RuneScape

This week, the Ninjas have struck once more. Their cold steel has glanced blows with many elements of the game, including several friction points regarding the Trimmed Completionist Cape. And you thought assassins couldn't appreciate sculpture! There's plenty more going on besides all that, too, so let's take a look.

Ninja Strike 26

• The weekly limit on the Shattered Heart D&D has been removed - good news for those of you looking to complete the 'Stones Throw Away' achievement!
  
• Strange and Golden Rocks can now be added to their respective statues directly from the Statue Collection Bag or the Backpack.
  
  • Added feedback messaging upon trying to add Rocks without currently possessing any.
    
  • Strange and Golden Rocks will now be sent to the Bank if you don't have enough Backpack space.
  
  
  • If your Bank is full, the Rock will either replace the last item received or be lost entirely, depending on the skilling method.
    
  • Info-boxes will now be displayed when receiving Strange or Golden Rocks.
  
  
• The Statue Collection Bag can now be filled via the Bank while it's in the Backpack.

• Added five new Enhancers, all of which may be gained from the Motherlode Maw:
  
  
  • Agile Outfit Enhancer: Grants an additional lap of progress towards the Agile Outfit per completed lap.
    
  • Construction Contract Enhancer: Grants +100% Construction Credits when completing a Construction contract.
    
  • Anachronia Base Camp Enhancer: Grants a +20% drop chance for rare building resources across Anachronia.
    
    • This stacks with the Roar of Osseous effect, giving a maximum +30% drop chance.
    
    
  • Invention Task Enhancer: Grants a new task for the tech tree that you last completed a task for.
    
  • Menaphos City Quest Enhancer: Grants +100% reputation when completing a Menaphos city quest.

• The Creeping Hand pet has been converted to an interface pet.
  
  • Players are no longer able to feed the Creeping Hand Leather Gloves.
    
  • If a player owns more than one Creeping Hand, they will be removed and the player will receive some Thaler in compensation, regardless of which currency was originally used to purchase the additional pets.
  
  
• The Gecko pet has been converted to an interface pet.
  
  • If a player owns more than one Gecko they will be awarded coloured Geckos accordingly.
  
  
• Adult Geckos can now be caught in Box Traps.

• Adjusted the Grand Exchange buy limits of various items:

• The Spirit Cape unlock's special move cost reduction now applies to non-combat familiars.
  
• Moved buyer-contract options at Manor Farm and The Ranch Out of Time to a noticeboard, which allows players to easily select which buyers they'd like to sell to.
  
  • Renamed an option on both Granny Potterington and Prehistoric Potterington to reflect these changes.
  
  
• Players can now select whether to have stack value show the Grand Exchange price, the High Alchemy Price. They can also disable the display altogether.
  
  • This can be done under Settings > Item Drops > Item Stack Information.
    
  • This means Ironmen will no longer have to see High Alchemy prices.
    
  • This affects how much Gold is added to Runemetrics drops based on the chosen setting, and will adjust accordingly when the setting is changed.
  
  
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to obtain multiple rare items for the Anachronia Base Camp.
  
• The 'Conquest Adore' achievement is no longer required for the Trimmed Completionist Cape.
  
• The Lorehound pet will now affect the drop rates of Ancient Pages and Magister's Journal Pages.

The Glacor Front

• Reaper Assignments will now correctly indicate that the Arch-Glacor is the target when using quick-chat.
  
• Fixed a grammar error on the grouping system UI for the Arch-Glacor fight.
  
• Arch-Glacor logs are now shown in the Adventurer's Log.
  
• Rewards from the Arch-Glacor fight are now given to the top three players.
  
• The Arch-Glacor's drops will no longer spawn below the boss, where they are inaccessible to players.
  
• Players can now consistently leave the Arch-Glacor arena after defeating the boss in hard mode.

Burthorpe Path

• The Lumbridge Guardsmen and Harlan the Defense skill master have had a trip to the armoury! They're all sporting snazzy new armour in which they'll defend Lumbridge in style.
  
  • This includes the Lumbridge Guardsmen who appear during a cutscene in You Are It.
    
  • Head and chathead models have also been updated!
  
  
• Dark wizards have clearly been checking off their tasklist, because they're now wearing the Dark Mage Outfit from Yak to Basics. At least, we think they are - we don't want to get too close!
  
• A UI tutorial regarding Charms dropped by cows in Burthorpe now only occurs upon receiving the specific Charm required to close the prompt.
  
• Changed the default position of the Loot window on desktop.

Other

• The Auto Loot Bars option has been removed from Metallic Dragon Trinkets.
  
• The interfaces for Dragon and Metallic Dragon Trinkets have been refreshed.

• Using 'Open all' on Geodes now correctly interrupts the Mining action - you'll still receive XP and ore.
  
• Re-enabled the ability to apply the 'bloom' graphical setting on mobile.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Fire Urn spell from awarding Crafting XP if your level was less than 82.
  
• Mining within the Clan Citadel will now play an animation featuring the correct pickaxe.
  
• Fixed a typo in Leonard's dialogue.
  
• Players may now summon familiars at The Azure Prison checkpoint in the Temple of Amanishi.
  
• Removed a cheeky extra book from the 'Taking it Easy' rest animation.
  
• Portable Workbenches can now be searched for on the Grand Exchange.
  
