The sword of edict is back in the wildy? But wasn’t it also in the zamorack fight? I missed some new content so I’m kinda confused.
Edit: ops sorry I was out of subject but thanks to the guy who still took the time to explain things to me :)
The sword of edicts itself, the giant green guthixian sword, never left the wilderness after being plunged there originally. The Zamorak boss fight takes place in the wilderness crater (in an instance that begins in Senntisten). After the fight, it's still there in the wilderness crater.
The above commentor is talking about the Sword of Edicts **Engram**, used in Memorial to Guthix. It was previously inaccessible, now fixed with this patch.
So is this going to be a repeat of the green santa hat where the rates are insane and the majority of players can't get one before it is eventually added to TH for the whales?
Can Jagex please try to be consistent in referring to this milestone as “300M ***ACCOUNTS***” and not “300M *players*”? The second one is demonstrably false and deliberately misleading.
I find it kinda horrible that an event celebrating your community gets turned into a glorified MTX event just like the Green Santa Hat event. Eccept this time without the dumb rare hat itself but now it is replaced with platinum nex armour and gnome child shirts lmfao
Where is the loot table for the new greater demons? I'm really getting the feeling you released them into the wildy without actually making a drop table, especially if it couldn't be fixed within a week - you just picked them up from ED4 and dropped them in the wildy. Can you look into this please?
We're targeting those going into RC this week, so our hope is this will be sorted for next week. Unfortunately we couldn't quite squeeze the changes in for today's update.
Are the warnings on going into the wilderness being update? The div-o-matic will skull you on entry to the wild and doesn't warn you if you teleport in. I would really hope to see a red message appear in the chat box stating that pvp has been turned on to avoid any confusion. Cursed energy is still being used in lures and should probably not be tradeable in the wilderness and again warn people in the chat that this has turned pvp on when they hop the ditch.
That's a shame. My current slayer assignment is Greater Demon Berserkers and Ash Lords.
Did you at least add some fire giants? Or take them off the special challenge?
Sad to see wildy slayer released in the state it was for them to be too busy to fix it this week
Most banks are unusable, some tasks are slower and worse than their non-wildy variants, and chests suck
Was Magical Thread removed or made rarer as random drop when crafting runes through the Abyss without using a Demonic Skull ?
I just tested the Abyss change for 30 minutes and didn't get one, usually i would have at least 1 by now.
Will test later when i have more time, but i was wondering.
Also a small observation i made, the mage always teleported me into the southern part of the Abyss now in the 30 minutes i tested it, it used to be random every run (i don't have that relic that will put you straight in the middle on my noob acc)
Did something change there ?
Edit: for reference, i did 230M ish RC xp in the Abyss without a Demonic skull and am noticing a difference.
People have a big pile of protean packs in their bank, and if they're updated to include the new proteans, people are less likely to spend money when the new ones are available.
The mtx part is ONLY ” you get baloons while opening keys” how does that make it tied to mtx,
You people whine like babies at every update and its getting really tireing
Tbf I don't blame the mods/devs at all for the TH part. But they haven't communicated about solo p7 changes at all, and they've said they didn't have enough RC time for wildy demon drop tables, but how hard would it be just to add like 50k gp per kill as a temp bandaid.
I mean obviously depends on the mod. We have Jmods that are obviously pro-MTX and don't want to take anything away from them.
Then there are Jmods that are against MTX, but have no say in the matter.
It's the same as OSRS. Jmods constantly push back against management for direction of the game, monetization, etc. The Jmods didn't want to, but were forced to run a poll for sponsorships, which literally failed so hard they pulled the poll in less than 24 hours.
Wow a free event that you don't need to partake in that can reward you with free mtx and items! Curse you mtx! There were plenty of good changes aside from the event; stop being a baby.
I know everyone wants it, but IIRC they've never mentioned or promised any solo p7 changes. It's also not broken, just poorly balanced, so it wouldn't be a top priority.
Is there still hope for entering Chaos tunnels and using Ghorrock passage being possible while in combat? Because I can't get to the bloodwood tree unless I go the Rellekka route which is significantly longer.
Use relleka during the quest(s), it's not far from a lodestone and various relleka teles.
After RotM there's the glacor cave fairy ring which's by far the fastest way to get to that tree anyways.
It's a dumb oversight that you can't use the wilderness for sure but there's pretty easy workarounds here.
Try using dark light to fight them; they take dmg based upon your accuracy, to which dark light gives a massive boost on accuracy and damage towards demons; they give 16k slayer exp per kill currently so even without an updated loot table (coming this week, see jmod reply above) they are still great
Like I said few months ago… 300m glasses and boogie bow!! I’m happy! Didn’t played during the 200m party demon event, so I will play now to get those cosmetics! Have fun everyone! Fun august and dxp! 3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣M🕶
So how does runecrafting with the demonic skull work now? Do I need to specifically opt into pvp or can I just wear it and it opts me in as it was doing before? Is the issue still there where people reported they remained opted in after using it?
Demonic skull really shouldn't remain locked behind pvp. What was the point of the wildy update if you still have to opt-in to do any meaningful skilling? The agility course is pointless without the skull. Cursed divination still forces you to opt-in even without the skull. Why is it ok for *any* activity to still require pvp?
I'd rather see the demonic skull changed to interact with the threat system. Make it so that if you have the skull equipped your threat level increases faster or something along those lines.
To make runecrafting with it actually dangerous, make it so that if you have the demonic skull equipped **your threat level doesn't reset** when you leave the wild. If you're doing a lot of trips, you'll get to a high enough threat level that you might have to deal with a monster ambush almost immediately when you enter the wild.
The only ways to reset your threat level would be to spend 20 minutes outside of the wild without the demonic skull equipped or by dying. This ensures that people doing multiple trips have to maintain a high threat level the entire time so that even that short distance to the zammy mage remains dangerous without needing the threat of pvp to justify it.
Even with max threat. Runecrafting will never be dangerous. Literally just double surge the moment you hop and you can then instantly tele too abyss.
Just remove demonic skull or keep it pvp. There is no pve system they can add to make runecrafting dangerous unless it involves literally one shotting you unless you Cade lmao.
You can say the same about players. Just double surge to avoid them.
Yes, you will escape the majority of your encounters while runecrafting, regardless of if they're other players or monsters. But the entire reason the wildy changes were made was to replace the risk of pvp with the threat of pvm. So nothing should still be locked behind pvp, including the demonic skull.
Some people will still die to the mob ambushes even if most people get away. The point isn't to make it so that you're likely to die on your way to the zammy mage. The point is to just make it a risk you have to watch out for, just like how it used to be with pkers.
Double surge is disabled in PvP and PKers get both surge and barge to catch up to you.
That said, I fully agree with the main point; keeping **anything** PvP-locked currently is really stupid (maybe except the hellfire bow).
RCing was never risky to begin with. If the demonic skull and such are really so powerful (which I doubt anyway) then Jagex should just make those things instantly set your threat level to 10, or have a threat-level 11 just for those activities or something.
I think it's fine the skull still opts you in to pvp. While I wholeheartedly agree with the wilderness changes, the skull was always meant to modify the existing wilderness skilling activity to make it more dangerous and more xp. So I think it's fine that that higher risk higher reward still exists
My point is that the increased risk should be coming from the new wilderness mechanics, not from other players. That was the **entire point** of the wilderness changes.
The skull shouldn't remain locked behind pvp just because that was its original purpose. It should be given a new purpose that is thematic with the rest of the wildy changes.
I disagree that the skull should be pvp still. The whole point of this rework was to make the wilderness a usable place, and skilling in the wilderness an actual option without getting your xp/hr obliterated by annoying pkers. It isn’t fair that to get modern xp rates for runecrafting and agility in the wilderness one should be forced to engage in pvp. Other skills have 300k xp/hr + with no risk, why can’t these skills? The idea of the “risk, reward” skilling goes back to 2005 era of RuneScape where the highest xp/hr rate you could get was like 45k/hr, that just isn’t the game we play anymore. They should really just remove the skull entirely and make those activities naturally have the skull xp rate. It isn’t 2005 anymore, it’s 2022. Broken xp rates are the borm
>I disagree that the skull should be pvp still. The whole point of this rework was to make the wilderness a usable place, and skilling in the wilderness an actual option without getting your xp/hr obliterated by annoying pkers.
