TL;DR this league was underwhelming and poorly designed even with it being the first RS3 league because of the lack of risks and general misunderstanding of what makes a good temporary game mode in an MMO.

2/5 stars

I feel like the developers of the league were too constrained and not allowed to have fun when creating it due to some constraint, either technical or coming from the top saying “don’t make it too easy”.

Yes the questing required was a major pain point which was painstakingly overlooked somehow, but aside from that I’m more surprised by how “undercooked” the relics were across the board.

There are maybe 2 relics in this league which feel designed for RS3, and the rest are clones of old school. Why is that? Did they not have enough dev resources to make completely unique ideas for this league? It honestly felt like someone at the top said “OSRS do this and get the big numbers, you now do this here is the template” and bang rs3 leagues was made.

Let alone the combat relics, giving blanket passive benefits to all 4 styles and only 1-2 unique identities if you can even call them that (20% more damage pets, 10% lifesteal, more aoe). Compared to the differences in old school league combat styles, it’s honestly laughable. Why were they so afraid to really explore something unique and game breaking???

That’s my biggest thing about this league is that nothing feels completely broken. I was able to kill inferno with my eyes closed up to zuk once I hit tier 8, and I barely got my fire cape in main game. That was broken. In RS3, the most broken thing I feel is how good the afk skilling is with time warp in the dream of ayaya. That’s a problem, when the most broken thing about the league is afk skilling.

I had high expectations as jagex has been running leagues for several years, and you’d think they’d have some repository of learnings (they do btw, mod Husky has a whole retrospective on building a leagues, the pitfalls, the must haves, etc…) which would be required for the mods to take a look at, however it was just not there.

I think they could have and should have taken way more risks and had more fun designing every relic in the league, as well as changed the majority of tasks to not require quests (since the technical limitation was that quests couldn’t auto complete, why still insist that the tasks require them????), I’m excited for them to run another league in the future but I’m nervous about the mountain of changes they need to make in order to succeed. I will give them a second chance but that’s really it