Sy_Accursed

Tracking sites are the best hope you've got really if you happen to of used one; it's how I double checked the dates for 90% of my signature.

I think, bringing it more in to real world terms. Falador is kinda of like Vatican city or The bible belt in USA where most there are definitely actively religious to saradomin. Varrock conversely I view as more sort of the rest of America or Uk where people are technically part of the faith but most aren't exactly actively religious and basically never bring it up other than on like census forms and even then have a little internal debate of which box to tick.

I always thought the point of that quest requiring a second person was to help new players make a in game friend? Nonetheless I do like all your other suggestions. That is meant to be the point, however that doesn't stop it being a sucky mechanic that is a pita and leaves a whole host of people abandoning the quest and completion largely relies on forum threads rather than forging genuine friendships. It just comes too early on, lacks basic replayability (to allow us to help others like we can with heroes) and is kinda biased as (from what I remember) one gang is significantly easier than the other to figure out (hence why basically everyone and their mom needs a blackarm person opposed to a phoenix). I mean Heroes sort of works, it's still a pita mechanic we'd be better off without imo, but its later in the game when people tend to have friends and clans. Plus it lets you redo your part to help out friends later on. Shield of Arrav is just a mess that most people end up ignoring entirely for ages.

...Which, to be fair, would probably have been a genuinely useful and much-loved update had it happened at any other point in Runescape's history, or in any other MMO :twss: True, social slayer isn't hated and slated as a bad update as such. It functions perfectly fine and serves it purpose with some moderately nice rewards the only issue is the pure and simple meta-game fact it is worse xp:hr and thus largely un-used.

I haven't watched it but I'm wondering how on earth it takes nearly 11 minutes to say teleport to Buthorpe/Lumby/Canafis/Yanille lodestones and run in x direction then follow the very basic instructions to complete the D&D. For a 'quick' guide to something so basic it seems to be awfully long.

If Ana left at this point we might as well just unsub lol. Hope it's not true! In Mod Osbourne's Twitch on friday he clearly siad Ana went straight from TWW on to Divination and that now thats near done he'll try and get her to do the nargi homeworld fairy ring asap.

Having listened to the twitch I don't think the guy taking the notes has done a good job in places; he certainly covered all the topics BUT he seems to of written down what he wishes was said rather than what was actually said. Eg: Elemental workshop they did NOT remotely say it was in dev or 'being worked on' they just said Mod Dylan had a very clear idea of where the series was going. Godsword blade they did not really say it was made in the Aviansie homeworld, the question was 'why does the blade change with different hilts' the response was basically that he didn't want to say 'magic' so instead he views the aviansie as very skilled smiths, possibly even better than the Imcado dwarves certainly implying they made it but certainly not that it was made off world.

Same, Kaida. I know some people really seem to hate the sig heroes, but I think the add to the world and have a lot of potential. I'd love to be able to recruit Sir Owen to Zaros. There's a Zarosian altar is Fally castle already so wouldn't need to change much. I don't think theres anything wrong with the signature heroes now they are getting some decent content, I did however have a distaste for them before because they seemed to be npcs just put in game and casually thrown in to some content simply for the sake of going look continuity between marketing and the game! I just hope Xeina, Lynsa and the Raptor can have some good quests that truly centre of them soon. Lynsa would make a lot of sense for a Knight's Sword rework. Shield of Arrav rework would be nice to get rid of that ever slightly awkward you need a 2nd person thing and could perhaps offer a role for Xeina in helping you get the other half; heck could even be a her centric quest to kind of amp up the grandeur of the shield and make it so she just needs some inexperience noob to get the other half for her. In the vein of 'fixing' characters as well I'd like to see the whole Camelot, Merlin and attached quests redone. Camelot is just so out of place in Runescape, especially since they removed Romeo and Juliet and there's so much potential for a very Runescapian lore-rich rework keeping loosely to the existing plot and structures. Given the Temple of Ikov and such you could even make it a sort of Armadyllian place that would fit in with the themes or chivalry and justice and offer a good excuse for some knights to be there. Doesn't even have to be sort of overtly Armadyl could just have like structural nods in the decor and stuff and it's an order of knights that has always protected the place but kinda doesn't really know why anymore. And the retrieval of the holy grail (obviously changed to something else) would offer a sort of comedic nod to the fact the remaining Armadyllians (assume this is a 5th age quest) are a bit useless when it comes to keeping stuff (ergo they lost the staff and they had lost access to the sky fortresses now used for clan citadels) And it'd leave a nice setup to come back to with 6th age content to unravel just what exactly it was orignal there for.

