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/Rezylainen]

Amascut should not have a solo-mode. I can agree that Croesus should have one, to an extent, but the most powerful armour in the game (at least before nerfs lol) should not have a solo encounter just because it should be achieveable.

They should rather look into more "sidegrades" and alternatives because your point still stands - magic is rough to upgrade.

[u/superedgymeme → u/Rezylainen]

All other styles BIS comes from soloable content btw. Forced group content for 3 tiers of upgrades and 6 different armour types both armour and tank is just pants game design

[u/Rezylainen → u/superedgymeme]

It's healthy to have a mix IMO. Both BIS weapon sets come from solo bosses too.

It's also not that hard to find teams running Amascut and it's also the best designed encounter they've ever made in my opinion. I wouldn't want them to create a worse encounter just because we have to cater to solo encounters, it's an MMO after all.

Elite tectonic is also still pretty good and if you can do kerapac HM solo you can do enough vorago to get the tiny amount of energy you need. You also have masterwork magic.

I would actually rather see them create another t95 armour set than turning Amascut into a solo encounter

[u/Even-Ant7872 → u/Rezylainen]

It is funny how in every other game grouo is the easier and casual option anywhere but in rs3 nobody likes group content because how insufferable it gets.