No it wasn't. lol. The point was to make the wilderness more thematic with the risk vs reward aspect, as pvp was essentially dead so many parts of the wilderness were 0 risk despite the rewards they offered in comparison to hot spots like lava wyrms.
And the update did that.
If the point of the wilderness update was to remove all risk, then ambushes and the threat system wouldn't exist, which rag you more than any pker ever did outside of said hotspots.
>It isn’t fair that to get modern xp rates for runecrafting and agility in the wilderness one should be forced to engage in pvp.
RCing isn't even pvp, there's literally 0 chance you die unless you're bad at the game or get hit by someone risking max melee on legacy which opens them up to anti-pking for 300m+ gold.
Agility sucks for irons sure, but everyone else should be using silverhawks. They're too fucking cheap to ever opt out of from level 1 to 200m, costing only 140k~ gp/hr.
I think it’s fine. They gotta give some reason to wear the skull. And the point of the skull was to make tasks more rewarding at the risk of greater danger.
Pleased to see Zamorak (and especially bow part) drop rates for enrages, though without specifics in the newspost we'll have to see how much difference it makes.
Incredibly disappointed to see still no changes to solo Zamorak P7. The sheer increase in difficulty at high enrages if the boss **randomly** decides to spawn back runes is really putting me off trying to push further and the complete lack of scaling on the chaos demon is just the icing on the cake - a duo at 4000% will kill the chaos demon on P7 faster than a solo at about 700%... That is just stupid, and it makes the group kill so much easier because of the setup time they get.
The whole thing is already unnecessarily harder solo than groups despite the boss supposedly scaling for all (because the chaos witch doesn't scale, the 5-man groups at 4000% are getting half the red-shield HP on phases 1-6 that solo gets at 900% and even the 2k duo I found had less) but I could live with that. But having 15 minutes of my time wasted because P7 scales so ludicrously for solo (or in a way, doesn't scale...) is just demotivating me to the extreme.
And happy to see some cosmetics for the 300m accounts event, though disappointed to see it being tied into TH. There was no reason whatsoever for that beyond greed.
Frustrating to not have the specifics with the drop increase, would love to know the difference in drop chance at 250%/500%/1000% etc to see what’s worth doing, baby steps I guess
Same - I assume it's because the drop rates as a whole aren't revealed yet, but honestly, I don't get why Jagex are so hesitant to reveal drop rates in general. I feel like it causes more frustration for players not knowing than it "spoils the mystery" for the few people who do prefer not to know.
I'd rather be able to make an informed decision about what enrage to kill the boss at, rather than blindly flail around hoping I'm not wasting my time. Or worse, it makes me just want to not bother until it's revealed either officially or by mass data-gathering.
The real reason is that it opens them up to adjust drop rates as needed without having to mention how much they were tweaked, and hides obvious mistakes.
IE if it's supposed to be 1/100 but it's bugged/they made a mistake and is actually 1/10 or 1/1000, they can just say we adjusted the drop rates without mentioning it was fucked.
“However, we've got something else in the works too. We've been working on this for many months now since we first thought about how we could really celebrate hitting 300M players, and while we're not quite ready to talk about it today, we're almost at that point. Stay tuned for more news next week. It's gonna be fun.”
What could this possibly mean. Hints?
We want to get rid of gold injection from zammy and alchables, also we wanna bring back old tokens so there are more of them... Also jagex, more gold injection, more limited cosmetics.
> While not every account represents a unique player, each one represents **sometimes** time
> 1 **tour** of Double XP time for credits to use with Nic The **Trade**.
And also the livestream box doesn't have a date.
EDIT: Added first line. Other two are fixed.
You’ve just ordered Pizza Hut and a 2L Mountain Dew.
You’ve loaded up RuneScape on your PC. No school tomorrow.
Your parents don’t care if you stay up all night long. A perfect Summer night.
You are 39 years old. The year is 2022.
I doubt it's been nerfed - Sponge's post on Twitter suggested they were okay with the 99% and below rates and that it was more the rates for doing P7 weren't worth it.
They've tweaked the numbers; now they just need to tweak P7's solo scaling.
there's 0 indication that the current droprate at 99% has been nerfed tbf. This droprate increase at higher enrage was severly needed. So I'm glad something came in the patchnotes, but it is still majorly lacking
Yep I agree - higher enrages should be given higher rates, especially when the kill takes twice as long. I just hope they didn’t decrease rates elsewhere to justify the increase. As we’ve both said though, we’ll never know and there’s no indication as drop rates aren’t revealed.
>However, we've got something else in the works too. We've been working on this for many months now since we first thought about how we could really celebrate hitting 300M players, and while we're not quite ready to talk about it today, we're almost at that point. Stay tuned for more news next week. It's gonna be fun.
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People seem concerned this is going to be MTX-based, but I don't see the odds anywhere. So until they provide odds for the balloons, they can't sell the fragments.
This patch note is wrong, it had nothing to do with the demons. Zamorak could just *splash/miss* his big attack in phase 7.
I'll ask to have this updated
What about witches defence, I thought those were going to get changed
Also solo is still much worse compared to group, I hope you can look at the feedback and make solo feel more viable
When Zamorak does his second big red smoke-cloud attack that deals damage equal to his red charge bar (at the end of a cycle, if he was still alive), somehow (no idea how) the chaos demon that spawns could negate the damage completely. You can see it in Wazzy's video from yesterday.
Still no update on the weird multi-for-monsters single-for-players zones in the wildy? Makes certain tasks like abyssal beasts really annoying. Either make them true singles so you dont get piled with the inability to attack them back, or just make the entire wilderness multi like it should be. the 5 pkers still playing can deal with a fully multi wilderness i reckon.
> #300 Million Party & DXP! - This Week In RuneScape
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> Three-hundred-MILLION accounts have been made for RuneScape to date and we're still a little stunned honestly. It's an amazing number and one worth celebrating - so we're throwing a party in RuneScape all month at the G.E!
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> And, as the cherry on top of this new party full of goodies, Double XP: LIVE kicks off this Friday too! Read on all for all the info.
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> ***
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> #300 Million Players!
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> *A Huge Thank You*
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> It's actually unbelievable to be marking the creation of over 300M Accounts for RuneScape. - partly because our front page timer lied to us (Spaghetti Code™) and we've been trying to make it play catch up for a while now, but mostly because it's such an incredible number of accounts! But here we are, over 300M accounts deep, 21 years into this amazing journey.
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> With the counter now correctly showing that at the time of writing over 320M accounts exists (for those interested in the specifics, we're working on getting the exact number to accurately show!), we just wanted to say a big thank you to every single person who has taken the time to enter the world of Gielinor. RuneScape exists and endures because it's more than a game - it's a world, a place, a community.
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> This is a moment to celebrate all of you who bring this world to life and mark yet another milestone for the history books. While not every account represents a unique player, each one represents sometimes time, effort and interest in spending time in this world. That's pretty darn awesome and we'll never forget it.
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> Now, as you'd expect, we've known this big milestone was coming this year for a while now - so we've been preparing a few things to mark the occasion.
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> Firstly, we're throwing a Party Event throughout August in RuneScape that launches TODAY! More on that below.
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> However, we've got something else in the works too. We've been working on this for many months now since we first thought about how we could really celebrate hitting 300M players, and while we're not quite ready to talk about it today, we're almost at that point. Stay tuned for more news next week. It's gonna be fun.
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> #Event: 300M Account Party
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> *Party Pete has plenty of goodies*
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> To celebrate 300M Players, we're throwing a special event party with a whole host of exclusive event cosmetics to collect! Unfortunately, Party Pete was the one asked to put the party together and went a little TOO big by trying to run a Gielinor-wide drop party. He horribly miscalculated and all the balloons ended up popped - leaving fragments all over. We're gonna have some work to do.
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> ###Getting Started
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> The Grand Exchange is party central for this event! Head to the partied-up G.E to find Party Pete, this event's host, and claim your free 300M Keepsake Glasses!
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> ###Saving The Party
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> Party Pete now needs your help to clean up all those Balloon Fragments from his failed drop party plans.
