[2022] Quest Speedrunning, Wilderness Boss Rework Rewards & Poison Dynamite Betas | Weekly Game Update (September 14th 2022)

This was brought up in feedback & is technically possible in the future if we decide to invest more time into expanding Quest Speedrunning! Along with the Champion's Guild at 32 QP. Possible but any development time towards it would only really be done if it was popular

Beta worlds don't yet give trophies or points so progress will not transfer, but you will be able to test the system and see how long it took you to complete a Quest. :) We would love to hear feedback on the times we've provided in the blog to see how the balancing is and make tweaks before launch later this month.

The beta is to give people a chance to play around with the weapons and give us feedback for any tweaks before polling (assuming this is relating to the Wilderness Boss Rework Rewards, at least).

Deadly Prayers reduction is based on the damage you've taken, so 20% of your Prayer from whatever the Hitsplat says. Hopefully, that helps!

This has been correctly changed. Thanks for highlighting this! :)

This should be available from about midday (BST), I've updated the newspost accordingly.

Does the special attack of the Accursed Sceptre work outside of pvp?

Indeed it does :)

Thanks for letting us know. We are aware and currently investigating this issue. We'll let you know more once it's been resolved.

Is this in the Beta worlds or normal game worlds?

We apologise for this - the team is just investigating now, we're trying to see how to fix it and whether this needs a reboot or we can fix it another way.

Thanks, we'll have the team look into this!

It rounds down as stated in the Newspost 🙂

I understand where people are coming from with this and completely get the concerns, but feel as though there is a lot in the WBR aimed to alleviate these concerns.

1: Singles variants still allowing access to uniques (same time to complete for current uniques, maybe slightly reduced rates for proposed new uniques)

For me this means that irons are less likely to feel as though they would need to pay for protection to obtain uniques, which (speaking anecdotally, since I was just playing at the time and a little more casually, but still had some fun with multi revs in small groups of pals) was a pretty significant chunk of the 'demand' for these services in the multi revs era. Irons are a big chunk of the playerbase, giving them an alternative to specifically chase the uniques they might be after should reduce the demand for this kind of service. Compounded a little by the fact that the base Rev weapons are so much better than the next best thing for any Wilderness content, while the proposed upgrades function good for anti-PKing but aren't massively stronger for typical wildy PvM action.

2: Entry fee

Part of what made protection so easy in those days was the ease with which you could just chain-die while 1-item ragging and face 0 consequence in enough numbers. Obviously numbers always confer an advantage in multi, but by introducing a fee (whose value still isn't set in stone) this should hopefully discourage ragging on the scale that multi revs saw.

3: NPCs to prevent hopping around boss lair exits.

This should make it a little more cumbersome to just speed-hop through worlds and hold down quite as many if protection proves to be worthwhile. (Though with the MVP-style loot system and how good other moneymakers are at the moment compared to what was there to compete with revs in terms of gp/hr back in the day, I'm not sure that paying for protection would prove super useful? Could be wrong, but at least part of the hope behind the design).

4: Spread

3 overworld lair entrances, 4 overworld escape caves exists, lairs being separate from the escape caves and spread around the caves as well. There's a lot more 'space' to try and cover if you're holding a world down, I don't think there are many groups with the numbers at current to realistically hold down a larger area, especially with how many worlds there are right now.

I wholly understand if people aren't a fan of this comment, and I'm not trying to necessarily convince anybody or change their mind, just wanting to highlight some of the steps taken at a design level to try and address these concerns. That's all without getting into us having learned lessons from last time about ways we can spot abuse and hopefully keep a handle on concerns about RWT etc.

I'd also hope that we'd be willing to make any more changes that feel necessary to ensure the content is healthy and being engaged with because it's fun group content for thrill-seekers or multi-enjoyers rather than just a money printer that gets deleted.

Hope anybody reading this has a fab day, and also hope to see some of you in the beta trying out the rewards and sending us feedback!

They're all PvM drops! Which one in particular are you referring to as 'BIS' in this case?

It's 'BiS' in terms of a BiS one-handed non-degradeable Strength training option for 75 Attack accounts, but outclassed in DPS by most other offerings (whip included). It has a max hit below AGS (and Claws, I think), as well as the Volatile staff (the best one-handed comparison) while also having a higher spec cost.

Unfortunately, we fixed a bug in the midraid loot quantity calculations that inadvertently caused a nerf. We are going to undo this change so that the Invocation will act the same as it did before the update.

Keep an eye on the newspost for when the fix goes out!

This has now been fixed. Please let me know if there are any further issues. Cheers!

These worlds are now online :)

I'm pretty sure our plan is for them to count for any KC tasks for Wilderness Diary or CAs!