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September 3, 2015, 5:00 pm

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There is now less than 30 days remaining until RuneFest 2015! Tune in to this week's BTS to catch up on all of the latest RuneFest details.

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August 31, 2015, 5:00 pm

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September 6, 2015, 5:00 pm

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The ninjas have been busy this week adding a ton of patches and tweaks to the game, including improvements to Warbands and the Crystal shapeshifters!

Warbands

Warbands have been updated to re-invigorate the high-risk, high-reward aspect of the D&D. The new patches will mean that:

• Supplies will now be converted into non-tradeable versions when exiting the wilderness.
  
• Players may attack others outside of the normal wilderness level restrictions when carrying supplies. Carriers may still counter-attack.
  
• Chat options on Quercus now allow players to toggle whether they receive coins or supplies when killing a victim holding Warband supplies.
  
• Players can now be attacked while looting a Warbands tent.

Crystal Shapeshifters

Shapeshifters have been also had a few tweaks and fixes. Here are some of the changes to crystal shapeshifters:

• Players will no longer lose focus in combat when a Crystal Shapeshifter switches combat style.
  
• Crystal Shapeshifters will now retaliate correctly after charging towards a player.
  
• Crystal Shapeshifters have been added to the Slayer Creature kills list in the Beasts tab of the Adventures interface.

There have also been a few other notable changes for players to enjoy:

• Players can now consistently use the Quick-travel option on goebies to travel around Mazcab if they have the required reputation.
  
• The Ninjas have updated the Demonic skull so re-entering a runecrafting altar via the abyss will now guarantee the XP bonus, regardless of how quickly the player returned.
  
• Max has been given a makeover care of the Ninjas, spot him running his skilling circuit around Varrock with his new gear.

Read the rest of today's patch notes.

Limited Time RS Merch Store T-Shirt Offer!

For a limited time only, players will be able to purchase official RS T-shirts from the Merch Store using in-game RS3 Bonds! Players will be able to exchange 6 Bonds for a voucher code which can be redeemable at the Merch Store for any available T-shirt model and size with shipping included.

To get your T-shirts, head in game and go to the Upgrade & Extras window, select the RS Bonds option and click Redeem Bonds to see the T-shirt option.
But hurry! There's only a limited amount of codes and T-shirts available, so get your T-shirts with Bonds while stocks last!

Clan update

This week also sees the start of the Clan Cup with both Skilling Cup and Boss Cupsbeginning in earnest as Clans strive to get to the top of the table! Get your hatchets ready for Woodcutting XP in the skilling cup while it is the mighty Queen Black Dragon that sets the challenge in the Boss Cup.

Visit our RuneScape clan forums to find out more.

Live Streams this Week

Each week we stream developer Q&As, in-game events and more. Watch our streams and find a full streaming schedule over on our Twitch channel.
Check our YouTube channel, too, for recap videos of streams you may have missed, including last week's RuneFest teasers!

Developer Q&A: with Elf City Waterfall Fishing teasers | 16:00 UTC, Tuesday 8th September

Join the usual cast of JMods on the streaming sofas as they take your questions - this week, we'll be featuring Elf City Waterfall Fishing, the RuneLabs winner from earlier this year - showing you teasers of what to expect, as well as answering your questions.

Ask your questions on the forums, on Reddit, or on Twitter using the hashtag #RSDevQA.

The Drop! | 20:00 UTC, Tuesday 8th September

After a few months’ hiatus, our very own RuneScape game show is back! Join Mods JD and Neena as they test your RuneScape nous, and crown some lucky winners with a Bond or two!

There will also be the chance to win your very own prizes in the stream chat as well. Don't miss it!

Events this week

This week there are loads of in-game events which you can attend! Check them out and say hi to the Mods!

Wednesday 9th September 2015

Mod Kalaya's King Kalphite Mass event - w68 at 14:00 Game Time

Friday 11th September 2015

Mod Sky's, Mod Kalaya's & Mod Neena's Heist event - w89 at 15:00 Game Time

Check out all of the events on our official forums!

In Other News

• Reminder - All Lumbridge beach cocktails, ice creams, sunscreen, coconuts and fish will be removed on the 14th September. Tradeable tokens from the event will also be made untradeable at the end of this year.
  
• RuneFest Reminder - Make sure you stock up on your RuneFest Zemomarks this week by purchasing them with Bonds in-game. From Monday 14th September, they will be removed, so make sure you get in quick to avoid disappointment!

Read the patch notes for further detail of today's updates.

Patch notes:

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In other news:

• Reminder - All Lumbridge beach cocktails, ice creams, sunscreen, coconuts and fish will be removed on the 14th September. Tradeable tokens from the event will also be made untradeable at the end of this year.

Graphical:

• Players will no longer float below the monkey bars when crossing them in Ape Atoll.
  
• Super hero claws no longer bend backwards during idle animations.
  
• Added some missing colours to goebies on Mazcab.
  
• Yakamaru is now green when poisoned in low detail.
  
• The Ashdale smith will no longer turn to face players while sitting on a chair.
  
• Fixed the rendering priority of the Deckchair and Buried in the sand rest animations in the gear interface.
  
• Spiny helmets are no longer transparent when dropped.

Skills, D&Ds & Minigames:

• Updated some sound effects used in the Tears of Guthix D&D.
  
• Failing a Barrows puzzle room will no longer prevent the final Barrows brother from spawning.
  
• Ur-vass once again allows players to begin the Dorgesh-kaan food trading minigame.
  
• Castle wars enhancers will no longer use up a charge if no gold tickets were gained.
  
• Receiving a prize from Treasure Hunter will now change the colour of the reward message in your chat box for the relevant prize based on the won slot's rarity.
  
• Players who were unable to claim the malleus daemoniorum from Brother Celerity will now be able to do so after defeating another demon flash mob.
  
• Warbands has been updated:
  
  • Supplies are now converted into a non-tradeable version when exiting the wilderness.
    
  • Players may attack others outside of the normal wilderness level restrictions when carrying supplies. Carriers may still counter-attack.
    
  • Chat options on Quercus now allow players to toggle whether they receive coins or supplies when killing a victim holding Warband supplies.
    
  • Players can now be attacked whilst looting a Warbands tent.
• Added some new settings in Treasure Hunter to automatically redeem combat and/or skill-specific lamps and stars when won.
  
• The “Get more key” popup will now reliably pop up once again.

Quests, Challenges and Achievements:

• Players may once again complete the 'I brought your stuff back' achievement.
  
• The second Dagannoth mother's attacks once again deal noticeable damage.
  
