Update Dimension of Disaster – 200th Quest

[Bxpprod]

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[tgf]

Prefer abyssals now lol

why not already preferred???

[Urza285]

Wiki has a map of all chest locations.

 

Who wants to bet that the new varrock armour smelting effect doesnt work for golem outfit?

[Yoko Kurama]

I hate redoing quests as a game mechanic. It's basically made quests into pseudo-skills/grinding. That's not the point of quests.

[Sorator]

Replay inventory notes:

 

 

So yeah, if you write down your codes, you don't need the stuff to get the codes. The prayer order for Father Lawrence is also always the same for everyone, too.
 
Thus, you need:

• Weapon of choice (and optionally armor)
   
• Mith crossbow and grapple
   
• lockpick
   
• one vial red & purple mist (you don't actually need the orange)
   
• cabbage, rotten tomato, hair of dog (for sober potion), beer
   
• silverlight, black mushroom
   
• cultist outfit OR override
   
• vial of blood
   
• zombie outfit OR override
   
• ring of life, 11 raw undead beef
   
• dwellberries, sacred oil
   
• canopic jar/vault key/prepared canopic jar, tiny key/Shield of Arrav, Darklight

(items that you can keep and use indefinitely are bolded; items that you must reobtain each run are italicized; normal text items are used up during the quest but can be reobtained before ending and carried through reset if desired)

 

Using the sober potion on the beer (and later, using sacred oil on the canopic jar) gives you an empty vial which you can then fill with blood for Delrith. Delrith takes the vial when you draw the blood circle.

 

You probably should use the diamonds from the chests to make rings of life for your replays, before making diamond stuff to sell to the gen store for more zmarks, because the gem shops restocks rather slowly.
 
You can use wardrobe preset slots to switch between your normal setup and the two sets for the quest, or you can wear one of the outfits and use an override for the other. You don't really need armor for replays, assuming you bought the two shortcuts after your first runthrough (but you do need a weapon for a few bits).

 

Replay speed notes:

 

You can skip some dialogue with the relevant options. The gypsy has a few of these when you first start the quest ("1. Ugh, we've been through this already" then later "2. Skip it")

You must talk to Image of Zemo to finish Coin of the Realm quest; skip some with "3. Get to the point" at first chance. Upon getting quest complete for that, you can walk away and ignore the rest of his dialogue

 

You also can save some run time by doing Shield of Arrav and Demon Slayer at the same time:

 

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• Talk to the gypsy to start Demon Slayer

   

   

• Head to the museum and talk to Orlando to start Shield of Arrav. Keep talking to him until you tell him where the gang hideouts are.

   

   

• Talk to Sir Prysin and search his drain for the key, unlock the trapdoor, then head to the Gypsy for the spirit measure.

   

   

• Head to the Blue Moon Inn and talk to Dr. Harlow; grab a beer, cabbage, rotten tomato, dog hair

   

   

• Talk to the Apothecary to get a sober potion, use it on the beer.

   

   

• Talk to Katrine

   

   

• Give Dr Harlow the drugged beer, click the spirit, then kill a zombie.

   

   

• Fight Johnny for his arm.

   

   

• Talk to Katrine. Once you hand over the arm, click her again and hit "1. I want to join the Black Arm Gang," press Yes, then click the door to the hideout.

   

   

• Head to the West Bank and claim the shield half

   

   

• Click the tombstone stack north of the West Bank, click the spirit, press spacebar, take a step in either direction, click the spirit again, spacebar till you get the cutscene.

   

   

• Head to the East Bank, go upstairs, and claim the shield half. Use the halves on each other to make the shield.

   

   

• Give the shield to Orlando at the museum. Fill your empty vial with blood while you're running by the fountain.

   

   

• Search the moving bookcase and kill the animated book that spawns.

   

   

• Click the Spirit of the Mind, spacebar until you have options, choose 4, 3, 4, 4, 4.

   

   

• Go get Silverlight

   

   

• Equip your black robes/override, grab a black mushroom and use it on Silverlight. Equip Silverlight

   

   

• Talk to Evil Dave, pass the barrier, talk to Delrith and Agrith-Naar until you have the skip-fight option

   

   

• Talk to the Gypsy to finish Demon Slayer.

