I was browsing the Runescape subreddit whilst fishing today and found a link to this forum post by Mod Hunter. It is very long and detailed, there are a lot of changes to come and as such, a lot to read. I find what they're planning quite interesting  and think it'll be a good topic for discussion. You can read about the changes here.

One thing I'm glad to see the end of is the removal of degrading armour to zero on death. I actually died yesterday on accident with brand new barrows items and then I had to repair them again and needless to say, I was a bit miffed :p

Sounds nice I think, it's an item/money sink and also prevents players from being punished by dc's.
Overall nice solution I believe.

Wonder how this will work for hardocre ironmen if we die due to a dc.