• It is no longer possible to attack Risen Knights while the player has their hand stuck in the strange device during 'Salt in the Wound'.
  
• Corrected some minor examine typos in The Light Within.
  
• Graphically updated the Light maze notes interface used in Within the Light.

Other:

• Fixed a typo with Balthazar's chat when speaking to Ironman players.
  
• Optimised the bank preset system to stop disconnecting players who are withdrawing large bank presets with a Beast of Burden.
  
• Tweaked the activation rate for the Ruby Aurora effect in PvP and PvM scenarios to be more consistent.
  
• Updated combat prisms and the ruby aurora effect to respect single and multi-way wilderness rules.
  
• Altered the logic behind the Prism of Restoration's Summoning special move point restore effect to be consistent and reliable.
  
• Soul Link and Teamwork Protection can now be used on Mazcab when not participating in Mazcab supply runs.
  
• Players will no longer lose focus on Crystal Shapeshifters in combat when they switch combat styles.
  
• Crystal Shapeshifters will now retaliate correctly after charging towards a player.
  
• Crystal Shapeshifters have been added to the Slayer Creature kills list in the Beasts tab of the Adventures interface.
  
• Players can now consistently use the Quick-travel option on goebies on Mazcab if they have the required reputation.
  
• Players can once again teleport from the Hefin bank chest.
  
• Ensured that all relevant buff icons are cleared upon death.
  
• The Shadow and Smoke spell effect no longer states that they last for 1 minute.
  
• The Kethsi ring now has a Destroy option.
  
• Elite rune dragons have been converted to use the new elite monster spawn system.
  
• Added some blocking to a bush on Tarddiad.
  
• Removed some force-walk tiles from south of Castle Wars.
  
• The crystal mask spell will now only play a sound when first cast.
  
• The volume of the Town Crier's bell has been reduced.
  
• Updated the sounds when using the Grand Exchange interface.
  
• Adjusted the volume on the following songs:
  
  • Webbed Feat
    
  • Lexicus Runewright
    
  • Lords and Ladies
    
  • The Firemakers' Theme
• Fixed a spelling error on the Treasure Hunter prize management interface.
  
• Players can now complete Combat Academy task 5 without having to deviate from the instructions.
  
• Players can once again cast vengeance and use a special attack in the same tick.
  
• Clicking on an Edimmu pet to unlock it will now immediately do so instead of after the information window.
  
• Capitalised the titles of the God Wars Dungeon lore drops and fixed an examine typo on "The Glory of General Graardor".
  
• Fixed the incorrect spelling of "prayer points" in the Gear tab.
  
• Keepsaked Fire and Ice Warrior armour can once again be activated.
  
• It is now possible to keepsake Attuned Crystal boots and gloves.

Ninja fixes:

• Re-entering a runecrafting altar via the abyss with the Demonic Skull will now guarantee the XP bonus, regardless of how quickly the player returned.
  
• Updated the Mounted Anti-dragon Breath Shield in a Player Owned House to use an updated model.
  
• Players can now freely use the Clan Stage emotes outside of the clan citadel with the exception of 'Make Speech' and 'Dramatic Death' which can be performed in a Player-owned House instead.
  
• The following will now restore familiar's lifepoints:
  
  • All prayer altars that restore summoning points as well.
    
  • The Throne of Fame.
    
  • Player-owned House obelisks.
• Max can now be seen running around Varrock wearing the following:
  
  • Emberkeen boots
    
  • Amulet of souls
    
  • Shadow malevolent body and legs

Lores & Histories – The Old Blood | Vampyre's Riddle

September 7, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Lores & Histories – The Old Blood | Vampyre's Riddle


RuneScape will soon run red with blood as The Lord of Vampyrium – the latest quest in the Myreque series – arrives with the next game update.

This week, we've got a few toothsome treats to tide you over until the quest hits:The Old Blood - a new Lores & Histories story – and Vampyre's Riddle – a deliciously dark mystery to puzzle your way through – plus a podcast and a wickedly wolfish Heist event.

Read on...if you dare.

Lores & Histories – The Old Blood

First up, there's an all-new Lores & Histories story featuring Lord Drakan himself as he hunts down Zarosian loyalists in the wake of Zamorak's betrayal – plus insights into Drakan's earlier life on Vampyrium.

You can read The Old Blood – and all our previous stories - on the Lores & Histories section of website.

We've also provided some spectacular wallpapers and a Twitter header to adorn your desktops and social media feeds. Enjoy!

Wallpaper: 1280x1024 | 1366x768 | 1600x900 | 1920x1080 | 640x1136

Social Media: Twitter

Vampyre's Riddle

Puzzle your way through a dark journey in Vampyre's Riddle – a web-based mystery where you'll unpick clues and use each answer to proceed to the next step.

Make your way through its twisting paths and you'll be in with a chance to win some grand prizes: merchandise, Bonds, and signed artwork.
Try Vampyre's Riddle now, and let us know what you think!

And More!

Look out for our latest podcast on Thursday 10th, when we'll catch up with Mod Rowley for the low-down on the new quest. You'll find it on YouTube, PodBean andiTunes.

Join us at 15:00 UTC (game time) on Friday for a game of Heist on the Canifis map, with all the werewolves you can shake a stick at.

Finally, look out for vampyre-themed events, competitions and Q&As galore next week, all in the imposing shadow of the Lord of Vampyrium himself.

Have fun!
The RuneScape Team

Dev Blog: Sailing - An Overview

September 7, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Dev Blog: Sailing - An Overview

Sailing has come up in discussions of new expansions to RuneScape since way back in 2008. Because of this, the idea of sailing is one that resonates with a huge number of RuneScape players. The core of what we would like sailing to be fits in perfectly with what makes so many players love RuneScape: Exploration and adventure.

Sailing is the perfect vessel to build the sense of adventure that all RuneScape players love. You will be able to take your ship out to sea and roam the unexplored waters of Gielinor, removing the mystery and taking on the unknown.

We would like to offer sailing as an update to come early next year and will be polling it this Thursday. Please take the time to familiarise yourself with the skill by reading this blog so you know exactly what you are voting for.

Training Sailing

You should expect to spend a majority of your time out at sea exploring in order to level up. There will be other methods available, such as ship building and navigation, but the focus of sailing will be exploring the seas of Gielinor.

Exploration

Each time you board your ship and head out to sea it will be a new experience and exploring what the seas have to offer will be an excellent way to train sailing.
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When out at sea you will move your ship in the same way that you usually walk with your character. This will offer you a lot of freedom in the water and will make the experience feel smooth and familiar.

