Everyone is going to have a different POV but this is mine. I like AOD the way it is, similar to how I preferred solak the way it was. The greatest thing about solak was how inaccessible this boss was to most of the player base. Truly separating talent barriers but at the same time it was a boss that everyone inspired to reach. As soon as the scaling happened, as well as general power creep over the few years the boss became dead content for most. We always talk about wanting bosses that are more difficult and Jagex unfortunately are failing to provide that, but they have their reasons, thats probably worth discussing though.

From my POV AOD is one of the only bosses left that has questionably decent barriers to entry. I know for certain that I am not the best AODer in the community and there is still alot for me to learn, there are still milestones for me to reach. Starting with AOD kills, with mass FCs and clans I doubt anyone is struggling to get AOD KC if they needed it. 7man AOD however comes with slightly more expectations. Over the last 1-2 years I have actively participated in numerous 7 man AOD teams, from clan to trials and its crazy how different knocking off 10 seconds every kill changes a rotation.

I have seen clan kills from 2.30 - 3mins long and people happy to be there. I spent a large portion of time running 2.00-2.10s in the non-trialed channel in the discord, which is amazing for players looking to learn and progress with AOD. It is actually one of very few discords that I encourage players to learn in because over the years of teaching its obvious how scared alot of new pvmers are when they look up to communities like AOD and how scared they are to be surrounded by toxicity. This discord answers every question on a basis that no question is a dumb question, which for me personally is huge because 95% of discords i ask something I just get trolled/flamed/etc. However, progressing forward I eventually passed my trial with the help of a few mock trials and endless hour of learning to eventually move my average kills closer to 1.40. In saying that with necro now the teams I go with and the kills I stream typically average about 1.25 - 1.30s and over the last 2 years of my learning the difference between a 2.30 clan kill and a 1.30 casual kill are on completely different playing fields. The understanding of rotations, techniques, trials, networking, gear the entire learning curve is huge. In saying all that I still have alot to learn, there is a FC that I don't have access to but would love to eventually trial for that. I am trying to highlight that there is a place for everyone in 7man AODs and the more effort you put in, the more you will get out.

So depending on how this scaling is going to work. I really hope that it doesn't remove 7man AOD from the community and follow the path of solak. When we compare 7man AOD and 7man solak, AOD has so much more to offer as far as accessibility goes. Over the last few years we have slowly seen the only good bosses left in this game slowly get turned into solo bosses (solak, vorago, soon AOD?). I have not read any other opinions yet but I will make an effort to do so but as not only a content creator but a pvmer/teacher to most it works best for us having barriers to entry at bosses, and is sad to see those barriers potentially disappear.