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21-Feb-2011 - Attack of the WildyWyrms!


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21-Feb-2011 Attack of the WildyWyrms!

 

Whats that coming out of the ground? Its a WildyWyrm! For the next two weeks (until the week commencing 7th March)' date=' these overgrown cousins of the strykewyrms will be underground in three multi-way areas of the Wilderness, waiting for members to stomp on their hiding places. Wake one, and player-killers will find that their battles take a turn for the chaotic: a towering WildyWyrm will rise up and attack from all three corners of the combat triangle, attempting to drag players underground, remove their ability to use prayers, and even hurl balls of flame that bounce from one adventurer to the next.

 

These monsters have a combat level of 382, but they have the potential to become far more dangerous, as Jagex Moderators know that the WildyWyrms mind is weak and can be controlled. With the WildyWyrm under their control, the moderator can choose whether it attacks with melee, ranged or magic, and, more importantly, they will be able to increase the creatures Defence and Attack, raising it to a potential combat level of 562! Sadistic JMods will even heal the WildyWyrm to make sure that the WildyWyrm is more than just a nuisance as you player-kill.

 

You will be able to find these huge, hulking beasts in three areas of the Wilderness for the next two weeks only. If you are not interested in fighting the WildyWyrm, it might be worth avoiding these areas for the next two weeks:

 

 

* In the forest east of the Chaos Temple (level 11 Wilderness)

* North of Clan Wars (level 42 Wilderness)

* Between the Lava Maze and Red Dragon Isle (level 42 Wilderness)

 

 

 

Mandrith and other Edgeville characters will announce if a Moderator has taken control of a WildyWyrm in the Wilderness. WildyWyrms do not follow the rules of traditional strykewyrms, so you do not require any Slayer levels or the use of a fire cape to fight it.

 

If you are fighting a WildyWyrm, keep your eyes open for JMods in the area; if one takes control of a WildyWyrm, you will find that the name of the WildyWyrm changes to that of the JMod in control of it. While under control of a JMod, you can guarantee that the fight will become more dangerous and prolonged, so be prepared for the additional difficulty.

 

The WildyWyrms are located in dangerous, multi-way areas of the Wilderness. It is likely that other players will attempt to player-kill you as you fight in these WildyWyrm areas, due to the increased danger, so only player-kill here with items that you are willing to lose. As with the rest of the Wilderness, you will not leave a gravestone behind when you die, and your items will be visible to the player who dealt the most damage to you (or to everyone in the vicinity if no player damaged you).

 

On the week commencing 7th March, the WildyWyrms will be removed from the game, while its drop, the fury shark, will be removed from the game on the week commencing 28th March, 2011.

 

 

Fury Shark:

 

Contribute to the death of a JMod-controlled WildyWyrm and you will receive the guaranteed reward of a cooked fury shark. Defeat a normal WildyWyrm and there is a small chance of receiving this untradeable drop.

 

Fury sharks are delicacies that heal 230 life points in combat and 280 life points outside of combat. That makes them second only to the baron shark in terms of life point-healing fish. If dropped on the floor, a fury shark will be visible as a conventional shark to other players.

 

On top of this, the fury shark is blessed with the ability to protect items on death for one minute after being eaten. This item protection works in the same way as the Protect Item prayer: if you die while you are under the effect of the fury shark, you will retain 4 items if you are not skulled, 1 item if you are skulled, and 0 items if you are on a High-risk Wilderness World. The fury shark is an alternative to using the Protect Item prayer or curse; it cannot be used to increase the effects of them. By offering an alternative to using the Protect Item prayer, you are able to choose another prayer to take into battle.

 

The fury shark will stay fresh until the week commencing the 28th March, 2011, when they will rot away into nothingness. Make sure you eat your sharks in that time youll never forget the flavour!

 

Mod Chris L

RuneScape Content Developer

 

 

In other news...

 

When entering the Wilderness, the default draw order has been changed to what PvP Worlds used to use. This means that players will once again appear over familiars. [/quote']

 

 

21-Feb-2011 God Wars Dungeon The Nex Big Thing

 

Weve taken the opportunity to sweeten Nexs drops a little' date=' making the unique items more common, large-quantity drops bigger, and the items more fairly spread between those who kill her. Nex is just as difficult and engrossing to fight as before, but todays update better rewards those who put the time and effort into killing her, and removes an obstacle from fighting her.

 

 

Nex Rewards

 

We have taken the opportunity to thoroughly revise Nexs drop tables, making her drops larger, more common and fairly shared between a larger number of individuals. Since Nex can take a great deal of time, effort and risk, this seems a more fitting return for defeating her.