The content you run into each time you take your ship out to see will be different as you face randomly generated seas that will throw a variety of challenges your way. Taking on anything that comes your way and completing these challenges will provide you with sailing experience.

The different content you find coming your way when at sea will offer you opportunities to gather new resources that will be used both within sailing and throughout the wider game.
Underwater caverns
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Large, underwater caverns will be one of the big attractions of sailing. Should you make your way to an underwater entrance, you will be able to jump off your ship toexplore the randomly generated cavern containing brand new enemies and, of course,lots of potential loot.

Your sailing level will determine how much you can explore so being a master sailor will allow you to head to the furthest depths of these unexplored caverns. Of course, taking on a cavern will reward you with sailing experience.
Random encounters
There will be a huge number of potential challenges and encounters that you will find in the seas of Gielinor. These events will span from quick, action-packed 2 minute adventures to lasting as long as you can manage to stay afloat. All of these events will provide you with sailing experience.

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Let's run over just a few of the ideas that we plan to include.

Please note: the challenges listed below are examples. We will be looking to the community to help us create a massive, varied list of events to occur when out at sea and will be able to go into more depth on these events in the near future.

• Defend the settlement- A small island is under siege and needs your help to defend against the attack.
  
• Kraken encounters- You've seen what the Kraken can do in a dank cave, now it is time to try your luck out at sea.
  
• X marks the spot- You've discovered a small island. Perhaps there is a little more to it than it seems.
  
• Cyclone crisis- You have ended up in the midst of a cyclone. Save yourself and your ship by escaping.
  
  We will be dramatically increasing the size of this list before the release of sailing. In the process we will be running a player design competition as we know the community have many, many ideas that will help sailing be all it can be.

Navigation

You will gain experience every time you navigate a set, point-to-point route. Along the way you will have the option to take part in events and challenges that will appear on your path and doing so will provide you with more experience for the trip.
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You will be able to pick from your existing ships and set it up to best suit the journey you are heading out on before setting sail.

Ship building

For those of you that like to be able to grind away at a skill, ship building is for you. Building ships is a simple, repeatable process that will earn you sailing experience at a constant rate. Ship building will not provide experience rates comparable to exploration but will allow for a more relaxed style of gameplay for those who prefer it.

The basic process of ship building is as follows:

Step 1. Initiate the build.
Step 2. Check the status of your ship to see if it is complete.
Step 3. Modify your ship with upgrades.
Step 4. Sell your ship or sail.

The higher your sailing level, the more options you will have when it comes to the quality of your ship and what upgrades you would like to add.
Ship building details
Below is a run-through of the ship building process with some additional information.

Step 1. Initiate the build

Head to a shipyard and initiate a build. To do this you will need to provide workers with the necessary resources and tell them what to build. The required resources will vary depending on the type of ship you are building but will generally include various types of planks, bars, nails and cloth.

Depending on the type of ship you are building you may also receive small amounts of construction, crafting or smithing experience.

Step 2. Check the status of your ship

After some time passes you can return to check the status of your ship. In a similar way to checking the health of trees in Farming, this will earn you experience.

Step 3. Modify your ship

Choose if you would like to add upgrades to your ship.

Step 4. Sail or sell

Choose whether you would like to sell the ship off to an NPC for a low price or commission it for use out at sea. Selling the ship off will allow you to immediately start a new build whereas commissioning the ship will prevent this.

As you level up your sailing you will gain the ability to build at more and more shipyards that offer faster build times. You will be able to build at different shipyards simultaneously.

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Having a higher sailing level will, of course, help you build bigger and better ships. As you level up you will have access to an awful lot more customisations and upgradesfor your ships.

Perhaps the most important part of your ship is the hull. As you level your sailing you will unlock the ability to build ships with stronger hulls, allowing you to take on heavier seas and lasting longer.

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A higher sailing level will also mean more upgrades. The key upgrades that will help you on your journeys are storage, cannons and hull plating. Storage offers you a place to keep items you may need or collect during your journey, cannons offer a huge amount more fire power and hull plating will improve how long you can last out at sea.

A majority of the upgrades for your ships will be created using other skills. For example, cannons would be created using smithing and figureheads will be created using crafting. These upgrades would, in most cases, be tradeable between players.

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Rewards & unlocks

Sailing will offer access to a plethora of new content for you to enjoy. The content unlocked at later levels will allow those of you who become expert sailors to reap the rewards of working hard and reaching those higher levels.

In this blog we are going to talk about the Gemstone Caverns. This area will be a very rewarding area and will only be accessible with a sailing level of 55 (or someone with 55+ sailing level to take you to Atlandys where the entrance to the Gemstone Caverns is found).

Please note: All proposed best-in-slot items and content that would increase the top experience rates available will be polled separately from sailing.
The Gemstone Caverns
The Gemstone Caverns can be found deep beneath Atlandys. The caverns hold masses of gemstone creatures to be hunted, gemstone dragons to slay and even precious implings.

With treasures including the dragon sword, dragon crossbow limbs, the dragon warhammer and Zenyte, a new top-tier gem, you will have no shortage of reasons to take on the caverns.

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Gemstone dragons

Gemstone dragons are a fierce new set of dragons ranging in difficulty from sapphire to ruby. Taking on these beasts will offer you a very slim chance of receiving dragon sword, dragon warhammer or dragon crossbow limbs drops. You will also have a chance of receiving a Zenyte shard, used to create a Zenyte gem.

Gemstone creatures

Jade, Opal, Topaz, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby & Diamond creatures are scattered throughout the caverns. These creatures are no easy catch but an experienced enough hunter should have no trouble getting their hands on them.

Catching these monsters will require between 32 and 95 Hunter, depending on the type that you are attempting to catch.

Precious Implings

These incredibly rare implings can be caught with 93+ Hunter. Looting them will give you a very slim chance of receiving a Zenyte shard.

Zenyte

Zenyte is an incredible powerful new gem created by infusing a Zenyte shard with a cut onyx. Zenyte requires 89 Crafting to be cut and can create a number of powerful pieces of jewellery:

Ring of Death

• 89 Crafting required to craft
  
• Best-in-slot defensive bonuses
  
• When below 10% hitpoints, this ring will fully heal you. After 10 uses it will revert to a Zenyte shard and need another cut onyx.. Doesn't work in PvP.
  
  Ranger necklace (name TBD)
  
• 92 Crafting required to craft
  
• Best-in-slot offensive ranged bonuses
  
• Passive heal effect when fighting NPCs.
  
