23-Aug-2011 � New Rewards for Minigames

[brainymidget]

23-Aug-2011 – New Rewards for Minigames

 

We’ve added a veritable bounty of high-level rewards to our minigames, including armour sets to boost Thieving and Runecrafting XP gain, macabre customisation options for dark magic users and an infernally adorable pet Jad. If there’s a minigame that you’ve never tried before, or one that you’ve not played for a long time, now is a terrific time to start!

 

New equipment

We’ve added 5 entirely new sets of gear which are now available to high-level minigame devotees.

 

Master runecrafter robes: This set is available to arcane scholars persistently participating in the Great Orb Project. In addition to all the stat bonuses of the lower-level Runecrafting robes, each piece of this set offers a bonus to Runecrafting XP gain, with a total bonus of +2.5% when the whole set is worn.

 

Black Ibis outfit: Once worn by members of an ancient, secret society, this clothing can be obtained through Pyramid Plunder. In a similar vein to the Master Runecrafter Robes, each article of clothing provides a bonus to Thieving XP gain (with a few exceptions), for a total of +2.5% for the whole set.

 

Hybrid armour: These three new armour sets provide substantial bonuses to multi-talented combatants while playing Castle Wars, Soul Wars, Fist of Guthix and TzHaar Fight Pits:

 

• Battle-mage armour: This set is great for warrior-wizards who use both melee and magic to overcome opponents.
  
• Trickster armour: Ideal for the cunning combatant who needs to switch between ranged and magical attacks at a moment’s notice.
  
• Vanguard armour: Perfect for the versatile frontline fighter who likes to weaken enemies at range before closing to finish the job in melee.
  

 

While these hybrid armour sets provide no benefits to statistics outside of PVP minigames, they do look very cool.

 

 

Quake with fear, humans!

The moment it burst forth from its infernal cocoon in the sulphurous depths of the TzHaar City, the infant TzRek-Jad was ready for battle. While domestic life isn’t quite what it envisaged, it can now be acquired by Soul Wars players who are skilled enough to handle it as a pet. When it looks up at you with its big, winsome eyes, you can never be quite sure whether it’s planning to crush your skull or just wants its belly rubbed. However, it doesn’t need feeding and will not run away, and is an excellent deterrent to unwelcome doorstep canvassers.

 

Customisation Options

Those with no qualms about exploring the most depraved avenues of arcane knowledge can now obtain items from Shades of Mort’ton with which to customise their equipment. First of these is the shade skull, which can be attached to elemental staves or battlestaves by high-level crafters for a newly ghoulish appearance. Those who delve deeper, however, may find a necromancer’s kit which can be used to upgrade the Dagon’hai robes, giving them a Prayer bonus and a new, macabre look.

 

...and many more!

There are plenty of other great rewards to be won by dedicated minigame players, including:

Proximity chinchompas for use in Castle Wars.

 

Glistening shells that grant bonus XP on the Fishing Trawler, as well as tiger sharks to catch and cook, and shark’s teeth to craft into necklaces.

 

New lunar spells including ‘Borrowed Power’, which allows lunar magic users to use selected offensive spells.

 

To start, play any of the following minigames. See the individual minigame pages for full details of the rewards.

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• Castle Wars
  
• Stealing Creation
  
• Fist of Guthix
  
• Pest Control
  
• Shades of Mort’ton
  
• Fishing Trawler
  
• Great Orb Project
  
• Pyramid Plunder
  
• TzHaar Fight Pits
  
• Soul Wars
  

 

Mod Raven

 

In other news...

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• In Morytania, as the moon waxes red, the gloom grows close and oppressive and whispers in the dark become harder to ignore. The men and women of Burgh de Rott dare not speak of the impending darkness, but the voices of innocents still ring clearly in that murky fenland town...
  
• Players who have unlocked wishes in the Livid Farm minigame have been refunded the produce points spent on them. Wishes are no longer accessible until the Borrowed Power spell has been purchased.
  
• Finally, we've made some changes to the way that the 'skulled' status is applied while in the Wilderness. More information can be found in the dev blog on the homepage.
  

 

Patch Notes:

 

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

 

Graphical

 

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• The sun beams that were causing difficulty to see orbs in the air altar have been removed.
  
• Conveyors in a Clan battlefield no longer spin the player when they're climbing an Agility obstacle.
  
• The horizontal resize cursor for resizing the friends list separator has been updated.
  
• The minecart from Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf no longer disappears at the end of the track.
  
• The Catherby agility shortcut no longer causes items on the ground to rise when used.
  

 

 

Quests

 

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• An additional full stop has been removed from Blood Pact's quest information interface.
  
