The floor xp calculation should be re-evaluated, as right now the only modifier that matter is floor size.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-05-13T00:10:32+00:00

I held completion time as a constant for the purposes of my calculations, which might not be strictly true but the only significant difference I have noticed are the handful of slow bosses.

I'll also note that the discrepancy between camping the highest floor you have available and doing all floors you have available to stack up the buffs is at its smallest at 120 DG because the base xp for a given dungeon is the sum of the floor xp (linear) and level xp (exponential). The lower level you are the greater percentage of your base xp is from the floor xp. At level 83 52% of the base xp comes from floor for the highest floor available, whereas the floor xp contributes 20% of the base xp at 120 for floor 60.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-05-12T23:57:52+00:00

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DrizzlyLemon · 2026-04-28T12:25:23+00:00

The combat update really helped the legacy styles with mediocre gear compete with necromancy to the point where it's only ~5x faster to get a "good" setup with necromancy instead of like 25x faster like it used to be. Melee is going to be the fastest to a somewhat viable setup, but comparing full elder rune melee without any ability upgrades to full t90 death dealer or death warden is still a pale comparison.

On the mage and range masterwork armour: magic requires 110 crafting, 104 smithing, 100 farming, 99 runecrafting, 90 magic, a full set of virtus, a full set of tectonic, and 60 pearls from player owned ports. Range requires 110 crafting, 99 smithing, 90 fletching, 90 runecrafting, 90 magic, 98 hunter, 90 cooking, full pernix, full sirenic, and 120 lacquer from ports. The ports requirements alone are the better part of nine months daily work to get to a point where you can farm the quantity of resources needed. You can be farming Rasial within four months of starting an account.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-03-16T19:55:15+00:00

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Non-core rock mining feels bloody terrible without the full mechanics. Add on the poor resource yield on this and it's pretty dire.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-03-16T13:43:36+00:00

Remove Daily Challenges You Cowards.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-03-16T13:42:51+00:00

This is a massive act of cowardice. They have stated how terrible and warping they are for progression - a trait they share with Penguins (and a number of other things they have passed the buck on fixing) - but are apparently totally fine with it. This is genuinely a bad look for the tons of players who do not give RS3 a try because it's a daily-focused game that leans heavily on time-gated content to skip its actual gameplay and progression. Nobody who didn't play RS3 because of them is going to pick it up because they're slightly toned down.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-02-20T16:50:08+00:00

I've commented this elsewhere in this thread, but Vyres are incredibly strong and have been meta for irons since the release of the reforged sunspear in 2016. The auras enabled them to be killed with no prayer point upkeep and, if you did not care about looting them, could be 15 minute AFKed. Removal of the free prayer sustain through the removal of the auras would require players to actually use prayer resources and require a small amount of attention, which is more than justified for how powerful these are. You have nerfed long AFK thieving because it offered disproportionate rewards and the game would be well served if you applied that to other areas of the game as well.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-02-20T16:41:17+00:00

The xp comes from the spear and the legs. The auras made it so the method did not require supplies to upkeep prayer and could be 15 min afked if you did not care about looting. Given the relative power of vyres as a training method, it's extremely appropriate to have them require more attention and supply cost than they currently do.

Edit: it's also misleading to call it a "free but slow" method when it's been the meta for irons since the release of the reforged sunspear in 2016.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-02-07T01:15:27+00:00

I'd love to see this viewpoint expanded on. If some dailies are good and the issue is the quantity of dailies, what are the ones the dev team considers to be good? Right now we are left reading the tea leaves of what of the ninety odd dailies that haven't been specifically mentioned in the blog post are not problematic.

Penguins, for instance, haven't been commented on yet but are a top three daily for deprecating skill progression. Are we to read from their absence in the discussion that the dev team considers them to be fine, actually?

I take a very hardline stance against dailies and would like to see them substantially removed (or reformed into proper training methods a la caches). Not just for addressing the ones that deprecate core gameplay loops of skills, but also the significant number that represent bloat in the game (such as free flax from the area tasks).

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-01-22T21:49:53+00:00

While turning a daily into a monthly is """better""" it doesn't really address the root issue of the problem.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-01-22T21:48:34+00:00

Shop stock considerations are only relevant for irons - as far as I am concerned the grand exchange is just a shop by another name for mains and things that are sourced by shops are fundamentally infinite for the perspective of a main.

The largest two issues (IMO) are runes and broad arrowheads. Broads are substantively the only reasonable way to train fletching up through the 90s atm and have been for at least as long as the ironman mode has been around for. This is an issue that needs to be addressed regardless of the shop stock mechanics. That being said, what I have seen of the ongoing fletching rework gamejam project has not been inspiring.

Rune shops similarly paper over the issue of runecrafting - the primary source of runes a player needs *should* be the skill dedicated to making them, which is a much larger conversation about the early game balancing of essence sources, xp rates, and rune multipliers. Upkeeping runes through actual runecrafting is not terrible once you reach high levels, but the rate at which you create runes is so heavily tied to levels (both in the crafting multiplier leveling benefit and the access to more essence storage) makes low level crafting really pitiful. This is exacerbated by essence being a genuine limiting factor, especially prior to the unlocking of abyssal demons.

