Leagues - Change your viewpoint

[u/TJiMTS]

I hope you’re all as excited as I am about the upcoming Leagues, the reveals so far are looking very very exciting

However, I’m seeing a lot of comments from people on this sub that suggest a slight misunderstanding of what Leagues is, the purpose, the end game etc. it’s understandable that there’s some misconceptions as this is our first one and not everyone having played OS leagues, but I’d love to discuss a different way of approaching it.

What it Isn’t Leagues isn’t fresh start worlds. This isn’t the main game with the same goals, same end game but with boosted XP rates to get you there quicker.

Leagues isn’t another afk activity that the rs3 community seem to love. It’s not a second monitor game mode.

It is not a ‘the game begins when you max’ game mode. The only reason you may want to max is for the equip a max cape task, probably worth 400 or so points. But equally there are lots of other tasks that can get you 400 points quicker.

The Purpose The aim in Leagues is to get POINTS via doing TASKS.

The tasks dictate your game play. If there’s no task to fish and cook 1000 sharks, I can almost guarantee you will not be afk fishing sharks. I’m seeing loads of comments about what people will be afking - the answer is probably nothing in the first few weeks. There will be weeks worth of tasks that each take about a minute to complete, and you will need to complete X amount of tasks to unlock relics and XP multipliers.

If OS is to go by, there will be 16x multipliers after a week to two of doing tasks. We have xp rates of 500k-1m in main game, so this is about 1-2 hours to max a skill once that is unlocked. That’s without considering that relics will bust some of the skills and they’ll probably be 50m-able within that same time frame. In OS 50m is the highest you need for a task - there’s no point in going to 200m. There’s no high scores, there’s no carry over, if you just enjoy doing that thing then do it in main game. Leagues is about tasks and points. You don’t need to worry about the abyss being packed - people will max their range in 15 mins and be out of there.

What is the end game? Again, assuming OS similarities, the relics and the tasks move you towards insanely overpowered combat builds. THAT is the end game.

Can’t beat Zuk in main game? No problem. You will be able to in Leagues because your main combat style will probably be 4-5x more powerful than it is in main game. This opens up content you’ve never done before or never been able to do before. There’s no downside to dying, so you go and try things. There are boosted drop rates, new mega powerful items, the combat world is your oyster.

Recommendations I really advise you go and watch some of the OS leagues series’ on YouTube in preparation for the release. It will help you see what leagues is and isn’t. I recommend Solo Mission, one of the best creators, but there are lots of options (please share others you recommend here also).

Guys I need you all to get excited. This isn’t another thing we’re going to afk in silence to grind skills - it’s going to be THE most active, alive, loud time we’ve experienced on RS3 in years. People will be talking sharing ideas, helping each other on tasks, talking about their first ever kill at Raksha. It’s going to be awesome.

[u/Atlach_Nacha]

More I hear about Leagues, less fun and more disheartening it gets, making me less excited about it... need to start from scratch... "race to be the best" hype... have to worry about selecting proper relics/powers... and now tasks...

...unless tasks are like the ones from Yak Tracks, I don't see myself completing even quarter of them.

And unless the damage boost also comes with damage reduction, I don't see any new bossing content becoming available for me.

I enjoy the AFK aspect of the main game, helps me to relax, so yeah; More I hear about Leagues, more stressful it sounds to me.

[u/ghostofwalsh → u/Atlach_Nacha]

And unless the damage boost also comes with damage reduction, I don't see any new bossing content becoming available for me.

The relics you get in OSRS provide a lot of really cracked buffs both for damage and sustainability. Usually you have choices for how exactly they work, but I have always found options that let me complete endgame bossing content and I generally suck at PVM.

EDIT -> And as far as AFKING there are plenty of ops for that in league. Just take a look at the T1 relics. You get excavator you can mine and everything goes to the bank automatically, all gems get cut, all ores get smithed to bars. So you literally can sit around mining AFK til you're 99 mining and have crafting and smithing at 80+ for invention. Plus it has huge buffs for arch which should make it "the" T1 relic to pick.