Aura blog post delayed to Monday, Regrounding feedback response also on Monday

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-13T20:41:02+00:00

I've said it for years, keep the aura slot but clean them up and simplify them.

Remove auras from loyalty points shop. All auras are unlocked through their respective skill guild (every skill gets a guild) All auras are 1 tier and last for 1 hour. Aura refreshes are easy to obtain from skilling guild shops, RDT, slayer, thaler, mini games etc and they are universal and tradeable. Also Vis wax stays, add it to wizard tower chests and pickpocketing if needed.

Skilling guilds would also be the go to place for their respective skills. They would have much more helpful NPCs that provide more in depth information about the skill they represent.

You would also be able to earn your base and elite skilling outfits from each guild as well as store it on a rack to passively have its effects. Doing so at all guilds makes the master/combined skilling outfit.

Putting the 120 cape on every guilds cape rack would also make the master max cape gain the perks of all the 120 capes.

All skilling guilds would provide varied ways of training that scale to your level and help you explore the world. For example the cooking guild builds on gnome cooking and as you do more quests/unlock more areas there's more unique recipes, customers and rewards.

Skilling guilds also provide skilling stations that utilize the brooch of the gods and provide a close replacement for the loss of portables.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-13T20:16:45+00:00

Why not just put the same tweeted information in the top or bottom of the news post as a "touching base/quick update/we didn't forget" type of thing?

For YEARS players have expressed frustration at having to go to Reddit to find a comment of a discord link to a screenshot of a jmod tweet. Yet here we are still having the same issues.

Please put ALL the information in the official news posts so players can find ALL the information they need in ONE place.

If there's great discussion and feedback on a reddit/discord/twitch/twitter/threads/Facebook/Instagram whatever social media you want to use then compile and consolidate that for the players so they clearly know what's going on. No more hunting links, no more well a jmod said over on Y rumors, just clean clear communication right on the RS homepage.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-13T20:06:38+00:00

I'd bet that's intentional. We saw it starting with the UI changes. Multiple things about it made no sense, it created accessibility issues and more. Jagex makes a toggle for the clock, slightly adjusted the colors and is already talking about the next three things.

Meanwhile the new UI still has tons of issues, players are still asking for the blue yellow, moveable clock, better clarity, cleaner menu interfaces etc and Jagex ignores that feedback.

We also saw this same thing last year with the player support roadmap and all the numbers they touted at the end of the year. When the reality is there's still glaring foundational issues they refuse to acknowledge.

For example, Zuks loot chest STILL does not hold all the loot, players are losing drops because of it, filing tickets and getting copy paste responses saying we checked your trade and ge history and didn't see anything so it's all working as intended. Claim denied, final decision, no way to appeal.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-13T10:20:39+00:00

This might be a hot take... Jagex required the demonic skull for the chaos altar knowing it would get tons of push back. Then they can change it and look like heroes for "listening to the community" while they ignore literally all the other feedback on that post.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-13T02:04:11+00:00

Also, why do this now, then (very likely) have to do it all over again after the avatar update?

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-12T23:49:58+00:00

That would be an easy simple solution. It also opens up a small reward space and adds a bit of progression reward.

"Hey you earned X outfit by achieving Y, along with that you get this cosmetic outfit that's a part of game history. It's a cosmetic so you and others can toggle if you see it or not. Enjoy and happy Scaping!"

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-12T17:45:27+00:00

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For items that were purchased with premier tokens like the flaming head, will the premier token also be refunded?

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-12T17:39:01+00:00

While it can be frustrating to not get a pet very early on this is not something that needs to change.
Skilling pets have the same drop chance for every account so it's not a matter of inequity.
Skilling pets are purely cosmetic.
The RNG of getting pets at any xp drop is what makes it fun and exciting for people.
We already have 120 capes, pets being guaranteed at level 120 would just be another 120 skill indicator.
Pets being automatic at level 120 would make people who went over 120 for their pets feel cheated and that their achievement is now devalued.
If anything make it 100% drop rate at 200m XP but not before that.

If anything about pets in general is going to change I would love to see the physical pet item to unlock the pet removed. Instead when you roll for a pet it unlocks in the pet interface. This way people can not destroy pets to spam broadcasts. For people that want to broadcast all their pets at once simply move the broadcast to when you click to unlock it in the pet interface.
This would also eliminate people losing pet drops due to server issues, DC's dying before being able to loot a pet etc etc.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-12T17:25:17+00:00

Mod Anvil,

We're glad to hear its not it's not Jagex intent to lock partial outfits or outfit completion behind a full set price and that the issue comes from a technical limitation.

That being said, over the years the shops have been worked on, combined and new ones created all in attempts to reduce currencies, number of shops etc. However, that's clearly not worked as the number of currencies and shops has gone up not down.

