The main reason I hate everything having charges is I have to start thinking if what I am doing is getting a big enough return to pay for the charges I am using instead of just putting on my best gear and picking what activity based on what I have the most fun doing.
Does corrupting an item just remove that for you? You still spend a lot but once it is done... it is done.
I gotta say I like the idea. You're basically making the true cost of the item base cost + corruption cost except that you're allowed to use it before paying the full corruption cost. You get a really satisfying feeling twice, once when you get the drop and again when you get enough to corrupt it.
It might be awkward for players that use the ge if they're used to selling and rebuying their gear and that might reset the corruption progress, but that's not any worse than what they have now.
Are you thinking of applying this to existing items or just future items? What about items that don't currently corrupt like crystal armour or blood fury?
It's the early stages of the idea so we're still gathering feedback. I think many of us on the team feel that adding it retroactively to other "Corruptible" items makes sense if we're doing it going forwards. Part of that conversation probably will involve "Were there any items that could have been corruptible that weren't made that way?" but it's not easy to give an answer off the cuff.
It's a delicate conversation because when we ask that question it touches on a lot of elements outside of the scope of just the items themselves. Are we going to ruin the gp/hr of a piece of content? Are we going to devalue/deprecate non-charged items that shouldn't be devalued? That's not to say it won't happen, but that there will probably be many case by case conversations. Sorry if the answer is a bit of a cop out, but in summary, we'll probably look into it!
I gotta say I like the idea. You're basically making the true cost of the item base cost + corruption cost except that you're allowed to use it before paying the full corruption cost. You get a really satisfying feeling twice, once when you get the drop and again when you get enough to corrupt it.
It might be awkward for players that use the ge if they're used to selling and rebuying their gear and that might reset the corruption progress, but that's not any worse than what they have now.
Are you thinking of applying this to existing items or just future items? What about items that don't currently corrupt like crystal armour or blood fury?
One outcome is we could absolutely go back and apply it to suitable items. Plenty of stuff to work out though if we were to do that.
Personally not 100% sure on the idea of corrupting currently not corruptable stuff - as long as it has the right cost I don't think it's a big deal. Normally corruption costs quite a bit, probably more charges than most players probably ever use!
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If the benefit is big, like Blood Fury healing 6% effectively, it’s almost warranted to have charges. But if the benefit is negligible, not really necessary.
We’re fine with Trident/Magic using runes since that’s how it was from the start, but for melee gear, you should get a big benefit if you want to add charges (ie. Uncharged scythe to Charged Scythe).
However, there should always be a good active way to maintain said charges. For example, if the only way to get Zulrah Scales was Sacred Eel fishing, it would be complete ass until you add Zulrah.
Likewise, if you could only mine Ancient Essence to upgrade imbued heart and Muspah didn’t exist. I think Muspah went a little too generous because the essence is basically worthless and could very well not exist due to how much is pushed out per kill.
People also like the idea of permacharge as a huge cost.
I think everything you've said is fair - it'd be obnoxious if the power of the item doesn't really justify needing charges.
Hey all, wanted to start a casual discussion about ChargeScape - we see lots of feedback here about disliking it. We want to learn and figure out a better approach for future.
Why do we do charges?
There are several main reasons we have offered charges in the way we have recently:
We believe these are the problems
This is a mix of things we've heard you all say and things we also think:
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In the case of goblin still reading these, is a Wintertodt damage rebalance still in the backlog or has the shipped sailed?
Ship has not sailed - it's still very much there for an upcoming QoL Poll!
Will pass this one on to the team working on Rebalance bits and see if it's feasible, seems a sensible change if it's easy to implement!
What's not correct is our statement that defeating all three bosses would provide an additional 1/56 roll at any item, for a total of 1/14. This is not the case and has never been the case
What exactly is the clarification here? That the roll is not for any item? Or that they're isn't an additional roll at all?
It's to say that the additional roll is not the case, was a slight error in communication with some of the rate stuff last week.
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Correct, yeah!
What happened to releasing rates for hunter rumours? Last week a jmod commented they forgot and they'd include it in the next week, but I don't see any mention of it.
What's the rates for rare hunter creature parts? Pet from rumours? Outfit from rumours?
They were retroactively added to last week's blog post, see here, just above 'Changelog': https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/a=13/varlamore-tweaks--drop-rates?oldschool=1
Can we address the quiver bug soon, bows still won’t recognize arrows in the quiver if you have atlatl darts in main slot
Have made a note and will pass it on to the team to resolve!
He's a great team player too!!! Goblin for pres
We all are, it's actually pretty important to me that people realise that nobody works in a vacuum and we succeed/fail as a team. Would rather people support (or not) the team holistically rather than singling out individuals on either side, the added pressure or potential to dogpile people isn't fun to navigate a lot of the time.
u/JagexGoblin I believe Mantimayhem is causing massive FPS drop and/or client crashing. Just experienced it at wave 4 with Mantimayhem Tier 1 activated.
Has been raised, we believe this is due to a RuneLite Plugin, anecdotally have seen some reports that disabling the Fortis Colosseum plugin from the Plugin Hub has alleviated this issue for people!
The "old rates" column for Colosseum uniques doesn't seem to line up with the rates released last week. The previous rates implied no uniques were rolled until the end of wave 6 (1 in 108), but today's newspost lists 1/124. It also lists a unique rate for wave 12, so I'm assuming these are all off by 1.
What was the earliest point at which a unique could be rolled before today? End of wave 6 and awarded on successful completion of wave 7?
What's the first wave where uniques can be rolled now? End of wave 3 (awarded upon successful completion of 4) at a rate of 1/124?
Heya Towelcat, yeah you're right in saying they are all off by one.
Before today, the earliest they could be rolled was end of wave 6 (to be received on completion of wave 7). They can now be rolled on wave 3, to be received on completion of wave 4.
I'll look to tweak this on the newspost shortly :)
Any ETA or update on the Varlamore Agility course?
Heya, unfortunately I can't give you any ETA just yet on the course, but once a decision has been made I'll be sure to let you all know and include it within a Varlamore Blog or something similar.
I won't go into detail about the Varlamore group boss but talk more generally...
Ultimately the issue is popularity of the content really, if there's only one per world you are either forced to group with people you may not want to group with or hop for potentially a long time to find a suitable world.
Some bosses can absolutely be designed to be 'group' content the way Wintertodt is, just turn up join in and get loot. That however is not going to let us do more hardened specific mechanics that may require the boss to be solo or fought in a specific team size. So do we then just have to let players sit and wait and hope they get in first?
The solutions we've tried are:
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