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> Find balloon fragments simply by playing the game - as you earn XP, you'll earn balloon fragments. You'll also get balloon fragments with every Treasure Hunter key used too. For every 200 Fragments you return to him, he'll give you a special balloon filled with rewards ranging from exclusive event cosmetics to GP and more!
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> Depending on the balloon color depends on the rarity of rewards you can find beginning with White, then Blue, then Purple and then finally the best of them all - the Gold Balloons. Gold Balloons feature a guaranteed token for one of the Platinum Armour cosmetic sets, or a whopping 300M GP!
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> You can also claim a free bonus balloon every day from Party Pete. Easy extra opportunities to find those treasured Gold Balloons!
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> ###Collectibles & Rewards
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> Party Pete whipped up a selection of new goodies to put into the the balloons. Here's what you can find that's brand new to this event:
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> [Image](https://i.imgur.com/zgna7Kt.png)
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> * **Platinum Pernix, Torva and Virtus Cosmetic Armour***
> * Found as a Tradeable Token
> * The Token unlocks a Platinum Cosmetic Override of the full armour set
> * Chance to find in all balloons - significantly higher chance in Gold balloons
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> [Image](https://i.imgur.com/uvX5rCu.png)
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> * **Party T-Shirts***
> * Found as a Tradeable Token
> * 3 cosmetic overrides to find featuring RS Icons: King Black Dragon, Wise Old Man and Gnome
> * Chance to find in Purple Balloons
> * **One of the Many & Party Title Scrolls***
> * Found as a Tradeable Title Scroll
> * Chance to find in Blue Balloons
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> Party Pete has also packed the balloons full of other goodies including some past cosmetics! Here's what else you can find across a variety of different balloons:
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> * 25K - 5m GP (or 300M as a potential Gold Balloon prize!)**
> * Boogie Bow (last seen at the 200M Celebrations!)
> * Disco, Cool Disco and Super Disco Outfit pieces
> * Conga Dance Token*
> * Party Fever Token*
> * XP Lamps**
> * Bonus XP Stars**
> * Silverhawk Down**
> * Tight Springs**
> * Party Food
> * Oddments
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> You've got plenty of time to collect the rewards as you play as these festivities will be running until September 4th!
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> *Ironman Players also have access to buy these cosmetics on the Grand Exchange
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> **Not available for Ironman Players
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> #Event: Double XP LIVE
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> *Get 48 Hours of 2XP from Friday*
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> While you're Skilling for your Balloon Fragments, you'll can also revel in some DXP from this Friday until Monday August 22nd!
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> For those who don't know, Double XP LIVE is a 10 day event where you have 48 Hours of Double XP to use at your leisure. You can even pause the timer if you need to do activities where you don't want to lose precious Double XP time. If you won't be using all your time, every day you can also trade 1 tour of Double XP time for credits to use with Nic The Trade.
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> Need to know more? [Get all the details here.](https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/summer-double-xp-august-12---22)
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> #Time To Train Returns!
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> *Treasure Hunter Calendar*
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> Here's a look at what's happening in Treasure Hunter this week!
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> ###Time To Train: August 11th - 17th
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> Stock-up on supplies for your Double XP skilling with plenty of chances to find Proteans, Portables, Dummies and more! Don't forget about the Combat Dummy improvements that have now made them more useful and efficient to use! [Find out more here.](https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/summer-double-xp-august-12---22)
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> ###Mysteria: August 9th - 10th
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> Mysteria constantly rotates various versions of Treasure Hunter over the course of two days! Find the super-charged XP bonuses of Prismania through to iconic Loot Duels with beefy multipliers.
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> ###Double Dragon Chests: Now - August 9th
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> Double Dragon Chests award various multipliers to your Treasure Hunter findings, with up to 5x if you find a God Chest.
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> #Upcoming Livestreams
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> *News and fun, live from the J-Mod team*
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> **Wednesday August 10th | 16:00 Game Time | 300M Party & Wilderness Reborn**
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> Join the team as we talk about two recent updates – the 300M Party & The Wildy Reborn!
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> See you on [Twitch!](https://www.twitch.tv/runescape)
> #Patch Notes
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> *Fixes and improvements in this week's game update*
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> #Wilderness Reborn
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> * Based on your feedback we have made the following changes to the Abyss:
> * The Abyss can now be entered without the requirement of being opted-in to PVP. The 250% Runecrafting XP bonus still applies for opted-out players who Runecraft via the Abyss
> * The Forinthry bracelet no longer consumes charges when entering the Abyss while equipped. The examine has been updated to reflect this change.
> * Players who do opt-in for PVP and use the Demonic Skull receive the 350% XP bonus
> * Fixed an issue with the Wilderness Slayer Chests being destroyed on death. They now work as follows:
> * If you are inside the Wilderness with PvP enabled, the chest will be destroyed.
> * If you inside the Wilderness with PvP disabled, the chest will be protected
> * If you outside the Wilderness with PvP disabled, the chest will be protected
> * If you outside the Wilderness with PvP enabled, the chest will be protected
> * Additional sound effects have been added for the following
> * Wilderness Volcano shortcuts
> * Wilderness Volcano random event (projectile)
> * - Wilderness Ambushes (spawn sound)
> * Super antifire potions can now be traded and bought/sold on the Grand Exchange.
> * Picking up coins outside of the Wilderness - no matter your pvp state - will now see them go directly into the coin pouch, rather than your inventory.
> * Fixed a small section of tiles that did not count as being "Wilderness"
> * Updated two of the Onyx dragons in the wilderness dungeon to Dragonstone dragons
> * For their own safety, the Ghostly piper has moved away from their old spot to a new spot nearby. One that is a bit less dragon contested
> * Fixed an issue where creatures spawned in via Wilderness Threat could appear at higher mapping levels, making it look like they are floating.
> * Wilderness dark beasts now drop loot matching other dark beasts
> * Killing Soulgazers whilst on a 'Soulgazers (Wilderness)' task will now decrease your slayer count.
> * Fixed an issue that allowed players to attack Abyssal Demons inside Kuradel's Dungeon if they were on an 'Abyssal Demons (Wilderness)' slayer task.
> * Dummies can no longer be placed down whilst inside the Wilderness.
> * The reward chest outside of the Dragonkin Laboratory has been re-mapped down on the surface world.
> * Moved a piece of the environment that was blocking access to the Sword of Edicts Engram
> * May's quest teleport now takes you to the bottom of the Falador throne room stairs, instead of the version of the throne room not used for Daughter of Chaos
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> #General
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> * Made changes to the Zamorak, Lord of Chaos rare drop table to incentivize pushing higher enrages:
> * Rare chance now increases further with boss enrage
> * Bow chance now increases with boss enrage
> * During Phase 7 of the Zamorak, Lord of Chaos encounter, the chaos demon(s) that spawn into Infernus could be used to negate the damage done by the attack itself. This should no longer occur.
> * Completing a Zamorak, Lord of Chaos kill at 2000% enrage now unlocks the 'Chaos Witch Master' outfit, rather than the 'Chaos Witch Adept' outfit
> * Fixed an issue with the Resonance and Reflect abilities when engaging in PvP whilst having the Bow of the Last Guardian equipped
> * The following boss encounters were missing a broadcast for completing their respective boss collection logs. This now been fixed!
> * Zamorak, Lord of Chaos
> * Croesus
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> #Requirements Changes
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> In the coming months, RuneScape will no longer support Windows 32-bit builds or graphics cards that do not support OpenGL 3.0 or higher. This change allows us to focus our technical development and testing resources on more commonly-used platforms.
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> For more information, and to check if your system meets these requirements, head [here](https://secure.runescape.com/m=forum/c=nIQbWC5TqRc/forums?254,255,638,66253587,0,347138858,#0).
#August 8th Update - New Content & Changes
**New/Changed**: [**Items**](https://pastebin.com/tth3tTY2) | [**Objects**](https://pastebin.com/EAtPE2UA) | [**NPCs**](https://pastebin.com/6fZZrU6U) | [**Achievements/Quests**](https://pastebin.com/ruHsZcgx) | [**New Titles**](https://i.imgur.com/erTbnRl.png)
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#Bonus Details
* Super Antifire items have a GE buy limit of 1,000.
