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Early Game Rebalance

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Agility

Thieving

Hunter

Divination

Farming and Herblore

Prayer

Fishing

Salvage and spirits

Quests

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For the purpose of today's discussion we will be defining the early game, loosely, as the level 1-50 range. The Early Game Rebalance update primarily aims to smooth out inconsistencies in game progression, looking at areas of the early game where things can feel slow or have limited methods for levelling up, or where they affect integrity and game health. It’s not all just rebalances though! There are also some changes to early quests, and things like replacing salvage with gear to make the first hours after jumping off Tutorial Island a nicer experience.

The Early Game Rebalance update releases on February 16th!

As of writing this blog, this update is close to finishing its development phase. As such, there may be some (minor) extra changes or clarifications not listed here today which will be added to the patch notes on release day.

Let's break it down!

Agility

Agility faces an array of problems. Silverhawk Boots allow you to broadly ignore training methods, low level courses are a bit slow for XP, and shortcuts don't live up to their purpose as much as they once used to. There's much to be said about Agility's broader purpose in the game, especially in relation to the abundance of easy teleports and the limited extent that run energy is affected by it these days, but such topics will need to be addressed over a longer period of time. In the meantime, we believe it's important to make early training more palatable, as well as tuning some level requirements for agility shortcuts.

Agility Courses

Agility courses are the primary way to train Agility throughout the skill, and especially in the early game. However, they've remained largely unchanged for many years and Agility as a whole can be slow to train.

• We'll be increasing the XP per obstacle and per lap, which consequently increases the XP per hour while training on agility courses up to level 35:

Lvl Required	Course	Current XP/lap	New XP/lap	Current XP/h (Approx)	New XP/h (Approx)	XP Change
1	Burthorpe	79.7	130	7,651	12,480	+63%
1	Gnome Stronghold	86.5	130	8,897	13,371	+50%
25	Werewolf Skullball (slow)	750	1,000	15,000	20,000	+33%
25	Werewolf Skullball (fast)	900	1,200	21,600	28,800	+33%
30	Agility Pyramid	1214	1,500	27,315	33,750	+24%
30	Anachronia (Beginner)	270	300	28,588	31,764	+11%
30	Penguin Agility	765	900	34,425	40,500	+18%
35	Barbarian Outpost	174	350	20,880	42,000	+101%

Agility Shortcuts

We'll be decreasing the level requirements for a handful of agility shortcuts where their requirements were too high relative to the content around them. This will make them more useful at earlier points in the game.

• We will lower the Agility level requirements of the following shortcuts:
• Fremennik Slayer Dungeon
• Strange Floor shortcut from level 62 to 43.
• Crevice shortcut from level 81 to 61.
• Shilo Village
• Stepping stones shortcut from level 74 to 32.

We'll also be addressing two agility shortcuts which were being used to level Agility early on. This sort of gameplay was undesirable as we want players interacting with core skill methods instead of repeatedly using these shortcuts to level up.

• Watchtower Trellis and Nature's Grotto bridge will award 1 XP when traversing them.

In the Mid and Late Game Rebalance updates coming later this year we'll be taking a similar approach to higher level agility courses and shortcuts.

Thieving

At its core, low level Thieving isn't the most fun. You pickpocket someone, have a high chance of failing, get stunned, and can't do anything for a few seconds. Meanwhile at the high-end you can sit and pickpocket certain NPCs indefinitely without any interaction. Neither of these are good places for the skill to be in.

This update will introduce changes to pickpocketing, as well as a number of other tweaks and quality of life improvements alongside these changes. Although this rebalance update is for the early-game, the changes to Thieving will also include skill-wide changes from Mod Sponge and Daze's gamejam work - shoutout to them both!

Pickpocketing

• All pickpocketing will start with a 75% success rate, which increases with your Thieving level and other buffs.
• The success rate will thereafter drop over time as you continue to pickpocket, until you're caught or pick a new target.
• The stun time will be reduced from 7+ ticks to 5 ticks.
• All pickpocketing targets will have their locations listed in the Thieving skillguide.

The changes implementing a decreasing success rate will stop allowing 15 minutes of full AFKing throughout the skill. We're doing this as we want players to interact with the game more regularly and get closer to the identity of Thieving, where it should feel like there is at least some risk of getting caught.