  Magic bracelet (name TBD)
  
• 95 Crafting required to craft
  
• Best-in-slot offensive magic bonuses
  
• Passive heal effect when fighting NPCs.
  
  Melee amulet (name TBD)
  
• 98 Crafting required to craft
  
• Best-in-slot offensive melee bonuses
  
• Passive heal effect when fighting NPCs.

There is an awful lot more to be unlocked through sailing. To list a few more of the ideas that we will be expanding on in future developer blogs:

• Discover Fossil Island.
  
• Vast dungeons packed with various beasts, both familiar and new.
  
• New locations for training existing skills.
  
• Brand new resources.
  
• Augury & Rigour.
  
• Discover the lost island of Atlandys.
  
• Encounter new races.
  
• Meet the mermaids of Charlotaniya.
  
• ... Lots, lots more. We will want your ideas to help make sailing all it can be!

FAQ

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General:
Why a new skill?
We believe that, as long as the skill being introduced is one that the community are behind, the addition of a new skill can breathe new life into the game for thousands of people while still preserving the Old School experience that brought them to the game to begin with.
Will sailing be free-to-play?
Sailing will be available in F2P. There will be content that is members only but it will be possible for F2P players to train the skill and access a portion of the content it brings.
Will sailing be more like a minigame than a skill?
Not at all. Minigames are very self-contained and, outside of rewards, have no impact on the wider game. Sailing will be seamlessly integrated into the Old School world and will be a true part of the game. As you level up sailing you will unlock the ability to do more and more with the skill. This will be applicable all over Old School.
Will sailing tie into other skills?
Yes. Sailing will be a part of the game and, similar to many other skills, there will be direct connections between sailing and other skills. A couple of examples of this are how the ranged skill will be required to use some of the higher tier cannons and the woodcutting skill will be required to obtain the logs used to make higher tier ships. Sailing will not be a stand-alone part of the game.
Will I need to be in a group to get the best experience rates?
No. The top experience rates will be achievable in solo gameplay.
Will there be any player design contests for sailing?
Yes. We plan to have the community submit a lot of ideas to help make sailing all it can be. Keep an eye out for those in the near future.
Are there going to be any player-vs-player aspects to sailing?
Not initially. We had planned to include PvP in the initial launch of sailing but we felt that getting the fundamentals of the skill as perfect as we could before introducing PvP would be a better way of going about it.
How will I control my ships when at sea?
When out at sea you will move your ship in the same way that you usually walk with your character. This will offer you a lot of freedom in the water and will make the experience feel smooth and familiar.

Training
Is the focus of the skill going to be building ships? Will it be the best experience?
No. You will earn more experience by taking to the sea and exploring. Ship building will be a key part of the skill but it will not be the primary way to train.

Ship building will act as a slower, more grindable part of sailing.
Will I be able to enjoy sailing as a pure?
Yes! Pures will be able to train sailing without fear of unexpected experience gain.
Will I be able to enjoy sailing as a skiller?
As with pures, there will not be any risk of unexpected experience gain when playing as a level 3 skiller. With this said, some content may not be fully accessible.

Rewards
Will anything overpowered be introduced with sailing?
The community will have control over which rewards end up in game as we will be polling any rewards that will raise the current top experience rates as well as any new best-in-slot equipment. If the community does not approve of the rewards they will not pass the poll and they will not end up in game.
Will I need to have a high sailing level to visit areas unlocked by sailing?

Some areas that are locked behind a sailing requirement will be accessible by players that do not have the necessary sailing level if someone that does have the sailing requirement chooses to take them there. There will, however, be some content that requires a certain sailing level to access.

If you have any further questions that were not answered by this developer blog, please check out the recent sailing AMA that Mod John C hosted on reddit as well as the live sailing Q&A that took place last Sunday.

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Treasure Hunter – Starfury Armour

September 8, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Slayer Assignment Rework

September 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Slayer Assignment Rework

This week in Old School we have, as always, got a number of quality of life changes as well as a rework of the way slayer tasks are assigned. Let's get into the details.

Slayer Assignment Rework

We have reworked the slayer assignment tables to remove bad tasks, unnecessary requirements and have altered the weighting of certain assignments.

The rewrite of the assignment system allows us to add tasks in a way that doesn't have a large impact on the rate at which all other assignments are given. With the previous system, some tasks ended up being so rare that you would almost never see them.

We have also removed the combat level checks on all tasks, although the combat level requirements on slayer masters remain. For example, players under 110 combat would previously not have been able to receive a dark beasts task despite being capable of killing dark beasts and meeting all other requirements. We have now removed all combat level limitations for assignments.

We have also made some direct changes to assignment tables based on feedback from the community:

• Gargoyles, nechryaels, abyssal demons, spiritual mages, spiritual rangers and spiritual warriors can now be assigned by Vannaka.
  
• Chaeldar will now assign between 110 and 170 spirit creatures and aviansies.
  
• Removed a number of terrible assignments from Duradel.
  
• Duradel will now assign between 130 and 200 nechryaels, spiritual mages and spiritual rangers.
  
• Nieve can now assign between 10 and 20 black dragons.
  
• Nieve can now assign dark beasts.

If you have any feedback following these changes to the slayer assignment system please let us know. We will continue to tweak the slayer assignment system to be appropriately balanced for Old School and to the liking of the community. Your feedback is key in making this happen.

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The red dragons and baby red dragons found in the Brimhaven dungeon have also had their area expanded and a few new spawns added.

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In addition to adding new spawns for existing monsters, we have added a new type of monster in Brimhaven dungeon: baby green dragons. They can be found east of the fire giants. It is possible to quickly access the baby green dragons by climbing up a vine found to the north of the cave, right by the entrance. This vine requires 87 Agility to climb.

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These baby dragons will allow slayers that receive a green dragon task to trade a bit of experience and profit for extra safety.

Sell 50 to shops

When selling items to a shop you now have the option to sell 50 at a time. This should help make the process of selling items to stores a whole lot smoother if you are trying to sell large quantities.

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It should be noted that a "Buy 50" option has not been added alongside this.

Kharazi Jungle Shortcut

A shortcut into the Kharazi jungle which requires 79 Agility and access to the Legends' Guild to use has been added just east of the entrance to Shilo Village.

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Teleport outside of your player owned house

It is now possible to toggle whether teleporting to your house will place you inside your house or by the house portal. This option can be found in your house options in the settings tab.

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In other news...

• The smithing experience granted when mining granite or sandstone with the infernal pickaxe has been tripled.
  