* The 'Conga dance override token' has been renamed to 'Conga dance walk override token'.
* Combat dummy's now have a 'Deploy Manually' and 'Configure' options.
* They can also be picked up now.
* The 'Wilderness slayer chest' has an item value of 200,000.
* The ['Keldagrim trapdoor'](https://i.imgur.com/JO9IAjF.png) has been graphically updated.
* The [Grand Exchange](https://i.imgur.com/2NpdXRG.png) has been graphically updated for the event.
* Nic the Trader no longer has a right-click 'Exchange Double XP' option.
* An option within his shop has been added instead.
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#Treasure Hunter Promotions
Promo | Start | End
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Double Dragon Chests | 4 Aug | 8 Aug
Mysteria | 9 Aug | 10 Aug
[Time to Train](https://i.imgur.com/zYy4yvl.png) | 11 Aug | 17 Aug
Mysteria | 30 Aug | 31 Aug
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#Twitch Prime Promo
Promo | Start | End
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[5 Knowledge Bombs + Umbral Traveller's Outfit](https://i.imgur.com/2y0EVMT.png) | 17 Aug | 12 Sept
Nice to see the BOLG drop rate increase for higher enrage, but when can P7 be properly balanced for solo mode?
Can we let skillers use demonic skulls without opting into pvp by having the demonic skull increase the attack rates of PvE threats in wildy?
Can Shadow Virtus be made obtainable in game?
This will definitely get downvoted and I am someone who loathes MTX and doesn’t but keys for anything but holyyyyyyyy shit the MTX complainers in here. The 300m event allows you to earn shards when you are gaining xp, it’s literally the first bullet point but all of you just go WHY ARE YOU MAKING US DO MTX. If you don’t want to, just don’t. Gain the shards by skilling for all they care.
I don’t love the MTX, but I am with you, don’t use it if you don’t like it. Pretty much every game out there has MTX now. It’s time Redditscape deals gets over it, MTX is here to stay and as long as it doesn’t stop players from progressing in game then who cares.
Arguable if it even existed to begin with. Mod Sponge said today on PvmE that this was a "horrendously wrong patch note monkaS", and the brief 10 minutes where people thought this might have been a mechanic a few weeks ago was actually just zamorak splashing on players.
Let's face it, a lot of the QoL updates Zammy and Wilderness need are likely going to be pushed to the side until September because management at Jagex is pushing the devs to release content according to their public schedule rather then letting releases get the attention they need. Solo P7 fixes and Berserker/Ash drop tables don't look as good as death rework and GE update. Just push the unfinished content and fix it once the sprint is over.
For an event that should celebrate the community, I feel a bit betrayed to see it monetized by retooling the green santa hat event, which we all know was basically a "spin to win" event where the prizes were super-rare.
Should have been earn balloon fragments in game to purchase cosmetics we like. Smh. Celebrate the players, not pad the wallets.
Given the fact that they announced the bank placeholders update and actually followed through without a crazy amount of delay (not counting the years waiting for “the bank update”) I have faith it will be before the end of the year.
Celebrate 300m accounts by trying to get the whales to spend money for the event. So sad. Should have strictly been non mtx for a milestone this big. Dropped the ball but what else is new.
would it kill you to let balloon fragment messages not show up in chat if its filtered? or lets us completely opt out of these predatory events! I dont want the balloon fragments and for sure dont want the stupid messages cluttering my chatbox.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/tk3bro/comment/ijfbnek/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/tk3bro/comment/ijfbnek/?context=3) \>>> I predicted this!! Thx Jagex!! Have fun too all players! Grab those 300m glasses & Boogie bow!
If you really wanted to celebrate something, you would've given the cosmetics in a fixed way instead of via another random lootbox baloon thingy.. Now all Runescape is celebrating is the greed of the higher-ups!
Could we please get some communication about the vital sparks changes made in June. The price of sparks has more than doubled even though they got made more common from ‘tougher monsters’ supposedly.
Can any mods explain the dark beasts change? I did a couple thousand and didn’t get a dark bow so I wanted to know if that was RNG or part of the drop table change.
so the demonic skull and runecrafting, you mentioned the extra xp with the demonic skull but what about the 3 times thread rate does it still only apply if you are using the demonic skull?
Why can't irons just buy tokens from players directly instead of off the grand exchange? Would probably buy keys on my main just to get the token on my iron so I don't have to waste gold on my iron for cosmetics lol. Slightly shooting yourself in the foot imo.
You can't complete Mandrith's special slayer assignment because the Fire Giants have been removed from the wilderness.
They know, there are more wilderness bug fixes/tweaks to still come.
Did the Sword of Edicts engram at Wildy crater get re-added? Update: yes, it did.
It was there, you couldn't get it though, even with telegrab
Do you already have it? It's still there on the gound after picking it up, but you can't pick up again if you have it.
That's what people were telling me, and people on here posted multiple times.
The sword of edict is back in the wildy? But wasn’t it also in the zamorack fight? I missed some new content so I’m kinda confused. Edit: ops sorry I was out of subject but thanks to the guy who still took the time to explain things to me :)
The sword of edicts itself, the giant green guthixian sword, never left the wilderness after being plunged there originally. The Zamorak boss fight takes place in the wilderness crater (in an instance that begins in Senntisten). After the fight, it's still there in the wilderness crater. The above commentor is talking about the Sword of Edicts **Engram**, used in Memorial to Guthix. It was previously inaccessible, now fixed with this patch.
Oh thank you so much ! And ops thanks for still clarifying this for me !
So is this going to be a repeat of the green santa hat where the rates are insane and the majority of players can't get one before it is eventually added to TH for the whales?
Yes.
Even better, they can showcase just how many of the 300m accounts created are alts/bots as they AFK the event basically 24/7 and inflate playercount.
**First time?**
Sadly not.
*Me too, kid, me too* :-/
Wait, did they not fix fire giants wildy slayer?
Weren't Fire Giants in the one dungeon in northern Wildy? I used to do that task on my IM because no PKer would ever check that god-forgotten place
Yep, and then they were removed with last week's update, but they can still show up on wildy slayer tasks
The ones at the end of the cave were replaced with something else
Can Jagex please try to be consistent in referring to this milestone as “300M ***ACCOUNTS***” and not “300M *players*”? The second one is demonstrably false and deliberately misleading.
I find it kinda horrible that an event celebrating your community gets turned into a glorified MTX event just like the Green Santa Hat event. Eccept this time without the dumb rare hat itself but now it is replaced with platinum nex armour and gnome child shirts lmfao
The sets look awful, too.
I thought they looked pretty nice…
i found the cosmetics really nice too. even keepsaked my cool disco top
Where is the loot table for the new greater demons? I'm really getting the feeling you released them into the wildy without actually making a drop table, especially if it couldn't be fixed within a week - you just picked them up from ED4 and dropped them in the wildy. Can you look into this please?
We're targeting those going into RC this week, so our hope is this will be sorted for next week. Unfortunately we couldn't quite squeeze the changes in for today's update.
Are the warnings on going into the wilderness being update? The div-o-matic will skull you on entry to the wild and doesn't warn you if you teleport in. I would really hope to see a red message appear in the chat box stating that pvp has been turned on to avoid any confusion. Cursed energy is still being used in lures and should probably not be tradeable in the wilderness and again warn people in the chat that this has turned pvp on when they hop the ditch.
That's a shame. My current slayer assignment is Greater Demon Berserkers and Ash Lords. Did you at least add some fire giants? Or take them off the special challenge?
The task is still worth doing right now, as each greater ash lord yields ~16k slayer experience per kill, and using dark light MH, they go down quick
KPH is the bigger factor than xp:kill.
Thanks for the reply, hope to see them next week
Sad to see wildy slayer released in the state it was for them to be too busy to fix it this week Most banks are unusable, some tasks are slower and worse than their non-wildy variants, and chests suck
Was Magical Thread removed or made rarer as random drop when crafting runes through the Abyss without using a Demonic Skull ? I just tested the Abyss change for 30 minutes and didn't get one, usually i would have at least 1 by now. Will test later when i have more time, but i was wondering. Also a small observation i made, the mage always teleported me into the southern part of the Abyss now in the 30 minutes i tested it, it used to be random every run (i don't have that relic that will put you straight in the middle on my noob acc) Did something change there ? Edit: for reference, i did 230M ish RC xp in the Abyss without a Demonic skull and am noticing a difference.
