Poll 75 Game Improvements Blog (2024)

Poll Question #1:

Should we add the ability for players to store one Slayer task on their account for later? The ability to store a Slayer task will cost players 1,000 Slayer points. It will cost 50 Points per Slayer task stored. This will not work for Wilderness-related tasks.

Poll Question #2:

Should we redesign the current Slayer Helmets to the proposed Slayer Helmet Designs as shown above?

Poll Question #3:

Should a unique animation be added for both Hydra’s Ranged and Magic attack styles, adding an alternate way of identifying which style is going to be used next?

Poll Question #4:

Should each Respirator dealt with during an encounter with the Abyssal Sire grant 50 Slayer XP? This would be capped at a maximum of four Respirators per encounter (200 Slayer XP).

Poll Question #5:

Should more Bloodveld spawn in the God Wars Dungeon for Konar’s Tasks?

Poll Question #6:

Should we add a Dust Devil area under the Kharidian desert, with a Slayer assignment required to fight the Dust Devils?

Poll Question #7:

Should we add a Skeletal Wyverns shortcut as shown in the blog post? The shortcut will take players from just before the entrance to the Ice Warriors and Giants into the west side of the Skeletal Wyvern Cavern. This would require 72 Agility.

Poll Question #8:

Should fishing explosives awaken the boss Kraken and all its tentacles simultaneously when thrown into the water?

Poll Question #9:

Should we add a quick right-click option to board the Zulrah boat?

Poll Question #10:

Should the amount of potential Zulrah assigned to tasks be increased from 15 to 35?

Poll Question #11:

Should we remove the damage from the Orbs (energy spheres) in Grotesque Guardians when correctly absorbed?

Poll Question #12:

Should a visual cue be added to the Grotesque Guardians to show where the stuns will land?

Poll Question #13:

Should Corporeal Beast no longer reset to full health if there are no players in the cave? Corporeal Beast would instead quickly regenerate health. Corporeal Beast would still fully reset if it has not been interacted with for three minutes.

Poll Question #14:

Should players be allowed to create a crystal inside the Gauntlet from items inside the Gauntlet that allows them to single-click teleport back to the lobby?

Poll Question #15:

Should a new type of fish be added to the Gauntlet and its Corrupted version which acts as a combo food? Players would combine 10 Crystal Shards with a Paddlefish in the entrance room which would create a new type of 'combo food' fish.

Chambers of Xeric

The private chests within the Chambers of Xeric don't always register your clicks. Sorry about that! We’ll be fixing this in Poll 75 as an unpolled change to ensure it’s working as intended.

Players earn points per damage in Chambers of Xeric, which is scaled based on their Combat level. Currently, your points scale to the highest Combat level in the group, maxing out at 115 Combat (which is a default of 5 points per damage). However, if a player is 114 Combat or less, they will earn fewer points, because any points with decimals are rounded down rather than up.

This scaling system can therefore unfairly disadvantage players who are not 115 Combat or above, as they'll achieve fewer points per damage than the raid difficulty presents. As a solution, we’d like to offer players a newer scaling system which would see points rounded more accurately. They will never be perfectly accurate, but we can implement a solution that scales better than at present. To illustrate this change, here's an example:

Let's say a player receives five points at Combat Level 115. A Level 114 Combat player would receive a small percentage less, let's say 4.9 points. The current system always rounds down this number, so their 4.9 points become four, which is a much larger nerf than intended. When rewriting the system, we can round points in a more linear way which more accurately rewards lower Combat level groups. What do you say?

For those of you who are feeling tough, we’d also like to offer you the chance to uncap the difficulty of the raid! This will increase the challenge you face, but also the points you can earn. This is an option similar to asking Slayer masters to not take into account your Combat level.

Next, we’d like to propose a default chest in the Chambers of Xeric so that you can store stuff the moment the raid starts, rather than hoping for good RNG on the Scavenger to give you planks. This would contain fewer spaces than the level 1-built Storage Chest, and would be upgradeable in the same way via planks as normal.

Iron friends attempting to solo the Chambers of Xeric currently have a pretty rough time, as they can’t access the Shared Storage Menu. At the time that Chambers of Xeric was released, we felt it was potentially destabilising to attempt giving the Shared Storage feature to solo Iron players. However, upon review of the code we are now confident we can achieve this without compromising Iron accounts. We’ll be adding this as an unpolled change so that single Iron players may use the Shared Storage Menu on solo raids.