• Adding a spotted cape to your PoH cape rack will no longer cause issues with getting capes out of it again.
  
• A cutscene in the King's Ransom quest has been fixed, it was cutting off King Arthur's poor head.
  
• Fixed a render order issue on Dharok’s helm.
  
• Resolved a clipping issue on the Kandarin Headgear 2 and 3.
  
• All trail combat NPCs now cannot prevent a player from being attacked by a player inside a single combat zone of the wilderness.
  
• All trail combat NPCs now also do not allow a player to be attacked by several players at once in a single combat zone.
  
• NPC's will no longer sometimes turn invisible on the south west tile of a Dwarf Cannon.
  
• It is no longer possible to use the Jutting Wall entrance to the Wilderness GWD to avoid damage.
  
• Resolved an engine issue causing players to turn invisible.

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Maintenance | 11th September

September 10, 2015, 5:00 pm

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BTS Video - Vampyres!

September 10, 2015, 5:00 pm

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BTS Video - Vampyres!


Tune in to this week's Behind the Scenes to unveil more details on the new Vampyre quest ahead of Monday's release.

Watch this week's BTS video to find out more about what to expect and how the new quest's lore ties into the Myreque series!

Head to our YouTube channel and subscribe there for more official RuneScape videos.

Podcast - Lord of Vampyrium

Mod MattHe talks to Mod Rowley and Mod Sarah about all things Myreque, including the upcoming quest and the lore surrounding it.

There may be some spoilers so be careful!

You can listen to the podcast now on YouTube, or head to our Podbean or iTunes pages.

Developer Q&A Recap

In this week's Dev Q&A, our awesome developers discuss the upcoming Elf City Waterfall Fishing release, the new Elite Mobs and a sneak peek at what we can expect for this year's Halloween event!

Definitely not one to be missed!

If you didn't catch this week's live-stream, never fear! You can watch it all again here:

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The Lord of Vampyrium | Master Quest

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The Lord of Vampyrium | Master Quest

Get ready for September's bloodiest update – The Lord of Vampyrium is here.

This Master-level quest is the sixth in the Myreque series. Can you help the brave band of freedom fighters take down the tyrannical Lord Drakan?
Read on to find out more!

How to Start

Speak to Vanescula near Burgh de Rott

Requirements

You must be a RuneScape member
Branches of Darkmeyer
79 Construction
78 Slayer
76 Hunter
75 Attack
75 Constitution
75 Defence
75 Strength

Recommended

110+ Combat Level Drakan Medallion
Darkmeyer Outfit Blisterwood weaponry

In an act unseen in living memory, Lord Drakan has appeared in public – an opportunity that the Myreque can't pass up.

This is their chance to take down the biggest of bads, and they need your help. Infiltrate Darkmeyer once again, and bring a blisterwood-tipped end to Drakan's reign of terror...if you can.

This is as dark and intense as RuneScape questing gets, and we hope you have a fang-tastic time. There's a full-blooded helping of rewards, too, including new blisterwood weapons and a cosmetic wing override.

If you haven't already, check out the latest Lores & Histories story – The Old Blood– to uncover some of Drakan's early history and get in the mood for the quest itself. You can also try the Vampyre's Riddle – a web-based mystery with some cool prizes up for grabs if you complete it by 21st September.

Have fun!
The RuneScape 'Guardians' Team

This Week's Streams

Each week we stream developer Q&As, in-game events and more. Watch our streams and find a full streaming schedule over on our Twitch channel.

Check our YouTube channel, too, for recap videos of streams you may have missed, including last week's Q&A, which featured Waterfall Fishing, Halloween & Elite Mobs teasers!

This week sees your chance to ask anything you like about the upcoming Goebie Quest, and a RuneScape first – your chance for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at how we created the epic quest The Lord of Vampyrium.

Developer Q&A: with Goebie Quest teasers | 16:00 UTC, Tuesday 15th September

Join the usual cast of JMods on the streaming sofas as they take your questions. this week, we'll be featuring the upcoming Goebie Quest, and taking all your Lord of Vampyrium questions. What will your next adventure on Mazcab entail? Find out on this week's stream!

Ask your questions on the forums, on Reddit, or on Twitter using the hashtag#RSDevQA.

Lord of Vampyrium – Developer Commentary | Time TBC, Thursday 17th September

As you may well know, The Lord of Vampyrium is here. Bringing an exclusive insight into the work and processes that went into the quest, Mods Rowley and Joe will take you through the development journey of one of RuneScape's most highly-anticipated quests.

This is one for any budding game developers!

If you haven't played through the quest by then, beware - there will be spoilers!

In Other News

• The winning faction for the God Caps competition is Zaros! Those who purchased a cap can expect a Zaros-themed headpiece in-game in around a month's time.[/*]

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Graphical:

• A graphical issue with the male ice warrior helmet which prevented the jaw from displaying has been fixed.
  
• The shoulder pads on the Astromancer top have been attached to the outfit.
  
• The Barbarian walk override now correctly works in the Wilderness when wielding two-handed weapons.
  
• Female Golden Zamorakian Warpriest armour no longer disconnects the player's torso.
  

Skills, D&Ds & Minigames:

• The Portable Fletcher will now correctly save magic logs when fletching shieldbows.
  
• The Defence level requirement for Warpriest armour displayed in the Defence skill guide has been corrected.
  
• Messages displayed when filling runecrafting pouches have been made consistent.
  
• The Friendly Wave perk now works correctly during Heist.
  
• Players may now freely summon pets inside the Clan Wars portals.
  
• The Soul Wars task in the Minigames interface now points to the Soul Wars portal in Edgeville.
  

Quests, Challenges and Achievements:

• Rings of recoil now work against the skeletons that appear in the Smoking Kills quest.
  

Other:

• Queuing abilities on cooldown will no longer wait an extra tick before triggering.
  
• An issue that causes the Kamil and Fareed outfits to permanently appear as equipped has been fixed.
  
• The level 40 Starfury cape is no longer considered a members-only object.
  
• A typo in the name of the Chronicle Absorption prayer has been fixed.
  
• The duplicated 'cast' option has now been removed from the Magic spellbook.
  
• The volumes of over 40 music tracks have been adjusted.
  
• Players can no longer place challenge gems next to a bank.
  
• The group member list is no longer incorrectly scrolled up when viewing someone's stats from further down in the list.
  
• The flow of using a legendary pet's beast of burden ability to make it less of a chore.
  
