Opinion: Combat Achievement rewards rework
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| Type | Opinion |
| Videos | 1 (first 2025-09-11, latest 2025-09-11) |
| Main source | How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better |
Opinion: Combat Achievement rewards rework is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-09-11. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.
Gnomonkey's opinion
- Gnomonkey says many CA rewards do not fit bossing, such as pest control points, superior slayer monster chance, bracelet of slaughter recharge chance and clue scroll chance, and that he wants them moved rather than removed.1
- Gnomonkey argues that rewards like increased clue scroll chance should not come from CAs because people who like clues but not bossing would feel forced to do CAs, and he would tie the clue chance to the newly added scroll box progression reward.2
- Gnomonkey suggests moving the extra pest control points CA reward to the Falador or Western diary, noting the Western diary gives Elite void and its easy reward is a small chance of two choppies.3
- Gnomonkey suggests the cannonball capacity reward could come from Giants' Foundry, since that is where the cannonball mould comes from.4
- Gnomonkey says the Combat Achievement reward he calls warrior skill tokens (as transcribed) is something about 99% of players get no use from by the time they unlock it, and suggests removing it or adding it to the Falador diary.4
- Gnomonkey would move the cheaper imbues CA reward to a Kandarin diary, saying players will usually have all imbues by the time they unlock it and that nobody gets imbues through Soul Wars.5
- Gnomonkey would turn the bracelet of slaughter renewal chance into a Slayer unlock or a passive scaling with Slayer level, such as improving at 75 Slayer.5
- Gnomonkey would make the increased superior spawn chance a Slayer unlock tied to superior kill thresholds, such as a message at 50 kills that the chance has gone up by 5%.6
- Gnomonkey says thrall duration should not be a Combat Achievement reward because it gives a gameplay benefit needed for meta-level speedruns, as thralls cost prayer points, which adds up in places like the Inferno.7
- Gnomonkey says he would make the longer thrall duration come from the same quest that removes the need for a Book of the Dead, so everyone gets it after a quest.8
- Gnomonkey says unlimited Inferno tasks should not need Grandmaster-level CAs because many Inferno speedrunners do not want to do all 625 achievements.9
- Gnomonkey says CA rewards should only involve bosses or be things that do not affect gameplay, such as cosmetics, animation or spell transmogs, kits on items and non-impactful teleports.10
- Gnomonkey suggests an easy-tier CA reward of a changed teleport animation or a teleport to the Deranged Archaeologist, which would help early players get the steel ring for Moons.11
- Gnomonkey says the Barrows prayer drain reward, currently a medium-tier CA reward, should move down to easy because most players will not get it in time for the Barrows grind.12
- Gnomonkey proposes kit rewards by tier: medium tier kits for the Saradomin cudgel, Dharok's zombie axe and Twinflame staff, and Regular anti-dragon shield, the latter two because dragon tasks and elemental weaknesses are used together.13
- Gnomonkey proposes hard-tier kits for the Trident of the swamp, Venator bow and Guardian boots, and elite-tier rewards such as a twisted Kodai wand kit and a trimmed Corrupted Gauntlet cape.14
- Gnomonkey proposes master-tier rewards such as a Nally-like kit that looks like the Sunlight spear, a different thrall animation and a different spell animation.15
- Gnomonkey proposes a Dinh's bulwark kit where the shield is split into two halves held on the forearms that clink together when blocking, and a Zaryte crossbow kit (which he says is used constantly), as Grandmaster-tier rewards; he says he does not care where the Dinh's kit comes from.16
- Gnomonkey says the only gameplay changes in his reward list were moving the Barrows prayer drain and adding a teleport to the Archaeologist, and that rewards affecting people outside combat make them feel they are missing out.17
Revision history
| Date | Video | Change |
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| 2025-09-11 | How to Make Combat Achievements in OSRS Better | Page created: 19 statements (opinion) |
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