RuneScape Discussion

Previously, each rage stack would offer 1% ability damage, The average damage would be 55% ability damage per hit at max stacks (30% base + 25% from stacks).
Now each rage stack increases the damage by 3%. This is now 43.75% at max stacks (25% base + 75% damage increase from stacks)

Adrenaline Cost Removed
Base Duration reduced to 42s (-3 seconds)
Movespeed increased from walking to running
The zombie's passive poison damage has had its damage range reduced from 27-33% to 8-12%.
Passive proc interval rate increased from 1.8s to 3s. Being reverted to 1.8s next update.

We have reduced the damage and tick rate of poison as currently it was offering too much passive damage for minimal investment and we want poison builds to have their moments but still require equipment investments to see their full effects.

Bug fix: Passive damage will no longer attempt to apply poison while wearing Cinderbane Gloves.

Healing now happens on-hit, as opposed to on-attack, which means that the healing value will scale up based on damage modifiers (e.g. if the target is inflicted with debuffs such as "Haunted" or "Vulnerability")

Adrenaline Cost Removed
Command now has a fixed duration of 30s and will require recasting to upkeep. Being reverted next update.
Changed the effect from 100% of base damage up to a cap of 35% ability damage -> 10% of base damage up to a cap of 20% ability damage as bonus damage.
The intention with this change is to still enable the benefit of amplifying hard-hitting abilities while reducing how much extra damage was being generated from lots of instances of low-damage hits.

Increase duration from 20.4s to 21s
Changed from maximum life points to base life points. E.g if you have 15000 Life Points with 99 Constitution, you will only lose 4950 (which is 9900/2) instead of losing 7500 which is what you would lose in the current version.

Increased duration to 12 seconds (was 6 seconds)
It's still one application per cast, but there was an overreliance at the start of fights on being tick-perfect with invoke death which made it feel clunky to interact with.

Necromancy shields will no longer cause conjured spirits to despawn.
Necromancy Shields are now classified as having an 'Underworld connection' which allows them to maintain conjured spirits but they cannot be used to conjure them
Resolved some issues related to Death Mark
Fixed an issue that caused it to trigger multiple times
Fixed an issue where the damage from the mark was delayed
Fixed an issue that allowed Death Mark's insta-kill damage to reflect at the player.

For someone who uses pre-made revo bars, does the wider margin of error provided by Necromancy provide enough distinction between combat styles?

Necromancy became the best in terms of damage output for least input
Gear for other combat styles dropped in price
Combat beta incoming for other styles. Remains to be seen where Necromancy lands

Did Necromancy accomplish its goal of making combat easier to learn while providing a fulfilling experience for those who are more advanced?
Is Necromancy similar to a 2023 version of EoC?
What effect has this on the RuneScape player base numbers?

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Show Data

Episode Title: Undead Reckoning
Teaser: Necromancy sees its first major balance pass and we look back at where the skill has been and where it may be going. We recap rituals as a skilling method, Necromancy’s combat, and the effect the skill has had on PvM. Was it all worth it?
Recorded Date: October 25, 2023
Release Date: October 27, 2023
Executive Producers: Shane, Cireon, and Tanis
Producers: Thaxy
Hosts: Shane, Tanis, Cireon, and Thaxy
Duration: 2:06:07
Editing Notes: Mute beagles