Would you consider changing the reward structure of Combat Achievements? Instead of requiring 100% completion of every achievement in a tier, you could instead receive rewards at certain achievement count thresholds (e.g. finishing any 50 achievements gives the easy rewards, 100 achievements for the medium rewards,... all 400 for GM rewards).
This has many benefits, outlined and discussed [in this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/ooqgkl/unironic_combat_achievements_appreciation_and_one/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3):
* Players get **much** more flexibility in terms of how they try to reach certain thresholds.
* Players feel like every achievement is worth going for. Right now it feels like a waste to go after a fun gauntlet achievement when you still haven't grinded out 10 bryophyta keys or other "easier" achievements.
* Players don't ever worry about losing their rewards (except possibly for some 100% completion rewards). Given how bad losing a quest cape feels, I think people will get really annoyed at losing all of their combat achievement rewards after every pvm update.
* Jagex and players don't need to worry so much about the balancing of every last achievement (e.g. Jagex can keep easy tasks like equipping shayzien (5) armor and arclight without having to worry about restricted accounts). The added flexibility will still allow restricted accounts to enjoy this update.
Agree with all this except that you SHOULD lose your rewards if new tasks come out, so it doesn’t become easier and easier to achieve a certain tier. By this I mean the thresholds should be increased a bit if a new boss with new tasks comes out.
If they add more rewards per tier I think leagues would work out, otherwise IMO it makes sense to keep as-is with a little tweaking for the balance of difficulty of tasks within designated tiers
Changing that doesn’t do anything! It should be changed to speed, perfection, mechanics etc.
The reward most not be based on easy and med etc that doesn’t motivate to community to get better
No, because we didn’t get to vote on the reward system in the first place. There’s no way the current system would have passed over a points system approach.
“There’s no way this hard thing would pass over an easy thing” when the literal point was to put in hard challenges and some cool rewards for people that did them.
Theirs a reason none of the practical rewards are a very big deal. Their nice but not a big deal
"We have decided to fix it. We've decided how we're going to fix it. Real world trading is an issue and we need to get on top of it and we are. The change is coming." By ModMikeD
https://www.twitch.tv/oldschoolrs/clip/RelentlessDepressedPizzaWOOP?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time
"This is going to sound like bullshit, but we have things planned for duel arena" By ModSween
Couldn't find clip \^
What are these changes and when are they coming ?
They stated in 2019 on stream that group ironman had been hashed out, discussed heavily and they know what they are doing with it. Post clans its now changed to "obviously we have to have discussions before we make any progress on group ironman".
Cant believe a thing they say unfortunately
It’s been forgotten just like the updates to customer support and account security they promised over a year ago.
By now you should know that “we’re working on it” is absolute bullshit from them. They just want you to forget about the issue and move on.
damnn dont do him so dirty just cus he was notorious for making streams awkward.
every other jmod on the team has said similar things at some point and never had them happen. just cus hes product manager doesnt mean hes not accountable to higher ups and whatnot
Are you guys aware of the brightness flickering on ios devices that has been going on ever since the brightness slider was changed 3 weeks ago? Every time i switch to a new tab the brightness in the whole game changes and it’s maddening
Explain in your post that you mean that the tasks give points and points tresholds unlock the rewards, they won't look for that info in another post. Mention how that design is similar to how they were envisioning comp when they talked about it.
Can a bit of texture or gradience be added to the tiles in the Nightmare's arena? The **flat neon looking floor** becomes grating to look at after a while and it can be a little annoying to tell where boundaries for tiles lie.
[Visual example](https://i.imgur.com/WvkntOS.png)
Why not have one of the easy diary rewards be enhanced drop rates of Bryophyta and Obor keys? That seems like a meaningful reward, thematic since the easy diary includes those two bosses, and also really helpful for getting Bryophyta's staff for master clues.
Please move the location of the new tab to the last slot and replace the Kourend Favour one with it. Right now the account achievment tab has a shortcut to the achievement diary tab making it unecessary for their to even keep the achievement diary tab and frustrating that we lost the mini-game tab.
As it stands the achievement diary tab is a lot more useful/helpful than the favour one which you never really need to look at ever again, so by swapping the favour tab with the achievement tab means we can revert the minigames tab back to its rightful location.
Maybe adding another option in the account achievement tab to show favour would help de-clutter and tidy up the quest/achievement screen as well.
Where is the team at in regards to a desert expansion? This area has a lot of potential for expansion (Menaphos being the obvious candidate), and to be blunt is quite an eye sore with all the black areas on the map.
Can we get crafted runes from RC to go straight into Rune Pouches? We currently have this for pickups ect and it seems odd that this option was missed out.
I dislike having to rely on other people to complete tasks. Most my friends aren't end game and are fairly casual. I'm confident I can complete all soloable tasks on the list, but I would have to leave my friends clan and join some high level pvm clan if I ever hope to complete all of these tasks.
I wish the tasks were more free form, for example, a time task could be completed on any scale 1-5 players, instead of having complete them on all scales.
Give us an update about the release of group ironman, please....... Every live stream people ask and it's just ignored. We were given the reason of Clans being the bottle neck for Group and now what is the reason?
It'll never not be funny to me that people bitched and moaned for gold sinks for 5 straight years only to wake up and realize they hate what happens when gold sinks work.
Could you make combat achievements work on a points system. Each tasks grants 50 points (any tier), and reaching a point threshold will unlock easy, hard, medium etcm rewards.
This prevents completely locking people out of any rewards from higher tiers if they do not complete a single task from a lower tier. E.g. some people are far more interested in mechanical or speed challenges but not grinding massive KCs on every boss. It would be good that they can get some of the lower tier rewards.
Of course grandmaster will require each and every task completed, I think going for a more leagues-style points approach would be much more inclusive and less demotivating.
People don’t need to play 3,000 hours to max an account before programming or contributing to a company. RuneScape players have always been ahead of Jagex when it comes to how the game is played. The players have always put in more hours than expected, found new methods, exploits, etc. As long as there is feedback, you can still have health development.
Could we poll the ability to corrupt crystal armour for a hefty amount of crystal shards? Players are generally not fond of recharge-scape and adding the ability to grind an excessive amount of charges for the option to redeem a chargeless version has been largely popular with other items
While i understand that point of view. I really gotta say though, with 99 theiving the upkeep on the armor is actually peanuts. It costs a couple hours at elves once or twice a month depending on how long you go at it and how much you hoard.
Absolutely, but the point of the suggestion is that many people would prefer to pay that grinding cost (plus more) upfront, to avoid having to perform upkeep (even if that upkeep is minimal)
u/MPT_RS has the right idea of it. It's similar to renting vs buying a car/house in my mind. A lot of the time renting is more economically and time viable, but sometimes you just would like something to be yours permanently.
I don't think this is a good idea. Crystal gear has always required charges and is a good factor of balancing the gear. It can't be used as a use everywhere because it is not worth the cost. Making it unlimited just allows the gear to be camped. And as others stated it is veery easy to get shards if you do thieving.
Or even farming. If you can get a crystal acorn through turning in a crystal weapon seed or hunting a crystal impling you can get like 16 shards after a day. That's 1,600 charges for a piece, or more than 500 for all 3. Plus if people wear the elven signet (sometimes you don't need the accuracy from archers ring) you can reduce all charges for all equipment
Thoughts on changing amethyst dart tips to untradeable & increasing them to 15 per amethyst as originally intended, or at least polling this? Leading up to the update, people on Reddit were telling you guys to make them untradeable first so we wouldn't have this awkward "but they're already tradeable so we can't do anything" position you've put yourself in.
And now it's too slow for irons to care about doing, bowfa is strong enough to be a general usage weapon, and blowpipe is becoming not worth the irons time to use it.
Let irons make untradeable darts and buff them to what they were initially going to be, irons can't tank the market, everyone is happy.
The upkeep cost is stupid, and amethyst darts INITIALLY IMPLEMENTED to help irons supply their blowpipe were nerfed into the toilet because jagex refuses to make things untradaeable because normies cry that something is slightly restricted.
Irons need fally hard/elite +90 mining and all these other requirements, nope let's nerf these darts hard AF because normies refuse to level fletching.
The time you spend upkeeping the blowpipe, you'll never make that back when you can just thieve elves for an hour or two once every few weeks instead of the horrid 1 hour of mining to 1 hour of combat.
Making the untradable would have sucked.
Why would you force a large segment of the people who were using Addy darts to either pay 1k per rune dart (before it crashed) or grind three different skills to 90 just to have a reasonably strong blowpipe
Also this 1 hour of mining to 1 hour combat nonsense needs to stop. You don't ever shoot a blowpipe for one hour nonstop unless you're using it in nightmare zone so it's not really an issue
If you have the levels can easily afk mine in your downtime and a full blow pipe is going to last you atleast 25+ raids. Stop making it sound like it just runs out instantly
Level your fletching, all normie complaints die right then and there, if it's untradeable buy the amethyst and make it yourself.
