@@reidjohnson424 Might also be interesting to have them do extra damage vs things like spirit monsters and the like, or have another set that deal electrical damage and do extra damage to flying creatures
Agreed, it's a quest that unlocks one of the most utilitarian tools for training both range and slayer. At least a 75% fail rate for repairing the fence seems called for!
I actually think gnome agility being level 1 is great. When I was a young noob I remember finally becoming a member and wanting to train agility, and realizing I was going to have to explore the majority of the members map to get to gnome stronghold to "unlock" agility. It felt like agility was the reward for discovering the gnome lands. You're so tempted to get it because you see this shortcuts all over the map, but it isn't just given to you, you have to go discover it. Maybe in 2024 noone plays F2P though and won't have this same experience of exploring members, but still.
i just had this experience myself, i understand what youre talking about completely. having to wander into the new unexplored areas for some skills was incredibly cool
I've experienced both sides of it I got members as a kid and one of the first things I did was scramble over white wolf mountain to visit the gnome stronghold. I doubt I would have done that if Draynor rooftops was in the game and accessible. However I came back for the first time since 2006 last year and was confused that there was both an agility course in such an easily accessible part of the game, and yet the course itself was inaccessible. So back to the Stronghold I went, this time out of obligation rather than curiosity. I 100% support Draynor AND the Stronghold courses being accessible at level 1, though I think the Stronghold XP rates should be buffed, or Draynor nerfed so that it is still worth the pilgrimage. (ignoring the quest icon wearing elephant in the room)
I played ftp, going to the gnome area early game is so sick, like I did it right after I finished dragon slayer in ftp and it was such an awesome experience, unlocking both agility and spirit trees feels super good. Such an iconic early/mid game area
I just started playing for the first time really (since way back) and figuring out how to start training agility was one of the most complicated early game tasks I had to figure out. It was neat to go on that adventure; I took a boat to karamja and then to ardougne (didn’t realize I could go directly from rimmington for a very long time) and got to see a lot of new things. It’s too much new stuff all at once though and I needed to do a lot of research to figure out what to do. I’m playing as a hardcore Ironman so every new area I go to is a lot of extra cognitive load. I think it doesn’t make sense to lock such a critical feature in such a deep area. So I’m pleasantly surprised to see this change. Despite playing as a hardcore Ironman I’m trying to play casually and inefficiently so making more of the game stuff you can just stumble upon and figure out on your own would be nice rather than requiring so much research so early.
Its really refreshing to see a hardcore player like yourself support these QoL changes. A lot of the downfall of the RS community is "I had to suffer, so you do too." Keep up the good work.
Settled is an outlier in hardcore fans because he will inevitably suffer again when he creates a new account (either at the end of this series or when nolife109 dies)
there's lots of jaded elitist players who make their personality about xp rates never increasing, and they think that QOL will lead to the downfall of the game when in reality they're not the people updates are for, and we have evidence to prove that every update of this sort has lead to great benefits for the game's health long term. Creating a more enjoyable experience throughout skilling/pvm/general gameplay can turn a new player into an active player.
One minor detail that made me smile: They proposed changing the timer on clue drops so they can last an hour on the ground. The only thing I can think of when reading that is Swampletics juggling clue steps.
@@joshp4582 While that may seem the case, there are actually a TON of challenge accounts that benefit from this! While those communities aren't massive, they are big and growing and this change really doesn't have drawbacks.
I personally think EVERY slayer monster should have a unique drop, whether cosmetic or functional. Like Infernal mages could drop mystic ornament kits to recolor mystic to the same dark shade the infernal mages have. Cockatrice could drop a limpwurt sack (holds 28 limpwurts). Would be interesting to see accounts grind out semi-rare drops from normally dead content.
While i do agree with this to some degree i think this is kinda dead on release. Unless tureal boosting youre kinda dead in the water Log slots for the sake of log slots IMO
Giving Killerwatts an early powered lightning staff would be cool; it'd be a nice option before the Warped Sceptre for irons. Maybe it could get a bonus against aquatic creatures, so you could take it to Kraken or use it as a budget Zulrah magic weapon! Maybe give Cave Bugs something, too. You could get an early Ranged focused amulet (think the Amulet of Magic, but ranged) that you string with their antennae. EDIT: I just saw the Bug Basher, something else can get the Amulet.
there is a spot in there that mentions them adding marks to penguin, barbarian, shayzien, ape atoll, wilderness, and werewolf courses, so some of those exp changes might also be changed to reflect that as well im guessing
@@iambeastleePenguin is fastest way to obtain agility pet, if it also gave marks of grace there is actually some incetive there (keeping in mind the 20+ lvl over the course prob still reduces your marks)
Wildy specifically was not mentioned in the actual survey. With the other changes possibly coming to it with other wildy changes, it may already even have amalayse, so they won't add marks to it too.
I definitely agree with the: Make Slayer on low level mobs more interesting, rather than removing them. Sure the low level monsters are not that interesting... So, make them more interesting, please? As someone who only recently-ish started playing OSRS, Slayer in the early game was actually really neat to get out and see the world, figure out where all the places are where the monsters live. Which actually gives me an idea: Implement a checklist/log for the low level slayer monsters, that indicate where you have completed a Slayer Task. Once you complete all locations for a particular monster, you get a satisfying little green checkmark, and maybe some extra slayer points to work with. This would encourage variety of locations, and scratch that completionist-itch at the same time
@@Kevin-Snap they've been inflated heavily because of the DT2 rings requiring them. This change won't effect that, but they will eventually plateau and go down again.
