sarg1010 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Behind the Scenes - January 2014Slayer UpdatesMembers only Many of these improve the slayer helm. First up, we're adding slayer gem functionality to the basic slayer helm. You’ll also be able to upgrade your slayer helmet to a level 70 item - with stats to match - and fuse slayer rings and ferocious rings to it to enjoy those handy teleports at your convenience. Am I the only one really excited for this? >.> 1 Unfinished netherrack symbol of Khorne. Never forget. ~creeper face w/single tear~ DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES TOO?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sy_Accursed Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I'm happy they are doing it but it's a bit of a meh fix in my book. The helms stats should be set to scale either with your defence lvl or to the level of the body armour worn. Their way just leaves the top end players with a helm that whilst better is still a fair bit worse than their normal gear and for the midrange lvls has the same issue. Operation Gold Sparkles :: Chompy Kills :: Full Profound :: Champions :: Barbarian Notes :: Champions Tackle Box :: MA RewardsDragonkin Journals :: Ports Stories :: Elder Chronicles :: Boss Slayer :: Penance King :: Kal'gerion Titles :: Gold Statue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoko Kurama Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Seems like a lackluster month to me. The only thing I cared about (range buff) has been postponed. Lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sy_Accursed Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 While I do like the upcoming updates, I bring the bad news that Rite of Passage quest is delayed to May and Fate of the Gods to April. :s Guess It'll take us a bit longer to visit Freneskae and Abinnah and finally meet Zaros and an Elder God. :c Does it really count as delayed (from our perspective) when we were never given an expected time frame in the first place? Operation Gold Sparkles :: Chompy Kills :: Full Profound :: Champions :: Barbarian Notes :: Champions Tackle Box :: MA RewardsDragonkin Journals :: Ports Stories :: Elder Chronicles :: Boss Slayer :: Penance King :: Kal'gerion Titles :: Gold Statue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterDexter Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 On twitter, RoP was to be released this month or early February, and FoTG in March, they said. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th e Doctor Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 No t85 weapons for melee and magic. They could have given me priff and inventing next week and this month would still be ruined for me just from that. Slayer seems like stuff that could have and should have been fixed a long time ago. Giant mole seems interesting but unless its instanced and accessible with t8 and lower equipment it will probably be dead content very quickly. The rest is all kinda meh. Armadyl Drops : 4 Hilts; 3 Chestplates; 2 Chainskirts; 1 Helmet; 1 Buckler; 2 Shard 1; 2 Shard 2; 1 Shard 3Nex : 1 Zaryte BowKalphite King : 1 Drygore Rapier ; 1 Drygore Longsword : 1 Drygore Offhand Rapier : 1 Drygore Offhand Longsword Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alg Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Because there is so little to do in free to play that Jagex needs to regularly update it, am I right? The people who constantly whine here about a lack of free to play updates aren't worried about newcomers, they're freeloaders looking for more free stuff. That's fine, don't expect Jagex to listen or care about the opinions of the "pure f2p 4 lyfe" crowd.Yeah its not like f2p gets absolutley nothing they tend to get 2 or 3 updates a year that are actual new content, plus all the graphics and reworks and events that filter through to f2p as well. Heck half their stuff has had more updates and reworks and reskins to it than 90% of the members world has ever seen combined. So what if 1 month has nothing for them? They already have a massive demo to play plus the ongoing world event content.The question then is why I would choose to play a glorified demo of a game that hasn't really changed since 2005, when I could be playing something like League of Legends. I mean, F2P is a ghost town right now. Those "pure f2p 4 lyfe" guys you're complaining about were the community that new players got to see first (Community! That thing that sets MMORPGs apart from the regular kind). If they're gone, what other hooks are there? Hell, the mole would have been perfect for F2P simply because it's designed as an entry level boss. That's how you get players to want more. 1 I painted some stuff and put it on tumblr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Because there is so little to do in free to play that Jagex needs to regularly update it, am I right? The people who constantly whine here about a lack of free to play updates aren't worried about newcomers, they're freeloaders looking for more free stuff. That's fine, don't expect Jagex to listen or care about the opinions of the "pure f2p 4 lyfe" crowd.Yeah its not like f2p gets absolutley nothing they tend to get 2 or 3 updates a year that are actual new content, plus all the graphics and reworks and events that filter through to f2p as well. Heck half their stuff has had more updates and reworks and reskins to it than 90% of the members world has ever seen combined. So what if 1 month has nothing for them? They already have a massive demo to play plus the ongoing world event content.The question then is why I would choose to play a glorified demo of a game that hasn't really changed since 2005, when I could be playing something like League of Legends. I mean, F2P is a ghost town right now. Those "pure f2p 4 lyfe" guys you're complaining about were the community that new players got to see first (Community! That thing that sets MMORPGs