Recoils Disabled for Quests?

[spudrow]

I recently made a topic regarding how Jagex disabled the use of Recoils during Slayer tasks, but have they taken it one step further?

 

 

 

I was doing the Elemental Workshop quest & was at the part where you needed to kill the Earth Elemental for the ore. So, I attempted to mine the ore, watch it transform into the Elemental, & repeated the 5 minute process of recoiling & caking. After the Elemental was destroyed, no ore was to be found. I thought this happened to be a fluke so I re-stocked and tried it again, which resulted in the same failure. Did Jagex disable the use of recoils, period? This might be a fluke but wanted to get advice before attempting again.

[kemikalkadet]

They changed it so you dont get drops form recoiled monsters anymore. So if a quest monster drops an item you need it wont work. I think it should still work if you need to kill a monster that doesn't drop anything though, shilo boss for example.

[spudrow]

How typical. Well, thanks for clearing this up for me. Really cleans up my To-Do list.

[RUNESCAPEfantasy]

i think you need to hit atleast 1 damage for it to work

[Socrates]

Your other option is to try to hit 1 damage on it. But I don't know how long you can go on for doing that until you level.

[Deathmath]

You need to hit it, somehow. Just one damage will do it.