Happy New Year! Ports expansions, boss pets and the return of Hati and Sköll await!

Boss Pets

26 tiny versions of some of the game’s most fearsome creatures? Yes please! It’s the single biggest launch of pets we’ve ever made outside of the Summoning skill launch, but these bad boys and girls are far more exclusive than normal.

Each one is rare drop, obtainable by killing their larger, more dangerous counterparts around the game. There’s a huge range available, including a mini Nex and Araxxi and a fantastic-looking tiny QBD. Keep your eyes open for a few surprises too, sneaking in from the quack… I mean back.

This is another great project built on your feedback and ideas, from the forums and via our dev blog. If you’d like to see them in action, check out the RSTV ninja episode back in December.

The Ninja Team have also been trawling the forums, social pages, and more to find out what’s been bugging you before fixing your main gripes.

Elemental and Rare Drop Table Rework

We’ve also got a drop table rework planned, this time featuring elementals and the rare drop table, which is linked to hundreds of creatures around the game.

Lots of the old, weirder drops will be removed, replaced with far more useful items like bones, bars, uncut gems and potions. Creatures affected include jellies, dust devils and waterfiends.

Hati and Sköll

The wolf pack is back, plaguing the Fremennik tribes once again with pointed teeth and blood-curdling howls. They will only be here for a few weeks in January, so make sure you hunt them down, and retrieve Eir’s spear and helmet in the process.

Large amounts of XP in a wide range of skills await, plus some pretty cool cosmetic items, if you didn't pick them up previously.

Ports update – Guardians of the World

Our main update this month is a huge expansion to the Player-Owned Ports, determined by you in the hotly contested polls last year. Agility, Dungeoneering and Divination will be the dedicated skills, so you’ll need level 90 in one or more of those skills to take part.

Perhaps the best part of the update though is the ability to send voyages out without actually needing to return to your port, making it really easy to engage with ports whilst getting on with ‘Scapin’. There’s a bunch of other smaller improvements too that'll really float your boat!


We’re introducing 3 crazy new adventurers – a mask possessing an eyeless man, a girl made entirely of divination energy and an exiled gorajo weighed down by guilt, each with unique voyages and links to the strange sea monsters that swim the eastern seas.

New equipment available includes level 85 dual-wielding weapons: a katana and wakizashi for melee, and a seasinger wand and orb for magic. There are brand new scrimshaws too, focused around fishing.

We are also introducing new “clue voyages”, which give cryptic pointers to hidden islands. Once found, these can be regularly visited for stat boosts, captain’s trait removal and the chance to find Tengu cosmetic gear.

Plus, you’ll also gain access to even more building upgrades for the port itself, which look really awesome AND can change your success chances on voyages.

Solomon's Store

Keen to keep up with seasonal trends, Solomon’s got a huge January sale planned, clearing out lots of room for his 2015 range.

There’ll be plenty of bargains to pick up and it'll be your last chance to obtain some of his older offerings, as he will be removing them from his shop in February.

The first part of his brand new range is the “Warm Winter Outfit”, designed to help keep away nasty frosty chills.

Coming Soon – RuneLabs!

Finally, don’t forget that we will be launching RuneLabs early this year: our great new way to take Player Power to the next level.

You’ll submit ideas via a brand new system, and those that get enough support from your fellow players will be reviewed by us and then - potentially - turned into content in the game!

Start thinking now and when the system goes live you’ll be ready to blow everyone away with your awesome ideas. We know that you’ve got concepts even better than ours and we can’t wait to hear all about them.

Kind of an empty month for me, I cannot do ports (as I have no skill at level 90). Boss pets seems only nice for people who boss a lot. So the only update I am looking forward to is the rework of the drop tables. Ah well I still have need a lot of time to catch up with this ironman account.

Seems like January is rather focussed on high leveled players. Only thing I'm looking forward to is RuneLabs :)

Voyages to remove capt traits FINALLY can perfect them mofos.

Player made updates sound cool, finally suggestions threads will be useful :D

 

Maybe we can all vote to take out solomon store xp?

Seems like January is rather focussed on high leveled players. Only thing I'm looking forward to is RuneLabs :)

If it comes out in january, as they said in this BTS "early this year"

- Boss pets: Nice. Hopefully I can score a mini-prime (dks please drop one thanks). 

- Ports: Not bad. Like that they are introducing a new wand/orb (perhaps the death of virtus?). Not a fan of DG being a skill (xp missions plz) but should be fun.

- Always glad to see Hati/Skoll back, even more so since the updatee to just dump xp into bonus pool

- Ports: Not bad. Like that they are introducing a new wand/orb (perhaps the death of virtus?). Not a fan of DG being a skill (xp missions plz) but should be fun.

'How low can you go' featuring virtus prices. It's already been cut to roughly a third, wonder how low it will go  :rolleyes: .

with the darts not being tradable, surely the other items shouldn't be either

with the darts not being tradable, surely the other items shouldn't be either

Wouldn't matter really, no need to have VW/VB if there is a replacement item that is better/competitive for "free" unless it degrades to nothing (much like darts, with a natural attrition from the odd one not retrieved by ava and/or picked up - which of course takes a seriously long time to reach 0).

Yeah even a nontradable alternative can sink the market if all the high level players go for it, since demand relaxes in that case.

without ports you can just buy it though, depends who in the market still uses virtus, saying that, i know a maxed player with around 1b cash stack who still uses t70-80 :/ chaotic staff is already pretty quick to get instead of virtus

I wonder what the QBD pet will look like? Hope it's not something lame like a grotworm.

without ports you can just buy it though, depends who in the market still uses virtus, saying that, i know a maxed player with around 1b cash stack who still uses t70-80 :/ chaotic staff is already pretty quick to get instead of virtus

There will ALWAYS be people who are going to use it, that's not in question. It's just an added variable that will likely reduce demand (for those who want a free alternative) without an impact on supply. Supply stable + reduced demand -----> reduced cost

there's a pic somewhere on the forum i believe, definitely seen the qbd pet

 

http://forum.tip.it/topic/325099-discussion-update-teasers/page-505

there's a pic somewhere on the forum i believe, definitely seen the qbd pet

 

http://forum.tip.it/topic/325099-discussion-update-teasers/page-505

Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng

 

Road to 50k QBDs to get the pet engage

I hope we are able to make superior versions of these weapons, just like superior ports gear.

 

Leggo t85 dual-wielding!

I would be very surprised if you couldn't make superior versions, I am going to make a katana for sure

 

sounds awesome even if they were to make it just cosmetic. 

 

ports really looks like the only update for me this month, lets just hope a boss pet isn't a comp req because get 'reqd

 

~~~legoman187~~~

Dual-katana level 85 weapons? I like the sound of that. I hope they're cheaper then Drygores though (for the obvious)

Sounds like a really great month to start the new year, I'm excited. :D

Free T85 gear sounds nice

Being able to do Ports without actually going to Ports is already my favourite update this month. Laziness prevails once more!

Like DL Darts, the katana and mage things will likely not be tradable at all.

I'd assume the t85 weps will degrade and be untradable to match the darts ie can't be sold, but do run out and have to be remade/restocked.

Wonder how they'll handle the degrade mechanic for the melee/mage weapons to be comparable to the darts.