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Darklight should have had a graphical update now too :)

http://www.runescape.com/c=gNSJSoUdqBA/kbase/guid/christmas_2009 :)

I was tempted to add it to the list :P

Now it's time to reflect on a year of updates, which have seen many updates we could probably not see ourselves living without so here are a few of my picks, feel free to add list and say why but which one tops your list of update of the year? First of all it's the high level content aspect that some definate voids have been filled and really breathed life into forgotten skills; High level Herblore update - A nice balance to a buyable skill, that saw brilliant potions brought in but left untradeable for true masters of the skill to use potions which has created a large interest in people wanting to train the skill prices are high still but it gives farming herbs an advantage and self sufficiency is now a fair requirement to the skill. High level Agility update - Another balanced high level update, unbuyable reward in form of the agility top and bottom, which requires players to complete 250 laps of the extended course which offer nice experience and higher level motion of the skills, the animations on the courses are superb and the run update with musicians finally has given a greater purpose to higher level agility. Woodcutting Rebalance - The sawmill is fun to do in small pieces but Ivy offers a fun alternative to dropping logs needlessly and running to the bank. High level Mining & Fishing update - This argueably peoples pick of the bunch, many didn't like training Mining and Jagex responded with this update, new fish that heal well and also offer advantages over other fish, but a mining spot that sees the unofficial world with swarms of players and xp rates that areh hard to compete with. High level Prayer update - Zaros finally makes contact and rewards players with the Curse prayer book which has made higher level prayer worthwhile and also a prayer book is a vast step up from the dated regular prayers. Quest of the year Temple of Light - The Elves have refreshed our memorys now with a trip down to the Temple of Light which offers a stepping stone between MEP3 and the opening of Prifddinas with the sequel to this quest, I hope to be there at the ribbon cutting! The Temple of Senntisten - Yes Jagex really do like their temples don't they? players once again help Azzanadra once again after helping him in Desert Treasure, this quest had everything humour, an Ice Demon, a new area with an Iron & Steel dragon spot (soon to be disregarded with Kuradals Dungeon) and we made contact with Zaros, the reward matched Curse Prayers! :) Blood Runs Deep - Players got insight into how Dagannoth colonys work, some really lovely cutscenes with ships sailing to fight the Dagannoth hoards off after Rellekka being attacked, some drama, a Balmung and a nice xp reward later and it was a quest I fondly remember ;) Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf - Release of the Dragon pickaxe and Hand cannon how can we forget that? the quest was short but enjoyable but wasn't as good as the ones above in my eyes :P The Chosen Commander - Another insight into the goblins of Dorgeshuun which was an enjoyable quest with a few fights and an upgraded Bone crossbow, the next installment sounds like it'll be fun with more insight into Yu'biusk! Achievement Diarys The Seers, Fremmenik, Ardougne Diarys gave new tasks, Ardougne offered elite tasks, elite tasks will now be added to the older achievement diarys which sounds like alot of fun ;) Honourable Mentions Evil Trees - A fun D&D with nice rewards, I used this frequently woodcutting and it's a nice training method Mobilising Armies - A learning curve for Jagex and a new minigame that's different from any other but it didn't live up to expectations in my opinion. Animation Pack 1 - New animations and graphics to older weapons it really did make some older items really look less mechanical and future packs are on the way :) Runetek 5 - More asthetics to the game lovely update and particle effects followed today, can't wait for RT6 now :P RuneScape Classic Reopened - Nostalgia, Nostalgia, Nostalgia this gave players a first glimpse of how the father of RuneScape 2 looked and it was vintage to go back and walk around but also it gives players to reflect upon how much has changed in the short few years :) RuneScape Machinima Competition - This gave players the chance to show off their video making talent and also brought the community closer, Congratulations to Excl for winning ;) Cryptic Community event - Racking our brains for the 4 days trying to figure out where to go was a nice change to holiday events although it definately was more stressful but fun none the less :) Summoning Familiar upgrade - Yes that's right the familiars don't stand there and look pretty they actually attack now, which was a much needed change to Summoning familiars. Kuradals Dungeon - An exclusive dungeon to her tasks larger tasks, a new ring and more, it's everything a good slayer needs, the future is bright for Kuradal wanting vengeance on lucien and the fact a 90+ monster could be exclusive to her dungeon! The Note System, Objectives + No Backstepping - These 3 are an update that help with everyday scaping no matter what you're doing you dont run back and forth trying to go to a location, jotting down notes and setting goals makes life a little easier :) Overall what was your favourite? such a "small update" year has ended up with some big headline updates I thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait for 2010 to start :)