Pyramid Plunder

The following changes are aimed at improving the overall experience of Pyramid Plunder, as well as making core Thieving equipment more accessible.

• We will buff the drop rate of Scepter of the Gods from 1/625 to 1/480.
• Luck rings will now apply standard reductions to this drop rate.
• We will remove the increased chance provided by the Camouflage outfit and will update the tooltip to reflect this.
• We will buff the drop rate of the Black Ibis outfit pieces from 1/2,300 to 1/800.
• Each subsequent room reduces the chance by 100. So, room 2 has a 1/700 chance, improving up to 1/100 for the final room.
• We will remove the level 78 Thieving requirement to roll for the outfit.
• We will modernise the Pyramid Plunder UI.
• We will remove the 2-tick delay when opening urns.
• Urns in the pyramid will no longer be clickable once they have been looted.

Thieves Guild

One core problem with the Thieves Guild doors is the need to constantly hop worlds which we consider as undesirable gameplay. Our planned changes mean you should no longer need to do so in order to train Thieving properly during the early game. We will also be making XP reductions as the doors are a dominant training method for too large a band of levels, as we want to encourage players to move between methods more often.

• Thieving Guild doors and chests will work like they do in Heists.
• XP will be received in chunks with each successful progression.
• We will update Thieves Guild doors and chests to be player specific rather than world specific and they will respawn quicker.
• These currently take 5 minutes to reset, but will be changed to reset instantly. The chests behind them will have a 45 second cooldown.
• We will reduce the XP from doors and chests slightly. For example, the north door will give 160 XP (without failing), which is down from its current 210 XP.

Other Changes

The following changes aim to make some of the gameplay experience and progression smoother and stick more in line with our views on game integrity. We know many of you will be happy to see that those old chests will match the 120 Thieving ones!

• We will update all older thieving chests, so they become player rather than world specific and will behave the same as the new chests added with our 120 Thieving update.
• We will reduce the effectiveness of the Crystal Mask buff from a 25 level boost (50 with Light Form) to a 10 level boost (20 with Light Form).
• Dev Note: Currently, when used in conjunction with Light Form, Crystal Mask is stronger than every other relevant buff put together, which we deemed too high.
• We will combine the H.A.M. member unlocks into one.
• We will change the stun damage to be 3%+X "of max HP" rather than "of current HP".

A final note on Thieving: With the Mid and End Game Rebalance updates coming later this year we will also be reviewing the XP rates and drops (GP output) of things like Pickpocketing NPCs, as some of their outputs are currently considered too high. We'll talk more about this at the right time.

Hunter

Similar to the above two skills (Agility & Thieving), Hunter can be quite hard to get started with in the early game. Additionally, Whirligigs are a dominant method of training throughout the entirety of Hunter and overshadow other methods such as Big Game Hunter in the later levels.

Whirligigs

The core issue we believe Whirligigs have is that they're far too good for XP, and are the meta for almost the entire 1-99 grind, which prevents variety in the skill. At the higher end especially they're multiple times better than the next best method. We'll be reducing the XP of these to ensure that other methods can have their moment in the spotlight too. At the same time, some gameplay interactions are currently a bit weird so we've addressed those as well. The changes are as follows:

• We will increase the base XP of catching Whirligigs (see table below).
• We will reduce the XP gained from chained catches from 100% to 25%.
• We will reduce the "Increased XP Rate" unlock from Dundee's Crocodile Upgrade store from 10% to 5%.
• We will increase the level requirement for plain Whirligigs from level 1 Hunter to level 16 and for Dazzling Whirligigs from level 1 Hunter to level 20.

Whirligig Type	Current Level Req	New Level Req	Current base Catch XP	New Base Catch XP	Base Catch XP Change	XP/h Change (approx)
Plain	1	16	12	20	+67%	-40%
Dazzling	1	20	100	100	-	-64%
Gliding	30	Unchanged	95	90	+5%	-62%
Swift	50	Unchanged	180	180	-	-64%
Hasty	70	Unchanged	220	300	+36%	-51%
Speedy	90	Unchanged	450	500	+11%	-60%

When you currently catch additional scarabs in a "chain", you get the full XP drop for the additional catches. This will be changed to be just 25% on these additional catches, to prevent "cheesing" by catching a Plain whirligig first.