• The ‘Axe'll Grease’ task no longer misspells Dagannoth.
  
• A typo in the Prisoner of Glouphrie's quest journal has been fixed.
  
• The elite Varrock Tasks reward chest has had a typo fixed in the message given when trying to claim the reward early.
   
  

 

Minigames & Distractions

 

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• Temple Trekking NPCs now attack ghasts in the Ghast Birth event more consistently.
  
• The bonecrusher no longer crushes vyrewatch corpses or shade remains.
  
• The monkey section of Recipe for Disaster now checks for the correct progress state of Monkey Madness in the quest journal.
  
• Artisans' Workshop no longer tells the player to be ‘on a member to heat ingots’ on a free world.
  
• Dying in the global Fight Pits now gives a free resurrection per day if the reward has been unlocked.
  
• Sir Owen no longer runs on ice during Three’s a Crowd.
  

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

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• A path has been opened up between the fairy ring and swamp boat in the Mort Myre swamp.
  
• Items dropped from the Barrows chest are now printed in a player's Adventurer's Log.
  
• The scroll bar on the emotes interface now behaves more consistently when scrolling.
  
• The ring of wealth no longer attempts to teleport a player into a pillar at the Grand Exchange.
  
• The cave potato, gissel mushroom and all members only fish caught within Daemonheim now state members only on the skill guide.
  
• The Wise Old Man no longer refers to Kayle's sling as being a bow.
  
• Speaking to Hans about retrieving a Veteran cape tomorrow has had a typo fixed.
  
• A second dungeon minimap icon has been removed from Trollheim.
  
• The Friends and Friends-chat interfaces no longer have tooltips that go off of the bottom of the screen.
  
• The celestial surgebox now highlights the fire wave spell correctly if it contains the correct runes for casting the spell.
  
• Logging out at the southern side of the Karamja agility shortcut no longer places the player on the north side.
  

[Tim]

Patch Notes:

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

 

Graphical

 

 

The sun beams that were causing difficulty to see orbs in the air altar have been removed.

Conveyors in a Clan battlefield no longer spin the player when they're climbing an Agility obstacle.

The horizontal resize cursor for resizing the friends list separator has been updated.

The minecart from Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf no longer disappears at the end of the track.

The Catherby agility shortcut no longer causes items on the ground to rise when used.

 

 

 

Quests

 

 

An additional full stop has been removed from Blood Pact's quest information interface.

The ‘Axe'll Grease’ task no longer misspells Dagannoth.

A typo in the Prisoner of Glouphrie's quest journal has been fixed.

The elite Varrock Tasks reward chest has had a typo fixed in the message given when trying to claim the reward early.

 

 

 

Minigames & Distractions

 

 

Temple Trekking NPCs now attack ghasts in the Ghast Birth event more consistently.

The bonecrusher no longer crushes vyrewatch corpses or shade remains.

The monkey section of Recipe for Disaster now checks for the correct progress state of Monkey Madness in the quest journal.

Artisans' Workshop no longer tells the player to be ‘on a member to heat ingots’ on a free world.

Dying in the global Fight Pits now gives a free resurrection per day if the reward has been unlocked.

Sir Owen no longer runs on ice during Three’s a Crowd.

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

 

A path has been opened up between the fairy ring and swamp boat in the Mort Myre swamp.

Items dropped from the Barrows chest are now printed in a player's Adventurer's Log.

The scroll bar on the emotes interface now behaves more consistently when scrolling.

The ring of wealth no longer attempts to teleport a player into a pillar at the Grand Exchange.

The cave potato, gissel mushroom and all members only fish caught within Daemonheim now state members only on the skill guide.

The Wise Old Man no longer refers to Kayle's sling as being a bow.

Speaking to Hans about retrieving a Veteran cape tomorrow has had a typo fixed.

A second dungeon minimap icon has been removed from Trollheim.

The Friends and Friends-chat interfaces no longer have tooltips that go off of the bottom of the screen.

The celestial surgebox now highlights the fire wave spell correctly if it contains the correct runes for casting the spell.

Logging out at the southern side of the Karamja agility shortcut no longer places the player on the north side.

[Saradomin_Mage]

I wish they'd synchronise the updates to the knowledge base faster :(

Also, LOL at Michelle not uploading the full patch notes.

[brainymidget]

Indeed, I'm constantly refreshing the Lunar spells page to get more Info on that "Borrowed Power"

[Skyrebel]

Are all the links broken for anyone else?

[Tim]

Yeah they kinda farced the links for Hybrid armour and the sort.

 

You totally stole my topic/patch notes....

