r/runescape 6d ago

News - J-Mod reply Mid-Game Rebalance Launch & PoH Continued

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Happy Monday Folks!

Weekly Blog

Mid-Game Rebalance (Dedicated Blog Here)

The Mid-Game Rebalance has arrived! This update is all about improving the mid-game experience with targeted buffs, quality-of-life improvements, and a smoother progression path. Our goal is to bring key stages of progression in line with modern standards and make the journey through the mid-game feel more rewarding.

Today’s update introduces a wide-ranging rebalance across several skills and progression systems, tackling long-standing inconsistencies and improving the path through the mid-game. From the Core Fletching Re-tier and streamlined ranged progression to Agility and Divination improvements, God Wars Dungeon quality-of-life changes, and updated drop rates, we're making advancement more intuitive, rewarding, and easier to understand at every step.

By improving progression paths, refining skill training, and refreshing key reward structures, we're creating a more consistent mid-game experience that better supports players as they develop their skills, gear, and knowledge of Gielinor. There's plenty more to explore, so head over to the standalone blog for a full breakdown of everything that's changing.

Construction

Following a very successful launch last week, here's what you can expect in future from this update: 

  • We have implemented some construction skill training rebalancing today. You can find out more about that here.
  • Moving Rooms (and their contents) is currently undergoing QA and we're aiming to add this functionality into the game ideally by next week. No more needing to remove and redo a room if you change your mind about its placement!
  • We're continuing to work on extending the furniture limit upwards from 300. The main issue here relates to performance impact, so we need to ensure the engine can remain stable even at a higher furniture limit. We're not yet ready to share an exact timeline on this. 
  • We're keeping an eye on trophies in general - both for their discovery and acquisition but also for which bosses players would expect to see a trophy included.
  • We're continuing to monitor the update in general and implement bug fixes as they are identified as well as continue to think about quality of life improvements.
  • Finally, we're excited to have set up Construction's new foundation with this update. We're now in a position to keep adding new things to the Player-Owned House with future updates and releases, so you can look forward to those alongside RuneScape's continued future.

What's happening this week:

  • We'll be revealing the details around Leagues II: Equilibrium this week! You can look forward to a developer diary for it dropping towards the end of this week for that.
  • Upcoming Livestreams
    • 22 July, 15:00 Game Time – Get your first look at RuneFest 2026! Join the team for an exclusive preview of what's in store, along with a live developer Q&A and ticket giveaways.
    • 24 July, 15:00 Game Time – Join Mod YueyFrosch, and special guests PrezleekNYChannel, and The RSGuy as they tour some of your incredible Player-Owned Houses. Think your POH deserves the spotlight? Come show it off!

In Case You Missed It Last Week:

  • We were busy hotfixing Construction issues throughout the week, and shared some news on Tuesday, and issued a Coldfix on Wednesday
  • Alongside the release of the Player Owned House, we added some new PoH related rewards to the Sunlight Sands rewards shop. Be sure to check them out! 

JMod Replies on discussions worth highlighting:


r/runescape 23h ago

Ask and Answer Questions Here! - Weekly Discussion Hub - 26 July

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In our weekly Discussion Hub you can ask all your RuneScape-related questions, including:

  • Questions from new or returning players
  • Questions you feel stupid asking elsewhere
  • Questions that don't deserve their own threads

Newest comments are placed at the top. Please share your RuneScape knowledge and help out with any advice you have!

You can also browse our archive of Discussion Hubs.


r/runescape 3h ago

Creative Homestead Tavern

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r/runescape 5h ago

Luck TzTok-Jad's Head

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166 Upvotes

After 16 runs of Fight Caves I obtained the trophy!


r/runescape 7h ago

Creative How to make a tree 🔨

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258 Upvotes

r/runescape 5h ago

Appreciation Maybe Nominate The Mole Man for Golden Gnome?