 

Those who are looking to get their hands on the zaryte bow and the virtus mask, robe top and robe legs will find that they are roughly three times more likely to receive one from a Nex drop. Although getting a unique item from Nex was far more likely than getting a godsword from another boss, we did not believe that the chances of receiving one matched the time put into killing her.

 

Those who attack Nex in groups which is everyone, unless you are utterly mad will find that her drops are now split into batches rather than one large pile going to a single person, and the total number has been subtly increased. For example, Nex might previously have dropped 5 torstol seeds and 30 noted Saradomin brews for 1 person; with the changes this week, Nex will instead share 12 torstol seeds between 4 people, and will share 30 un-noted Saradomin brews between 3 people (throwing in an additional 10 un-noted super restores for a bit of variety). With free trade back in RuneScape, you can liberally pass these items to one another to better prepare you for the next fight!

 

 

Getting to Nex

 

From now on, Nex encourages you to pay homage to Zaros by wearing a full ancient ceremonial set; in return, she will allow you to pass through the Zarosian boss door for free, without the need to notch up a kill count.

 

To get hold of the ancient ceremonial robes, you have a few options: kill the ancient mages that attack in the area before the killcount door, kill the ancient mages in the Nex area, or buy them from other players. We have greatly increased the chances that a mage in the Nex area will drop these robes.

 

Be aware that the ancient ceremonial clothing has no stat boosting effects, and the creatures of the Ancient Prison will still be aggressive while you wear it.

 

 

Mod Chris L

RuneScape Content Developer

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The following small fixes and adjustments have now been made to the game. If you spot any further bugs in-game' date=' please use the Bug Report feature ('Submit a Bug Report' under the 'Help' drop-down menu of the website).

 

Graphical

 

 

* The Zaryte bow's string no longer looks detached.

* Big cupboards no longer flicker.

* Thick lines on interfaces in DirectX mode have been fixed.

 

 

 

Quests and Tasks

 

 

* The Path of Glouphrie quest no longer has a broken monolith in the storeroom shuffle section.

* Some grammar has been tidied up in Gunnar's Ground.

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

 

* Leaving the Dungeoneering castle area will now kick players from a party. It is no longer possible to form a party outside of this area.

* Zygomites are now called mutated zygomites in game again.

* The profanity mouse-over tooltip now refers to itself as the Profanity Filter.

* Script involving the use of food has been updated to be more efficient.

* The lobby interface will no longer warn players about High-risk Wilderness Worlds erroneously. [/quote']

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Yessss, yeeeesssss! Now maybe it'll be possible to obtain those armor sets. I'd really love to play with torva and pernix.

 

On a side note, GG to the people who payed upwards of 6b for a single piece.

 

Oh and also that wildywyrm thing sounds [bleep]ing stupid.

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This thing wasn't mentioned in the February BTS.

And it can't be a march update, because it's like 2 weeks to march.

 

Wonder what they are plotting...

 

Hopefully it isn't some complete waste of development time for a COMMUNITY EVENT :ohnoes:

 

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Now's the chance to snipe a set of cheap Ceremonial Robes and sell them after the update. They should go up in price... I think.

 

Unless the drop is so ridiculously common they drop to nothingness.

 

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The KC removal sounds incredible. More common drops is also a good thing. All in all, great update!

 

The wyrms don't sound that amazing, though.

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Oh how I wish I hadn't sold my extra Ceremonial pieces - just 1 spare set of legs left.

 

Might be worth my while camping there for a bit :)

 

Bit of a shame about the Strykewyrms - had hoped for a 97+ slayer monster (or even Slayer being given the 120 level cap & these became a lvl 100 slayer monster) :D

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well considering i had the almost full ceremonial set when it was dirt cheap.... Million dollar happy dance!

 

Anyone els feel like raging over the wyrm that doesn't even have a keepable drop and is just a way for mod to have fun killing us?

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First update: Lol, I'd rather hunt the KQ than that new boss.

Second update: Nex isn't my thing, but it'll be interesting to see what the MHer's have to say.

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Those who are looking to get their hands on the zaryte bow and the virtus mask, robe top and robe legs will find that they are roughly three times more likely to receive one from a Nex drop

 

I don't see them mentioning Torva and Pernix. <.<

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Sharks that heal a little bit more, oh come on! The risk factor is just silly for such a pointless drop. Suppose it's interesting if it drops other things (dragon armour etc).

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