2024 December

Poll 83 brings discussion on Castle Wars, the new player experience, and other fixes. We also look at the first stats of Raging Echoes. What’s this year’s meta and did theorycrafting ruin Leagues for everyone?

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Hosts: Shane, Cireon, and Francine
Duration: 1:17:05

• Poll 83: Castle Wars, New Player Changes & More
• The Choice Imbalance and First Stats
• Is there a Raging Echoes meta?
• Can players make a wrong choice?
• Is such an imbalance good?
• Tips & Tricks

The Christmas Village returns for another year with a new quest, new cosmetics, and the Pink Santa Hat. We also preview 110 Woodcutting, Fletching, and as a surprise, Firemaking! Last, we check in with Bears and his group ironman.

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Hosts: Shane, Bears, Pyrnassius, and Thaxy
Duration: 2:06:23

• ’Tis the Season , Christmas Village Returns
• Christmas Village & the Black Partyhat Returns
• Makeship Gods of Gielinor Plushies
• Jagex’s Runescape Survival Game
• 110 Woodcutting & Fletching (& Firemaking) – New Skilling Update
• Clue scroll slider puzzle step reduction on Monday
• Player Support Survey – Help Shape The Future
• What have we been doing in RuneScape?
• Achievements of the Week
• Help Wanted: RSBANDBUpdate!
• Bears’ Pick of the Week: Friends & Family Tour 2025 (Connor Price)

Leagues V: Raging Echoes gets off to a roaring start setting player records. We discuss our week 1 experiences, the plan so far, relics we’ve worked for and agonized over, regions, and how we’re playing differently this time.

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Hosts: Shane and Cireon
Duration: 49:32

• Leagues Week 1 Starting Experiences
• Our plans
• Relic choices so far
• Regions
• Leagues Efficiency