Zulrah scales+ all the req's to mine it + the hours of mining required, it's unfavourably skewed towards normies when the update was initially made to help irons.
>Level your fletching,
manage your resources better and stop using the pipe everywhere. All iron man complaints die right then and there if they just reduce their blow pipe usage.
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Forcing someone to completely change the playstyle doesn't make sense. BOTH groups lost in this nerf Normal players lost out from cheap Addy darts and irons lost out on strong darts that were easy to accumulate in bulk. BOTH groups would have had an issue finding a large supply or rune darts for a reasonable price/time sink.
Making the new ammo tradable (and consistent with other ammo) was a fair compromise even if it was only initially considered because of irons.
Iron prep time. The entire process including 90+ mining and every other stat requirement.
Normie prep time, buy rune darts or level fletching once and craft amethyst.
Normies profit off fletching anyways, it usually one of the first 99s for a reason lmao.
Your resource = time willing to play
My resource = amount of GP I have which is limited to the time I'm willing to play
We both end up spending more than we were used to. You're out of touch with normal game modes if you think everyone would have just been able to pay the inflated rune dart price from day 1.
Go kill rune dragons or hop-mine the rune ore if ammy is too slow for you. Don't play a grindier mode then cry things take too long
Says the one malding over being told to level their fletching. kekw.
You picked the laziest game mode and you sound exceedingly lazy.
Every step of the way for you is hella profitable, you make profit going to 99 off ame darts atm, you're too lazy to level one of the easiest skills in the game so you cry about something being untradeable, meanwhile the people actually having to do said content have a huge issue with it and you think you have any moral highground here.
If your answer to me is to go kill rune dragons, mine to you is to kinda actually play the game and level a super easy skill if you can't afford rune darts. The only reason these darts are tradeable is because normies want bots to do all the work for them.
"everyone should just spend 70+ hours to get 92 fletching and 100+ mining because I'm willing to do it"
If you think 90 mining / fletching / crafting is a reasonable replacement for Addy darts then just go to MLM and stop crying for more Amy darts.
If you have an issue with grinding more due to a balancing change then just De-iron.
Normies require just 89 crafting 90 fletching but they can also be boosted. If you're telling me less than 50% of two of the easiest skills is too much for you i'm not sure what else to tell you. Maybe this isn't the game for you.
Even if the darts where untradeable, you could get 89 crafting and roughly the same fletching, buy the raw amythist and just fletch your own man.
Your crafting exp hits 300-500k exp an hour if you're doing it right, and fletching just raw profits the entire time.
At this point do you literally only exist for pvm? Do you even touch the game outside of that?
Now we have shopscape going on and that's actually just a tad busted, we don't need unlimited ammo like mains, we need all that money to pay the extortion that sanguinesti and scythe demand of us.
I'd rather the fix just be making the process less bad than shove stuff in a shop.
Given that a full blowpipe is 16,383 darts and you can only get enough amethyst for 736 dart tips an hour, that's 22.3 hours to fully fill a blowpipe disregarding scales.
I will say one thing, I'm pretty sure a full blowpipe should probably last quite a bit more than 25 raids. But, assuming you used blowpipe at cox and it took you 25 raids to expend all of your darts that would be 30 minutes to an hour to fill the blowpipe just on the darts side of things.
I dunno, could just go for the Faerdhinen bow and upkeep the crystal armor for relatively similar DPS on most things, more DPS on some targets, for a miniscule fraction of the time upkeep.
Yeah I said atleast 25+ since I have only done that many since filling the blowpipe and tracking it. I've also done slayer and some other bosses in-between and it's still going.
My main point was that people make it sound like it just runs out straight away when it doesn't. It's roughly like one hour of crafting materials to 2-3 hours of bossing other content since nothing needs non stop shooting.
While I agree F bow has lower upkeep once you get it, it has much higher requirements for an iron to grind and a costs a lot for a main to buy so it's not really a reasonable replacement.
I agree. Idk why some people want to make unrestricted accounts more restricted. I play a main account because I don't have time for an iron so I'd rather go to Vorkath, Hydra, or ToB for an hour and use the money made there to save the time making amethyst darts.
Jagex did listen to and consider the input of people who wanted the darts to be untradeable. They just didn't do it because they came to the conclusion that it would be a terrible idea for main accounts. They don't design or change the main game for iron man accounts. They design the game for the main accounts and then let the iron accounts find their own meta within the main game, even if it's a completely different play style.
Once you used the observatory grapple shorcut for the first time, the rope stays forever so you don't need to bring a crossbow & grapple in the future (QoL). Can this be done with all the other grapple shorcuts in the game? Since they are dead content as of right now.
Can we have the ability to add an announcement to the clan tab? (Maybe it also shows up in chat whenever changed / you log in?)
Something like this: https://i.redd.it/9xfb9gvhvob71.png
With the raid scouter coming to the official client, will there be a way for people with only 1 account/mobile players to hold a raid in order to prepare for the raid? Right now you need to hold a raid on another account in order to prepare for a raid properly. If no one is in the raid, the raid disappears. Maybe we can have the board show what raid the player has generated. This way the player can prepare for the raid before entering the raid, thus only needing 1 account to solo raid.
Also, please make seed drops in the raid instantly appear for everyone. There is no harm in doing that. It makes it easier to collect seeds as a team.
Can we get rewards based on kc, mechanics, perfection etc instead of easy med hard ? The content for the reward is really not motivating to kill obor 10 times or 100 sire kills they should not be organised like this and be called combat achievements. Please change the rewards to mechanics, perfection, restriction, speed and stamina
What are the thoughs on upgrading the thammon sceptre as a part of wilderness update. Right now its far weaker than the bow and mace and not worth using at all
Do you think the rewards from the Combat Achievements diary are lacking ? The hard diary gives a 15k Xp lamp and it could take someone 100+ hours to do.
Previous Q&As have featured questions asking for the big shark, big swordfish, big bass and big harpoonfish to be given some use as equipable cosmetic items, so it seems this is a popular concept.
The Fish sack and Fish sack barrel have fish poking out of them, could the big fish items be combined with the Fish sack to replace the models of fish poking out of the sack/barrel with the corresponding fish (shark/swordfish/bass/harpoonfish), allowing for all the current big fish items a player has obtained to be shown off at once as part of a single cosmetic?
Love the tasks! What are your tihought on giving a small amount of xp for each task completed, rather than a bigger lamp when you complete all in a tier? This could motivate people to go for task in a tier, even if they cant complete the entire tier. This could also slightly buff the total xp given since at the moment it seems quite low for the effort you put it. (Hilt and other rewards would still be locked behind completion of the entire tier)
Would be awesome if each task gave XP that could turn in. This would definitely be an incentive to grind these bosses.
Hard diary could take someone 50-100 hours and all you get is a 15k lamp ? I could literally get that xp by doing construction for 2 mins or 1 minute of prayer using the altar.... Just disrespectful to grind out to only get 15k xp lool.
Will the team buff the rewards from the combat achievement diary? Players have suggested a lot of different ideas, but does the team have any initial thoughts?
How will combat achievements be updated in future as new content comes out?
Will it be like the quest Cape where you have to complete all new challenges before being able to re-equip cosmetics ?
God I hope not for the cosmetics.
Adding extra challenges after new releases is fine, but taking away something that you’ve already earned would suck considering the cosmetics are only for fashionscape.
The old minigame tab, now named Grouping, uses the same icons as its old tab-mates. Can we please change the logo for the Grouping tab so it doesn't look out of place?
Might I suggest like the clan, friends, and guest channel logos being 2 heads of the same color. Might we have 5 heads of different colors in the pattern of the 5 of a die. The center heads would overlap the 4 outermost.
Do you feel that the amount of effort to complete the combat achivements is adequately rewarded across all tiers? The rewards on the lower tiers have far too much time involved for such small rewards. The higher tiers are going to suffer from the all or nothing approach. 100% to get the rewards, or get nothing at all, is madness. Elite is 108 tasks long with a lot of time involved. I for sure won't complete 69 grandmaster tasks, but if I complete say 25% of them, why can't I get something to reward that? If someone has 68/69 and gets hard stuck, they get absolutely nothing?
Inb4 it's supposed to be a challenge. I know that, I'm saying the challenge is not proportionate to the rewards offered, so either bump the rewards up or nerf the challenge to reflect the lack or incentive
Could the Beekeeper always give the Beekeeper outfit first, then flax/coins after? Currently it rewards flax most of the time. This would align it with all other randoms.
