Balancing Suggestion: Decrease the shadow cap to 75%

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TL;DR: cap the shadow's triple mage % passive at 75% instead of the current 100.

the new bracelets have sparked a lot of discourse surrounding the shadow and mage balance in general. gnomonkey's video on the topic is, as always, pretty inflammatory and alarmist. there are a lot of opinions floating around, and this is mine.

if you don't know - the shadow 3x's your mage % bonus, (4x inside tombs) but this has always been capped at 100%. this was jagex's limiting factor to prevent the shadow from being too strong in the ultra-long term, but currently we have 24.5% worth of magic strength. this means the shadow is almost capped at tombs, but decidedly nowhere close to capped outside tombs. we are presumably YEARS away from receiving another 10.5% magic damage, even considering that 3% more is coming from the newly proposed bracelet and boots.

the shadow is the solution to a longstanding problem of magic just being really underwhelming compared to range/melee. currently, it feels appropriate in strength. simply cap it where it basically is now - at 75% - and it will remain appropriate forever. removing the passive entirely is an overboard nerf that will bring the shadow to the point of being extremely underwhelming again.

Posted Mar 12, 2025, 7:53 PM UTC

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