• HOTFIXED: Death will no longer assign bosses he shouldn't.
  
• Resizing the interface in Edit Mode will now automatically update the interface to take the new size into consideration.
  
• The Monks of Zamorak in the Paterdomus Church can now be damaged by AoE abilities.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented Varrock Armour 4 from being unlocked once the requirements were met.
  
• Added blocking to two trees outside Draynor Manor and south of Barbarian Village.
  
• Reporting a player from a Clan will now correctly grey out the name of the reporter.
  
• Chat messages regarding luck-increasing items are now fully localized on German, French, and Brazilian-Portuguese servers.
  
• The naming conventions for dyed objects have been made more consistent.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused some of the boss buttons on the Reaper's Choice list to be disabled even when players met the requirements.
  
• Opening the Upgrades and Extras interface at the start of a duel will no longer delay the first hit of damage.
  
• Expanding the 'Feats' achievement category will no longer make the scrollbar disappear.
  
• Fixed a bug on the 'Back' button on desktop. The mobile button is still working as intended.
  
• Corrected some minor mapping issues in War's Retreat.
  
• Made a number of changes to Feathers of Ma'at to stop issues with completing corrupted creature Slayer Tasks:
  
  • Feathers are now destroyed on drop to prevent them being placed on the floor.
    
  • Feathers can no longer be traded to a Beast of Burden.
    
  • You must now have at least one Feather in your Backpack before starting to fight corrupted creatures and soul devourers.
    
  • Loot will now go to the person who used the Feather, rather than the player who hit the creature first.
  
  
• Raids bosses and the first two bosses of each Elite Dungeon are once again hidden in Reaper's Choice, and cannot be assigned as a Reaper Task.
  
• Fixed an issue where all subsequent bosses in the Reaper's Choice interface after the first locked boss were also locked.
  
• Death once again ignores 'soft conditions' on bosses when determining whether he can assign them as a Reaper Task. For example, Death will assign the Magister provided you have 115 Slayer even if you don't have any Keys to the Crossing. Soft conditions include acquirable items like Barrows Totems, Ascension Keystones, etc.
  
• Soft conditions (as described above) are now distinguished from hard requirements in the tooltips for Beasts boss requirements, and the relevant wording has been made clearer.
  
• Corrected an issue where Song from the Depths was unintentionally a requirement for Death to assign Queen Black Dragon as a Reaper Task.
  
• Missing requirements (both hard and soft) have been added to the requirements section of the Beasts tab.
  
• The familiar renewal message is no longer duplicated when the familiar is renewed with an active Totem of Summoning.
  
• The Icefiends on Ice Mountain will no longer attack using fire. Safety first!
  
• Potions now consistently show doses in the Herblore Skillguide.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could not restore Summoning points if they didn't have a pet summoned.
  
• Players must now use the Grand Piano Key on the piano to unlock a door to the south in the Broken Home quest.
  
• Shaikahan cannot be poisoned unless using a Poisoned Spear and Poison Potion.
  
  • Shaikahan is also dropping bones again. So that's where the Arch-Glacor was getting them from!
  
  
• The correct NPC animations will now play during a scene around the Falador map table in While Guthix Sleeps.
  
• The Berserker Blood Essence buff will no longer remove unrelated buffs when it expires.
  
• Unreachable spots near the Elf Camp are now reachable.
  
• The camera can now be freely rotated during the court case scene in King's Ransom.
  
• The animation played when riveting Masterwork Armour has changed.
  
• You may now toggle whether Buckets are destroyed or not when making Molten Glass.
  
• The player character will no longer freeze after casting a two-handed Shock or Horror spell.
  
• You may now choose between three different personalities for your Kipple Nano pet.

Awesome Art

Pink Skirts

• Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
  
• Date/Time: Wednesday September 15th 2021, 12:00-13:00 Game Time
  
• World: 35
  
• Location: Sliske Lobby, The Heart of Gielinor

• Hosted by: Spotleewolf & Nexaodmass
  
• Date/Time: Friday September 17th 2021, 23:00-23:59 Game Time
  
• World: 92
  
• Location: Ancient Prison, God Wars Dungeon

Scaper's Screenshots

Community Shout-Out

This Week In RuneScape, we're kicking off a month of skilling for September! You'll be able to get your hands on the Skilling Bundles, a pair of packages that are chock-full of helpful skilling stuff. In other news, we've got some timely changes to The Glacor Front in the Patch Notes, plus the usual highlights from the RuneScape community.

Small Pack

• 10 Pulse Cores
  
• 10 Cinder Cores
  
• 3 Medium Protean Packs
  
• 5 Portable Packs
  
• 5 Combat Dummies
  
• 2 Large Skilling Dummy Crates
  
• 1 Box of Clues
  
• 1 Aura Refresh
  
• 1 Life Refresh

Large Pack

• 30 Pulse Cores
  
• 30 Cinder Cores
  
• 3 Large Protean Packs
  
• 15 Portable Packs
  
• 15 Combat Dummies
  
• 6 Large Skilling Dummy Crates
  
• 3 Boxes of Clues
  
• 5 Aura Refreshes
  
• 5 Life Refreshes
  
• 5 Slayer VIP Coupons
  
• 5 Daily Resets
  
• 2 Weekly Resets
  
• 1 Monthly Reset
  
• 1 Deathtouched Dart
  
• 5 Overloads

The Glacor Front

• Added a Bank Preset for the Arch-Glacor.
  