Hmm, you had 40 abby demon tasks to 90 slayer? i had 9. Good drops. Blatent lie tbh, I had 36 tasks from 90-99 and that was with the old double tasks too, so 85-90 (2.4m xp) versus 90-99 (7.7m xp) and he/she's had 40 tasks terrible lie lol

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Apparently so, I didn't realise there were subtitles as I didn't watch the first 5 or so seconds but second time I understood despite the wind :blink: was fairly good though You need to put some of the staff under the limelight such as the Mods, Admins & Crewbies :thumbsup:

And unless those cpus are free I won't be getting one :)

Oh my god, Narnia. lol I can't believe, after years of pleading, we're extremely close to changing weather effects. I don't want dandruff snow effects :angry: I like the obviously fake snow-flakes near trollheim :razz: I'd only want weather effects if it had another purpose than high cpu usage, such as elementals like dagannoth mother when the weather changes you need to use the opposite to water/ice = fire etc that'd be pretty neat I guess

Slayer task with Proselyte no zerker ring, extremes + turmoil I managed to pull off a 76

I entered competition my desktop computer (only one I have) is on its last legs :evil:

I hope weather doesnt happen for a while as it'd offer no real purpose in the game apart from asthetics of course (I'd rather have quests woo)

I was looking for a date in a topic <3 I'll request this to be locked and wait for my particle snow

Maxed players event today for Christmas thought I'd share [hide] Started off at 7pm massing at lumbridge to parade through RuneScape led fashionably by a Rudolph himself (Mod Mat K) Eventually we finished parading through the g.e and other towns and went to the party hall for a drop party, Majority of us chipped in over 3 drops, Zetris kindly put a santa hat in the chest (which around 50 people claimed to have gotten) Which took us to KBD for a few kills, we crashed a team by accident (50 santas vs 3 level 80s? who won, we did!) We finished off at Edgeville for a snowball fight, since the pkers wouldn't stop harrassing us (majority of us hit the floor a few times) we ended up moving to a safer place, I had bigger snow balls Surge Vs Windstrike and plus I had rocktails lol. which finished off the 2 hour event that was quite fun :)[/hide]

Revamped quests for F2P they'll do it for older p2p ones perhaps soon

Balmung close ;P

That's a little over the top turning himself into a statue, It was optional to kill him, tbh all the Ancient Magicks (Zaros) tele to former Zaros locations before they were destroyed so this is more proof that Khazard was working for Zaros (as players had speculated before, not me I just read it :P)

Calm down <3

Care to share the link? Which one theres multiple since release of note system

Siglim only one name, one name are so much cooler, spiderman, superman, wolverine see what I mean, if it was Wolverine Banks and Spiderman Smith, it wouldn't have the same effect

pretty much the same for me, but i killed the mother in one go. (same invy too.) I'm pretty proud to say i did it without a guide. (but 1 guy did tell me about the mother ahead of time, so i was prepared.) If you read the dialogue the npcs tell you 15,000 times the mothers coming up so for me Brundt warned me :P

All took me one try, apart from mother where I forgot a prayer pot so I went back to the bank, I knew what was coming for the mother since I've done it before in horror from deep, it wasn't a struggle at all

Check quest journal in game for further instruction

Didn't jagex say they're upgrading parts of older quests? (f2p are oldest of the bunch I also know I've made a typing error but can't seem to find it maybe i'm paranoid, don't judge.)