Old School RuneScape News

• Removed the Magic Strength bonus from the Blood Moon Tassets, as originally intended.
• Fixed a Poison Dynamite bug which caused players to hit 0 even when they’d passed their Accuracy roll.
• Mining Gloves now work correctly in Miscellania.
• Toadflax and Snapdragon will now come noted from the Agility Arena Store.
• The crane repairs at Piscarilius can now be done with Oak, Teak or Mahogany planks as well as basic ones. All three Planks must be made of the same material.
• Combination Runes are now properly prioritised for use.

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• Loadouts for hotkeys
• Side-stones returning to the left (via an option, which is off by default)
• NPC highlights and Edit Ground items hotkeys added
• Realignment of the visual elements to be aligned and tidier
• Chat filters button removed and moved to a long tap option

• Removed the Magic Strength bonus from the Blood Moon Tassets, as this wasn’t part of the intended design.
• Fixed a Poison Dynamite bug which caused players to hit 0 even after passing their Accuracy roll.
• Mining Gloves now work correctly in Miscellania, so you’ll get those extra attempts on the same rock!
• The Agility Arena Store agreed that selling Toadflax and Snapdragon unnoted was a little inconvenient, so these useful herbs will now come noted. Phew!
• The crane repairs at Piscarilius can now be done with Oak, Teak or Mahogany Planks as well as the standard variety. You will however need to use three of the same type of Planks to make repairs.
• Combination Runes are now properly prioritised for use.

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• Added the 2024 Pride Event! Speak to Kit north of Falador to get started.
• Rewards from previous Pride Events can be obtained from Gilbert west of Varrock or Diango in Draynor Marketplace.

• Flames of Zamorak no longer counts as a Fire spell.
• Reduced the health of Fremennik warbanders in the Fortis Colosseum from 50 to 48.
• The Elder Maul can now be used to ring the gong outside the Bandosian quarter of the God Wars Dungeon and to build or upgrade the chest in Chambers of Xeric.
• Salarin the Twisted will now respect the new Elemental Scaling changes. He’s not that
• Removed Water weakness from the revenant pyrefiend, in line with other revenant weaknesses.
• Added a 100% Fire weakness to Hespori.
• Added Water weakness to superior wyrms and wyrmlings, to match their regular-sized counterparts.
• Increased the Fire weakness of spiritual creatures in Nex’s prison from 100% to 200%.
• HOTFIX: The Tome of Fire now calculates damage correctly during games of Last Man Standing.
• HOTFIX: The Soulreaper Axe no longer periodically suffers from a lower Max Hit.
• Magic thralls (or resurrected ghosts) should now function as they did prior to last week's update.

• The Inventory icon for the Gilded Spear now matches the Worn Items model.
• The Collection Log entry for Scorpia now lists the Dragon 2-handed Sword, since she's able to drop them.
• The animation for adding tips to Dragon Bolts no longer stalls your movement.
• The resting soldier atop the Lizardman Canyon can now tell you your Lizardman killcount without you having to descend into the canyon.

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• Removed Water weakness from the revenant pyrefiend, since revenants aren’t supposed to inherit their pre-ghost weaknesses!
• Added a 100% Fire weakness to Hespori.
• Added Water weakness to superior wyrms and wyrmlings, to match their regular-sized counterparts.
• Increased the Fire weakness of spiritual creatures in Nex’s prison from 100% to 200%.
• HOTFIX: The Tome of Fire now calculates damage correctly during games of Last Man Standing.
• HOTFIX: The Soulreaper Axe no longer periodically suffers from a lower Max Hit.

• The Inventory icon for the Gilded Spear now matches the Worn Items model.
• The Collection Log entry for Scorpia now lists the Dragon 2-handed Sword, since she's able to drop them.
• The animation for adding tips to Dragon Bolts no longer stalls your movement.
• The resting soldier atop the Lizardman Canyon can now tell you your Lizardman killcount without you having to descend into the canyon.

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Old School Runescape may not have the flashiest visuals, but it maintains a huge community of players who are constantly on the hunt for XP and every skillcape in Gilenor. For anyone brave enough, there's also a hefty amount of prize money available soon as the game will be hosting its annual Deadman mode tournament.

