28-Jan-2013 Demon Flash Mobs

[Carl]

 

Demon Flashmobs

 

 

Demon Flash Mobs are blazing their way to Gielinor this week. Team up with your friends and head to RuneScape's scariest areas, where you'll fight your way through waves of minions and take down demonic bosses. Succeed, and you'll earn demon slayer armour and crossbows: ranged gear with black dragonhide-level stats and bonus damage against demonic enemies!

 

 

Demon Flash Mobs (members only)

 

There's brimstone on the breeze this week as Demon Flash Mobs manifest in RuneScape, taking you to Gielinor's darkest places to test your team-based combat skills to the max!

 

 

While on members' worlds, those of you with combat level 120 or higher will receive hourly notifications in your chat boxes informing you of demonic incursions at any of 14 locations around the world, including the Wilderness. To take on these graphically reworked beasts, you'll need to gear up for combat and gather some friends, because this'll be no walk in the park.

 

Each invasion will be led by a demon boss, but initially he'll hang back and gather power while you fight his minions. These consist of imp heralds, lesser demons and black demons. Defeating all imp heralds will render the lesser demons vulnerable to attack, and defeating them will allow you to attack the black demons. The longer it takes you to defeat the lesser demons and black demons, the tougher the demon boss will be when he finally goes on the warpath, so take them down as quickly as you can!

 

When you face the demon boss, you'll notice that he'll have titles before and after his name. These give you clues as to his combat style and special abilities. For example, a demon named 'General Mord'uun the Blazing' would fight with accurate melee attacks (from 'General') which would cause additional fire-based damage over time (from 'the Blazing'). For a book giving further details on the meaning of demon names, speak to Brother Celerity in Edgeville Monastery.

 

When defeated, the demon boss can give some valuable drops. Best among these are pieces of demon slayer armour, along with main-hand and off-hand demon slayer crossbows. This awesome ranged gear has good stats - the armour is equivalent to black dragonhide, and the crossbows are better than rune crossbows - and you'll get a boost to damage dealt and experience gained while fighting demons for each piece of the gear you equip. A full set of the gear makes the crossbows better than their dragon equivalents when fighting demons! It's worth noting that fighting a flash mob in the Wilderness gives you a greater chance of getting a demon slayer gear drop, and other drops will be worth around three times as much as elsewhere!

 

 

So, buckle up your best smiting trousers and gather some strong friends to your side - it's time for some demon-slaying mayhem!

 

Mod Wilson

 

How to start Demon Flash Mobs:

• Keep an eye out for announcements in your chat window (Please note: these can be switched off with the Doomsayer in Lumbridge, if you wish).
  
• For further advice, speak to Brother Celerity in Edgeville Monastery.
  

Requirements:

• You must be a RuneScape member.
  
• It is strongly recommended that you have a combat level of at least 120 before fighting demon flash mobs, and you won't see any flash mob announcements until you have reached that level.
  

Demon Slayer Quest Rework (free players and members)

 

The Wilderness isn't the only place where demonic forces pierce the veil. In a rework of the old Demon Slayer quest, you'll help Grüfeld Bach - demon hunter extraordinaire - to foil a wicked plot against Varrock by finding the legendary sword Silverlight.

 

The new quest is a much more focused experience than its travel-heavy predecessor, as you complete trials to test your mind, body and spirit on your quest for the sword, and comes complete with shiny new graphics and amazing audio.

 

If you've already completed the old version of the quest, you'll be able to replay this one. You won't get any more Quest Points for doing so, though, and you won't need to complete the new quest in order to wear your quest cape or completionist cape.

 

Mod Liono

 

How to start Demon Slayer:

• Speak to Grüfeld Bach in Varrock.
  

Requirements:

• None.
  

In Other News

• Garb yourself in the aspect of your fallen foes with Demonflesh Armour overrides, available in Solomon's General Store!
  
• Keep an eye out for details of Yelps's Cashbags, coming this weekend.
  
