Update 27 March 2017 - New Luck Items & Luck Rework

[Arceus]

New Luck Items & Luck Rework

This week, we've overhauled one of RuneScape's most venerable systems – luck.
 
Where there were once but a few ways of manipulating your combat and skilling fortunes, now there are more – tailored for various phases of your RuneScape adventure.
 
Since the Game Jam, Mod Timbo's worked tirelessly to gather your feedback and put together the rework released today. Read on for full details.


How Does Luck Work?

Luck is a hidden stat that affects your chance of benefiting from:

• Rare drops from Slayer
• Unique drops from bosses
• Clue-specific rewards from clue scrolls
• Favourable skilling procs (see below)
• Accessing the rare drop table (now granting an additional drop, not a replacement)

Luck-enhancing items now fall on one of four tiers. Tiers 1-3 affect content specific to certain level ranges. Tier 4 affects content of all levels, along with some extra benefits of its own.

What Content Does Luck Affect?

Tier 1

• Level 1-50 Slayer monsters
• Easy clues
• Bosses:
  • KBD
  • Giant Mole
• Increased chance to access the rare drop table
   

Tier 2

• Level 51-80 Slayer monsters
• Skilling:
  • Mining Gems
  • Jewelled statuettes and tradeable Sceptre from Pyramid Plunder
  • Opening Shade chests
  • Flash Powder Factory rubble searching
• Medium clues
• Bosses:
  • Chaos Elemental
  • Kalphite Queen
  • Exiled Kalphite Queen
  • God Wars Dungeon 1 (not Nex)
  • Barrows
  • Dagannoth Kings
• Increased chance to access the rare drop table, and to receive better loot from it

Tier 3

• Level 81-99 Slayer monsters
• High-level skilling:
  • Rare drops from Elf City pickpocketing
  • Increased chance of Black Ibis outfit
  • Improved loot from kingly implings
  • Improved chance of Sceptre of the Gods
• Hard clues
• Bosses:
  • Queen Black Dragon
  • Nex
  • God Wars Dungeon 2 (not Telos)
  • Kalphite King
  • Corporeal Beast
• Further chance to access the rare drop table, and to receive better loot from it

Tier 4

• All Slayer monsters
• All skilling
• Elite clues, and lower
• Bosses:
  • Angel of Death
  • Telos
  • Raids
  • Rise of the Six
  • Vorago
  • Araxxor/Araxxi
  • All lower-tier bosses
• Yet further increased chance to access the rare drop table, to receive better loot from it, and to receive certain unique drops.

Luck-Enhancing Items

Ring of Luck
Stats:

• Level 15 ring stats (+3 to all styles, no armour)
• Tier 1 luck enhancement

To craft:

• 11 Crafting, 7 Magic
• Silver bar, cut lapis lazuli, ring mould, water rune, cosmic rune

Other Info:

• Note that while this item is only craftable by members, it can be bought and used by free players.

Ring of Wealth
Stats:

• Level 40 ring stats (+10 to all styles, no armour)
• Tier 2 luck enhancement

To craft:

• 55 Crafting, 68 Magic
• Gold bar, cut dragonstone, ring mould, 15 water runes, 15 earth runes, cosmic rune

Other Info:

• This is the existing ring of wealth, with new stats and its luck effects updated to the new Tier 2 set.

Ring of Fortune
 
Stats:

• Level 50 ring stats (+13 to all styles, no armour)
• Tier 3 luck enhancement

To craft:

• 72 Crafting, 87 Magic
• Gold bar, cut onyx, ring mould, 20 earth runes, 20 fire runes, cosmic rune

Other Info:

• Takes the place of the Ring of Stone in the Crafting skill.
• The existing ring of stone is unchanged, but is now a drop from TzHaar and TokHaar.
• The requirement to cut onyx and make an onyx ring is now 72 Crafting.

Luck of the Dwarves
 
Stats:

• Level 60 ring stats (+17 to all styles, no armour)
• Tier 4 luck enhancement

To craft:

• 91 Crafting, 87 Magic, 107 Invention
• Gold bar, cut alchemical onyx, 20 earth runes, 20 fire runes, cosmic rune

Other Info:

• This new item requires a new material – alchemical onyx – created via the Invention skill.

