Behind the Scenes - May

[@Dan3HitU]

a range of new dragon-orientated gear

dragon c'bow! :rolleyes:

You could be onto something :)

[Sy_Accursed]

a range of new dragon-orientated gear

dragon c'bow! :rolleyes:

You could be onto something :)

 

I highly doubt it.

1) Dragon-orientated means related too fighting dragons or made from dragons. Dragon armour doesn't really fit this category, things like d-hides and visages do.

2) Why specifically name Dragon kiteshield and not c-bow? Especially seeing how c-bow is more asked fro than kite these days.

3) A few Jmods have said repeatedly, and recently, we probably won't see d c-bow for a very longtime, if ever, because chaotic is essentially the stats etc dragon would've been.

[Ts_Stormrage]

Bane bolts going to be a use?

[Plugpoint]

Runescape isn't a social network. I see no reason for Jagex to create training methods to improve the social aspects of the game. If you want top exp gains you should be willing to sacrifice something. That's why i find myself a bit unhappy about Runespan too. It would have been much better if it either cost a lot, or wasn't afkable at all. Releasing a training method with exp gains in the region of 100k exp/h at 0 or little cost is stupid. If this keeps up we're looking at 1 click agility courses and afkable bosses in the near future.

Actually found reading this comment quite depressing. It's not a social network, but it is a social game - you should be sacrificing the exp gains to chat to people. Although I agree some of it should be kept non-AFKable.

[Hedgehog]

a range of new dragon-orientated gear

dragon c'bow! :rolleyes:

You could be onto something :)

 

I highly doubt it.

1) Dragon-orientated means related too fighting dragons or made from dragons. Dragon armour doesn't really fit this category, things like d-hides and visages do.

2) Why specifically name Dragon kiteshield and not c-bow? Especially seeing how c-bow is more asked fro than kite these days.

3) A few Jmods have said repeatedly, and recently, we probably won't see d c-bow for a very longtime, if ever, because chaotic is essentially the stats etc dragon would've been.

I highly doubt it.

1) Dragon-oriented means related to dragons, so dragon armor fits into this category.

2) They don't want to cause any panic, because announcing the release of such an anticipated item would be economically devastating.

3) A few jmods said repeatedly that there won't be microtransactions.

[Sy_Accursed]

I still don't see dragon armour as being 'dragon-related' just because of the word dragon after all most of it comes from anything but dragons, but the other two are fair points; though I still doubt it to be a dragon c-bow.

[Iglw]

a range of new dragon-orientated gear

dragon c'bow! :rolleyes:

or...

 

Dragon powered cooking range! :shades:

 

[D. V. Devnull]

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CCFs are never mind-twisting, they're just vaguely worded and/or poorly administered so that you think you've got the correct answer, but you don't.

It's not like it damages the game or anything to have one though.

Yeah the number of times they give no explanation of how a puzzle is meant to be solved and after mind-bending over it for an age to suss it out you find out some dingbat made the image up wrong so you got the wrong answer.

You can stack on that having to spend too much time (~48+ hours, a.k.a. "an age") versus what would be reasonable for each clue (~3 hours max), which causes some people to go nuts and waste time in their lives that should have been spent elsewhere. Insanity should not result from the release of a CCF, and I'm hoping that Jagex made their clues anti-insanity-causing this time around. :geek:

 

~D. V. "Victim speaking from experience..." Devnull

[Sy_Accursed]

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CCFs are never mind-twisting, they're just vaguely worded and/or poorly administered so that you think you've got the correct answer, but you don't.

It's not like it damages the game or anything to have one though.

Yeah the number of times they give no explanation of how a puzzle is meant to be solved and after mind-bending over it for an age to suss it out you find out some dingbat made the image up wrong so you got the wrong answer.

You can stack on that having to spend too much time (~48+ hours, a.k.a. "an age") versus what would be reasonable for each clue (~3 hours max), which causes some people to go nuts and waste time in their lives that should have been spent elsewhere. Insanity should not result from the release of a CCF, and I'm hoping that Jagex made their clues anti-insanity-causing this time around. :geek:

 

~D. V. "Victim speaking from experience..." Devnull

 

Thankfully the clues never drove me that far, but then I am a bit of a whizz when it comes to puzzles (mostly) only one that took me anywhere near that long was MEP2 when I did it pre-guide and that did include a fair bit of teleport out for more foods time. Plus of course the original MEP2 interfaces were shockingly bad and going in to it blind it was pure luck of the draw whether you stumbled across the various fixed elements, the first door using the green crystal took me five minutes after I found it, took me like 2 or 3 hours prior to finding it trying to make it work.

