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Castle Wars: Revamped Castle Wars: Revamped (members) The ever-popular Castle Wars minigame gets a rock-solid new look today, and - thanks to your feedback - loads of tweaks and improvements to the Castle Wars arena and gameplay. Siege warfare's never been so fun, and it's certainly never looked this good! Our graphics team have outdone themselves: each keep impressively imposing, with thematic trappings in each, and the tunnels beneath the arena are darkly atmospheric and moodily lit. Importantly, we've stayed faithful to the core style you know so well, so whether you're manning the ramparts or sneaking as a sapper, you'll feel right at home. Your feedback on Castle Wars has led us to implement a number of gameplay improvements, too: Dual Currency System: Castle Wars tickets have been replaced with two currencies: silver and gold. Silver tickets buy you handy consumables such as ballista parts, potions, and chinchompas. You'll get one of these no matter how you do in the game, so you'll never finish a Castle Wars game empty handed. Those who win or draw, however, will receive gold tickets, which can be spent on the excellent armour sets used within the minigame. Improved Castle Wars Armour: Speaking of armour, we've greatly improved the Castle Wars armour sets that can be purchased with the gold tickets - profound armour, for example, is now on par with Nex gear. They're also now a 'hybrid' style of armour - great if you like to mix it up with magic, melee and ranged. Usability Improvements: As well as an update to the interfaces showing the status of your castle, and the game score, there are a range of much-requested usability improvements too: Altars in each spawn room, so there's an easy way to replenish your prayer points. Helms can now be taken into the arena. Wait times have been reduced and the number of people required to start a game is now 2 per team. Damaged or unbuilt ballistas no longer count as obstacles. Team colours have been added to barricades. Catapult and ballista damage has been adjusted. Ice spells now have a staggered bind time, the binding shot ability has had its bind time reduced and, while in the arena, the smash ability now has a 60% chance to hit. Explosive potions can now be added to the Action Bar. The tinderbox can now be picked up by multiple players. Waiting rooms now heal you in the same way as standing in a bank does. The Castle Wars manual has been updated. Bandages now give more health. Finally, the trimmed completionist cape requirement has been changed, so it is now fulfilled by speaking to Lanthus in a full set of profound armour. The cape is meant to encourage you to take part in Castle Wars and be competitive so the requirement will be easier to attain for those playing Castle Wars in the spirit it's intended. Castle Wars is easier to get into, better-looking and a whole lot more fun than it's ever been. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a green recruit, it's time: prepare for war! Mod Asherz In Other News A selection of rare items on the Squeal of Fortune - including the swagger stick and flying goblin hat - are becoming easier to win for this week! [spoiler=FAQ]Why did you change the trimmed cape requirement? We’ve changed the trimmed cape requirement to for two reasons: In your feedback, we saw a lot of concern about coasting or AFK players in Castle Wars, so we wanted to rectify that by encouraging players to participate in order to win. The general consensus from feedback was that 5000 games was an awful lot. Today's changes mean that those who participate fully and perform well in Castle Wars will obtain the profound armour most quickly, so the new requirement shifts the focus from time played to involvement and skill. Castle Wars has always been a competitive game and that’s how we want it to remain. Players should feel encouraged to participate fully, and we hope this change will achieve that. Why have you changed the reward structure? To give losing players something for their time. No-one wins every time, and it’s never nice spending 20 minutes playing a game, only to lose and receive no compensation. We want to encourage the use of consumable items. Previously, as players were saving tickets to spend on the more sought-after items, consumables were rarely used. There are a lot of cool consumable items that players can use within Castle Wars and we want to encourage their use. It gives us more flexibility when adding future rewards. What will happen to my Castle Wars tickets? You’ll be glad to know that we've converting all existing Castle Wars tickets into goldtickets with this update. I’m X amount of games towards the old 5000 Castle Wars trimmed cape requirement, what will happen to my progress? All Castle Wars players will be given gold tickets relative to their progress through the trimmed cape requirement. This has been calculated by totaling all currently owned Castle Wars tickets and the equivalent cost of all purchased rewards, then subtracting that from the total amount of Castle Wars games played. This calculation has been made on the assumption a player has been receiving one Castle Wars ticket per Castle Wars game played. What will happen to my currently owned Castle Wars rewards? You’ll keep all currently owned rewards. We're not removing them, or altering how those rewards are awarded in any way. Won't this just lead to team stacking like in Soul Wars? Castle Wars has an inbuilt anti-stacking mechanism for combat levels. However, we do recognise that Castle Wars is a tactical, skill-based minigame, and it will be the skilled players who will dictate the outcome of the game. This is harder to track, as it varies regardless of combat level or games played. We could add more restrictive mechanisms to counter this, but we would rather give you the freedom to play with whomever you wish, when you want to do so. We will be monitoring the issue, but our priority is to give you this freedom. Also, as we've said, it's skilled players who dictate the outcome of a Castle Wars game. Play on the weaker side and show those stackers how Castle Wars is reallyplayed! [spoiler=Patch Notes] Graphical: A graphical issue with the Zamorak cloak has been fixed. A stretching issue with Battle-mage robe legs has been fixed. King Vargas's beard no longer stretches during the Blood Runs Deep quest. A graphical issue with Roachey's hat has been fixed. A graphical issue with the Examiner has been fixed. The boat near Burgh de Rott is no longer floating over the water. The vyrewatch teleport cosmetic override no longer plays at the same time as other teleport animations in Dungeoneering. The karate-chop fletching cosmetic override now plays correctly when cutting bloodwood Logs. Armadyl vambraces have had their inventory icon colour changed to match the worn version. A missing texture around the rocks at the air obelisk plateau has been added. The swords and shields used in Gaius's two handed shop have been updated. A graphical issue with Skuli Myrka has been fixed. An issue with bloom within the pyramid south of the Bandit camp has been fixed. The explosive woodcutting, lumberjack and roundhouse kick cosmetic overrides have been added for cutting Evil tree and Evil roots. Stripes on the mime top no longer flicker. A stretching issue with a barbarian NPC in the Blue Moon Inn has been fixed. Blocking NPCs no longer stall the player as they try to walk around them. Quests, Challenges & Achievements: A spelling error in The Temple at Senntisten quest has been fixed. Skills & Minigames: The black knight guardian no longer tells lies about healing himself when he ceases to do so in the Dominion Tower. Chronozon can now be attacked with regular runes rather than just elemental and catalytic runes. An issue with Ariane not being able to cast offensive spells in the Three's Company Fremennik Saga has been fixed. An issue with the action bar in Fremennik Sagas bypassing Prayer checks has been fixed. Other: Players can now complete the Combat Academy again. An issue with Assault that allowed extra damage to be applied to the enemy has been fixed. The scrimshaw of cruelty will no longer poison a player indefinitely. Gravite weaponry once again degrades correctly on free worlds. Bound runic orbs are now wieldable in Dungeoneering. An issue with the rewards screen for the Occultist and Missionary's XP mission in the Pincers Region of Player-Owned Ports has been fixed. The amount of XP rewarded when crafting orbs in Dungeoneering has been corrected. Spells in the Ability Book are now updated when selecting keys on the Tool belt. A bug that caused Brugsen's chathead to be replaced with your follower has been fixed. A minor spelling error in Kuradal's chat has been fixed. The level 2 jail guard at Draynor Village has been brought up to the same level as the other guards.

