It was officially shelved.
Mod Doom is going to be working on that stream update we've been promising with our Art Team - both to go into detail on why that happened, and also the work that's come out of it.
It's still some weeks away as Doom is still in his early days here, but it's on his hitlist!
Okay but what about necromancy….
Believe me, we all want to talk about it as much as you want to hear about it!
Development wise, it's just that little bit too early to discuss anything as there's still so much work and playtesting going on.
We're going to look at getting a Fort Forinthry Roadmap out in April so you have a better idea of what's coming over the next few months - as we hear you all on sorely wanting that - as we build to the right moment where we can finally talk about Necromancy.
We know there's a lot of concern about when you'll hear about Necromancy (insert 2024 memes here), so just to reiterate something and add a little bit to what's been said before:
Wonder if they’re saying there’s going to be more graphic updates or if just those tweaks that already released. Weird wording.
There are more graphical updates on the way - some smaller areas next week, and bigger ones (like Karamja) are in the pipeline!
Read moreSadly this doesn't fill me with excitement.
- Unwelcome Guests - it's hard to tell from the newspost what this actually is. Permanent content? A temporary event? The Raptor's involvement and the other 'content' listed makes me think this is a temporary thing - probably wrong, but part of why I am not currently excited.
- Frank's chest - We do not need free handouts. Even forgetting how it affected certain items or dangled Tavia's there like bait, while maybe it's useful for Jagex to 'test the waters' on certain non-alchable items for adding to drop tables, we do not need more free stuff being given out to players.
- Recycled Easter event that's afking for 20 minutes for tokens for the new cosmetics then never touch it again - this event just doesn't do it for me. There's no fun or RS charm to it. And realistically, it's just fodder for the parallel TH promo, because of course only MTX gets to actually do anything interesting. The bunny ear pet tokens al...
It's our next Fort Forinthry Season content - so permanent content and not like the Raptor's Rampage.
We're going to reveal all on Wednesday ahead of it's release, but it will be Slayer focused and include more Fort upgrades. Mod Doom will run you through it on the Livestream and we'll also have a Newspost up right after.
I guess Frank's Free Chest is going to be a recurring thing for the foreseeable future. I'm not complaining -- free loot is free loot -- but I'm more than a little surprised considering how frosty the reception was the first time.
As for the Raptor stuff; am I correct in thinking that this is permanent new content, not just an event? If so, great; it's been a while since we got new undead to slay. (AFAIK the last time we got new, "proper" undead was ED3, and even that was four years ago now) And I get the feeling that, even if Jagex isn't ready to drop more info on Necromancy, these monsters might be a taste of what we should expect to be part of it...
Also, the Spring Festival again. Meh. Hopefully the new additions will make it a bit more lively compared to the past two years. And I guess we should have expected Jagex to come out with more skill pet cosmetics after the success of the Fresh Start halos; though personally, I can't think of many of them that those ea...
There's a lot of improvements to Frank's Free Chests based on feedback - we'll be running you through those in the TWIR on Monday.
Please do keep the feedback coming on it. It's a real test for us on finding ways for us to reward your time investment in RuneScape more flexibly, whether you log in every day or only have solid bursts of time a few times a week.
Obviously we also want it to be something worth caring about in and of itself as well still, but it's a real learning experience for us.
Absolutely we will.
Some work has been going on in Sponge's absence to move things on. Sponge returns tomorrow so we'll be working on an update with him as soon as we can.
What is the use of the Jagex Account name?
Is this used for anything at all from a user point of view or is authentication always going via your Jagex account's email?Imagine if the first player to enter the beta chose "Zezima" for example as their Jagex account name. I know it won't affect the actual RSN Zezima, but what benefit does this name offer for this player's Jagex account? Is it simply an indicator which is not used anywhere other than your own Jagex client?
If you read the blog post you can see during the step by step guide what the webpage says. Basically it's a name we will use when contacting you, similar to how RuneScape account emails work now.
In the future, there is the potential that it could be used similarly for other services for friends etc. but we aren't currently working on that sort of system.
For now, it's private to you as described.
Read moreHey Stu! Okay so the essence of finality oversight is that a player should be able to add any spec weapon into the amulet, however, a player with lets say 50 attack is unable to add a level 60 dragon dagger into the amulet to spec with his tier 1-50 melee weapons while a person with 90 attack is able to add the dragon dagger and spec with his tier 1-90 melee weapons. If it's confusing still, let me know so I can try to explain it better, but I hope it makes sense. :)
[The amulet was design to be able to consume any weapon to store that weapon's special attack. (picture 1)](https://i.imgur.com/4cXjSLv.png) The idea of the amulet was to give a player the freedom to use a spec and it being scaled based on the weapon they are wielding. [It was suppose to allow players to spec without using the actual spec weapon unrestricted. (picture 2)]((https://i.imgur.com/dm6ATOd.jpg)
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Righto, thank you for explaining in detail the essence of finality issue you're having.
I checked with the combat council, and they confirmed the above description wasn't intended to be taken so literally - it's intentional that you require the levels to use the item (eg 60 Attack) to be able to store the item in the amulet to use its special attack.
Therefore I won't be able to change how the essence of finality functions. I'm afraid we're going to have to live with the above scenario.
If I sign up for the jagex account thing, will I still be able to play on mobile? Or do they need to update that app first?
You can play on mobile and using the jagex launcher now.
I'll manually go to the site, login, and see what notifications I have. If there's nothing there, I do nothing.
You don't even need to check your messages, if you have the upgrade button you are in.
We also are not sending inbox messages at this stage due to hitting 50% of all accounts being eligible.
Quick little update on the progress of the Closed Beta as we have ramped up the availability massively!
https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/jagex-accounts---closed-beta-updated-mar-30
External link →Its been quickly pointed out that this is a phishing email, as I keep repeating on Twitter when making more players eligible, the easiest and safest way to check if your account is eligible for Jagex accounts is to go to www.runescape.com/account_settings and look for the Upgrade button.
As always our Support Center has some great guides and self help inform...
Read moreThe beta it is referring to was the new log in program jagex was testing over Christmas but that beta is closed but it will probably be something that people with multiple account. It was a nice little launcher. If I had a better PC I'd probably be using it still. But I find mobile less laggy then my PC so I chose to stay on mobile. But that beta was closed I believe back in February or early March
Edit: these scammer phishing like using old or semi dead promotion to trigurr people to use them but most of us are smart to know better these day.
I think something has got lost in communication.
The Jagex Launcher and Jagex accounts are two separate products.
The Jagex Launcher is in Open Beta, available to all players since early 2022 and can be used by those with RuneScape accounts to play the RuneScape and Old School official clients, as well as Runelite.
You can learn more about the Jagex Launcher at: www.jagex.com/launcher
Jagex accounts are in Closed Beta - and we continue to invite more users every week. In fact, I've just invited more players 20 minutes ago.
You can learn more about Jagex accounts at: ...
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