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This whole equipment rebalance has been an emotional rollercoaster!
It most certainly has! I think we're near the end of this saga though. My hairline will appreciate that.
This whole equipment rebalance has been an emotional rollercoaster!
It most certainly has! I think we're near the end of this saga though. My hairline will appreciate that.
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This will help to ensue that the bow remains balanced from a cost vs power perspective
But you're also making the second best dart ammo for the blowpipe to have an expected cost of 50-70% of rune darts unless a miracle happens to double the price of amethysts overnight. Can you please be consistent?
The introduction of Amethyst darts was always going to have an impact on the cost of using the Blowpipe. It was something we raised during initial blogs but ultimately players felt there was a need to introduce a more available type of ammunition seeing as Mithril/Adamantite would be less effective.
There's a reason we're not looking to immediately introduce new ways to obtain Dragon Darts and instead waiting on how much things change with the introduction of Amethyst (if they pass the polls) - this is to maintain that higher upkeep cost.
That seems about as consistent as we can be while trying to please as many people as possible.
You need to start having version numbers for these updates to clarify the timeline.
There's a changelog that shows the date of when changes were made and what the changes were. Would adding a number to that really help? I'd understand if we were publishing new and separate blogs, but we're not (and last time we did that, everyone seemed to hate it).
Only bow changes? We've been clear about our displease other things in the blog such as Aemthsyt darts and their broken supply, crystal armor upkeep, why the blog still shows archer ring for inferno first cape and the cherry on top no mention about how future range armor ranged STR bonus will interact with the blowpipe.
Amethyst darts are easy enough for us to change once they've been live in-game for a while and we can look at the actual data.
Crystal armour upkeep really shouldn't be that bad considering you don't lose charges if you don't take damage. This includes when using the correct Protection Prayers and when you get hit 0. Though again, it's something we can easily monitor and adjust if necessary once we have the data to validate any changes.
I didn't see a need to mention how future Ranged armour with Ranged strength bonuses will interact with the Toxic Blowpipe seeing as it will be as per it is now. The more Ranged strength, the stronger it becomes - but at the same time other Ranged weapons benefit from the same improvements too outside of the Crystal Armour.
8 dart tips per amethyst makes them not worth making. The only players that benefit from this are bots.
It's very simple for us to change that should it be an issue in the future, but we'd rather wait and see how it impacts things when live than over doing it on the initial release.
You didn't deserve the down votes on this comment.
It's okay I am used to it by now!
Just one change included today which is in regards to the Bow of Faerdhinen and the way corruption works, following your feedback!
No further changes are planned at this stage and we're hopeful that we'll be going live with an in-game poll for the buffs tomorrow :)
Thanks all for the continued feedback and support <3
Then why change it?
As it says in the blog, there were certain encounters where the bow was better than we'd intended. This small change brings it down just enough in those situations for us to not be concerned.
Nerfing the new 75 tier bow before it's even out is worrying, hoping we don't see the release of another underwhelming item
The changes to the Bow equal ~3-4% accuracy loss overall and 1 max hit from it's previous proposal. It's really not that much of a difference :)
Why is the new bow tier 75 if the equipment rebalancing will change the blade of saeldor to tier 80? Shouldn't they remain consistent considering they come from the same piece of content?
It will be changed alongside the Tier Rebalancing work we plan to do later this year. It's a little odd way of going about it, but it keeps everything in line for now until the changes to other items are made.
Read moreWill you be addressing the issue with dragon dart availability? Since amethyst darts don't fill the gap between rune and dragon darts, we're still in an awkward situation where players really need dragon darts for extremely challenging content, but there is no way to grind for them.
I love grinding for the items I use in ironman mode, that's a major part of the game mode. But I need a way to actually grind for them, and right now there is no viable method for obtaining dragon darts and arrows. Instead you get a small trickle of them incidentally while doing other content. I just want a method where I can say "okay I need 1000 dragon darts so that I can do the Inferno achievement for under X minutes, I'll go grind dragon paleontology for a few hours"
Edit: Jagex, if you need ideas for the content, I got you --
Dragon Thieving
Alright so you sneak into a dragon's lair, and there's a bunch of sleeping dragons in there. You're a badass thi...
We have no plans at the moment to address Dragon dart availability at the moment. I'll happily look at suggestions to feedback to the team though.
"okay I need 1000 dragon darts so that I can do the Inferno achievement for under X minutes, I'll go grind dragon paleontology for a few hours"
Couldn't you just replace dragon paleontology for Vorkath and get the exact same result here?
When are these proposals presumably going into the game?
There is no ETA yet - essentially when it feels right. That being said, it's likely be sooner rather than later given other projects such as Combat Achievements are locked behind these changes.
Wondered the same, but as it appears to be a completely separate weapon rather than an upgrade to the c bow, id wager not.
It would be an entirely different Ranged weapon indeed, so in this case its very unlikely unless it was added as a requirement to future Clues.
That's because u/JagexAyiza is a WoW nerd himself ayiza4Head
Trueeee
Thank you very much for reading my thoughts and for replying, I do appreciate it. Yes, I do trust Jagex, I know you guys want what’s best for the game, of course. I just think more transparency is best. Seeing the number of responses is valuable to compare the amount of responses against total players. It helps show how much of the community not only replied, but that section’s sentiment. OSRS has been built on transparency regarding changes, its origin was transparent.
I just really do not want or like unrolled changes to RS2 content, I feel it must be polled.
Again, thanks for going through these and for replying to my message.
Appreciate the reply! Well I actually forgot to include them at the start of the blog. I'll see about getting them added with the updated blog we'll no doubt upload :)
Is that any reason to not include the total number of respondents?
No I just completely forgot to add it to the start of the blog to be honest :D
The percentages feel arbitrary, why this instead of an in game poll? We don’t even know the grand total responses these percentages are taken from. 1,000 people could have replied and they’re going to make major changes based off of it? Certainly doesn’t seem beholden to the interests of the majority of the player base to me.
/u/JagexAyiza Please show the total number of responses when these surveys are done. They feel completely arbitrary and like their only purpose is to give Jagex the opportunity to overrule negative opinions or failed polls by subverting the in game polling system.
The survey was used to help direct the changes, it's not what we've based everything off. There are a few clear examples of that throughout the blog.
If you don't trust in us by providing the %'s, would you really believe us if we added a number of total respondents?
Honestly looks really good to me, lots of improvements over the original ideas. One thing i was curious about, and this might actually be better for the wilderness blog but thought I’d bring it up if you haven’t though about it u/JagexAyiza has there been consideration to making blessed dragon hide chaps and vambs wearable by one defense accounts ? I think it’d have a few benefits personally. If this has been discussed on one the last two streams my apologies, I’ve missed those since we moved back into the office at my job.
The changes to D'hide will be included as part of the Wilderness Changes blog yeah :)
I'll wait until then to share more about it!