19-Aug-10 Dungeoneering � The Occult Floors

[Toad]

 

As the depths of Daemonheim reach ever closer to the strange power at their end, its magic has begun to affect the inhabitants who stalk its halls. Those humans abandoned on the floors above are the lucky ones, as the ones driven further down by their master have...changed, and have been joined by the magically gifted and the undead.

 

Members who venture through the twelve occult floors will have to face these tainted foes, mostly in the form of six new boss monsters. One boss that requires some skill to defeat is the Grave Creeper, who hides in a series of tombs if you dont quickly bless the graves he taints, the room can become engulfed in flame...and you with it. Then, as mentioned in this months Behind the Scenes, theres YkLagor the Thunderous, so named because hes a talkative guy (voice acting supplied by the developers). Heed his warnings or be the focus of a melee pummelling, but dont stray too far away else his magic attack can quickly take out your whole group!

 

Before you get to face these new bosses, youll likely come across one of nine new challenge rooms. These are not all exclusive to the occult floors and will tax both members and free-players alike. Withstand the pain of deadly herbs (slaughtercress, papreaper and parslay came from player suggestions in the Aggressive Herbs Name Ideas! forum thread), build bridges over bottomless pits, and perform last rites on a tormented spirit.

 

Traversing through the occult floors will allow you to increase your maximum prestige up to 47, with which you should be earning anywhere up to about 40% more XP than if your maximum prestige were 35 (depending upon your dungeon setup and how well you do). In turn, youll earn more Dungeoneering tokens just the thing for buying some of the five new rewards. Free players can learn a technique to become more efficient at smithing and charge special boxes with spells to cast. Members can enjoy such delights as herbicide (an automatic herb burner) and Rigour, a new prayer for rangers, among other things.

 

Mod Mark, Mod Chris L, Mod Liono and Mod Trick

The Dungeoneering Team

 

 

In other news...

 

As previously mentioned by Mod Trick, we've now implemented the feature to reset your Dungeoneering class rings. This is a one-time only option, so choose wisely this time.

 

We've added a useful new item to the Dungeoneering smugglers shop. The toolkit contains a selection of the more useful items used in most dungeons which should help speed up the start of your dungeons.

 

When progressing through dungeons, if you've purposefully selected a lower complexity, the complexity level will no longer increase as you progress through the floors.

 

Barnabas in Varrock Museum has noticed the popularity of the strange rocks and can now help you further by offering a bag to store them in. On a related note, the chance of getting a rock from Construction activities has been increased slightly.

 

The music interface now has a search feature so you can easily find the tracks you're after, which should be useful when you're creating a playlist or simply looking for those tracks you've just unlocked.

Rewards

 

[Wingless]

WTF THE POST ISN'T EVEN UP YOU NINJA :evil:

 

RAEGG

 

In other news:

 

Yaaay! Finally at last, I can Dungeoneer! <3:

[guitar_god_2007]

As the depths of Daemonheim reach ever closer to the strange power at their end, its magic has begun to affect the inhabitants who stalk its halls. Those humans abandoned on the floors above are the lucky ones, as the ones driven further down by their master have...changed, and have been joined by the magically gifted and the undead.

 

Members who venture through the twelve occult floors will have to face these tainted foes, mostly in the form of six new boss monsters. One boss that requires some skill to defeat is the Grave Creeper, who hides in a series of tombs if you dont quickly bless the graves he taints, the room can become engulfed in flame...and you with it. Then, as mentioned in this months Behind the Scenes, theres YkLagor the Thunderous, so named because hes a talkative guy (voice acting supplied by the developers). Heed his warnings or be the focus of a melee pummelling, but dont stray too far away else his magic attack can quickly take out your whole group!

 

Before you get to face these new bosses, youll likely come across one of nine new challenge rooms. These are not all exclusive to the occult floors and will tax both members and free-players alike. Withstand the pain of deadly herbs (slaughtercress, papreaper and parslay came from player suggestions in the Aggressive Herbs Name Ideas! forum thread), build bridges over bottomless pits, and perform last rites on a tormented spirit.

 

Traversing through the occult floors will allow you to increase your maximum prestige up to 47, with which you should be earning anywhere up to about 40% more XP than if your maximum prestige were 35 (depending upon your dungeon setup and how well you do). In turn, youll earn more Dungeoneering tokens just the thing for buying some of the five new rewards. Free players can learn a technique to become more efficient at smithing and charge special boxes with spells to cast. Members can enjoy such delights as herbicide (an automatic herb burner) and Rigour, a new prayer for rangers, among other things.