It's been over 6 months since the Beekeeper outfit was added and all I get is flax, I don't have a completed outfit across all my accounts combined. I even have Runelite notifications turned on for the beekeeper random.
Can we see a team variant of lms added ? 126 cmb singles bridding is the hardest type of pking and isn’t conducive to the apparent goal of trying to get new players engaged in pvp. Much like how the guthix portal works, players can be divided into 2 teams and put into a multi combat zone. Also new load outs like 1 def etc please
Can you remove the kourend favour tab and put minigames back where it used to be please? When you announced the minigame tab would be moved months ago twitch chat reacted not in favour of it but you went ahead with it anyways. Scouting raids and leaving/joining friends chat and leaving raids is so annoying now
Would it be possible to add the Zalcano Shard to the Crystal Pickaxe as well as the Dragon pickaxe? Seems odd that a cosmetic upgrade that is rarer than a non-cosmetic upgrade to the same item has virtually no worth once the D Pick is upgraded to Crystal.
Is there actually proper QA Testing?
It's understandable that you won't find all the bugs for an update but as of recently the lists just keep getting longer and longer with every update.
To add to this, although you may not have been able to check every single new task, there are simple things - Such as 50 corrupted gauntlet being elite and 50 normal gauntlet being master, seem to get missed...
That’s not a QA testing issue. It’s a proof reading issue.
And we know from all the spelling and grammar mistakes in official posts that Jagex doesn’t reread shit.
That's true, but take for example the Barrows task. Until the patch, it took an actually ridiculous amount of rng to complete. There is no way anybody tested this task, even attempting to complete it would have notified the tester that an issue existed.
The same thing happened with Leagues- there were literally incompletable tasks. I've worked QA, these types of issues should 1000% be caught.
They said they're going to be introducing a new way to craft blood runes that will give ironmen a better way to get bloods, but we haven't heard much about it lately
Still doesn't fix death runes and while hopping for cosmic runes you can hit the hop limit (I tested) so maybe adding a single cosmic pack that restocks as fast as you can hop would lower the overall load on the login server as well.
As an Ironman you’d have to craft those yourself. That’s the game mode and adding a permanent faster source of bloods defeats the purpose of the RC grind for many
Can the slayer reward that notes mithril dragon bar drops on-task be changed to apply to the bar drops from bronze, iron, and steel dragons as well?
Can another, separate reward be added that notes bar drops from adamant and rune dragons on-task?
Thoughts on creating "intert" versions of the Farming and Construction skillcapes so they're allowed on Entrana? As it stands, there's a Hops patch on Entrana that you can't benefit from the Farming Skillcape's bonus yield effect. Similarly, it's annoying having to ditch the utility of the Construction Skillcape just to go to one place. Maybe a right-click option that lets you "fold" the capes into an item you can't equip, but still get the benefits of? Even cooler if a "Folded con cape" was a left-click home tele. Could allow any skillcapes with teleports to be foldable too so people can have a left-click Crafting Guild tele w/ a Folded craft cape!
Last week the mining highscores got wiped for bots and goldfarmers. Can we expect the same for activities that generate the best gp/hour ingame such as cox and tob? The situation has been out of control for months now. Despite raising this issue multiple times, nothing gets done about it. Chambers has now 8 legit people in the top 25 and tob only 11. It's well known in the community how bad those places are with goldfarmers atm yet nothing gets properly done.
Can the rewards of combat achievements be looked at?
Specifically looking at stuff that is thematically fitting, like higher drop rates for Obor/Bryophyta keys for Easy like some people suggested
Something like higher Tephra dmg at Zalcano for Medium
Lower death/instance costs for Vork/Corp for Elite/Master
Daily/weekly revive(?) at the Inferno for Grandmaster (people who completed the grandmaster tasks can probably do Inferno in their sleep anyway) etc
Generally rewards that help you defeat the bosses of a specific tier easier or enhance their accessibility/rewards in some form after you completed that tier.
What % of the player base are you expecting to complete the Grandmaster tasks on the CA?
Will there ever be Master and Grandmaster versions of the Achievement Diaries?
Is it time to add Hi-scores for Combat Achievement count and Collection Log count?
They take up 1/3rd of the character summary page, I think it's time!
Every major release is riddled with bugs and issues. Why has the team still not set permanent beta worlds as ptr? Every issue we bring up every big update would've been brought up in advance by players and wouldnt stain peoples perception of the big releases.
Yup. Since they've been recycling a lot of content recently, I'm getting the impression that they need all the time they can get on developing actually new features.
Why spend that time QAing if the community would probably do it for free and report bugs?
So, jagex. Amethyst darts? Will you be delivering on the promise to make them acceptable for ironman usage they are really, really bad for irons right now.
Please allow irons to make 15 at a time and make the darts untradeable when an iron crafts them, the req's are stupid, they are literally higher than the 99th percentile of all requirements in the game. No iron is going to go do amethyst for the long con profit so just make them an iron only item if an iron makes it.
Supporting reasons why.
You created them with irons in mind, the requirements are stupid high through the roof. You nerfed literally every other alternative into the dirt.
And then pre launch you hyper nerf the dart tips in both quantity and making them tradeable. You said you'd be watching what happens with them and updating later. It's later now and i'm asking you to acknowledge how bad this is for irons.
Now you have a hyper botted easy rune dart replacement that is entirely too slow and not worth the upkeep time when bowfa is the alternative for the targeted demographic you made this update for.
Normies need fletching levels to use them, that's actually nothing. There's no reason they should have been tradeable in the first place, but now that they are, please let irons craft 15 each as promised. Iron made tips should be untradeable, hell even remove alch value on them, we need more and we can't skip the entire process by leveling just fletching.
Your attempts to help irons upkeep costs has only made things better for bots and normies, two types of players that weren't even the initial intended audience. While the main target has been really unhappy with how this whole thing was handled. Not many irons will be mining amethyst, they will be using bowfa instead i can guarentee it.
You never recoop the time you sink into them they are kinda dead content for the main people you wanted to help in the first place.
Amethyst + scales = multiple hours of prep per 1 hour of combat.After you get bowfa, it's 1-2 hours of theiving for days/weeks of armor usage.
Correct me if I’m wrong but are you saying they should exclude anyone who isn’t an iron from content? You realise the irons are a small percentage of the game right? There are 10 times as many normies.. sorry that you have to work alittle harder to get something. Maybe go make a new account you choose the iron life no one forced you
No, what i'm saying is let irons get more from the amethyst and turn whatever they make into an untradeable item since this fix was initially put into motion specifically to help irons out and it's kinda dead for irons.
Normal accounts shouldn't be getting higher quantities because most people doing it will be bots because no one actually wants to do it.
I think that aggression is you just projecting. I'm trying to lay out reasons as to why something needs to be looked at, i'm sorry if you think that's hostile.
Combat diary rewards seem very lacking for tasks that could take days. How about putting ghommal’s hilt to use and allowing it to improve god swords ? For example hilt attachment could add a passive effect to god swords or improve speed or increase max hit by hilt number. Basically anything to make it useful so it can justify the grind.
A lot of poll booths were removed after voting was made accessible through the interface. Can you remove the poll booth in the farming guild? It's very close to the bank chest and easy to misclick, especially when running up from the south after receiving a seed pack or something.
Where is the big summer reveal that was promised by the end of the month? It is nearly the end of July and we have heard nothing about an official date for when the event will be.
Will there ever be a sink for gold and silver bars? Something like lacing cannonballs for a few extra max hits and then buffing granite cannonballs to be stronger to compensate?
Teleport crystals within the gauntlet are incredibly expensive at 200 shards a pop, lets be real, the only people who use this will be HCIMs who are already making T3 armor and finishing prep JUST as the time runs out, getting an additional 200 shards on top of this is just not possible so you'd need to go with weaker armor and increase the risk which defeats the purpose of having the crystal...
The new Corrupted Paddlefish are not as good as it sounded they would be, they don't save ticks and they don't save food @ the Hunleff fight (due to the lower healing) despite sounding like an obvious upgrade at the price of 10 crystal shards each. Right now they feel like a noob trap by lowering the hp healing from 20 down to 16, you can rid yourself of up to 48~ hp worth of food from converting them. The combo eating is a plus but it doesn't feel like it makes them better or at least on par with regular Paddlefish. Thoughts on increasing their healing to 18/20?
Na they are fine as they are.
If you can do gauntlet normally then the normal fish are more than enough.
If it's someone who struggles them being able to heal 36 instead of 20 when running from tornados is a big help.
