Can Mod Sponge Save RUNESCAPE!? Combat Rebalancing, Future of Bossing, Dungeoneering, YUGIOH!!! 

Nah, your enthusiasm isn't cringe. I love hearing it. The Rs3 community needs more of it.

I just want to ask we keep celebrating the devs who love the game ❤

Awesome stuff man, just watched the whole thing. When you guys were talking about the elite dungeons I was like "Yes, exactly!" lol if it wasn't for ED1 I may have never even gotten into pvm. Seiryu was just that damn cool looking and fun of a boss that I had to try it and that then led to all the other pvm I've experienced. I agree that Elite dungeons is some of the best content in the game, variety is always good of course but all of the ED's have always been the most fun I have.

what if the fractured staff of armadyl spec, your character snaps the staff in half further fracturing it and turns into dual weild for the duration of the spec. lmao, the more i think about it the cooler it sounds

Sponge mentioning elite dungeons having puzzles in them is very interesting. I wish we would get a new kind of elite dungeon that would be only skilling and puzzles with a soloable skilling boss at the end. I think that would be pretty cool. Lots of great stuff in the interview! Looking forward to the next one.

20-33 mins in is so hyped. glad they are working on the rotations and cleaning up the other styles to make it more in line with necromancys general use of use and simple to understand rotations. Just shows they did a very good job with Necromancy and it was received very well since they can use that foundation for the other styles and him talking about different necro builds, magic could be implying status effects like dots based on spell, ranged having some kinda ammo charge mechanic is *chefs kiss*. the future is looking bright, now hopefully jagex lets the devs cook and do it justice and release it sometime in the next decade lol as far as raids goes, i would love if they put multipliers/scaling like they did in OSRS where you could solo the raids(well most idk about tob) yourself or go in with a group to cater to both types of players without leaving anyone behind. so hopefully the next elite dungeon they make has some kinda multiplier mechanic to it or something so you could enhance your difficullty to reward ratio. i do love me some ED's, ed2 being my favorite aesthetically but ed4 a close second! but outside of ed4 i don't run the others that much since im just tired of going through the whole process

Reworks on Sword and Shield - bring new abilities similar to reflect in that do enhanced damage back to mob based on defence stats or rework debilitate to increase damage based on tank stats

This is hands down the best one yet! i really enjoyed that. fantastic job done by the pair of you

25 min in so far and I'm enjoying it. Love your videos, you always so genuinely interested and hyped for your guests so it never feels like a staged podcast etc. Just like a conversation between people who really love what they are talking about. Keep it up man!

Great podcast, watched every minute of it and loved the energy from both of you.

This was such a great conversation to listen to! Great video!

I only just discovered your channel from the Elite Dracolich Video. It's very nice to see someone enjoy Elite Dungeons and the lore of Xau-Tak. Lots of people I met despise Elite Dungeons. I personally like Elite Dungeons more because the idea of killing the same boss again within 30 seconds break felt really weird to me all the time. Not only that, there's just not enough break time inbetween. With Elite Dungeons, there is less strain on my left hand and I can relax a bit before moving on the next different boss.

Thank you for representing us. He’s such a cool mod who clearly cares about the game. I enjoyed how much you know about the game lore too. Great video 😊

Great video. You might want to Time Stamp it, so when people can go back or review the video, you have exact locations of when to look at certain material. Besides that I was hoping for more information about Defensive content since I feel like that's a great next combat content to develop for the long term though Ranging and Magic having some coherency is quite important. There's so little lore about Ranging (been researching) that I would love to see that also addressed when these changes happen in the future.

Lots of really cool discussion on combat. three quests or While Guthix Sleeps? While Guthix sleeps! I prefer the big deep quests. I died a lot in extinction. Can't say that really bothered me. Eldin ring and games like it heavily telegraph the attacks. Telegraphing is important to make that sort of combat challenge reasonable. Wipeout damage that must be avoided has to be telegraphed so you know to avoid it. otherwise all it does is become a random death event.

I'm enjoying this so far but I would appreciate having timestamps regarding topics so people have the option in skipping to sections that are more interesting to them.