• Hotfixed - Practice mode is no longer available for the Arch-Glacor.
  
• Hotfixed - Adjusted the Instance Teleport Coordinate in the Arch-Glacor arena so players can surge straight away upon entering.
  

• Fixed an issue that was preventing the 'Insane Final Boss' achievement from unlocking correctly.
  
• The Arch-Glacor boss will no longer drop Bones. Where was it even getting those?!
  
• Fixed an issue where the incorrect armour values were being applied to the new enhanced T90 glove upgrades introduced with the Glacor Front update.
  
• Fixed an issue that was preventing the 'Exposed Core' and 'Glacyte Minions' from working as expected at high enrage tiers during the Arch-Glacor boss fight.
  
• Hotfixed - Added drop broadcasts for the Frozen Core of Leng and the Leng Artefact.
  
• Hotfixed - Fixed an issue that meant the Arch-Glacor boss would die due to DoT effects, which could kill the player in certain situations.
  
• Hotfixed - Fixed an issue where the Pontifex Ring was reducing Prayer-based damage resistance.
  
• Hotfixed - Uncut Dragonstone will now drop in noted form during the Arch-Glacor fight.
  
• Hotfixed - Normal mode damage reduction no longer kicks in after you have completed all mechanics during an encounter.
  
• Hotfixed - The effect of the Enhanced Nightmare Gauntlets now function correctly.
  
• Hotfixed - The third beam of the Pillars of Ice mechanic in the Hard Mode Arch-Glacor boss fight will no longer disappear and reappear when the mechanic ends.
  
• Hotfixed - Manuscripts and Scriptures of Wen will now drop from the Arch-Glacor correctly in all scenarios.
  
• Hotfixed - Triskelions dropped from the Arch-Glacor will no longer be multipled by enrage or mechanic modifiers.
  
• Hotfixed - Rejoining a Hard Mode Arch-Glacor instance after toggling it off will no longer place you in a pseudo-Hard Mode encounter.
  
• Hotfixed - Fixed an issue where sequential attacks of the same type from the same side of the Arch-Glacor boss were not appearing.
  
• Hotfixed - The Bolstered Glacytes no longer set the Arch-Glacors health when they die.
  

The Nodon Front

• The Fractured Staff of Armadyl has been added to the Magic Skill Guide.
  
• The Needle in the Colosseum in Senntisten can now be examined.
  

• Achievements that require the boss to be killed in a certain way will no longer be awarded to players who joined in the middle of an encounter.
  
• When a player dies in the Wilderness with the dyed version of the Fractured Staff of Armadyl equipped, they will leave the broken base version of it as loot.
  
• The overlapping abandoned siege engine in The Nodon Front has been removed.
  
• The materials cart in The Nodon Front has been moved slightly north.
  

Senntisten Archaeology

• Timesprites are now visible when travelling between excavation hotspots in Senntisten.
  
• Fixed some graphical issues where multiple Archaeology icons were visible within Senntisten.
  
• Decorative shovels in Senntisten can no longer be interacted with.
  

Quality of Life

• Slayer and Reaper tasks in the Activity Tracker now include a 'Weakness' field in their description which highlights the most effective combat style. During a task, an icon for this weakness will replace its Activity Tracker icon.
  
• The text which appears when hovering over the Slayer Counter if you are able to capture the target's soul and have not yet done so will now also appear in the Activity Tracker description for that task.
  
• Slayer and Reaper tasks in the Activity Tracker now continue to display the name of the target when there are no kills left, instead of displaying 'no task'. This makes it consistent with the Slayer/Reaper counter.
  
• Slayer and Reaper tasks in the Activity Tracker will now refresh correctly if the target changes but the number of kills left remains the same.
  
• If fighting a boss will require you to be on a members' world, an icon for this will now appear in the Beasts tab under 'requirements'.
  
• The requirements to reach, pass and enter the God Wars Dungeon are now described in greater detail across multiple icons for God Wars Dungeon bosses.
  
• The hover/longpress tooltip for various drinks now includes a description of their specific stat buffs and debuffs.
  
• The tooltips for Run Energy Potions and Drinks now indicate the percentage of Run Energy restored instead of a solid integer.
  
• Renamed the 'Mature WMB' to 'Wizard's Mind Bomb (m)' to be consistent with other mature drinks.
  
• Nettle Tea will now heal and restore Run Energy in all circumstances. Previously, it only restored Run Energy when the drinker had full health.
  

Burthorpe Path

• Replaced the unpopular RS3 Default layout with the current New Player layout, so that new players can experiment more freely.
  
• Renamed the RS2 Default layout 'Default' since there's now only one layout with the 'Default' title.
  
• Scripted environment overrides - such as those applied by specific areas or player-controlled skybox filters - now use the updated cubemaps for more realistic metal reflections.
  

• Achievements for the Giant Mole, King Black Dragon and Chaos Elemental no longer display membership as a requirement - including in the Bossing Path - as they can be completed in free-to-play.
  
• Fixed an issue where some of the optional Burthorpe paths couldn't be completed after completing the Path to Lumbridge.
  
• The Farming, Herblore and Summoning Paths are now listed in the Burthorpe and Taverley Path Book upon completing Turael's Slayer Path. Previously, they were unlocked by receiving certain drops available from Burthorpe trolls after completing the Slayer Path.
  