apart from the regular kind). If they're gone, what other hooks are there? F2P isn't a ghost town It's surprisingly active 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovecuttingyews Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Last I checked, F2P was around 15% of online players at any given time. Not sure about today.EDIT: As of now, there are 6,138 F2P and 38,682 P2P on RS, giving a value of 13.7%. If you include OSRS as being online members, that brings P2P up to 60,457 and F2Ps share to 10.2%. I wouldn't call those numbers 'surprisingly active'.Back on topic: plenty of decent updates but nothing really stands out to me. Though ports may provide some nice profit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDiamond Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Last I checked, F2P was around 15% of online players at any given time. Not sure about today.EDIT: As of now, there are 6,138 F2P and 38,682 P2P on RS, giving a value of 13.7%. If you include OSRS as being online members, that brings P2P up to 60,457 and F2Ps share to 10.2%. I wouldn't call those numbers 'surprisingly active'. Back on topic: plenty of decent updates but nothing really stands out to me. Though ports may provide some nice profit.Theres only like 6 f2p worlds now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wkw Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Last I checked, F2P was around 15% of online players at any given time. Not sure about today.EDIT: As of now, there are 6,138 F2P and 38,682 P2P on RS, giving a value of 13.7%. If you include OSRS as being online members, that brings P2P up to 60,457 and F2Ps share to 10.2%. I wouldn't call those numbers 'surprisingly active'. Back on topic: plenty of decent updates but nothing really stands out to me. Though ports may provide some nice profit.Theres only like 6 f2p worlds now. There are 21, I just counted Runescape player since 2005 Ego Sum Deus Quo Malum Caligo et Barathum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 If POP2 doesn't bring melee and magic weapons, it'll be a bad update in my opinion. Also, death lotus darts are much lamer than harpoons - 2H ranged thrown please, not some lame 1h. We have lots of 1h already. The rest of the month looks like no content, some small fixes/conveniences, no rebalancing. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoko Kurama Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 If POP2 doesn't bring melee and magic weapons, it'll be a bad update in my opinion. Also, death lotus darts are much lamer than harpoons - 2H ranged thrown please, not some lame 1h. We have lots of 1h already. The rest of the month looks like no content, some small fixes/conveniences, no rebalancing. Still no range fix; only been like well over 1 year since EoC went live. Not even a discussion about it. Seriously, what are they spending all this time on? They keep postponing stuff (we were promised another 2-3 quests for the end of 2013, but they are postponed and won't be coming in January either, PoP was also delayed, as were other things), and each month seems sparser in updates than the last. It seems they barely get anything done these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 The number of delays and the complete ignoring of rebalancing suggests to me they're still not all in on what direction the game is going in according to everyone else. Basically, there's no plan, just developers picking pet projects and carrying them out independently. Without coordination between pieces of content, the whole just doesn't make sense. That's fine if you're running Funorb, but it doesn't work in a big game where people get rich or fail depending on your balance (see: anyone who likes maging can't afford magic gear, anyone who likes ranging can't get good dps even if they can afford gear, anyone who likes meleeing is no use at higher-tier bosses). 3 Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoko Kurama Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I have pestered various J-Mods on those issues over the past weeks. They are basically all clueless and hopeless. They have absolutely no awareness of core issues and problems, and no intention to fix them. They are mostly flippant when approached about these issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omali Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 The number of delays and the complete ignoring of rebalancing suggests to me they're still not all in on what direction the game is going in according to everyone else. Basically, there's no plan, just developers picking pet projects and carrying them out independently. Without coordination between pieces of content, the whole just doesn't make sense. That's fine if you're running Funorb, but it doesn't work in a big game where people get rich or fail depending on your balance (see: anyone who likes maging can't afford magic gear, anyone who likes ranging can't get good dps even if they can afford gear, anyone who likes meleeing is no use at higher-tier bosses). Hasn't that been Jagex's mantra for years though? We've had updates and quests fall into oblivion because the guy who worked on them quit, the majority of Q&A's being answered with "I don't know," and more. I started playing a few months after RS2 began, and they never really developed into the mindset of "we're a business now, we have to act like one" despite the major growth in profits, staff, and investors. I figured the introduction of investors who knew how businesses should operate would set them straight, but apparently that isn't so. That's part of the reason why you see stuff like MechScape and 8Realms getting to near release, with the latter actually going into open beta, only for Jagex to suddenly realize that the game's weren't fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerendil Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 The number of delays and the complete