@Kevin-Snap it'll go down the same way shadow went down when we learned about toa bots. People freaked out the price tanked even though the bots were their a while before we noticed and it bounced back as if nothing happened Dks have been out since osrs released. It was steady around 3m, spiked up and down until dt2 released crashed from 4m to 2m and went back to 3m in 2 months. Since varlamor announcement it has slowly risen to 5m and I'm ready to bet 100m that on Friday 22nd it'll be max 3m. And this whole time the daily volume was about 1k a day. Prices are mostly about perceived value and speculation not rarity and usefulness, look at lightbearer vs berserker ring lightbearer similar volumes but lightbearer is far more recent but berserker ring is 1.5m more But if you compare them in max gear on a max account at dks berserker gives you 5% more dps against supreme but lightbearer gives you double sgs specs and either way you have down time
I think it’s really cool that you’re dipping into this kind of content. I honestly have been looking for someone to break down the weekly updates and cool important news things for a while! This is really cool to hear and it’s really cool to hear coming from you. Thank you!
As a new player this kind of content being discussed so I can actually understand large changes to the game from a more experienced standpoint is seriously helpful. I would love to see more of these
I really enjoyed hearing your perspective on this blog. While I enjoy your main videos and other big name CC's videos, I think its important to have these discussions about the current and future state of the game. Wished more CCs would do something like this
I love that this takes a really positive spin on things too. Often in these kinds of videos, CC’s are SO negative about the game and Jagex. Settled always has a really nice balanced way of talking about the game- you can tell that he loves it and the stuff he is critical about feels well-thought and not just bashing.
Man, you're such a good advocator for the game, for old players and new. Content that makes others want to play/keep playing the game is such a good quality to have as a content creator
really like hearing your perspective on blog posts. you have way more playtime than me and i like your presentation style, so its a good way to get a more informed view on changes
Absolutely love the idea of the blog post readings, please consider more in the future! Hearing perspectives from not only someone who's played as an ultimate/ironman, but as someone who can help explain specifics like level ranges of "dead content." I always wondered why slayer felt "meh" halfway through the grind, and why agility felt like a unique torture lol
I really like this type of content on this channel, because i never read the updates myself. So listening to you reading and explaining them is so much better!
I would sit a whole summer in my local library playing runescape (yes kids, we did not have a home computer at that time). It took me forever to find gnome agility course to finally train it, and OMG what a feeling when I got there.
Not so long ago I've finally managed to talk my brother-in-law into trying OSRS with me for the first time. I mean we were having fun and def. gonna get back to it! But these changes ooooh man o' man they would be so great, since we both started a fresh account, so we could explore the game a bit more! I refrain from doin' this, but whenever he decides to do something, I don't have the heart of sayin' "That's really not worth doing" (i.e. he was aiming for Brimhaven agility course) and once of those agility shortcut req. was definetely a raised eyebrow on his end, so hey ... I'm ALL for it
back in 2004-05 for the year I played I never trained my agility cause I never ventured all the way to gnomes. And I'm sure there are still new players to this day who just have comfort zones who would train agility sooner if they see it available in early areas.
@wildyrspker3537 I just don't see that many new players in the game when I'm playing. The vast majority of active players seem to be people who are already at the end game. I dont believe OSRS is as popular with people who aren't already familiar with the game. Regardless, I think the change in Agility course makes sense because you'd want lower skill level activities by Lumbridge. I just don't think there are enough newer players for it to matter that much
@@Lucky_LimesIf there aren't any new osrs players, I'm not surprised, because the new player experience currently suuuuuuucks. I'm down to make it suck less.
I remember taking forever to get to Gnome Agility when I started this game last summer. I had basically no idea what I was doing, and was so happy when I unlocked the Draynor course.
Ah gnome course, as a new player last year, I heard the "get 30 agi" mantra, found the gnome course on the wiki, and WALKED THERE from Lumbridge (and got slightly mauled on the White Wolf Mountain)
Run energy changes could be huge especially for new player that try out ftp first because not being able to level agility makes getting around unbearable for most.
I enjoyed this. As someone who doesn’t play RuneScape anymore, but still watches people like you, Framed, C Engineer, etc. I still want to come back and play; it’s nice to be able to keep up with the changes so I can know why X person is suddenly doing this now or something similar
you DEFINITELY need to do this more often. It's nice to hear your thoughts on some things that I'm sure most people just never would have thought of from a time investment standpoint.
hey man idk if youll even see this comment but thank you so much for going through the logs and explaining what everything is. Theres a couple youtubers that do do it, but i love the way you explain everything and make it so clear. Its really nice to see these kinds of videos cause its hard for me to go through walls of text on whats goin on with the game lol. Plus i dont have a lot of time to read it all these days and stay up to date with it. Hope you keep doing these if you feel like it! love the vids man, hope ur doin well!
You had my attention at free law and nature runes frlm the magic stall. Finally, I don't have to spend the first 50 hrs of the game grinding agility pyramid only to buy laws and natures for an extortionate price!
Honestly, when I started my account a little over a year ago, I almost went to the brimhaven arena at 1 agility because McTile was a huge inspiration and guide for me and I didn't know about gnome stronghold.
Jagex have really been putting out some great ideas in the last year in between some of the flubs like expanded forestry and original incarnation of the ruinous powers book. Hopefully the majority of these pass, but I'm most excited by the idea that we might get more agi shortcuts to make up for deadzones around the world.
This 'rebalance' is like trying to patch a leaking boat with a bandaid, or adding speed fins to a brick and hoping it stops sinking. The problem is that most of the skills are just completely outdated - they dont need small QOL changes, they need a complete rework. All of these updates wil have limited effect and everything will just become dead content once the community figures out the most efficient method in like 2 weeks.
@@nailneckerJust saying, basically every update since a year after OSRS's launch wasn't in "original 07"... we are literally getting a new skill that isn't even in RS3
Would love to see more content like this. I do not play Runescape but I live vicariously through content creators like yourself and it's cool to know what might change in the game.
I find it odd Smithing got left out here. A big change to tackle on top of many other big changes I guess, but tackling Mining without Smithing feels like only fixing half the equation. That Smithing leveling table is just waiting for a fix. It has foundry at least, so maybe next rebalance we will finally see something for it.
@@toriitoraa you can literally make money with smithing now on early levels, buy steel chainbodies in varrock and mithril claws, use them at the giants foundry and tada, you make money while getting good exp rates. (people do this for the new axe that is basically equivalent to a d scimmy)
I just got a Rock Golem from stars while I was working! Would be nice to see other options get *something* going for them. I think it'd be cool to give Killerwatts an early powered staff that shoots out lightning. Weaker than the Warped Sceptre, but also available much earlier. Maybe it could get bonuses against aquatic monsters! Another Slayer monster that could use a unique drop: Cave Slimes. Why would you ever bother with them as they are? Some kind of early "ring of slime" that gives some weak defensive bonuses could be interesting, though it'd need something to compete with the Explorer's Ring 1. Maybe it could speed up collecting Slime at the Ectofuntus? The new "dual weapon" mechanic coming with Varlamore opens up an interesting option too. Rockslugs are pretty spiky looking, so what if they dropped stone daggers made from their spikes? Slug Shivs would be an early Stab option with this "dual weapon" mechanic, and since they're daggers, you could also put a small magic bonus on top. On another note, I'm VERY happy to see Make-x for mixes. Would be a good way to get some extra Herblore XP with my fishing.
I think it'd be interesting if Str and Agil both factored in to run energy expenditure, with Str effecting how much carry weight affects depletion rates.
@@DarkDyllon It's weird to benefit certain combat styles over others. It's COMBAT, it shouldn't affect a non-combat skill. If strength gets a certain benefit for training it, then that unbalances the combat triangle even more. It's bad enough that attack barely scales anything. Or that magic is tied to teles and magic defense. EoC absolutely sucked, but one thing it did good is make all 3 combat styles pretty equal. What's next, prayer increases your luck at receiving drops? Defense reduces the chance to get stunned from pickpocketing? Ranged exclusive forms of hunting? It's just weird. Combat skills should be about combat. Not bleed into other content.
The starting agility course change is great, I couldn't be bothered going to gnome stronghold so I did the McTile method of starting my agility. Hopping over that wall
this gave me a hit of nostalgia for when I was a noob and was attempting to get to the gnome agility course, i ended up going to barbarian Village by accident.
Random thing on your point at 9:00 about making slayer "fun" at lower levels. What you're suggesting by "fun" is "rewarding" and "exciting" but the problem is that even with higher level unlocks of slayer giving actually useful and good items that scale into the lategame, these lategame items have 0 value in trade because slayer is supposed to be a repeatably farmable skill; that being said I think it'd be good if they did do big overhauls to the spawns, spawn rates, drop tables, locations, etc. of certain early game slayer tasks and put "useful" early account items in specific slayer monsters than they would be more interesting to at least kill for items on their drop tables, but I believe slayer is a skill where it's always going to suffer from items being too easy to acquire since the skill needs to be repeatably farm-able as it's a skill in general
I feel an open community conversation about changes is extremely healthy for the game. More so when lead by someone who views the game in such a positive light.
I started playing more recently and as a new player trying to train agility for the first time i had to walk from varrock all the way to gnome stronghold with no access to teleports and no knowledge of any ways to shorten the trip. It was miserable and im still kind of surprised i actually did it, and then i proceeded to lock myself to that course until i unlocked draynor.
Loved the thoughts from you on the Blog Posts. I'd love to see more. Also, I've spent a ton of time in MLM. I honestly think the chute that lets you deposit from the top floor is such a massive change. No longer spending more time running to the ore cleaner than actually mining. I'm sure that'll be a pretty decent xp buff as well.
I enjoy this kind of content as well. It's good to see what other people think of these changes and they could point out things that you may not have noticed since everyone has a different point of view
We need buffs to GP/hour from skilling, not exp/hour. This doesn't change the fact that most skilling is nothing more than a means to an end (quest reqs, diaries, maxing) versus being actually sought after, enjoyable, profitable content
they changed their philosophy on skilling in like 2014 when zulrah came out, dont expect it to change any time soon, every new boss has tons of "skilling" items dropped its too late for skilling to be profitable
calling mechanics dinosaur mechanics are the reason why people play OLDSCHOOL runescape and not runescape 3 lol. zoomers and bots take over the playerbase
THIS POST!!! So true OP. Thank you for saying exactly what so many don’t understand. This is OLDschool. Huge influx of players daily for the past couple years has been slowly outweighing the diehard long term fans. It’s really sad Jagex is leaving us out of the conversation yet again. Especially with the unpolled change from 75 to 70% voting threshold.
Not everyone is a terminally online person and if you want your game to get better and improve you need to introduce quality of life updates. It's not that big of a deal.
As a level 3 skiller, I'm very excited about the agility course updates, specifically to Ardougne, and the Brimhaven agility course update will make getting the graceful recolor not feel like a complete waste of time since they're going to change the ticket and XP system so that you can actually get XP while grinding out any of the ticket item goals.
We already have teleports everywhere in the game, and now we need to change run energy because "it's prehistoric"? That's not a reason if you're trying to actually convince anyone that thinks for themselves. Want to elaborate on your opinion a bit?
if you look through the comments, you'll find many players who have tried the game but abandoned their experience specifically because of run energy being such a barrier to getting into progression, and quoted the energy change being an amazing change. It takes 12.5 minutes to regain 100 energy when you spawn into the world, something that literally halves your ability to explore and do content. Pretty tough to weigh on a new player first experiencing the game, a lot of us that have grown up with the game are fine with it, I'm okay if it doesn't get changed too; I'm not saying energy management or weight reduction should be removed. I'm saying the energy system should be reworked to be easier to manage because the mechanic is extremely old and hasn't modernized with the game, and quite literally single-handedly turns new players away.
You're actually so right bro!!! Since we can think for ourselves let's vote no on every poll to ensure that no new players have it any easier than we did. I for one don't want new players in MY game!!! And I feel like no one's mentioning if you just spend $100 on bonds you can buy enough pots to never run out of run energy!! What's wrong, too poor to play MY game??? Too bad so sad
I honestly loved when I got the harpies bugs task because those are the first slayer monster I remember killing back in 2007 when I new nothing about the game. I also like being sent to different areas you dont normally go to. Its refreshing.
