Ring of Wealth, Shanties, Trolls and Dungeoneering Updates in Runescape !

We’ve got a bumper pack of updates this week including making the ring of wealth more useful, shanties recounting your previous piratical adventures, new-look trolls roaming around their renovated home of Trollheim, and a raft of gameplay improvements for Dungeoneering.

Ring of Wealth

The ring of wealth has been a kind of lucky charm for RuneScape players for many years now – even though its effects were limited, and the wealth it brought was of dubious value, many still chose to wear it for good luck. We have now improved it so that it will better increase your chances of receiving rare items from drops or clue scrolls, occasionally improve some common drops, and give you bonus items in a few specific pieces of content. What’s more, the ring will now also let you know when it has made a difference to your drops, so you can better judge how useful wearing one is for how you play.

More specifically, wearing a ring of wealth will slightly increase the drop chances of many rare items obtained from Slayer monsters and various bosses, as well as all clue scrolls. The ring will also increase your chances of getting better rewards and more items from various activities, including looting the Barrows chest, Pyramid Plunder (including sceptres and new 'jewelled statuette' loot), taking out Bork (guaranteed improvement to his drops), catching kingly implings, and further improving your chances of receiving gems while mining (if also wearing a charged amulet of glory).

Additionally, we have added two teleport destinations to the ring: the Grand Exchange and, if you have finished the Throne of Miscellania quest, to Miscellania too. Rings of wealth can be recharged in the same ways as amulets of glory.

Mod Piesche

RuneScape QA

Dungeoneering Tweaks

For a while now, we’ve been collating a list of things that we wanted to do to Dungeoneering to make it a smoother and more enjoyable experience for all. Today, we’re releasing a big batch of those improvements!

The most noticeable change is to how the prestige system works. When an already 'checked off' floor is completed again, you no longer suffer a direct penalty. Instead, a different floor in the same theme will be ticked off, giving you an appropriate amount of Dungeoneering XP for your time invested. There’s no advantage to be gained from repeating ticked off floors, but this will make it much easier to find common floors to play when raiding Daemonheim with a group of other players. For specifics on this change, read this Dungeoneering FAQ about prestige.

Among the other improvements, we have added a timer to the end interface, cut charge times on the monolith, increased colour convergence within the overgrown garden and much, much more. For a full list, please read this update's patch notes.

Mod Trick

RuneScape Content Developer

Shanties

Your various pirate-based misadventures in RuneScape have involved a fair bit of head trauma, so what better way to both remember and reminisce upon your briny achievements than with some 'rum'-sozzled, poorly rhymed sea shanties? If that piques your interest, then you should head to either Port Sarim docks or the larger of the two pubs on Mos Le’Harmless and have a chat with Bard Roberts (and his critical chum, the cranky Stanky Morgan).

He’ll happily belt out a tune or five regaling you with the events of the Pirate’s Treasure, Rum Deal, Cabin Fever, Great Brain Robbery and Rocking Out quests (assuming you’ve completed them, of course). It’s the perfect way to remember the story so far while you wait for the next pirate quest – A Clockwork Syringe – which is due later this month.

Mod Liono

RuneScape Content Developer

Graphical Updates

We have all sorts of graphical updates for you this week, the main one of which is a rework of all trolls (in the style of those seen in the recent King of the Dwarves quest). It wouldn’t have been right to not also update their mountainous home, so you’ll see that Trollheim and the surrounding areas have been spruced up too. As well as trolls, RuneScape’s yaks have had their animations and sounds improved, plus Lumbridge Swamp has been made to look more gloomy and, indeed, swamp-like.

Runescape news: partying is such sweet sorrow (Halloween 2010)

Halloween has never been a particularly enjoyable time for the Grim Reaper. Last year, his home was taken over by spiders; the year before, his manservant inexplicably died. With such misery around this time of the year, it’s no wonder that the Grim Reaper does his best to forget the Halloween season.

As such, Pumpkin Pete has given himself the task of showing the Grim Reaper just how fun Halloween can be, by throwing him the Halloween party to end all Halloween parties. He just needs your help to do it...

Join Pumpkin Pete and help to organise a truly spook-tacular Halloween party; meet the Grim Reaper’s musical idol; help werewolf backing singers get their throats ready for the big performance; and give an old friend eight hands as you work to get the musical entertainment in order.

This year’s Halloween party is set to be an impressive one and the musical entertainment is certainly not to be missed, so make sure to play it with your background music turned up to 11 and your candles held high.

For those that manage to get Grim back in a rocking Halloween mood, the reward of a bone brooch awaits, as chosen by you in a Guaranteed Content Poll held earlier this year.

Oh, and if you liked Eek, the spider you carried around with you during last Halloween's holiday event, you might want to take her back to Grim's house this year. She's sure to have plenty to say.

Runescape news: Dungeoneering Skill

From Runescape official news ,A new skill —Dungeoneering Skill is out! The new skill is available on free-to-play! You’ll receive all the equipment you need to train the skill when you arrive, so catch a boat to Daemonheim from behind the Al Kharid bank to start your new adventures!

