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When will the actual poll 80 be live?
Tomorrow.
When will the actual poll 80 be live?
Tomorrow.
Wait, are the pyramid plunder loot mechanics not working as intended? Why poll this? Just fix it.
I'm potentially wasting my time looting rooms at pyramid plunder...
We aren't polling it anymore.
The updated lava dragon model you showed here is much better than the one from yesterday, but I still feel like the flat orange color should be replaced with the old fire cape / lava texture.
That's a fair point, and is exactly why we've removed it as a question and want the community to give us feedback before making a change like this!
Still no scythe polls or even mention of it like y’all really didn’t see the huge amount of people specifically asking about this yesterday?
I believe I said it in a previous comment from yesterday, but we didn't want to start talking about this again were we not at a point of being in a solid position to present the ideas and we want to wait until we are confident in presenting a full plan to you rather, than if, buts and maybes again.
How are you gonna lump in the wildy changes with the other more obvious ones? People were clearly saying that the TOA QOL and Pyramid Plunder sceptre changes were obvious ones that shouldnt be polled, why did you shoehorn in the changes to the wildy stuff instead of letting people vote on those? Those were obviously far more contentious.
Although contentious, the point of moving these questions was that we want to start coming to a level of consistency for the Wilderness in both mechanics and risk vs rewards - ultimately after reviewing these areas we felt they were changes that are here for the health of the Wilderness which is why they have been moved to unpolled changes.
Scorpia unique suggestions. These suggestions are meant to be mainly good for pvp, but without using any weird "pvp only rules".
- New Javelin ammo that is better than Dragon Javelins.
- Or upgrade to the Ballista, increasing stats. The special attack is the same but also poisons.
- New ranged weapon (ballista ideally, but maybe crossbow) named "Stinger". I would expect it to be better than the heavy ballista.
- New weapon poison that bypasses immunity, but nothing like venom of course.
Can't think of anything else at the top of my head atm.
Appreciate the suggestions! We definitely want to make it feel like Scorpia deserves it's place as one of the most dangerous places in Old School.
Sooo, no extra toa changes? This was sold as a ToA blog, you guys seriously need to add some more toa fixes in here. "we heard your complaints about ToA and fixed nothing!"
As we said in the newspost: "Running these types of polls is a constant process of managing our resources to ensure we can deliver the changes that we’re offering". So this poll, in particular, was about addressing immediate feedback for what we saw yesterday by adjusting the current offerings.
We shouldn't have promised you something we ultimately changed and I can only apologise for that, but we are not done with ToA changes and my hope is that we can address these concerns for ToA in the near future.
Love that you guys systematically addressed every point of feedback (about the proposed questions) within ~24 hours in a clear and concise manner. Looks great and I am eager to start seeing this content enter the game within over the next couple months
PS bring on DT2 :)
Hopefully, this does tackle a lot of the feedback we saw. I wanted to make sure this went out today, even if that means late in the day on our end!
'Pollin Charter' in the second line of the second paragraph of the 'New Unpolled Changes' section :)
We're rollin' with it.
Read moreA lot of the frustration from this Poll Blog stems from the fact that it really feels like a bait and switch.
Poll 79 was almost four months ago. In that time Jagex have openly acknowledged a lot of discussions within the community about changes that could be made to a variety of content to improve the player experience including:
Releasing a lengthy survey asking for player thoughts re: potential ToA changes and implying that Poll 80 would be a "ToA Blog"
Acknowledging long standing player frustrations with CoX including the experience of scouting/scaling and frustrations with certain rooms e.g. CM Muttadile (appreciate that a CoX blog is planned, but these have been a hot topic the last few months and expectations were high)
Alluding to addressing the cost-of-use of the Scythe at the end of Poll 79, which is clearly outclassed by the TBow and Shadow despite being a mega rare from the hardest raid with the most nich...
Understandable, we have a section that covers Quality of Life Polls and expectations which hopefully we can go forward with and not leave areas like ToA/CoX etc.
Would you consider adding a question to change the delay to elite diaries instead of hard?
We're looking to stay at the Hard requirement atm, but if it turns out this isn't sufficient, I imagine we will reevaluate and take it from there.
When could we expect the next poll for COX + QOL changes? Could you give us an estimate? 1-2 weeks? Months?
This will all depend on how Poll 80 turns out from voting as we would only like to start discussing this/working on it once Poll 80 updates are in a good place.
Can you clarify what exactly question 4 is proposing? Is the idea here that you can put "real" brews etc in the box while in the raid, and then retrieve them when outside the raid? And if so, what exactly is the use case there?
Basically, any potions you can bring in from outside the Raid as we don't want you to bring Ambrosia outside to other PvM content.
"Should we give players an alternative option for the Skill Guide that will not cancel your current action?"
Yes! Can we have that for the Report button too???
I wonder if the same elements that cause the current Skill Guide to stop actions for the Report Button too... something to raise with the team!
Cox blog when?
Cum phase change isn't enough, the problem is that it's just too many orbs spanning diagonally that are harder to adjust pathing to. Make the boss spawn less of the diagonally moving balls.
Edit: the proposed change is only affecting solos really and people don't only solo ToA onlyBaba puzzle is slow and convoluted, making it faster won't change the line of sight BS that pulls us into a venom pool causing too much damage.
Sad to see no changes to warden p1 and p2 too, they are just so much damage taken for free
We want to make sure we had time to properly look at CoX as these are long-requested improvements!
Awesome that ToA and CoX are getting lots of support/QoL improvements so long after they've released. All these changes and the pending changes to CoX look like positives.
Does the team have any intention of giving ToB the same treatment? I found the Entry Mode changes to be underwhelming, as it doesn't fix a lot of the other problems with the content. My main gripe is it being the only raid that is deeply inaccessible to many players, whereas ToA has a huge focus on accessibility and CoX seems to be heading that direction as well. Will we ever get a reasonably soloable difficulty for ToB?
I feel like we will revisit ToB eventually but I couldn't give you a concrete "yes, we will", but it does seem like something we would do at some point.
Honestly the old skill guide should be the default. You want the game looking as familiar and core memory unlocking to returning players as possible.
You could prompt a notification about the new skill menu once the player closes the skill menu for the first time.
It's because it offers more functionality than the current version which is why we would want to make it the default and exactly why wanted the toggle because it would be something that players could choose between.
Something else that would be amazing for TOA is a way to view active invocations in the middle of the raid. The number of times someone else sets the invos and can't remember if ahka is fast or not is frustrating, so it would be a nice QoL change.
That's a fair point and a potential future improvement we could add which I'll raise with the team :)
Should we improve the accessibility of the Innovation menu in Tombs of Amascut?
Should we add an area in the lobby of Tombs of Amascut that allows you to deposit and retrieve your Pickaxe?
Why are these even questions jesus just do it.
The Pickaxe questions, because it's new functionality it makes sense even if it is a small change.
It's a fair point for the accessibility question and we'll be discussing making that an unpolled change potentially.