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I think the best way to go about it is buff the other styles to be able to compete with the numbers that FSOA puts out.. (it's not restricting future content its actually giving you a good path to go down for other combat styles and a good ballpark number to have other weapons put out similar numbers and get the dopamine you get with a FSOA)

The issue isn't wholely with the damage fsoa was currently able to put out (whoever it was VERY) strong, but rather that any future upgrades pushed that number way higher, essentially roadblocking us on what we can do with mage.
Other things absolutely could do with buffs, however I don't think just flat-line buffing everything up to FSOA's level is the way forward and just leads to more issues further down the road.

Will tank armor viability be forever tied to Animate Dead?Will future rewards be beneficial to players who may not utilize near or at the best combat gear?Will old bosses be modified to be more consistent with any design themes?

Finally what other combat equipment are up for consideration of being changed (buffed, nerfed, or modified)? For example the Ring of Death has been a big focus of discussion by the community yet we've seen very little of that from Jagex.

It's absolutely not the plan for AD to be tied to all tank armor viability going forward. A large part of this going forward in my personal opinion is making defensives and other styles tank gear more satisfying/reasonable to use. We've got a lot of defensives right now that are... underwhelming, and I think improving tank from the bottom up is the way to go there.

As for gear that's up for consideration to changes, I don't want to promise anything but I'd say theres a...

fsoa is going to use alot less runes is there any plans to make ranged ammo cheaper aswell

So there's nothing concrete right now. However it's definitely something that's near the top of the list - in particular, runes/arrows only being drained through autos.

An example would be if we can get to a nice, reasonable drain rate for runes/arrows through abilities we could remove the dinarrows custom consumption, making a consistent drain rate for all ammo from lv 1-99

Would it be possible to allow magma to critically strike again with these FSOA changes? /u/JagexSponge

It's a good question.
Part of the issue I personally had with magma crits was the huge swing in adrenaline from tsunami.
I'm not going to say it's a no - it's something I'd want to re-look at more for consistencies sake than anything.

Will the new FSOA hits be affected by Sunshine?

Yep, it'll be affected like any other standard ability.

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Hey, looking to get a hotfix out shortly. - My bad!

Hey, just jumped in to let you guys know this was resolved by Mod Fowl this week. Going forward there will be a toggle to have bladed dive pick-up scenery or not so you can have it active as/when you need it. I'm not certain if it'll be in Monday's build, but I'll try to expedite it, as I know this issue is particularly annoying.

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Hey feel free to dm me over details and I can pass the details over so someone can investigate if this is a legitimate issue.

Needs engine work.

This is fantastic, I'm a big fan of your work here.

Please refrain from licking the salty crablets in the future.

This is now my phone background

Zryxa

Is that definitely spelt correctly?

All good - an easy mistake to make.

Seravail

Had a talk with your leprechaun - you've paid for ultra compost not super, but you have no ultra compost stored with the leprechaun.

Hit me with your IGN I'll take a look

Hey send me over your IGN if you can & i'll take a look at what's happening.

Iirc if you attempt to plant with only a single seed in inv the patch will just auto plant that without any interfaces (is it possible you only withdrew 1 bloodweed & that resulted in you getting the 7)

Let players trade the one-use seed. And you have to steal yourself the unlimited one. Let us alch the duplicates. Problem solved.

I can speak to the team about this - I'm not against changing it. When originally created I incorrectly assumed these would be balanced to be rarer than they are and it'd fall into the 'excessively expensive for a minimal buff' area.

I definitely think at a minimum the weak seed should be tradeable.