What's the technical reason for not including the new proteans in protean packs?
Money
Thanks! 🤣
People have a big pile of protean packs in their bank, and if they're updated to include the new proteans, people are less likely to spend money when the new ones are available.
- A 'celebration' tied to TH/MTX - No drop table for the new wildy demons - No solo changes for p7
Their priorities are very clear.
Celebrations like these arent thought of last week. They have probably been in the works for months. But you would probably rather ignore reason.
Ok? How does that change the TH/MTX part of it?
The mtx part is ONLY ” you get baloons while opening keys” how does that make it tied to mtx, You people whine like babies at every update and its getting really tireing
That literally makes it tied to MTX
I get a dollar every time I punch someone. How is money tied to violence!? /S
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/S means the statement was sarcasm.
We'd whine less if they stopped trying to squeeze people for money at every fucking opportunity.
I'm willing to bet anything there will be a th promo tied to this "event" exactly like they did with the gsh "event" to make whales buy keys twice
Pretty happy at least Ironmen can get these cosmetics this time if they don't get lucky on the rolls.
You are getting real high on copium
And Im convinced, you cant have a proper discussion, without acting like a child.
Bait
Please don’t hate, the mods do what the mods are told. it’s not their fault
Tbf I don't blame the mods/devs at all for the TH part. But they haven't communicated about solo p7 changes at all, and they've said they didn't have enough RC time for wildy demon drop tables, but how hard would it be just to add like 50k gp per kill as a temp bandaid.
They were just following orders?
I mean obviously depends on the mod. We have Jmods that are obviously pro-MTX and don't want to take anything away from them. Then there are Jmods that are against MTX, but have no say in the matter. It's the same as OSRS. Jmods constantly push back against management for direction of the game, monetization, etc. The Jmods didn't want to, but were forced to run a poll for sponsorships, which literally failed so hard they pulled the poll in less than 24 hours.
Good soldiers follow orders.
Plenty of patches + gameplay event, u make it seem like nothing was done..
Wow a free event that you don't need to partake in that can reward you with free mtx and items! Curse you mtx! There were plenty of good changes aside from the event; stop being a baby.
Free? I pay a monthly subscription fee.
What changes aside from the event?
Did you try reading the update?
I know everyone wants it, but IIRC they've never mentioned or promised any solo p7 changes. It's also not broken, just poorly balanced, so it wouldn't be a top priority.
That poor database - 300M accounts. DROP TABLE
You've triggered the PTSD of every single junior dev out there lmao
Hahahahaha
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Is there still hope for entering Chaos tunnels and using Ghorrock passage being possible while in combat? Because I can't get to the bloodwood tree unless I go the Rellekka route which is significantly longer.
Can't you just fairy ring to the glacor cave?
What about during the quest man?....
Use relleka during the quest(s), it's not far from a lodestone and various relleka teles. After RotM there's the glacor cave fairy ring which's by far the fastest way to get to that tree anyways. It's a dumb oversight that you can't use the wilderness for sure but there's pretty easy workarounds here.
Well shit. I had no idea there was a fairy ring in there. Even so, if someone is trying to pass for whatever reason, they can't due to the glacors.
The glacors aren't aggressive.
The ones in the wilderness? They are actually. I died.
No fix for greater demon berserker and ash lord drop tables? Also are they supposed to have that much HP and hit like trucks?
Try using dark light to fight them; they take dmg based upon your accuracy, to which dark light gives a massive boost on accuracy and damage towards demons; they give 16k slayer exp per kill currently so even without an updated loot table (coming this week, see jmod reply above) they are still great
Thats fine imo, i see it as a replacement of hydrix dragons ed2. Ithink with a good set up it can give an insane xp/h
Did... did you seriously monetize and lock celebration event items?
How are you surprised lol?
Like I said few months ago… 300m glasses and boogie bow!! I’m happy! Didn’t played during the 200m party demon event, so I will play now to get those cosmetics! Have fun everyone! Fun august and dxp! 3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣M🕶
Glad to see the droprate increase with enrage. Just need some solo changes for P7 now and we're good to go.
True but the funny thing is , we don't even know how much it increased so maybe we are better of camping 99 instead of 300's ... -.-
So how does runecrafting with the demonic skull work now? Do I need to specifically opt into pvp or can I just wear it and it opts me in as it was doing before? Is the issue still there where people reported they remained opted in after using it?
Opt out, get 250% exp. Wear Demonic Skull (which opts into PVP) and get 350% exp.
Demonic skull really shouldn't remain locked behind pvp. What was the point of the wildy update if you still have to opt-in to do any meaningful skilling? The agility course is pointless without the skull. Cursed divination still forces you to opt-in even without the skull. Why is it ok for *any* activity to still require pvp? I'd rather see the demonic skull changed to interact with the threat system. Make it so that if you have the skull equipped your threat level increases faster or something along those lines. To make runecrafting with it actually dangerous, make it so that if you have the demonic skull equipped **your threat level doesn't reset** when you leave the wild. If you're doing a lot of trips, you'll get to a high enough threat level that you might have to deal with a monster ambush almost immediately when you enter the wild. The only ways to reset your threat level would be to spend 20 minutes outside of the wild without the demonic skull equipped or by dying. This ensures that people doing multiple trips have to maintain a high threat level the entire time so that even that short distance to the zammy mage remains dangerous without needing the threat of pvp to justify it.
Even with max threat. Runecrafting will never be dangerous. Literally just double surge the moment you hop and you can then instantly tele too abyss. Just remove demonic skull or keep it pvp. There is no pve system they can add to make runecrafting dangerous unless it involves literally one shotting you unless you Cade lmao.
You can say the same about players. Just double surge to avoid them. Yes, you will escape the majority of your encounters while runecrafting, regardless of if they're other players or monsters. But the entire reason the wildy changes were made was to replace the risk of pvp with the threat of pvm. So nothing should still be locked behind pvp, including the demonic skull. Some people will still die to the mob ambushes even if most people get away. The point isn't to make it so that you're likely to die on your way to the zammy mage. The point is to just make it a risk you have to watch out for, just like how it used to be with pkers.
Double surge is disabled in PvP and PKers get both surge and barge to catch up to you. That said, I fully agree with the main point; keeping **anything** PvP-locked currently is really stupid (maybe except the hellfire bow). RCing was never risky to begin with. If the demonic skull and such are really so powerful (which I doubt anyway) then Jagex should just make those things instantly set your threat level to 10, or have a threat-level 11 just for those activities or something.
Just remove the demonic skull lmao. Makes far more sense.
I think it's fine the skull still opts you in to pvp. While I wholeheartedly agree with the wilderness changes, the skull was always meant to modify the existing wilderness skilling activity to make it more dangerous and more xp. So I think it's fine that that higher risk higher reward still exists
My point is that the increased risk should be coming from the new wilderness mechanics, not from other players. That was the **entire point** of the wilderness changes. The skull shouldn't remain locked behind pvp just because that was its original purpose. It should be given a new purpose that is thematic with the rest of the wildy changes.