• Prevented a UI tutorial for Summoning Charm drops that occurred for certain players when killing cows in Burthorpe.
  
• On Mobile only, the Activity Tracker UI tutorial that guides a new player onto the Burthorpe paths now guides them through pressing the static Activity Tracker button in the top left corner to open it.
  
  
  
  • Desktop still starts where it always did, with the Activity Tracker forced onscreen.
    
  
  
• Added a missing spotlight to one of the stages of Turael's second combat interface tutorial on mobile.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Archaeology UI tutorial referring to materials in the artefact restoration overlay wasn't attached to this overlay, and therefore appeared out of bounds on Mobile.
  

Other

• The Bossing Path can now be removed from the Activity Tracker.
  
• The Bossing Path, if selected, now advances to the next available boss in the path when the selected boss is first defeated.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could walk inside a rock in Davendale.
  
• Johanhus has returned to both the Cathedral and The Nodon Front.
  
• It is no longer possible to equip the Charmed Sack from the Nexus activity in the main hand slot.
  
• Players will no longer be assigned random Slayer tasks when wearing particular masks.
  
• The location of the Pyramid Plunder UI overlay has been moved so it does not obstruct the middle of the game screen.
  
• Corrected an issue where some achievements that require specific skill levels were not marked as complete when logging in.
  

Tuesday August 7th | 16:00 Game Time | Leads Q&A

Awesome Art

Pink Skirts

• Hosted by: Pippyspot & Boss Guild
  
• Date/Time: Monday September 6th 2021, 20:00 - 21:00
  
• World: 88
  
• Location: Dagannoth King Lair

• Hosted by: Nanci, Nastyfruit & Mass PvM
  
• Date/Time: Saturday September 11th 2021, 16:00 - 17:00
  
• World: 22
  
• Location: Warforge!

Scaper's Screenshots

Community Shout-Out

This week marks the end of summer, and as September rolls in we're definitely feeling the chill here in Gielinor, as the Elder God Wen makes her move on the Elder God Wars Dungeon! In other news, we've got a new take on an old favourite in Leonard's Lucky Dip, plus the results of the War Effort competitions!

• Dark Shard of Leng (T95)
  
• Dark Sliver of Leng (T95)
  
• Dark Ice Shard
  
• Dark Ice Sliver
  
• Leng Artefact
  
• Glacor Adornment
  
• Arch-Glacor Adornment
  
• Ur-Glacor Adornment
  
• Gladys, the Arch-Glacor boss pet

• squisheebanshee
  
• RSPremier_Club
  
• sebiwane
  
• ZovisGarren
  
• keslogger
  
• thepiper4
  
• Harry1990
  
• RealNessykins
  
• VirusPdx
  
• Teralith
  
• SnowyTheHunter
  
• brokenblade89
  
• Jakeblairsonn
  
• Muffalumpie
  
• The_Lazy_Sword
  
• Varitok
  
• Alea_Starym
  
• APairODimes
  
• CbarKinnies
  
• padomenes
  
• NitroxEvil
  
• Rustyriley4
  
• colynsanders1
  
• owenvoke
  
• RSN_SudoBash
  
• VIPE_Icy
  
• liefje.rs
  
• laggspikes_on_rs
  
• Ben Glav
  
• Aaron H

• Kieran V
  
• Barry H

Senntisten Archaeology

Fixes

• Players can no longer excavate more Stained Glass Shards than are necessary to fully repair Senntisten Cathedral's windows.
  
• Uncovering mysteries no longer sends multiple chat messages.
  
• The Ancient Statue now has a chat head animation.
  
• Fixed a typo in Eblis' dialogue.

Elder God Wars Dungeon

Fixes

• Kerapac's time clones no longer target players that have left the boss fight.
  
• The Staff of Armadyl's special attack's initial hit will now deal 50-200% ability damage as stated in the tooltip.
  
• Greater Concentrated Blast's tooltop has been updated to match its live damage values.

Gloves of Passage Balancing

• After the Havoc or Smash ability successfully hits, your next melee attack within 6 seconds will deal 10% increased damage, up from 7%.
  
• After the Havoc or Smash ability successfully hits, the target will also take 20% increased damage from bleeds for the next 10 seconds. This does not apply in PvP.

Guardian's Gifts

• Guardian's Gifts are no longer being distributed upon log-in. If you have already claimed yours, you will be able to continue using and reclaiming them until they run out of charges.

Other

Fixes

• Silvarea's spooky environment settings have been restored.
  
• Fixed an issue where Pearl the Unicorn was listed as free on the Store but was charging RuneCoins when purchased.
  
• The confirmation button reading 'Leave Game?' when closing the free membership trial popup that appears when first arriving in Burthorpe on mobile has been changed to 'Continue Journey?' for clarity.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Once Upon a Time: Fortunes miniquest from being completed.

