Quest: Plague's End

[Miss Lioness]

Plague's End

 

Plague's End - the Grandmaster finale to RuneScape's longest-running quest line - is here!

 

Help Arianwyn - leader of the rebel elves - foil a plot to awaken the Dark Lord, which would place the remade Prifddinas under the merciless rule of Clan Iorwerth.

 

Succeed, and you'll earn access to the Elf City when it opens in the coming months. You'll also get a huge chunk of XP and a thieving-enhancing exoskeleton to enjoy right away.

 

All of this comes wrapped in glorious graphics, including a full rework most elven NPCs in the game.

 

Read on for more information, or check the requirements, Log in now and get started.

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Wanderlust

 

Head over to Lletya and speak to Arianwyn to get the quest kicked off.

 

 

He needs to track down the lost leaders of the elven clans and gain access to the sacred Grand Library.

 

Plague's End is a true Grandmaster epic, clocking in at two hours or more to complete. It's a real quester's quest, so it'll be down to you to follow leads and find your way.

 

As you progress, you'll travel far and wide across Gielinor, revisiting classic quest locations. You'll complete tricky light puzzles and engage enemies up to level 107 - including the legendary Dark Lord himself.

 

Prevail, and you'll usher in a bright new era for elven civilisation - and wrap up a tale ten years in the making.

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Treasures of Tirannwn

 

Complete Plague's End and you'll earn the biggest reward yet bestowed by a RuneScape quest: access to Prifddinas, Lost City of the Elves - coming soon.

 

We're putting the finishing touches to the city now, and you'll see it open in the next few of months.

 

This is the update of the year: a whole new city to explore, crammed to its crystalline rafters with high-level content - as voted for by you.

 

Prifddinas will become a home hub for players of level 75 up, offering training from the eight elven clans, Grand Exchange access, new transport options and amazing crystal weaponry.

 

The Elf City will open very soon, but until then, Plague's End has other rewards for you to enjoy.

 

First there's no less than 800,000 XP across 16 skills. There's also the exoskeleton - a marvellous machine with a range of thieving benefits. Finally, you'll get a new title: "of the Elves".

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Lletya Hair Down

 

We hope you a great time playing Plague's End. As always, let us know what you think over on the forums.

 

Get ready for the grand opening of the Elf City!

 

Mod John A, Mod Stu and the RuneScape Team

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How to Start Plague's End

 

Speak to Arianwyn in Lletya.

 

Requirements

 

You must be a RuneScape member.

 

Skills:

• 75 Agility
• 75 Crafting
• 75 Construction
• 75 Dungeoneering
• 75 Herblore
• 75 Mining
• 75 Prayer
• 75 Ranged
• 75 Summoning
• 75 Woodcutting

Quests:

• Catapult Construction
• Making History
• Within the Light

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In Other News

• The Trader and Black Marketeer from Player-Owned Ports now deal in the newest trade goods and resources.
• The Ship Setup interface in Player-Owned Ports now has a tick box to hide ship parts that are no longer needed.

[spoiler=Patch Notes] Graphical:

• The member upsell pop up no longer appears to members on P2P worlds when clicking on challenges. 
• Some graphical issues with the Aviansie override have been fixed. 
• The Ice Asylum crystal no longer vanishes as doors are opened in Daemonheim. 

Skills, D&Ds & Minigames: 

• Balloons no longer appear outside the courtroom after winning a court case.
• The 'Twirl at the crossroads north of Rimmington.' clue scroll has been fixed. 
• The text for Smithing an iron smith's chest plate has been fixed. 
• Some text on the Void Knight lander squires referencing out-of-date information has been reworked. 
• A text alignment issue in the description of a Smuggling Job in Player-Owned Ports has been corrected. 
• The Ship Setup screen in Player-Owned Ports now has tick box to hide ship parts that are no longer relevant. 
• The resource icons on the ship interface in Player-Owned Ports have been re-aligned. 
• The background of the Voyage interface in Player-Owned Ports has been corrected.
• The Trader and Black Marketeer now deal in the new trade goods and resources. 
• Curing diseased livids in Legacy no longer wipes the Magic abilities tab until log out.
• The Adventurer's Log no longer displays the wrong amount of coins won from Treasure Hunter. 

Quests, Challenges and Achievements: 

• The required combat level of NPCs to kill for the Mark II combat daily challenge has been corrected.