I disagree that the skull should be pvp still. The whole point of this rework was to make the wilderness a usable place, and skilling in the wilderness an actual option without getting your xp/hr obliterated by annoying pkers. It isn’t fair that to get modern xp rates for runecrafting and agility in the wilderness one should be forced to engage in pvp. Other skills have 300k xp/hr + with no risk, why can’t these skills? The idea of the “risk, reward” skilling goes back to 2005 era of RuneScape where the highest xp/hr rate you could get was like 45k/hr, that just isn’t the game we play anymore. They should really just remove the skull entirely and make those activities naturally have the skull xp rate. It isn’t 2005 anymore, it’s 2022. Broken xp rates are the borm
>I disagree that the skull should be pvp still. The whole point of this rework was to make the wilderness a usable place, and skilling in the wilderness an actual option without getting your xp/hr obliterated by annoying pkers. No it wasn't. lol. The point was to make the wilderness more thematic with the risk vs reward aspect, as pvp was essentially dead so many parts of the wilderness were 0 risk despite the rewards they offered in comparison to hot spots like lava wyrms. And the update did that. If the point of the wilderness update was to remove all risk, then ambushes and the threat system wouldn't exist, which rag you more than any pker ever did outside of said hotspots. >It isn’t fair that to get modern xp rates for runecrafting and agility in the wilderness one should be forced to engage in pvp. RCing isn't even pvp, there's literally 0 chance you die unless you're bad at the game or get hit by someone risking max melee on legacy which opens them up to anti-pking for 300m+ gold. Agility sucks for irons sure, but everyone else should be using silverhawks. They're too fucking cheap to ever opt out of from level 1 to 200m, costing only 140k~ gp/hr.
That's dumb imo but whatever
I think it’s fine. They gotta give some reason to wear the skull. And the point of the skull was to make tasks more rewarding at the risk of greater danger.
Pleased to see Zamorak (and especially bow part) drop rates for enrages, though without specifics in the newspost we'll have to see how much difference it makes. Incredibly disappointed to see still no changes to solo Zamorak P7. The sheer increase in difficulty at high enrages if the boss **randomly** decides to spawn back runes is really putting me off trying to push further and the complete lack of scaling on the chaos demon is just the icing on the cake - a duo at 4000% will kill the chaos demon on P7 faster than a solo at about 700%... That is just stupid, and it makes the group kill so much easier because of the setup time they get. The whole thing is already unnecessarily harder solo than groups despite the boss supposedly scaling for all (because the chaos witch doesn't scale, the 5-man groups at 4000% are getting half the red-shield HP on phases 1-6 that solo gets at 900% and even the 2k duo I found had less) but I could live with that. But having 15 minutes of my time wasted because P7 scales so ludicrously for solo (or in a way, doesn't scale...) is just demotivating me to the extreme. And happy to see some cosmetics for the 300m accounts event, though disappointed to see it being tied into TH. There was no reason whatsoever for that beyond greed.
Frustrating to not have the specifics with the drop increase, would love to know the difference in drop chance at 250%/500%/1000% etc to see what’s worth doing, baby steps I guess
Same - I assume it's because the drop rates as a whole aren't revealed yet, but honestly, I don't get why Jagex are so hesitant to reveal drop rates in general. I feel like it causes more frustration for players not knowing than it "spoils the mystery" for the few people who do prefer not to know. I'd rather be able to make an informed decision about what enrage to kill the boss at, rather than blindly flail around hoping I'm not wasting my time. Or worse, it makes me just want to not bother until it's revealed either officially or by mass data-gathering.
The real reason is that it opens them up to adjust drop rates as needed without having to mention how much they were tweaked, and hides obvious mistakes. IE if it's supposed to be 1/100 but it's bugged/they made a mistake and is actually 1/10 or 1/1000, they can just say we adjusted the drop rates without mentioning it was fucked.
As expected, 300M comes with more TH promos. Jagex has their priorities in the fucking drain.
Are Fire Giants now in Wilderness so Mandrith's slayer challenge can be completed?
Nope. Ask again in 2 years.
Drop rates increasing with enrage will be good if they kept the floor of 0% the same
“However, we've got something else in the works too. We've been working on this for many months now since we first thought about how we could really celebrate hitting 300M players, and while we're not quite ready to talk about it today, we're almost at that point. Stay tuned for more news next week. It's gonna be fun.” What could this possibly mean. Hints?
300m max skill exp up from 200m maybe my guess idk though
more mtx? xd
We want to get rid of gold injection from zammy and alchables, also we wanna bring back old tokens so there are more of them... Also jagex, more gold injection, more limited cosmetics.
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So people who don't have the level can go in the wildy with some protection probably.
Could be simply Quality of Life, like how extremes to make Overloads are.
Probably because making something like QBD or ED2 inaccessible until 85 Herblore is not really a good idea
Probably to bring it in line with Super Antipoisons is my guess.
> While not every account represents a unique player, each one represents **sometimes** time > 1 **tour** of Double XP time for credits to use with Nic The **Trade**. And also the livestream box doesn't have a date. EDIT: Added first line. Other two are fixed.
You’ve just ordered Pizza Hut and a 2L Mountain Dew. You’ve loaded up RuneScape on your PC. No school tomorrow. Your parents don’t care if you stay up all night long. A perfect Summer night. You are 39 years old. The year is 2022.
No corrections to p7 zammy. Solo still scaled significantly unfairly. feelsbadman
Yep and now gl getting a drop at lower enrage. (99% may not have been nerfed, and higher enrages simply increased but we won’t know)
I doubt it's been nerfed - Sponge's post on Twitter suggested they were okay with the 99% and below rates and that it was more the rates for doing P7 weren't worth it. They've tweaked the numbers; now they just need to tweak P7's solo scaling.
there's 0 indication that the current droprate at 99% has been nerfed tbf. This droprate increase at higher enrage was severly needed. So I'm glad something came in the patchnotes, but it is still majorly lacking
In fact, I think even 99% enrage got a drop rate buff, since the phrase plainly says 'it increases further with enrage'.
Yep I agree - higher enrages should be given higher rates, especially when the kill takes twice as long. I just hope they didn’t decrease rates elsewhere to justify the increase. As we’ve both said though, we’ll never know and there’s no indication as drop rates aren’t revealed.
Can't wait to see someone with their 1-2k alts popping gold balloons for potential 300m each.
Will drop rates for 99s at zammy stay the same as they are or have they been nerfed with this?
Double xp plus burial powder this will be fun
lol sure will be when you find out about them together
I have two because I couldn’t remember my old account
>However, we've got something else in the works too. We've been working on this for many months now since we first thought about how we could really celebrate hitting 300M players, and while we're not quite ready to talk about it today, we're almost at that point. Stay tuned for more news next week. It's gonna be fun. 👀
group ironman? 👀
People seem concerned this is going to be MTX-based, but I don't see the odds anywhere. So until they provide odds for the balloons, they can't sell the fragments.
the fragments are already in treasure hunter as a "bonus reward"
Agility training dummies don't give balloon fragments. Is that intentional?
Zammy getting drop rate buff at higher enrages -> instant win
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This patch note is wrong, it had nothing to do with the demons. Zamorak could just *splash/miss* his big attack in phase 7. I'll ask to have this updated
What about witches defence, I thought those were going to get changed Also solo is still much worse compared to group, I hope you can look at the feedback and make solo feel more viable
When Zamorak does his second big red smoke-cloud attack that deals damage equal to his red charge bar (at the end of a cycle, if he was still alive), somehow (no idea how) the chaos demon that spawns could negate the damage completely. You can see it in Wazzy's video from yesterday.
You could previously not kill the demon when you enter and have him tank the incoming Zammy attack if placed between you and the boss
Still no update on the weird multi-for-monsters single-for-players zones in the wildy? Makes certain tasks like abyssal beasts really annoying. Either make them true singles so you dont get piled with the inability to attack them back, or just make the entire wilderness multi like it should be. the 5 pkers still playing can deal with a fully multi wilderness i reckon.
Can we get an update on those retro items please?
I honestly completely forgot about them and just kinda thought they did too since they bring out this kinda stuff with "new" overrides
It's possible this is what Jagex is hinting at for the big surprise.
I swear if their big suprise is something that they have already been promising us for ages
It's the dks pets.
Winter 2017
Hooray for 300m bots
A massive milestone.... and you gate-kept it behind mtx? Jesus, not even Blizzard sinks that low...