Of course, Chambers of Xeric is a great activity to embark on with your friends. It scales in difficulty depending on how many players get involved. But we’ve also noticed that the limit of rare drops obtainable in a single raid is set to three regardless of how many people have participated. We think discourages those who like to play in a larger group, so we can increase the cap to six rare items instead of just three, if you’d like.

We’d also like to propose tweaks to the Herb Patches in the Chambers of Xeric, because we’ve noticed they don’t scale that well in larger groups. We could introduce a new linear scaling system which would extend herb life based on raid size. This means that herbs will not die as quickly, and you won't waste so much time planting herbs when you’re playing with more people.

Nothing is worse than forgetting to bring your trusty anti-poison to a raid and having to start over! We’d like to offer players a way to create a poison cure within the raid. We think this could be a nice way to test your Herblore skills in a very high-intensity survival situation!

The anti-poison potions would be made using herbs found inside Chambers of Xeric. More specifically, players would use one Noxifier, one Water-filled Gourd Vial and one Cicely. Based on your Herblore level (60 for the lowest level, 75 for medium and 90 for high-level potions), players would be able to make one of three potions of increasing strength during the raid.

The potions would award a few points to make and drink, similar to other potions in the game. You'd also score Herblore XP for making them. The weakest potion would be an antipoison awarding 13.5 Herblore XP, the standard potion would be a super antipoison awarding 20 Herblore XP and the potion+ would be an antidote+ awarding 26.5 Herblore XP.

Players have also said that they'd like a pickaxe spawn in the Guardians room; in case they forget to bring theirs. We can spawn an Iron pickaxe near the entrance, if that would help.

Olm’s special attack flame wall is made up of deadly fire. We figured it would be nice if Ice spells allowed players to free themselves from it! This would mean you can use your Ice spells for more than just freezing each other to death, and it should feel more immersive.

In the Vasa Room's Challenge Mode, a healing mechanic is tied to how long the crystals are alive. This can be frustrating for players as it has the potential to create a bit of a brick wall, and becomes more difficult as time goes on. We can remove the additional 50% stat modifier in Challenge Modes to make this less frustrating, meaning that crystals will not get 50% additional stats in health and defence. To clarify, this change will not affect the stats of Vasa, only the Crystals.

We've also heard some feedback regarding the Large Muttadile in Challenge Mode. Generally, its attacks can feel somewhat unpredictable, which is unfortunate, as it can hit you very hard! To help with this issue, we would like to reduce the variance of its attacks while it is submerged. This will mean that players are less likely to be one-hit without the ability to counter-play. We would not scale down the Large Muttadile's offensive stats, but rather reduce the variance of its attacks. So, whereas before its attack range might be, let's say, 0-100, we would tweak the range to be 20-80 while submerged. This will help it to feel more consistent and predictable.

We can also allow pending damage on the Vanguards at the moment they transition to instead carry through even if they are transitioning, so you can kill them faster. If this change is implemented, the damage will occur once the transition finishes (similar to pending damage on Zulrah). Be careful though, as this pending damage can still trigger a reset once the transition is over!

Last in this category but certainly not least: we’d like to offer players the chance to save their special attack in raids. For this, we can propose implementing the system we use in 6 Jads within the Theatre of Blood and Chambers of Xeric. We don't want players to feel forced to regenerate their special attack upon leaving a raid - however, we also don't want players to be able to utilise raids as a quick way to regenerate special attack without participating in gameplay.

Instead, we propose that players be able to save their special attack when entering and exiting the current raids. When entering these areas, players would be given full special attack energy. Upon leaving the area your special attack would reset.

The Chest within the Theatre of Blood is difficult to spot so we’ll be enhancing it a little, and adding a purple hue to signify if it contains a unique item. This will be an unpolled change to look after those with visual impairments who are currently struggling to see it.

We’ve heard that players currently feel punished by the RNG of the Blood Spawns in the Maiden fight, because they are too random and do not reward playing correctly. We would like to tone down the variance in where the spawns for Maidens can occur. We’d also suggest that if a player successfully dodges the blood, it will spawn a maximum of one Blood Spawn, rather than the current mechanics which are based on RNG.