   

   

 

 

Defender of Varrock:

 

The book you need in the library is always in the same place. (Northwest bookshelf for me, not sure if it's the same for everyone.)

 

If you have the code from your first run-through written down (the numbers, not the letters), you can go straight to the prism safe once Reldo sends you upstairs.

 

The code interface always stays on the last number you used, including both code interfaces (so the last number from your CoA code is what it'll start on here). Knowing this and counting your clicks saves some time, as you don't need to wait for the "you don't have decoder strips" interface to fade before entering numbers. Alternatively, keep some decoder strips in your inventory.

 

Curse of Arrav:

 

You can cook the 11 undead (cow) meat on a range, or you can cut some logs and cook on a fire. Either works. Drop or sell the meat when you're done, unless you plan on killing some guards or sommat.

 

Turn on Ult Strength, Eagle Eye, Rapid Restore, and Prot Summ prayers before talking to Father Lawrence to skip some dialogue. Click him, spacebar till it exits, then click him again, then click Mystic Might and click him again to get the oil. (You have to get the canopic jar from Ernie before you can get the sacred oil from Father Lawrence.)

 

You can't get the footlocker/vault key until you've talked to Arrav while holding the prepared canopic jar.

 

Again, if you wrote down the codes, you can skip some steps. This time the code interface start with the last number of your DoV code.

 

You don't need to wait for Orlando to move to pickpocket the curator and steal the shield; just making the statue shake is enough.

 

Once you hand over the sword and shield to Arrav, you can click the thone room door; you don't need the rest of his dialogue. You cannot skip the cutscene of Arrav walking to the gargoyle, or of Arrav collapsing after the fight. You don't need to pick up the health orb from the gargoyle if you're going to skip the Zemo fight.

 

You could definitely do a full replay in <30min if you concentrated.

 

Other notes:

 

 

 

If you have an active decorated cooking urn in the overworld, you'll have to use it up/destroy it before you can fill the one for DoD: Curse of Arrav.

 

Teleporting the urn in CoA can be a touch buggy; be sure to let the teleport animation finish before talking to Ernie.

 

The shortcuts skip only that specific boss fight - you still have to go through dialogue with Delrith and draw the blood circle for Demon Slayer, and you still have to fight the gargoyle for Curse of Arrav.

 

You cannot skip the final cutscene with the Esc button; this just spits you back out into normal Varrock, and the cutscene restarts when you re-enter the portal. And can crash your game (mine died at the end of the cutscene after I re-entered. Whoops. Logged back in and I was in normal Varrock, portal was gone, talked to the Gypsy and finished the replay just fine.)

 

You need 4 replays to get all the rewards from the Gypsy's shop, including one lamp. (10 pennies first run, 5 pennies each thereafter; need 30 pennies for every reward, including one lamp.) That was with all the tasks done, which may or may not impact it.

 

You get 1600 zmarks from doing a full replay of the quests if you've done the Elite tasks, but you spend 4 in the process (two for beer, two for something else, forget what), for a net gain of 1596 per run. Obviously you can increase this by buying gems, making bracelets, and selling them to the general store during your run - just be sure you have enough rings of life before selling your diamonds!

 

Buying the Darklight upgrade reward does not impact the stats of Darklight within New Varrock.

 

 

(whoever winds up writing the guide for Tip.It can absolutely feel free to use this info, maybe as a skeleton outline for the guide; I'd appreciate a credit if you do.)

Edited March 24, 2015 by Sorator

[Bxpprod]

Missed a chest. RQ life.

 

However someone free loaned t20 so that was hot.

 

Quest is decent, frustrating, but decent 

[Peronix]

There are some people in world 79 near west bank currently lending t20s for the elite achievment. There is a line. Felt like queuing at the DMV for a comp cape license.  -_-

[Bxpprod]

There are some people in world 79 near west bank currently lending t20s for the elite achievment. There is a line. Felt like queuing at the DMV for a comp cape license.  -_-

Probably the same guy who lent to me. Pretty chuffed about people lending instead of trying to sell for 200k fakecoins :')

[Saru Inc]

Wow [bleep]ing terrible rewards.

 

and lemmeshutthedoor on the inb4lore crowd. I am not doing 4 new quests. I am doing 4 quests that have already been done. RFD was a masterpiece. Before RFD, people used ice gloves for like everything, iirc?