Tuesday August 31st | 16:00 Game Time | The Glacor Front Let's Play

Wednesday September 1st | 16:00 Game Time | Leads Q&A

Awesome Art

Pink Skirts

Arch-Glacor

• Hosted by: MadClikr, Tuzzy Jake, & the Lil Tuzzies Clan
  
• Date/Time: Fri 3 Sep 2021, 01:00 - 02:00 Game Time
  
• World: 85
  
• Location: The Glacor Front

Rex Matriarch Mass

• Hosted by: M e r c y & Dung Titan
  
• Date/Time: Sat 4 Sep 2021, 13:00 - 14:00 Game Time
  
• World: 35
  
• Location: Rex Matriarch Lobby

Scaper's Screenshots

Community Shout-Out

- The RuneScape Team

Getting Started

How To Play

Rewards (as promised)

Main-hand weapons:

• 2 500 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 5 Dark Nilas'**
  
• 10 Black Stone Hearts
  
• 2 Glorious Bars

• When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.

• 7 500 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 10 Dark Nilas'**
  
• 1 Dark Ice Shard
  
• 1 Frozen Core of Leng***

• Icy Tempest - Imbue your weapons with the power of primordial ice. For 30 seconds, your damage cap is increased by 30%. This special attack has a cooldown of 30 seconds.

• When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.

Off-hand weapons:

• 2 500 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 5 Dark Nilas'**
  
• 10 Black Stone Hearts
  
• 2 Glorious Bars

• When worn, the melee ability Hurricane can be cast while dual-wielding (this effect is usually locked to two-handed weapons only).

• When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.

• 7 500 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 10 Dark Nilas'**
  
• 1 Dark Ice Sliver
  
• 1 Frozen Core of Leng***

• When worn, the melee ability Hurricane can be cast while dual-wielding (this effect is usually locked to two-handed weapons only)

• When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.

Armour:

• 1,000 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 1 Leng Artefact****
  
• 1 Nightmare Gauntlets

• 1,000 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 10 Necronium Bars
  
• 1 Leng Artefact****
  
• 1 Gloves of Passage

• 1,000 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 1 Leng Artefact****
  
• 1 Kerapac's Wristwraps

Cosmetic rewards

• 1,000 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 2 Dark Nilas'**

• 5,000 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 5 Dark Nilas'**

• 10,000 Glacor Remnants*
  
• 10 Dark Nilas'**

Pets

Scripture of Jas

• +5 Prayer bonus
  
• +8 to all styles
  
• Special Ability - Sheer Cold - Each attack have a chance to summon an icy beam for 3.6 seconds that attacks anythings standing in it. Once targets have been hit 5 times by the beam, they will shatter for 400% ability damage.

• You can now receive Lucky Dip Tickets while training your skills or participating in combat.
  
• We’ve added new prize categories! Read all about them in the ‘Rewards’ section below.
  
• You can now see which rewards you’ve already won on the event interface.
  
• You can also see your chances of winning a prize in each category on the event interface.
  
• To prevent unscrupulous behaviour, all players must now have a total level of 250 to participate in the Lucky Dip.
  
• You can enter up to 15 times a day.
  
• You can choose to enter any category you wish, any time you want – whereas previously, the categories available were locked to particular days.
  
• You can now purchase a ‘Lucky Dip Reclamation Service’ from the Marketplace. If you’ve missed any daily tickets by forgetting to talk to Leonard, this’ll let you claim them all back
  
• The ‘Protean Pack’ category is now the ‘Item Pack’ category, which contains a wider range of prizes – including Dwarven Tools!
  
• All rewards (including ones from Balthazar’s Big Raffle!) are now reclaimable from Diango in Draynor.
  
• When the event ends on September 30th, Leonard will stick around for a seven-day grace period, which you can learn more about below.

Getting Tickets

Prizes

• (name), First of the Lucky Five
  
• (name), Second of the Lucky Five
  
• (name), Third of the Lucky Five
  
• (name), Fourth of the Lucky Five
  
• (name), Fifth of the Lucky Five

Requirements

New Promotion: Gifts Of The Creator

Discontinuing Hearts of Ice

This week in RuneScape, everyone’s least favourite cult have attached themselves to the Elder Gods – ply the newest Yak Track to see how that works out for them… In the meantime, we have the usual selection of changes and fixes in the Patch Notes, all the most exciting goings-on in the Community, and more!

Skill & Kill Tasks

XP Buff

Task Changes

• Herblore
  
• Thieving

UI

Improvements

• Updated the mobile and desktop chat system to use NotoSans font type.
  
• Expanded the chat font size to include values between 10-22, incrementing by values of 2.

Senntisten Archaeology

Improvements

• Beautiful stained-glass windows now appear in Senntisten's cathedral.

Fixes

• Hotfix – Clicking outside the interface no longer prevents players from unlocking the special research ‘Complete the Pattern, Solve the Puzzle’.

Mobile

Improvements:

• When sending a Private Message from the Friends List, your chat window will now automatically switch to the Private tab. Likewise, sending messages to other channels will now switch you to that channel.
  
• The Friends Chat and Clan Chat lists are now visually consistent with all the other chat options on mobile.
  
• A new blocking layer has been added to the mobile chat box.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which caused new mobile users to log into the game without a ribbon.

Burthorpe Path

Improvements

• Moved the hide-tanning option on the Burthorpe Crafting Tutor to a separate tanner NPC at the edge of the cow field, so that interacting with the crafting tutor is less complex.
  
• Adjusted the background colour of the Activity Tracker ribbon button from blue to green to match the Quest Icon and Adventures parent ribbon button.
  
  • Additionally, tooltips for the ribbon buttons no longer overlap and are positioned based on the location of the ribbon.
  