• Legendary pets using the beast of burden ability now have a static life point pool of 10,600. As such, they can be killed in PvM situations such as Araxxor and Araxxi. They will also abide by the following rules:
  
  
  
  • Can be healed by extending the time of your pet, using the appropriate BoB pouch (if you are not at the 2 hour cap).
    
  • Can be healed using the Tribute stone, Throne of Fame and player-owned House obelisk.
    
  • At 0 life points, your pet will drop all of its carried items but stay active.
    
  
  

Ninja Fixes:

• Players can now store up to 30 music tracks in a playlist.
  
• Selecting 'Auto-cast' spell in combat will now automatically select the spell for both main-hand and off-hand without a confirmation window.
  
• The following quest fights have been rebalanced:
  
  
  
  • Elvarg:
    
    
    
    • 10,000 life points (up from 6,000).
      
    • Max hit of 720 (up from 200).
      
    • Hits a maximum of 1,000 (up from 300) damage with dragon-fire with an anti-dragon shield equipped, and 1,500 (up from 1,200) without.
      
  • Elvarg (Dominion Tower):
    
    
    
    • Same changes as the quest variant.
      
    • 15,000 life points (up from 9,000).
      
    • Max hit of 900 (up from 300).
      
  • Count Draynor:
    
    
    
    • 3,000 life points (up from 500).
      
    • Max hit of 300 (up from 120).
      
  • Count Draynor (Dominion Tower):
    
    
    
    • Max hit of 447 (up from 120).
      
  • Desert Treasure:
    
    
    
    • Dessous now has 25,000 life points (up from 3,000).
      
    • Dessous now has a max hit of 864 (up from 240).
      
    • Dessous will now occasionally use his ranged attack in his standard attack rotation.
      
    • Kamil now has 21,000 life points (up from 3,150).
      
    • Kamil now has a max hit of 907 (up from 252).
      
    • Kamil now has a cooldown on his ice attack, and Freedom may now be used to escape.
      
    • Damis (both forms) now has 20,000 life points (up from 3,100).
      
    • Damis (both forms) now has a max hit of 892 (up from 248).
      
    • Fareed now has 20,000 life points (up from 3,000).
      
    • Fareed now has a max hit of 864 (up from 240).
      
  • Desert Treasure (Dominion Tower):
    
    
    
    • Same changes as the quest variants.
      
    • Dessous now has 20,000 life points (up from 6,000).
      
    • Dessous now has a max hit of 864 (up from 360).
      
    • Kamil now has 20,000 life points (up from 6,300).
      
    • Kamil now has a max hit of 907 (up from 378).
      
    • Damis now has 20,000 life points (up from 6,200).
      
    • Damis now has a max hit of 892 (up from 372).
      
    • Damis's second form now has 20,000 life points (up from 7,500).
      
    • Damis's second form now has a max hit of 1036 (up from 600).
      
    • Fareed now has 20,000 life points (up from 6,000).
      
    • Fareed now has a max hit of 864 (up from 360).
      
  • Nomad:
    
    
    
    • Soul Bolt now has a max hit of 1036 (up from 450).
      
    • Disintegrate now stuns the player correctly, clearing all defensive abilities.
      
    • Disintegrate once again deals max life points minus 1 instead of 50% of max life points.
      
    • Mirror images now have the same current life points as Nomad, to make discovering the real Nomad more tricky.
      
    • Soul Blast now deals 7,500 damage (up from 3,000).
      
    • Land mines now deal 4,000 damage (up from 1,000).
      
  • Nomad (Dominion Tower):
    
    
    
    • The same changes as the quest variant.
      
    • Now is slightly more accurate than the quest variant.
      
    • Soul Bolt now has a max hit of 1470 (up from 675).
      
    • Land mines now deal 4,000 damage (down from 10,000).
      
    
    
  
  

Vampyre Week | Vampropaganda Competition

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Vampyre Week | Vampropaganda Competition


We're getting our teeth all-things vampyre for this week's release of The Lord of Vampyrium!

There's something for everyone, so read on to discover and find out more about all of the exciting things that you can take part in this week.

Facebook Quiz

Have you ever wondered who you would side with in the battle for vampyric supremacy? Now you can find out!

Head to the RuneScape Facebook page this week and take on our new Vampyre Quiz to find out whether you're more of a Vanescula or a Drakan kinda guy or gal.

Vampropaganda

Know your team. Know your place.

In this war we can only have one leader, but whose side will you support?

We want you to create a propaganda poster supporting your side for either Lady Vanescula or Lord Drakan. Get creative, keep it clean and make it convincing! Why should we join you?

Winning entry will get brand new signed concept artwork, an official RuneScape t-shirt of their choice from the Merch Store (excluding the new Level Up T-shirts) and 5 Bonds!

Send your entries to us on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #Vampropaganda, or send us your entries to competitions@jagex.com with the subject heading 'Vampropaganda poster'. Competition closes midnight on Sunday 20th September 2015.

For more information, please check out our competition guidelines.

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Vampyre's Riddle

If you haven't already, make sure you check out the Vampyre's Riddle for a chance to win some great rewards! Test your knowledge and stretch your brain with these lore-ridden puzzles which will immerse you in Myreque quest nostalgia!

First place will win new signed concept artwork, an official RuneScape T-shirt from our merch store of your choice (excluding the new Level Up T-shirts) and 5 Bonds! Second and third place will win signed concept artwork and 3 Bonds each.

But hurry! Competition closes on Monday 21st September 2015.

Good luck!AMA & Forum Q&A

Do you have any questions about the new quest? Want to know how we created the awesome landscapes, or created the story of the vampyres? Maybe some hints about what's to come in the conclusion of the Vampyre quest line?

Well, we're giving you the chance to ask your questions to our fantastic Guardians dev team, who have seen it through all the stages of its development.

Wednesday 16th September, 16:00-17:00 Game Time - forum Q&A

Head to the forums and ask your Vampyre questions! The team will be there from 16:00-17:00 to answer them; don't miss out!

Thursday 17th September, 16:00-17:00 Game Time - Reddit AMAA

Or, if you're a Reddit-dweller, head to the RuneScape subreddit from 15:30 Game Time and post your questions in our stickied thread. The team will be on hand to answer for the hour!

Stream - Lord of Vampyrium: Developer Commentary - 20:00 Game Time

Join us from 20:00 Game Time tonight as our Devs take you through some of the things you may not have seen during the quest and how we developed it. Not to be missed!

If you've not done the quest, be warned; there will be spoilers.

Events

Put some time aside in your diaries for Wednesday 16th September for a special CM Vampyre event! Join Mods JD and Neena in a Vampyre costume social event!
Join them at Draynor Manor in w42 at 14:00 Game Time!