• General Graardor has let himself go a bit recently, so we've sent him to the gym for a while. His training is now complete, which should make him more of a challenge.
  
• New "Hide helm" and "Hide cape" override options have been added to the Customisation Interface.
  
• An issue causing certain users' loading bars to become stuck at 50% has been resolved.
  

 

 

[spoiler=Patch Notes]

Graphical:

• The click area on the shortcut in the Scorpion Mine near Al Kharid has been reduced to prevent players using the shortcut instead of mining ore.
  
• Players can no longer walk on water in the desert.
  
• The statues that King Awowogei awards the Desert Monkey Colony for bringing him chimp ices now all appear correctly.
  
• A graphical glitch in the Grim Tales quest has now been fixed.
  
• Ali the Hag's arms no longer dislocate from her body.
  
• Emir Ali Mirza no longer clips into the platform that he's standing on.
  
• Forgotten rangers now hold and fire their bows correctly.
  
• The Ornate dragon full helm model has been adjusted.
  
• Miss Schism no longer stretches wildly when animating.
  
• Nardah's bankers no longer have missing polys around their necks.
  
• Added some force camera to the east of the Agility Pyramid to prevent the camera clipping through the cliff face.
  
• Players can no longer walk into a tree near West Ardougne.
  
• Made some minor tweaks to the chocatrice cape emote to prevent the player's head from poking out of the top.
  
• Angry bears have had their attack and defend animations restored.
  
• A a labelling issue with the Sailor's head in Port Sarim has been fixed.
  
• It is no longer possible to walk through the statue of a giant head in the desert.
  
• Some labelling issues with Osman which were causing him to stretch and bend wildly have been fixed.
  
• The baby and adolescent Skypouncer's eyes will now change colour to match the body.
  
• Ozan's hairstyle no longer causes the neck of female characters to stretch.
  
• Players feet no longer clip into the stairs found in Player Owned Ports.
  

Quests, Challenges & Achievements:

• The Quiet Before the Storm quest journal has been updated to be a little more helpful.
  
• A minor grammatical error in the Defender of Varrock quest journal has been corrected.
  
• Ga'al Xox will now appear in the correct position in a cutscene when first entering the Elder Kiln tunnel during The Elder Kiln quest.
  
• Multiple gems can no longer be repeatedly collected from the Kalphite Nursery during Diamond in the Rough.
  
• During Rune Memories, when pinned at the top of the Wizard's Tower, Ariane will struggle a little less frequently.
  

Skills & Minigames:

• A new "pocket" rule set has been added to Duel Arena.
  
• Flowers can now be used as fun weapons in the Duel Arena again.
  
• Simon should now correctly accept noted items for Pyramid Plunder.
  
• The tribesman that attacks you during Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup now has the correct amount of life points.
  
• The Dominion Tower Decaying Avatar will now spawn roots to heal with at the correct times.
  
• Players no longer get stuck beneath 'The Inadequacy' when it re-spawns on top of them in Dominion Tower.
  
• We've adjusted some text in clue scrolls from "longbows" to "shieldbows".
  

Other:

• An issue with Kalphite King instancing and group sizes has been fixed.
  
• Some changes to the Kalphite Kings behaviour have been made to prevent him being unable to reach a target.
  
• Some changes to the Kalphite Kings behaviour have been made to prevent manipulation of his attack cycle in order to avoid more powerful attacks.
  
• Some citizens of Varrock were still celebrating Christmas. This has been stopped.
  
• Clan Admin+ ranks can now only kick a maximum of two clan members per day to prevent rogue admins from kicking an entire clan. The owner may still kick as many as they like.
  
• Added further Clan keywords to account for the higher maximum combat level of 200.
  
• Anti-fire potions now work on negating some fire breath damage.
  
• Fire magic now does more damage against Glacors.
  
• The Steel titan melee special attack power has been increased.
  
• The Character Creation screen sounds have been updated.
  
• Scroll interfaces have had a graphical overhaul.
  
• The requirements to equip Glacor boots have been amended.
  