  
• User interface tutorial popups on desktop now use the same font size as on mobile, so that tutorial text is more comfortable to read and digest.

Ninja Strike 25

Fixes

• Players yet to log in since the Action Bar update will not have their additional Action Bar positions reset on custom interface layouts when loading them for the first time.

Other

Improvements

• Made several improvements to The Restless Ghost quest:
  
  • Graphically updated The Restless Ghost (with the exception of his hat) and his Muddy Skull.
    
  • You may now interact with the coffin to put the Skull inside.
    
  • Updated various feedback messages that were only visible if chat was open to infoboxes.
    
  • Modernised the conclusion cutscene and resolved various defects.

Fixes

• The ‘Prepare’ option on the Cooking Tutor's table in the Beneath Cursed Tides quest is now hidden when the player has finished preparing Seaweed for the chef, instead of triggering a conversation with him that may have the wrong chathead if the chef is no longer crassianed. (You don't have to be crassianed to work here, but it helps!)
  
• Fixed an issue which stopped store assets from being rendered on mobile for German, French and Portuguese localizations.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented Telekinetic Grab in the Mage Training Arena.
  
• The following area task achievements can now be completed on F2P worlds:
  
  • Hoof Rot
    
  • The Wanderer
    
  • Up to the Gods
    
  • Do They Come In Other Colours
    
  • Kitty Litter
    
  • Plank You Very Much
    
  • You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry
    
  • A Bolt from the Blue
  
  
• Magical Dice no longer stall the player's actions or script queues such as incoming damage. Performing another action such as moving to another location cancels the die roll.
  
• Fixed a lobby error on Steam which caused an empty popup to appear for free-to-play users when clicking the membership icon.

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The Army

Wen's General: The Arch-Glacor

A Scalable Boss Challenge

Creeping Ice

Glacyte Minions

Flurry

Pillars of Ice

Frost Cannon

Exposed Core

Hard Mode

Rewards

Launch

Hello, and welcome to This Week in RuneScape! In today's update we've got Senntisten Archaeology, the Premier Club Summer Sale and a totally awesome Ninja Strike! So sharpen your katana and gather your shuriken, and let's take a look!

• 12 Months of RuneScape Membership
  
• Ozzie the Osprey pet
  
• Ceremonial Guard Armour
  
• Yak Track Premier Pass rewards
  
• And loads more!

Teleport restrictions

• Vorago
  
• Solak
  
• Nex: Angel of Death
  
• Rise of The Six
  
• The Liberation of Mazcab raid
  
• Araxxor

Spells

• Divine storm now deals correct damage. (previously passed level 60 it gained 6 damage per level rather than 9.6
  
• Surge spells now scale to T99 damage (was T92).
  
• Smoke/Shadow Blitz spells now scale to T92 damage to match ice and blood.
  
• Barrage spells now scale to T99 damage.
  
• Aurora spells now scale to T99 damage.
  
• Increased the range of the 'ruby aurora' effect from 2 tiles -> 5 tiles.
  
• Spell tooltips now state which damage tier they scale up to.

Greater Concentrated Blast

Greater Ricochet

• Any additional hits, as a result of the Caroming perk have been toned to 5-15% ability damage, down from 10-50%.
  
• Enchanted Ruby bolts will no longer scale their damage down when triggered as part of Greater Ricochet.

Instability

• Restored the ability for auto attacks critical hits to fire off extra spell casts.
  
• Fixed an issue where the extra spell cast from the staff was doing offhand damage if you were using dual-wielded weapons.
  
• Extra spell casts can now only fire off if the critical hit is on the player's main target.

Ninja Strike 25: Action Bars

• Added two free Action Bar Presets for members, bringing the total to 15.
  
• Action Bar Presets can now be named in a similar fashion to Bank Presets.
  
  • This option can be found in the Action Bars submenu in Settings
  
  
• Renamed various instances of ‘actionbar’ in the Settings interface to ‘Action Bar’.
  
• Players can also save the toggle states of their additional action bars with custom interface layouts.
  
  • This will only apply to layouts saved after today’s update
  
  
• The main Action Bar’s minimised and maximised states can now be saved with custom interface layouts.
  
• The ‘Setup Action Bar’ option has been renamed to ‘Auto-setup Action Bar’ on desktop and ‘Auto-setup Revolution Action Bar’ on mobile, for clarity.
  
  • A new setting has also been added which toggles a confirmation option before auto-setup of Action Bars
  
  
• Action Bars no longer use numbered wording such as ‘secondary’ or ‘quinary’, and will instead be called ‘Additional Action Bar #’.
  
  • Also changed all mentions of ‘Primary Action Bar’ to ‘Main Action Bar’ for consistency
    
  • The Action Bar Presets 1-15 are now correctly called Action Bar Preset 1-15 across the game.
    
  • Specified that the keybinds for switching Action Bar Presets are only for the Main Action Bar
    
  • Added line breaks to the Action Bar Keybind settings within the Keybinding interface
  
  
• Added more descriptive text to various settings and options within the Action Bar Binding settings.
  
• Fixed an issue where the max hitpoints figure would not show if the player had five digits of hitpoints and the Primary Action Bar was compacted horizontally.

Elder God Wars Dungeon - The Nodon Front:

• HOTFIX - The change to Kerepac's time thread tear which removed the ability to stand under the boss to mitigate the attack has been reverted due to feedback.