Other: 

• The chance for monsters to roll on the super rare section of the rare drop table has been reduced. This impacts low level monsters the most, high level monsters will see little difference. 
• The force walk areas located around the level 30 Divination spot south of Seers’ Village have been removed. 
• Players can no longer place a Totem of Wisdom with the Enlightenment aura active.
• The greater runic staff now works correctly with the 'Make Leather' spell.
• Players can no longer talk to other peoples spider pets. 
• Players may now use alchemy spells in the Pit and the Cradle, after completing Fate of the Gods. 
• Players are now able to light fires inside the Clan Camp. 
• Lighting fires in the Clan Camp will no longer remove the planks on the ground. 
• The engrammeter, used in Mahjarrat Memories, may now be charged with Elder memories. 
• The RuneScape Wiki link from the lobby has been corrected.
• The Friends, Friends Chat and Clan Chat tab headers will now flash more vibrantly in the lobby when chat messages are waiting for players to read. 
• Text entered into the private messaging text box in the lobby's friends tab will now fill the full amount of space available within the text box. 
• Options from a previous item on an action bar slot no longer remain on a new object when switched on the action bar. 
• PvP loot will no longer appear to all players if both players die, one dying due to Wrath or Retribution.
• Morrigan's javelin special attack will now give a 20% damage boost in PvE situations. 
• Fixed an issue where ice strykewyrms could not be damaged under certain circumstances. 
• Pets can now scavenge in the Living Rock Caverns. 
• Names within the Friends Chat Setup interface will no longer occasionally be displayed as their rank. 
• Anticipation no longer causes channelled abilities to be interrupted.

Ninja Fixes: 

• Players can now select the respawn rate of instanced God Wars Dungeon bosses. 
• Players can now 'Fill' ogre bellows from the object when next to a swamp.
• Swamp toads now have a 'Bloat' option.
• There is now a warning before picking white lilies from a farming patch. 
• Players can now see their current produce points on a new overlay in Livid Farm.
• Completion counts are now tracked for each difficulty of Treasure Trail and will display upon completion of a trail.

Engine Fixes: 

• A flip and mirror option has been added to the Twitch webcam options.
• There should now be fewer instances of being kicked to the login screen when attempting to switch worlds.
• A fix has been applied for how some older graphics cards were handling graphics effects like bloom.

 

 

[Tim]

I knew you were hovering over the submit button. :3

[Miss Lioness]

I knew you were hovering over the submit button. :3

 

I like the competition to fight who gets the honour of posting a news update :)! Especially if it is about such an anticipated update =3.

[deaddutch]

Let's try a quest without a guide now! :) Good luck everyone completing this one...

[Rohanonrs]

• Players can now select the respawn rate of instanced God Wars Dungeon bosses. 

Can't wait to try this out on my next greater task!

 

[Abdulla]

• Completion counts are now tracked for each difficulty of Treasure Trail and will display upon completion of a trail

Now you can count how many times you can complete dead content.

 

I really do hope they rebalance clue rewards on RS3, they are indeed fun.

 

[Arceus]

Lots of patches again, unfortunately nothing really on F2P this time :P.

[Wkw]

 

• Completion counts are now tracked for each difficulty of Treasure Trail and will display upon completion of a trail

Now you can count how many times you can complete dead content.

 

I really do hope they rebalance clue rewards on RS3, they are indeed fun.</p>

Indeed.I do like doing elite clues...

[Fred_S]

Anyone know about...

So summoning leader was easy, pouch, 200 spirit, 1 of each charm on a summoning obelisk, anyone found any of the other leaders? Potion ressources are at the lodestone, no idea what the potion does as of yet. (Maybe make them visable)

 

[Penguin_]

 

One is at the far west end of the poison waste jump-to-rock labyrinth.

Mix the potion and drink it at daemonheim and walk in to the portal.

 

Trahaearn - South of the well features in Underground Pass, access via north of Lleyta (it's the black square on minimap in Tirannwn, pickaxe and runite bar required

 

Crwys - East of Tyras camp, chopping trees will show a light directing you to the tree you need to use plant cure on to restore him.

 

 

Ithel - 5 symbols in lleyta. Then build in the tree hotspot

 

 

[spoiler=Quest Complete]

 

 

 

Edited August 11, 2014 by Miss Lioness
Put spoiler tags around images that could spoil things.

[Quorra]

Finished. Boss was a little bit hard. (using melee)

[Unknown_Warrior]

The official Araxxor wiki is also out, releasing absolutely nothing new worth noting and being outdated to boot.