Alongside the base-catch XP change, this will encourage catching the correct Whirligig the first time. As mentioned, these XP changes will bring Whirligigs into a more reasonable line with other methods that were introduced in a Hunter-skill-wide rebalance some years ago when Anachronia released.

The level requirements for Plain and Dazzling Whirligigs were also increased to encourage interacting with other early Hunter methods first, before moving on to Whirligig catching.

• When handling a crocodile, you will no longer walk away when accidentally clicking on the water.
• You can still interact with and walk to locations around Het's Oasis such as flowers, bank chests, or NPCs when handling a crocodile.
• We will increase the minimum and maximum amount of flowers obtained from flower spots around Het's Oasis by 20%.

These changes are aimed at removing some "cheese" methods when catching Whirligigs. You'll no longer need to open your wardrobe to prevent accidentally moving, which we viewed as a weird bit of gameplay. Players are also manually prevented using flowers by leaving at least one Plain whirligig - this is currently achieved by inserting only a specific amount of flowers into each basket. We want to ensure these mechanics are engaged properly, thus the base-catch XP change.

Finally, we've also increased the amount of flowers obtained from harvesting flower spots by 20% so that you're not spending as much time collecting flowers vs. hunting Whirligigs.

Low Level Hunter

To off-set the above nerfs to Whirligigs in the lower levels, we'll also be increasing some XP rates for low-level Hunter as it can otherwise feel a bit slow right now and we want to ensure there's appropriate methods for levelling up.

As of writing this blog, we're still crunching the final numbers, and will detail the final changes in the release newspost on February 16th.

Divination

Divination, especially in the early levels, is often seen as slow to train. We'll be increasing the XP rates at the low end to make getting through the early levels faster.

As of writing this blog, we're crunching the final numbers, and will detail the final changes in the release newspost on February 16th.

Farming and Herblore

Farming and Herblore suffer from a couple issues early in the game too. Certain early herb seeds can be hard to come by, which affects players' ability to train Farming as well as Herblore.

Meanwhile, beehives propel you through early Farming levels too quickly for minimal input, undermining alternatives such as planting seeds.

Herb Seeds

To make early Herblore (and Farming) training more accessible, we've added some low level herb seeds to the drop tables of early-game mobs. These changes will allow players to receive various early-game Herblore seeds as they journey through the game naturally, while also adding new options to target those seed drops more easily.

• Guam seeds will now be able to drop from Goblins and Swamp Frogs.
• Marrentill seeds will now be able to drop from Barbarians and Guards.
• Tarromin seeds will now be able to drop from Muggers and Hobgoblins.
• Harralander seeds will now be able to drop from Hill Giants and Flesh Crawlers.
• Irit seeds will now be able to drop from Moss Giants and Catablepons.

Beehives

We'll be adding level requirements to honeycombs instead of having them all unlock at level 17. As a result we'll be giving these their own XP rewards in line with the requirements.

• Honeycomb level requirements will be changed to the values in the table below.
• Flowers will each have their own XP values, and overall XP will be reduced across the board.
• Currently these flowers all give 83.3 XP (Bonus points for anyone who spots the easter egg)

Level Req	Flower	Xp/Honeycomb	XP/Hive/Day
17	Marigold	9	216
21	Snapegrass	15	360
25	Rosemary	22.5	540
30	Nasturtiums	34	816
35	Woadleaf	37	888
45	Roses	54	1,296
50	Irises	64	1,536
55	Hydrangeas	77	1848
75	Hollyhocks	156	3,744
80	Golden roses	200	4,800

These changes are being made to stop shooting players through multiple levels within a day as it was too cheap and easy to do so with Beehives.

Players traditionally use Woad leaves which are cheap to obtain and could jump the player up 15+ levels in a single day. Beehives currently overshadow the XP that could be gained from planting seeds at similar levels.

Prayer

Early prayer training can be slow, especially since the removal of the Nexus last year (even though it had very little engagement). Improved methods via altars are not immediately apparent to players and finding Player Owned House (PoH) altars is difficult.

We're now introducing the ability to offer bones and ashes at normal overworld altars for increased XP. This is a simple change with minimal requirements that will better lead players into other methods such as training at the Fort and PoH later on. We'll also be making some changes to balance other altars to match up better in this regard.