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• The Barrows Brothers (Ahrim, Dharok, Karil, Guthan, Torag, Verac)
• Aviansies (including Kree'arra and his minions)
• Ghosts
• Skeletons

• Chromatic Dragons (Green, Blue, Red and Black dragons, including their 'Baby' and 'Brutal' variants)
  • This includes the King Black Dragon
• Lava Dragons
• A variety of demons, owing to their origins from a fiery, faraway land
  • Demonic Gorillas
  • Greater Demons
  • Hellhounds (including Cerberus)
  • K'ril Tsutsaroth and his minions
  • Lesser Demons
• Pyrefiends
• Fire Giants
• Giant Mole
• Drakes

• The following NPCs have been given an Elemental Weakness to Earth spells:
  • Metal Dragons (Bronze, Iron, Steel, Mithril, Adamant and Rune)
  • Waterfiends
  • Wyrms

• Giant Spiders
• Near enough anything whose name begins with 'Ice', including:
  • Ice Trolls
  • Ice Demon
  • Ice Giants
  • Icefiends
  • Ice Warriors
• Moss Giants
• Mountain Trolls
• Scarab Swarms
• Scarab Mages
• Vespula
• Abyssal Portal
• The Nightmare’s Totems
  • Keep in mind that these also take double damage from Magic attacks generally, so you can expect to see some very high hitsplats on these.
• Kephri and her Arcane, Soldier and Spitting Scarabs
• Zulrah

• Heavy: Bolts, Javelins.
• Standard: Arrows (this includes the Bow of Faerdhinen and Crystal Bow, magical arrows are still arrows...)
• Light: Darts, Knives, other thrown weaponry like Thrownaxes or Toktz-xil-ul.

• Dragons have had their Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
  • This applies to metallic and chromatic dragons, including 'baby' and 'brutal' variants, as well as the King Black Dragon and Lava Dragons.
• Commander Zilyana has had her Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
• Corporeal Beast has had its Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
• Gargoyles have had their Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
• Lizardmen have had their Ranged - Light weakness reduced.
• Nex has had her Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
• Vasa Nistirio has had his Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
• Vespula has had her Ranged - Light weakness reduced.
• Vespula's Abyssal Portal has had its Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
• Skeletal Mystics have had their Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
• Basilisk Knights have haid their Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
• Ba-Ba has had her Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.
• The Leviathan has had its Ranged - Heavy defence reduced.

• Dragons across the board (with the exception of Vorkath) have had their Stab defence reduced. This includes Drakes and Wyrms, who aren't dragons but are draconic.
• Gargoyles have had their Crush defence reduced, and their Stab and Slash defences increased.
• Lizardmen (including Brutes and Shamans) have had their Stab defence reduced. If you'd like to subject yourself to meleeing them, bring something pokey!
• Vasa Nistirio has had his Crush defence reduced.
• Skeletal Mystics have had their Crush defence reduced.
• Basilisk Knights have had their Crush defence reduced.
• Duke Sucellus has had his Slash defence reduced.

• Occult Necklace: Magic damage reduced from 10% to 5%.
• Ancestral Robes set pieces: Magic damage per piece increased from 2% to 3%.
• Virtus Robes set pieces: Magic damage per piece increased from 1% to 2%.
• The following items have had their Magic damage per piece increased from 0 to 1%:
  • Infinity Robes.
  • Dagon'hai Robes.
  • 3rd Age Mage Armour.
  • Ahrim's Robes.
  • Blue Moon Armour.
  • Elder Chaos Druid Robes.
  • Bloodbark Armour.
• Augury: Magic damage while active increased from 0 to 4%.
  • Note: Tumeken's Shadow doesn't multiply accuracy or damage bonuses gained from Prayers, so this would remain a 4% increase rather than 12% when using the Shadow.
• Mystic Might: Magic damage while active increased from 0 to 2%.
• Mystic Lore: Magic damage while active increased from 0 to 1%.
• Eternal Boots: Magic damage increased from 0 to 1%.
• Mage's Book: Magic damage increased from 0 to 2%.
• Ancient Wyvern Shield: Magic damage increased from 0 to 2%.
• Malediction Ward: Magic damage increased from 0 to 2%.
• Arcane Spirit Shield: Magic damage increased from 0 to 3%.
• Seers' Ring and Seers' Ring (i): Magic damage increased from 0 to 0.5%
• Elite Void Mage Set bonus: Magic damage increased from 2.5% to 5%.