 

Mod Mark, Mod Chris L, Mod Liono and Mod Trick

The Dungeoneering Team

 

 

 

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In other news...

 

As previously mentioned by Mod Trick, we've now implemented the feature to reset your Dungeoneering class rings. This is a one-time only option, so choose wisely this time.

 

We've added a useful new item to the Dungeoneering smugglers shop. The toolkit contains a selection of the more useful items used in most dungeons which should help speed up the start of your dungeons.

 

When progressing through dungeons, if you've purposefully selected a lower complexity, the complexity level will no longer increase as you progress through the floors.

 

Barnabas in Varrock Museum has noticed the popularity of the strange rocks and can now help you further by offering a bag to store them in. On a related note, the chance of getting a rock from Construction activities has been increased slightly.

 

The music interface now has a search feature so you can easily find the tracks you're after, which should be useful when you're creating a playlist or simply looking for those tracks you've just unlocked.

[Sephy_]

Herbicide looks interesting

[TheAncient]

Not technically batch 2, but w/e

 

More like 1.75

 

There's still 1 more batch coming for 48-60

 

BUT AMG DG@@@@@@@@@@@@

[Toad]

WTF THE POST ISN'T EVEN UP YOU NINJA :evil:

 

RAEGG

 

I posted rewards link to keep you company <3

[Hameigh]

Scroll of rigour - 140k tokens

Members only. Requires a Prayer level of 74 and a Dungeoneering level of 74. Once used, this scroll will disappear, giving you the following permanent effect: you will gain the ability to use the Rigour prayer, which increases your ranged attack by 20% and your Defence by 25% while active.

 

Magical blastbox - 40k tokens

Requires a Magic level of 30, a Runecrafting level of 30, and a Dungeoneering level of 30. This arcane device absorbs and store the runes that would be used to cast bolt or blast spells, meaning that you only have to waste one inventory space when casting these spells. Choose a type of spell for your blastbox (bolt, blast) by right-clicking the blastbox and selecting 'Check/charge', or charge it with the required runes for a spell by clicking 'Charge'.

 

Casting your chosen type of spell will decrease the number of rune charges in the blastbox. You may still use a staff in conjuction with the blastbox to cast spells, and you may use non-stored runes in conjunction with runes from the box, as long as you are using them both to cast spells that are of the same type as the box.

 

Herbicide - 34k tokens

Members only. Requires a Herblore level of 21 and a Dungeoneering level of 21. Herbicide can erode any herb that drops from a monster, giving you twice the amount of XP you would have received for cleaning that herb. To choose which herbs are eroded in this manner, 'Inspect' the herbicide and make your choices on the interface.

 

Ring of vigour - 32k tokens

Members only. Requires an Attack level of 62 and a Dungeoneering level of 62. The ring of vigour has a strength bonus, and reduces the cost of any melee special attack by 10%.

 

Scroll of efficiency - 20k tokens

Available to all players. Requires a Smithing level of 55 and a Dungeoneering level of 55. Once used, the scroll will disappear, giving you the following permanent effect: whenever you smith an item that requires three or more bars to create, there is a chance that you will retain a bar. This chance is dependent on the bars that you are smithing:

[Toad]

Beat me to it, rewards aren't that great chaotic spear please :(

 

We've added a useful new item to the Dungeoneering smuggler’s shop. The toolkit contains a selection of the more useful items used in most dungeons which should help speed up the start of your dungeons.

[Youmu]

Ahh, so it's members only.

 

Just as I expected. Oh well.

[TheAncient]

[image]Members only. Requires an Attack level of 62 and a Dungeoneering level of 62. The ring of vigour has a strength bonus, and reduces the cost of any melee special attack by 10%.

SAFE PVP IS NOW OFFICIALLY BROKEN

 

3 CLAW SPECS IN A ROW

3 MAUL SPECS IN A ROW

8 DDS SPECS IN A ROW

 

GOOD GAME

[Dreezer]

hmmm... system update in 9 mins...

 

how do you get this that early??? :blink:

[Xecer]

Socks, I hate you :( You are too darn fast :o

 

Only rewards that are really worth it are the new range prayer and the ring of vigour..

[Toad]

hmmm... system update in 9 mins...

 

how do you get this that early??? :blink:

 

Problem is, the 9 mins isn't global time, if you go to the lobby, below the "click to play" you get global time to update (when ALL servers go offline).