Players also told us that the Inferno Bats are frustrating, due to them randomly draining stats, even when prayed against correctly. To reward good gameplay, we can adjust them so they no longer drain stats if the player is correctly praying when fighting them. Remember, though, you're only going to be halfway there if you're livin' on a Prayer - technically they will still be able to drain run energy, so better kill them fast!

Being the MvP is great, but being a team player is even more important... right? You've told us that the current mechanics in the Theatre of Blood rely too much on damaging the boss as much as possible, ignoring important aspects of team play. For this reason, we’d like to suggest allowing regular Nylocas damage to count towards MvP participation in the Maiden and Verzik rooms, but this would not be the case for the Nylocas room itself.

It can be incredibly frustrating to watch as a helpless bystander while your friend experiences connection problems during a raid - even more so if they happen to be a Hardcore Ironman! We’d like to do our best to make raids more accessible, while still maintaining a level of risk.

If a player has a teleport in Theatre of Blood but loses connection during a wave, they may want their party to be able to use another teleport to trigger their own teleport item. We can allow this to happen through an opt-in method that performs a save in these circ*mstances (provided that Verzik has not yet been killed).

We think this option will mostly be utilised by Hardcore Iron players. But, this method would be open to use by anyone who opts in. So how about it?

Here are some additional tweaks we can make in the Theatre of Blood to smooth out the gameplay and improve your experiences with friends and clanmates:

A short while back, we made some changes to the Skull Sceptre (i). At the time, we noticed feedback from players asking us to take this to the next level. Well, strap in, 'coz we’re taking it there now! We can offer a buff by allowing it to auto-cast Crumble Undead in both free-to-play and P2P.

We’d like to offer players the option to disable the initial message box that warns you about entering a Barrows tunnel. As seasoned professionals, we’re sure you’re tired of seeing it pop up when you already know the score!

Currently, here's how it goes:

Message box -> You've found a hidden tunnel (press space to continue)Player choice -> Enter yes/no.

And we'd like to propose changing it to:Titled player choice -> You've found a hidden tunnel. Would you like to enter, yes/no.

Poll Question #37:

Should we allow players to disable the initial message box warning when entering a Barrows tunnel?

Sraracha owners, how do you fancy having your very own orange or blue version of the Sarachnis pet? Since the models already exist in the game, we think that adding these bad boys as obtainable transmogs could give players a new reason to go back to retackle the classic Forthos Dungeon.

We propose the obtain would be via a tertiary roll of the Grubby Chest, with a 1/25 chance to roll either an Orange Egg Sac or a Blue Egg Sac. Players would use the Egg Sac on Sraracha to unlock her blue/orange metamorphs respectively. Once you've obtained one colour, you will not run the risk of obtaining another egg sac of the same colour.

The unlock would be permanent and the Egg Sacs would be added to the Collection Log, in the Miscellanous section. You can obtain the Egg Sacs before owning the pet. Egg Sacs are not tradeable.

Poll Question #38:

Should we add an Orange and Blue transmog to Sarachnis via the method described in the blog post?

Zealot's Robes currently holds no Prayer bonus, despite the fact that it is a Prayer-boosting outfit and frankly, darn well looks like a Prayer outfit. We would like to propose adding a small Prayer bonus to it so that you can roleplay more convincingly as a monk, should that be your bag. To clarify, per piece the Zealot's Robes would have +1 Prayer Bonus over the Monk's Robes. The small Prayer bonus would also count for the Zealot's Helm and Zealot's Boots (even though there's no Monk's Robe equivalent) meaning they would be given 1 Prayer bonus respectively.

Poll Question #39:

Should Zealot's Robes provide a Prayer Bonus which is slightly higher than Monk’s Robes by +1 on each piece?

Players who have already achieved 99 Prayer and are currently in possession of a Dragonbone necklace may not want to keep their Dagannoth Bones perk from the Fremmennik Elite Diary, as it can be used to extend their trips instead. We can tweak the perk to be toggled off via the Achievement Diary NPC.

Poll Question #40:

Should players be able to turn off the Dagannoth Bones perk from the Fremmennik Elite Diary via the Achievement Diary NPC? Players can switch it back on by speaking to the NPC again.