[Huge Noob]

 

One is at the far west end of the poison waste jump-to-rock labyrinth.

Mix the potion and drink it at daemonheim and walk in to the portal.

 

Trahaearn - South of the well features in Underground Pass, access via north of Lleyta (it's the black square on minimap in Tirannwn, pickaxe and runite bar required

 

Crwys - East of Tyras camp, chopping trees will show a light directing you to the tree you need to use plant cure on to restore him.

 

 

Ithel - 5 symbols in lleyta. Then build in the tree hotspot

 

 

[spoiler=Quest Complete]

 

 

 

 

 

So Black Ibis will not become obsolete since it's so rare from PP? I'm thinking so since this has, what seems to be, better bonuses than Ibis anyway. I guess I'll be pushing my 99 Attack, Strength, Defence and Magic levels a little sooner than expected so I can do this quest. I <3 quests. :D

[tgf]

@@@@panic unblock greater demons

 

@@@panic sell wands

[Miss Lioness]

Please keep anything related to the quest itself to spoiler tags.

 

That includes things related to the reward of the quest.

[Demoli]

 

Where are the 5 symbols in lleyta? I found 2 on the frist floor, one near the bank and one on the south west house missing one.

 

[Wkw]

Is this quest voice acted?

[Miss Lioness]

 

Is this quest voice acted?

No

 

 

Where are the 5 symbols in lleyta? I found 2 on the frist floor, one near the bank and one on the south west house missing one.

 

Archery Shop

 

 

 

Also stumbled on this:

The post-quest dialogue for Birthright of the Dwarves has been added to the game along with the release of Plague's End.

 

Here's the list of characters have new or altered dialogue for players who have completed Birthright of the Dwarves. The amount of dialogue on a character varies - some have several options, others just had to be tweaked slightly because their chat referred to the Red Axe still being at large.

 

Some characters will be in different places depending on your choices, e.g. whether you spared or executed the spies. If you killed a character, they won't appear at all. Some characters' dialogue will also vary according to choices you made.

 

Some characters react to the memory wand. You can get the wand back from the Watchtower Wizard. A couple of characters react if you're carrying (or in one case, wielding) other items.

 

Grunsh

Derni, Dernu and Miodvetnir

Supreme Commander Bisi

Lt. Brae

Brendt

Grundt

Vigr

Klaas

Luitger

Red Axe cat

Meike

Col. Grenda

Veldaban

The director of whichever company you joined

Dondakan

Sieglinde (replaces Vigr if he was exiled or killed, otherwise doesn't appear)

Santiri

Pretty Flower

Keldagrim Librarian (lets you re-play the cutscenes; also reacts to the Azdaran document if you have it)

Myndall

Odmar

Orange Flame secretary

Drunken Dwarf in East Keldagrim (reacts if you're wielding the Dragon Battlestaff)

Watchtower Wizard

King Drunken Dwarf III (only if he's king)

The "Forgettable Tale..." quest journal is also changed slightly

QFC: 341-342-511-65451509

[Miss Lioness]

Regarding a mishap related to the quest rewards:

 

 

Hi all,

I wanted to drop by and confirm that the correct amount of XP for the Plague’s End reward is 500k XP, not 800k XP. Both the Behind the Scenes and the newspost stated 800k, thanks to an error in one location of the original design document. We’ve updated both of those newsposts, and the design document.

We appreciate that some of you were disappointed by the reduction. So that you don’t miss out, we’ve come up with a plan: we will be adding 300k’s worth of XP lamps to Elf City Batch 1. There will be a little bit of work required to get them, but you’ll be bathing in XP before you know it.

Apologies again, and hopefully there’s one more reason to look forward to the city!

Mod Osborne

 

 

 

QFC: 15-16-844-65451691

[helring]

Not the most surprising quest end. Still thought it did a good job of ending the series.

[Stwength]

Really can't wait to start this quest :D

[HunterDexter]

Mod John A, the developer of this quest, the Zanik storyline, part of the Dwarven storyline and lots of other content, quit working at Jagex directly after the release of this quest. :s Kinda odd, and sad to hear.

[Stev]

Work sucks. Really looking forward to getting home and starting this. :-). Have been looking forward to it a long time!

[Leik]

Has anyone tried the respawn thing at GWD? Is the fastest option much faster then previously?

[JeRambo]

I heard bosses spawn right after you kill minions. 

 

• The Trader and Black Marketeer from Player-Owned Ports now deal in the newest trade goods and resources.

One of my favourite mini-updates. :).