[LatinII]

The Magical blastbox is so useless. Why can't it store wave and surge spells aswell... <_<

[Riemis]

[image]Members only. Requires an Attack level of 62 and a Dungeoneering level of 62. The ring of vigour has a strength bonus, and reduces the cost of any melee special attack by 10%.

SAFE PVP IS NOW OFFICIALLY BROKEN

 

3 CLAW SPECS IN A ROW

3 MAUL SPECS IN A ROW

8 DDS SPECS IN A ROW

 

GOOD GAME

People have no reason to call anyone a safer now, this smells overpowered from miles away.

[denewet]

Where is my eye of the warrior? They mentioned 8 rewards in bts I only see 5

[Youmu]

The Magical blastbox is so useless. Why can't it store wave and surge spells aswell... <_<

It's probably only intended for free players, lolz.

 

That being said, it still isn't that useful. What do you save from that, 2 more food spaces?

[AresArtemis]

They should have spend more time developing dungeoneering so they don't have to update it all the time. Waste of updates imo since I really hate the skill =,= (new rewards are quite bad)

[Fat_Slug]

Barnabas in Varrock Museum has noticed the popularity of the strange rocks and can now help you further by offering a bag to store them in. On a related note, the chance of getting a rock from Construction activities has been increased slightly.

 

 

 

this has made it a good update for me- i am sick of rocks using my bank space up :)

[Smapla]

[image]Members only. Requires an Attack level of 62 and a Dungeoneering level of 62. The ring of vigour has a strength bonus, and reduces the cost of any melee special attack by 10%.

SAFE PVP IS NOW OFFICIALLY BROKEN

 

3 CLAW SPECS IN A ROW

3 MAUL SPECS IN A ROW

8 DDS SPECS IN A ROW

 

GOOD GAME

 

LOL

 

 

what'll piss people off is the fact that it specifies melee only =\

 

 

where is the eye of the warrior? maybe they couldn't figure out what item slot it should be either

 

 

edit:

 

wait wait wait... could it mean that it reduces the amount of special attack bar it uses by 10% of that? IE, d dagger uses 25%, so it'd be reduced by 10% of 25%?

[Xecer]

[image]Members only. Requires an Attack level of 62 and a Dungeoneering level of 62. The ring of vigour has a strength bonus, and reduces the cost of any melee special attack by 10%.

SAFE PVP IS NOW OFFICIALLY BROKEN

 

3 CLAW SPECS IN A ROW

3 MAUL SPECS IN A ROW

8 DDS SPECS IN A ROW

 

GOOD GAME

..I don't get it.. dragon claws are 50% spec, the ring will make it 40%, which means you still can't use it 3 times in a row..

[Michigander]

build bridges over bottomless pits,

build bridges over bottomless pits,

bridges

What do bridges go over? Water. What goes in the water? Boats. What do the boats have on them? Sails.

SAILING!!!!!!!!!

 

[/typical troll sailing post]

 

But the new floors sound like fun except for the talking boss. I hope you don't need sound on to avoid his attacks :(

[xSxqPowerx]

So claws can still only spec twice? DDS, however, will be able to spec 6 times in a row.

[TheAncient]

[image]Members only. Requires an Attack level of 62 and a Dungeoneering level of 62. The ring of vigour has a strength bonus, and reduces the cost of any melee special attack by 10%.

SAFE PVP IS NOW OFFICIALLY BROKEN

 

3 CLAW SPECS IN A ROW

3 MAUL SPECS IN A ROW

8 DDS SPECS IN A ROW

 

GOOD GAME

 

LOL

 

 

what'll piss people off is the fact that it specifies melee only =\

 

 

where is the eye of the warrior? maybe they couldn't figure out what item slot it should be either

 

yeah they need a counter to this BS.

 

and wtf... why would you imbalance the combat triangle even more towards melee....

 

 

..I don't get it.. dragon claws are 50% spec, the ring will make it 40%, which means you still can't use it 3 times in a row..

 

Spec restore pots, my friend

 

125% spec bar

[Obtaurian]

Rigour - Cool.

 

Blastbox - [developmentally delayed]ed. Why not all elemental spells? Useless for members.

 

Scroll of Efficiency - Interesting. Probably useful.

 

Ring of Vigour - Awesome. I'm getting one for sure.

 

Herbacide - Okay, WTF are they thinking? Countless people have suggested a herb bag, but you want us to destroy our precious herbs for a tiny little sliver of experience? This is only useful for players who are so filthy rich that they don't want to pick up herbs anymore.

 

Where's the Eye of the Warrior? Otherwise, totally psyched to get back into dungeoneering. :thumbup: