18 September 2007 - The ZMI Altar

 

A forgotten and weakened altar has been unearthed north of the Observatory. With the ability to produce any type of rune, the altar holds undeniable power, but its discovery would be so much sweeter if the Zamorakian Magical Institute (ZMI) hadn't got there first.

 

 

 

The ZMI unearthed the Ourania Rune Altar near Scorpius's grave, but their attempts to repair it have gone a wee bit awry. Regardless of the altar's weakened state, the ZMI are guarding it fiercely to prevent any rival mages from stealing their source of runes.

 

 

 

This mysterious altar also seems to raise Runecrafting levels at exceptional rates - but at what cost? There seems to be something a mite unreliable about the runes the altar produces. They are all so very...random.

 

 

 

Whispers from the Zamorakians imply that more experienced runecrafters will receive better rewards from this chaotic altar, but there can be no predicting what it will produce next.

 

 

 

Will you dare risk the Zamorakian's wrath by runecrafting at the ZMI altar?

 

 

 

Summary

 

 

 

Where to start using the ZMI Altar:

 

North of the Observatory, by Scorpius's grave.

 

 

 

 

 

Requirements to use the ZMI Altar:

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

Requirements to use the lunar teleport to the ZMI Altar:

 

Lunar Diplomacy quest.

 

Level 71 Magic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In other news...

 

 

 

Players entering the TzHaar city will no longer receive minor injuries when holding Karamja rum.

 

 

 

It is now impossible to set-up deadfall traps if a player doesn't have the required level. Previously, a player could set up a deadfall trap without the required levels, but were unable to bait it to attract kebbits.

 

 

 

We've fixed several NPC chat-heads that weren't working. These NPCs should now appear a bit more social and lively when you're chatting to them!

 

 

 

Players can no longer resume where they left off in the knight waves event, after the King's Ransom quest. If a player had teleported away part-way through a fight, the player could then come back and continue the challenge instead of restarting this fun event.

 

 

 

If you Have infomation on the new monsters click HERE

WHoah fast post..:o

 

Blood crafting ftw! \

 

Edit: My first post ever woot! :D

Seems quite cool, apparently it levels runecrafting at "an exceptional rate" =P~

Wow. Double Exp. And it looks like you can craft blood runes now.

When it says "increased level at an exceptional rate" does that mean its great xp or just temporary boost?

When it says "increased level at an exceptional rate" does that mean its great xp or just temporary boost?

 

 

 

not a clue i'm keen to test this out but i have noob rcing :(

When it says "increased level at an exceptional rate" does that mean its great xp or just temporary boost?

 

 

 

Double the exp for each rune made at that altar I believe.

IC, ic, I'm going to try it out now, see how fast and dangerous it is.

The short path looks pretty rough if your going backwards and forwards.

 

 

 

Long path is well...long :)

 

 

 

It can craft all runes, except for Combination runes and you cannot get multiple runes per essence.

 

 

 

Experience is double for each type of rune (glad to know I was right about this!)

 

 

 

There is a banker in the altar, if you give him 20 of any rune he'll let you access your bank account. How easy! Just take a heck of a lot of runes with you (in my case, my spare 20k fire runes) and then you don't have the worry of having to give away bloods or something to him :)

 

 

 

I cannot wait to use this, I wanted a way to power train RC and now I can!

Woot Dragon Plate:

 

 

 

 

(http://www.runescape.com/aff/windowscli ... arrior.gif)

 

 

 

wierd got like 700 exp

It's all about the exp, really. Pure ess price should go up. :-w

Pretty quick and easy lol

So it just randomly gives you a set of runes? Not that great... But the double xp would be well worth it.. depending on how fast you can get to the altar from the bank (and back).

Aww i wished it was for rune ess. I got 56k banked for this :cry: . Oh well i got air runes :) and those are cheap for banking :D so if anyone wanna buy them just pm me.

Can someone time how long it takes to get to the altar the long and the short way?

 

 

 

 

 

And how dangerous is the short way.

Been looking forward to this update =P~

.. depending on how fast you can get to the altar from the bank (and back).

 

i believe glory+ lunar tele to the Altar entrance will make things quite fast.

Lunar teli doesnt put you right next to it, so its slower than jsut running short way.

It's all about the exp, really. Pure ess price should go up. :-w

 

 

 

No it shouldn't. This isn't an awesome way to rc and barley anyone mines ess unless autoers so it hurts rcers at some point.

i am currently not on so i can realy tell...

 

but anyway if u want to bank without paying i guess glory/dual ring + lunar tele will be the way to do it

 

btw: whats the payment for banking ? 20 ess ?

 

[EDIT] nvm,found it

from the pic JamesJeffrey posted it looks like you don't need any talisman or tiara? you show up with some essence and can get an assortment pack of runes?

Got like 5 bloods, 1 soul and about 12 nats in the 2 rounds I did.

 

 

 

Its definetly about the xp, not about the runes as jemathonical said

I gotta do Lunar Diplomacy now :x

 

 

 

I need excuses to do quests :) \ \

Its just a bigger gap between p2p and f2p rc'ing now :P