Please do more blog posts like this! I think this is a great way to express your channel and gain viewership other than outrageously difficult OSRS playthroughs (which I love to death) 😄
this is good to hear. i've wanted to get back into the game but i have nasty carpal tunnel in my left hand so once that gets fixed i'm going back to playing and this is good to see Qol changes
Definitely agree would be nice to be excited to unlock some of the early slayer creatures even if they just drop really basic early game supplies or whatever.
big change about the fremmy dungeon too is it goes lower level for first skip and higher level (but also still nerfed) for 2nd skip. i always found it so weird even being a mid level account. running to turohs and i couldnt skip to pyrefiends, but i could skip to the turohs.
The Motherlode Mine changes look great! It's how I train mining, I find it comfortable and relaxing, and these changes are unilaterally ones I would love to have.
They should make slayer specific monsters that require slayer level to damage give more slayer points for task completion. Or passive chance to get the shared slayer drop table including heart not just superiors. Like 1/32k chance from normal monsters that just have a slayer requirement to kill.
I'd really enjoy you doing these more too, any Settled content is good. But I'm a very casual player, haven't played in 6+ months but I still watch and learn about the game and I'd love to stay updated. Especially when the proposed updates are good like this.
Id love for RS to make PVP worlds more active. Such a cool concept. Like pickpocketing stalls in PVP worlds give better rewards. OR buffed XP rates when using pvp worlds. Or even PVP exclusive quests. SOMETHING to entice players to use the worlds.
For the slayer changes instead of improving the drops for the slayer monsters, They could provide bonus slayer xp for the slayer monster unlocks. Harpies, infernal mages etc
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Unsettled: "Who even fights Killerwatts with a crossbow, lol."
Me: "Haha, yeah." *discreetly banks bone crossbow*
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hahaha to be fair that can't fire the bolts they're proposing so it's still valid B)
What about Ulm? Other NPC's that do electric damage?@@unsettledrs
@@reidjohnson424 Might also be interesting to have them do extra damage vs things like spirit monsters and the like, or have another set that deal electrical damage and do extra damage to flying creatures
@@reidjohnson424 there are no other npcs that do electric damage yet.
Rebalance dwarf cannon fence when?
REALISTICALLY IT PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE A 41% FAIL RATE AS A MASTER OF THE CRAFTING SKILL (99)
Oof all caps. He seems serious about this opinion.
That is offly high @@unsettledrs
@@unsettledrsjust get the free membership through rs3 to quickly speedrun the cannon quest. Its free.
Agreed, it's a quest that unlocks one of the most utilitarian tools for training both range and slayer. At least a 75% fail rate for repairing the fence seems called for!
I actually think gnome agility being level 1 is great. When I was a young noob I remember finally becoming a member and wanting to train agility, and realizing I was going to have to explore the majority of the members map to get to gnome stronghold to "unlock" agility. It felt like agility was the reward for discovering the gnome lands. You're so tempted to get it because you see this shortcuts all over the map, but it isn't just given to you, you have to go discover it. Maybe in 2024 noone plays F2P though and won't have this same experience of exploring members, but still.
i just had this experience myself, i understand what youre talking about completely. having to wander into the new unexplored areas for some skills was incredibly cool
I've experienced both sides of it
I got members as a kid and one of the first things I did was scramble over white wolf mountain to visit the gnome stronghold. I doubt I would have done that if Draynor rooftops was in the game and accessible.
However I came back for the first time since 2006 last year and was confused that there was both an agility course in such an easily accessible part of the game, and yet the course itself was inaccessible. So back to the Stronghold I went, this time out of obligation rather than curiosity.
I 100% support Draynor AND the Stronghold courses being accessible at level 1, though I think the Stronghold XP rates should be buffed, or Draynor nerfed so that it is still worth the pilgrimage. (ignoring the quest icon wearing elephant in the room)
bro I did that 2020, I never had a premium account as a kid, started playing again and it was magical.
I played ftp, going to the gnome area early game is so sick, like I did it right after I finished dragon slayer in ftp and it was such an awesome experience, unlocking both agility and spirit trees feels super good. Such an iconic early/mid game area
I just started playing for the first time really (since way back) and figuring out how to start training agility was one of the most complicated early game tasks I had to figure out.
It was neat to go on that adventure; I took a boat to karamja and then to ardougne (didn’t realize I could go directly from rimmington for a very long time) and got to see a lot of new things. It’s too much new stuff all at once though and I needed to do a lot of research to figure out what to do. I’m playing as a hardcore Ironman so every new area I go to is a lot of extra cognitive load. I think it doesn’t make sense to lock such a critical feature in such a deep area. So I’m pleasantly surprised to see this change.
Despite playing as a hardcore Ironman I’m trying to play casually and inefficiently so making more of the game stuff you can just stumble upon and figure out on your own would be nice rather than requiring so much research so early.
Its really refreshing to see a hardcore player like yourself support these QoL changes. A lot of the downfall of the RS community is "I had to suffer, so you do too." Keep up the good work.
Absolute most insufferable thing about this game's community. "I had to walk 15 miles to school, how dare you invent the wheel"
Settled is an outlier in hardcore fans because he will inevitably suffer again when he creates a new account (either at the end of this series or when nolife109 dies)
there's lots of jaded elitist players who make their personality about xp rates never increasing, and they think that QOL will lead to the downfall of the game when in reality they're not the people updates are for, and we have evidence to prove that every update of this sort has lead to great benefits for the game's health long term. Creating a more enjoyable experience throughout skilling/pvm/general gameplay can turn a new player into an active player.
and additionally, it can bring in even more players
@@Jekuj This dude realllllyyyy doesn't want run energy to change.
One minor detail that made me smile: They proposed changing the timer on clue drops so they can last an hour on the ground. The only thing I can think of when reading that is Swampletics juggling clue steps.
Same exact thing I thought of
honestly I think it's pretty lame how jagex literally tailor their updates for influencers.
