Read moreCaught up with the team on this today.
Their reasoning is basically that the method was getting a lot more use as a result of the 110 RC update, and since none of the other altars allow it, they felt it shouldn't either for consistency.
The feedback on the sudden change is completely fair, especially after all this time of it going untouched. Your feedback is with them, and they do recognise we should have thought more holistically than just 'fixing it' in a hotfix after all this time.
Based on the feedback, they're going to take review current magical thread supply/demand and make a change if it looks like one is necessary.
They're also open to potentially adding an abyss portal for the Astral Altar as a way to 'officially' support Abyss Buffs at the Astral Altar, but that's a bit of a separate issue to the Magical Thread stuff - keen to hear your thoughts either way though.
Either way, if anyone else has concerns, please let us know what/wh...
Thank you to everyone dropping comments here, really appreciate your time on these. Making sure they make it to the team.
u/JagexYuey will be talking to the team about this on today's Livestream too.