Behind the Scenes - September Edition

[x1992x]

Sounds like a soul or blood or combination altar is coming :shock:

 

 

 

From the first page of this thread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QFC:16-17-165-50832108 , on page 2

 

 

 

not to be evil but:

 

 

 

owned?

 

 

 

ot: i look forward to rc opdate :D

[Kevin_]

Pretty lame stuff this month if you ask me, Rc update sounds decent though, hope it IS decent.

[Utopianflame]

I'm not sure why people would read this as having been blood runes, you will know when thats coming because they will talking about the next part of the myreque quest line (at least the last part of it)

[Lemeja]

Meh. The NPC's are getting an update and the rc update will just be a new way to train it. I was REALLY looking forward to a new skill this month :wall:

[4nr]

Oh well only things that look good is the Diary and the Quest.

 

 

 

I dunno what the heck is going to be consider "High" for Varrock. The most I can think is pk somebody or get slayer task.

 

 

 

The Quest doesn't look that good but who knows.

 

 

 

Not many distractions this month.

 

Did you read it? It goes from edgeville to canafis and that area. Plenty of hard stuff there.

[Japlin Chev]

I really hope it is blood runecrafting...but, knowing jagex, there will be some silly catch :wall:

 

 

 

Its funny when people don't even read the first page of a thread so make a post like this whihc has already been categorically labelled as not true by a jagex mod

 

 

 

My bad :wall:

[Unitedite]

Edit: My mistake, thanks to the two guys below.

 

 

 

What a pity :(

[krisc6]

Just realised another mini benefit of this month's updates: no unids means an extra 12 bank spaces :D

 

i think it just changes the word from herb to grimy rannar(if you have rannar unids).you will most definatly keep the 12 spaces with unids.its cuts out of unid scamming though

[rft]

Just realised another mini benefit of this month's updates: no unids means an extra 12 bank spaces :D

 

 

 

i read the update in a different way: herbs will be still in 2 stacks so instead of say, ranarrs + a stack of unids (that are ranarrs) this will become a stack of clean ranarrs and a stack of dirty ranarrs (or similar). You won't be able to clean the ranarrs until you have the herb level that you would have previously had to identify them.

 

It just means that people can sell herbs that still need cleaning (previously unids) as another effort to stop people scamming.

 

 

 

With respects to this update, I think that this month is what I expected, given that we have had some awesome updates recently. I'll wager that the achievement diary will be pretty straightforward this time around. The rc update should be good, I really hate rc so any update for the better I'm all for. The wildy attacking rule is great for PKers and means that you will have to be on your toes a lot more when runecrafting or attacking green dragons in particular.

[Lakitsym_Rose]

The druids and herbalists had their annual convention and felt that identifying the herbs really wasn't the hard part of their job. The hard part was cleaning the leafy things! So the herbalists will be busy later this month, identifying everyone's herbs and sorting them into cleaned and grimy instead of identified and unidentified. So don't be surprised when you see your herbs' names change, it's just your friendly neighbourhood herbalist giving you a hand. This should make it easier for you to know when you're buying a specific herb, rather than ending up with something you don't want. They've also gone around properly naming all of your unfinished potions, so you'll know exactly what you have in that odd-coloured vial.

 

 

 

 

 

Worst update of them all.

[Champion0113]

This month isn't that exciting to me. The runecrafting update seems interesting though. I just hope it doesn't make runecrafting easier to train.

 

Runecrafting is one of the only skills that can make good money. Making it easier to level would make it a worst moneymaking skill.

[casthewiz]

Oh well only things that look good is the Diary and the Quest.

 

 

 

I dunno what the heck is going to be consider "High" for Varrock. The most I can think is pk somebody or get slayer task.

 

 

 

The Quest doesn't look that good but who knows.

 

 

 

Not many distractions this month.

 

Did you read it? It goes from edgeville to canafis and that area. Plenty of hard stuff there.

 

 

 

 

 

I imagine a hard task would be killing a black demon or pking somebody.

[ixfd64]

The druids and herbalists had their annual convention and felt that identifying the herbs really wasn't the hard part of their job. The hard part was cleaning the leafy things! So the herbalists will be busy later this month, identifying everyone's herbs and sorting them into cleaned and grimy instead of identified and unidentified. So don't be surprised when you see your herbs' names change, it's just your friendly neighbourhood herbalist giving you a hand. This should make it easier for you to know when you're buying a specific herb, rather than ending up with something you don't want. They've also gone around properly naming all of your unfinished potions, so you'll know exactly what you have in that odd-coloured vial.

 

 

 

Does that mean that it won't be possible to have "unidentified" herbs anymore? People might be upset at losing the experience of identifying the herbs. If there really won't be able any more "unidentified" herbs, I'm guessing Jagex would replace them with "uncleaned" herbs, but I could be wrong.

[krisc6]

The druids and herbalists had their annual convention and felt that identifying the herbs really wasn't the hard part of their job. The hard part was cleaning the leafy things! So the herbalists will be busy later this month, identifying everyone's herbs and sorting them into cleaned and grimy instead of identified and unidentified. So don't be surprised when you see your herbs' names change, it's just your friendly neighbourhood herbalist giving you a hand. This should make it easier for you to know when you're buying a specific herb, rather than ending up with something you don't want. They've also gone around properly naming all of your unfinished potions, so you'll know exactly what you have in that odd-coloured vial.

 

 

 

Does that mean that it won't be possible to have "unidentified" herbs anymore? People might be upset at losing the experience of identifying the herbs. If there really won't be able any more "unidentified" herbs, I'm guessing Jagex would replace them with "uncleaned" herbs, but I could be wrong.

 

i think that cleaning the herb is what gives the exp

[ixfd64]

I think that cleaning the herbs for EXP is much more realistic. It simply doesn't make sense that you have to be an experienced herblorist in order to merely identify an herb. In the real world, even a person who is completely inexperienced in botnay can easily identify plants with a field guide. (RuneScape is a game and isn't meant to be realisgtic, but still...) It just seems silly that after a character identifies an herb, then other characters automatically know what it is.

[Silver_Corner]

I think that cleaning the herbs for EXP is much more realistic. It simply doesn't make sense that you have to be an experienced herblorist in order to merely identify an herb. In the real world, even a person who is completely inexperienced in botnay can easily identify plants with a field guide. (RuneScape is a game and isn't meant to be realisgtic, but still...) It just seems silly that after a character identifies an herb, then other characters automatically know what it is.

 

 

 

Yup it is.

 

But that wasnt the reason they changed it. The herbs were changed due to people merchanting unids, selling only the unid guams saying they were higher unid level, and getting 1ke for them.

 

 

 

This update is to stop those, so people know exactly whey they are buying and to make runescape a "better" and less threatning world.

 

 

 

Same XP as before, and a really good update I think. The only downfall is people everywhere will start picking up there herbs even if they cant identify them, since they know what they are.

[Italian5kamikaze]

There is definitely going to be a blood altar.

 

 

 

LOL but seriously i dont like rcing so that update doesnt really matter to me, im looking forward to the herblore part though.

[Master_Smither]

It most likely is for higher level players like crafting double nats at lvl 86 :)

 

 

 

Heres what Pual said:

 

 

 

 

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.