 

But this is straying off-topic!

In CCF there's only been 1 puzzle that I didn't manage to solve myself fairly speedily.

[Troacctid]

Wouldn't it be neat if the Kiteshield were untradeable, meaning you needed to get it yourself.

No

[Omali]

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CCFs are never mind-twisting, they're just vaguely worded and/or poorly administered so that you think you've got the correct answer, but you don't.

It's not like it damages the game or anything to have one though.

 

Let's not forget that Jagex has a tendency to [bleep] up the clues. I distinctly remember several clues from the first two cryptic clue fests being initially unsolvable because Jagex screwed up their algorithms, stuff was left out, puzzles were unsolvable, etc. There is also no sense of "I was there at the time," because the rewards have been re-released every year.

 

I'll play Professor Layton on the Nintendo DS if I want intelligent, well thought out puzzles that make you feel a sense of accomplishment when you finally figure them out.

[Pinata]

a range of new dragon-orientated gear

dragon c'bow! :rolleyes:

You could be onto something :)

 

I highly doubt it.

1) Dragon-orientated means related too fighting dragons or made from dragons. Dragon armour doesn't really fit this category, things like d-hides and visages do.

2) Why specifically name Dragon kiteshield and not c-bow? Especially seeing how c-bow is more asked fro than kite these days.

3) A few Jmods have said repeatedly, and recently, we probably won't see d c-bow for a very longtime, if ever, because chaotic is essentially the stats etc dragon would've been.

I highly doubt it.

1) Dragon-oriented means related to dragons, so dragon armor fits into this category.

2) They don't want to cause any panic, because announcing the release of such an anticipated item would be economically devastating.

3) A few jmods said repeatedly that there won't be microtransactions.

I think oriented is a keyword. If they were to make dragon c'bow, warhammer, sword, etc. they would probably have said "Dragon Equipment". Although it would be nice if they completed the equipment set just for completionist sake. But I get how it would be a waste of development time. My guess is maybe weapons that have bonus damage % against dragons & wyverns. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

Edit: Now imagine if we got a Dragonfire armour set. Maybe pass torva in str but not defence. That would be cool. All pieces doing the Dragonfire shield special at once...

[Drazhor]

Reckon they'd put in the trimming kits for the dragon kiteshield into the rewards for Elite clue scrolls too? Or think they'd save it for the next TT improvement?

[Randox]

Reckon they'd put in the trimming kits for the dragon kiteshield into the rewards for Elite clue scrolls too? Or think they'd save it for the next TT improvement?

I hope they just make it work on both shields with the same kit. That would be the easist thing to do, and will probably upset the least number of people (because if you make two of them, the sq kit becomes worthless pretty fast and becomes another junk item from TT).

[Arceus]

Sorry to distract from the topic, but, do you use the kits on the dragon armor to trim it?

And does this mean you can *eyes widen* trim armor?

[codecRS]

Its been confirmed many times in many places that there will never be a dragon crossbow.

[Sylpheed]

a range of new dragon-orientated gear

dragon c'bow! :rolleyes:

You could be onto something :)

 

I highly doubt it.

1) Dragon-orientated means related too fighting dragons or made from dragons. Dragon armour doesn't really fit this category, things like d-hides and visages do.

2) Why specifically name Dragon kiteshield and not c-bow? Especially seeing how c-bow is more asked fro than kite these days.

3) A few Jmods have said repeatedly, and recently, we probably won't see d c-bow for a very longtime, if ever, because chaotic is essentially the stats etc dragon would've been.

I highly doubt it.

1) Dragon-oriented means related to dragons, so dragon armor fits into this category.

2) They don't want to cause any panic, because announcing the release of such an anticipated item would be economically devastating.

3) A few jmods said repeatedly that there won't be microtransactions.

I think oriented is a keyword. If they were to make dragon c'bow, warhammer, sword, etc. they would probably have said "Dragon Equipment". Although it would be nice if they completed the equipment set just for completionist sake. But I get how it would be a waste of development time. My guess is maybe weapons that have bonus damage % against dragons & wyverns. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

Edit: Now imagine if we got a Dragonfire armour set. Maybe pass torva in str but not defence. That would be cool. All pieces doing the Dragonfire shield special at once...

 

A new set of armour would be rad, especially if it was a decent and untradable set. That way only people that can actually kill the boss would be able to get it. I'm pretty sure Jagex mentioned a while ago that they wanted all future armour releases above Nex gear to be untradeable.

[Kaida23]

Sorry to distract from the topic, but, do you use the kits on the dragon armor to trim it?

