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I think of it more as a tongue-in-cheek approach to at least have a little fun with it. It'd be a little bleak for the post to just read 'hitsplats gold but not always (check settings), feed cat, black keys'.

Makes it more enjoyable to write about and perhaps make somebody smile during the downtime - might I recommend the banger of a joke about 'piano tuners'?

Ultimately when writing newsposts we can't magically get more content out that week. With a project the scale of Raids 3 being so close at-hand, it's natural that we might have the odd slow news week here or there.

For these kinds of weeks I think we generally try to have a little fun with the posts and at least make them an enjoyable read. Perhaps it's not an approach that everybody's a fan of and I'm sure we could strip them down if more people wanted - but it does make them more enjoyable to write too!

Main focus of this week is tying up or updating people on bits from Poll 76, apologies for any disappointment!

In OlmTheSnek's defence that was an edit I made after a few people had asked about it, but at least it's up-to-date now!

Anybody looking to minimise combat xp for any particular reason. Overwhelmingly - though not necessarily limited to - the 10hp community (which would incl. skillers) in this case, though!

Have had a couple of players suggest this and was planning to bring it up in our next player suggestions meeting with the devs, would be nice to remove some of the 'performance anxiety' for people trying new content in competitive groups.

The maintenance we're carrying out isn't directly related to the content of the update, but we are sorry for any inconvenience or disruption today's maintenance causes you.

Essentially at the breakpoints indicated, should you see a unique - it's well within the realms of realistic to expect to see one of the highlighted items. Getting one of the items that isn't highlighted isn't something you should ever realistically expect, but it's not completely impossible.

It's not like CMs.

Perhaps we'll release a couple of them before TOA opens, but revealing all would kill so much of the mystique and magic of release day!

There was a stream recently where we showed some concept art of the Lobby area, including a very polite Bank Camel!

Playtesters reported minimal (but not 0...) spitting while they were gearing up, hopefully this is reassuring!

Just to save you a re-read: 'The chance to gain a unique item, and the quantity of the normal loot you receive, is also boosted at higher Raid Level. This means there’s always an incentive to challenge yourself if you want to get your hands on that sweet, sweet loot!'

So to answer your questions:
- Breakpoints are shown for Normal and Expert mode runs. However, once your raid level surpasses 50 you'll see the highlight around the Lightbearer/Fang which indicates that they can be reasonably obtained at this difficulty.

- Even if something can be reasonably obtained, unique chance scales with raid level. So it's always going to be worth pushing yourself for better odds assuming you're getting consistent completions!

Will happily confirm that invocations are a lot more interesting than just stat boosts!

It's the number of invocations currently selected!

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YT series that inspired me to make an 807, immediately get 2 Cooking after one drink too many doing Witch's Potion and decide to become an 808 (Combat Only Except For Accidentally 2 Cooking).

Beast account, mammoth accomplishment!

Hey!

So I think a lot of this comment is aimed at me, and it's sometimes hard for me to properly/fully articulate in a livestream with 6 people because of my ADHD - I constantly get worried I'm taking up too much time or that what I'm saying might not be particularly relevant etc. So wanted to add a little context that maybe got lost in the medium:

I should've been clearer when prefacing, but as somebody whose main experience was with BH, I'm not the best PKer. When talking about south caves, the point I raised was that the standard of player there is - in my experience - a little lower than at north caves. For somebody playing on pures/med levels, I generally have fights that feel a little more my speed than I would at north caves.

Wildy Slayer Caves are an interesting one, the point I was trying to make is that even though they're multi it's fairly uncommon to see a team log in so it's not a huge risk even as a solo PKer (not that I mind if ...

Not sure how much say I have on the Oda front, but he's v good when he gets flowing on something.

Unfortunately Phreak is far from my fave member of the LCS talent lineup for your comparison, but I'll let it slide...

This is very good, superb animation. Would love to see more like this!!

You might be thinking of Maz!