Overworld Altars

• The majority of altars around the game world will have an "offer" option.
• These altars will give +50% XP when offering bones or ashes, compared to burying or scattering them.
• We will add "altars giving more XP" to the skillguide to ensure new (and existing) players are aware of this as a method.

Chaos Altar

• The Chaos Altar will be updated to require the Demonic Skull.

With the removal of forced PvP, the Chaos Altar is too overpowered and has no drawbacks. This change introduces risk back into the activity.

Fort Altars

• Tier 1 altar will be reduced from 2.5x to 2x XP.
• Tier 2 altar will be reduced from 3x to 2.5x XP.
• Tier 3 altar will be reduced from 3.5x to 3x XP.

This change will mean that PoH altars will offer the best XP/h, while the Fort will remain useful for its chance to save materials - which in turn will still increase XP/h.

PoH Altars

• Oak altars will be increased from 1x to 1.5x XP.
• Teak altars will be increased from 1.1x to 1.6x XP.
• Cloth altars will be increased from 1.25x to 1.7x XP.
• Mahogany altars will be increased from 1.5x to 1.8x XP.
• Limestone altars will be increased from 1.75x to 1.9x XP.
• All other PoH altars will remain the same, with Gilded altars giving 2.5x XP.
• Note: all altars get another 50% increase for each burner lit.

All the above changes aim to position altars and Prayer training in a more reasonable path through the skill, while giving each method their own advantages, whether that's extra XP from PoH altars or saving materials at Fort altars. Low level players will now have more reason to collect and save bones and ashes for altar trips to better advance through levels.

Note: These changes to altars will once again be reviewed by the team as part of the 120 Construction update, to ensure any changes continue to make sense in context of future changes.

Fishing

There will only be a small change for Fishing in this update: we'll be reducing the catch rate of Shrimps and Crayfish in order to bring them back in-line with other fish at the low levels. At one point in the past, Shrimp catch rates were tripled, which had knock-on effects including making it feel harder to get Anchovies. This also made Shrimp and Crayfish the optimal method to train for too long a time in the early Fishing levels.

• We will reduce the catch rate of Shrimp and Crayfish to match other fish at the low levels.

This change will encourage players to move on to other fishing spots earlier, rather than staying at Shrimps or Crayfish for too long. This is a minor change, as it will still be only a couple minutes to reach, say, level 5.

Salvage and spirits

Our first non-skill change is for Salvage and Stone Spirits. With the Mining & Smithing Rework in 2019 we broadly changed all gear, ore, and bar drops to become either salvage or stone spirits respectively. This was originally done as we wanted Smithed gear and Mining supplies to come purely from Smithing and Mining - in order to ensure that value came from skilling.

However, this change affected the low-levels too much, as salvage is fairly useless until the Invention skill is unlocked, and high-alching salvage only makes sense from Adamant salvage and above. That's not to mention that they can be confusing to new players too, and simply just don't feel great to get drops early on.

We're going to be reverting some of these changes, so that some of the below mobs will drop armour, weapons, ores, and bars again to ensure that those drops are useful and feel good.

For this update, we'll be targeting NPCs which dropped salvage and stone spirits up to Adamant only, and will review Rune and beyond in the Mid and/or Late Game Rebalance updates coming later this year. There are too many changes here to list, so we'll list the affected NPCs instead:

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• Dung kalphite
• Desert lizards
• Outlaws
• Viking guards
• Rockslug
• Minotaur
• Goblins
• Cyclops
• HAM guards
• Dwarf guards
• Dwarfs
• Cave goblin miners
• Cave goblin guards
• Man
• Woman
• Farmer
• Rogue
• Thief
• Al Kharid warriors
• Giant spiders
• Guards
• Hobgoblin
• Mugger
• Ork
• Rockcrab
• Skeletons
• Thugs
• Tribesmen
• Zombies
• Dragith Nurn
• Hill giant
• Flesh crawler
• Barbarian.

We've carefully selected these, as we still want to be cautious about causing an influx of smithed items and mining supplies coming into the game; This is also why we've not changed all these drops game-wide. We will continue to review our analytics on these drops post-release, to monitor their effects on the economy and prices of smithed items and Mining supplies.

• The Spring Cleaner options for salvage will continue to target these drops relative to salvage size.
• E.g. "Small Salvage" will disassemble 2-bar smithed item drops.