@@joshp4582 While that may seem the case, there are actually a TON of challenge accounts that benefit from this! While those communities aren't massive, they are big and growing and this change really doesn't have drawbacks.
@@joshp4582Settled didn’t invent clue juggling lol it is used by a lot of players
@@jacksonwalsh6900 this statement does not detract anything from the point I am making.
I like this analytical and rambling type content, thank you
I'd be down for more of this type of content. Nice to hear your perspective on it
I personally think EVERY slayer monster should have a unique drop, whether cosmetic or functional. Like Infernal mages could drop mystic ornament kits to recolor mystic to the same dark shade the infernal mages have. Cockatrice could drop a limpwurt sack (holds 28 limpwurts). Would be interesting to see accounts grind out semi-rare drops from normally dead content.
both of those mobs already have unique drops :P
While i do agree with this to some degree i think this is kinda dead on release. Unless tureal boosting youre kinda dead in the water
Log slots for the sake of log slots IMO
Giving Killerwatts an early powered lightning staff would be cool; it'd be a nice option before the Warped Sceptre for irons. Maybe it could get a bonus against aquatic creatures, so you could take it to Kraken or use it as a budget Zulrah magic weapon!
Maybe give Cave Bugs something, too. You could get an early Ranged focused amulet (think the Amulet of Magic, but ranged) that you string with their antennae.
EDIT: I just saw the Bug Basher, something else can get the Amulet.
that sounds like a project sized task in its own right.
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there is a spot in there that mentions them adding marks to penguin, barbarian, shayzien, ape atoll, wilderness, and werewolf courses, so some of those exp changes might also be changed to reflect that as well im guessing
I HOPE SO! I won't be stuck on the seers roof anymore!
Wilderness course marks of grace 💀
@@GuyN0ir ya i can't imagine thats going to be too popular even with mark drops XD
@@iambeastleePenguin is fastest way to obtain agility pet, if it also gave marks of grace there is actually some incetive there (keeping in mind the 20+ lvl over the course prob still reduces your marks)
Wildy specifically was not mentioned in the actual survey. With the other changes possibly coming to it with other wildy changes, it may already even have amalayse, so they won't add marks to it too.
Verf was excited to unlock Harpie bug Swarms...
Something something clue juggle rune crossbow
HÄRPIE BÖG SWÄRMS
he was excited to call them the n word (with a hard r) and also the f word (with a hard aggot)
You didn't even mention that Marks of Grace will now be given at ALL AGILITY COURSES!
bruh and as soon as I decide to go for graceful
This is a huge buff to Werewolf Course imo. It's already massive xp/hr
heck yeah that extra 1k xp/hr is gonna kick ass!
try going for tons of staminas@@syllogistic
Is there a date for this?
This is now the only way I want to ingest these posts please
I definitely agree with the: Make Slayer on low level mobs more interesting, rather than removing them. Sure the low level monsters are not that interesting... So, make them more interesting, please?
As someone who only recently-ish started playing OSRS, Slayer in the early game was actually really neat to get out and see the world, figure out where all the places are where the monsters live. Which actually gives me an idea: Implement a checklist/log for the low level slayer monsters, that indicate where you have completed a Slayer Task. Once you complete all locations for a particular monster, you get a satisfying little green checkmark, and maybe some extra slayer points to work with. This would encourage variety of locations, and scratch that completionist-itch at the same time
I did sand crabs to 100 combat to skip early slayer. Reworking early slayer will be great
you have konar slayer which sends you to basically all places, and gives u keyes/uniques
Dks shortcut is so hype
Rings prices go down? Or nah?
@@Kevin-Snap they've been inflated heavily because of the DT2 rings requiring them. This change won't effect that, but they will eventually plateau and go down again.
@Kevin-Snap it'll go down the same way shadow went down when we learned about toa bots. People freaked out the price tanked even though the bots were their a while before we noticed and it bounced back as if nothing happened
Dks have been out since osrs released. It was steady around 3m, spiked up and down until dt2 released crashed from 4m to 2m and went back to 3m in 2 months. Since varlamor announcement it has slowly risen to 5m and I'm ready to bet 100m that on Friday 22nd it'll be max 3m. And this whole time the daily volume was about 1k a day.
Prices are mostly about perceived value and speculation not rarity and usefulness, look at lightbearer vs berserker ring lightbearer similar volumes but lightbearer is far more recent but berserker ring is 1.5m more
But if you compare them in max gear on a max account at dks berserker gives you 5% more dps against supreme but lightbearer gives you double sgs specs and either way you have down time
I think it’s really cool that you’re dipping into this kind of content. I honestly have been looking for someone to break down the weekly updates and cool important news things for a while! This is really cool to hear and it’s really cool to hear coming from you. Thank you!
As a new player this kind of content being discussed so I can actually understand large changes to the game from a more experienced standpoint is seriously helpful. I would love to see more of these
I really enjoyed hearing your perspective on this blog. While I enjoy your main videos and other big name CC's videos, I think its important to have these discussions about the current and future state of the game. Wished more CCs would do something like this
I love that this takes a really positive spin on things too. Often in these kinds of videos, CC’s are SO negative about the game and Jagex. Settled always has a really nice balanced way of talking about the game- you can tell that he loves it and the stuff he is critical about feels well-thought and not just bashing.
Man, you're such a good advocator for the game, for old players and new. Content that makes others want to play/keep playing the game is such a good quality to have as a content creator
When will Jagex have the courage to continue the Dwarf Cannon questline and give us the Dwarf Railgun?
I love how consistently you're excited about the agility run boosts, really shows how well you feel the game
really like hearing your perspective on blog posts. you have way more playtime than me and i like your presentation style, so its a good way to get a more informed view on changes
Absolutely love the idea of the blog post readings, please consider more in the future!
Hearing perspectives from not only someone who's played as an ultimate/ironman, but as someone who can help explain specifics like level ranges of "dead content." I always wondered why slayer felt "meh" halfway through the grind, and why agility felt like a unique torture lol
I really like this type of content on this channel, because i never read the updates myself. So listening to you reading and explaining them is so much better!