And does this mean you can *eyes widen* trim armor?

Yes to both questions. There are individual gold and spiked ornament kits for each piece of dragon armor and they can be added and taken off at will. The kits are tradeable, but the decorated items aren't.

[kazumaishimaru]

Its been confirmed many times in many places that there will never be a dragon crossbow.

Except that one time when Mod Mark completely disproved what you just said when he said "Yes, but not until we have rebalanced the combat triangle." in a certain Q&A.

(if you can't find it, go ahead and ctrl+f crossbow, it's pretty quick that way)

 

However, I'd love to see the places where it was said there will never be one. (since it's still being said it's an upcoming update)

[Urza285]

Has anyone considered how the fight might be? I am speculating that we might just be facing the giant head of the beast and maybe it's wings/claws.

[SwreeTak]

It seems like this will be quite a good month. I just hope that that SoF update doesn't make you able to buy even more xp.

[Urza285]

Also looking at the concept art from the QBD battleground there aren't any hidiv spots. This makes me think we will have to purely dodge things. With that said I'm speculating that we see wind gust attacks that are magic based. We will obviously see dragonfire attacks that may be needed to dodge, ice breath attacks to stop you in your tracks and maybe a more potent poison breath attack. I can't think of what her ranged attack is except maybe a tail lash?

Also if this is an endurance fight I'm curious what we might be facing?

 

Maybe...

 

1 iron dragon

2 iron

1 steel

1 steel, 1 iron

2 steel

1 mithril

1 mithril, 1 iron

Etc... Maybe up to adamantite and rune?! Maybe there are some drops designated to these?

[Sy_Accursed]

Also looking at the concept art from the QBD battleground there aren't any hidiv spots. This makes me think we will have to purely dodge things. With that said I'm speculating that we see wind gust attacks that are magic based. We will obviously see dragonfire attacks that may be needed to dodge, ice breath attacks to stop you in your tracks and maybe a more potent poison breath attack. I can't think of what her ranged attack is except maybe a tail lash?

Also if this is an endurance fight I'm curious what we might be facing?

 

Maybe...

 

1 iron dragon

2 iron

1 steel

1 steel, 1 iron

2 steel

1 mithril

1 mithril, 1 iron

Etc... Maybe up to adamantite and rune?! Maybe there are some drops designated to these?

 

The one quote I have seen mentioning an 'endurance fight' specifically said it was NOT one.

Also a tail lash would not be a ranged attack because lashing something is a melee move. Maybe firing tail barbs though.

[Urza285]

Also looking at the concept art from the QBD battleground there aren't any hidiv spots. This makes me think we will have to purely dodge things. With that said I'm speculating that we see wind gust attacks that are magic based. We will obviously see dragonfire attacks that may be needed to dodge, ice breath attacks to stop you in your tracks and maybe a more potent poison breath attack. I can't think of what her ranged attack is except maybe a tail lash?

Also if this is an endurance fight I'm curious what we might be facing?

 

Maybe...

 

1 iron dragon

2 iron

1 steel

1 steel, 1 iron

2 steel

1 mithril

1 mithril, 1 iron

Etc... Maybe up to adamantite and rune?! Maybe there are some drops designated to these?

 

The one quote I have seen mentioning an 'endurance fight' specifically said it was NOT one.

Also a tail lash would not be a ranged attack because lashing something is a melee move. Maybe firing tail barbs though.

I could have sworn it said that it was going to be an endurance fight, but not as long as the fight kiln.

[Sylpheed]

Also looking at the concept art from the QBD battleground there aren't any hidiv spots. This makes me think we will have to purely dodge things. With that said I'm speculating that we see wind gust attacks that are magic based. We will obviously see dragonfire attacks that may be needed to dodge, ice breath attacks to stop you in your tracks and maybe a more potent poison breath attack. I can't think of what her ranged attack is except maybe a tail lash?

Also if this is an endurance fight I'm curious what we might be facing?

 

Maybe...

 

1 iron dragon

2 iron

1 steel

1 steel, 1 iron

2 steel

1 mithril

1 mithril, 1 iron

Etc... Maybe up to adamantite and rune?! Maybe there are some drops designated to these?

 

The one quote I have seen mentioning an 'endurance fight' specifically said it was NOT one.

Also a tail lash would not be a ranged attack because lashing something is a melee move. Maybe firing tail barbs though.

I could have sworn it said that it was going to be an endurance fight, but not as long as the fight kiln.

 

I posted the quote a few pages back. It said QBD was less endurance fight like the Kiln and more Nomad in the sense of needing to dodge attacks.