Existing Luck Items

Collector's Insignia

• When uncharged, the collector's insignia imparts tier 2 luck benefits.
• When charged, it imparts tier 3 luck benefits, with charges that deplete with every kill, skilling action or clue.
• It continues to grant its other benefits, such as increased Agility XP.

Luck Potion

• The existing potion now imparts tier 2 luck benefits.
• At 77 Herblore, it can be combined with 6 onyx bolt tips to make an enhanced luck potion, which imparts tier 3 luck benefits.

Leprechaun Hat

• Works as a tier 2 luck item.

Lucky rabbits foot

• Works as a tier 1 luck item.

Vecna skull

• Continues to be dropped from the rare drop table, but now requires tier 4 luck to obtain.

Good luck!
Here's hoping for all the loot you could wish for with these luck-enhancing beauties. Give us your feedback - it's important to us
The RuneScape Team


In Other News

• We've released all the details for the remaining name releases. If you've got your eye on a particular name, check here when it'll be released.
• Mod Stu has made improvements to a number of older quests:
  • Imp Catcher has been rewritten, and is now based around performing a task for each of four imps in exchange for their beads.
  • Heroes' Quest no longer requires a second player to complete.

See the patch notes for further details of today's updates.


Live Streams this Week

Each week we live stream Q&As, in-game events and more. Watch our streams and find a full streaming schedule over on our Twitch channel.
 
Check our YouTube channel, too, for all of our previous streams, including all our Patch Notes videos, and Dev Diaries.
 
Tomorrow's stream is all about what you can expect for April – are you ready?

Tuesday, March 28th| 16:00 Game Time | April: the Month Ahead
 
April is set to be an exciting month in Gielinor.
 
Tune into the Q&A on Tuesday to find out more about what we've got planned!
 
Want your question asked? Use the #RSQA hashtag on Twitter, head to our forums, or to Reddit to post it.
 
Watch from 16:00 Game Time to check it out!

Friday, March 31st | 20:00 Game Time | Community time with Mod Shauny
 
Mod Shauny will be back and showcasing some of the updates you've got to look forward to next week.

Sunday April 2nd | 18:00 Game Time | PvM with Mod Lee
 
Get your weekly dose of PvM goodness with Mod Lee – don't miss it!
 
[spoiler=Patch Notes]

Graphical

• Some environment issues surrounding the island "The Faraway Place Where Things Are Kept" have been fixed.

Skills, D&Ds & Minigames

• Players no longer receive extra extenders when world hopping.
• It is no longer possible to gain more than 10 supplies' worth of XP per day from handing in Goebie supplies. Handing in any more than 10 supplies will not give XP and the extra objects will be removed.
• The Temple Trekking tasks from the Morytania Task Set now require the NPC to be taken only on routes that match their difficulty.
• Achieving maximum points (100) in a Guthixian Cache will no longer bring up a confirmation box when attempting to leave early.
• Stackable junk refiners can now be used to complete invention tech tree tasks.
• The augmented Seren god bow now correctly says 'disassemble' instead of 'destroy'.

Quest, Challenges and Achievements

• The Garden of Tranquility quest now correctly states Bernard's location as Taverley.

Other

• Telos's shockwave will no longer hurt you on the transition between phases 3 and 4.
• Telos's "SO. MUCH. POWER!" attack will no longer injure you if you get hit by it while transitioning from Phase 1 to 2.
• Sunshine's animation when used with the Planted Feet perk has been extended to match the active duration the perk.
• Deathmatch taunts 6 to 10 can be set up correctly once again.
• A warning will be displayed in your chat (if it isn't filtered) should you have less than 500 charges left in your blood essence when you activate it.
• You can no longer alch or drop the demonic skull while in combat.
• You can now track your current Telos kill streak in the Beasts tab.
• A erroneous pose has been removed from the Vindicta & Gorvek 'learn' page found within the Beasts tab.
• The 'Salty' title will now be removed whenever/if new requirements are added to it. This includes the Hanto armour hence those who have not yet purchased the pieces from Boni will be unable to activate the title.
• Certain problems that could be caused by entering Death's office on a Bounty Hunter world no longer occur.