 

Oh wow cool now I'll definitely use varrock armor for mining... rly jagex, rly.

 

rly

 

 

rly jagex?

[Ned]

The replay mechanic was advertised as a cool feature, but after replaying three times it feels like excuse content - since they didn't make anything more than shortened, reskinned versions of the original four. Like hey, we realized that the quest(s) are actually pretty short and 70% copy-pasted, so you can replay them so the update seems bigger!

 

Rewards were unimaginative. XP lamps always scream we-couldn't-think-of-anything to me. Tasks set rewards useless. Cosmetics, except for Arrav, pretty bad (oh yay I can't wait to show off my cool black priest gown replacements to people). Darklight reward is the only thing that grabbed my attention as being "worth it."

 

Would've been more interesting (and obvious...I thought) to have Dimension gear and/or weapons a la RFD gloves/kitchen weapons.

Would've also liked to see a more diverse pathway to obtaining the chromatic party hat rather than grindscape slap-on requirement of 200k. Granted, it isn't as long to obtain as other things in RS.

 

On the plus side, however... The most fun I had with the new dimension was exploring the environment unrelated to the quests - funny easter eggs and clever dialogues with Pauline Polaris, seeing Solomon in the bottle, et cetera. They did that humor immersion stuff very well. Tiny Zemo was really cute and funny. Other random things like the titles of the books in the bookcases were well done. They should keep that up. Quest dialogues making fun of themselves were enjoyable.

[muggiwhplar]

Wow [bleep]ing terrible rewards.

 

and lemmeshutthedoor on the inb4lore crowd. I am not doing 4 new quests. I am doing 4 quests that have already been done. RFD was a masterpiece. Before RFD, people used ice gloves for like everything, iirc?

 

Oh wow cool now I'll definitely use varrock armor for mining... rly jagex, rly.

 

rly

 

 

rly jagex?

 

We used klank's gauntlets or the family crest gauntlets before RFD

[Alg]

On the plus side, however... The most fun I had with the new dimension was exploring the environment unrelated to the quests - funny easter eggs and clever dialogues with Pauline Polaris, seeing Solomon in the bottle, et cetera. They did that humor immersion stuff very well. Tiny Zemo was really cute and funny. Other random things like the titles of the books in the bookcases were well done. They should keep that up. Quest dialogues making fun of themselves were enjoyable.

I'm starting to think that Jagex just does better with parody and small-scale personal drama than high fantasy epics. Whoever wrote this thing was clearly having fun with it and, for me at least, the dialogue more than made up for the underwhelming rewards and mechanics (seriously, that Zemouregal fight was just... Bleh).

 

Also that override for Arrav's sword is beautiful.

[Saru Inc]

 

Wow [bleep]ing terrible rewards.

 

and lemmeshutthedoor on the inb4lore crowd. I am not doing 4 new quests. I am doing 4 quests that have already been done. RFD was a masterpiece. Before RFD, people used ice gloves for like everything, iirc?

 

Oh wow cool now I'll definitely use varrock armor for mining... rly jagex, rly.

 

rly

 

 

rly jagex?

 

We used klank's gauntlets or the family crest gauntlets before RFD

 

 

OH YEAH.

 

I remember now...

 

Well anyways, this quest is all worth it because of Pauline got locked up for her crimes against humanity. I stood there for like 15 minutes, just like, gloating. From afar.

[Peronix]

On the plus side, however... The most fun I had with the new dimension was exploring the environment unrelated to the quests - funny easter eggs and clever dialogues with Pauline Polaris, seeing Solomon in the bottle, et cetera. They did that humor immersion stuff very well. Tiny Zemo was really cute and funny. Other random things like the titles of the books in the bookcases were well done. They should keep that up. Quest dialogues making fun of themselves were enjoyable.

 

Ha, yeah I loved the cat based lovecraftian sidequest. Fitting in more than one sense, since cats feature prominently in lovecraft's own stories.

 

That is not dead which can eternal meow, and with strange eons even death may die nine times

 

Kek'd heartily at that one.

[Yoko Kurama]

Just Recomped, so the nightmare is over. Took me two tries to get it all done.

