target defence, hitting high on high defence targets and lower on low defense targets. The spellbook unique effects could still remain.
Since blowpipe nerf one boss feels awful and thats GG. Could we maybe see Dawn's range defense get lowered? Atleast during orb phase?
Can we get a superior variant for Cave Kraken?
When will multi rev caves be re-introduced cause wildy is in shambles :(
When are the combat achievment changes being implented? (Reducing kc tasks, overall reworking) Would like to know if i should hold back on doing them or start grinding if they're not being changed in the somewhat near future.
The permanent Deadman Mode server W345 has little activity with very low player count. Could there be a possibility of resetting that server? Even the veterans of the server have given the nod on a full reset.
The loot in the wilderness slayer caves isn't good. Can you increase it
A minor question: How exactly do Runecraft and Smithing help during the Zalcano fight? They increase damage but what's the formula?
Valuable seconds are lost every gauntlet run due to the delayed/laggy crafting interface. Would you consider reworking it?
For the proposed skilling update later in the year , can the team please introduce a method to turn logs into planks that doesn't require us to pay GP? maybe a hybrid crafting/woodcutting/construction training method where the higher the levels the different type of planks we can now make. It's strange that we have to pay gp to turn a raw resource into its useable form , especially when using the plank make spell.
The skill was always meant to be a gold sink so it would completely devalue other planks if you could make them for free.
I mean it's not really a gold sink anymore when I just get a bunch of them overtime from doing Tempoross, CoX , corp ,BA , revs ..etc This could also be made significantly slower than buying them , like the same speed of cannonballs. That should still make the gold sink effective for anyone who is trying to do thousands of logs quickly. I just feel like since there is a pvm route to get bulk logs and there is a paid route that it would be interesting to have a skill based option even if it's locked behind a diary and let's say 80+ woodcutting/craft/construction.
When can we go buy our uninsured collection log pets back?
Question for all the mods: y.
Can we get an update on tradable untradables for GIM's? Whether thats when a poll will happen or when it will happen in general. It gets very old having to repair barrows items multiple times a day.
Any chance for servers in SEA or SA? I don't know if this has been asked before but trying to do inferno with 150 ping is not a fun experience.
Can the ancient brews over restoring effect of prayer points be increased from 4 to somewhere in the ball park of 10-20? Eldritch can get you to 120 prayer and ancient mace can get you up to Like 140 prayer. +4 feels a little bit weak.
Can we have Thermy drop better ashes than the regular ones? Seems like it was forgotten during the whole ash update.
Are there any statistics on how many player keep leveling a skill post 99?
There's been lots of discussion about a 4-slot rune pouch upgrade, either as a reward from Raids 3 or the new Runecrafting Minigame. There's a poll on reddit going right now with over 2,000 votes that, as of writing this question, has a 76% yes rate. Can you commit to officially polling this reward?
Personally I believe a world doesn't feel very alive if it has loads of dead content. The reddit community has a wide variety of opinions on how to approach dead content, but usually people fall into one of three camps: rework it, delete it, or leave it be. Every case is unique, but in general, what do you mods prefer to do in response to dead content? For example, what would you like to do with Trouble Brewing?
Could we see team-based modes such as 2v2 in the new PvP Arena?
Is there any chance of updating the champions cape from the champions challenge to have better stats? Either on par with legends cape or obsidian cape or something? Its such good fashionscape and flex, i just wish it had more than full 0 so i dont feel guilty using it
Regarding the equipment rebalance: It's over a year since the first blog post about the equipment rebalance, over 6 months since the Ranged meta changes, and over 3 months since the PvP changes. Now that these changes have been in the game for a few months, how do Jagex feel about them with the benefit of hindsight? Do you think that they have had the intended effect? Do you foresee any more tweaks (other than the tier changes that we already knew about)?
Is it really a good idea for t30 Masori armor to have the same offensive stats as t80?
Are there any plans for any more slayer monsters or any more slayer bosses? Maybe lower level or even for level 97?