• Various improvements to the Soulreaper Axe:
  • Stacks will no longer be lost instantly upon switching weapon.
  • Stacks will start decrementing after 20 ticks (12s) without attacking, up from 10 ticks (6s).
  • When stacks naturally degrade, they'll heal you for the damage you took while building those stacks up, so long as you still have the Axe in your inventory.
• Added a Special Attack to the Elder Maul, which costs 50% of your Special Attack Energy.
  • Hits with +25% increased accuracy, and reduces target's Defence by 35% of its current value on a successful hit.
  • Most importantly: this looks really cool.
• Inquisitor's Armour set pieces now provide +2.5% Accuracy and Damage when worn alongside an Inquisitor's Mace.
• Adjusted the Ancient Godsword's Special Attack:
  • Healing from a successful Blood Sacrifice now heals for 15% of the target's maximum HP, up to a cap of 25 HP.
• The Tomes of Fire and Water now boost their respective elements by 10% against NPCs, down from 50%. They still boost their damage by 50% and 20% respectively against players.
  • This change is intended to sit alongside Elemental Weaknesses so that the Tomes stand out as clear best-in-slot items in their niche, but the strength of the Standard Spellbook no longer relies entirely on these helpful books!

• The Dragon Warhammer now drops at a rate of 1/3,000, up from 1/5,000.
• 'Minimum hit' has been adjusted. Now, if you pass an Accuracy check, any damage rolls of 0 are boosted up to 1. So, if your max hit is 3, you can roll 1, 1, 2 or 3 for damage.
  • Note that you're still able to guarantee 0s via splashing and failing every Accuracy check.
• Added a 'Cursed Amulet of Magic' drop at a rate of 1/5 from the Necromancer south of Shayzien. This amulet provides -80% Magic Damage, useful for some niche scenarios where you might want to keep your damage numbers as low as possible!
• Reduced the Prayer drain rate for Thick Skin, Burst of Strength and Clarity of Thoughts, Sharp Eye and Mystic Will from 5 to 1.67 points per minute. Effectively, they should drain at a third of the speed they used to.
• Sharp Eye and Burst of Strength now boost your Ranged and Strength by 1 level respectively, if those levels are lower than 20.
  • Note that this only applies when calculating your max hit, so you won't notice a visible stat boost or anything to that effect.
• Attacking an NPC with auto-cast enabled no longer incurs an extra 0.6s delay. This has been requested for absolutely ages, all that's left now is to figure out what you're going to do with all the extra time you'll have!
• Adjusted The Path of Apmeken:
  • Increased Hitpoints of style-specific enemies inside the infamous 'monkey room', although they'll always take maximum damage from their opposing style. Note that each of these has a 'weak' and 'strong' variant, hence the two values for HP.
    • Baboon Brawler: 25 HP and 30 HP. Always max hit by Magic.
    • Baboon Thrower: 30 HP and 35 HP. Always max hit by Melee.
    • Baboon Mage: 20 HP and 25 HP. Always max hit by Ranged.
  • None of the enemies in the Path of Apmeken will scale with Raid Level or Group Size, so the Hitpoints values you see here should be consistent in every single Tombs of Amascut run. This also applies to NPCs not listed above like Volatile Baboons, Cursed Baboons and Baboon Shamans - though you won't be guaranteed max hits against these!
• Improved Phosani's Nightmare’s drop rates:
  • Any specific piece of Inquisitor Armour now drops at a rate of 1/700, up from 1/1,000.
  • Any specific Orb now drops at a rate of 1/1,600, up from 1/3,000.
  • The Inquisitor's Mace now drops at a rate of 1/1,250, up from 1/2,000.
  • The Nightmare Staff now drops at a rate of 1/533, up from 1/666.7.
• Improved the Nightmare’s drop rates, too! Note that drop rates at the Nightmare scale and that the values here only reflect the 'base' rate. For more info, see here.
  • Any specific piece of Inquisitor Armour now drops at a rate of 1/420, up from 1/600.
  • Any specific Orb now drops at a rate of 1/960, up from 1/1,800.
  • The Inquisitor's Mace now drops at a rate of 1/750, up from 1/1,250.
  • The Nightmare Staff now drops at a rate of 1/300, up from 1/400.
• Ava's devices will now apply their ammo-saving effects to Javelins, as they do for other ammo types.

• Spell Tablet Lecterns in Player-Owned Houses now remember the position of their scrollbar when closed and reopened.
• The Genie random event has stopped referring to everyone as "Master", and will use "Mistress" when appropriate.
• The Varlamorian Master and Elite emote clue S.T.A.S.H. units now properly appear filled on the S.T.A.S.H. noticeboard.
• The Blood Moon's Jaguar 'HP sap' no longer persists through teleports. This one can't technically kill you, but a pretty harrowing HCIM scare convinced us it was worth fixing…

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• Expert Mining Gloves now work with Sandstone and allow players to mine one extra unit before the rock depletes.
• HOTFIX: Increased the minimum contribution required for loot eligibility at Zalcano to 75, up from 50.
• HOTFIX: All players must now deal at least 5 ‘armour’ damage to Zalcano to be eligible for drops.
• HOTFIX: Applied a delay to re-entering the Brimhaven Agility Arena after teleporting out.
• Increased XP and lowered fail rates when pickpocketing gnomes, paladins and heroes.
• Re-adjusted the fever spiders’ loot table.
• Corrected messaging that plays when the Ore Sack at Motherlode Mine is full.
• Efaritay’s Aid now correctly interacts with tier 1 and 2 vampyres.

