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Update: Sailing Salvaging revert

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Update: Sailing Salvaging revert

Update: Sailing Salvaging revert
Type Update
Videos 1 (first 2025-12-04, latest 2025-12-04)
Main source Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS)

Update: Sailing Salvaging revert is an update topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-12-04. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey agrees Jagex hit too many levers at once, describing it as about five nerfs all levied at Salvaging that bombarded it, and says the extractor nerf alone would have been enough to see what happened.1
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex almost fully reverted the update, which he respects since Jagex do not usually do full reverts, and thinks the choice to nearly fully revert was right.2
  • Gnomonkey praises Jagex for responding to feedback quickly, saying other companies would not revert an update the next day, and asks that Jagex warn players before big balance changes.3
  • Gnomonkey says that had Jagex mentioned a week earlier that Salvaging nerfs were coming, the response would not have been so explosive, since the nerf felt like a left hook out of a dark alley.4

Events

  • On 4 December 2025 Jagex posted a follow-up Sailing blog saying they missed the mark, acknowledging that the sorting XP nerf was too severe, Salvaging felt worse, players maxing effort at Gwenith Glide got no compensatory XP, and the Crystal extractor still felt mandatory.5
  • Jagex's blog used an image of Gnomonkey, which he jokingly takes as them implying he saved Sailing.5
  • Jagex increased the number of active shipwrecks by one at each hotspot, which fixes the unintended side effect of the previous day's change that reduced AFK uptime.6
  • Jagex fully restored the sorting XP, including merchant salvage going back from 34 XP to 95 XP.7
  • Jagex kept the increased salvaging success chance from the week 2 update and restored the player salvaging rate from 5 ticks back to 4 ticks, meaning salvaging 20% faster than before when on the hook yourself.8
  • Jagex said they felt one of the biggest problems with the week 2 changes was pulling too many levers at once, producing combined effects larger than the sum of their parts, and said the Crystal extractor is absent from the changes so they can see where the dust settles.9
  • The Salvaging nerf caused an uproar beyond Reddit, with riots in World 2, Discord servers and stream chats.10

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-12-04 Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS) Page created: 11 statements (event, opinion)
## References

  1. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 3:59 ↩

  2. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 8:08 ↩

  3. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 9:16 ↩

  4. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 9:47 ↩

  5. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 0:00 ↩↩

  6. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 0:31 ↩

  7. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 1:05 ↩

  8. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 1:36 ↩

  9. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 4:32 ↩

  10. Sailing NERFS REVERTED! (OSRS), 2025-12-04. ▶ 8:42 ↩

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