User interfaces

• Interface tutorials for the bank, shop, smelting and smithing interfaces now only occur when a player triggers them from the help button for the interface or during the paths in Burthorpe/Taverley.
  
  
• PC and Steam users that install a fresh client or have recently cleared their cache will now see a Terms and Conditions popup on first loadup.
  
• Players will now be prompted to enter a valid date of birth when logging into the game if they haven't already done so.

Burthorpe Path

• Fixed an issue where you would be unable to purchase any herblore achievement capes while considered to be on the burthorpe path.
  
• Fixed an issue where leveling up during the Burthorpe path system would reset your action bar.
  
• Fixed an issue where players would not be able to obtain outfit fragments while considered to be on the Burthorpe path.

Friday August 20th | 1614:00 Game Time | Elder God Wars Dungeon: Second Front Reveal

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After a week's break, we're eager to update you on all the goings-on in Gielinor. This week, we're kicking off Double XP LIVE in style and we've also got a timely heads-up about a new piece of content you'll definitely want to dig into. Just click the banners below to see the details.

• Six new excavation spots spread across four distinct sites
  
• A new section of the city
  
• 18 new artefacts to restore
  
• Eight new collections, and a new collector named Eblis
  
• Three new mysteries containing a number of lorebooks
  
• Four stained glass windows to repair on-site for Crafting XP
  
• Five new research tasks
  
• One new relic
  
• And loads of achievements!

• Solak now has a 100% chance to drop Torn Grimoire Pages, up from 25%.
  
• As a result, players will no longer be able to roll a 50% chance to get two pages in one drop.
  
• Added the item Cluster of Torn Grimoire Pages, a stack of 25 Pages with a 1/200 drop chance.

Elder God Wars Dungeon: The Nodon Front

Improvements

• HOTFIXED: The damage from Kerapac’s slam attack has been increased.
  
• HOTFIXED: The drop rate of Naressa’s Journal has been increased.

Fixes

• Dyed versions of the Fractured Staff of Armadyl are no longer tradeable.
  
• The Pontifex Shadow Ring can now be reclaimed from Azzanadra in the Senntisten Cathedral.
  
• Attack options will now be hidden on Kerapac during his death animation to make looting easier.
  
• Added a 1.2 second antispam to the Warp Time ability to prevent spam clicking from accelerating it.
  
• Cooldown indicators on various abilities found in The Nodon Front have been made more opaque for better visibility.
  
• Clue Scrolls will now drop with the rest of the loot piles in the Kerapac encounter.
  
• If players attempt to stand beneath Kerapac during the Shatter mechanic, the time thread tear will now pick a random direction to fire in, instead of not firing at all.
  
• Added a check to Kerapac’s magic attack to stop him dealing damage while he’s in the process of dying.
  
• The Staff of Armadyl’s special attack is now affected by the Altar of War’s cooldown reset.
  
• The Greater Concentrated Blast ability’s animation no longer shows the player held in place if they attempt to move while casting.
  
• HOTFIXED: The maximum number of players able to join an instance of ‘Kerapac, the Bound’ is now capped correctly.
  
• HOTFIXED: Poison no longer bypasses damage caps when Kerapac transitions through phases.
  
• HOTFIXED: The dyed Fractured Staff of Armadyl will now retain its dye when transitioning to certain states.
  
• HOTFIXED: Drops from the Nodon will no longer appear under siege engines.
  
• HOTFIXED: Ironmen will now be awarded drops and progress on their Slayer Tasks when using siege cannons against the Nodon.
  
• HOTFIXED: The Warp Time ability from the Kerapac boss fight will no longer re-trigger upon leaving the instance.
  
• HOTFIXED: The extra damage from Dwarf Multicannon Upgrade Kits will now only be applied after the upgrade has been unlocked.
  
• HOTFIXED: Kerapac will now attack straight away after transitioning into phase 4 on Hardmode.
  
• HOTFIXED: Kerapac can no longer be damaged during phase transitions.
  
• HOTFIXED: The Staff of Armadyl’s special attack no longer gives extra spellcasts via non-ability-based critical hits.
  
• HOTFIXED: Ironmen will now reliably receive loot and XP from Kerapac.

Path System

Changes

• The Archaeology Path will now progress as expected.
  
• The ‘Breaking the Seal’ Archaeology mystery achievement is now free-to-play.
  
• Removed the Assistant, Associate, Professor and Guildmaster qualification achievements from the Archaeology Path.
  
  • The path now completes upon breaking the seal and entering Kharid-Et.
  
  
• The Qualification – Intern hint trail now leads to Acting Guildmaster Reiniger instead of the entrance to the Archaeology Guild.
  
• The Archaeology Path hint trail is now suppressed when following the Archaeology Tutorial, which has its own trail.

• Removed the Lumbridge Achievement Path Book. It will return when the Path System is rewritten or removed.
  
• The ‘Work for Idol Hands’ achievement now has entries for taking each statuette, as well as for delivering them to Xenia.
  
• The Dungeoneering Path has been moved from the Default Path Book to the Burthorpe and Taverley Path Book, as it points the player to Taverley Docks.

Improvements

• Path rewards are now displayed in a central popup which also describes the completed path. This will replace the previous popup.
  
• Certain interfaces are no longer zoomed into full screen on mobile.
  