• Players should find it easier to speak to Nanuq near the God Wars beacon.
  
• A warning has been added about potentially losing items on entry to the Player Owned Ports.
  
• Casting Tune Bane Ore on a mounted head in your POH no longer requires the heads in your inventory, and the spell now additionally works on KBD heads.
  
• The 'Open Store' button has been replaced with something more appropriate for items in the customisation interface that cannot be bought in the store.
  
• The Maple shieldbow (focused) is no longer incorrectly listed as a members item on the skill guide.
  
• Bakriminel bolts should now list the correct crossbow to use them in the Ranged Skill Advance Guide.
  
• An issue where certain options were transferred to other items when using them inside a bank, such as a pouch "fill" option appearing on the wrong item after closing the bank interface, has been fixed.
  
• Objects with dynamic switching options (such as a pouch's Fill / Empty options) will now work correctly on an actionbar.
  
• An outdated reference to Longbows in the Fletching Skill Advance Guide has been fixed.
  
• Players can no longer heal to max health whilst Dungeoneering by logging out and back in again.
  
• Cornelius has received a lesson in customer service and now stands behind his bank booth facing the customer.
  
• Hand cannons have had their ammo type corrected in the Grand Exchange.
  
• Vannaka should now correctly give hints on how to take down Otherworldly beings.
  
• Mummies, once set on fire, will give xp.
  
• An unreachable copper ore node north of Al Kharid can now be mined.
  
• A Level 40 Defence requirement to the Guthix, Saradomin and Zamorak Mitres, in line with the Armadyl, Bandos and Ancient Mitres, has been added.
  
• You can no longer sell XP pendants and Keepsake Keys to the Dungeoneering Smuggler.
  
• Solomon's Store customisations are no longer overridden when the Old Crone enchants the Ghostspeak amulet in Ghosts Ahoy.
  
• Fixed an issue where exiting the Clan battlefield would teleport you to the exit portal.
  
• Clan Avatar buff icons from recently dismissed avatars will no longer appear in the Choose Buff interface for the next summon.
  
• Fixed an issue with inconsistent life point values on some versions of the Unholy cursebearer Dungeoneering boss.
  
• The Law talisman staff can now be taken on to Entrana.
  
• The Halloween 2012 quick chat options have been removed.
  
• The description for Barbarian Teleport has been updated.
  
• Killing Black demons whilst Dungeoneering will now count towards a Slayer assignment.
  
• An issue where tooltips for inventory objects were displaying too far away from the object has been fixed.
  
• A change to the Loyalty Shop which should allow players who've been unable to claim their Master Invigorate auras has been made.
  
• Players will now continuously attack Chompy birds and will no longer be told that the bird they were attacking is not their target.
  
• Combat with Har'Lakk the Riftsplitter now works as intended.
  
• The Crescent Isle has been added to the Archipelago Map in Player Owned Ports.
  
• The Crescent Island has been changed to the Crescent Isle for consistency in Player Owned Ports.
  
• The Judge of Dice now appears in the correct interface with the correct island in Player Owned Ports.
  
• A confirmation has been added when equipping tradable Player Owned Ports armour.
  
• Players are no longer guaranteed a Player Owned Ports random event reward if they have the maximum amount of a certain type of reward.
  
• Solomon Store overrides now work with bound Catalytic staffs.
  
• The Auspicious katana stats have been updated.
  
• The Enhanced ancient staves should now have the correct stats applied.
  
• The stats of one kind of dark wizard whose life points were abnormally low has been adjusted.
  
• The level of Iron dragons has been adjusted to make them weaker than Steel dragons again.
  

[Quorra]

An issue causing certain users' loading bars to become stuck at 50% has been resolved.

 

Fixed a few days ago but thank [bleep].

[Quyneax]

- The Steel titan melee special attack power has been increased.

- The Crescent Isle has been added to the Archipelago Map in Player Owned Ports.

- Players are no longer guaranteed a Player Owned Ports random event reward if they have the maximum amount of a certain type of reward.