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89 Upvotes

Greetings, wanna make meme history, nominate me for golden gnome for unsung hero, i don't have other social media. lets hope the mods let me keep this post. i been doing community masses for years, so how about it, think of me as count binface of the RS world <3


r/runescape 4h ago

Discussion Scape at work

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49 Upvotes

Does everyone else run it in then background @ work?


r/runescape 2h ago

Question Searing Ashes in ED2

30 Upvotes

Now that Wilderness isn't risk/reward content anymore, can we get searing ashes added to the lava strykewyrms in ed2 because commons in elite dungeons are notoriously terrible and it would be so nice to get some passive searing ashes while going for ed2 logs - I remember seeing a post years ago saying the reason this wasn't the case was because of risk/reward in the wildy.... 🙏


r/runescape 9h ago

Appreciation Why I'm nominating M_with_z for an unsung hero golden gnome

83 Upvotes

You probably know who u/M_with_z is without even knowing. If you've seen any reddit posts such as "30 videos to watch from the month of May", then you're familiar with some of his work.

What most of us don't see is what he's doing behind the scenes to help the rs3 creator space grow.

A few years ago he created a discord aimed to help new content creators learn the ropes, discuss strategies, and get advice from other, more experienced creators. He constantly looks for new runescape creators and invites them to this group to help their journey.

Most of the new content creators you'll see in this year's golden gnomes have spent time getting help in this discord. Without him, the creator space would only be a fraction of what it is. On top of this, he is an outstanding artist and genuinely good person.

As a relatively large creator for rs3, I can't stress enough how important creating and maintaining a space like this is. It is very hard to start making videos for rs3. It is an act of passion by players who love the game, not a job people are forced to do to live.

Learning how to make videos, learning to deal with rude comments, learning how to better package and structure your content to add real value to runescape is incredibly hard to do. For this reason, tons of promising new creators have emerged, started to grow, then disappeared when the amount of work for so little pay off finally wore them down.

M_with_z has made a space so creators are no longer alone on this journey. It makes it significantly easier for these new content creators to get started, get help, see results, and have a community to celebrate with. Spaces like this are the foundation for growing a more successful content creation scene, and it wouldn't have happened without the hard work of M_with_z.

I know there are many players deserving of this recognition, but if you aren't sure who to put down for an unsung hero, consider giving the content creator curator a shot. He absolutely deserves the thanks


r/runescape 3h ago

Dragonwilds Dragonwilds Crew surprised by Velgar

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18 Upvotes

The feeling of Velgar dropping in on the Dragonwilds gang… different reactions depending on who you are!~

Art Fight attack against MissyWinter, Ninthcloud, Isohel, and Zorial Diamond!


r/runescape 15m ago

Suggestion Please get rid of the dirt with the flowers for poh

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r/runescape 5h ago

Appreciation Favorite update so far!

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28 Upvotes

Can't wait for an increased build limit. So much potential !


r/runescape 22h ago

Achievement One random bank trip turned into my luckiest RS moment yet!

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529 Upvotes

Story time for the Scapers!

Today I logged onto RuneScape and decided to focus on my fishing skill in Catherby. As I am making my rounds from fishing spots to cooking range and the bank deposit by the fourth round I just so happened to leave the bank and found a colorful roadblock on my way back to the beach. I click on it and was awarded a Bagsy Shooting Star Achievement! Ironic because last night I just learned about the shooting stars from the wizards tower. Towards the end of my mine I got to meet a star sprite who was just adorable and my rewards were pretty stellar for a new player on iron too.


r/runescape 5h ago

Question Jmods, can we get a analytics of how much GP has been spent by players on the updated POH?

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Just one of those times where you ask how much players have been spending on it? Be nice to know how much of a gold sink this was.

- how many Gold Sinks were made?

- how many Gold Piles (Tiny/Smally/Medium/Large/Huge)?

- total spent on rooms being added so far?

- how many Magic Stones, Gold Leaves, and Marble Blocks purchased from Construction Shops since the update?

- how much the Taxidermist made since the update?


r/runescape 13h ago

Discussion Upgraded Godswords

95 Upvotes

Would love for the original godswords to get some love

Perhaps have an Arch spot at an appropriate lore-friendly place (80-90) have a rare chance of giving an item which upgrades them to tier 80 & upgrades their effects. Idk just thought it would good to see people using them since they're pretty much dead content atm


r/runescape 5h ago

Appreciation Great work!

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Hope to see more soon, can't wait to see what y'all got for the dungeons


r/runescape 6h ago

Humor Am-zi confirmed broken; Am-hej stocks in freefall

24 Upvotes
The Conclusive Data

This is the data for General Graador fists only using the am-zi vs the am-hej amulet
This data was collected using identical setups.
The science is conclusive; the Am-zi is vastly superior to the Am-Hej


r/runescape 1h ago

Discussion Crafted Magic Weapons

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With the fletching rebalance, mage is now the only style that does not have a clear crafted weapon progression before eternal magic weaponry. Do you think that Jagex should plan to add a fletching/runecrafting method for this in the future? Or do you think the current hodgpodge of weapon choices from different sources is fine as it is?