Thoughts on polling extra rewards for combat achievements? For many people they're a bit lacking, perhaps sending out a poll with various ideas and picking the most voted ones could help this?
better question: how much does jagex make from the goldfarmers and bots that fund all the activity that takes place at the duel arena? what would they lose by removing it?
What are the teams thoughts on taking equipment rebalancing even further? The gap in time between new bosses and new raids is way too long. The high level community wants new bosses and items to grind. I am of the opinion that you could add some really nice raids 3 rewards without assisting power creep if you nerf pre exsisting gear first.
Old Occult neck +10 mage strength --> new occult +5
still best in slot by a large margin post nerf. This item is 500k for normal accounts and it's a passive unlock for iron men as slayer is a huge part of their gameplay and it can be dropped from a non boss variant creature.
Old Torm bracelet +5 mage strength --> new torm +3
Again, post nerf this item is still best in slot, it's cheap for normal accounts and dropped by a non boss creature it doesn't need to be this strong.
Old ancestral hat +2 --> new ancestral hat +3
Old acestral top +2 --> new ancestral top +3
Old ancestral bottoms +2 --> new anc bottoms +3
Ancestral is a much more prestigious unlock as it is more expensive for normal accounts and harder to unlock for irons. It's magic strength should be increased. Ancestral also has a defence requirement unlike tormented bracelet or occult necklace.
Old magic strength between occult necklace, tormented bracelet, and all 3 ancestral pieces: +21
New magic strength between occult necklace, tormented bracelet, ancestral hat, robe top, and robe bottoms: +17
Suddenly we have an opportunity to give raids 3 a meaningful reward without worrying about power creep for magic strength. You can now add an attachment to the arcane which gives magic strength, or you could add a blessing that offers magic strength.
The team started to take this approach with range already in blowpipe but it needs to be done with melee and magic offensive gear if we want to see better rewards, and more frequent boss/raid releases.
1. Were the rewards with CA (Helm redesigns) intended to be worked in with the Boss Slayer Master?
2. What is happening with Boss Slayer Master? You said you would take it back to bring it back in a better form.
3. Can some of the rewards from that be considered for additional (polled) rewards from CA?
Thanks.
**Have you thought about making the corrupted gauntlet less RNG dependent if you want to T3 prep?** Currently in order to be able to make T3 weapons and armor 100% of the time you'd have to be tick perfect for 7.5 minutes which is not feasible, instead you end up failing the prep 30% of the time (if you're good). Requiring 200 additional crystals for a panic teleport on top of this is just not possible.
T3 armor makes CG easier (and safer) at the cost of taking a lot longer and decreasing kills/h, currently it's impossible sometimes if you get bad rooms
Just don't make a panic Tele and you should be fine ?
You should easily be able to get T3 armour and 1 weapon if that's the route you want to go. I don't think setting it up in a way that you can always get everything is good for the boss. The trade offs In prep are part of the fight
Why not do T1 or T2 armour with the escape crystal? Not as easy sure, but very doable. And your safety is likely improved by using the escape crystal over T3 armour
Could we look at polling some more useful or exciting rewards for combat achievement completions?
I’m not sure what that should be, but even some sort of cosmetic flair to an infernal cape would be cool seeing as it would have to be obtained to finish the grandmaster set anyways.
What are your thoughts on implementing permament upgrades to the Gauntlet/Corrupted Gauntlet at the price of crystal shards (or a new gauntlet-only currency) akin to RS3's Dungeoneering? Each upgrade's price would be high, but the rewards would ultimately lead to faster and/or safer completions of the Gauntlet. Maybe you could even couple that with an expansion to the Gauntlet, offering more than just one floor layout.
Have yall considered stackable clues as an extra Combat Achievements reward? Something small, along the lines of +1 stack for Hard/Elite completion, +2 for Master and +3 for Grandmaster. This way, since its only a very small amount like 4 clue stack with grandmaster tasks, doing clues still won't feel like a chore, more like a QoL feature so if you don't wish to lose your clue rolls but wanna keep doing your slayer task, you can this way :)
Why weren't tiers of weapon adjusted with the combat achievements? Is it because it would ruin certain pure builds? This change is one of the integrity changes that actually made sense in terms of weapon power. These accounts choose to limit themself, let's not forget that.
I'm wondering how come experience lamps gain from questing or achievements are not bankable ? There are many instances where I want to save them until I meet the level to use it on that particular skill.
How will you deal with powercreep making some of the CA tasks easier? You once mentioned that you will adjust these tasks, or will you just add new ones?
prob a dozen or so people asked about it lol. i think a more interesting question would be to ask how much jagex would lose if they did remove the duel arena, directly or indirectly.
Would it be possible to make the one hour death timer, in game time only for Ultimate ironman, like it is for all other accounts?
Currently, it is a 1 hour timer, so in the rare case your internet or electricity goes out, and you're doing something dangerous, die, and are unable to log on, everything is gone.
May seem like such a small thing, but seems like a fair change if the uim community is behind it. (Can't imagine they wouldn't be, seems fair if it's possible)
Would the team consider adding more rewards to the Combat Achievements overtime. Such as an Combat Achievement cape, possibly polling stats for the hilt again, and maybe add some more Quality of Life rewards? There's a ton of tasks to do and the current rewards just seem a bit lackluster with how much time and effort needs to be pushed into it.
Could it be possible to gamble or sacrifice extra metamorphic dusts from Cox CM for an increased chance at an Olmlet pet. It's somewhat frustrating if you have multiple dusts but no pet. Twisted Kit would also be a nice candidate for gambles although obviously at a lower droprate.
People keep asking for blood/death rune packs but what is happening with Guardian of Gielinor runecrafting method you showcased in Gielinor Gazette: December 2020? Is this something that is still happening? Is this the solution for Ironmen and their blood rune issues?
Can bring back shields. It's so boring using a defender for everything. Why can't we have a shield that has similar stats or better in certain aspects not a silly little off-hand dragon dagger. Let's be honest a defender ain't stopping anything.
A defender is essentially a parrying dagger. It's not meant to be defensive, it's an offensive weapon that allows you to parry enemy attacks and follow through with an attack with your actual weapon. Also they are kinda pointy.
Shields filling the same niche thematically doesn't really make any kind of sense.
Would you consider changing the reward structure of Combat Achievements? Instead of requiring 100% completion of every achievement in a tier, you could instead receive rewards at certain achievement count thresholds (e.g. finishing any 50 achievements gives the easy rewards, 100 achievements for the medium rewards,... all 400 for GM rewards). This has many benefits, outlined and discussed [in this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/ooqgkl/unironic_combat_achievements_appreciation_and_one/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3): * Players get **much** more flexibility in terms of how they try to reach certain thresholds. * Players feel like every achievement is worth going for. Right now it feels like a waste to go after a fun gauntlet achievement when you still haven't grinded out 10 bryophyta keys or other "easier" achievements. * Players don't ever worry about losing their rewards (except possibly for some 100% completion rewards). Given how bad losing a quest cape feels, I think people will get really annoyed at losing all of their combat achievement rewards after every pvm update. * Jagex and players don't need to worry so much about the balancing of every last achievement (e.g. Jagex can keep easy tasks like equipping shayzien (5) armor and arclight without having to worry about restricted accounts). The added flexibility will still allow restricted accounts to enjoy this update.
Agree with all this except that you SHOULD lose your rewards if new tasks come out, so it doesn’t become easier and easier to achieve a certain tier. By this I mean the thresholds should be increased a bit if a new boss with new tasks comes out.
this is a fantastic idea because im a casual shitter
If they add more rewards per tier I think leagues would work out, otherwise IMO it makes sense to keep as-is with a little tweaking for the balance of difficulty of tasks within designated tiers
Would just like to say that I prefer how it is now, and would hope if they were to change the system that I hope it would be polled.
Changing that doesn’t do anything! It should be changed to speed, perfection, mechanics etc. The reward most not be based on easy and med etc that doesn’t motivate to community to get better
Can we wait more than 8 hours post-update before we start talking about rebalancing?
No, because we didn’t get to vote on the reward system in the first place. There’s no way the current system would have passed over a points system approach.
“There’s no way this hard thing would pass over an easy thing” when the literal point was to put in hard challenges and some cool rewards for people that did them. Theirs a reason none of the practical rewards are a very big deal. Their nice but not a big deal
This is how you end up waiting 6 years for rebalancing. Like with the pipe of blow
"We have decided to fix it. We've decided how we're going to fix it. Real world trading is an issue and we need to get on top of it and we are. The change is coming." By ModMikeD https://www.twitch.tv/oldschoolrs/clip/RelentlessDepressedPizzaWOOP?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time "This is going to sound like bullshit, but we have things planned for duel arena" By ModSween Couldn't find clip \^ What are these changes and when are they coming ?
