RuneScape Forum Archive | Bird Nest Balancing and PvP

Gotmurked

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Taking one of the more profitable drops from callisto is one thing, but replacing it with 30 dragon bones when vet'on drops 100.. Just go ahead and change the toadflax drop to 100 big bones so callisto completely dies out. It's a deep wildy boss in multi that hits 60s, and yet its getting nerfed as if revs didn't kill off wildy bosses enough. It's just sad to see one of my favorite pieces of content die out because of other game updates when a simple loot buff would help keep it active. Why even go to deep wildy callisto when even venn drops onyx bolt tips and the d pick at a safe level 30 wildy.

22-Nov-2018 16:16:44

FatalFrame

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You've ruined a classic weapon that was unchanged for over 12 years and without even doing a poll. You've ruined the fun of such a large portion of your player base with no explanation even for it.

22-Nov-2018 17:37:06

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IR0NMAN

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GJ killing yet another wildy boss off, Prime pk spot but who in the right mind is going to do callisto now, callisto was a fairly decent boss to do because like vennenatis's 60 onyx bolt drop callisto also had a signature drop of the nests, so you remove them and add a signature drop of 30 dragon bones when vet'ion drops 100 as not even a signature drop (which is 100 ranarrs) being the best

22-Nov-2018 17:37:47 - Last edited on 22-Nov-2018 17:42:48 by IR0NMAN

Emperor Dupe

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Why are the J-Mods unable to reply in this thread like all the others the do?

You made the decision, now back it on the forums.

No disconnection please. ....... West & drop a single ore .

22-Nov-2018 20:03:30

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Kegs

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So I'm 99 Hunter using Redwood & Wildblood seeds. The 1st bird-house run I do today didn't provide much.

House 1 - NO nest
House 2 - 1 empty nest
House 3 - 1 seed nest (teak seed) & 1 empty nest
House 4 - 1 seed nest (pineapple tree seed) & 2 empty nest

I always had gotten 4 seed nests (1 per bird-house) & a few ring nests before this awful update. I saw nothing wrong with that as it seemed pretty reasonable getting 4 seeds a run, maybe you can fix what you've done...

23-Nov-2018 00:00:11

Lothar139

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Bird nest runs have died. Lv 62 with yew houses. Used to get around 6-10 per 4 houses(1 run). I now get an average of 1-3 nests per 4 houses. And it says 2 houses for a lvl 5 hunter? I think smth is broken.

23-Nov-2018 09:59:40

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Packyff

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I feel very uneasy about the gmaul update. I'm not a pker, but I don't like how they seem to have purposely worded it ambiguously.

They changed the logic of a classic weapon that's had a specific purpose for the game's whole existence. This needs a big explanation.

I never pk, and I've been the victim on pking several times, but I never get bent out of shape over it. It's the game. The fact that they seem to be catering to the crybaby community without polling really scares me.

23-Nov-2018 15:19:31

Stacky Wacky

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If you were nerfing birdhouses because of the nests, then why did you nerf seeds from birdhouses too? It used to be the first nest you get from a birdhouse was guaranteed to be a seeded one, that is no longer the case. I don't personally mind nerfing nests, but when only one of four birdhouses gives you a nest, and it doesn't even have a seed, it becomes dead content for me (and probably a lot of others).

please at least bring back the guaranteed seeded nest from the first nest you get. PLEASE! Or just get rid of birdhouses all together so I stop getting baited into wasting time and resources.

23-Nov-2018 18:21:17 - Last edited on 23-Nov-2018 18:22:01 by Stacky Wacky

Iron Gubzs

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So sure, nests are nerfed, good, but

can we talk about tree seeds?

Tree seeds are stupidly rare in this game and we finally had a method to get some at a reasonable rate and now it's nerfed due to an entirely different problem.

Forget about ironman stuff, here are the mainscape numbers:
Maple seeds cost over 10gp/exp (35k/3448xp)
Yew seeds cost over 10gp/exp (78k/7150xp)
Magic seeds cost over 10gp/exp (154k/13768xp)

Those are the wood seeds, even the fruit seeds (the slow exp) are about 6-7gp/xp.

I don't think you can honestly tell me those prices are ideal, and since we're apparently in the business of controlling prices, we need a reliable skilling method to get more tree seeds into the game. It would be as simple as keeping the seed rate the same as before while the nest rate remains in the new nerfed state.

I just gotta say fellas, it feels really bad as a player to have farming as a skill balanced around training with this method, while this method is incredibly non-viable to all but wealthy mains.
We're talking 99 prayer kinda expensive to train farming as intended.

Please consider looking at the sources of tree seeds.

Thanks, love you guys.

24-Nov-2018 00:38:55

StopTwichin

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So not that I do not understand why the update happened, but I got maybe 4-2 birds with magic tree house no seed's. I think that as a passive way to gain exp its great but what is the point of getting my WC, Crafting up and hunter up if that I get less loot then what the logs I spent to make? Not to mention I agree with iron Gubz.

26-Nov-2018 09:41:27

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