Awesome stuff. Mod Sponge is always a great interview. If anyone can keep this trucking along its gonna be Ryan and Sponge

Gotta say something right off the bat. Don't apologize for being passionate about something and getting excited. Please. Without delving into why, is something I'm stuck doing all the time and I wish I wouldn't. Be passionate and cringy if it's you being you. You don't owe anyone an apology, especially because we sought you out, you didn't corner us and force us to listen.

I'd like to see t92 magic be added to instead of just building a whole other set but could look different after being added to to keep it fresh. fsoa is a broken elder item that could be repaired, or jerry rigged to increase in power. The addition of stacks to staff with gsonic and cast time, When you build upon things you live the story more so than just doing the combat.

Hey bud, really appreciate this! Did wanna ask after content reveal today, any news you may have on fsoa buff/magic buff/elite tectonic buff in somewhat near future or even this year? Ik the t95 dw are coming, but fsoa getting any love or be camp worthy anytime soon? I miss it 🥲 thanks broski

I think the bigger issue with the lack of MH + Shield camping viability is that higher DPS often means you take less damage since the boss dies faster.. Why use a shield constantly to try mitigate damage when you can just have the boss die quicker and you take less damage overall, plus generally an easier fight if you skip mechs. On a side note though, to play devil's advocate - I personally think skipping mechs ruins some bosses and devalues skill at a certain boss, as you generally are more proficient with the combat system than the boss itself.

Thank you to everyone for the melee love. ❤

Audio gets SUPER loud for a moment at 21:39. Almost made me jump out of my seat

44:44 ED2 was where I truly started learning PVM. As I have been called insane for not learning how to pvm at something easier like GWD2, it was a good learning experience to learn both mechanics and develop my "amateurish" rotations without relying on rotation guides. Helped me improvise if something goes wrong. I didn't even know how to utilized death's swiftness and when I tried, I killed slower cause I was a newbie. Or the true real reason: I just like killing dragons.

1:10:00 i miss challenging stuff and have prestigious cool stuff to have like seismics after release, also they looked dope in java bloom

38:00 there were originally 5-7 raidbosses planned and they prolly calculated achto droprates for those many bosses cuz currently with 2 bosses they take like 10 months and not even good anymore

Yes!!! 1:07:58 He's anti-storymode! 😤😤💪🏻💪🏻✊🏻💯

Great discussion! Made me wanna run elite dungeons again

Interesting discussion!

You popped up on my feed, for good reason! I love you so far and your passion for the game and Lord, I recently went on a quest craze and fell in love with the lore! Keep up the enthusiasm!

Oh man, Duelist of the roses!!!!! So good. I used the zombie strat too

These guys & gals dont get enough love for what they do..

I miss my set of Ultimate rare maxx c. I used to main 3 max c every deck 🤤

SPONGE IS INTO YUGIOH? LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

The Maxx c challenge was fun, I'd always be like oh? Challenge accepted draw all you want

btw sorry i kind of interrupted him a bunch at the end, i was tryna hurry ask as much as possible haha -

40:00 i prefer raids over elite dungeons... some little pauses like puzzles inbetween bosses are so much better than mass mobbing only..

Not cringe at all bro. You love the game just like I do. Nothing cringe about that at all! Same hype people have for a football player if they are a big football fan.

All hail mod sponge to save rs3

I cant wait for the Gowers game to come out. I will stop paying to play RS and use the free version as a chat program to keep up with friends. As an older player that started playing in feb 2001 I find the lack of the present games providing paths forward for disabled players reprehensible. Maxed is meaningless for anyone that can only use a mouse.

