Og Blog: Tradition and Challenge

I actually like everything about this. Assuming they rework slayer like Micah said- don't discourage us from killing low levels then force us to

I'd imagine most would be in the range anyway, it'd sad to say goodbye just to dagganoths..

I assume you're meaning slayer wise, and in that case I'd tell you to go to Dag kings. I assume that's what they are trying to force higher levels into doing. Doing content that is actually MADE for high levels, instead of going and wrecking lower level training spots for those players that should actually be training on them.

Makes sense to me, but I also see why people would get mad over it.

I think the slayer assignment lists are going to have to be reworked big time, and certain monsters are going to need to have their combat levels adjusted. As it is now, most of the assignments you can get from Kuradal have <170 combat and therefore won't give any combat xp to someone with 200. And with summoning and prayer out of the equation, that's going to be a lot of people not getting combat xp.

What worries me a little more about this change is that it may make it difficult for people who don't train their combat skills evenly. As an extreme example, you can get to 200 combat without ever training ranged. Once that happens, you're going to have a hard time finding something to train on, since your target has to be 170+ combat.

Well, I've gotta say, I'm not upset by any of this. I do think removing the impact of Prayer, Summoning, and Constitution on your combat is a bit silly, if in the end it makes PvM combat easier to balance with these whole range deals, then I don't see it as a problem.

Every one of these blogs is making me more and more excited for this to go live.

I'm every bit as excited now as I ever was about this, and then some, but Jagex is making a mistake on this one.

I think the better way to go would be to balance pvp against itself first, and then work on pvm in the context of what has now been put together. It may be that that's what they did, but if you read about the Crucible on the rsof you'll find that a steel titan doesn't count for anything in those calculations either, and that people don't particularly like it that way.

Jagex said they were going to do something about pures in their combat formula, so that people couldn't build their characters in a way that their combat level is deceptive, but there is going to be a larger imbalance when someone's combat level doesn't reflect their access to turmoil/ss, steel titans, etc. Those things are so game-changing that it doesn't make any sense to exclude them from the formula.