Daily Challenges & Noticeboard - September 19th 2012

 

Daily Challenges

 

The Burthorpe Imperial Guard needs you! Members of all levels can now take on Daily Challenges: varied goals which, when completed, grant a healthy chunk of XP in the skill of your choice.

Each day, you'll be assigned a new Daily Challenge that you have the skill levels to fulfil. You can find out what this is through the new Noticeboard interface (more on that later).

 

These could be anything from culling the dagannoth population or brewing super prayer restore potions to cooking pies or growing watermelons. You can get hold of the materials you need however you like, but you'll need to complete at least the final stage of the process yourself. For example: if you're tasked with fletching yew longbows, you can buy the strings and bow shafts ready-made from the Grand Exchange and then put the bows together to complete the Daily Challenge.

 

When you're done, head over to Burthorpe and report in with the quartermaster for your reward. As you'll have to hand in any items that you're required to make, you'll be reimbursed with a challenge mystery bag, containing goods equivalent in value to any materials you had to use. On top of this, you'll get a hefty XP reward in the skill related to your completed Daily Challenge, as well as a spin on the Squeal of Fortune. Up to five of your most recently assigned Daily Challenges will be saved if not completed, so you can catch up if you miss out on a day or two.

Overcoming the thousands of Challenges that Gielinor can throw at you for sack-loads of XP and all expenses paid? Challenge accepted!

 

 

The Noticeboard

 

Gielinor is a vast place, filled with wonders, perils and riches aplenty, so sometimes the hardest thing is knowing what to do next! That's no longer a problem, with the introduction of the Noticeboard - the one-stop interface for all of your RuneScape adventures.

The Noticeboard - accessible anywhere via its icon in the bottom-right of the screen - brings the new Daily Challenge system together with the existing Quest Journal and Task Lists (now called Achievements) in one handy interface. For members, there's also a 'Minigames' tab, which directs you to Minigame or D&D content that's accessible to you, of the type that you want to play. To top it off, we've also included a 'Featured' tab, which picks out the best content that RuneScape has to offer that's suited to your levels, so you're never short of awesome content to experience.

Have fun!

 

Mod Liono

 

 

How to start performing Daily Challenges

 

Access the Noticeboard, or speak to the Imperial Guard quartermaster in Burthorpe.

 

 

Behind the Scenes Video

 

If you haven't already, get a sneak preview of the Challenge System - and much more - in our latest Behind the Scenes video:

 

 

In Other News

• The Gielinor Games have ended, and can no longer be accessed within RuneScape.
  
• Anyone with bonus XP left to use in their Mad May necklace still has plenty of time to do so: until the 31st of December 2012.
  
• The Recommendation system has been replaced by Challenges. These are different from Daily Challenges in that they have no rewards, but they're accessed through the same interface, and are a great way for newer players to find out what RuneScape has to offer.
  
• Solomon's Store now holds an all-new Royal Court range , including Monarch, Noble and Servant outfits, as well as a Jousting Lance weapon re-skin!
  
• If you're eligible for Sizzling Summer, be sure to pick up your free Squid Cape and Crab Dance emote from Solomon's Store!
  

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.

 

Graphical:

• A yew tree has been returned to a certain training spot in the Tree Gnome Stronghold.
  
• The border around the Fruit Tree patch in the Tree Gnome Stronghold has been returned.
  
• The princess hairstyle no longer causes players heads to detatch.
  
• The bare feet cosmetic override now functions correctly instead of replacing players' feet.
  
• The animation used when failing a leaf trap in Isafdar has been updated.
  
• Using the scorching axe cosmetic override with the lumberjack woodcutting animation on ivy has been corrected.
  
• The scorching axe cosmetic override now works correctly within the Jadinko Lair.
  
• The flashing "New items" function no longer flashes constantly once the shatter storm wand cosmetic override has been bought.
  
• The cave north of the River Elid no longer goes bright white with bloom enabled.
  
• Some height mapping near Red Dragon Isle has been fixed.
  

Skills & Minigames:

• The camera in Conquest now functions correctly.
  
• Logging in with a different account no longer shows the Squeal of Fortune in the wrong state.
  
• The Court Cases gavel is now awarded when a player completes the correct amount of Court Cases.
  
• It is no longer possible to begin a fire breathing performance whilst in the middle of a Thieving performance in the Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza.
  

Other:

• The seal of passage has been given a teleport option whilst equipped.
  
• The Lady of the Lake now has a right-click "Claim Excalibur" option after completing Merlin's Crystal.
  
• "Rest" is now the left-click option on Musicians. This now will also work from a short distance away instead of walking the player up to the musician.
  
• Players will no longer be automatically attacked when they have entered the God Wars Dungeon until they take their first step.
  
• The message given on trying to log in with an unregistered device using JAG has been updated to give more accurate information.
  
• Players no longer lose their default hairstyle when entering a disallowed-cosmetics area.
  
• The rewards interface after defeating the Queen Black Dragon now has the correct tooltips assigned to the buttons.
  
• Players can no longer act as a group gatestone in Dungeoneering without the gatestone by dropping it whilst the Smuggler's shop is open.
  

From what I gather this will actually get me out of the GE. The experience gains seem quite relevant to the time spent on the task, based on the BTS video on daily challenges.

 

I'm extremely pleased by the fact that these challenges encompass a wide variety of skills, and aren't simply combat or non-combat related. Time to re-buy some combat gear.

 

I'm surprised the Noticeboard isn't F2P, as one J-Mod stated that drop mining iron was the fastest mining xp in-game (when referring to xp reward rates for task completion), in which I thought he was referring to F2P, rather than not actually knowing his facts about P2P. They could have used this bit of a distraction, in my opinion.

 

Also nice to see Solomon and SOF updates becoming "In Other News" rather than a headline it its own. It's not a lot, but it's a step in a favoured direction.

Just now got access to the download server so can't wait to take a break from defense!

These are my challenges upon log-in:

 

Is it just me, or is something missing?

I think this covers that missing icon:

 

The Noticeboard - accessible anywhere via its icon in the bottom-right of the screen - brings the new Daily Challenge system together with the existing Quest Journal and Task Lists (now called Achievements) in one handy interface.

Seems like a pretty cool system. Gona be good to see everyone's challenges.

 

Mine were:

 

Plant a torstol seed

Catch 44 rocktails

Kill 44 Slayer master assigned creatures

27 laps of Gnome Adv

2 large jobs at sawmill

My tasks were:

 

Plant 1 snapdragon seed

Kill 39 monsters that are at least level 95

Make 120 mahogany dressers

Catch 52 swordfish barehanded

Make 13 barker toad pouches

ill probly use this update alot.

cant wait till i get of work to see what the exp rates are like.

 

 

and R.I.P. daily agil exp. the games are gone :(

but thanks for the agil lvls ^^

This is pretty sweet tbh.

I think this covers that missing icon:

The Noticeboard - accessible anywhere via its icon in the bottom-right of the screen - brings the new Daily Challenge system together with the existing Quest Journal and Task Lists (now called Achievements) in one handy interface.

Yeah, I meant to say that they left a blank icon behind when moving quests to the new tab.

Got Pyramid Plunder Room 8 challenge - loot 52 urns

 

70250 Thieving XP for it.

Not sure if bug or not... Has anyone been getting this much xp?

 

 

Ok, i will bite, how does one access the notice board? :unsure:

 

Never mind I found it ... :oops:

Wow, those XP rewards are a lot higher than I was expecting. Not bad Jagex, not bad at all.

This guy on HLF scored 357863 DG xp for beating a small dungeon as a challenge.

 

I could really use this to level my ranged. :D

Maybe DG exp is glitched? If not, then DAMN, that will be the best daily challange exp reward by far.

 

I got 2 large sawmill jobs, 3 ext attack,s Curry cooking and gnome advanced course. Oh, and catching some sprite thingamajingies.

 

I only did the herblroe one, took 2 seconds and gave me 2 spins+ our bone + 6k exp, not bad at all.

My tasks were:

 

Catch 44 rocktails

Infuse 3 Moss Titan pouches

Brew 10 Saradomin Brews

Plant 1 lantadyme seed

Complete 2 Sawmill jobs (can't remember whether large :P)

Make 6 Steel Titan Pouches

Do a complexity 6 floor in Daemonheim

Siphon Law, Nature or Death runes in the RuneSpan: 190

Make 3 Extreme Ranging potions

Bury, altar or ecto 5 Frost bones

Did they say what theyre going to use the newly empty tab for?

I recieved a similar dungeon xp reward for a Floor 1, C6, Small. However seeing as it's just 1 new task per day, I don't think these rewards will have much negative effect.

 

There has been no information on the use of the newly freed up tab space.

is it so that one gets one specific challenge only once?

is it so that one gets one specific challenge only once?

 

I don't believe so, unlike the task system you can get challenges repeatedly. You only get one per day though.

Completed Magic Logs challenge: cut and turn in 30 magic logs

 

25823 Woodcutting XP

2307 gp + 3 rune bars