I would sit a whole summer in my local library playing runescape (yes kids, we did not have a home computer at that time).
It took me forever to find gnome agility course to finally train it, and OMG what a feeling when I got there.
Gnome agility course should stay 1 agility, it’s been like that for 23 years, deep in members area.
Just make dray 1 as well
That's actually an option in the survey that is at the bottom of the blogpost if you haven't seen it yet
Incredibly based
That's in the questionnaire thing. Shows how in tune they are with the community
Just 'cause its been like that for 23 years doesn't mean it should stay that way.
@@_Professor_Oak yes it does
love this! not enough creators go through the patch notes, love to hear your take, hope you do more
Not so long ago I've finally managed to talk my brother-in-law into trying OSRS with me for the first time.
I mean we were having fun and def. gonna get back to it!
But these changes ooooh man o' man they would be so great, since we both started a fresh account, so we could explore the game a bit more!
I refrain from doin' this, but whenever he decides to do something, I don't have the heart of sayin' "That's really not worth doing" (i.e. he was aiming for Brimhaven agility course) and once of those agility shortcut req. was definetely a raised eyebrow on his end, so hey ... I'm ALL for it
i see brighter shores ahead..
The grounding bolts are going to be tech for the electric eel boss in the new underwater raid.
Better get the used car batteries ready, boys!
back in 2004-05 for the year I played I never trained my agility cause I never ventured all the way to gnomes. And I'm sure there are still new players to this day who just have comfort zones who would train agility sooner if they see it available in early areas.
I don't think there are many new players at all on osrs once you account for multiple accounts and bots.
@@Lucky_Limestbf I started playing OSRS last month, so I would say there are still new players coming in
@@Lucky_Limes I think osrs being accessible on mobile actually brings in lots of new players
@wildyrspker3537 I just don't see that many new players in the game when I'm playing. The vast majority of active players seem to be people who are already at the end game. I dont believe OSRS is as popular with people who aren't already familiar with the game. Regardless, I think the change in Agility course makes sense because you'd want lower skill level activities by Lumbridge. I just don't think there are enough newer players for it to matter that much
@@Lucky_LimesIf there aren't any new osrs players, I'm not surprised, because the new player experience currently suuuuuuucks.
I'm down to make it suck less.
I remember taking forever to get to Gnome Agility when I started this game last summer. I had basically no idea what I was doing, and was so happy when I unlocked the Draynor course.
So glad you made this second channel. I love watching these misc videos that don't have to have the same polish as your main channel.
Ah gnome course, as a new player last year, I heard the "get 30 agi" mantra, found the gnome course on the wiki, and WALKED THERE from Lumbridge (and got slightly mauled on the White Wolf Mountain)
for me it was the fishing quest that got me mauled as well. the game didn't make it clear there was a boat i could take there.
Run energy changes could be huge especially for new player that try out ftp first because not being able to level agility makes getting around unbearable for most.
energy potions
@@MrCoolguy106 how many new ftp players not only have enough money but know they exist
@@terrarohr not enough for sure. I don’t think they’re too expensive but their usefulness should definitely be communicated to new players better.
I enjoyed this. As someone who doesn’t play RuneScape anymore, but still watches people like you, Framed, C Engineer, etc. I still want to come back and play; it’s nice to be able to keep up with the changes so I can know why X person is suddenly doing this now or something similar
you DEFINITELY need to do this more often. It's nice to hear your thoughts on some things that I'm sure most people just never would have thought of from a time investment standpoint.
hey man idk if youll even see this comment but thank you so much for going through the logs and explaining what everything is. Theres a couple youtubers that do do it, but i love the way you explain everything and make it so clear. Its really nice to see these kinds of videos cause its hard for me to go through walls of text on whats goin on with the game lol. Plus i dont have a lot of time to read it all these days and stay up to date with it. Hope you keep doing these if you feel like it! love the vids man, hope ur doin well!
appreciate u!!
You had my attention at free law and nature runes frlm the magic stall. Finally, I don't have to spend the first 50 hrs of the game grinding agility pyramid only to buy laws and natures for an extortionate price!
Honestly, when I started my account a little over a year ago, I almost went to the brimhaven arena at 1 agility because McTile was a huge inspiration and guide for me and I didn't know about gnome stronghold.
I definitely enjoy watching you go over the blog posts. It’s better to hear other perspectives on updates. Good video settled 👍🏻
Jagex have really been putting out some great ideas in the last year in between some of the flubs like expanded forestry and original incarnation of the ruinous powers book. Hopefully the majority of these pass, but I'm most excited by the idea that we might get more agi shortcuts to make up for deadzones around the world.
Based Jagex britbongs
This 'rebalance' is like trying to patch a leaking boat with a bandaid, or adding speed fins to a brick and hoping it stops sinking. The problem is that most of the skills are just completely outdated - they dont need small QOL changes, they need a complete rework. All of these updates wil have limited effect and everything will just become dead content once the community figures out the most efficient method in like 2 weeks.
I think adding "rest" to the run option would be dope. That would be pretty cool, and a throwback to late 2007scape.
Rest didn't come until the 2010s. It's not 2007scape.
@@Nick-zp8wk2009*
@@Nick-zp8wkJune 9th 2009 according to the wiki
never happened in original 07 , shit came after the game was alrdy ruined, so no dont add this stupid shit
@@nailneckerJust saying, basically every update since a year after OSRS's launch wasn't in "original 07"... we are literally getting a new skill that isn't even in RS3
Agility was my first 99. I wish the cape did more. I hope these changes for run energy and others go through and maybe make it a more impactful skill.
Would love to see more content like this. I do not play Runescape but I live vicariously through content creators like yourself and it's cool to know what might change in the game.
I find it odd Smithing got left out here. A big change to tackle on top of many other big changes I guess, but tackling Mining without Smithing feels like only fixing half the equation. That Smithing leveling table is just waiting for a fix. It has foundry at least, so maybe next rebalance we will finally see something for it.