ignoring of rebalancing suggests to me they're still not all in on what direction the game is going in according to everyone else. Basically, there's no plan, just developers picking pet projects and carrying them out independently. Without coordination between pieces of content, the whole just doesn't make sense. That's fine if you're running Funorb, but it doesn't work in a big game where people get rich or fail depending on your balance (see: anyone who likes maging can't afford magic gear, anyone who likes ranging can't get good dps even if they can afford gear, anyone who likes meleeing is no use at higher-tier bosses).BUT WE'LL SOON HAVE POWER TO THE PLAYERS! I just cannot wait. On a more serious side:I hate to be a bit of a poo poo whenever it comes to runescape updates, but I'm really losing faith in jagex, we only seem to get a good month every now and then; everything else seems to be filler updates…. Updating Mole? I mean, how many rs players are really lvl 110….. Pvm is honestly a joke now, no challenge for anything but extreme high end, so I see little point in wasting time on tidbits when there are much larger issues out there; like equalizing the combat triangle, making gear accessible to all, not just the immensely rich, and filling out/reworking skills. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blutters Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Was excited for Ports V2. Then I saw there's just one cape, ring, and style of weapons coming out.Really? Da [bleep]? At least Slayer updates seem decent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 removing smoking kills? Better do it ASAP then so I can still get the XP reward. Still, January looks okay-ish. I'm glad they went back and focused on a boss that newer players can face and have a go at, rather then go balls-deep @ GWD or completely destroy the current mole. Popoto.~<3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leik Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 removing smoking kills? Better do it ASAP then so I can still get the XP reward. Still, January looks okay-ish. I'm glad they went back and focused on a boss that newer players can face and have a go at, rather then go balls-deep @ GWD or completely destroy the current mole. They are just removing the Smoking Kills quest requirement to get slayer points. The quest will still remain in-game. 1 LIVERPOOL WILL WIN THE PREMIER LEAGUE THIS SEASON. [01:24:34] CJ Hunnicutt: it takes skill to be that [bleep]ing stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blyaunte Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 This year, the brothers and are joined by Eir the Valkyrie, whom some of you will have met during Blood Runs Deep. With the gods returning, Eir suspects the End of Things may be upon the world, and wants you to help her prepare by finding her spear and helmet. Wow, am I the only person who read this and thought this: Spear and Magic Helmet!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saradomin_Mage Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 This year, the brothers and are joined by Eir the Valkyrie, whom some of you will have met during Blood Runs Deep. With the gods returning, Eir suspects the End of Things may be upon the world, and wants you to help her prepare by finding her spear and helmet. Wow, am I the only person who read this and thought this: Spear and Magic Helmet!!!! KILL THE WABBIT Their way just leaves the top end players with a helm that whilst better is still a fair bit worse than their normal gear and for the midrange lvls has the same issue.It's the best helm for slaying in and has always been weaker compared to normal gear since like 2008. Mod Ash was surprised that it had better than rune full helm stats while only requiring 10 defence. Surely the DPS boost while slaying expects you to trade off your defences in exchange for it :P If the helmet scaled with levels, wouldn't it invalidate POP/Nex gear? 1 In real life MMO you don't get 99 smithing by making endless bronze daggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blyaunte Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 This year, the brothers and are joined by Eir the Valkyrie, whom some of you will have met during Blood Runs Deep. With the gods returning, Eir suspects the End of Things may be upon the world, and wants you to help her prepare by finding her spear and helmet.Wow, am I the only person who read this and thought this: Spear and Magic Helmet!!!! KILL THE WABBIT One of my all-time favourite Bugs Bunny https://archive.org/details/WhatsOperaDoc'>cartoons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stealthchris117 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 This year, the brothers and are joined by Eir the Valkyrie, whom some of you will have met during Blood Runs Deep. With the gods returning, Eir suspects the End of Things may be upon the world, and wants you to help her prepare by finding her spear and helmet.Wow, am I the only person who read this and thought this: Spear and Magic Helmet!!!! KILL THE WABBIT One of my all-time favourite Bugs Bunny cartoons. It is one of the best and I too thought of this exact thing when reading the BTS. ---------------------------- ';..;' ---------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Zophar Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 This year, the brothers and are joined by Eir the Valkyrie, whom some of you will have met during Blood Runs Deep. With the gods returning, Eir suspects the End of Things may be upon the world, and wants you to help her prepare by finding her spear and helmet.Wow, am I the only person who read this and thought this: Spear and Magic Helmet!!!! KILL THE WABBIT One of my all-time favourite Bugs Bunny cartoons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeRMOOg9ztw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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