 

Yay, yay, but what exactly is the final fix? And no fix for the Slayer trait boosting Morale?

(edit: nvm missed the word 'reward', ty Gwyn)

 

Flash mobs look meh. Quest, yay :).

[Saradomin_Mage]

The Steel titan melee special attack power has been increased.

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E: Mierin, means you can no longer force certain random event rewards by stacking effects.

[LogOnBeach]

An issue causing certain users' loading bars to become stuck at 50% has been resolved.

 

Fixed a few days ago but thank [bleep].

 

Clearly not fixed. Just 50%'d logging in.

[Estoc]

The Steel titan melee special attack power has been increased.

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E: Mierin, means you can no longer force certain random event rewards by stacking effects.

 

So they fixed it, reverted it, then just now fixed it again?

[Miss Lioness]

• The requirements to equip Glacor boots have been amended
  

 

Wut does this mean?

[Fallstar]

Keep an eye out for details of Yelps's Cashbags, coming this weekend.

 

I wonder how bad this'll be :/

 

The Steel titan melee special attack power has been increased.

 

About time, we've only been telling you about this for 6 months now.

[chenw]

New "Hide helm" and "Hide cape" override options have been added to the Customisation Interface.

 

Yay! I no longer have to look at the butt ugly abomination of my slayer helm and have to use something else to override it

[Alg]

Keep an eye out for details of Yelps's Cashbags, coming this weekend.

 

I wonder how bad this'll be :/

RuneCoins pls.

 

The "hide helmet/cape" options are free, so that's a plus.

[Reliable]

Good time to buy bandos gear before it skyrockets xD

[Krampell]

General Graardor has let himself go a bit recently, so we've sent him to the gym for a while. His training is now complete, which should make him more of a challenge.

 

As mentioned, I guess bandos armour is up for a rise in price.

[Drazhor]

Just killed demon in the wildy; got rune plate, blue charms and there were 5 infernal ashes dropped

Was actually pretty easy while ranging, because he just went for everybody who was meleeing. Crystal bow decimated him, 5k ultimates all round!

[Sy_Accursed]

New Demon Slayer is interesting, moved into dungeons under the churches. Don't even get to fully explore the Zamorak one as Delrith happens about half way round. No more awkward word remembering.

[Sy_Accursed]

Thus far new demons looking SCHWEET

 

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Chronozon [hide]

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Delrith [hide]

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Pyrefiend (is this new? I'm not sure)[hide]

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[muggiwhplar]

Did they fix the Chronozon bug in the dominion tower? Game wouldn't recognize your water/fire runes when trying to cast water/fire blast.

 

Is the steel titan's melee attack as strong as its range attack now or is it still weak, but not as bad as it used to be?

[Urza285]

Pyrefiend is actually my new... It was used once or twice elsewhere... Maybe for water fiends somewhere. But the model has been around I think.

[Vezon Dash]

The 50% glitch is really all that I care about lol.

 

 

EDIT:

Anyone else think that the pyrefiend looks like that thing that wears Majora's Mask?

[Alg]

Anyone else think that the pyrefiend looks like that thing that wears Majora's Mask?

Best update of the year, hands down.

[God Of Lego]

Demon Slayer rework. Blew me away! It was so long. You had to think so much. Much better than the old one! level 2 monsters? thought I was going to die.

[decebal]

Oh look, refurbished quest for me :D .

[Umdlye]

Cash bags:

 

Not sure how to feel about this either: :razz:

[Sy_Accursed]

Cash bags:

 

Not sure how to feel about this either: :razz:

 

Cash bags sounds like a good move. Eliminates the over-pay out to noobs vs the poor pay out to high lvls debate.

Also you missed the 'shadow demon' set ;)

[michel555555]

Is there anywhere you can go to see how long until the next demon arrives?

[Drazhor]

I fell for buying the Greater demon outfit.

 

I have now ascended to become the Champion of Khorne.

 

I CAN FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME..

IT IS A GOOD THING..