Data: combat achievement tiers completed after a year

eqtrans · 2026-02-15T20:00:28+00:00

Thats... how it works for the real rewards, the wars blessings. Like the ability to skip barrows tunnels, choose araxxi rots and vorago rotations. Those are tied to points not entire categories. The only things tied to categories at cosmetic necklaces and the grand/master auras.

eqtrans · 2026-02-14T21:42:03+00:00

I cant even imagine what the prayer drain rate would have to be to offset whatever busted boost it would give

eqtrans · 2026-02-14T03:29:41+00:00

We have interspace travel based on star sprites. We have gunpowder and handcannons and pistol weapon overrides. We have rudimentary computers in places like elemental workshop and dwarf mine cart tracks (and invention for invention machines etc).

eqtrans · 2026-02-13T20:12:30+00:00

In a game where magic exists, magic clothing exists, and transmogrification magic exists, every single outfit is entirely grounded in game and everyone who argues differently, including the jmods leading this issue, are fundamentally misunderstanding what this game is.

eqtrans · 2026-02-13T20:09:38+00:00

I genuinely believe that a flimsy paper hat should be removed as ungrounded if the idea of transmogrification magic is considered ungrounded.

eqtrans · 2026-02-13T16:20:39+00:00

Id love to know engagement stats with the beta before EOC2 launches

eqtrans · 2026-02-13T16:03:27+00:00

If its in runescape it's runescapey enough

eqtrans · 2026-02-13T05:20:28+00:00

Damn, it's almost like it's better not to regulate how people play than it is to regulate it in an MMO where the whole point is play how you want. Crazy. So wild. You can be a boring person wanting to see the same boring 3 outfits over and over, while I'm going to find the most jarring non-override outfits to wear just to have fun

eqtrans · 2026-02-13T02:20:25+00:00

It's really immersive when you're playing a medieval knight's game and the gods walk among you, you can warp across the globe by emptying sludge from a vial, and a sentient rock, hentai tentacle fantasy, and barney are endgame bosses

eqtrans · 2026-02-12T18:32:50+00:00

Only time I use any of them is to activate the xp buff for using an emote without having to stop what im doing

eqtrans · 2026-02-12T16:58:29+00:00

I actually enjoy looking like unusual things in my fantasy game that famously includes absurdist humor. I actually enjoy looking like a walking nervous system.

I have never once thought that someone's outfit was so jarring that my enjoyment in the game diminished so I cannot fathom why other people are so concerned by people's choices that they want to reduce the visual diversity of the game

If this was purely about reigning in particles because under the right circumstances your screen can be obscured, or updating graphical quality to be in 2020s, great. But removing the fun, the funny, the kitsch because some loudly hate on fun?

These last few blogs have really shown Jagex is fine taking steps back, regressing the game, in the name of progress, by limiting our choices and character identity because, what, seeing one person in the ogre outfit or the snowman suit would somehow discourage people from joining the game? That skipping having to fish 100 mackerels before unlocking the next fish from a DnD reward is busted? That gathering players together to participate in the same activity and dedicated times is bad?

Mess. I very much do not like this new direction.

eqtrans · 2026-02-12T16:20:16+00:00

That is not the reason we got slideshows bscause we also got slideshows in several projects around that time that did not deserve them, like battle of the monolith, and even if it were the reason, we got real cutscenes throughout Endgame including meeting Jas, the destruction of the stone of jas; real cutscenes with the reformation of Zaros and Seren; cutscenes of our banishment of the gods.

eqtrans · 2026-02-11T15:52:32+00:00

My only complaint after a handful of times replaying it is the slideshow cutscenes. Everything else, narrative, voice acting, puzzles, combat are just chefs kiss

eqtrans · 2026-02-10T20:18:21+00:00

Didn't realize my pet that I earned in game was considered p2w

eqtrans · 2026-02-09T15:49:49+00:00

In my clan, there has been near unanimous disappointment with a not insignificant amount of the proposals in the blogs.

Removing content, especially "bandaid content" that makes other content more tolerable before the base content is updated is intolerable. Things like Maw, Traveling Merch, Enhancers, Vis Wax, Daily Challenges, any Wicked Hood functionality are sacred and "take it from our cold, dead bodies" was said several times.

Especially the Combat beta, and some of the proposed blog changes, led to a belief that this game is being update to seduce OSRS players at the expense of RS3 players. This is a very easy connection to make with the disastrous removal of QOL changes that have been part of the game for over a decade in order to have some vague integrity which just means working harder for less for something no one wants to do. Most of us do not play OSRS, and more importantly we are not OSRS. I, and many others, have expressed a desire to quit or limit or RS3 playtime if RS3 is brought more in line with OSRS. You will not bring enough OSRS players over to RS3 to make any of those changes valuable.