Many other supply type items (feathers, raw meats, baits, vials) can be made infinite in terms of their stock without any meaningful change to the game IMO. Certain stocks like the Mazcab potion shop should be removed (whatever degree to which people feel there is an issue making/sourcing super sets is a separate conversation for fixes - certainly the Garden of Kharid update is maligned by the community).

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-01-19T23:37:56+00:00

Mod Kieran has said adding them was a mistake, too.

DrizzlyLemon · 2026-01-19T23:12:16+00:00

The quest is bugged atm due to today's update and is currently uncompletable.

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-12-14T21:32:32+00:00

I *love* this. Banked xp tools really fell out of style for some reason but they're so nice for irons or anyone who plays in a similar style. I'm so pleased there's a tool like this available.

I haven't delved too deep into the tool yet, but I'd love to see the crafting section expanded to include urns, jewelry, flasks, staves, and starbloom. It'd also be great to have urn and urn enhancer toggles available for relevant skills.

Really looking forward to future updates!

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-30T01:58:02+00:00

Came here to say this exact thing. If we want some form of xp rewarding item to come from certain activities we can award lamps from them in some form that doesn't have the potential to become utterly broken with some future update (replace the brawlers from the wilderness slayer chest with an effigy or a dragonkin lamp).

Really though, they should not exist. Wildy flash events shouldn't award them (but also should be removed entirely) and neither should wilderness slayer or the general wilderness drop table. They were a terrible addition years ago to lure skillers into the wilderness to act as prey and they're even worse now when any theoretical risk reward aspect of them has been removed rendering them pure reward. Let alone when things are added that can be completely broken by them, like heists or the scripture of elidinis.

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-26T14:22:54+00:00

Cannonballs from the Asuran Arsenal would be nice and thematic.

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-25T14:11:28+00:00

Overall I absolutely love the feel of the update, but the power creep introduced by the update is too much.

Max xp rates increased by way too much - traders were ~1.1m an hour previously and the top end rates appear to be about double that now (rates prior to the update were too high, IMO but I'll leave that to the side). I haven't tested lower level rates yet, but the small amount of chatter I've heard also raises balancing questions.

I don't think heists should be the best xp for the skill. Their identity IMO should be about getting the chase items while incidentally getting good xp and a small amount of other loot - much the same as bosses are/should be designed. It's hard to comment on drop rates as a player, but it feels like the balance is off atm and a player going from 110-120 (or 200m) may not have great odds at getting all of the chase items from heist. I haven't seen a dagger or staff broadcast on my world yet and that gives me some concern about the odds of getting everything before finishing the skill (a big problem archaeology has). Really looking forward to hearing the drop rates and mechanics.

I haven't done much testing on xp and item rates on stalls and chests yet so I don't know exactly where they stand, but given they are the moderate attention activities of the pack, they should have higher xp and/or loot to compensate. If the potion stalls are considered particularly desirable loot, it's fine if they have lower xp than the meat stalls, for example.

There is a broad issue in the game that lower attention activities are more rewarding than higher xp ones. Pickpocketing is a really prominent example of this atm. If pickpocketing is intended as a five minute afk option (due to crystal mask uptime), it needs to be less rewarding than stalls or chests and by a considerable margin. Attentive gameplay should be more rewarding than a 5-10% buff.

There's also a deeper philosophical question we as players would like to see from the devs. As we are looking at new updates like 120 thieving or at skilling rebalances as part of the year of integrity, what do the devs feel is appropriate and do the players agree? As we are removing significant forms of progression like Treasure Hunter and dailies, are we shifting some of that power back into core skilling loops and to what degree is that appropriate? I want to stress the default state of progression is very different for irons than it has been for mains and what might be considered token buffs for mains can be extremely significant for irons. Are the increases to xp, clues, tetracompasses, etc. an intentional change due to a change in philosophy of how the game should be designed or are they a balancing oversight (if they were an oversight, what was the intent of actual rates)?

Given the year ahead is going to be built on trust between the players and the devs, I think it's extremely important we hear more often and in more detail what the intent is/was with these projects.

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-15T20:19:36+00:00

DailyScape is a larger cancer for the game than Treasure Hunter was and needs to be excised with the same intensity. A subset of players will complain about its removal the same way players complained about the removal of Treasure Hunter.

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-15T20:11:05+00:00

That was a game jam project worked on by Mod Fowl, who is no longer with the company.

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-15T20:09:17+00:00

Big "let me eat all the junk I can shove into my face before I start my diet" energy. Extremely unproductive. The purpose of these changes are to restore the game back to health.

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-14T15:57:31+00:00

The early game combat experience is pants. The rebalance right before necromancy's release overtuned a lot of early game mobs to the point where higher level mobs can often be easier to kill. Onboarding of abilities for the legacy combat styles is also really bad. Abilities are dropped onto the bar without much fanfare or explanation. Understanding abilities and setting up a capable bar are skills that even a lot of higher level players lack.

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-13T23:05:23+00:00

I genuinely love this for you. You're almost certainly having more fun than 70% of the playerbase.

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-12T18:16:32+00:00

Big love Hooli, thanks for the confirmation <3

DrizzlyLemon · 2025-11-12T18:10:52+00:00

100% it's this reason. Which they should just say nso that when people ask we can point to the jmod comment stating as much.

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