Ninja Fixes

• The Imp Catcher quest now requires 4 unique *non-tradeable* beads discovered during the quest, instead of the beads dropped by imps. If you've not yet completed Imp Catcher, talk to Wizard Mizgog for written directions to the sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic imp.
• The Imp Catcher quest now gives its Magic XP reward in the form of an XP lamp.
• Wizard Mizgog's wander range has been reduced.
• Dialogue trees on Wizard Mizgog and Wizard Grayzag now loop back to the start of the conversation instead of dropping out.
• An aggressive mugger near the earth altar has been removed.
• The guidance system notification meant to display the first time the player burns food should no longer trigger when the recipe doesn't create a burned food object.
• Heroes' Quest has undergone a suite of quality-of-life improvements. Most notably, while the partner gameplay has been retained, you can now complete the quest on your own. Bring a lockpick.
• After completing Heroes' Quest, the oily fishing rod can now be reclaimed from Gerrant.
• After completing Heroes' Quest, ice gloves can now be reclaimed from the high priest of Entrana.
• Camorra and the origins of the Ice Queen are now mentioned in Heroes' Quest.
• After being freed from his cell in Taverley Dungeon, Velrak the explorer now resides at the entrance to the dungeon.
• Loot beams for the lore book drops that were recently granted bad luck mitigation have been updated, in order that they clear more reliably (and generally behave like other loot beams).
• Adamant dragons in the Brimhaven Dungeon now have the same chance to drop lore books as the adamant dragons in the Ancient Cavern.

 

 

[ixfd64]

There's also a new item in the GE called Hazelmere's signet ring. It's speculated to be a tier 5 luck-enhancing item, but nobody outside of Jagex has figured out how to obtain it so far.

 

Edit: misspelled "Hazelmere"

[Miss Lioness]

There's also a new item in the GE called Hazlemere's signet ring. It's speculated to be a tier 5 luck-enhancing item, but nobody outside of Jagex has figured out how to obtain it so far.

It probably is obtained by either as an RDT drop or Elite Clue scroll reward, both of which requires the T4 ring (Luck of the Dwarves) to be worn before it is possible to obtain it from either of these 2 sources.

[Wkw]

I'm not thinking its an elite reward. People have done loads of them without getting it.

 

I'm still hard set on it is a pretty rare reward from doing something while having all 4 levels of luck active..

 

Perhaps a mob drop, rdt drop, or clues... while having the rabbit foot, ROW/uncharged insignia/potion, charged insignia/enhanced potion, and luck of the dwarves active.

[ixfd64]

Mod Timbo just said that lower tiers of luck-enhancing items aren't required: https://twitter.com/JagexTimbo/status/850753989159333890

[Ammako]

I don't use all my G.E. slots, so I'm keeping an offer in for 1gp... ;p

Very unlikely but... what if they just randomly get placed into the G.E. by Jagex and only goes to someone who has an offer for 1gp :o

[Wkw]

If something goes into GE, it will complete for the oldest and highest offer first. So if you are the first person to put an offer into the GE, at all, period, for 1gp, and someone puts the offer in for 2B after you, no matter what the seller puts it in the GE for it will be sold to the highest offer first :)

[Ammako]

Yeah I know that's the way it's supposed to work. But Jagex can do anything so I mean for all we know they programmed something that bypasses that and gives it to someone at random :P

 

-Really- unlikely, but I'm just being silly and I don't need the 1 G.E. slot anyway. You never know!

[Arceus]

Yeah I know that's the way it's supposed to work. But Jagex can do anything so I mean for all we know they programmed something that bypasses that and gives it to someone at random :P

 

-Really- unlikely, but I'm just being silly and I don't need the 1 G.E. slot anyway. You never know!

I mean you COULD buy shards or various shop items and probably have enough for the ring when it is eventually available. But your call!

 

Are there any even in the game or is it just a teaser for a pending update at this point?

[ixfd64]

According to Mod Timbo, none have entered the game as of the second week of release: https://reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/64e4pi/time_to_look_through_every_single_of_mod_timbos/dg1ia5x

[Ammako]

 

Yeah I know that's the way it's supposed to work. But Jagex can do anything so I mean for all we know they programmed something that bypasses that and gives it to someone at random :P

 

-Really- unlikely, but I'm just being silly and I don't need the 1 G.E. slot anyway. You never know!

I mean you COULD buy shards or various shop items and probably have enough for the ring when it is eventually available. But your call!

 

I don't know why people insist on taking this seriously.