RuneScape Discussion

• Fresh Start Worlds Retrospective

• Premise

• Rediscover RuneScape together
• Lapsed and new players
• But something for existing players as well: competition & cosmetics
• Playing with a Fresh Economy
• Buffs!
• Community reaction: framing and leaks

• Competitive Period

• Mainly combat skills (Dragon)
• Shane’s Farming

• XP Boosts (up and down)

• <70: 50, 50, 75, 100, 100, 125, 125, 150, 140, 120, 100, 80, 60, 40, 20
• >= 70: 50, 50, 50, 75, 75, 75, 100, 150, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10
• 
• Transparency regarding XP pacing
• Does it make sense how the XP curve went up and down?
• XP multipliers (original)
• Does the main game need an increase in XP?

• Achievement Period

• Push for 99s and 120s
• Treasure Hunter Influence

• Was Fresh Start Worlds successful?

• 58,000+ people ranked overall
• 30,000+ ranked in most skills

• What would we do differently?

• Mobile Social Lobby
• Patch Notes - 16-01-23

• Death Costs

• A Phoenix necklace will no longer reset the cooldown and effect of the Ring of Death.
• The Ring of Death's 'Return to Life' passive no longer prevents player from looting boss corpses and chests after the fight.

• Master Quest Cape

• The teleports from the Master Quest Cape can now be accessed from the regular Quest Point Cape as well.
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• General

• Nex: Angel of Death Chest drop rate has been improved from 5,000 down to 1024, per chest. Chests will now drop in order, with any 'gaps' unlocked before being randomised there after.
• Bow of the Last Guardian's auto attack damage is now correctly calculated. Dev Comment : All weapons of the same level should have equal damage values, meaning that DPM is the same regardless of style. The Bow of the Last Guardian was set up incorrectly so the bow itself was doing all of the damage of a level 95 weapon, and then the damage from the arrows was being added on top for even more! This bug was limited to auto-attacks, so for those of you who have been using abilities you should notice minimal difference overall. - Mod Daze
• All graphics settings now have a tooltip explaining what the options do.
• Combined Catalyst fragments can now be used to cure diseased herbs in Herblore Habitat.
• Compost can now be applied to any growing patch.
• Aurora variants of Power armours can now be upgraded.
• Players can enter the Cooking Guild with any of the following capes: Trimmed Inverted Cooking Cape, Inverted Cooking Cape, Inverted Master Cooking Cape, Cooking Cape.
• Portable skilling locations can no longer be placed on top of Crux Eqal Knights.
• Players won't receive 'Nothing' as a slayer task anymore.
• You can now feed Aurora dyed items to the baby troll.
• Flame Gloves can now be stored in your Keepsake inventory, with a copy being placed into your regular inventory. Upon removing the item from keepsake, the copy gets destroyed.
• All 'of speak' Amulets can now be stored in your Keepsake inventory. Again, a copy will be created that gets destroyed when the original item is taken out of your Keepsake storage.
• Added in boss tactics for Zamorak, Lord of Chaos.

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Other Things

• Achievements of the Week

• Fire_afrit - 120 Strength, January 17, 2023
• Hiacliff - 200m Crafting XP, January 17, 2023
• Nythirios - 99 Runecrafting, January 17, 2023
• Ailithic - 99 Woodcutting, January 16, 2023
• Mahin - 99 Prayer, January 16, 2023
• Llol_mosnter - 99 Magic, January 15, 2023
• Mahin - 99 Invention, January 15, 2023
• Samuraijack - 120 Mining, January 15, 2023
• Legend_dyes - 120 Cooking, January 14, 2023
• Legend_dyes - 120 Crafting, January 14, 2023
• Legend_dyes - 120 Hunter, January 14, 2023
• Fight_caves - 120 Constitution, January 13, 2023
• Iomeces - 120 Farming, January 13, 2023
• Xploited_1 - 120 Farming, January 13, 2023
• Battleslashx - 99 Defence, January 12, 2023
• Borizi - 99 Invention, January 12, 2023
• Fire_afrit - 120 Woodcutting, January 12, 2023
• Fire_afrit - 120 Agility, January 12, 2023
• Worst_tasker - 99 Summoning, January 12, 2023

• Tanis’ Pick of the Week: House of the Dragon
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Show Data

• Episode Title: Pure Newbstalgia
• Teaser: Fresh Start Worlds has ended and we take a step back and look at how it went down. We cover the competitive period, XP, and the big question of whether or not it was successful. The Master Quest cape also gets new achievements including Pure Newbstalgia.
• Recorded Date: January 19, 2023
• Release Date: January 20, 2023
• Executive Producers: Shane, Cireon, and Tanis
• Hosts: Shane, Tanis, and Dragon
• Duration: 1:52:26
• Editing Notes: Achievements pause