Also accepting Elven Crunchy Roll.
You all make the decisions, I'm just along for the backseat driving. You could allow the water/curses to be multi-combat spells with the book. A teleblock would be normal on the player that the spell is cast on 5/2.5min. The surrounding players could recieve 2.5/1.25 TBs. Same reduction effect for all curses. Idk, I think splash damage and Tome of Water sound hand-in-hand.
points noted. but please stop making me so hungry thank you
u/jagexlight can the tick-food require a leaf, shards, and paddlefish? Makes a crunchy wrap.
Give Tome of Water a "splash" (ha) damage effect on curse spells. Hits max of 10 or so. Gives damage and a reason to throw curse spells at groups.
I lol'd at crunchy wrap
So for the Tome of Water, I kind of made a mistake by phrasing it in the Blog as if it was an awesome buff, when in reality it was something we forgot to Poll in the last Blog. (!)
We'll consider options to buff the Tome of Water separately at some point in the future if there's enough player feedback to warrant it. Hope that's alright.
Well, that's odd. Is this something that has changed lately or have they always been classified as intermediate quests on your end? Take Tale of the Righteous for instance:
Poll blog: Should a new novice quest, 'Tale of the Righteous', be added to the game?
Release post: Tale of the Righteous is a brand-new Novice level quest, unveiling more of the lore of the Kingdom of Kourend (...)
I could see why they are considered intermediate quests since they are all sequels to Client of Kourend. But I get why some say over half of OSRS quests are novice quests and are mildly upset about that, since they've always been pitched to us as novice quests and we have no reason to believe otherwise.
Don't think it's something that's changed. I'm guessing there was a miscommunication somewhere and as you can't actually see the classifications in game, no one realised.
7 intermediate quests? Now I'm curious, cause the wiki only lists Bone Voyage & Getting Ahead as OSRS-exclusive intermediate quests, and afaik most quest release updates actually list what difficulty each quest has.
The five Kourend house quests are all listed as Intermediate on the backend.
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The Chosen Commander is one of the best quests released in either game in my opinion. If we were to backport one quest I'd probably pick that one.
Hey, thanks for the reply!
It's been a long time since I actually got the chance to play that content (and I honestly don't remember what I did and didn't get around to), but IIRC it's a bit of a mixed bag for sure. Land of Goblins and Chosen Commander are pretty good and wrap up the Dorgeshuun line nicely; on the flip side, I don't think you'd get much value out of just porting something like Elemental Workshop 3 and 4...
There’s definitely some that I think we’d have a better time of doing it with than others. The Goblin quests were of a consistent high quality so would work quite nicely with minimal changes. The Sea Slug quests on the other hand, not so much.
I just wanted to say your work has been astounding. A Taste of Hope, Sins of the Father, and Song of the Elves are runescape monuments, their depth and lore could be turned into their own games. I'll never forget the first time I read the Old Diary. Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you, you are a legend ✊
Thank you. Hopefully you enjoy A Kingdom Divided.
Do people not like Ratcatchers? It has the classic Runescape humour and unique mechanics (personally love the sneaking through the garden/mansion bit, and wish it were extended to a new type of thieving.), although catching rats themselves is a bit tedious with the failure rate and delays.
I can see why it has charm for some people. It’s not very well made though.
How quick is soon? <6 months?
I wouldn’t want to make promised I’m unable to keep. Will just have to leave it at “soon.”
Have you thought of making a poll for reworking the not-so fun quests?
Don’t think it’s ever been considered. While some of them aren’t great they are quite iconic at this point. It would also take time away from making new quests.
DS2 had my favorite storyline for sure. I would love to continue it a little, or perhaps branch from it. Why did Robert the Strong reincarnate as Bob? Could we perhaps help perform some kind of ritual to bring him back again, maybe with the help of the sphinx? Better yet, cross it with the Mahjarrat concept and link the two together to start a whole new, end game storyline. I know we got a very slight sneak peak at Bob's story during Halloween, so I would like to hope that there may be intentions of bringing that to light.
One day I’m sure.
About ~6 months back there was something like a "porting content" survey that mentioned some 2007-2011 era content, like Soul Wars and Shooting Stars, but also quests like Chosen Commander. Has there been any more discussion of porting quests from that era since then?
There’s been some discussion but nothing decided upon. While it would allow us to release quests a bit faster, there’s important considerations on if OS should just follow the same stories exactly or if we should diverge more. If we we’re to do any we’d probably start with Land of the Goblins or Path of Glouphrie as we have partially finished versions of them in the original backup from 2007.
Read moreSome of us really appreciate Zeah lore. I came over from RS3 and I didn't think much of it or expect to like it, but after doing all the quests and architectural alliance all in one ago alongside exploring Zeah for the first time a few months ago, I felt so immersed in the lore. I felt like a kid playing RS2 back in the day with that same sense of wonder and awe exploring a brand new world. I loved DS2, but the game is so much richer and better for having Zeah and I'd love to see more lore from there.
Also, I just want you to know that Song of the Elves is genuinely a masterpiece that I didn't expect. Plague's end in RS3 was alright but I never felt super into the elven lore after playing through that quest line on RS3. However, the writing of SotE made the conflict so much more compelling and the elves felt like they had far more human flaws. Bringing back Baxtorian and showing how many of the elves saw him as a disappointment made the motivations of the villain far more s...
Hopefully you enjoy A Kingdom Divided.
Well I mean there were 11 novice quests total out of 20, that's more than half hence my sea of novice quests comment. The last master quest was almost a year ago now too.
Master quests back then were a rarity due to the playerbase being significantly noobier as opposed to today. Most of us were noobs with level 50 stats so it made sense for them to not pump out Master quests at the time. Whereas today a lot of people are capable of doing Master quests with relative ease.
People may be more capable of Master quests now but that sadly doesn’t suddenly make them quicker to develop.
Any plans on a (grand)master quest in the desert? There is so much potential there since there is an empty city next to sophanem and right of it are plenty of black space to fill.
Desert series might need a few more quests before it’s at Grandmaster level.
Would have preferred Nomad's original model/character explored further than bald dude souls lmao archtype.
The original wasn’t even unique though. It was just a copy from elsewhere. I do think such an iconic character deserves a unique appearance.
That’s understandable. I know how the player base can get. But I’m assuming you meant last March, which is crazy as the last 15 months have blended together and been a blur. Unprecedented times certainly.
Yeah it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. We have people who’ve been on the team a year now who I’ve never actually met face to face.
As someone who is currently grinding for quest cape (201 q p currently!) I've noticed that there's a bunch of empty space in the desert, namely a town called menaphos.
The desert is in desperate need of content. Tempoross was a good start, but a Menaphos update introduced through a quest is definitely something I could see being extremely popular.
Also, smith-able pickaxes when?
I’m sure we’ll pay a visit to the Kharidian Desert soon.
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