Within each dungeon, the adventuring party is asked to solve puzzles and fight monsters, while using their skills to overcome the fiendish challenges that stand in their way. Use your skills to equip your party members, search for loot and keys and explore the floor until you find the epic boss monster at the end.

The environment contains hundreds of new objects, NPCs, rooms and locations covering an area more than 60 times the size of Falador – more than any single update ever has!

After adventuring (with a group of up to 4 other players), you’ll be able to access a wealth of new skill upgrades and reward items, including new weapons and armour for both the free and members’ game.

The 2010 Skill In Runescape

Its going on July 2o1o.

Confirmed facts
In the February Q&A it was confirmed the new skill would not be a money sink skill.
It is definite that there is a new skill coming to Runescape in 2010.
In Mod Fetzki’s Q&A 2010, Fetzki said that this new skill will take free players beyond the (current) free player map.
Mod Mark discounted the idea of adding mounts, stating that they would but it would be pretty much impossible to implement right now (perhaps due to the limitations of their RuneScript coding language).
Mods said that the skill will come closer to the middle of the year than the end, so it can come from March to September. It was also mentioned that the skill will come at the best time of the year.
Forum threads

In a current RS forum thread, recently gathered facts about the skill, Forum Moderator Xaror has commented in the following manner: “I can give you the hint that it will involve lots of skill. And combat. And combat skill.”. The list including:

The skill is unique and not similar to any other skill.

It will involve all current skills!

The skill will partially be F2P.

The new skill will take you beyond the current free map.

Aspects of the skills will be good for Pures in Player vs player.

It won’t have any impact on your combat level.

The skill doesn’t start with a ‘B’.

Training will not be money driven.

A ship is featuring in it quite prominently (Possibly hinting that the name of the skill has the suffix ship at the end .i.e. apprenticeship)

It’s not Sailing or anything like that.

There will be no start quest.

No other skill levels required for any part of the skill.

It will be released closer to the middle of the year than to the end of the year.

Quotes

We are working hard on a new skill, which will be available to free-to-play and members and which shows our continued commitment to the free game.

Q) Probably a question you saw coming – Can you shine anymore light on the new skill that’s coming?

A) Honestly, it’s not the Sailing skill. That was a crazy rumour based on a picture of a mage on a dock, who apparently is sailing a ship. He isn’t, and there is no Sailing skill. Interestingly, several of the team here at Jagex love sailing, so it did give us some cool ideas for the future. Oh, and the new skill is far better than sailing.

Q) Without giving away the new skill, could you briefly describe the awesomeness of said skill?”

A) I really can’t without giving bits of it away. All I can say is that I personally found it unique, inventive and thoroughly enjoyable. I certainly hope the players will feel the same way. What I can say is that it’s not too far away now so you will be able to make your own mind up soon.

Q) When can we expect the new skill? What is it? Any hints? Can you confirm it has nothing to do with boats? Can you confirm it doesn’t begin with a ‘B’? Necromancy? Archaeology? Can you say anything about those two things? Can you say whether it will be expensive, fast or slow XP, or anything of the sort?

A) I cannot say it has nothing to do with boats because a ship is featuring in it quite prominently, but I can repeat that it is not Sailing or anything like that. The skill doesn’t start with the letter b. It won’t be expensive.

Q)Firefox asks:

Will [the new] skill be a money sink?

A) I don’t think so. Not in the way Construction is. It certainly won’t be a skill ‘only for rich people’

Fish Flingers

Fish: what do they mean to you? Perhaps they’re your primary source of income, having fashioned yourself a career in angling. Perhaps they’re your main expense, as you munch your way through death-defying combat encounters. Whatever they mean to you, there is a band of expert fishermen who are simply keen to spread the joy that fishing brings them. As such, they have opened their little-known island, Isla Anglerine, for regular ‘Fish Flingers’ fishing competitions that are open to the masses. Doing well in these competitions will reward you with Fishing XP, raw fish and tackle boxes - useful for keeping your fishing gear tidy.

If you spend time around Catherby or the Fishing Guild, then you’ll occasionally find expert fishermen wandering around, who will be happy to give you more information about Fish Flingers and teleport you to Isla Anglerine. The competitions run every 90 minutes, with the island’s waiting area opening five minutes before each competition starts. You don’t need to bring any equipment, and there is no need to store any items in the bank before playing.

What makes the island ideal is the schools of unusual fish subspecies it attracts. With the tackle box provided, can you find the ideal tackle for each type of fish? Should you use worms or crickets as bait? Which hook is best? How far from the shore are the largest fish? Are they at the docks or perhaps the beach?

Select your tackle and cast your line, then refine your technique to land more and bigger fish than your competitors. There’s everything to play for as you accumulate medals and awards for various feats. Make sure you use your time in the competition wisely, though, as to give everyone a fair chance the expert fishermen have limited each avid angler to ten competitions a week.

As well as a healthy dose of raw fish and raw Fishing experience, with time, you’ll also gain the opportunity to purchase tackle boxes, items that should make fishing trips a more organised affair.