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Opinion: Toa loot nerf

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Opinion: Toa loot nerf

Opinion: Toa loot nerf
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2025-06-22, latest 2025-06-22)
Main source ToA Changes - Good or Bad? (OSRS)

Opinion: Toa loot nerf is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-06-22. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Stats and numbers

  • Jagex's numbers that 12% of Toa completions are at raid level 400 to 449 but account for a quarter of all uniques, while raid level 500s are only about 7% of completions.1
  • Under the new purple scaling, drop rates at raid level 300 and below are exactly the same as before; above 300 the rate is reduced, but the scaling is more gradual than the previous exponential curve.2
  • Jagex's table shows raids per shadow at raid level 500 changing from 186 to 216, and at 400-449 from 283 to 351; Fang and Lightbearer rates (e.g. 138, 108, 82) stay the same at the lower raid levels.3

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says ironmen and mid-level players after the Fang and Lightbearer are unaffected by the nerf and benefit from faster raids, since most players without a Fang run raid levels of 300 or lower.4
  • Gnomonkey argues the loot nerf alongside the difficulty reduction makes sense since raids will get faster and use fewer supplies, and says Fang at around 9 mil and Lightbearer at around 1.5 mil are ridiculously cheap.5
  • In the description Gnomonkey says Masori is best-in-slot ranged gear yet worth pennies while Torva sets are still 700m+, and that one of the best melee weapons should never have dropped below 200-300m.5

Events

  • Jagex's stated goals for the Toa loot changes are to decrease the volume of Fangs and Lightbearers entering the game because they are considerably undervalued, and to decrease the overall volume of Toa uniques because the raid is too generous at the top end, warping the unique economy.1
  • At higher raid levels, players' chances at purples other than Fang and Lightbearer increase proportionally the higher the raid level is above 300, so pushing raid level gives the best odds at a Tumeken's shadow.6

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-06-22 ToA Changes - Good or Bad? (OSRS) Page created: 8 statements (event, opinion, stat)
## References

  1. ToA Changes - Good or Bad? (OSRS), 2025-06-22. ▶ 11:46 ↩↩

  2. ToA Changes - Good or Bad? (OSRS), 2025-06-22. ▶ 12:54 ↩

  3. ToA Changes - Good or Bad? (OSRS), 2025-06-22. ▶ 14:55 ↩

  4. ToA Changes - Good or Bad? (OSRS), 2025-06-22. ▶ 13:46 ↩

  5. ToA Changes - Good or Bad? (OSRS), 2025-06-22. ▶ 18:20 ↩↩

  6. ToA Changes - Good or Bad? (OSRS), 2025-06-22. ▶ 13:27 ↩

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