Quests

Some of our iconic early game quests have been changed over the years, specifically Cook's assistant and Sheep shearer. These changes broke player expectations based on familiarity with the content, which can lead to frustration and confusion such as "Why can't I hand in this egg?" and "What do you mean it has to be black wool?", which is something we'd like to avoid occurring in the first hours of gameplay.

Cook's Assistant

• The quest will once again require normal Eggs, Milk, and Flour.
• We will re-add chat guidance from the cook for where to get these items.
• We will change the first option on windmill hoppers to be "Fill" instead of "Investigate".
• This will now prevent players from getting an unhelpful message when trying to produce flour.
• We will add an easter egg if the player has all items already with them when starting the quest.

Sheep Shearer

• The quest will require white wool instead of black wool.
• We'll increase the quest-completion reward XP for Crafting from 150 to 300 XP.
• We'll resolve a bug for players who hadn't previously collected their GP reward.

In the Mid and Late Game Rebalance updates coming later this year we'll also be reviewing other quests with a focus on where their rewards could use some tuning!

That concludes everything coming with the Early Game Rebalance update. These changes will make those early hours in the game a much better experience, whether you're a new player or a veteran starting a new account, and especially when we come round to updates such as Leagues! We know that our work for the early game beyond this update is not finished, and that there's plenty more to address - so let us know what else you would like to see changed in the future.

Reminder that the Early Game Rebalance update releases on February 16th!

DailyScape Overhaul

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Content being Adjusted

Content being Removed

Content we are still Exploring

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DailyScape has long been a problem that affects players' ability to enjoy and play the game on their own accord. The problems that DailyScape cause can be broken down as follows:

1. DailyScape content becomes a chore list.

• Before you can get round to what you want to do when you log in, you need to complete a task list of dailies. This can become quite tiresome day in and day out.

DailyScape causes time-pressure when playing RuneScape.

• Players end up feeling pressured to login each day, and feel pressure to complete dailies before daily reset.
• Some dailies, such as the Wilderness Flash Events, cause time pressure by forcing you to stop what you're doing at specific times to go and participate.

The rewards from dailies are powerful, and can add up.

• Dailies advance players through levels much faster than core content - faster than we'd like - and also result in skipping core skilling methods and other content.

These three issues are interlinked and compound, creating unfun gameplay pressures even if the rewards feel good at the moment. Our ultimate goal with the DailyScape Overhaul update is to remove time pressures that demand that you log in every day and at specific times, and stop them from getting in the way of how you want to play.

In terms of integrity and game health, they end up skipping players through levels instead of interacting with core game content; This also inherently impacts things like the supply and demand, and prices of skilling supplies and other content, which are interacted with less often and thereby affect the game's economy.

In short:

DailyScape is a term that describes game content, outside of a skills core identity, that is often perceived as mandatory by players due to time-gated mechanics and the disproportionately high reward offering for little time investment.

With the DailyScape update (currently scheduled for early March), we will remove much of the concept of DailyScape, leaving only a handful of daily activities, but otherwise changing or removing content to fall more in line with our vision and goals for integrity for RuneScape. While we very much understand that some of these activities can feel good, and that some routine in your play sessions is fun, we see DailyScape as a real offender when it comes to game health and your long-term enjoyment of the game.

It's also important to state that we don't view content such as Farming as "DailyScape", despite being "time gated" as they don't quite fall into the same pitfalls that DailyScape content does. These things define the identity of skills such as Farming which we absolutely want to maintain. Similarly there may be some dailies which we consider to be quite inoffensive which we won't be removing or adjusting.

You may wonder why weeklies and monthlies aren't a part of this update. While these cause some of the same issues as DailyScape content, the longer window to interact with these weekly or monthly means they're much less offensive in these respects. In the future we will review these pieces of content, but for the scope of this update we are looking strictly at dailies.

Overall we want you to be able to log in whenever you want, and play however you want, without the pressure of missing out or being online at a certain time.

Now, let's go through how we're addressing different pieces of DailyScape content. We've listed the overarching changes below, but will list specific changes to content within the newspost on release day.

Our Approach:

Where possible, we've tried to focus on re-adjusting content to find a place in the new era of RuneScape.