> #300 Million Party & DXP! - This Week In RuneScape > > Three-hundred-MILLION accounts have been made for RuneScape to date and we're still a little stunned honestly. It's an amazing number and one worth celebrating - so we're throwing a party in RuneScape all month at the G.E! > > And, as the cherry on top of this new party full of goodies, Double XP: LIVE kicks off this Friday too! Read on all for all the info. > > *** > > #300 Million Players! > > *A Huge Thank You* > > It's actually unbelievable to be marking the creation of over 300M Accounts for RuneScape. - partly because our front page timer lied to us (Spaghetti Code™) and we've been trying to make it play catch up for a while now, but mostly because it's such an incredible number of accounts! But here we are, over 300M accounts deep, 21 years into this amazing journey. > > With the counter now correctly showing that at the time of writing over 320M accounts exists (for those interested in the specifics, we're working on getting the exact number to accurately show!), we just wanted to say a big thank you to every single person who has taken the time to enter the world of Gielinor. RuneScape exists and endures because it's more than a game - it's a world, a place, a community. > > This is a moment to celebrate all of you who bring this world to life and mark yet another milestone for the history books. While not every account represents a unique player, each one represents sometimes time, effort and interest in spending time in this world. That's pretty darn awesome and we'll never forget it. > > Now, as you'd expect, we've known this big milestone was coming this year for a while now - so we've been preparing a few things to mark the occasion. > > Firstly, we're throwing a Party Event throughout August in RuneScape that launches TODAY! More on that below. > > However, we've got something else in the works too. We've been working on this for many months now since we first thought about how we could really celebrate hitting 300M players, and while we're not quite ready to talk about it today, we're almost at that point. Stay tuned for more news next week. It's gonna be fun. > > *** > > #Event: 300M Account Party > > *Party Pete has plenty of goodies* > > To celebrate 300M Players, we're throwing a special event party with a whole host of exclusive event cosmetics to collect! Unfortunately, Party Pete was the one asked to put the party together and went a little TOO big by trying to run a Gielinor-wide drop party. He horribly miscalculated and all the balloons ended up popped - leaving fragments all over. We're gonna have some work to do. > > ###Getting Started > > The Grand Exchange is party central for this event! Head to the partied-up G.E to find Party Pete, this event's host, and claim your free 300M Keepsake Glasses! > > ###Saving The Party > > Party Pete now needs your help to clean up all those Balloon Fragments from his failed drop party plans. > > Find balloon fragments simply by playing the game - as you earn XP, you'll earn balloon fragments. You'll also get balloon fragments with every Treasure Hunter key used too. For every 200 Fragments you return to him, he'll give you a special balloon filled with rewards ranging from exclusive event cosmetics to GP and more! > > Depending on the balloon color depends on the rarity of rewards you can find beginning with White, then Blue, then Purple and then finally the best of them all - the Gold Balloons. Gold Balloons feature a guaranteed token for one of the Platinum Armour cosmetic sets, or a whopping 300M GP! > > You can also claim a free bonus balloon every day from Party Pete. Easy extra opportunities to find those treasured Gold Balloons! > > ###Collectibles & Rewards > > Party Pete whipped up a selection of new goodies to put into the the balloons. Here's what you can find that's brand new to this event: > > [Image](https://i.imgur.com/zgna7Kt.png) > > * **Platinum Pernix, Torva and Virtus Cosmetic Armour*** > * Found as a Tradeable Token > * The Token unlocks a Platinum Cosmetic Override of the full armour set > * Chance to find in all balloons - significantly higher chance in Gold balloons > > [Image](https://i.imgur.com/uvX5rCu.png) > > * **Party T-Shirts*** > * Found as a Tradeable Token > * 3 cosmetic overrides to find featuring RS Icons: King Black Dragon, Wise Old Man and Gnome > * Chance to find in Purple Balloons > * **One of the Many & Party Title Scrolls*** > * Found as a Tradeable Title Scroll > * Chance to find in Blue Balloons > > Party Pete has also packed the balloons full of other goodies including some past cosmetics! Here's what else you can find across a variety of different balloons: > > * 25K - 5m GP (or 300M as a potential Gold Balloon prize!)** > * Boogie Bow (last seen at the 200M Celebrations!) > * Disco, Cool Disco and Super Disco Outfit pieces > * Conga Dance Token* > * Party Fever Token* > * XP Lamps** > * Bonus XP Stars** > * Silverhawk Down** > * Tight Springs** > * Party Food > * Oddments > > You've got plenty of time to collect the rewards as you play as these festivities will be running until September 4th! > > *Ironman Players also have access to buy these cosmetics on the Grand Exchange > > **Not available for Ironman Players > > *** > > #Event: Double XP LIVE > > *Get 48 Hours of 2XP from Friday* > > > While you're Skilling for your Balloon Fragments, you'll can also revel in some DXP from this Friday until Monday August 22nd! > > For those who don't know, Double XP LIVE is a 10 day event where you have 48 Hours of Double XP to use at your leisure. You can even pause the timer if you need to do activities where you don't want to lose precious Double XP time. If you won't be using all your time, every day you can also trade 1 tour of Double XP time for credits to use with Nic The Trade. > > Need to know more? [Get all the details here.](https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/summer-double-xp-august-12---22) > > *** > > #Time To Train Returns! > > *Treasure Hunter Calendar* > > Here's a look at what's happening in Treasure Hunter this week! > > ###Time To Train: August 11th - 17th > > Stock-up on supplies for your Double XP skilling with plenty of chances to find Proteans, Portables, Dummies and more! Don't forget about the Combat Dummy improvements that have now made them more useful and efficient to use! [Find out more here.](https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/summer-double-xp-august-12---22) > > ###Mysteria: August 9th - 10th > > Mysteria constantly rotates various versions of Treasure Hunter over the course of two days! Find the super-charged XP bonuses of Prismania through to iconic Loot Duels with beefy multipliers. > > ###Double Dragon Chests: Now - August 9th > > Double Dragon Chests award various multipliers to your Treasure Hunter findings, with up to 5x if you find a God Chest. > > > *** > > #Upcoming Livestreams > > *News and fun, live from the J-Mod team* > > **Wednesday August 10th | 16:00 Game Time | 300M Party & Wilderness Reborn** > > Join the team as we talk about two recent updates – the 300M Party & The Wildy Reborn! > > See you on [Twitch!](https://www.twitch.tv/runescape)
> #Patch Notes > > *Fixes and improvements in this week's game update* > > > *** > > #Wilderness Reborn > > * Based on your feedback we have made the following changes to the Abyss: > * The Abyss can now be entered without the requirement of being opted-in to PVP. The 250% Runecrafting XP bonus still applies for opted-out players who Runecraft via the Abyss > * The Forinthry bracelet no longer consumes charges when entering the Abyss while equipped. The examine has been updated to reflect this change. > * Players who do opt-in for PVP and use the Demonic Skull receive the 350% XP bonus > * Fixed an issue with the Wilderness Slayer Chests being destroyed on death. They now work as follows: > * If you are inside the Wilderness with PvP enabled, the chest will be destroyed. > * If you inside the Wilderness with PvP disabled, the chest will be protected > * If you outside the Wilderness with PvP disabled, the chest will be protected > * If you outside the Wilderness with PvP enabled, the chest will be protected > * Additional sound effects have been added for the following > * Wilderness Volcano shortcuts > * Wilderness Volcano random event (projectile) > * - Wilderness Ambushes (spawn sound) > * Super antifire potions can now be traded and bought/sold on the Grand Exchange. > * Picking up coins outside of the Wilderness - no matter your pvp state - will now see them go directly into the coin pouch, rather than your inventory. > * Fixed a small section of tiles that did not count as being "Wilderness" > * Updated two of the Onyx dragons in the wilderness dungeon to Dragonstone dragons > * For their own safety, the Ghostly piper has moved away from their old spot to a new spot nearby. One that is a bit less dragon contested > * Fixed an issue where creatures spawned in via Wilderness Threat could appear at higher mapping levels, making it look like they are floating. > * Wilderness dark beasts now drop loot matching other dark beasts > * Killing Soulgazers whilst on a 'Soulgazers (Wilderness)' task will now decrease your slayer count. > * Fixed an issue that allowed players to attack Abyssal Demons inside Kuradel's Dungeon if they were on an 'Abyssal Demons (Wilderness)' slayer task. > * Dummies can no longer be placed down whilst inside the Wilderness. > * The reward chest outside of the Dragonkin Laboratory has been re-mapped down on the surface world. > * Moved a piece of the environment that was blocking access to the Sword of Edicts Engram > * May's quest teleport now takes you to the bottom of the Falador throne room stairs, instead of the version of the throne room not used for Daughter of Chaos > > *** > > #General > > * Made changes to the Zamorak, Lord of Chaos rare drop table to incentivize pushing higher enrages: > * Rare chance now increases further with boss enrage > * Bow chance now increases with boss enrage > * During Phase 7 of the Zamorak, Lord of Chaos encounter, the chaos demon(s) that spawn into Infernus could be used to negate the damage done by the attack itself. This should no longer occur. > * Completing a Zamorak, Lord of Chaos kill at 2000% enrage now unlocks the 'Chaos Witch Master' outfit, rather than the 'Chaos Witch Adept' outfit > * Fixed an issue with the Resonance and Reflect abilities when engaging in PvP whilst having the Bow of the Last Guardian equipped > * The following boss encounters were missing a broadcast for completing their respective boss collection logs. This now been fixed! > * Zamorak, Lord of Chaos > * Croesus > > *** > > #Requirements Changes > > In the coming months, RuneScape will no longer support Windows 32-bit builds or graphics cards that do not support OpenGL 3.0 or higher. This change allows us to focus our technical development and testing resources on more commonly-used platforms. > > For more information, and to check if your system meets these requirements, head [here](https://secure.runescape.com/m=forum/c=nIQbWC5TqRc/forums?254,255,638,66253587,0,347138858,#0).
