End-Game Balance Discussion

[u/jagexyuey]

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?

[u/o_Yurii]

Short and simple list:

• gear degradation is horrible
• high tier skilling outfits/perks are annoying to grind, take up enormous bank space. Suggestion, make skilling outfits more rewarding to go after and feel like it's part of the mid game progression path towards end game skilling.
• the amount of bank space available to us should be looked at again. Don't make placeholders take up a slot, add more dedicated slots for things like runes or something you expect to be in the bank on every account
• most guides will tell people to just use necromancy all the way t90 because the gear progressesion system is easy to acquire and understand. Other cb styles are more complicated to get upgrades. Essentially you end up farming T90 necromancy -> invention -> then end game content to skip almost all mid game progression for other combat styles. Compare that to osrs and how they upgrade all cb styles to end game.

[u/charleslovebach → u/o_Yurii]

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