Behind the Scenes - September Edition

[darkjab]

September will begin with a continuation of the popular gnome quests. Activity around the gnome-infested areas of RuneScape has increased after the ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅFluffyÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâÃ

[4nr]

Blood altar plox! Also sounds like we can change our characters height and width now. Cool :o

[alwin_loser]

Blood rune crafting pl0x? And anti scamming herbs :D

[Freesia]

2nd last paragraph is sure to be for speculation.

 

 

 

Seems like a quest month. No distractions for skilling!

[kemikalkadet]

PMG craftable bloods

 

 

 

i saw the last sentence.. 'maybe a bit unpredictable...' they're failable maybe? like combination runes.

[transcript80]

Very nice! Herblore update! No more buying stacks of uselees junk, just get the herb you desire! No more "herb scamming".

 

 

 

Achievement diary pl0x? I liked the karamjan one A LOT (except for the fight caves thing...man I suck at that!) so I'm anxious to see the new one!

 

 

 

Quests ftw!

[Cabbage_Boii]

width and height would be cool, time to get crafting nats i wanna hit teh new altar w\e it is :shock:

[trihylians]

i hope its blood crafting! but seems like a high-level rc update woot. I wonder what the rewards for The varrock Diary will be? :-k

[rooneyrules0]

Looks quite mediocre month in comparison to august.. still, achievement diary looks good.. I'm sure it won't be blood crafting btw.

[DRUMINATOR17]

PMG craftable bloods

 

 

 

i saw the last sentence.. 'maybe a bit unpredictable...' they're failable maybe? like combination runes.

 

 

 

Or have an unusual side effect if not 100% crafted correctly?

 

 

 

Loss of some hitpoints or some other skill in an attempt to create such a high lvl and highly unpredictable rune?? :-#

[CubeMage128]

Mages are really hurting for a power boost after melee got the godswords, Dragonfire shield, and Dragon full helm, and range got the dark bow and armadyl armor...

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps this is the boost we've been waiting for?

[brunokiller]

Ever since the Zamorak Magical Institute discovered that Saradomin's wizards had found altars to create runes, they've been itching to get an altar of their own. Their time has almost arrived: a new altar has been unearthed and it is unlike anything the mages have ever encountered. It will grant the ability to create runes higher than their normal skill requirements, but it's just a wee bit unpredictable...

 

 

 

 

It will grant the ability to create runes higher than their normal skill requirements

 

 

 

This means something of the following.

 

 

 

1. A runecrafting altar which is much closer to bank but requires a higher runecrafting lvl(eg lvl 70 for natures)

 

 

 

2. Either a blood or soul altar

 

 

 

3. A new rune

 

 

 

4. Yet another way to access rune altars(a new abyss), sounds unlikely to me though

 

 

 

5. It is an altar that will turn ess into random runes(the wee bit unpredictable)

 

 

 

6. Multiple runes per ess at lower levels

 

 

 

7.

I hope this new altar will give mad experience points, like 10 per air rune, and going up an exp point per rune above it.

 

 

 

It would be nice if it was for people like me who just want to get fast experience and are not too bothered about what runes they'll receive.

 

 

 

8. A runecrafting minigame

[Freesia]

PMG craftable bloods

 

 

 

i saw the last sentence.. 'maybe a bit unpredictable...' they're failable maybe? like combination runes.

 

 

 

Or have an unusual side effect if not 100% crafted correctly?

 

 

 

Loss of some hitpoints or some other skill in an attempt to create such a high lvl and highly unpredictable rune?? :-#

 

Possible, no quest requirements though it seems.

[Kenshinjapan]

PMG craftable bloods

 

 

 

i saw the last sentence.. 'maybe a bit unpredictable...' they're failable maybe? like combination runes.

 

 

 

What I'm guessing.

 

 

 

And I don't like the width/height idea. People will just use it to turn themselves into shortest/fattest, tallest skinniest/shortest /skinniest etc. And it just is another thing that people use to make fun of others :x . Would be perfect if immaturity didn't exist.

[whiteboy1102]

Yay a new gnome quest.

 

 

 

The runecrafting thing sounds a bit like a blast furnace rather than bloods.

[darkjab]

I hope this new altar will give mad experience points, like 10 per air rune, and going up an exp point per rune above it.

 

 

 

It would be nice if it was for people like me who just want to get fast experience and are not too bothered about what runes they'll receive.

[trihylians]

Paul Jagex Mod :

 

 

 

Hmm does the altar really sound that much like THE blood/soul altar from that behind the scenes post? Or are people just seeing the words new altar and then not reading carefully?

 

It's not meant too imply that's what it is and I didn't think what was written did.

 

 

 

This is actually a new concept to spice up the runecrafting skill.

 

 

 

I wouldn't want to get peoples hopes up about releasing something that we weren't, especially something with such anticipation as THE blood altar. (don't worry we haven't forgotten about it)

 

 

 

Don't get me wrong the next months runecrafting update is a good update and I think it will have a good appeal to players across a variety of levels, (It will be more powerful at high levels) but if people get the wrong idea about an update then our hard work tends to gets flamed unnecessarily, when things don't turn out as players expected.

[mario_sunny]

I'll be looking foward to this "unknown altar" update especially. This should silence the "runecrafting get no updates!" rants. I'm looking foward to the requirement to access the altar; whether that be a quest, a minigame, ect. I'm hoping this will be harder than Mornings end part II, that was a pretty hard quest and will be tough to beat.

[brunokiller]

 

 

 

 

 

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[Arilauske]

Where are you getting this "Change height and width" idea from? Where does it say that?

[-Devoted12-]

I am really hoping that the Runecrafting update doesn't make Runecrafting any easier than it already is. Runecrafting is a very valuable skill to have depending on if you craft your own runes or not. I am all for a new altar that increases Xp slightly, but I don't think that Runecrafting should be considered much easier than it is now. We don't want Runecrafting to become easy AND a huge moneymaker or Runecrafting will no longer be a moneymaker.

 

 

 

Everything else in the BTS looks very interesting and I am awaiting the arrival of each release. I have to admit, I am a little hesitant about this new altar though. If it is easier, I hope it isn't accessable through the abyss. I want it to be a little more challenging to make the rune more valuable.

[Marco]

Well well well.. Looks like some people were a bit quick to assume Blood/Soul altars. Would be nice if some players would read that paragraph and then re-read it before posting such wild guesses.

[Sy_Accursed]

From the sounds of what Mod Paul said I'd say the rc thing is gonna be a bit minigame-like

 

 

 

and an alter that isn't purely down assigned to a single rune.

 

 

 

I'm thinking perhaps an alter that is nearer to a bank than most and when entered will take you to a random alter.

 

 

 

Or an alter that creates a random selection of runes from your essence

 

 

 

Or perhaps even an alter that can create spells (eg use say 6 ess to make a high alch and it gives u 1 nat 5 fires)

 

 

 

But we shall see.

[darkjab]

I hope the quest comes out today

 

 

 

Give ol jabby a bday present jagex pl0x?

[Leoo]

This month doesen't seem to appeal me at all apart from the Runecrafting update. I am 91 FTW!