No, boosts don't work for the doors.

Using her is a waste of time. You can only get 1 random event a day and you will get it 99/100 without any booster. The only reason you won;t get one for a prolonged period is you already have one waiting, as you can only have one at a time. Check the warehouse and bar, one will have the yellow D&D icon because a random is sitting there.

So in short they are basically a 'sponsored member' from an advertising deal?

For dg I assume that means 1 new door 1+ new puzzles and 0+ new resource/gear things (quite possibly perma pocket items) Intrigued by mod marks comment about it being used for teleporting, wonder if this means we might be getting like short-range telehops or gatestones or something for the overworld (basically more custom god-like teleporting) Would be cool if there was like a set of items that each give a greater range of how far away u can be.

Yeah of the rs2 skills only Construction was really much of a surprise. dg, rc, farm, hunt, slay and summ all had some form of pre-knowledge that was fairly common place be it the extensive dev diaries of summ, the pre-release seeds of farm, the beta teasers of rc or w/e we knew about them all before they launched. I think Div has gotta be out this week coming or the one after. Today's BTS is set to be about Div and the next above the lore podcast is due mid-late next week and that is 'A-Z of Divination' which sounds rather spoiler so has gotta be a briefly before launch or just after it imo.

You cannot turn it off or on; it just is.

It's just outright lucky of the draw really, but yeah the number of people who CAN use the item (or close to it) seems to impact on drop rates so non-99 str and att folks would drag down maul drop chance I believe

Tbf I did say ones that use the same animation set and did not say chaotic and obby mauls were the only ones to fall in to that 'maul' category animation wise.

^So true of the package thing my membership currently expires july 2014 but you know I'm probably gonna be buying the premier packages every dec/jan

You don't ; it just is.

I don't have them myself yet but: Most overrides are far more restrictive than simply matching 2h crush, they are only override weapons of a similar nature that use the same animation sets. According to rs wiki the greathammers over-ride mauls specifically, which would suggest no to sara sword but yes to chaotic and obby mauls.

If they did that though, that would essentially be "buying" auras. At that point they might as well allow them to be purchased with Runecoins. In that's really their line of thought, then I agree with Jagex, since it works towards limiting the pay-to-win aspect of MT's. Whilst I can see the logic in the packages being locked in so can give points anyway I don't agree with the idea. The scheme is not just about rewarding your paying for the game it is about rewarding LOYALTY that means both paying for the game AND continuing to play it. For that to be true the points must be given out over time regardless of payment so you only benefit from them if you are being a loyal player and actually playing.

Tbf no-one even really whined about the delay, everyone was very accepting the only negative was my point about how they dealt with telling us.

It's nice how after promising us 2 new skills in 2013 they make a real effort to tell us that one has been delayed and apologise...oh no, no wait my bad they just called it 'next years new skill' in a bts with out any attempt to mention it's been delayed. Nothing wrong with it being delayed but kinda typical Jagex doing a half-assed PR job by not dealing with it properly and just glossing over the delay (Reminds me of when we suddenly got an OSRS Bts in place of a TWW one with no explanation as to why TWW was delayed, heck the video didn't even really 100% say it was delayed (iirc) and tht fact had to be pried out of jmods like a day later) I know Divination will hopefully be rather absorbing but seems a bit of a meh month in my book. Loyalty thing is nice but it doesn't sound its particularly adding anything new for us. Quest is low-end so will be a short-lived thing. So for the whole 4 weeks the only big thing is gonna be divination and with crowding thts likely to be a pita also kinda annoyed tht it sounds as though the top end div awards pertain to other gathering skills and little else because thats so useful for all of us with maxed stats in that area; but I shall reserve judgement on that until we actually see what the stuff is. Hopefully they improved point rates are decent, it was always plain stupid that we have lots of items costing 60,000+ and at most can get 15,000 a month especially since these high point rates do require a very long period of continous membership.

Very annoying. Especially bad at things that leave corpses that are technically monsters, doing chompies when they die they become a 1hp lvl 3 monster the red target (and sometimes the yellow stays) and the box stays on the last one you attacked. Pita since I cba plucking them since I just want the kills.

There is a hotkey assignable for the summoning button without putting it on action bar, can also do quick-prayers and quick-heal

Probably because most of the buttons within the summoning tab aren't all that useful vital for quick access, plus any function desired can still be assigned to the button and dragged on to the action bar. A gripe I'm having at the moment: No way to close non-hotkey interfaces without unlocking and dragging them out of w/e area they tabbed in to especially ones that don't self close between game sessions etc.