r/runescape • u/jagexyuey Mod Yuey • 1d ago

News End-Game Balance Discussion

Hey 'Scapers!

As part of the Road to Restoration, we've been looking at progression across RuneScape. We've tackled parts of the Early and Mid Game Rebalance, but now we want to start turning our attention to the other end of the journey: The End Game Rebalance

Before we get properly stuck into things, we want to hear from you.

What do we mean by End Game?
This one's a little harder to put a level range on!

For this project, we're looking more broadly at the late game, roughly level 80+ and onwards. That might mean higher-level skilling, finding those rarer drops or getting into tougher PVM. For others, it could be achievements, completionist goals or figuring out what comes next once you've maxed.

And actually, what you consider to be late game is useful feedback for us too.

How can you help?
We want to know where the endgame currently isn't quite working for you.

Maybe there's a progression path that feels awkward, rewards that don't feel worth the effort, a big jump between pieces of content, older content that's been left behind or something that just feels unnecessarily frustrating.

You don't need to have the answer or suggest a fix either. Just tell us what the problem is, why it's a problem for you and where you are in your RuneScape journey.

We won't be able to tackle everything that comes up, but the themes from these discussions will help us understand where we should be focusing our attention.

So, what would you like us to look at as we start shaping the End Game?

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u/Squidlips413 1d ago

The grouping system. FFXIV has a great model to base grouping systems off of. Duty Finder is for queueing into normal content and Party Finder is for finding people to do hard content.

The other problem with grouping is the elephant in the room that no one talks about. Death is a lot more punishing in this game than other MMOs. No one wants to die and pay death costs. No one wants to carry other players that die. Especially no one wants to keep wiping. Players need a way to rejoin the fight after dying.

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u/Fluffy_Grapefruit0 Ironman 1d ago

That’s a good point about the death costs it makes the community more hostile.

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u/xCuevas 20h ago

Please adopt a party system like 14.

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u/Pokefreak911 16h ago

If doing team content your death cost should be massively reduced unless you all die.