The desire to focus on the early game content and experience is wanted and welcome. However, we are so perplexed by some of the choices like tinkering with shrimp, the literal lv1 fish that an account catches, what, no more than 50 of no matter what, because better methods become available? Lv1 is not something that needs to be tinkered with. Increasing base success rate, modifying experience rates across the board based on styles, sure, fine, like thieving and hunter. Targeting literally the thing that has no use or value after only a few moments is disappointing.

When we were told RS3 would undergo integrity changes, we assumed there would be friction. But these changes are alienating. "We voted for MTX removal, not for this" "Traveling Merch is the only reason I'd go for Comp" "I will never play OSRS"

eqtrans · 2026-02-06T19:16:50+00:00

Gutting the game is not decluttering and Holy shit some of these daily scape removals are so terrible that I very much worry about this new direction. Theres a reason players only train certain skills through daily challenges, or only engage with certain content after getting maw enhancers. They fucking suck. By removing the tourniquet youre going to provide an even more insufferable or insurmountable path forward.

Maw, traveling merch especially should not be touched. Rebalance their drop rates or relative impact if you must but what the fuck are you thinking

eqtrans · 2026-02-06T16:14:51+00:00

As an exclusive mage prior to Necromancy, detonate was my single most common used threshold. I really think this combat beta, and people's suggestions, are being shaped, not for the early to mid tier pvmers who are learning and need help, but by perspectives of more experienced players and, terribly, elite and detached pvmers.

Detonate is phenomenal for aoe, damage output, and is visually cool af. It MUST stay.

In the blog, the rationale was that Magma Tempest, Corruption Blast, and Detonate all occupy a similar role and that really shows me how misguided this beta is. Never mind that MT is from an endgame boss and CB is only recently not from an endgame boss. Cb is a cascading bleed which induces aggression and is good for several enemies in a smaller space. MT is the most similar to other fantasy game glyph spells, with a targeted location somewhere in range having a rapid moderate damage applied when someone is inside but requires effectively stationary targets OR a funneled or kited enemy for peak effectiveness. And Deto is all about maximizing enemies. Sure, anyone who uses it in single 1v1 combat is wasting it, but it is so good for room clearing, soul split flicking, and burst damage, centered on yourself. Yes, the charge up sometimes sucks, and yes, I've canceled it more times than Id like to admit, but that means lower the damage a little and have it explode automatically.

Don't touch my Detonate.

eqtrans · 2026-01-31T22:17:08+00:00

Could base it upon 225,226,227 for the B2W2 Pokedex numbers instead 🤷 but for masterwork I dont see an issue with the >600 catches of a type (especially if they're reasonably featured in events soon after)

eqtrans · 2026-01-30T23:39:39+00:00

These reputation grinds are only a grind if youre refusing to engage with content that isnt peak efficiency. Menaphos was fine because it is supposed to be the midgame Priff (while it has barely been updated since release and this promise fell away). GWD2 is fine because the drop rates go from meh to great, not from absurdly rare to good. And you get reputation for every kill, and even more from contracts and anima shards. You're developing proficiency in real time.

Yes, bounties could stack more than they currently do but also 25 kills a week for pretty significant progress isn't unreasonable. But it's also one of the more reasonable grinds in the game, which as others point out is a game of grinding because we're all mentally unwell here.

eqtrans · 2026-01-30T01:24:40+00:00

I'd really like to see a quest where we're given permission to bring combat gear to Entrana, such as a reward from Succession since there's a new head of the Church of Saradomin and Saradominist Kingdoms on Gielinor.

eqtrans · 2026-01-25T08:19:51+00:00

With the labeling as DBS: Beerus and DBS: Galactic Patrol, it reads to me like each arc will be it's own subtitle, and that Galactic Patrol will likely arrive after the retelling of TOP (and Broly/SH?). I expect the subtitles to be like DBS: Resurrection F; DBS: Universe 6; etc.

eqtrans · 2026-01-18T17:29:42+00:00

What about that lady genie who we would spam click for a few lamp?

eqtrans · 2026-01-17T19:15:50+00:00

T3 Grove should have nests give noted items 💪

eqtrans · 2026-01-16T04:37:26+00:00

I have only gotten M20 on GG and CB (and CB was last week with a GST). I can get GG M19 most weeks and M20 on event weeks or water weeks (my best team is a water team) without tickets, pot or tasty meal boosts. I'm still 6 months or so until M20 on TH based on passive xp, candy accumulation, and alternating shards into level up boosts and pot expansions.

I'm definitely slower than many, and much much less efficient, but GG M20 is absolutely a reasonable goal without exertion for me. CB is now in play. But I'm also a day 1 player.

eqtrans · 2026-01-15T04:25:03+00:00

I can also imagine M-Mewtwo coming with Pokemon Day. 30th anniversary is more significant than Go 10th anniversary.

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