Definitely agree, as a new ironwoman just never having the option to smith items because my mining/smithing.
@@toriitoraa you can literally make money with smithing now on early levels, buy steel chainbodies in varrock and mithril claws, use them at the giants foundry and tada, you make money while getting good exp rates. (people do this for the new axe that is basically equivalent to a d scimmy)
That might be part of phase 2. There's a lot of missing skills from the blog post.
@@_Professor_Oak I agree, I wouldn't be surprised to see it in Phase 2.
@DarkDyllon you can't expect a new player to know that
yes please keep making videos like this
Definitely love this content! Appreciate hearing your input!
I just got a Rock Golem from stars while I was working! Would be nice to see other options get *something* going for them.
I think it'd be cool to give Killerwatts an early powered staff that shoots out lightning. Weaker than the Warped Sceptre, but also available much earlier. Maybe it could get bonuses against aquatic monsters!
Another Slayer monster that could use a unique drop: Cave Slimes. Why would you ever bother with them as they are? Some kind of early "ring of slime" that gives some weak defensive bonuses could be interesting, though it'd need something to compete with the Explorer's Ring 1. Maybe it could speed up collecting Slime at the Ectofuntus?
The new "dual weapon" mechanic coming with Varlamore opens up an interesting option too. Rockslugs are pretty spiky looking, so what if they dropped stone daggers made from their spikes? Slug Shivs would be an early Stab option with this "dual weapon" mechanic, and since they're daggers, you could also put a small magic bonus on top.
On another note, I'm VERY happy to see Make-x for mixes. Would be a good way to get some extra Herblore XP with my fishing.
I think it'd be interesting if Str and Agil both factored in to run energy expenditure, with Str effecting how much carry weight affects depletion rates.
Screw pures then?
Interesting idea.
@@Kmn483it’s there choice to be a pure though so yeah
@@Kmn483 so ... fuck everyone for a choice someone made on purpose? sounds logical.
@@DarkDyllon It's weird to benefit certain combat styles over others. It's COMBAT, it shouldn't affect a non-combat skill. If strength gets a certain benefit for training it, then that unbalances the combat triangle even more. It's bad enough that attack barely scales anything. Or that magic is tied to teles and magic defense. EoC absolutely sucked, but one thing it did good is make all 3 combat styles pretty equal. What's next, prayer increases your luck at receiving drops? Defense reduces the chance to get stunned from pickpocketing? Ranged exclusive forms of hunting? It's just weird.
Combat skills should be about combat. Not bleed into other content.
-10 range sounds like a mith darts task if you ask me.
The hunter tracking, Herbiboar is pretty solid hunter. I did it until pet on my skiller, then switched to chins.
Getting to gnome course at lvl 1 on my hcim was brutal
Smithing really needs a rebalance. Having rune unlocked so late into the skill when you only need 40 defense to wear it is just pointless
u just want there to be no new content after like 50-60 smithing? any ideas?
@@MRkriegsmake high level smithing more rewarding lol, maybe enhancements to mid game gear
@@MRkriegsture but I can’t trim armor yourself maybe after 60 you are crafting that for ever metal
The starting agility course change is great, I couldn't be bothered going to gnome stronghold so I did the McTile method of starting my agility. Hopping over that wall
this gave me a hit of nostalgia for when I was a noob and was attempting to get to the gnome agility course, i ended up going to barbarian Village by accident.
Changing run energy will devalue my walking only Ironman so hard no
i dont think many others have as good an idea about niche things than you, please keep coving blogs
Gonna stack a shitload of grounding bolts for when they disable rune dragon lightning specials or whatever the hell they might do with them
I absolutely adored this content. You're very articulate and selfless and I would love more blog overviews like this please ❤
* Sigh * runecrafting is still gonna take hundreds of hours...
Random thing on your point at 9:00 about making slayer "fun" at lower levels. What you're suggesting by "fun" is "rewarding" and "exciting" but the problem is that even with higher level unlocks of slayer giving actually useful and good items that scale into the lategame, these lategame items have 0 value in trade because slayer is supposed to be a repeatably farmable skill; that being said I think it'd be good if they did do big overhauls to the spawns, spawn rates, drop tables, locations, etc. of certain early game slayer tasks and put "useful" early account items in specific slayer monsters than they would be more interesting to at least kill for items on their drop tables, but I believe slayer is a skill where it's always going to suffer from items being too easy to acquire since the skill needs to be repeatably farm-able as it's a skill in general
PLEASE do more of these types of vids. I like em
Mining QoL we needed since yesterday was the varock chest working on paydirt
I feel an open community conversation about changes is extremely healthy for the game. More so when lead by someone who views the game in such a positive light.
the agility xp needs to be increased even more imo
Literally up it like 20 to 50% more unless they're fundamentally changing the skill from running laps, it's not fun
1 million exp an hour for Agility and RC would be great 😂
I started playing more recently and as a new player trying to train agility for the first time i had to walk from varrock all the way to gnome stronghold with no access to teleports and no knowledge of any ways to shorten the trip. It was miserable and im still kind of surprised i actually did it, and then i proceeded to lock myself to that course until i unlocked draynor.
You buy an Ardy tele tab in the GE for 300g and save 50% of that walking.
@@MRkriegs you cant use ardy teleport or ardy teletabs without completing plague city, smh
@@mulunai oh ok I forget. Well skills nec to fishing guild should be just as good. Unless u need reqs to even do that
Appreciate how transparent you are with the reading. Short and reliable way to get info
run energy change is so needed
would be huge
2024 and im still baffled that both versions of this game still have run energy despite it not being nearly as crippling in rs3@@unsettledrs
@@SatanKarma1 That's because outside of people whining on reddit it's literally not an issue
does change that its such a arbitrary thing to have and keep in a game @@maskettaman1488
Loved the thoughts from you on the Blog Posts. I'd love to see more. Also, I've spent a ton of time in MLM. I honestly think the chute that lets you deposit from the top floor is such a massive change. No longer spending more time running to the ore cleaner than actually mining. I'm sure that'll be a pretty decent xp buff as well.