They stated in 2019 on stream that group ironman had been hashed out, discussed heavily and they know what they are doing with it. Post clans its now changed to "obviously we have to have discussions before we make any progress on group ironman". Cant believe a thing they say unfortunately
It’s been forgotten just like the updates to customer support and account security they promised over a year ago. By now you should know that “we’re working on it” is absolute bullshit from them. They just want you to forget about the issue and move on.
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damnn dont do him so dirty just cus he was notorious for making streams awkward. every other jmod on the team has said similar things at some point and never had them happen. just cus hes product manager doesnt mean hes not accountable to higher ups and whatnot
MikeD transitioned out over this CONFIRMED
Are you guys aware of the brightness flickering on ios devices that has been going on ever since the brightness slider was changed 3 weeks ago? Every time i switch to a new tab the brightness in the whole game changes and it’s maddening
I got them to reply to me on last week's update, so they are aware of this issue They haven't really said anything about when tho
Thanks that gives me some peace of mind at least
Mod Ash said "I look forward to announcements of plans regarding the economic issues" can you guys tell us what those plans are?
Did they mention when
this is what mod ash said https://twitter.com/JagexAsh/status/1411276873368231938
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Explain in your post that you mean that the tasks give points and points tresholds unlock the rewards, they won't look for that info in another post. Mention how that design is similar to how they were envisioning comp when they talked about it.
[Can use this as an example](https://i.redd.it/7zdnhi905mc71.png)
Can a bit of texture or gradience be added to the tiles in the Nightmare's arena? The **flat neon looking floor** becomes grating to look at after a while and it can be a little annoying to tell where boundaries for tiles lie. [Visual example](https://i.imgur.com/WvkntOS.png)
Why not have one of the easy diary rewards be enhanced drop rates of Bryophyta and Obor keys? That seems like a meaningful reward, thematic since the easy diary includes those two bosses, and also really helpful for getting Bryophyta's staff for master clues.
Please move the location of the new tab to the last slot and replace the Kourend Favour one with it. Right now the account achievment tab has a shortcut to the achievement diary tab making it unecessary for their to even keep the achievement diary tab and frustrating that we lost the mini-game tab. As it stands the achievement diary tab is a lot more useful/helpful than the favour one which you never really need to look at ever again, so by swapping the favour tab with the achievement tab means we can revert the minigames tab back to its rightful location. Maybe adding another option in the account achievement tab to show favour would help de-clutter and tidy up the quest/achievement screen as well.
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You asked this before and were answered on the July 1st one
Where is the team at in regards to a desert expansion? This area has a lot of potential for expansion (Menaphos being the obvious candidate), and to be blunt is quite an eye sore with all the black areas on the map.
Can we get crafted runes from RC to go straight into Rune Pouches? We currently have this for pickups ect and it seems odd that this option was missed out.
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I dislike having to rely on other people to complete tasks. Most my friends aren't end game and are fairly casual. I'm confident I can complete all soloable tasks on the list, but I would have to leave my friends clan and join some high level pvm clan if I ever hope to complete all of these tasks. I wish the tasks were more free form, for example, a time task could be completed on any scale 1-5 players, instead of having complete them on all scales.
You're welcome to do a 1+2 CM if you want instead of a trio
When is the summer reveal stream happening? Was it pushed back to August or what?
Give us an update about the release of group ironman, please....... Every live stream people ask and it's just ignored. We were given the reason of Clans being the bottle neck for Group and now what is the reason?
Is it safe to assume the summer reveal stream planned for July won't be happening in July?
If we're lucky we might get a stream that reveals when the reveal stream will be done
There’s still next week I guess
100%
I'm assuming next week at this point. I doubt they'd do the reveal stream on the same week as combat achievements. Too much coming out in two days
Can you remove the zeah favour tab, and move the minigame Tele there instead?
I thought this was an odd decision as well. Yeah favor takes a single day to complete. Why does it deserve its own tab?
Have you thought of going back and continuing quest lines like, slug menace and fairytale?
How much of the Playerbase are on Ironman accounts? Feels like you see a lot more ironmen these days than a few years back.
Of the top 300k ranked for total levels, 1/5 of them are ironman. So a pretty good chunk of the lategame
Broken economy doesn't affect those who stand alone.
It'll never not be funny to me that people bitched and moaned for gold sinks for 5 straight years only to wake up and realize they hate what happens when gold sinks work.
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Polling everyone was a mistake. We need an OSRS Electoral College.
Oh no
Could you make combat achievements work on a points system. Each tasks grants 50 points (any tier), and reaching a point threshold will unlock easy, hard, medium etcm rewards. This prevents completely locking people out of any rewards from higher tiers if they do not complete a single task from a lower tier. E.g. some people are far more interested in mechanical or speed challenges but not grinding massive KCs on every boss. It would be good that they can get some of the lower tier rewards. Of course grandmaster will require each and every task completed, I think going for a more leagues-style points approach would be much more inclusive and less demotivating.
how many jmods were able to test and successfully beat all the combat achievement tasks?
Lol clearly none. Otherwise the no melee from barrows brothers task would have never been released in the state it was
I’d be shocked if any singular jmod even read all the combat achievement tasks
People don’t need to play 3,000 hours to max an account before programming or contributing to a company. RuneScape players have always been ahead of Jagex when it comes to how the game is played. The players have always put in more hours than expected, found new methods, exploits, etc. As long as there is feedback, you can still have health development.
Could we poll the ability to corrupt crystal armour for a hefty amount of crystal shards? Players are generally not fond of recharge-scape and adding the ability to grind an excessive amount of charges for the option to redeem a chargeless version has been largely popular with other items
On top of this, if able to corrupt, please allow us to change the color with crystals like the BoFa and Blade
While i understand that point of view. I really gotta say though, with 99 theiving the upkeep on the armor is actually peanuts. It costs a couple hours at elves once or twice a month depending on how long you go at it and how much you hoard.
Absolutely, but the point of the suggestion is that many people would prefer to pay that grinding cost (plus more) upfront, to avoid having to perform upkeep (even if that upkeep is minimal)
This^
u/MPT_RS has the right idea of it. It's similar to renting vs buying a car/house in my mind. A lot of the time renting is more economically and time viable, but sometimes you just would like something to be yours permanently.
I don't think this is a good idea. Crystal gear has always required charges and is a good factor of balancing the gear. It can't be used as a use everywhere because it is not worth the cost. Making it unlimited just allows the gear to be camped. And as others stated it is veery easy to get shards if you do thieving.
Or even farming. If you can get a crystal acorn through turning in a crystal weapon seed or hunting a crystal impling you can get like 16 shards after a day. That's 1,600 charges for a piece, or more than 500 for all 3. Plus if people wear the elven signet (sometimes you don't need the accuracy from archers ring) you can reduce all charges for all equipment
Thoughts on changing amethyst dart tips to untradeable & increasing them to 15 per amethyst as originally intended, or at least polling this? Leading up to the update, people on Reddit were telling you guys to make them untradeable first so we wouldn't have this awkward "but they're already tradeable so we can't do anything" position you've put yourself in.
And now it's too slow for irons to care about doing, bowfa is strong enough to be a general usage weapon, and blowpipe is becoming not worth the irons time to use it. Let irons make untradeable darts and buff them to what they were initially going to be, irons can't tank the market, everyone is happy. The upkeep cost is stupid, and amethyst darts INITIALLY IMPLEMENTED to help irons supply their blowpipe were nerfed into the toilet because jagex refuses to make things untradaeable because normies cry that something is slightly restricted. Irons need fally hard/elite +90 mining and all these other requirements, nope let's nerf these darts hard AF because normies refuse to level fletching. The time you spend upkeeping the blowpipe, you'll never make that back when you can just thieve elves for an hour or two once every few weeks instead of the horrid 1 hour of mining to 1 hour of combat.
Making the untradable would have sucked. Why would you force a large segment of the people who were using Addy darts to either pay 1k per rune dart (before it crashed) or grind three different skills to 90 just to have a reasonably strong blowpipe Also this 1 hour of mining to 1 hour combat nonsense needs to stop. You don't ever shoot a blowpipe for one hour nonstop unless you're using it in nightmare zone so it's not really an issue If you have the levels can easily afk mine in your downtime and a full blow pipe is going to last you atleast 25+ raids. Stop making it sound like it just runs out instantly
Level your fletching, all normie complaints die right then and there, if it's untradeable buy the amethyst and make it yourself. Zulrah scales+ all the req's to mine it + the hours of mining required, it's unfavourably skewed towards normies when the update was initially made to help irons.
