r/runescape

This is in response to the post earlier today saying that Runescape 3 has no identity because Jagex hasn't carved out a specific type of person that they're trying to target with the game.

I think one of the great things about Runescape has always been that it casts such a wide net in terms of potential audience. Both now and twenty years ago you've had players that want to sweat it out and just do whatever the current highest level combat activities are, players that just want to do some chill skilling (level-3 skillers anyone?), players that use the game more as an online chatroom than anything else, players trying to complete all the content they can... the list goes on.

One of the game's main strengths compared to most MMOs is that it doesn't try to target one specific type of player (which in the case of other MMOs is usually the PvM- or PvP-focused crowd) but rather that it has broad appeal to a huge variety of people. Having some people who want to only do PvM does not detract from people who just want to do laid-back skilling. If anything this variety of players has always been good for the game since it means if you want certain gear or items but you don't enjoy the activities that get you that gear or those items, you can instead buy it off of someone who does.

Runescape has great skilling content, it has great PvM content, and it has great questing content. The problem with the game has never been that it tries to distribute its efforts amongst all these different facets - the problem with the game was that it was being squeezed for all it was worth which meant that new content was becoming less and less well thought out as time went on so that it could be rushed out the door with fewer and fewer people working on it. This is a problem that, as we're seeing with the road to restoration, is being fixed as a lot of old content is being revisited as improved.

TLDR: Jagex doesn't need to target one type of player for the game to be successful - if anything the fact that the game has been around for so long is thanks to the fact that the game has targeted as broad an audience as possible.

Hey everyone, new to runescape, Im a huge fan of MMOs, WoW, LOTRO, SWTOR, STO, Albion, PSO GC, Guildwars, ECT. Never really got into RuneScape, I want that good MMO feeling again, cant seem to find many good groups anymore in my other MMOs, everyone just farms for top tier gear and moves on. Im looking for a community and thought I would give RuneScape a try, but before I get too into it, I want to know, does it still have a decent community to be apart of? Is there still a strong sense of Role-playing and community based adventure or has it also fallen into the grind and treat it like a single player game mentality? Just wanted to get some thoughts from some of its community. Thank you! Also would you recommend old-school or modern?

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I thought Priff was meant be to reverted to a crystal before the events of Plague's End... but is completely visible from the Elf Camp and fully rendered in Free-cam during Regicide?

A couple of months after release is an oversight, 12 years is just sloppy, though...

With so much new content coming into existing areas it’s a shame that new achievements aren’t coming in as well.

The achievements feel stagnant to existing players and outdated to new ones.

I know there’s a wide community that hates quests so the idea of added achievements sounds annoying.

Something as simple as kill the flesh hatcher for a wilderness medium achievement.

Or something a bit harder like pickpocket a hur trader for al elite karamja achievement.

There’s plenty of content out there that should be added to achievements or at the very least swapped out for old ones.

This has been brought up on the sub a few times before, but it looks like the most recent one according to search was a year ago, so I'll bring it up again.

When you collect a strange rock, it really should just be sent to your statue collection bag if you have one, no matter where it is (inventory or bank). It's annoying to need to go bank because you randomly got a rock, it's also annoying to have to manually fill the bag at the bank if it got sent there because your inventory was full.

Expert skillcape shards work pretty much identically to strange rocks, but those are always deposited straight into your bag if you have one. Doesn't matter if your inventory was full or not, if you have the bag with you or not, it's just always sent to the bag. So it should 100% be possible for strange rocks to work the same way.

This wouldn't be overpowered in any way, it's just minor QoL for a long grind that most people only do because it's a completion cape requirement.

Well, there goes my luck for the year...

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Currently 85 fishing going for 91; is it the slowest and most boring skill in the game? Currently afking ghostly soles with GoTE waiting to create a full fishing elite set, is there a better AFK option than ghostly soles at my level?

note this is from an Ironman perspective

Vanquish: very surprised Vanquish didn’t get nerfed as it invalidates so many weapons pre-invention, particularly for Ironman progression. It feels kind of… cheap? Chasing those goals like getting a barrows weapon or big quest rewards like crystal, Korasi’s or primed Keris, etc are all kind of a big letdown because you've probably already been using Vanquish, a better item, to get them. Idk, I guess my point is that the satisfaction of getting that big weapon you’ve been working towards in the midgame is gone because Vanquish exists as something you can just get for free early on, and acts as all three combat styles to boot.

Barrows: sees no use, it’s all tank gear. make the set effects powerful and relevant!

Crafting re-tier: similar to fletching, please do the same for crafting. some good progress on this recently with gano but needs more work

Void: Highly unrealalistic but would love for Void gear to be useful again. Used to be amazing but it is now garbage

Infinity: Completely overshadowed by Lunars and takes a ridiculous grind to get. needs a buff

Over to you - what else do you think needs to be fixed in the midgame?

I’ve recently returned to the game after a few years away and over the past month or two I’ve been examining a lot of players just to see what skills people are focusing or what bits of gear and new and used a lot. What I’ve come to notice is that a lot of lower levelled players (anywhere from 50-400m xp) have very average stats across the board, most skills sitting around the 40-70 mark, but with 120/200m thieving? At first I thought it was just a few but it almost seems like every other player at this point? So my main question here is, why are people focusing thieving so heavily? Is it because it has extremely high xp rates? From what I remember of thieving the xp rates were decent but not focusing-thieving-until-it’s-100m-xp-higher-than-every-other-stat good??

I think one of the big issues Runescape 3 has is that Jagex cannot decide the type of player they want on this game.

We have such a huge split in the community between players who want laid back afk chilling content, and players who want active, intense content.

We have a game that somehow takes longer to Max/Reach Endgame on than OSRS, even though we're considered by most as the 'laid back/faster' version of the two.

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It feels like Runescape 3 has no identity. Jack of all trades, master of none.

Hello hello -

First time playing a main in nearly a decade. I’ve been an iron since 2014, recently came back to rs3 after the combat rebalance and wanted to try a fresh account to see all the early game again. In good/bad news, the account I have members on for some reason had already freshly gotten off tutorial island, so I couldn’t Ironman that one too, but I could infuse it with a ton of gp from dupes on my old maxed iron from years ago to at least give it some spending money and make some bad grinds like div a little easier with things like the dowser.

My question comes from the standpoint of invention/getting the better gathering tools. I understand I can get an elder rune/primal tool to be comparable, but is the jump to an augmented mattock of time/space THAT much better than an elder/primal mattock?

When those skills came out for me, I already had the dust due to it being nearly the best crafting method you could do for an iron, so I had tons. Now that I’m starting fresh again (and need it for the pick, hatchet, and mattock), I’m wondering if I should train the skills without the augments or just rush up to prif and get harping

I'm in what I'd consider early to mid game. I've got wildy 1 sword, underworld grim 2, and arc journal. What are some other good unlocks like these that provide good teleports?

Getting law runes for quick teleports is a little difficult right now and I run out of them quick. So having the free teleports will be nice.

Good morning,

I've been suffering an issue since coming back to RS3 that really bothers me. I have issues logging in and getting just a black screen. I can delete the cache and let it fully build itself back and it still doesn't help. I've found that I just have to keep closing the client and logging in to finally get it to work. I can't use the world map. I can't use the world hopper. I am at a loss and don't know what to do.

There are my specs:

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Any insight would be sick.

uploaded a quick vid for this, Its honestly nice to have so few tiles to catch for such success

Can we change the instance cost reduction passive from Reaper Points to have a % chance to save a key when fighting bosses that use them? (Legios, Magister, RoTS)