Man I would love to see a tweak to halberds. They're so cool and deserve to have their place.

Super high quality presentation dude. 10/10

i think the interesting part of elemental damage bonus is that while uninteresting at content you already mage at, it'd encourage you to mage other stuff, like fire giants being weak to water gives you another avenue to train magic rather than just ranging/meleeing them

I drank some spicy milk and was on the toilet for fourteen minutes,thanks for the vid

Time to re-relase oldschool runescape

Would the D scim feel like an iconic unlock? Yes. While also making the Dragon longsword and Dragon mace useful as there is absolutely zero reason why anyone should use them at the moment.

Definitly dropping a sub. Super well made video and covered everything the best ive seen so far. And love the name.

I truly enjoyed your style of video here & how you formatted this. Great editing skills & a awesome weather show host type voice makes this pleasant to listen to. Glad I've found you channel

Very well put, succinct and to the point while remaining constructive and positive. I hope jmods see this one tbh.

Incredibly articulate, nuanced video. I hope to see more from you. Subscribed!

What I enjoyed here the most was your unique takes & concerns I haven't heard anyone bring up. They're genuinely good points that shouldn't be overlooked.

Really great presentation, lots of things I did not consider but now really glad I heard you put forward

You’ve earned a sub the time spent on this video was worth it Great job man

This was incredibly well done! I hope the devs get a chance to watch this and connect with you for input! Subbed!

Way better put than some of the big rs youtubers. Definitely deserve more subs bro.

Excellent video and very well put. You sir, definitely deserve more subscribers!

yea we are one or two updates like this away from needing "OSRS Classic"

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 You just got a sub my dude! Great content and good constructive conversation over the combat updates, thank you for sharing. Looking forward to your future videos!

Superbly edited and much more informational than the blog post itself! Subbed my friend

Great vid! I really liked the point about ranged styles, def changed how I'm thinking about the changes.

good vid and some well thought out points, subbed!

Agree that Ranged would be better served by having - Piecing (Darts, arrows, bolts, thow knives) - Rending (Broad bolts, Brutal arrows, thown axes, chakram-style weapons) - Bludgeoning (cannonballs (?), chinchompas, new slingshots)

Auto-subbed. Please be regular with these videos, you're a natural ✨️

Don't stop brotherman, I like these style of video and commentary. Can see you growing rapidly

Loved the video man, thank you!

Great video and great views for how small the channel is.. subbed instantly :)

My brother, you will do AMAZING no matter which niche, game, or topic you decide to cover. Great analysis and commentary covering the recent changes. + You've got great video production/organization of information skills, again I think you will go far no matter what you do :D

Awesome video man. The game is changing so much, so appreciate these videos with it clearly spoken and being very well edited 😎😎

Excellent video.

The first OSRS youtuber/streamer I've seen who is using deductive reasoning and intelligence, well done.

nicely done!

Well put together video.

I really like your ideas on how the currently preposed changes for magic would play out. Just having a buff to water spells feels the same as using a powered staff. What if water spells has a small aeo splash damage, fire spells burned (tick damage) to things weak to burn, earth spells rooted briefly and air did something cool as well. That would be a lot more fun to play with.

Great quality critique and hypothesis

Quality of this production is off the rails, insta sub and bell. Also, 💯 takes about the issue, you clearly know the game and have love for it !

Excellent video!

Good opinion piece, very well thought out.

Thanks for your video ! ❤ this

great video!

Well thought-out video.

Great video

Quite an underrated channel...I reckon you will have a growth spurt of subscribers

Very, very well done

what do you think about them adding a piercing stat so like heavy ballista would ignore 30 range defense where blowpipe would ignore 0

Helping the algorithm find this one.

Very nice video sir

A level 1 mage and a level 99 should not have the same max hit for any spell. Melee same weapon level 99 hits harder, ranged same weapon same ammo level 99 hits harder.