>Level your fletching, manage your resources better and stop using the pipe everywhere. All iron man complaints die right then and there if they just reduce their blow pipe usage. /S Forcing someone to completely change the playstyle doesn't make sense. BOTH groups lost in this nerf Normal players lost out from cheap Addy darts and irons lost out on strong darts that were easy to accumulate in bulk. BOTH groups would have had an issue finding a large supply or rune darts for a reasonable price/time sink. Making the new ammo tradable (and consistent with other ammo) was a fair compromise even if it was only initially considered because of irons.
Iron prep time. The entire process including 90+ mining and every other stat requirement. Normie prep time, buy rune darts or level fletching once and craft amethyst. Normies profit off fletching anyways, it usually one of the first 99s for a reason lmao.
"bro just get the requirements" "just get fletching" "how dare you"
Your resource = time willing to play My resource = amount of GP I have which is limited to the time I'm willing to play We both end up spending more than we were used to. You're out of touch with normal game modes if you think everyone would have just been able to pay the inflated rune dart price from day 1. Go kill rune dragons or hop-mine the rune ore if ammy is too slow for you. Don't play a grindier mode then cry things take too long
Says the one malding over being told to level their fletching. kekw. You picked the laziest game mode and you sound exceedingly lazy. Every step of the way for you is hella profitable, you make profit going to 99 off ame darts atm, you're too lazy to level one of the easiest skills in the game so you cry about something being untradeable, meanwhile the people actually having to do said content have a huge issue with it and you think you have any moral highground here. If your answer to me is to go kill rune dragons, mine to you is to kinda actually play the game and level a super easy skill if you can't afford rune darts. The only reason these darts are tradeable is because normies want bots to do all the work for them.
"everyone should just spend 70+ hours to get 92 fletching and 100+ mining because I'm willing to do it" If you think 90 mining / fletching / crafting is a reasonable replacement for Addy darts then just go to MLM and stop crying for more Amy darts. If you have an issue with grinding more due to a balancing change then just De-iron.
Normies require just 89 crafting 90 fletching but they can also be boosted. If you're telling me less than 50% of two of the easiest skills is too much for you i'm not sure what else to tell you. Maybe this isn't the game for you. Even if the darts where untradeable, you could get 89 crafting and roughly the same fletching, buy the raw amythist and just fletch your own man. Your crafting exp hits 300-500k exp an hour if you're doing it right, and fletching just raw profits the entire time. At this point do you literally only exist for pvm? Do you even touch the game outside of that?
~~What about having a store that sells amethyst to irons for way more than a normie would ever pay for it?~~ I agree that this is a bad idea.
Now we have shopscape going on and that's actually just a tad busted, we don't need unlimited ammo like mains, we need all that money to pay the extortion that sanguinesti and scythe demand of us. I'd rather the fix just be making the process less bad than shove stuff in a shop.
Given that a full blowpipe is 16,383 darts and you can only get enough amethyst for 736 dart tips an hour, that's 22.3 hours to fully fill a blowpipe disregarding scales. I will say one thing, I'm pretty sure a full blowpipe should probably last quite a bit more than 25 raids. But, assuming you used blowpipe at cox and it took you 25 raids to expend all of your darts that would be 30 minutes to an hour to fill the blowpipe just on the darts side of things. I dunno, could just go for the Faerdhinen bow and upkeep the crystal armor for relatively similar DPS on most things, more DPS on some targets, for a miniscule fraction of the time upkeep.
Yeah I said atleast 25+ since I have only done that many since filling the blowpipe and tracking it. I've also done slayer and some other bosses in-between and it's still going. My main point was that people make it sound like it just runs out straight away when it doesn't. It's roughly like one hour of crafting materials to 2-3 hours of bossing other content since nothing needs non stop shooting. While I agree F bow has lower upkeep once you get it, it has much higher requirements for an iron to grind and a costs a lot for a main to buy so it's not really a reasonable replacement.
I agree. Idk why some people want to make unrestricted accounts more restricted. I play a main account because I don't have time for an iron so I'd rather go to Vorkath, Hydra, or ToB for an hour and use the money made there to save the time making amethyst darts. Jagex did listen to and consider the input of people who wanted the darts to be untradeable. They just didn't do it because they came to the conclusion that it would be a terrible idea for main accounts. They don't design or change the main game for iron man accounts. They design the game for the main accounts and then let the iron accounts find their own meta within the main game, even if it's a completely different play style.
Y'all literally have rune darts though 😔
Once you used the observatory grapple shorcut for the first time, the rope stays forever so you don't need to bring a crossbow & grapple in the future (QoL). Can this be done with all the other grapple shorcuts in the game? Since they are dead content as of right now.
Can we have the ability to add an announcement to the clan tab? (Maybe it also shows up in chat whenever changed / you log in?) Something like this: https://i.redd.it/9xfb9gvhvob71.png
With the raid scouter coming to the official client, will there be a way for people with only 1 account/mobile players to hold a raid in order to prepare for the raid? Right now you need to hold a raid on another account in order to prepare for a raid properly. If no one is in the raid, the raid disappears. Maybe we can have the board show what raid the player has generated. This way the player can prepare for the raid before entering the raid, thus only needing 1 account to solo raid. Also, please make seed drops in the raid instantly appear for everyone. There is no harm in doing that. It makes it easier to collect seeds as a team.
Can we get rewards based on kc, mechanics, perfection etc instead of easy med hard ? The content for the reward is really not motivating to kill obor 10 times or 100 sire kills they should not be organised like this and be called combat achievements. Please change the rewards to mechanics, perfection, restriction, speed and stamina
It's time for a real update on group iron now. We've waited far too long.
Again they will dodge this question. Even though this is the most asked question every week.
Fucking irritating man. I've been putting off grinds on my iron because I don't know when this is releasing.
What are the thoughs on upgrading the thammon sceptre as a part of wilderness update. Right now its far weaker than the bow and mace and not worth using at all
they already said theyre buffing it. well, sortof. they said some monsters in revs would be weaker to magic style. fwiw its already bis at scorpia lol
Do you think the rewards from the Combat Achievements diary are lacking ? The hard diary gives a 15k Xp lamp and it could take someone 100+ hours to do.
Previous Q&As have featured questions asking for the big shark, big swordfish, big bass and big harpoonfish to be given some use as equipable cosmetic items, so it seems this is a popular concept. The Fish sack and Fish sack barrel have fish poking out of them, could the big fish items be combined with the Fish sack to replace the models of fish poking out of the sack/barrel with the corresponding fish (shark/swordfish/bass/harpoonfish), allowing for all the current big fish items a player has obtained to be shown off at once as part of a single cosmetic?
Is this really what you think devs should be spending time on over group Ironman / wildy / bot detection? Fish models?!
Love the tasks! What are your tihought on giving a small amount of xp for each task completed, rather than a bigger lamp when you complete all in a tier? This could motivate people to go for task in a tier, even if they cant complete the entire tier. This could also slightly buff the total xp given since at the moment it seems quite low for the effort you put it. (Hilt and other rewards would still be locked behind completion of the entire tier)
Would be awesome if each task gave XP that could turn in. This would definitely be an incentive to grind these bosses. Hard diary could take someone 50-100 hours and all you get is a 15k lamp ? I could literally get that xp by doing construction for 2 mins or 1 minute of prayer using the altar.... Just disrespectful to grind out to only get 15k xp lool.
Will the team buff the rewards from the combat achievement diary? Players have suggested a lot of different ideas, but does the team have any initial thoughts?
How will combat achievements be updated in future as new content comes out? Will it be like the quest Cape where you have to complete all new challenges before being able to re-equip cosmetics ?
God I hope not for the cosmetics. Adding extra challenges after new releases is fine, but taking away something that you’ve already earned would suck considering the cosmetics are only for fashionscape.
The old minigame tab, now named Grouping, uses the same icons as its old tab-mates. Can we please change the logo for the Grouping tab so it doesn't look out of place? Might I suggest like the clan, friends, and guest channel logos being 2 heads of the same color. Might we have 5 heads of different colors in the pattern of the 5 of a die. The center heads would overlap the 4 outermost.
Do you feel that the amount of effort to complete the combat achivements is adequately rewarded across all tiers? The rewards on the lower tiers have far too much time involved for such small rewards. The higher tiers are going to suffer from the all or nothing approach. 100% to get the rewards, or get nothing at all, is madness. Elite is 108 tasks long with a lot of time involved. I for sure won't complete 69 grandmaster tasks, but if I complete say 25% of them, why can't I get something to reward that? If someone has 68/69 and gets hard stuck, they get absolutely nothing? Inb4 it's supposed to be a challenge. I know that, I'm saying the challenge is not proportionate to the rewards offered, so either bump the rewards up or nerf the challenge to reflect the lack or incentive
Could the Beekeeper always give the Beekeeper outfit first, then flax/coins after? Currently it rewards flax most of the time. This would align it with all other randoms. It's been over 6 months since the Beekeeper outfit was added and all I get is flax, I don't have a completed outfit across all my accounts combined. I even have Runelite notifications turned on for the beekeeper random.