However, for some instances of DailyScape, this is not possible due to the very nature/identity of the content. In those instances, we will be making the difficult decision to remove those pieces of content. Beyond the pieces of content themself, we'll also be mindful to make tweaks to content where appropriate, such as achievements related to these examples.

Content being Adjusted

Guthixian Cache

Caches are one of the biggest offenders when it comes to Dailyscape. The changes to Guthixian Caches will position the content as more of a Divination "training method". As such, we'll also be making some tweaks to mechanics to make the gameplay better and more friendly, such as adding a mechanic to distract Automatons.

These will no longer open every hour, and instead open after depositing a number of memories at a rift. There'll be no daily cap, though players will still stay inside until they reach 100 points each time.

Shop Stock

Shop runs are, again, another offender for Dailyscape. With this update we'll be changing specific shops, that are especially used for daily runs, to no longer reset daily. Instead they will accumulate to a new increased cap, building up over 7 days. This allows you more freedom to do shop runs with a longer window of time.

Soul Reaper

Soul Reaper will no longer have a daily cap. Instead, players will be able to train Slayer via bossing as much as they'd like.

Reaper Points will instead have a weekly cap, but Slayer points won't. We'll be looking at making any content or balancing tweaks where appropriate to reflect this change.

Modified Headwear

Players will no longer be able to get free daily items from these. These originated from MTX long ago and as part of our Road to Restoration goals we want to address this.

Wicked Hood

It will no longer be possible to get free daily items or gain new teleport charges to altars. Once all teleport charges have been used up, no new ones will be addable. Players will still be able to store talismans to use the hood itself as a talisman, and will be able teleport to the Runecrafting Guild.

Fish Flingers

Fish Flingers has some fun gameplay mechanics which make for some cool alternative options for Fishing training. We'll be removing daily caps and the need for entry tickets to partake in Fish Flingers, and make any tweaks where needed for consistency - such as XP and daily D&D reset tokens.

Evil Tree

The Evil Tree is an iconic D&D. We'll be removing the daily cap for interacting with trees, and allow buffs to still be obtained after successfully defeating the tree.

Crystal Tree Blossom

Albeit minor, the Crystal Tree in Prifddinas is yet another thing you have to check each day. We'll be tweaking the tree to store up to 30 "charges", increasing by 1 each day at daily reset. The XP per blossom will be reduced to reflect this change.

Red and Crystal Sandstone

We will be removing the cap on the amount of Sandstone which can be mined daily, allowing you to mine indefinitely. The rocks' mining stats and XP will be tweaked to reflect these changes, as we want to be cautious of the influx of items coming into the economy.

Phoenix

The Phoenix in the Phoenix Lair will no longer have a daily cap. We'll be adjusting some XP and drops to reflect this change.

Bork

Bork will no longer be a repeatable D&D, and players will be able to kill Bork as much as desired. However, the Slayer XP from subsequent kills will be removed. We'll buff the Slayer XP for the first time kill, and players can continue to kill it for drops.

Wizard Cromperty - Free Pure Essence

Free Pure Essence will now be given on a weekly basis, rather than one per day. The amount of Pure Essence received has been multiplied by 7.

Content being Removed

Daily Challenges

Daily Challenges are the definition of DailyScape. They've seen various changes over the years, such as tuning to become much quicker to complete and the addition of the weekly reward track. Although for some players they create a fun routine to log in daily, they are one of the most prominent causes of login pressure, especially with the addition of the weekly reward track. Additionally, players can gain large chunks of XP per day with very little input through them, leading to players skipping substantial portions of the game just from logging in daily. The weekly reward track also allowed players to consistently gain powerful items that originated from MTX - Items that we'll be removing at the end of this year.

As part of our Road to Restoration philosophies, we believe the game shouldn't be played this way; players should instead level up through organic gameplay.

With this update we will be completely removing Daily Challenges.

Wilderness Flash Events

Wildy Flash Events are a real problem when it comes to time-pressuring content and XP/GP output for disproportionate input. We'll be fully removing Wildy Flash Events, and will make tweaks to content such as the related mini-quests. Items like the Dark Onyx Core, Portable Obelisk and Obelisk Shard will be made available as drops from Wilderness content.

We understand how fun it can be to have so many players participating at the same time, and want to look at opportunities to create or encourage social play like this happening in other content in the future.

