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Update: Project Rebalance

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Update: Project Rebalance

Update: Project Rebalance
Type Update
Videos 3 (first 2024-04-17, latest 2024-06-13)
Main source JAGEX RUINING EARLY GAME PVM (OSRS)

Update: Project Rebalance is an update topic that Gnomonkey covers in 3 videos between 2024-04-17 and 2024-06-13. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey's description says he is all for constant updates and rebalances to older content, with a few great changes in here such as the loot tables, Soul Reaper axe, solo ToB and Monkey Room changes, but that the Voidwaker nerf is dumb.1
  • Gnomonkey thinks the majority of the Project Rebalance item changes either do not succeed at what they are trying to do or are bizarre and out of left field, and hopes Jagex refines them.2
  • Gnomonkey says giving Jagex the out that a change will be good with future content does not make sense; if a change does not make sense now it should be made when that future content comes out.3
  • Gnomonkey is glad Project Rebalance is in a beta and not thrown into the game hastily, and says that since it is a completely unpolled change Jagex needs to listen to the community and rebalance for the content we have now, not just future content.4
  • In the video description Gnomonkey says Jagex ignored the real issues with its original blog and cherry-picked a few things to fix rather than looking at the overall problems with the original proposal.5
  • Gnomonkey says the mage changes are in shambles with no real direction, calling them numbers slapped in random places that will hurt late-game players and learning or returning PvM players.5
  • Gnomonkey praises the revised minimum hit change, which clamps any zero damage roll up to a one and leaves max hits unchanged, saying it is exactly what he had suggested and buffs early game without hurting late game.6
  • Gnomonkey says getting rid of the earlier formula that reduced max hit and put zeros at zero was a good move, and that zeros becoming ones is a perfect change.6
  • Gnomonkey hopes Jagex does another revision that locks down what players want and takes real feedback instead of advice from Reddit posts.7
  • Gnomonkey says the initial proposal was probably fine and only needed a small mage buff; he thinks Augury's damage is great and does not see the point of splitting damage across Eternal boots and extra pieces.7
  • Gnomonkey says that since the rebalance Echo boots are the best boots option for a first Inferno cape, ahead of Pegasian and Eternal boots.8
  • Gnomonkey says he used to recommend Staff of the dead hard because you should not be autocasting, but after the change he autocasts ice barrage in Inferno for the first time.9
  • Gnomonkey summarises that the big changes to Inferno from Project Rebalance are no autocast delay and a lower mage max hit.10

Events

  • Jagex recently put up a blog for Project Rebalance with a bunch of major changes to combat and items, which Gnomonkey goes through in this video.1
  • Jagex published a second Project Rebalance blog that redistributed mage damage onto off-hands, Elder Chaos druid robes, Blue Moon and Blood Moon-style pieces and Eternal boots, while reducing damage on Ancestral pieces.5
  • After Project Rebalance the Occult necklace lost a lot of damage which was spread over armours, so Gnomonkey's Inferno mage setup does less damage than before the change, roughly one less max hit.11
  • After Project Rebalance, Augury now gives a max hit no matter what setup you use, so Gnomonkey says you need to pray Augury at the start of Inferno waves, which he never did before.12
  • After Project Rebalance autocast no longer has a delay, which makes Staff of the dead a little less good because other staves are now easier to use while autocasting.13

Revision history

Date Video Change
2024-06-13 Inferno Teaching Stream - Mage Rebalance (OSRS) Added: 6 statements (event, opinion)
2024-04-18 JAGEX RUINING EARLY GAME PVM (OSRS) Added: 7 statements (event, opinion)
2024-04-17 REBALANCE DISASTER (OSRS) Page created: 5 statements (event, opinion)
## See also

References

  1. REBALANCE DISASTER (OSRS), 2024-04-17. ▶ 0:00 ↩↩

  2. REBALANCE DISASTER (OSRS), 2024-04-17. ▶ 10:03 ↩

  3. REBALANCE DISASTER (OSRS), 2024-04-17. ▶ 10:34 ↩

  4. REBALANCE DISASTER (OSRS), 2024-04-17. ▶ 20:20 ↩

  5. JAGEX RUINING EARLY GAME PVM (OSRS), 2024-04-18. ▶ 0:00 ↩↩↩

  6. JAGEX RUINING EARLY GAME PVM (OSRS), 2024-04-18. ▶ 4:58 ↩↩

  7. JAGEX RUINING EARLY GAME PVM (OSRS), 2024-04-18. ▶ 13:49 ↩↩

  8. Inferno Teaching Stream - Mage Rebalance (OSRS), 2024-06-13. ▶ 4:09 ↩

  9. Inferno Teaching Stream - Mage Rebalance (OSRS), 2024-06-13. ▶ 5:07 ↩

  10. Inferno Teaching Stream - Mage Rebalance (OSRS), 2024-06-13. ▶ 1:04:15 ↩

  11. Inferno Teaching Stream - Mage Rebalance (OSRS), 2024-06-13. ▶ 0:27 ↩

  12. Inferno Teaching Stream - Mage Rebalance (OSRS), 2024-06-13. ▶ 2:03 ↩

  13. Inferno Teaching Stream - Mage Rebalance (OSRS), 2024-06-13. ▶ 4:38 ↩

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