[The Observer]

Depends on how long it takes to get them. If it takes a while, it's probably not worth it.

[DatBooty]

Looking forward to seeing that these new rewards really do.

[Saradomin_Mage]

Ergh, 4 pieces of master RC robes. 60k tokens for the full set, which is 30 hours of 50/50 GOP :rolleyes:

And whoa, the hybrid armour has pretty sick stats !

[Leik]

Items dropped from the Barrows chest are now printed in a player's Adventurer's Log.

 

Very happy about that, even though I don't do a-lot of barrows nowadays. Don't really care for the rest though. Might possibly get the Jad pet, since it requires no feeding and can't run away, and I already have like 80 points from Nomad's Requiem.

[Andy]

And whoa, the hybrid armour has pretty sick stats !

While these hybrid armour sets provide no benefits to statistics outside of PVP minigames, they do look very cool.

 

;)

[Lord Paul]

Teleport to Trollheim......92 mage .......744400 points... teleports you to farming patch :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

Group Teleport to Trollheim......93 mage...... 806400 points ...... Teleports the group nearest to you to the farming patch in Trollheim

 

Borrowed Power*....... 99 mage......880000 points.....Grants you the ability to cast other spells

 

 

*Using an arcane capacitor necklace, the Borrowed Power spell allows you to cast the following spells:

 

Wind wave

Water Wave

Earth Wave

Fire Wave

Entangle

Enfeeble

Telekinetic Grab

 

In order to use the Borrowed Power spell, you must first charge your arcane capacitor necklace. You will need 1000 times the normal runes required for that spell, resulting in 1000 charges of that spell on your arcane capacitor necklace. Casting the spell then requires 3 astral runes and 1 charge from your arcane capacitor necklace. Autocast is not available. In order to cast the spell you will also need to wear the necklace.

[Jimmyw3000]

this actually looks like a decent week.

[Saradomin_Mage]

And whoa, the hybrid armour has pretty sick stats !

While these hybrid armour sets provide no benefits to statistics outside of PVP minigames, they do look very cool.

 

;)

I'm aware of that, just that wearing these sets will give you the chance to experience the stats of torva/pernix (ROLLED INTO ONE!!!) for the duration of the minigame, haha.

Well worth it to me !

 

EDIT : WHAT ON EARTH DID ANYONE NOTICE THE NEW SHIELDS IN STEALING CREATION?

[brainymidget]

Wow, "Borrowed Power" sucks. None of those spells are even remotely useful, and also, it uses an extra 3 astral runes for each cast.

[999134]

if only blood barrage was an option...

[Sy_Accursed]

Wow, "Borrowed Power" sucks. None of those spells are even remotely useful, and also, it uses an extra 3 astral runes for each cast.

 

It's rather lol worth also like the "extra farming patch"

It's a wish that creates an extra allotment that VANISHES after u harvest from it.

[The Runar]

Protect a Patch for me! (37000 produce points): Gives a scroll that, when used with the appropriate produce, will protect a tree or fruit tree patch while it has a plant growing in it. You may only use one scroll at a time, but it will protect 10 of the same type of tree

 

Sounds useful, but I'll never get enough produce points to actually use wishes -.-

[Sly_Wizard]

I figured Jagex would do something like this [cabbage] for hybrid armor. What the hell do I need PVP only mini-game armor for?

[BloodAngel]

New (I think) Sceptre of the Gods from Pyramid Plunder:

 

Offers 10 teleports as opposed to the 3 offered by the jewelled golden sceptre. Also, when wielding this sceptre in Pyramid Plunder, you get the following benefits:

 

* 2 new urns will become visible in the last two rooms which provide a better chance of getting good loot.

* You have an increased chance of obtaining the black ibis armour pieces.

 

 

The rewards look pretty nice to be fair, looks like I'm going to have to start playing a few mini games that aren't Castle Wars or Pyramid Plunder again!

[Quyneax]

The sc shields seem rather powerful, +70 ranged defence on one and +30 magic defence on the other, only requires 65 defence. The other bonusus are universally low though.

[Ermy]

Did notice the new wish from Pauline "Let it Rain Awesome Seeds". It sounds to good to be true!

[brunokiller]

yay for more livid farm grind for some more semi useless spells

[The Runar]

yay for more livid farm grind for some more semi useless spells

 

Trollheim teleport looks really useful tbh

[Saradomin_Mage]

Did notice the new wish from Pauline "Let it Rain Awesome Seeds". It sounds to good to be true!

At 55k points for a shot at good seeds, I'd rather spend my 2+ hours elsewhere really :P

And Trollheim teleport looks good on the surface, until you consider spellbook swap.