[2023] Necromancy Insights - Rituals

I don't believe there is any obstacles in your way from the Reciting spot to the storage, you can see in the top down image how close they are to one another.

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That's not correct, you can only use bones/big bones/baby dragon bones/wyvern bones (and 2 new items ) in a lesser communion ritual. You unlock higher tier communion rituals at higher levels where you can use higher level bones.

Higher level bones do reward more souls however.

The later Rituals take a longer time to complete.

They are AFK in the sense that no interaction is required - but you'll be forgoing opportunities to gain extra XP or materials from the events that happen. It's very much a choice between 'optimal' or AFK rather than participate or fail.

To add on to what Doom has said, all items concerning rituals are tradeable which means you can pay to advance through rituals faster if you'd rather get it done quickly. Combined with alteration glyphs, this can make rituals more rewarding/AFK also.

If there was demand for it, we could certainly consider it. The idea is Necromancy will keep evolving and we'll see what players are looking for to guide us.

The variety in Necromancy comes from travelling to Um and across Gielinor training, questing etc - likely going to places you haven't been in years as well as the City (which becomes more alive - insert unalive joke here - as you level too).

Whereas Archaeology was more on an insular 'content' focused Skill, Necromancy has a lot of investment in systems and bringing something that works across 22 years of content. It's a different kind of Skill release in that respect, but with the same huge amount of effort behind it.

Yes it does.

There isn't a Bank Chest at the Ritual Site.

I'll ask about this - I've not heard it mentioned but that doesn't mean it hasn't been thought of / considered.

One added note on this -

Every Thursday in July, we'll be dropping additional Necromancy Insights. This one was a bit of a bonus one, as we wanted to give Rituals their time in the sun and detail them more - but future releases have videos alongside the blogs.

Expect plenty more looks at Necromancy in it's near final form - it's looking even better than the First Look footage!

Necromancy is treated a little differently in the sense of comparing 99s to 120 across Combat Styles. It's one of those times we put the design of the experience first to make sure it had that lengthy, beefy levelling experience that people loved about Archaeology.

120 will be comparable to 99s in the other three Combat styles in many respects, though obviously it may be more or less optimal than other styles depending on the situation.

99 Necromancy will still be a powerful level to have, but 120 is more about peak potency.

We revealed their name and gave a first look at them in the Cinematic Release Date Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpGFbcxzJ-k

It does. It starts fairly low, but gets bigger the more you progress (depending on the Talents you choose).

Rituals do not award Constitution XP.

I appreciate that there's different types of players who have different thresholds of spoilers or discovery. We're trying to tread a fine line of explaining mechanics without too much detail but leaving lots of surprises and aspects which make a skill release exciting.

Narrative, fun intricacies between systems, easter eggs and a bit of that new skill flair will be left for the skills release. There's plenty we won't talk about which will still give you that discovery of mystery (hopefully).

You cannot earn souls via combat although that is the only way to earn talent points.

Souls are earned primarily from rituals although there are some one-off awards of souls throughout the skill.

it's not a 1:1 bone:soul rate, but it is a 1:1 bone:ritual rate

this is it :)

Timbo is spot on here. While we're being more open about the Skill itself, there will be a lot left to you to discover.

We're all huge fans of Skill launches being full of excitement and mystery - there's no world in which we would look to compromise that.

While there might be a little less mystery on the basis of what Necromancy is, as we want to give all of you a strong view of quite a unique style of Skill release, there is still a lot we're holding back on.

Quests, Bosses, Narrative, extensive looks at the City of Um, Abilities, Talents and Ritual recipes are just some of the many areas we won't be covering in detail.

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Can assure you the ending I have in mind (have had in mind since Stolen Hearts) is not affected/compromised.

If/when something gets done or not in the series is not something in my direct control. I can only advocate, not decide.

At the present time, our thinking is that it will not.

A narrative reasoning is that TzHaar/TokHaar do not partake in necromancy ("anathema!"), but predominantly, there are also design considerations of bolting it on to the existing achievement, exceptions required, etc.

We might decide differently post-release, depending on player response, but will consider then how best to implement it if consensus suggests we should. Cheevos are a gameplay mechanic, and I think we can ignore the narrative reasoning as only players are doing this (i.e. there will be no TokHaar necromancers in-game).