JagexHusky

Sure, I can take this one.

So first off, the dev team is split into several groups each with their own projects and responsibilities.

Wardens - Recently did AKD and ToB Modes, currently working on the A night at the theatre rework

Juggernauts - (The team I'm on), Recently did Clans and ERB and are now finishing off Combat Achievements for next week

Unknown - Working on the New client features, you recently got batch 1

Operators - Recently did the work to take Phosani's Nightmare from ideation into a real project and also work on the polls and things you see week to week outside of actual projects

??? - We have another team working on things which haven't been announced.

And naturally each of the project teams have unannounced projects we're working on whether that be design work/creative briefs/design documents etc. or being further along doing implementation work.

The Operators currently have the least amount of devs ...

I think we'll just unequip them, I can't remember. Regardless the point is you'll have to re-earn the tier that is now uncomplete similar to how quest capes work

We'll release Phosani tasks after the CA launch. It's still a little close to it's release and we couldn't fit it in with the dev time we have without delaying it anymore anyway.

Moving forward when new content gets released I'd imagine the tasks might take anywhere from a few weeks to maybe a month or just over to release. Mostly due to wanting to fix any bugs/evaluating the player metas for the content before coming up with tasks for it.

Thanks for the summary I gave on twitter! :D

Hijacking this a little, looking to have a changelist out at some point tomorrow (or the day after if time is stretched) which will include the Vorkath task being changed along with a few other changes here and there.

Grandmaster really is supposed to be that tier of difficulty beyond what we've got in the game. I see people who can currently do the Inferno as being able to do the Master tier pretty comfortably if that's any reference.

Elite still has a ton in it, it's our biggest tier by number of tasks so this piece of content should hopefully hit a super wide-range of players and I'm definitely excited to see how you all do, how many completions per tier etc.

I really do want to emphasise that it's good to have aspirational content in the game and this kicks it up a notch. Future content will come out which may introduce rewards to make some of these tasks easier too so that's something to bear in mind....

Kind of? It's still decent. Worth noting that Crystal Bow in the proposal (with armour) is about 3 max hits higher than in game right now.

If it helps, the power of them goes as follows:

BoF with armour > Crystal Bow with armour > BoF with Armadyl > Crystal Bow with Armadyl

Nope because I don't know the answer! All of this stuff is very much in the proposal state and I want to make sure we've addressed all the feedback we can before committing to what gets polled and when

Fixed! (here, not on twitter)

We don't have a date set for it currently, we have an idea of when it could come out based on an estimation of how long the work would take at least

No problem! I just want to make sure I have a full picture of all the feedback before our meeting next week :P

Hey Reddit!

Just wanted to say that I've loved reading all of the feedback so far in the main Equipment Rebalance thread but there are lots of smaller points which get drowned out amongst the discussion around the Toxic Blowpipe, the Bow of Faerdhinen and the Amethyst Darts.

To ensure that we address everything when we discuss the feedback next week I'd love it if you guys could give some feedback on this thread regarding some of the following other changes!

Link to the blog here: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/equipment-rebalance-ranged-meta-proposal?oldschool=1

I posted the same thing on twitter too, you can leave feedback on either one! ...

It's a proposed buff! From the blog:

"Lastly we want to increase the Ranged strength of the basic Crystal Bow. This small change has a big impact, providing +2 points of damage to the Bow’s max hit rising to +3 points when used with the full Crystal Armour set. A helpful little nudge to universal viability!"

The comparison at the Inferno was purely for the Zuk minions, yes waves will be harder but not by a significant amount, it's on average one more hit every other kill, sure it'll add up but that's not a huge deal.

However, during the waves you have a limited amount of hits to begin with as you have to keep up with the shield so that was where our focus was and I don't think it's too far-fetched to assume people will save ranged pot doses for killing the rangers/healers during Zuk

1. Cost isn't the only issue with the Blowpipe and it's not even the most important fact about it, a basically one weapon ranged meta is never healthy for the game and the biggest reason for the change is to offer diversity in the ranged meta.

2. Not hard at all, however, that would be a pretty significant change to how people expect the game to work and I don't see how that proposal would be better

3. Yeah we were aware of the Amethyst darts coming into the game being higher than rune but Rune/Amethyst are still weaker than main-game so comparing them to main-game costs when the nerfed version would be weaker seems a little off, if they're weaker perhaps it's ok if the ammo is also slightly cheaper? Happy to open Amethyst darts open for suggestions though (just like anything else in this blog)

The assumption about them being on rapid is correct!

Sorry, it was a complete oversight on my part in forgetting about the ring slot and it is wildly inconsistent for me to use a veracs helm/archers when either armadyl/archers or veracs/suffering would've been better.

I took the time to make the table for you including a ring of suffering: https://imgur.com/a/3yi9Xnc

And whilst running the numbers again I found out for some reason the wrong TTK numbers are in the blog. It doesn't generally matter they're just off by a smidge but I've asked for them to be updated.

Thank you so much! (I might just cry)

As a team we worked really hard to try and get the best proposal we could to present to the community

I think "Not malicious ones or laziness" covers the counterpoint to what you have said.

We have reasons, I can't share those reasons and that's all I can say

There are reasons why it hasn't been fixed and not malicious ones or laziness. We do intend to fix it, it's just not as straight-forward as you might think!

It's definitely on our agenda, I just want you to know that we haven't forgotten about it at least!

It's worth noting that the development team are still working away whilst there is a no update week, the quantity of content you receive isn't changing just the cadence momentarily :)