Friend calls death touched darts jailer skip tickets 😂

A fair few of the old quests had an almost task master mentality to them: here is your task, a mighty quest. Do it, if you *can.* It led to some misses, and some major hits. I think difficult quests should genuinely challenge the players and be about that task master mentality. Not everyone will be able to just do it, and some people will need to give it a good few goes to improve in order to get it done. With rewards matching difficulty. Making things too easy, so everyone can do them leads to them being boring. Why not test players every once in a while? I think a handful of irate redditors doing what they will do anyway and chronically complain about everything with massive pessimism VS having a fun experience that tests players in interesting ways is a no-brainer ballgame.

this is great :D

I'm relating more to the yugioh conversation than anything. Maxx C is busted. Been playing master duel for free on mobile and the struggle is real with the combo decks.

this is gold However they should aslo think of releasing mid tier bosses

Mazcab = Mechscape content repurposed? o.0

@prideslayer77 Any chance Vos-Da, and Xau-Ma/Tak-Ma refer to two beings, a father figure (Da) and mother figure (Ma) in Erebus?

Need to 100% fix the UI. I love RS but the blurred UI is terrible.

@ 40:45 Why do you call eds raids when the max team size is only 3? A raid is a type of mission in MMORPG where a much larger number than usual of people specifically gather in an attempt to defeat a boss.

Hearing other say RuneScape words differently than I think them is unacceptable

Time stamps please

Great podcast but dont always try to interrupt when they answer the question.

runescape can't be saved at this point, too many people have left who are not coming back.

Prideslayeeer 😃

Whats the point of Fire wave, wind surge, water blast, etc? Aren't those already abilities? what runes does whatever magic abilities take? you have dead content every part of the game... EOC doesn't mesh. Make RS4 and go all in or go all out.

Runescape3 has just made changes on top of changes, you should have added to the game when it was good, not change it from being good...

Hard disagree at 47:52. Should be buffed.

So melee was de-spaghettified under the hood then?

Save Runescape? He's one of the two people (besides Ramen) responsible for fucking it over with the crap they pulled in GWD3.

Everyone knows MTG is superior. I have a theory, MTG players are Pkers, and Yu-gi-oh players are carebears. hahahaha

When JAGEX made opt in and out of pvp and continued to loose interest in pvp to save the game remove opt in and out it'll bring arround 200-300 peaple will return their was a lot of peaple that did pvp anti pvp and so on they need to also buff up mage it seems under powered maybe I just stink at it also do maybe a weekly special event to bring peaple back to peak a interest end game pvmers are just board reason I myself don't play I play with friends but alone I'm board no goals

Combat will be saved.

More like ''Can the runescape 3 players save their own game'' since jmods literally at this point are just doing what people want them to do

rs3 is beyond dead lmao

I seriously don't know how something like the blood reaver exists the way it is, for years now and in this combat beta they focused on reworking equilibrium?!. Of all the problems they actually thought changing equilibrium was necessary. Using defensives without shields, darkness(as a whole) and being able to use it with other styles, off style buffs still being abused beyond belief. Saw a guy do a solo 1 tick black stone dragon the other day like really? Buff/debuff bar being majorly clogged(optional settings barely/doesn't change anything) WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too many upkeeps and timings to remember. Runescape is becoming more about mental gymnastics than actually playing, do i have my items? Do i have the right inventory? what are my archaeology relic powers, is my weekly totem up? did i bonfire? do i have enough runes/arrows? do i have all my pouches? am i on the right spellbook? Do i have enough food/supplies? Is my blessed flask full? are my incense sticks on? is my penance powder up? Did i get my reaper task? Is my armour/weapons charged with divine charge? What are my bolg stacks at? How long for my cooldowns on special attacks? Is darkness up? Do i have the right abilities/necessary abilities on my action bar? Are my keybinds all set? I think i got everything. -goes to fight X boss- I have the wrong essence of finality because its the same color as another one GG. - goes to fight x boss again) - oh my borrowed power just ran out for smoke cloud no biggie *resets BP* - goes to fight x boss - oh my reaver doesn't have scroll on him - *puts scrolls in reaver* - oh my reaver isn't healing me because i forgot to set it to auto heal - *changes auto heal* - my reaver isn't healing me at all on auto heal.............. That's what runescape feels like to me right now

save osrs ot rs3, everyone knows rs3 is a for people on the sex offender register.

Unban lvl 130+ accounts. The “macroing” bs is ridiculous

Solid interview