 

A few thoughts:

 

-Lame rewards for a supposedly landmark quest

-Replayability for quests is bad and tedious

-Nothing like RFD, which it is supposedly be to be modeled after. RFD was well written, had a good plot, was exciting, had interesting boss fights, and a host of supremely useful and fitting rewards.

-Had various things in it which are meant only to troll players, and if you aren't super careful, you could find yourself having to repeat the quest several times. It actually punishes early bird players - the people who waited, and got the down low from all their friends were able to avoid having to do numerous replays.

 

Totally fail quest.

 

I actually like quests, or used to, but this one and the needlessly annoying puzzle during the last one have started to change my mind on these things.

 

P.S. Also, Tim is a godsend, walked me through a bunch of this stuff, unsolicited.

[strilmus]

Note: you can just hand the urn directly to Ernie instead of teleporting it, if you don't want to screw it up.

[Miss Lioness]

Been talking to Mod Rowley & Mod Stu. They said there is a 'fix' in QA at the moment regarding the difficulty of obtaining T20 gear in DoD. They are trying to hotfix whatever they can, but some of it requires an actual Game Update which will be on monday.

[Sy_Accursed]

^Thank jebus for that.

 

In my clan we had 3 clannies killing guards for 4 hours and came away with 1 set of the studded ranged armour that has since been shared around.

And that came from 2 coal drops to 1 guy, 1 stud drop to me and nothing for the 3rd.

[Miss Lioness]

The following chances are going to be in the game:

 

• Removing Lower-value drops from Guards (Hotfix)
• Everyone gets a drop for helping w/ kill (Hotfix)
• Putting Coal and Silk in shops (Unknown value, requires Game Update)

Hopefully the price wouldn't be too high :).

[Sorator]

I loved the fun dialogue and examines and such. (Tiny Zemo is the best. Cats were excellent as well.) I'll admit, the corpses hanging on chains and heads in Zemo's bedroom was more grisly than I generally expect from Runescape.

 

Mechanics could've been better, but I'm pretty much okay with it. Could use less forced-replays; it got tiresome. Glad they're fiddling with the guard drops to make that less ridiculous.

 

 

 

The following chances are going to be in the game:

 

• Removing Lower-value drops from Guards (Hotfix)
• Everyone gets a drop for helping w/ kill (Hotfix)
• Putting Coal and Silk in shops (Unknown value, requires Game Update)

Hopefully the price wouldn't be too high :).

 

Sink?

[Sy_Accursed]

I'd imagine she meant silk, seeing as we are talking about the t20 gear and the 3 options are Steel Armour, Studded Leather or Spidersilk Robes. The former two of which are readily obtainable after getting a bit of coal to produce steel and the later of which requires spidersilk.

[Omali]

I loved the fun dialogue and examines and such. (Tiny Zemo is the best. Cats were excellent as well.) I'll admit, the corpses hanging on chains and heads in Zemo's bedroom was more grisly than I generally expect from Runescape.

 

Mechanics could've been better, but I'm pretty much okay with it. Could use less forced-replays; it got tiresome. Glad they're fiddling with the guard drops to make that less ridiculous.

 

 

 

The following chances are going to be in the game:

 

• Removing Lower-value drops from Guards (Hotfix)
• Everyone gets a drop for helping w/ kill (Hotfix)
• Putting Coal and Silk in shops (Unknown value, requires Game Update)

Hopefully the price wouldn't be too high :).

 

Sink?

 

They're putting everything and the kitchen sink in the stores.

[Miss Lioness]

I loved the fun dialogue and examines and such. (Tiny Zemo is the best. Cats were excellent as well.) I'll admit, the corpses hanging on chains and heads in Zemo's bedroom was more grisly than I generally expect from Runescape.

 

Mechanics could've been better, but I'm pretty much okay with it. Could use less forced-replays; it got tiresome. Glad they're fiddling with the guard drops to make that less ridiculous.

 

 

 

The following chances are going to be in the game:

 

• Removing Lower-value drops from Guards (Hotfix)
• Everyone gets a drop for helping w/ kill (Hotfix)
• Putting Coal and Silk in shops (Unknown value, requires Game Update)

Hopefully the price wouldn't be too high :).

 

Sink?

 

Fixed it, thanks.

[strilmus]

there may not be money in the sink, but at least it isn't blood

[stealthchris117]

Add wool to the shop, I want to make an amulet!