• Adjusted XP drops from various activities in Trouble Brewing.
• Converted Pieces of Eight from tangible items to account variables, in-line with other minigame currencies.
• Added a ‘Classic Free-to-Play- option to the ‘Magic’ dropdown in Clan Wars set-up. This setting makes Bind the only ‘freeze’ spell available.
• Fully-grown plants in Tithe Farm no longer decay.
• Tears of Guthix now shows your Personal Best while collecting tears.
• Visually updated the entry barrier in Guardians of the Rift.

• Players may now set their own +x% and -x% buttons in the Grand Exchange. Right-click the button to alter the value.
• Changed how Verzik scales in Theatre of Blood.
• Added a warning message when releasing Mature Tecu Salamanders.
• Restored the troll tunnels leading to Trollweiss to single-way combat.
• The Staff of the Dead’s special attack is now cleared when using a Rejuvenation Pool.
• Added a new option which allows players to choose which sound plays when they are hit by an enemy.
• The left-click option on Elven Teleport Crystals can now be toggled between Lletya and Prifddinas.
• Adjusted animations on wyrms to make them more accessible for players at risk of seizures.
• Fixed a bug which allowed players to skip Vet’ion’s second phase.

• Corrected messaging that plays when the Ore Sack at Motherlode Mine is full.
• Efaritay’s Aid now correctly interacts with tier 1 and 2 vampyres, instead of reducing damage dealt to them.

• Various skilling actions in Trouble Brewing now provide XP for the associated skill:
  • Capturing a Monkey awards 15 Agility and 15 Hunter XP.
  • Increasing the Boiler pressure awards 80 Strength XP.
  • Lighting logs in the Boiler now awards 320 Firemaking XP, up from the 40 XP provided when adding logs to the Boiler.
  • Obtaining a Bitternut awards 160 Hunter XP.
  • Depositing a Bitternut into the Hopper awards 640 Cooking XP.
  • Obtaining Scrapey Tree Bark from logs awards 160 Fletching XP.
  • Depositing Scrapey Tree Bark into the Hopper awards 320 Cooking XP.
  • Obtaining Sweetgrubs awards 160 Hunter XP.
  • Depositing Sweetgrubs into the Hopper awards 320 Cooking XP.
  • Adding your team's coloured water to the Hopper awards 320 Cooking XP.
  • Figuring out how any of this results in ‘Rum’ earns you the gratitude of the entire Community Management team.
• The reward currency from Trouble Brewing, Pieces of Eight, have been converted into a variable stored on your account rather than a physical item. This brings them in line with other Minigame currencies.
• Added a new 'Classic F2P' option to the 'Magic' dropdown while setting up a Clan Wars game. This setting makes it so that Bind is the only 'freeze' spell available in a game with this setting enabled.
• Fully-grown plants in Tithe Farm will no longer decay.
• Tears of Guthix will now show your Personal Best while you're collecting tears.
• The Guardians of the Rift entry barrier has received some visual updates. It should be even more red when you're unable to enter the minigame, and we've added a new 'Red, Eye Open' variant for scenarios where the player count has reached 200 but the game has not yet started.

• If only one player remains during Normal Mode Verzik's P2, only one Nylocas Matomenos (the red one) will spawn, as in Hard Mode.
• If only one player remains during Normal Mode Verzik's P2, the Lightning Ball damage is capped, as in Hard Mode.

• A warning message has been added to prevent players from accidentally choosing to 'Release' a Mature Tecu Salamander.
• The Troll tunnels leading up to Trollweiss, encountered during the Troll Romance quest, have been restored to Single-way combat. This is to correct an error in a recent update where they'd accidentally been made Multi-combat.
• The Staff of the Dead's Special Attack effect is now cleared when using a Rejuvenation Pool inside your POH.
• A new option has been added to the Settings menu that allows you to pick your 'hit sounds'. This is the sound that your character makes when they're hit by an enemy.
• Elven Teleport Crystals now have a 'Toggle' option when right-clicked, which will allow you to set your left-click teleport to either Lletya or Prifddinas.
• Wyrms have had their animations adjusted to make them more accessible for players who are at risk of seizures.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to skip Vet'ion's second phase.

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