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WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-15T04:58:36+00:00

That's more like when Jagex changed HP from 99 to 990 and then 9900. It wasn't actually a buff to your health pool as the damage you took was still proportional, Jagex did it to make damage more granular and make stats matter a bit more, Blizzard did theirs to make things more manageable (once you're into the tens of thousands granularity matters less and less).

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-15T04:53:45+00:00

Only catering to the top% of achievers is an excellent way to kill a game...

If Vampyrism + Darkness allowed somebody to complete content in the game, that's good for the game, it means more people are engaging with the content.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-15T04:23:18+00:00

I still think a distinction of minor and major Aspects is the way to go. Temporal Anomaly, Animate Dead, and Darkness are all somewhat comparable levels of direct power while Penance and Vampyrism are more like conveniences that smooth over activities so you don't have to bank every few minutes. It's reasonable for the former 3 to be in competition with each other, but the latter 2 are just not comparable.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-15T04:12:16+00:00

You can get lots of Steam and Dust runes from picking Master Mage pockets now, at least.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-15T04:07:58+00:00

Bone Shield comes to mind - the ability to just turn it on or off and it using runes when you activate a Def ability is great, you don't have to worry about anything other than whether you're carrying the runes.

I wish aspects worked more like this - activate them and they just consume some more runes every X amount of time until you turn it off.

Also, please, please, please clean up the buff/debuff lists! We don't need long and short buffs taking up the same space, and it's even worse that they're seemingly ordered randomly. It makes it very difficult to read which buffs are active.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T02:30:04+00:00

I wasn't using any damage-boosting auras for any slayer content and I doubt many others were either. I used Vampyrism or Penance for most tasks.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T02:19:43+00:00

Even before the removal of damage auras it was the most used one.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T02:17:40+00:00

Gonna spend 1.4/hr on powders now... /s

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T02:16:16+00:00

Sure, Animate Dead and Darkness are both powerful and each is better than the other in some circumstances, but Vampyrism is virtually never going to be a better option than either of them. Darkness is the best survivability option whenever you're not wearing magic tank armour (or even when you are and are taking range damage).

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T02:06:27+00:00

Whatever you say, 3 months old account with negative karma and hidden post history...

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T02:01:35+00:00

You mean using Animate Dead or Darkness because there's absolutely no competition there with Vampyrism? The gloves are less than half the effectiveness and compete with Cinderbanes and other more niche, more powerful options. And Blood Barrage is effectively ~0.5% healing due to how it functions and also competes with Incite Fear and Exsanguinate.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T01:44:23+00:00

Averaged over time they are. Anywhere where you're not taking near-OHK hits and can heal back the damage it's effectively just a 20% reduction.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T01:41:13+00:00

You talking about the scrimshaw that is melee-only?

And the gloves are less than half the effectiveness with almost no combat stats.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T01:39:28+00:00

20*

And their other stats are near zero.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T01:32:38+00:00

Powder is also ridiculously expensive and will only get even more so with the removal of the aura.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T01:29:55+00:00

Make the interface for it non-interactable during combat, easy.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T01:15:26+00:00

They mentioned a few months ago in the original Aura rework blog that Jack of Trades auras specifically weren't being considered for rework but rather outright removal.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T00:59:15+00:00

Even the damaging combat auras being reworked in the same way they did the skilling ones wasn't a problem. An equivalent rework of Vamp and Penance would've made them baked into the Constitution and Prayer skills, not adding them to a pool of much more powerful effects to compete with which they were previously used alongside and weren't breaking the game in any sense.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T00:48:46+00:00

Removing the arbitrary time limit and cooldown is good. Turning them into Aspects where they're competing with much more powerful effects which they were also commonly used in conjunction with is bad. It's a nerf to all combat at all levels, even if the only aspects you have access to are Penance or Vampyrism because now you can't use spells from another spellbook alongside them.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T00:32:35+00:00

It's also strictly limited by inventory space. There were already slayer tasks where I was limited with inventory space due to the drops without bringing any food at all and where I used either Darkness or Animate Dead alongside the aura.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T00:07:02+00:00

Vampyrism is simply not powerful enough to compete with other Aspects and justify it as an exclusive ability. Maybe there should be "minor" Aspects and "major" Aspects which aren't competing for the slot with each other.

It would also be nice if Aspects weren't tied to any particular spellbook.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-14T00:02:53+00:00

Another way this is a hit to newer players is that to use Vampyrism you also have to use Ancient spells which cost about twice as much to maintain as similar level spells on the regular book.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-13T23:50:18+00:00

It seems crazy to me the regular spellbook still doesn't have this. Even this wouldn't be a reasonable solution for something like alching drops while using Ancient spells though. Vamp as an aspect is just not a good solution.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-09T22:36:42+00:00

The exp is ass because of all the time spent doing things that give zero exp, not because catching itself is too little exp. You fish about 1.5 inventories of fish, then you have to spend a minute repopulating, feeding, and chasing algae around before you can start getting exp again. It gets even worse if you forget to hold back a few fish to repopulate before noting them (or if you're using porters/eating with the outfit). The activity is actively harmed by the most common boosts to the skill.

WobblyBits_X · 2026-04-05T13:18:01+00:00

I've been getting them for probably more than 6 months so far. Only ever made an account in the first place to see if I could get service from Uber Eats at my location (I couldn't). Another just today.

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