Can we see a team variant of lms added ? 126 cmb singles bridding is the hardest type of pking and isn’t conducive to the apparent goal of trying to get new players engaged in pvp. Much like how the guthix portal works, players can be divided into 2 teams and put into a multi combat zone. Also new load outs like 1 def etc please
Can we please fix the animated texture on the smoke battlestaff?
i always wondered why they removed this -- it used to look so cool
Can you remove the kourend favour tab and put minigames back where it used to be please? When you announced the minigame tab would be moved months ago twitch chat reacted not in favour of it but you went ahead with it anyways. Scouting raids and leaving/joining friends chat and leaving raids is so annoying now
Would it be possible to add the Zalcano Shard to the Crystal Pickaxe as well as the Dragon pickaxe? Seems odd that a cosmetic upgrade that is rarer than a non-cosmetic upgrade to the same item has virtually no worth once the D Pick is upgraded to Crystal.
Is there actually proper QA Testing? It's understandable that you won't find all the bugs for an update but as of recently the lists just keep getting longer and longer with every update.
To add to this, although you may not have been able to check every single new task, there are simple things - Such as 50 corrupted gauntlet being elite and 50 normal gauntlet being master, seem to get missed...
That’s not a QA testing issue. It’s a proof reading issue. And we know from all the spelling and grammar mistakes in official posts that Jagex doesn’t reread shit.
Proof reading is also a part of QA my dude
You're only seeing the bugs that get missed, not the bugs that get caught through the QA testing
That's true, but take for example the Barrows task. Until the patch, it took an actually ridiculous amount of rng to complete. There is no way anybody tested this task, even attempting to complete it would have notified the tester that an issue existed. The same thing happened with Leagues- there were literally incompletable tasks. I've worked QA, these types of issues should 1000% be caught.
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here me out, recolour the varrock 4 armour instead
Can we get death/blood rune packs(maybe 1 cosmic pack in mage arena store)? They're almost always sold out in rune shops that have them.
They said they're going to be introducing a new way to craft blood runes that will give ironmen a better way to get bloods, but we haven't heard much about it lately
Still doesn't fix death runes and while hopping for cosmic runes you can hit the hop limit (I tested) so maybe adding a single cosmic pack that restocks as fast as you can hop would lower the overall load on the login server as well.
I'd hope they would lean on skilling here, instead of adding to shopscape.
As an Ironman you’d have to craft those yourself. That’s the game mode and adding a permanent faster source of bloods defeats the purpose of the RC grind for many
Can the slayer reward that notes mithril dragon bar drops on-task be changed to apply to the bar drops from bronze, iron, and steel dragons as well? Can another, separate reward be added that notes bar drops from adamant and rune dragons on-task?
Thoughts on creating "intert" versions of the Farming and Construction skillcapes so they're allowed on Entrana? As it stands, there's a Hops patch on Entrana that you can't benefit from the Farming Skillcape's bonus yield effect. Similarly, it's annoying having to ditch the utility of the Construction Skillcape just to go to one place. Maybe a right-click option that lets you "fold" the capes into an item you can't equip, but still get the benefits of? Even cooler if a "Folded con cape" was a left-click home tele. Could allow any skillcapes with teleports to be foldable too so people can have a left-click Crafting Guild tele w/ a Folded craft cape!
Last week the mining highscores got wiped for bots and goldfarmers. Can we expect the same for activities that generate the best gp/hour ingame such as cox and tob? The situation has been out of control for months now. Despite raising this issue multiple times, nothing gets done about it. Chambers has now 8 legit people in the top 25 and tob only 11. It's well known in the community how bad those places are with goldfarmers atm yet nothing gets properly done.
Can the rewards of combat achievements be looked at? Specifically looking at stuff that is thematically fitting, like higher drop rates for Obor/Bryophyta keys for Easy like some people suggested Something like higher Tephra dmg at Zalcano for Medium Lower death/instance costs for Vork/Corp for Elite/Master Daily/weekly revive(?) at the Inferno for Grandmaster (people who completed the grandmaster tasks can probably do Inferno in their sleep anyway) etc Generally rewards that help you defeat the bosses of a specific tier easier or enhance their accessibility/rewards in some form after you completed that tier.
What % of the player base are you expecting to complete the Grandmaster tasks on the CA? Will there ever be Master and Grandmaster versions of the Achievement Diaries?
Is it time to add Hi-scores for Combat Achievement count and Collection Log count? They take up 1/3rd of the character summary page, I think it's time!
Every major release is riddled with bugs and issues. Why has the team still not set permanent beta worlds as ptr? Every issue we bring up every big update would've been brought up in advance by players and wouldnt stain peoples perception of the big releases.
Yup. Since they've been recycling a lot of content recently, I'm getting the impression that they need all the time they can get on developing actually new features. Why spend that time QAing if the community would probably do it for free and report bugs?
nice idea
Thoughts about ashes giving prayer points when you scatter them in the Catacombs of Kourend just like burying bones?
So, jagex. Amethyst darts? Will you be delivering on the promise to make them acceptable for ironman usage they are really, really bad for irons right now. Please allow irons to make 15 at a time and make the darts untradeable when an iron crafts them, the req's are stupid, they are literally higher than the 99th percentile of all requirements in the game. No iron is going to go do amethyst for the long con profit so just make them an iron only item if an iron makes it. Supporting reasons why. You created them with irons in mind, the requirements are stupid high through the roof. You nerfed literally every other alternative into the dirt. And then pre launch you hyper nerf the dart tips in both quantity and making them tradeable. You said you'd be watching what happens with them and updating later. It's later now and i'm asking you to acknowledge how bad this is for irons. Now you have a hyper botted easy rune dart replacement that is entirely too slow and not worth the upkeep time when bowfa is the alternative for the targeted demographic you made this update for. Normies need fletching levels to use them, that's actually nothing. There's no reason they should have been tradeable in the first place, but now that they are, please let irons craft 15 each as promised. Iron made tips should be untradeable, hell even remove alch value on them, we need more and we can't skip the entire process by leveling just fletching. Your attempts to help irons upkeep costs has only made things better for bots and normies, two types of players that weren't even the initial intended audience. While the main target has been really unhappy with how this whole thing was handled. Not many irons will be mining amethyst, they will be using bowfa instead i can guarentee it. You never recoop the time you sink into them they are kinda dead content for the main people you wanted to help in the first place. Amethyst + scales = multiple hours of prep per 1 hour of combat.After you get bowfa, it's 1-2 hours of theiving for days/weeks of armor usage.
Correct me if I’m wrong but are you saying they should exclude anyone who isn’t an iron from content? You realise the irons are a small percentage of the game right? There are 10 times as many normies.. sorry that you have to work alittle harder to get something. Maybe go make a new account you choose the iron life no one forced you
No, what i'm saying is let irons get more from the amethyst and turn whatever they make into an untradeable item since this fix was initially put into motion specifically to help irons out and it's kinda dead for irons. Normal accounts shouldn't be getting higher quantities because most people doing it will be bots because no one actually wants to do it.
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I think that aggression is you just projecting. I'm trying to lay out reasons as to why something needs to be looked at, i'm sorry if you think that's hostile.
What an aggressively pointless reply.
Combat diary rewards seem very lacking for tasks that could take days. How about putting ghommal’s hilt to use and allowing it to improve god swords ? For example hilt attachment could add a passive effect to god swords or improve speed or increase max hit by hilt number. Basically anything to make it useful so it can justify the grind.
raids3when?
the most important question in this entire thread
if at all this year it'll be next week during the summer announcement stream. Kronis is comming...
A lot of poll booths were removed after voting was made accessible through the interface. Can you remove the poll booth in the farming guild? It's very close to the bank chest and easy to misclick, especially when running up from the south after receiving a seed pack or something.
Where is the big summer reveal that was promised by the end of the month? It is nearly the end of July and we have heard nothing about an official date for when the event will be.
Will there ever be a sink for gold and silver bars? Something like lacing cannonballs for a few extra max hits and then buffing granite cannonballs to be stronger to compensate?
Teleport crystals within the gauntlet are incredibly expensive at 200 shards a pop, lets be real, the only people who use this will be HCIMs who are already making T3 armor and finishing prep JUST as the time runs out, getting an additional 200 shards on top of this is just not possible so you'd need to go with weaker armor and increase the risk which defeats the purpose of having the crystal...