Motherlode Maw & Motherlode Shards

The Motherlode Maw and Shards give enhancers that skip or speed-up pieces of content, which is something we aim to address within our Road to Restoration roadmap. The Maw will be disabled and shards will no longer be obtainable. We'll still allow you to exchange any remaining shards you have with Wythien post-release, and use any remaining enhancers you currently have.

Travelling Merchant

Although beloved, the Travelling merchant is another core DailyScape offender, also giving players ways to skip lots of game content, which goes against our goals for the Road to Restoration. Fear not, as the red map will still be obtainable from the Deep Sea Fishing hub.

Divine Locations

Divine Locations are a bit of a strange daily as we see them. They don't offer much for gameplay and also provide chunks of XP outside of organic gameplay. Although skilling resources are used to make them, they multiply the number of resources players get back, especially as multiple players can interact with a single one. While they won't be obtainable anymore, existing divine locations will not be removed from your inventory or bank.

Mini Evil Tree

The Mini Evil Tree will no longer be able to be spawned using the Nature's Sentinel outfit. These cause issues as they offer a large chunk of XP that can be gained in a minute with disproportionate, really no, input.

Sinkholes

Sinkholes hit on the same issues that Wilderness Flash Events and other time-specific content does, having daily caps as well as needing to be somewhere at a specific time that can interrupt whatever you're currently doing.

Gorajo Card

The Gorajo Hoardstalker will no longer give a free Gorajo card each day.

Rune Goldberg Machine

The Rune Goldberg Machine, used to obtain Vis Wax, is another frequently engaged daily that contributes to the DailyScape issue.

We'll be removing the machine and stopping players from gaining Vis Wax. With the removal of things like Daily Challenges, Divine Locations, and the Aura Overhaul update coming later this year, Vis Wax will no longer have a real purpose outside of quick teleports.

We'll be keeping the ability to obtain quick teleports, it just won't be from Vis Wax.

We're still considering how quick teleports might be obtainable in future, including perhaps through the use of runes. We don't have any concrete directions here just yet though and will continue to work through this question in the weeks ahead. We won't be removing any Vis Wax that players still have currently.

Content We're Still Exploring

There are some pieces of content that we're still exploring in design as we're mid-development. Do note that not all the content listed below will be changed if we deem them inoffensive with regards to DailyScape.

This includes the following DailyScape content:

• Wilderness Warbands
• We'll be exploring the removal of Wildy Warbands.
• Liberation of Mazcab - Raids Daily Lockout
• We'll be looking at removing the daily lockout, and making any adjustments to drops and drop rates where necessary to reflect this change.
• Serenity Posts
• We'll be looking at removing the daily cap and making minor tweaks to turn it into a skilling method.
• Aquarium Decoration Daily Items
• We'll be looking at removing the ability to gain free daily items.
• Slime Pit Teleport
• We want to remove the teleport, and make Buckets of Slime easier to obtain.
• Tzhaar-Hur-Zuh Daily Tokkul
• We want to change this to give one large lump-sum of Tokkul once, instead of a daily amount.
• And more:
• Shooting Star
• Big Chinchompa
• Menaphos Obelisk
• Runesphere
• Jade Vines
• Claimed uncharted isles
• Arc Contracts
• Supply Run
• Trinks Tasks
• Heart of Gielinor Bounty
• Book of Char

We'll be listing out the specific changes to each of these pieces of content within the release newspost for this update, and include anything that isn't mentioned here currently.

Please Note: As this update is still mid-development, the changes listed above are all subject to change based on final design and balancing. We'll list any and all changes and patch notes in the release news-post.

With all of these changes we'll be placing RuneScape in a much better place in accordance with the problems that DailyScape causes, which are detailed above at the start of this section. We want RuneScape to feel much more organic to play, and allow you to play as you wish - without the fear of missing out and pressure to log in each day.

Going forward we're also going to be much more conscious of the risk of adding DailyScape style content to RuneScape as we don't want these problems to resurface in the future.

There's one final step now for DailyScape: See what you, the players, think about the planned changes above - because this is as much your journey as it is ours! Hopefully you'll understand why we're tackling certain content in certain ways and will agree with our thoughts. Where you don't though, we'd love to hear why so that we can continue to iterate on our planned changes while continuing to work towards our goals for the Road to Restoration.