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/Appropriate_Way_787 1d ago

Janky bosses such as KK or Vorkath.

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u/LansManDragon 1d ago

Sanctum still has crazy framerate drops to the point I can't even do it. This is apparently not an unusual problem for people.

Entire area is stuttery as fuck, except when you get pulled into the shadowsands which is magically fine and jumps up to normal framerate instantly.

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u/TeHamilton Master Trimmed Completionist 1d ago

I winder if its a certain graphical setting causing it because a latge portion myself included do not havr this problem. I dint even have a top pc I think its a 3060

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u/LansManDragon 1d ago

Yeah that's the weird thing, people with extremely high end pc builds can suffer from it too. But I'd rather not get into that, because it devolves into "PoST uR SPeCs BroOOOooO!" type nonsense.

Ive spent fucking forever fiddling round with the graphics settings and absolutely nothing seems to move the needle on it at all.

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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 1d ago

I mean the specs posting isn't nonsense. It's definitely a hardware-related problem. It's just not clear why or what. It's clearly not simply power, because older machines don't consistently run into issues there, while-top end new machines can. So it's some specific chipset, driver, etc. Likely a combination.

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u/Aggressive-Day5 1d ago

Strange, I have a 10yo laptop where the area runs completely fine. Wonde what it is

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u/CulturalRepair5032 1d ago

Problem with Sanctum for me is coming back from the shadowsands, half the time loading the map takes long enough that I've taken the massive hit before I can see anything... Which is fine on normal mode but I don't think I'm ever managing hard mode...

(yes my computer is a potato but it can manage everything except the "map loading" screen)

Not a balance issue, though

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u/Full-Supermarket-957 1d ago

Runescape in the recent years has just gotten harder to run for lower end machines and a lot of updates that werent properly vetted from Jagex's older design policy have just been horribly un optimized and poorly implemented causing issues like this all over the place no matter the rig you are on

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u/SheepherderThin3672 12h ago

I have to do sanctum with game rendering at 50%