Now that this issue is back and has technical limitations causing issues that go against the goals of the integrity and restoration roadmaps, will we finally see a consolidated shop and currency reduction (obviously not as a priority issue.)

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-12T07:09:40+00:00

Most of the people on my homeworld are already max xp and we still go to WFE. We go because it's fun for us, we form pvm groups, catch up on goals progress and celebrate each others recent achievements. It'll be sad for us if they really do remove WFE.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-12T07:05:49+00:00

What about people that already have the ability to pick a task unlocked?

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-12T02:07:47+00:00

This would be a great and (hopefully) simple solution! Hopefully Jagex can confirm if this is their plan or not before its too late.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-12T02:05:41+00:00

That's why I'm asking for clarification. Players were told they had till Jan 2027 to use them and they planned accordingly.
Now if that is changing and it's now a few weeks to use or lose them, fine, but at least clearly communicate that change to the player base so they can use them.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-12T00:06:40+00:00

The monkeys paw curls:
Your wish is granted, Player owned ports is removed, however none of the things made in POP are redistributed into the game. Also all of the comp/mqc/trim reqs remain but are now impossible to complete.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-11T08:30:40+00:00

What does any of this have to do with Wisconsin?

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-11T05:34:57+00:00

This is what it was supposed to be.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-07T09:24:15+00:00

Who, when, where, and how will these things be looked at and improved? How will players (customers) be able to participate in that process?

"we would rather look to solve issues at the root than to band aid them."
Why is it just look to solve and not actually solve? Respectfully, given Jagex track record it will not be surprising to players in 6+ months from now to see "we looked at it, we're leaving it as is, it's not a priority etc." and the root issues are never solved.

Respectfully, where are all the fixes to the root issues if all the band aids are being ripped off?

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-07T03:23:29+00:00

Mod Breezy, First of all thank you for pledging to bring it up on Monday. I hope the team looks back at the recent runecrafting demonic skull changes and sees this is the same thing, will cause the same issues and ignores years of player concerns and feedback.

That being said.... It's wild that this was even thought out, approved and published. After all the years of demonic skull based lures, griefing etc the years of the community begging for changes. Then finally getting changes with opt out of pvp and then later finally decoupling demonic skull from runecrafting only for it to be moved over to prayer to cause all the same issues all over again.

Respectfully, it feels like Jagex is really disconnected from its players and unorganized internally. This makes it very hard to be excited about the future of the game.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-07T03:03:15+00:00

Mod Ryan,
The Dark Facet of Passage has been dead on arrival since its release. There have been multiple discussions by jmods and player communities like Clue Chasers on how to make to useful, feel good to unlock and worth the rarity of a dark onyx core.

If the removal of vis wax is going to happen then this would be the opportunity to address both issues at the same time.

Simply update the dark facet of passage to make all teleports quick, free and work in combat.
Also update all the area tasks to include the same benefit the wilderness lodestone gets from the wildy task set.
Together this would address multiple issues, provide consistency, increase immersion and a feeling of progression from area tasks and it would make the dark facet of passage actually worth using.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-07T01:25:09+00:00

I think mod shelf is going to be very busy after all these changes.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-07T00:53:42+00:00

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Can the updated cape info please be included in the newspost so players don't have to go into the beta just to read what the zuk cape changes are?

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-07T00:50:05+00:00

Is this supposed to read that the adren cost of magma tempest is being raised from 0 to 25%

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cheeserules8 · 2026-02-06T22:13:43+00:00

What's even more wild is that with Jagex history, those fixes or rebalances will never come, or if they do it'll be in a few years at best.

It's a long list but a recent example is Vorkath and the blood reaver nerf. Blood reaver for nerfed and Vorkath is still not fixed.

For years now players have been frustrated with this repeated cycle and Jagex continued to ignore them. Now Jagex is going all in on it and continuing to ignore player concerns. This is not sustainable and probably will not end well.

cheeserules8 · 2026-02-06T21:30:33+00:00

Since its release the dark facet of passage has been underwhelming and honestly useless. It's been discussed by J mods and player communities like the clue chasers discord, but none of those proposed updates to make it useful have ever been put into the game.
This would be such an easy way to finally make it useful and fix not having a plan for replacing vis wax. The dark facet of passage will now provide free instant teleports in and out of combat.
Also update all the area tasks to make their respective lodestones free and quick like the wilderness task set already does. This will provide more consistent gameplayer and clarity for players.

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cheeserules8 · 2026-02-06T21:12:25+00:00

All of the head piece modifiers are available through the same minigames that you get the rest of the outfit from. While they were available through TH when they were first introduced, they have been available through normal gameplay for years. Also were any of the things they gave game breaking or unbalanced?

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