I enjoy this kind of content as well. It's good to see what other people think of these changes and they could point out things that you may not have noticed since everyone has a different point of view
We need buffs to GP/hour from skilling, not exp/hour. This doesn't change the fact that most skilling is nothing more than a means to an end (quest reqs, diaries, maxing) versus being actually sought after, enjoyable, profitable content
they changed their philosophy on skilling in like 2014 when zulrah came out, dont expect it to change any time soon, every new boss has tons of "skilling" items dropped its too late for skilling to be profitable
@@MRkriegs Yeah it's likely too far gone/will never change but any time they put out a poll, etc i'm still going to tell them how I feel at least
calling mechanics dinosaur mechanics are the reason why people play OLDSCHOOL runescape and not runescape 3 lol. zoomers and bots take over the playerbase
They're literally just making this RS3 again, they don't get that they're trashing the game.
Some stuff in the game was shit back then and is still shit now, Mining has literally *never* been a good skill.
hey buddy, don't forget to keep yourself medicated, lest you end up making more posts like this one.
THIS POST!!! So true OP. Thank you for saying exactly what so many don’t understand. This is OLDschool. Huge influx of players daily for the past couple years has been slowly outweighing the diehard long term fans. It’s really sad Jagex is leaving us out of the conversation yet again. Especially with the unpolled change from 75 to 70% voting threshold.
Not everyone is a terminally online person and if you want your game to get better and improve you need to introduce quality of life updates. It's not that big of a deal.
Good video. More reviews of blog posts would rock, love hearing your thoughts on the game
As a level 3 skiller, I'm very excited about the agility course updates, specifically to Ardougne, and the Brimhaven agility course update will make getting the graceful recolor not feel like a complete waste of time since they're going to change the ticket and XP system so that you can actually get XP while grinding out any of the ticket item goals.
We already have teleports everywhere in the game, and now we need to change run energy because "it's prehistoric"? That's not a reason if you're trying to actually convince anyone that thinks for themselves. Want to elaborate on your opinion a bit?
if you look through the comments, you'll find many players who have tried the game but abandoned their experience specifically because of run energy being such a barrier to getting into progression, and quoted the energy change being an amazing change. It takes 12.5 minutes to regain 100 energy when you spawn into the world, something that literally halves your ability to explore and do content. Pretty tough to weigh on a new player first experiencing the game, a lot of us that have grown up with the game are fine with it, I'm okay if it doesn't get changed too; I'm not saying energy management or weight reduction should be removed. I'm saying the energy system should be reworked to be easier to manage because the mechanic is extremely old and hasn't modernized with the game, and quite literally single-handedly turns new players away.
You're actually so right bro!!! Since we can think for ourselves let's vote no on every poll to ensure that no new players have it any easier than we did. I for one don't want new players in MY game!!! And I feel like no one's mentioning if you just spend $100 on bonds you can buy enough pots to never run out of run energy!! What's wrong, too poor to play MY game??? Too bad so sad
You have the flag of USA as your icon, you definitely don't think for yourself
Framed in tears over earth warrior change
I honestly loved when I got the harpies bugs task because those are the first slayer monster I remember killing back in 2007 when I new nothing about the game. I also like being sent to different areas you dont normally go to. Its refreshing.
Please do more blog posts like this! I think this is a great way to express your channel and gain viewership other than outrageously difficult OSRS playthroughs (which I love to death) 😄
i love when you do vids like this bro keep up the good work
how would you have them change run energy? you mean you want lower level agility users to regen faster? or a higher cap on regen for high agility?
this is good to hear. i've wanted to get back into the game but i have nasty carpal tunnel in my left hand so once that gets fixed i'm going back to playing and this is good to see Qol changes
Definitely agree would be nice to be excited to unlock some of the early slayer creatures even if they just drop really basic early game supplies or whatever.
I would LOVE more videos like this, thanks settled
I definitely like you going over the blog posts, nice to hear an experienced players perspective.
Really cool to hear your thoughts! I would be so happy just listening to you rant about things for hours.
Really appreciate videos like this, cba to read these blog posts lol. Love you bro
can anyone tell me if the amethyst change will make it less afk? i swear sometimes ill go for 5+ minutes rn mining amethyst same vein
Very happy to get this kind of content from you, please share your thoughts more!
You give the weekly updates the best context I've seen so far! Keep it up weekly if you can spare 20 minutes or so at most to do it!
big change about the fremmy dungeon too is it goes lower level for first skip and higher level (but also still nerfed) for 2nd skip. i always found it so weird even being a mid level account. running to turohs and i couldnt skip to pyrefiends, but i could skip to the turohs.
Nice to hear your perspective on this update.
The Motherlode Mine changes look great! It's how I train mining, I find it comfortable and relaxing, and these changes are unilaterally ones I would love to have.
please go over every game update. i like our style of presenting the info! and your well versed game play styles helps think of the alternatives
Stoked for the energy changes personally. I've evocated to try and get it changed a few times.
They should make slayer specific monsters that require slayer level to damage give more slayer points for task completion. Or passive chance to get the shared slayer drop table including heart not just superiors. Like 1/32k chance from normal monsters that just have a slayer requirement to kill.
I'd really enjoy you doing these more too, any Settled content is good. But I'm a very casual player, haven't played in 6+ months but I still watch and learn about the game and I'd love to stay updated. Especially when the proposed updates are good like this.
I started playing in 2018 for the first time and it took me so long to find the gnome agility courses
Id love for RS to make PVP worlds more active. Such a cool concept. Like pickpocketing stalls in PVP worlds give better rewards. OR buffed XP rates when using pvp worlds. Or even PVP exclusive quests. SOMETHING to entice players to use the worlds.
For the slayer changes instead of improving the drops for the slayer monsters, They could provide bonus slayer xp for the slayer monster unlocks. Harpies, infernal mages etc
I like the blog post review idea for this channel. Maybe not for everything, but for the harder hitting stuff, it's great!