• When on a path containing dialogue choices, the first choice will be selected by default in cases where the player taps out before making a choice.
  
• Clarified and standardised the text for choosing a Path in Turael’s dialogue.
  
• The Leather Crafting Path no longer requires the player to pick up a Cow Hide before unlocking it.
  
• Improved the user interface tutorial when choosing a path via the ‘I want to choose a different path’ dialogue.
  
• Users will now be forced out of the Troll Cave if they disable the guidance system during the Morningstar instance.
  
• The area outside the Burthorpe Troll Cave is now a little less gloomy.

Fixes

• Your Path will no longer clear upon teleporting to Tutorial Island.
  
• Should you lose your weapon following the Tutorial Island or Davendale tutorials, you will now be able to claim it back from Turael.
  
• Addressed several issues during the collections portion of the Archaeology Tutorial, which stemmed from collection logs being converted from modal to overlay interfaces.
  
• New players are no longer kicked off the Burthorpe Path when they gain a total skill level of over 100.
  
• While on the Mining and Smithing Path, players will now be directed back to the Burthorpe Mine if they create the wrong item.
  
• Prevented Dwarf Weed Incense Sticks from transporting items to your Bank while in item-restricted areas.

Environment

Improvements

• Added new lighting in Citharede Abbey’s cellar.

Fixes

• A variety of rocks and pillars in Lletya have been made more solid and can no longer be walked through.
  
• A ladder tile in the Outpost north of West Ardougne is no longer visually blocked by ground decorations.
  
• A section of the fence in East Varrock has been updated to match other fences.
  
• Wooden props in Burthorpe Castle now fit snugly against the wall.
  
• A rock blocking access to a source of the Rogue’s Purse herb has been removed.
  
• You may no longer walk into and hide inside the rocks near the Ruined Temple Agility course.
  
• Updated the cubemaps for Shattered World maps to increase realism on certain materials.

Mobile

Improvements

• Added a scenery border to the first cutscene of the Hunt for Surok miniquest.
  
• Added a scenery border to the tower cutscene during Grim Tales.

Fixes

• Fixed a mobile-specific black screen issue at the start of the Hunt for Surok cutscenes.

Other

Improvements

• Withdrawing materials from the Metal Bank in the Wilderness will now trigger a warning informing players that it will not be possible to deposit them again during combat in the Wilderness.
  
• Added a left-click option to fix the light in the Lighthouse during Horror From the Deep.
  
• Text in the Pets Wardrobe Interface has been made brighter and easier to read.
  
• The Beach has been packed away for another year, by which time we might just have got all the sand out of our swimsuits!

Fixes

• Fixed a typo associated with the Trahaearn Pickaxe override.
  
• Reverted some chat message spacing changes.
  
• Stephanie the seagull pet’s icon in the Player Owned House Menagerie now portrays her instead of a yak.
  
• The ‘use all’ function now works consistently across XP items in free-to-play.
  
• You must now bow to Uri in order to speak to him when completing Medium Clue Scrolls.
  
• Pets unchecked outside the Player Owned House are now properly removed from the Menagerie.
  
• Pets added to the Menagerie from the Backpack are now properly stored and displayed in the Player Owned House after leaving and re-entering it.
  
• The Full Slayer Helmet’s ‘Wear’ and ‘Activate’ options now work correctly.
  
• When hatching multiple eggs, you will now collect the correct hatchlings from each incubator.
  
• Dr Nabanik’s ‘I want to talk about mysteries’ dialogue option now works correctly.
  
• In-progress Urns can no longer be stored in Invention machine inventories.
  
• The Make-X interface for fletching Ogre Bows now states that Grish the Shaman must teach you how to make one.
  
• An ‘Info’ option has been added to closed doors in Dungeoneering. When used, you’ll receive a message with the type of key your party needs to progress further into the dungeon, and whether you already have the key required.
  
• Portents of Restoration are now correctly consumed when players’ HP drops below 50% after standing on the Gravecreeper’s poison pools.
  
• Characters and objects will no longer float in the Deep Sea Fishing Hub. Presumably, this does not affect the fish.
  
• The correct player will now receive XP when assisting in the creation of Primal Extract.
  
• Implings can no longer fly into towers through walls and closed doors near the Imperial District in Menaphos.
  
• The Thaler Shop no longer deducts currency if a purchase fails due to a full Backpack.
  
• Upon using the Luminite Injector, all the forges and furnaces in the area will now change colour from orange to blue, as expected.
  
• The Slomo Walk override will now consistently display your worn main-hand and offhand items.
  
• Fixed a blocking issue with Trindy and Ali the Wise at the Archaeology Guild.
  
• After the Greater Fury ability crits, players will now be granted a 30 second buff that grants 100% crit chance on the next ability used.
  
• Skeletons spawned during the Taraket boss fight will now trigger the Ruthless perk if killed by a player.
  
• The latest fruit trees will no longer give players Double XP when the Farming Skill Cape is equipped.
  
• Using the Reaper Portal while on a Kerapac task will now correctly teleport players to the Colosseum gateway.
  
• Melee Area-of-Effect abilities will now correctly hit NPCs larger than 5x5 squares when attacking them away from the southwestern ‘corner’ of the NPC’s hit box.

Wednesday August 11th | 16:00 Game Time | Digging Into Senntisten Archaeology

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