Source for that? Because at the way captains scale, with the current voyages you'd be approaching the mid 90's - 100% mark on pincer voyages. Source is somewhere in the HLF that I cannot access myself! I can't access myself either but I thought it only said they'd look at adding higher tier captains though they noted while a '25k' captain would be passable and '50k' captain would be getting a bit too powerful compared to crew and voyages. Though of course these are both on the basis that captains cost and stat growth curve remains the same, I'd definitely like to see one more tier of captains though. It just feels a bit pathetic that our captains are worse stats than the crew at max. I've read that also but that is not everything. Some Mod said he has seen a job for an expansion on PoP already due popular demand!

Those 7 actionbars is a oversight of Jagex. Lemme look for source! [qfc]16-17-74-64850950[/qfc]

Have you thought about Glacors & Automatons?

I think you should start doing Barb Adv at 88.

Source for that? Because at the way captains scale, with the current voyages you'd be approaching the mid 90's - 100% mark on pincer voyages. Source is somewhere in the HLF that I cannot access myself!

Char is perhaps the only (quest-)boss who've gotten tougher to beat since EoC in comparison of Pre-EoC. And she was already a tough boss to begin with! Only perhaps the DKings, but that was merely a small oversight that got fixed now.

They are planning to implement 25k/50k captains =d

That's why your recovery questions should be completely ridiculous and written down. EG; colour? (a: blue) hello (a: how you doing) so, what's your name? (a: bill ben the flower pot men) etc, etc. I personally have it even more random. Random as in button smash randomish.

Well if you are good at frosts they can still be aprox 1.5m gp an hour =d. Bones are back to 14k~ each so decent overall..