We would also like to take the opportunity to make more use of the Bonecrusher. We can tweak it to work with bones dropped by the following NPCs (it would not work for noted bone drops of any variety):

• Chaos Ely
• Insatiable Bloodveld
• Regular Bloodveld
• Jogre
• Jungle Horror

Poll Question #41:

Should the Bonecrusher be able to crush bones dropped by the NPCs mentioned in the blog post?

Move over, Bonecrusher! We'd also like to offer players a new item that will launch upon the release of A Kingdom Divided. It would be a type of Urn that would allow players to cleanse demonic ashes, aptly named the Ash Sanctifier. When held in the inventory, this item will automatically cleanse/purify any demonic ashes dropped by foes, awarding players Prayer XP. Half of the usual Prayer XP will be given for each ash cleansed, and a charge will be used up. Players will not be able to hold more than one Ash Sanctifier in their inventory. You can recharge this item using Death Runes (each Death Rune will give 100 charges).

The Ash Sanctifier will be a Hard Kourend Diary reward, for consistency with the Bonecrusher.

Poll Question #42:

Should we add a new item called the Ash Sanctifier? This would allow players to cleanse demonic ashes in a similar fashion to the way the Bonecrusher works with bones, awarding half the usual Prayer XP for each Ash sanctified.

Miscellaneous

Tempoross

Next, let's talk about the Tome of Water. On top of its existing bonuses, we would like to propose tweaking the Tome of Water to increase the Standard Spellbook Curse effects by 50%.

This would mean that Confuse, Weaken, Curse, Vulnerability, Enfeeble and Stun have a 50% increased effect while using a charged Tome of Water. To illustrate the effects this would have on Weaken spells, see as follows:

• Confuse - Attack reduction 5% -> 7%
• Weaken - Strength reduction 5% -> 7%
• Curse - Defence reduction 5% -> 7%
• Vulnerability - Defence reduction 10% -> 15%
• Enfeeble - Strength reduction 10% -> 15%
• Stun - Attack reduction 10% -> 15%

Poll Question #43:

Should the (charged) Tome of Water buff players' weaken spell effectiveness by 50% when equipped? This would mean that Confuse, Weaken, Curse, Vulnerability, Enfeeble and Stun spell effects are increased by 50%.

Shooting Stars

When we launched Shooting Stars, we intentionally lowered the XP by about 20% from the original launch in RuneScape. We didn't want it to be an activity players felt forced to do, but a fun extra for those who want to take part. Now it's launched, we want to confirm if players are happy with the current XP rates, or see whether you would be comfortable with a slight increase to the XP.

The overall increase with this change would be around 20%, but with a bias towards giving more XP at larger sizes. Let us know what you think!

Size	Current XP	Proposed XP
1	11	12
2	20	22
3	23	26
4	26	31
5	38	48
6	57	74
7	91	123
8	116	162
9	168	244

Poll Question #44:

Should we increase Shooting Stars XP to the amount shown in the table above (about 20%)?

We'd also like to offer our Wizards of Gielinor an easy way to find out whether their account meets the non-skill requirements for certain spells. For this reason, we've developed some handy icons called Padlock Sprites! These colourful padlocks would appear over the spells if their non-skill requirement is not met. The icons would vary depending on the kind of requirement, and would vanish once the requirement had been met.

This is a work in progress image of the Padlock Sprites and the final design has not been finalized yet.

Poll Question #45:

Should we add Padlock Sprites to the Mobile and Desktop interfaces to show players where a non-skill requirement for a spell has not yet been met?

Art Competition Winner

Thank you to everyone who voted in our #OSRSDesignAHat competition. We want to send our congratulations to the winner Atlantis_OSRS! Their fetching Banana Wizard's Hat received the most votes in our recent poll, and we certainly find it very a-peel-ing.

Once our art team has designed and implemented this snazzy headgear, you'll be able to redeem it by speaking to Diango in Draynor Village. It will be available for free to all players! Hats off!

Poll Question #46:

Should the winning entry from our Design A Hat competition be implemented and redeemable from Diango?

We'd love to hear your feedback so please let us know what you think via our official forums, on the 2007Scape Reddit, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel.

The Old School Team