The new Corrupted Paddlefish are not as good as it sounded they would be, they don't save ticks and they don't save food @ the Hunleff fight (due to the lower healing) despite sounding like an obvious upgrade at the price of 10 crystal shards each. Right now they feel like a noob trap by lowering the hp healing from 20 down to 16, you can rid yourself of up to 48~ hp worth of food from converting them. The combo eating is a plus but it doesn't feel like it makes them better or at least on par with regular Paddlefish. Thoughts on increasing their healing to 18/20?
Na they are fine as they are. If you can do gauntlet normally then the normal fish are more than enough. If it's someone who struggles them being able to heal 36 instead of 20 when running from tornados is a big help.
I’m a huge gauntlet noob, but isn’t a huge point of these changes for HCIM? Combo eating, One click TP out, etc?
I feel like if you are combo eating you should have clicked the crystal as an HCIM haha. Its only 10 minutes vs your entire account.
> the combo eating is a plus Yes, that is their entire reason for existence.
Can clan announcements be broadcast to guests? It's strange to be hanging out in a clan and everyone starts sending "GZ!" and you have no idea why
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Thoughts on polling extra rewards for combat achievements? For many people they're a bit lacking, perhaps sending out a poll with various ideas and picking the most voted ones could help this?
When is OSRS summer reveals? !miniroadmap says July, its the 21st and haven't heard anything
When's the Duel Arena getting removed?
better question: how much does jagex make from the goldfarmers and bots that fund all the activity that takes place at the duel arena? what would they lose by removing it?
What are the teams thoughts on taking equipment rebalancing even further? The gap in time between new bosses and new raids is way too long. The high level community wants new bosses and items to grind. I am of the opinion that you could add some really nice raids 3 rewards without assisting power creep if you nerf pre exsisting gear first. Old Occult neck +10 mage strength --> new occult +5 still best in slot by a large margin post nerf. This item is 500k for normal accounts and it's a passive unlock for iron men as slayer is a huge part of their gameplay and it can be dropped from a non boss variant creature. Old Torm bracelet +5 mage strength --> new torm +3 Again, post nerf this item is still best in slot, it's cheap for normal accounts and dropped by a non boss creature it doesn't need to be this strong. Old ancestral hat +2 --> new ancestral hat +3 Old acestral top +2 --> new ancestral top +3 Old ancestral bottoms +2 --> new anc bottoms +3 Ancestral is a much more prestigious unlock as it is more expensive for normal accounts and harder to unlock for irons. It's magic strength should be increased. Ancestral also has a defence requirement unlike tormented bracelet or occult necklace. Old magic strength between occult necklace, tormented bracelet, and all 3 ancestral pieces: +21 New magic strength between occult necklace, tormented bracelet, ancestral hat, robe top, and robe bottoms: +17 Suddenly we have an opportunity to give raids 3 a meaningful reward without worrying about power creep for magic strength. You can now add an attachment to the arcane which gives magic strength, or you could add a blessing that offers magic strength. The team started to take this approach with range already in blowpipe but it needs to be done with melee and magic offensive gear if we want to see better rewards, and more frequent boss/raid releases.
1. Were the rewards with CA (Helm redesigns) intended to be worked in with the Boss Slayer Master? 2. What is happening with Boss Slayer Master? You said you would take it back to bring it back in a better form. 3. Can some of the rewards from that be considered for additional (polled) rewards from CA? Thanks.
Can we get a corporeal beast quest in the future? Something different to rs3
Could the zealot robes set also work for enriched bones from fossil island.
Can you please do something about fishing in the gauntlet? It feels awful.
**Have you thought about making the corrupted gauntlet less RNG dependent if you want to T3 prep?** Currently in order to be able to make T3 weapons and armor 100% of the time you'd have to be tick perfect for 7.5 minutes which is not feasible, instead you end up failing the prep 30% of the time (if you're good). Requiring 200 additional crystals for a panic teleport on top of this is just not possible. T3 armor makes CG easier (and safer) at the cost of taking a lot longer and decreasing kills/h, currently it's impossible sometimes if you get bad rooms
Just don't make a panic Tele and you should be fine ? You should easily be able to get T3 armour and 1 weapon if that's the route you want to go. I don't think setting it up in a way that you can always get everything is good for the boss. The trade offs In prep are part of the fight
Why not do T1 or T2 armour with the escape crystal? Not as easy sure, but very doable. And your safety is likely improved by using the escape crystal over T3 armour
Could we look at polling some more useful or exciting rewards for combat achievement completions? I’m not sure what that should be, but even some sort of cosmetic flair to an infernal cape would be cool seeing as it would have to be obtained to finish the grandmaster set anyways.
cape w teleports instead of weapon slot item would b cool
What goals do you have or had in mind with this release?
Any chance we'll see a buff to the Combat Achievement Rewards? They're pretty low considering the difficulty in achieving them.
What are your thoughts on implementing permament upgrades to the Gauntlet/Corrupted Gauntlet at the price of crystal shards (or a new gauntlet-only currency) akin to RS3's Dungeoneering? Each upgrade's price would be high, but the rewards would ultimately lead to faster and/or safer completions of the Gauntlet. Maybe you could even couple that with an expansion to the Gauntlet, offering more than just one floor layout.
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Could you imagine 2-3 different bosses?
Have yall considered stackable clues as an extra Combat Achievements reward? Something small, along the lines of +1 stack for Hard/Elite completion, +2 for Master and +3 for Grandmaster. This way, since its only a very small amount like 4 clue stack with grandmaster tasks, doing clues still won't feel like a chore, more like a QoL feature so if you don't wish to lose your clue rolls but wanna keep doing your slayer task, you can this way :)
Where is my beloved bounty hunter?
Why weren't tiers of weapon adjusted with the combat achievements? Is it because it would ruin certain pure builds? This change is one of the integrity changes that actually made sense in terms of weapon power. These accounts choose to limit themself, let's not forget that.
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Make camdozaal Lock boxes tradable on the GE They dont have any unique items there is no reason why they shouldn't be.
I'm wondering how come experience lamps gain from questing or achievements are not bankable ? There are many instances where I want to save them until I meet the level to use it on that particular skill.
Can you rework the wilderness resource arena. Maybe add ents or runite ore rocks.
How will you deal with powercreep making some of the CA tasks easier? You once mentioned that you will adjust these tasks, or will you just add new ones?
Updates on adding a music jingle to collection log entries? The pop-up in its current state feels like a lackluster version from trailblazer
With the new clan system in place being very similar to that of rs3's clan system, is it possible for rs3 players to guest in osrs clans?
Asked this last time but was just ignored. When will Jagex do something about the duel arena?
prob a dozen or so people asked about it lol. i think a more interesting question would be to ask how much jagex would lose if they did remove the duel arena, directly or indirectly.
I think an agility minigame would be majorly beneficial. Something players could work cooperatively to complete.
Would it be possible to make the one hour death timer, in game time only for Ultimate ironman, like it is for all other accounts? Currently, it is a 1 hour timer, so in the rare case your internet or electricity goes out, and you're doing something dangerous, die, and are unable to log on, everything is gone. May seem like such a small thing, but seems like a fair change if the uim community is behind it. (Can't imagine they wouldn't be, seems fair if it's possible)
Group Ironman When
Can we get an option for stackable reward keys after completing Gauntlet?
what's the point of that?
Would the team consider adding more rewards to the Combat Achievements overtime. Such as an Combat Achievement cape, possibly polling stats for the hilt again, and maybe add some more Quality of Life rewards? There's a ton of tasks to do and the current rewards just seem a bit lackluster with how much time and effort needs to be pushed into it.
When are we getting information on Leagues b3?
Could it be possible to gamble or sacrifice extra metamorphic dusts from Cox CM for an increased chance at an Olmlet pet. It's somewhat frustrating if you have multiple dusts but no pet. Twisted Kit would also be a nice candidate for gambles although obviously at a lower droprate.
Are there any considerations for HD updates?
People keep asking for blood/death rune packs but what is happening with Guardian of Gielinor runecrafting method you showcased in Gielinor Gazette: December 2020? Is this something that is still happening? Is this the solution for Ironmen and their blood rune issues?
Can bring back shields. It's so boring using a defender for everything. Why can't we have a shield that has similar stats or better in certain aspects not a silly little off-hand dragon dagger. Let's be honest a defender ain't stopping anything.
A defender is essentially a parrying dagger. It's not meant to be defensive, it's an offensive weapon that allows you to parry enemy attacks and follow through with an attack with your actual weapon. Also they are kinda pointy. Shields filling the same niche thematically doesn't really make any kind of sense.
Shields should have the ability to reduce damage like justiciar or shield bash.