Well you should get 92/95 Prayer, that really pays of when you are going to PvM. Then you should go kill QBD, she is about 3-5m gp/h especially if you can use drygores, but otherwise use Chaotic Maul!

If you want to join a clan purely to enjoy PvM especially in regards to GWD bosses, have you taken a look at this months BtS? I am interested in KK and Nex specifically. God Wars is dead, and requires far too much effort for far too little reward, with far too much risk. As for your comment on the BtS, if you are referring the instance update, as far as I am aware, Nex will not be made instance-able. No indeed, Nex won't be instanced. But KK is and there are lots of groups on more reliable sites/clans. For example you could join some people from TIF! Bottom line is: seriously avoid Zer0!

If you want to join a clan purely to enjoy PvM especially in regards to GWD bosses, have you taken a look at this months BtS?

Besides, they are a clan the does PvM just for the sake of crashing other people doing PvM! Have seen multiple times they skip free worlds...

Yay 2 Story Voyages left to get =D

Seems something like this is actually going to happen =O! With harder GWD and new drops along with it! Still not T90 probably but it is an improvement!

I need after the trio's still 39 Chi and 41 Lacquer =/

a) You kill the minions in the opposite order. You should kill Unstable last and the Sapping one first! b) If you have access to Soul Split, use that instead of Deflect curses. You'll hit more then enough to basically even out and sometimes just a small dent! c) You use Momentum. Glacor is a mini-boss and thus is by far best to be killed while using Abilities. This increases the dps significantly! d) As others have suggested above, while I was typing this, increase the distance between you with the Glacytes and the Glacor. You know when you do it correctly if you nearly even out with LP while using Soul Split!

I really hope the don't bust PoP armour :pray: It really takes a long time to get it and at current game we do not need the defense, even Nex armour is sufficient by far! I kinda hope we get a Mix 'n Max gear with PoP Armour! Aka a tiny bit defensive boost or current defense, with a bit of offensive boost! Like Nex Armour is now |^_^| But knowing Jagex they won't do that and just simply bust PoP Armour till we need it for the newest bosses yet to come with T99 gear, which will be defensive too :wacko:

Thing is, wikia states too that it is 12321 as max, however if I would do above calc, it is higher. I can only assume that there is a different formula then simply adding then multiplying by the % boost. Roctail soup has a 15% boost and Bonfire a max of 5%

They will be tackling the issue around loafers and afk'ers! Well, they said they were aiming to, but with just ticket count or something like that it wont work!

^ Wear a Legends Cape / Completionist cape, to add another 100 and a dungeoneering shield adds another 1200! In my calculations a maximum of 12509 Lifepoints can be achieved... 99 Constitution -> 3960 PoP Helm -> 1020 PoP Top -> 2040 PoP Legs -> 1530 Glacor boots -> 255 Dung Shields -> 1200 Automaton Gloves -> 255 Legends/Comp cape -> 100 Total of: 10360 Rocktail Soup -> x1.15 Bonfire -> x1.05 Total of: 12 509,7 Or 12 509 rounded down as usual...

No its not. How are bots considered an online player if the player is not playing because an automated robot is doing his tasks? How does a robot count as a real player? The issue here is we cannot accurately say who is and is not a bot. Plus, as previously mentioned bots in main game have DROPPED recently whilst bots in 07scape have INCREASED - therefore if you do want to exclude bots in rough rounding it'd push 07scape further away from main game. Plus I'd argue even bots show popularity to an extent: If the game is popular then lazy folks will bot to be 'good' at it or buy produce from bots. Their existence marks an inherent popularity necessary for people to bother coding and using them. But this is getting wildly off-topic. This is not a debate of whose game is better, this is a thread to discuss RS3. My point is: The online players count is really skewed for EOC. And let's just say we are in a perfect world and there are not bots. It still doesn't erase the fact that the player count for EOCscape will ALWAYS be greater due to the fact that they include FTP players. As of right now, members to members, OSR has more players. Back on topic. I think it's pretty pre-mature to get into RS3 since a lot of people are still hooked on RS2... I think the difference between RSC and RS2 were overwhelming and that caused people to move on. I don't consider the updates we will see in RS3 that major. You could easily incorporate all that into RS2 as they did with EOC. One thing I'm looking forward to is HTML5 hopefully destroying botting for good. Only due it having way more bots then we currently have in EoC

There is 1 oversight, at the moment there are more Botters in 07scape then in EoC.

Imo rudder first, it allows you to do atleast 2 voyages per ship per day =3