Jagex, are you gonna fix your "combat balance" update? It's repels new players.

thanks for that!

Hey, as someone in the replies posted - I'm looking into this today, there's clearly some issues early game.

If you have specifics issues you've encountered and the gear you were using it'll help me out.

Of note somethings I'll be looking to adjust:
Reducing the rigidity of stats: (a lot of mobs attack and defence stats line up exactly when they don't need to - a simple example is cows in live are 2 defence, 2 attack, when in reality they should be at the lowest defence as theyre super early game)

Making 'gatekeep' mobs less dangerous: Theres mobs in areas designed to keep players in a place for a period of time (wolves on Whitewolf Mountain designed to stop early players venturing out of burthorpe, troll chuckers etc) Going to bring these down a peg so theyre still stronger than e.g. the cows in burthorpe but not so strong that you have 0 chance of making it across the mountain

Matching expectations: Because of how combat was prior to necro with majority of mobs being SO understatted, players expectations of what they can do at different level bands changed, e.g. flesh crawlers i used to be able to kill with 20ish combat stats; they had a low maxhit & were pretty easily killable with low stats despite having a combat level of 40.
A chunk of these mobs we can bring their combat levels down TO match the old expectation e.g 20 on flesh crawlers

So having had a play myself, I wonder if you were wearing some off style gear early. As with bronze weapons & 1 stats im seeing a 68% hitchance vs rabbits.

Appreciate the others i can take a look

But that said, why isn’t rolling back low level monsters stats back to previous patch version an option?

So my stance on this is pre-patch they were absolutely in a worse place than current - (this is still the case for a chunk of mid-high end mobs), introducing a new combat style you want there to be clear reasons for different abilities, combos etc to exist at all stages of game play level 1 up to level 120 and for the game to transition across levels smoothly, had the changes not gone ahead, early/mid game necro your conjures wouldve essentially done nothing as the target would be dead before they ever arrived, the same can be said for ultimate abilities, whats the purpose of an ultimate if I'm killing the target with a basic in one hit, teaching players bad habits of not using these abilities throughout the early game, up until a sudden breakpoint where they hit modernly balanced monsters which then work completely differently to everything theyve been previously taught.

Would it have not made more sense to increase a select number of monsters individually instead of blanket update to make sure it was the right move?

This is absolutely what we did, hitting up the early game instead of the whole game, it's a problem where if you only touch a very few select mobs to be properly balanced, players will ignore them and go for the old undertuned mobs that haven't been touched.

I only play the game on and off so I don’t really have a horse in this race, but even I can see the huge displeasure these terrible patches are causing in the game of late.

I disagree frankly, and if you're drawing your opinions purely from reddit threads it's going to sway towards the negative because as humans we tend to voice frustrations and remain silent if things are going good. No update or change is going to please everyone so you're going to see displeasure whenever something does or doesn't change.

FWIW i'm not looking to revert back to how it was pre-necro. But there are some clear issues where some mobs are overtuned and players aren't having fun at those as a result which is a problem

Appreciate the reply.
added banshees to my list of things to check over, I vaguely remember doing them on necro release myself without issue, were these regulars or might banshees and weird question : but were you using earmuffs

unblocked, not sure why/when i would've done that

I can take a look, IIRC though only spiders out of those were changed

yep cheers, gonna hit up turoths so theyre more in line with their slayer level ~55 than their current combat level

Kurasks fell in one of the upper categories so need a rebalance to start so i probably won't do those with this job