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Siao choob
Feb Member 2009

Siao choob

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I do like some of the changes you've made, it's a good start. here's some suggestions for others and an idea on how to fix the max health.
The icons in the "ability books" are an unneeded dinosaur size and to top it off about 75% of the space in the books is wasted on unclickable space for the use of saying the name of the dino-sized icon. The name of the abilites could easily be set on a hover to read feature the text would appear above the icon upon hovering. If you reduced the size of your dinosaur sized icons and stopped wasting that other space on their name, you could get more in one area. This would reduce the amount of needed navigating resulting in a much more user friendly abilities book and save you the unneeded time of explaining how to use it. people don't like surfing through unneeded tabs, it feels like to much dialogue at best, and at worse it over complicates simple things.
For the health problem on the armor. you have potions that send 99/99 on a skill to 107/99 so why cant equipping an armor that sends you from 99/99 constitution to (example) 99/460 simply do that boost effect to make it 460/460 but have it do it like an invisible skill boost that shows up in a players hp but doesn't show up in their actual skills. that way you can get your full 4600 health when putting it on but not keep it after taking it off. I know your thinking players could abuse that as a health glitch, but if you have taking it off remove as much as they gain by putting it on, you won't have that problem.
Small things, having to click the conversation thing every time you want to type, and not being able to talk while juggling the abilities book is tedious and annoying. Also the mages don't really need a damage boost seeing that in the triangle rangers should be strong against mages and as of a week ago rangers were weak enough against mages as it was.

15-Jul-2012 05:25:30

Kanyes West

Kanyes West

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Please just remove abilities..
I am one of those people who do enjoy auto attack, and people who enjoy getting more involved with combat. But as a player for a very long time, with very different styles -- I think that the abilities will ruin this game. People are ranting, signing petitions and saying they will quit if this beta comes out. That's fine, I'll probably stop playing when it comes out too.
I love everything else you've done with the beta, except the abilities. The minor disadvantages like: having to click to type, etc.. can be dealt with, but having to click, click, click even MORE than before is just annoying.
PvM is ruined, it's all about good timing and selection of the right abilities.
PvP isn't my main concern, but it's virtually the same thing.
People make a poll just about the abilities if you may, and expect results that may vary from what you hope.
**tl;dr**
Abilities suck. You, Jagex, are driving people more and more off to private servers. People are crying for the old Runescape back, and you keep making it worse and worse.
New Runescape is not something I am looking forward too.

15-Jul-2012 07:30:51

Hungry 4 GP
Aug Member 2021

Hungry 4 GP

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Is the inability to shoot onyx and dragon bolts from a rune cbow and offhand rune c bow intentional or not. I heard that you can only shoot them from a chaotic cbow and i thought it was lame especially for the beta. If it is only a mistake I hope it gets fixed bc i heard you can also shoot royal bolts from chaotics. Just thought the ranging aspect should pretty much stay the same bc while my abilities were cooling down i couldnt auto attack.

15-Jul-2012 08:48:46

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15-Jul-2012 08:59:06

chris420

chris420

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hi guys um honestly id love to help out as you probably know ive been a part of the runescape family for long time good times bad etc honestly im in college for computer graphics / web design and honestly the new beta just from last weekend i honestly have to say from the 10hours of play time i honestly didn't even know what was was with duel item attacks and two handed weapons like ags , dharocks greater ax and honestly i know all controls and they made me so confused with simple command like spells that are from books and the new attacks.. no doubt it is fun but i really feel it to easy i can solo bandos without prayer and own boss way to easy honestly and the economy in game has gone down way to much that slayer is pointless my favorite skill i never complain or even rank about updates but honest 100k for dharocks set? please guys take your time with this update it can be really fun for us higher experiences players with alot of 99 skills and if you let me test i will give you 100% truthful and helpful feedback your loyal runescaper ~Chris...

15-Jul-2012 09:21:01

Lord Slayas

Lord Slayas

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Thank you, Jagex, for listening to player feedback, you have no idea how much this means to us. I personally, love combat training methods the way they are. Afk training at spiders is my bread and butter. Honestly, if you had gone through with the reduced xp down to 10% for lower level creatures, I would have quit all my accounts and ended my time on RS for good, the moment that update came online. The fact that you have listened to us, and removed that, really says a lot, and we really appreciate it.
What we needed is not a removal of old training methods, but an addition of new ones (perhaps at slightly better xp rates to encourage players to train that way).
Thanks again
~A Loyal Rser

15-Jul-2012 10:08:16

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