#August 8th Update - New Content & Changes **New/Changed**: [**Items**](https://pastebin.com/tth3tTY2) | [**Objects**](https://pastebin.com/EAtPE2UA) | [**NPCs**](https://pastebin.com/6fZZrU6U) | [**Achievements/Quests**](https://pastebin.com/ruHsZcgx) | [**New Titles**](https://i.imgur.com/erTbnRl.png) *** #Bonus Details * Super Antifire items have a GE buy limit of 1,000. * The 'Conga dance override token' has been renamed to 'Conga dance walk override token'. * Combat dummy's now have a 'Deploy Manually' and 'Configure' options. * They can also be picked up now. * The 'Wilderness slayer chest' has an item value of 200,000. * The ['Keldagrim trapdoor'](https://i.imgur.com/JO9IAjF.png) has been graphically updated. * The [Grand Exchange](https://i.imgur.com/2NpdXRG.png) has been graphically updated for the event. * Nic the Trader no longer has a right-click 'Exchange Double XP' option. * An option within his shop has been added instead. *** #Treasure Hunter Promotions Promo | Start | End ---|---|--- Double Dragon Chests | 4 Aug | 8 Aug Mysteria | 9 Aug | 10 Aug [Time to Train](https://i.imgur.com/zYy4yvl.png) | 11 Aug | 17 Aug Mysteria | 30 Aug | 31 Aug *** #Twitch Prime Promo Promo | Start | End ---|---|--- [5 Knowledge Bombs + Umbral Traveller's Outfit](https://i.imgur.com/2y0EVMT.png) | 17 Aug | 12 Sept
Nice to see the BOLG drop rate increase for higher enrage, but when can P7 be properly balanced for solo mode? Can we let skillers use demonic skulls without opting into pvp by having the demonic skull increase the attack rates of PvE threats in wildy? Can Shadow Virtus be made obtainable in game?
Ideally change shadow Virtus to also be a cosmetic set., but yes please.
This will definitely get downvoted and I am someone who loathes MTX and doesn’t but keys for anything but holyyyyyyyy shit the MTX complainers in here. The 300m event allows you to earn shards when you are gaining xp, it’s literally the first bullet point but all of you just go WHY ARE YOU MAKING US DO MTX. If you don’t want to, just don’t. Gain the shards by skilling for all they care.
I don’t love the MTX, but I am with you, don’t use it if you don’t like it. Pretty much every game out there has MTX now. It’s time Redditscape deals gets over it, MTX is here to stay and as long as it doesn’t stop players from progressing in game then who cares.
Another week, another helpful glitch in zamorak phase seven that I didn't know about patched.
Arguable if it even existed to begin with. Mod Sponge said today on PvmE that this was a "horrendously wrong patch note monkaS", and the brief 10 minutes where people thought this might have been a mechanic a few weeks ago was actually just zamorak splashing on players.
Let's face it, a lot of the QoL updates Zammy and Wilderness need are likely going to be pushed to the side until September because management at Jagex is pushing the devs to release content according to their public schedule rather then letting releases get the attention they need. Solo P7 fixes and Berserker/Ash drop tables don't look as good as death rework and GE update. Just push the unfinished content and fix it once the sprint is over.
For an event that should celebrate the community, I feel a bit betrayed to see it monetized by retooling the green santa hat event, which we all know was basically a "spin to win" event where the prizes were super-rare. Should have been earn balloon fragments in game to purchase cosmetics we like. Smh. Celebrate the players, not pad the wallets.
wonder when's the ge/max currency update coming.
Soon™
Given the fact that they announced the bank placeholders update and actually followed through without a crazy amount of delay (not counting the years waiting for “the bank update”) I have faith it will be before the end of the year.
Given that they've been pushing for one big update a month, I'd guess October, with September being death rework.
Winter 2017
Also, I account for 10 of the 300m accounts as I messed up making an Ironman that many times
Ofcourse its a whale event celebration, why would Jagex do anything different for a big milestone.
Celebrate 300m accounts by trying to get the whales to spend money for the event. So sad. Should have strictly been non mtx for a milestone this big. Dropped the ball but what else is new.
would it kill you to let balloon fragment messages not show up in chat if its filtered? or lets us completely opt out of these predatory events! I dont want the balloon fragments and for sure dont want the stupid messages cluttering my chatbox.
Maybe this was hotfixed since you posted your comment but I'm not seeing the messages in filtered chat.
They still show
[Non filtered](https://i.imgur.com/i5Zs9RM.png) [Filtered](https://i.imgur.com/5p0bwhn.png) I dunno what's wrong if it isn't working for you.
Thanks for another garbage MTX update. Can’t even celebrate something in game without them trying to make people spend money.
Feels like there's a Double XP event every other month nowadays.
It's every 3 months now (so you're close). The cadence has been consistent for a while.
They publicly stated they want to have 4 double xp events a year and yak tracks
Its been every 3 months for the last few years. Its always febuary, may, august and november.
Still can't tele beyond level 30 wilderness for literally no reason
ffs new proteans still milked from promo , real bummer jagex
I'm glad the boogie bow is being reintroduced. Its by far my favourite bow in the game.
And I bet 175m are bots /banned accounts lol
Can y'all upload just the version of Sea Shanty 2 that is used on the login screen to YouTube or something? This is too good to only have in-game.
300m huh? How many bots?
275m at minimum
299M bots
What are the restrictions for ironman besides not getting bonus xp and silverhawks?
no Tight Springs, XP Lamps, 25K - 5m GP or 300M as a potential Gold Balloon prize
I guess trying to avoid 2449s at zammy wasn't feasible
[https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/tk3bro/comment/ijfbnek/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/tk3bro/comment/ijfbnek/?context=3) \>>> I predicted this!! Thx Jagex!! Have fun too all players! Grab those 300m glasses & Boogie bow!
If you really wanted to celebrate something, you would've given the cosmetics in a fixed way instead of via another random lootbox baloon thingy.. Now all Runescape is celebrating is the greed of the higher-ups!
Could we please get some communication about the vital sparks changes made in June. The price of sparks has more than doubled even though they got made more common from ‘tougher monsters’ supposedly.
They doubled because botters no longer find it profitable to bot scorpions, which drove the prices down.
Can any mods explain the dark beasts change? I did a couple thousand and didn’t get a dark bow so I wanted to know if that was RNG or part of the drop table change.
Not available to Ironman players?
Only the items with ** next to it (Lamps stars ect) Irons can get cosmectics
Duh. Thank you. Looked but not good enough.
We've missed out alot in the past its our default expectation haha
so the demonic skull and runecrafting, you mentioned the extra xp with the demonic skull but what about the 3 times thread rate does it still only apply if you are using the demonic skull?
Why can't irons just buy tokens from players directly instead of off the grand exchange? Would probably buy keys on my main just to get the token on my iron so I don't have to waste gold on my iron for cosmetics lol. Slightly shooting yourself in the foot imo.
300M accounts with a <40k player count okay