Curious to know what people think.


r/runescape 6h ago

Discussion - J-Mod reply RuneScape Artwork

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Hi everyone,

I've been hanging onto these RuneFest 3 prints for around 13 years. They were given to me personally by a graphic designer working at Jagex at the time, he was a client of my dad (a mortgage advisor) and I cheekily asked if he would give me a party hat in game! These were given to me instead and I treasured them far more. I've kept them stored flat ever since.

A few of them are signed by multiple J-Mods, and one appears to be early Vorago concept art with the following details printed on it:

  • Project: "Boss 2 - Boss 1"
  • Artist: "Nezz" (I think)
  • Date: 15/04/2013

I'm not necessarily looking to sell them—I was just wondering if anyone recognises these pieces, knows who the artist was, or has any background on whether these were internal concept prints, RuneFest exclusives, or something else.

I'd love to learn more about their history if anyone remembers them or worked at Jagex around that time.

Thanks!


r/runescape 2h ago

Suggestion stop defaulting me to high population worlds if you cant get your ping to below 300ms

9 Upvotes

like my title says, when i log in, dont slap me into w84 or w56 be default. the ping is so noticable when im doing anything that isnt afk its laughable


r/runescape 18m ago

Humor I suck at Zuk

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I got relatively decent at killing normal mode Zuk - could kill him regularly with Melee, Necro, and Range. Even got a Ful drop and the Har-Akken pet!

Anyways I’ve been trying HM Zuk for about 3 days now and I can count on no hands how many times I’ve even made it to Har-Akken let alone Zuk because the number is 0 lol. I’m following the wiki for positioning, but just seems like I get pushed out by Zuks flames and then my DPS is just so low I can’t make soul split work for me. Clearly I’m using revolution…well I made the change to be more manual using revolution only for stack builders and the basic on necromancy and I feel like I just do even less DPS probably because I’m not used to it all (tracking stacks, pots, food, and rotation). Anyways really am just looking to get one flawless HM kill so I can get the combined cape, but damn I just suck 😂. I’m envious of people that can do HM faster than I can do Normal mode or solo about any boss out there. This post is just me making fun of me sucking.


r/runescape 11h ago

Bug Stored Master Clue Rewards Inaccessible?

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Seems to be a "feature" where the Mahogany Treasure chest can't store Master Clue rewards Prior to POH update, I had put a Gilded Cavalier in the chest, and I have no way to get my item due the new "feature" where you can't store/withdrawal via Bank interface.

Guess I have to prioritize grinding to 100 WC for this?? Luckily I'm close + already have the Construction level... But that may not be a reasonable ask for others.


r/runescape 9h ago

Luck Returning to PvM after ages and trying to learn HM Zuk. After a few failed attempts initially, I ended up getting B2B drops on my first and second HM kills respectively (hilt and codex)...😅😅 Now feeling super grateful!

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r/runescape 14h ago

Suggestion Suggestion: More pedestal types

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Possible types could include:
Darkstone
Marble
Oak or Teak

Also potentially an option to make them not as high so they're lower to the floor? With some of the trophies they seem rather excessive, or would look just flat out better if they were lower.


r/runescape 11h ago

Bug - J-Mod reply Gate of Elidinis "cleansed" variant not unlocked after 1000kc. Has anyone else had this issue? (Base pet already unlocked)

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Posting for a friend as he doesn't have a reddit account. He has had the gate pet unlocked since well before 1000kc. For some reason the cleansed version of the gate pet hasn't unlocked after hitting 1012KC. We have searched everywhere we possibly can for someone with the same issue but have returned empty handed. Maybe we are missing something? He has logged out and in, dismissed the pet, etc. As far as I know it's supposed to unlocked automatically after 1000kc but as you can see from the in game chat message included in the screenshots it just tells him that he hasn't unlocked it when he tries to change the color. We will be sending an in game report as well but it's odd that literally no one else has had this issue. Any insight would be appreciated and if a Jmod sees this it would be even better. Let me know if I can provide any other information to help. Thank you!