Players' Gallery - Vampyres

If the dark arts are your forte, you'll love the vampyric theme of the next Players' Gallery.

Check the forum thread for details of how to enter your fang-tastic creations.

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Dev Blog: Content Poll #36

September 14, 2015, 5:00 pm

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This Weekend on Twitch

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The weekend is here and, as always, there will be lots of Old School streams happening over the next couple of days! Here are some to watch out for...

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Play DarkScape | Free-to-Play Open World PvP


Into PvP, high-stakes trade and making your own way in a dangerous world? Do we have a surprise for you.

Try DarkScape now by logging on with your existing RuneScape account!

DarkScape is now live and playable for free! This experimental new game takes RuneScape and throws it into chaos, giving you free reign for intense combat and ruthless trade wars.

• Wilderness rules everywhere means heart-pounding PvP combat.
  
• Three separate economies and lucrative high-risk regions mean enticing prospects for enterprising merchants.
  
• Most of RuneScape's content – completely free – and a fresh level 1 start means an adventure-filled, high-risk world for everyone.
  
• RuneScape members get additional benefits to help with quicker progression.
  
• Frequent updates, inspired by player activity.

Why DarkScape?

With DarkScape, we're trying something new and exciting, taking RuneScape's wealth of content and changing the fundamental rules to create a whole new experience – something not possible in RuneScape itself.

The rule changes for DarkScape – fully detailed in the FAQ – are designed to encourage emergent gameplay of the most devious kind. Ever dreamed of forming a roaming clan of bandits? Fancy yourself a ruthless runite tycoon? Just want to find your fortune in a world with danger around every corner? DarkScape's the place to do it.

Based on RuneScape though it is, DarkScape is very much its own game. We've got some awesome ideas for future DarkScape content, and Mod Pi's going to be watching - making frequent changes, directly inspired by how you play the game.

Get Involved!

We've kept DarkScape quiet so everyone can come to it completely fresh. This is a world for the taking with wit, guile and strength, and we can't wait to see what you do with it. It'll be your stories that bring it alive, and your feats that become its legends.

We've released DarkScape in a raw, formative state, so it can be driven from the earliest possible point by its community – realising its potential as an emergent, player-led game. This is your chance to be in at the start of something new – to help make a game that you want to play.

Give us your ideas and feedback on Reddit and the forums, and – most importantly – get in game and start backstabbing, brutalising and conniving.
Follow us @RSDarkScape for the latest DarkScape happenings, and Tweet#DarkScape to tell the world about your adventures.

Play DarkScape now, and check the FAQ if you have any questions.

Angler's Outfit & Slayer

September 16, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Angler's Outfit & Slayer

This week in Old School we have the release of the Fishing Trawler outfit! A handy set to earn you bonus fishing experience. We've also got a few additions to Old School that will please slayers as well as the release of the infrastructure for in-game bug reports.

Slayer task extensions

It is now possible to unlock extended slayer tasks for an additional 10 assignments.

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You can now purchase extensions for the following tasks:

• Bloodveld
  
• Aberrant spectre
  
• Aviansies
  
• Mithril Dragons
  
• Cave Horror
  
• Dust Devil
  
• Skeletal Wyvern
  
• Gargoyle
  
• Nechryael
  
• Cave Kraken
  Unlocking task extensions individually will cost 100 points per task. If you choose to unlock all of your remaining task extensions at once you will receive a small discount on the price.
  
  Nieve's cave expansion
  
  Nieve has been hard at work expanding her cave and the new area is now finished! You can head to the western end to find a number of new black demon, black dragon and blue dragon spawns!

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Angler's Outfit

When playing Fishing Trawler you now have a slim chance of receiving one piece of the trawler outfit. On top of looking well and truly fisherman-like, each piece of the trawler outfit provides a small increase to fishing experience gained while it is worn.

• Hat - 0.4% fishing experience bonus
  
• Top - 0.8% fishing experience bonus
  
• Legs - 0.6% fishing experience bonus
  
• Boots - 0.2% fishing experience bonus
  When the entire set is worn at once you will receive an additional 0.5% bonus fishing experience - totaling 2.5%!
  
  There has never been a better time to try your hand at Fishing Trawler. What are you waiting for?!

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Slayer & Combat Requirements

Before this month, Slayer Masters would always check your combat level when choosing your assignments, ensuring they didn't assign you anything "too tough". In practice, many masters had extremely conservative ideas about what was "too tough"; for example, you couldn't get a Dark Beasts task without 110 combat.
We recently removed the combat requirements from tasks, allowing players to undertake tougher tasks than before. However, this wasn't always beneficial, especially for lower-level players who now found themselves confronted with bronze dragons, etc.
In today's update, we have restored combat level checks to the tasks, but Slayer Masters now give you the option to disable these checks. Speak to your Slayer Master - either in person or via the Lunar spell - to decide whether or not they should check your combat level when choosing tasks for you.

In-game bug reports

We have now launched the infrastructure for in-game bug reports. You're now able to send reports of bugs without ever having to leave Old School.

The in-game report form will be found by right-clicking the report button found at the bottom of your chat box.

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If you ever encounter a bug in-game you will be able to use this form to notify the team and provide information that will help us get it fixed.

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This form is, without a doubt, the best way to get bugs addressed. If you find a bug, please let us know using this report form.

In other news...

• Rebalanced Duradel & Nieve’s slayer assignment lists.
  
• It is no longer possible to remain in the stance of sitting on a sled when leaving Trollweiss unexpectedly.
  
• The topology of the amulet of damned has been improved to reduce clipping.
  
• An issue where it would act as if the player was on the South side of the shortcut at Lava Dragons despite being on the North side has been fixed.
  
• The task to make a Guthix balance potion in Morytania will now tick off if you are anywhere in Morytania, not just at ground level.
  
• Added messages for mixing a guthix balance potion to the game filter.
  
• It is no longer possible to smuggle the team hats from Trouble Brewing.
  
• The 'Wedge' now tells you the correct amount of teleports to Sherlock for completing the Elite Kandarin diary in his reward dialogue.

Dev Blog: Skillcape Perks

September 17, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Dev Blog: Skillcape Improvements Project

A very popular idea over the past year and more has been to add little improvements to each of the skillcapes - to give them more of a reason to be worn when training the related skill!

Well we agree and have been working on collecting ideas for the skillcapes but we feel some of these ideas could be improved and want your help! Either post your ideas and feedback here or tweet me or Mod John C.

