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Nothing new to share on that front. It's coming, just can't say exactly when right now!

That's one way to release an update early I guess!

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The NPC Defence changes is extremely exciting, I think it'll be a really good change! And the fact we'll be doing a beta for it means you get to try it out in-game too which will be so much nicer than just reading numbers :)

Thanks for raising, forgot to update that one, oops :3

Hey all, thanks once again for all of your feedback on the last update (Tuesday 26th). I am happy to confirm that I've managed to sway the team into keeping the previously proposed XP rates you so keenly wanted to stay!

In addition to this, we've been able to bring forward the Run Energy changes so they will be part of Project Rebalance, but please keep in mind that these will come later in the year as we have to move a few things around (there's a LOT of content coming this year!).

I believe this is the last update we'll do on the general Skilling side of things as we move into NPC Defence changes next week and then continue with the rest of Project Rebalance afterwards! Exciting times!

For me honestly I'm pretty immune to it, I just try and see through the emotion and what's really going on, what's annoying people, what do they actually want to change and why?

I mean to me this example is easy, it's already something we want to do, it's just about when and how!

As others have said, we were never going to bin doing run energy improvements - merely that we couldnt fit it in immediately as it will take more time & likely want a beta to make sure we're getting it right.

We've noted the weight of feedback though, we know it is what people want so we will change plans. We'll do what we can to prioritise it and bring it forward - we're working out where it can fit as I write this. It won't necessarily release at the same time as the other changes but shouldn't be far away either. Full confirmation on this & other tweaks will come in the next blog update.

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I think that's more down to the prayer drain aspect - you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Lose HP or prayer. Both suck.

There's a LOT more to this project than just these Skilling related changes - next week we'll be talking about entirely different topics. We've had to be selective on how much time/resource we commit to each topic, but we feel like the complete set of changes will have a much better impact overall than focusing just on Skilling.

Project Rebalance was never about straight up buffing Agility XP by significant amounts. As we said in this updated blog, our aim is to make Agility more rewarding and varied to progress through, not just faster. This means that our efforts are concentrated on giving players a wider variety of entertaining and XP-efficient training options.

We do know that many of you want to see Agility reworked in some form, and I imagine it'll only be a matter of time when we look to focus on that, but we need a solid foundation to work off and there are some big improvements that can be made before then (while we have the time and resource to tackle something like this rebalance).

We realise that we aren't able to deliver something that complex as part of this rebalancing project, but it was considered at the start and the team already have a solid proposal for how it'd be reworked. I imagine we'll be sharing news on that sometime, just no longer part of this particular project.

Hey all, I'm taking over this one for a while as Goblin is on holiday so bear with me as I'm not as close to the project as he was!

We spent a lot of time going over your feedback and the survey results to come up with these changes, so hopefully they resonate with how you were all feeling and we can move forward with some positive changes to various skills :)

Been tons of positivity around this and it's great to see. We're trying to make the regular QoL Polls more narrowly focused on individual themes (CoX improvements last year, MTA here). The goal being to create change that feels a bit more meaningful. In the past we've been quite broad like "a set of pvm improvements" but that can mean 1 tiny thing to this content, 2 tiny things to another. Whilst CoX today feels meaningfully better than before that poll.

That won't mean we stop doing other things too but do expect more of this kind of approach.

I think that's fair! We'll get the xp rate right such that its appropriate for players doing it normally. We just needed to do something in the meantime.

We agree but even then there's levels to that. Is 200k xp/hr okay? Yes sure.

Is 5m xp/hr okay just cause it costs a bomb? I'd very much think no myself. Which implies there's a line somewhere in the middle.

The game is really about player achievements, we don't want to undermine player achievements by suddenly allowing people to get something far far faster than before (for the same cost as running at lava runes). i.e. pre update: 28m gp/hr for 280k xp/hr at lavas, post update: 28m gp/hr for 400k xp/hr at sunfires. Things do get faster over time but that's a hell of a jump.