This is going to be sooooo good 🔥 can’t wait

Yeah I think the magic rebalance is more of an intuitive design. Can’t tell you how many times as a kid I switched to fire spells for ice warriors/ moss giants thinking it did extra

So do we think the bowfa will be less useful and essential with the proposed range defence changes?

Good vid but im 100% in favor of the rebalance.

Nice and interesting video! What do you think about the ghrazi rapier?

Quality video. I always hated how fast hitting weapons constantly outperform slow hitting ones pretty much all the time because they don't do enough extra damage to compete. There is absolutely no reason for a dragon 2h sword to have similar DPS as an Adamant Scimitar only edging out because of accuracy. Slower weapons really need to be brought in-line to make it a matter of preference between slow big hits, or faster small hits. Otherwise the weapon sandbox will continue to live and die on their special effects or be a 4 tick weapon.

1:22 interesting you used a charged scythe here and an uncharged tumekens shadow, I've never seen a clear pic of an uncharged shadow before it looks cool without the black orb

I have faith in the devs. I don't think in the slightest this is EOC all over again, the game thrives off community and we all know that. I think this is good groundwork to open up the game and future content without having to nerf/buff things to make them in line with new content

Wow, this is much higher quality than the viewcount would suggest, good stuff man. I think there were multiple great points in here but my personal main takeaway was what you said about enemy defense stats. I totally agree that adding defense stats too high on normal mobs to where using the wrong type of weapon is never advised would turn the game into a wiki/dps calculator, and on non boss enemies it wouldn’t really add any depth since your just changing what stat stick you hit enemies with, there’s no real functional difference. With that being said I hope we as a community can continue to express our concerns to Jagex about the update and receive answers from them about solutions they have in mind. A large scale rebalance coming out undercooked is the worst possible outcome.

Wait this is your third video XD You are a pro at this

you mention those filthy words EOC i feel my heart literally rip from my chest at the thought of it

I HAVE GOT TO SAY BRO YOU HAVE THOURGLY EXPLAINED EVERYTHING SO METHODICALLY. Saying that stuff that had light ranged defense vulnerability SHOULD have every other because if light can pierce it, why not heavy? This is incredible because lets be rreal, all of our weapons are made with logicality, blowpipe is a real thjng in thw word and breathing to shoot would make it significantly faster. Than drawing backa. Bow to shoot. Jagex needs to hire people like you for philosophical weapon creation. This is hardcore logical shit right here. You NEED to start making reviews of updates in depth like this. Amazing.

69th subscriber! Remember me when you hit 100k 🔥

Melee blowpipe: Bladed Yoyo

This is gold

I wouldnt mind the elemental weaknesses aslong as its done right

Underrated video

Underrated content 10/10

This would be awesome

So much for old school

While I don't agree with everything that was said in this video, I think it's a great discussion of the future changes. Great video!

i wonder if hand cannon will come back.

I saw comments about the range weak to light vs not heavy thing, apparently there's some suspension of disbelief needed here example, the monster is too agile so it dodges your heavy attack (even though this isn't shown or said) so fast light weapons are more effective... something like that. Yeah idk about that as well, if the heavy weapon hits that monster is toast

Rs2 had a ton of bane weapons that often required a quest line dealing with them and that was awesome

Currently on the toilet, spicy milk stikes again

Bro the changes they made were fantastic

WHO KNOWS BABY THIS COULD BE FOR EEEEVAAAAAAA

I’ve recently been thinking that the dragon claws, or maybe even an upgrade to the dragon claws, could be like a melee style toxic blowpipe. Like just add an animation where the player attacks with post claws, one after another, same speed as the blow pipe.