The feature we add to each cape should fit certain criteria:

• Should only a small perk.
  
• Should not have anything more than a tiny impact on the XP rate for that skill.
  
• Should be a circumstance where the perk would actually be useful.
  
• There should only be 1 perk for each. Your suggestion would replace the idea we have.
  
• The stats of the capes should not be changed.
  
  Current Perks
  
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  Attack
  
• Unlimited teleports to the Warrior's Guild.
  
  It is hard to come up with ideas for the melee combat skills, but this does seem appropriate. We thought about having it perm boost to 100, but it wouldn't really be useful at all versus any cape with an offensive bonus.
  
  
  
  
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  Strength
  
• Unlimited teleports to the Warrior's Guild.
  
  It is hard to come up with ideas for the melee combat skills, but this does seem appropriate. We thought about having it perm boost to 100, but it wouldn't really be useful at all versus any cape with an offensive bonus.
  
  
  
  
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  Defence
  
• Act as a Ring of Life.
  
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  Ranged
  
• Act as an accumulator.
  
  This seems logical - while not having the stats of the Ava device, it does give you an alternative, something you can use to show off with but still have your ammo picked up.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Prayer
  
• Will provide the effects of the Holy Wrench.
  
  This will not stack with the Holy wrench but will allow you to save that inventory space rather than having to bring one with you. Seems appropriate for obvious reasons. We thought about making it count as a Saradomin item in GWD but this feels better.
  
  
  
  
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  Magic
  
• Cast Spellbook swap once a day on the cape.
  
  This would allow you to use spellbook swap regardless of which spellbook you are using once a day. It would also not require access to the lunar spells.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Hitpoints
  
• Acts as if you have rapid heal prayer activated, i.e. 2x HP restore rate.
  
  This will not stack with the prayer. (It could do though, get your feedback in). Would provide a nice effect, the prayer after all is low level and doesn't use many prayer points to use.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Runecrafting
  
• Acts as all tiaras or decreased chance of degrading pouches
  
  This would allow access to any and all Runecrafting altars including any future altars if we choose to add them. Most RCers would use abyss, acting as all tiaras could be not too useful, decreasing the chance of the pouches degrading when being filled might be better.
  
  
  
  
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  Construction
  
• 5 daily teleports to the portal room of your PoH.
  
  Similar to the Magic cape idea, allows you to have quick access to teleport portals, and hence should have a limit. This would also mix it up a little from the standard PoH teleport to your portal.
  
  
  
  
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  Agility
  
• Acts as Graceful cape including the weight reduction.
  
  Allows you to show off your Agility cape rather than having to wear Graceful. Seems fitting that when you want to conserve run energy around Gielinor that you wear your Agility cape!
  
  
  
  
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  Herblore
  
• Can search the cape and find a Pestle and Mortar.
  
  You would not be able to do this while you already have one in your inventory. Another one that we would definitely appreciate suggestions on. Feels a bit weak as a perk but could provide help in a few situations.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Thieving
  
• Provides Ardougne cape thieving benefits; that is a 10% better chance of pickpocketing anywhere in Runescape.
  
  This is unlocked via the hard Ardougne achievement diary. We believe this isn't devaluing the diary reward, a 99 in one stat just for one of the benefits of that diary is fair.
  
  
  
  
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  Crafting
  
• Unlimited teleports to the Crafting guild.
  
  Certainly seems appropriate, would be a nice little perk for anyone who is wanting to use any of the content there (guilds themselves could be more useful too though).
  
  
  
  
  
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  Fletching
  
• Can search the cape and find a knife.
  
  You would not be able to do this while you already have one in your inventory. Another one that we would definitely appreciate suggestions on. Feels a bit weak as a perk but could provide help in a few situations.
  
  
  
  
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  Slayer
  
• Can persuade your slayer master to reassign you the same task you just had once a day.
  
  Duradel et al. would recognize you are a very experienced slayer yourself and would be happy to let you repeat your last task - This would only be doable once. Once you have used the repeat on a task, the next day you would have to get a completely new task.
  
  
  
  
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  Hunter
  
• Permanent level boost to 100.
  
  This would hence provide a small boost to your catch rate when hunting - hence this would be a very slight XP boost per hour. Feels a tad artificial so if there are any better suggestions, we'll definitely take them into account.
  
  
  
  
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  Mining
  
• Has the Varrock Armour 3 effect.
  
  The effect of the hard Varrock Armour is to have a 10% chance of receiving a double ore from the rock you mine including the xp for that extra ore all the way up to adamantite.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Smithing
  
• Would provide the Goldsmithing gauntlets XP boost.
  
  That XP boost increasing the XP received for smelting a Gold bar by about 2.5x. This was another skill we struggled for ideas with, feel free to suggest something else.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Fishing
  
• Permanent level boost to 100.
  
  This would hence provide a small boost to your catch rate when fishing - hence this would be a very slight XP boost per hour. Feels a tad artificial so if there are any better suggestions, we'll definitely take them into account.
  
  
  
  
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  Cooking
  
• Would provide the Cooking gauntlets effect.
  
  That effect being that it reduces burning. You will stop burning food at a lower level than you otherwise would. A need for all cooks!
  
  
  
  
  
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  Firemaking
  
• Acts as a light source.
  
  This would be a light source that couldn't go out when failing an agility shortcut or the like. Would allow you to free up an inventory space.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Woodcutting
  
• Permanent level boost to 100.
  
  This would hence provide a small boost to your chance of cutting a log - hence this would be a very slight XP boost per hour. Feels a tad artificial so if there are any better suggestions, we'll definitely take them into account.
  
  
  
  
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  Farming
  
• Give a 5% increased yield from herb patches.
  
  This would stack with any other boosts you can get for increasing yield, i.e. the Magic secateurs etc. This number can also be changed with ease if anyone thinks it is too high or too low.
  
  
  
  
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Increased chance of generating a rare event.

  When sailing you have a chance of generating a rare event based on the upgrades you have added to your ship. If you wear this cape while sailing, this chance would be increased slightly - and there is plenty of reason to sail past 99!


The Max Cape

Firstly, the Max cape is currently being developed by Mod Maz and will be another few weeks away yet. It is far bigger than the other content in the QoL poll given the graphics requirements for an epic emote etc! This cape would be released before this project, and hence we must consider it.

We have two options:

• Allow it to have all the perks simultaneously.
  
• Allow it to only have one, which you must operate the cape and choose.

Given the perks are not really related to one another, we don't have a problem with it giving all the perks simultaneously - they are small and only provide a little help. Your feedback would be appreciated here.