Potions, Spells and Runes

[+Karl]

17-Nov-2009 - Potions, Spells and Runes

 

We’ve taken a careful look at the extreme Herblore potions we released a few weeks ago and have now reintroduced them to safe PvP minigames – that includes Castle Wars, Soul Wars, safe Clan Wars, TzHaar Fight Pit, and the Duel Arena (but not ‘no-potion’ fights or Tournaments).

 

As part of this, we’ve slightly changed the way in which the extreme magic potion works – it now provides a visible Magic stat boost of 7, which decreases over time as with other stat-boosting potions. The normal magic potion’s level boost has been increased to +5. We have, however, also made a change to the Magic skill itself, so that if your Magic level is boosted by any means, you will inflict +3% magic damage per boosted level. This is on top of the +10% magic damage you inflict when wielding certain staves.

 

Part of the reason for these changes is that we’ve added four new high-level elemental battle spells to the standard spellbook. The Wind Surge (level 81), Water Surge (level 85), Earth Surge (level 90) and Fire Surge (level 95) spells each require one blood and one death rune, and some air runes (and some water, earth or fire runes for those respective elemental spells).

 

The max hit of Fire Surge is:

28 without boosts

30 with a magic damage-boosting staff

33 with extreme magic/overload

37 with both extreme magic/overload and a magic damage-boosting staff

 

With those updates, you’re going to need some more runes, so, to top it all off, Runecrafting also gets a tweak. As of today, crafting multiple runes out of one essence has changed for the better. Before, you would only gain the ability to craft an extra rune at specific Runecrafting levels (e.g. 2 air runes at level 11, 3 air runes at level 22, 4 at level 33, and so on). Now, there is a ‘chance’ of getting an extra rune on ‘some’ of your essences if you are between those set levels, with that chance increasing as your level increases (e.g. at Runecrafting levels 12-21, you will gain 2 or 3 air runes per essence). If you want to imagine it visually, what used to be a step graph has been smoothed out into a curve. This is explained in a little more detail in the Game Guide, but the bottom line is that you’ll receive more runes for your hard work.

In other news...

 

Your run mode setting is now stored between logins.

 

You can now take Ava's Attractor and Accumulator to Lanthus and you will be able to retrieve dropped ammo while in Castle Wars. There's also a toggle option on both items to allow you to stop receiving junk.

 

The pharaoh's sceptre now displays its remaining charges in the name of the item.

 

The Summoning skillcape now has a boost option to match other skillcapes.

 

Cannons will no longer waste cannonballs on NPCs in the process of dying. You can now also top up the ammo when it's already firing and there’s an auto-setup feature.

 

Bones to Peaches and Bones to Bananas can now be used to convert any bones up to and including big bones.

[Saint Andrew]

Cool stuff Mates :cool:

[Sean]

dem my low magic

[Volt]

Magic is useful again.

[Shroom]

Damn, Fire Surge is gonna be ownage. Gives me a reason to finally train my magic high because I don't use ancients :D

[Lolercats]

Fire surge could make it so pkers who pk with tb solo can still tribrid. Very nice :O.

 

 

I love the magic potion upgrade.

[Danee]

Nice I still perfer dt though tbh

[Junior]

now people who tb when pking have a magic style attack that can actually do damage

[Ceejay]

I did about 50 test runs, It's quite nice . . . Great for if your tb'ing in the wilderness and still want to hit that full rune with a smack of magic.

[Maurice]

I like it, they are trying ot balance out the triangle and doing a good job for once.

[Jessica]

About time they made it worthwhile to raise your herblore. The pots were nearly useless before, except for training. Mage pots might actually have some value to people with 99 mage now, as well.

 

I'm liking the changes to Bones to Peaches and Runecrafting, should be quite handy. Actually, I don't see anything bad about this update at all. :happy:

[Anthoni]

i wish i had 99 herb tbh.

[Safe]

not guna b warring in clan wars vs people with extreme pots lol

[Jake]

Right now being able to afford 99 herb would be ownage :sick: .