Honestly while i think there's a looong path ahead with plenty of changes to be implemented, the team is already facing a *lot* of skepticism with changes this small. Some people simply hate change and will stand in the way for progress, so it's important to play around that, even if we really do need major overhauls in many areas.

cant wait till i can hit that full torag gargoyle crusher drip

Great video. Always thought item diversification should be as in depth as the rest of this game is. Hopefully they dont tuck it up

Well we had a good run osrs. Sure is a shame

yah i agree vro keep it up

the d scimitar thing you said will encourage more people to do quests like heroes quest for dragon mace

Jagex has to tread very carefully regarding these changes. Last time they changed combat this much everyone left..

im currently 82 slayer as an ironman, kinda sad to think that if i get my whip its not gonna be as usefull after almost 200+ hours but oh well...

We need an upgrade for AbyTentacle, A ChainTent that can store 5 charges of electricity and chain lightning to the nearest enemy from the first.

It's time for another 2007 scape....

I have a solution with the powered staves. Releasing elemental based crystals as a boss drop for specific staffs or raids to imbue the staff with fire water earth or air based damage and keep the rune consumption the same

165th sub here bro

nice vid

There’s also the barronite mace for golembane weapons but that’s a f2p niche

For the standard spell book attacks, they can make a minigame pop up similar to giants foundry. Where you can have a premade order ie earth, water, air, fire. Or eath, air, air And it multiplies the max hit by like 7% and increases the accuracy by about 20%

they have stated that "light standard and heavy" as terms are placeholders and they dont intend to call them that

Agile enemies like vespula or bats being extra weak to light makes sense to me, since it would be more about them trying to dodge your hit.

this update is gonna benefit mid level players anyway. endgame players tend to use powered staff. btw 10/10 video

8:15 Actually, some irl armour in the middle ages and even today works better against light projectiles moving faster or against heavier projectiles moving slower. So it's possible!

Personally, I'm fine with the four elements doing the same damage, but think elemental spells could be differentiated as follows. When hitting an enemy with an elemental weakness, you have an X% chance to gain a different bonus based on the element itself. Air - x% chance to hit three times with reduced accuracy Water - x% reduction in enemy attack speed, rounded down to the nearest game tick. Earth - x% armor shred, increasing the damage taken from all attacks (good for group bossing) Fire - deals x% periodic damage with a burn debuff.

Yup. Pretty much

Surely if the proclaimed magic changes go through then the meta will just become wind spells everywhere for invy spots, if monsters magic defense remains unchanged par the weakness to certain element types anyway, I guess there's probably something to be said for the tome of water/fire though. Certainly interesting but not sure if it's for better or for worse as of yet

I would definitely prefer them to tune things a little bit to diversify the weapon roles a little bit. The balance amongst the weapon archetypes is really strange atm imo

I think with magic, the changes to the original spellbook are good overall. I like the idea with monsters being weaker to different types of magic, and your suggestion that different armours enhance them, so that'd be a nice addition. The issue with the system is, well, powered staves are a thing. Trident of the Seas, Iban's Staff, etc. all make the base spells fairly redundant (not that those I listed are the best in slot) simply due to the utility and ease of it all powered with the spellbook spells that you can use. Personally, I wouldn't have added them into the game to begin with, but it's way too late to take them out. I think, if done very carefully, you could limit access to the higher utility in the spellbook if using a powered staff. I know how this sounds, and I get it's not an ideal solution, but that would give the players a choice. Do you want utility, or do you want easy damage. You can get both if you use, say, fire strike, trading off the higher damage for access to damage and the better utility. Basically, with a powered staff you'd get access to the weaker snares and such, whereas with the standard spells you'd get access to the max level snare (granting you have the level) and less damage. I like having the choice between these two, I love having options and needing a reason to use them. That's what I personally want from a game, but I also know that I'm of my own opinion and it isn't necessarily popular with the community as a whole. Either way, I like the changes they're proposing. I WANT to use halberds, they're my favourite kind of weapon, but they're so bad compared to a whip for instance. I want to use a mace, a battleaxe, all the obscure wepaonry, but they're so niche in their usage that I barely even bother unless it's a requirement. The range changes I like as well, however, they'd need to be monitored closely during testing and release (if they go ahead with it) as there can be potential balance problems.

Is there still a vote poll for this update?