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When it's this late at night, I greatly appreciate the dad joke. Thanks for the laugh.

We are investigating reports of Login Issues and availability of certain Worlds. Please stand by for further updates.

It's not unintended method, it's unintended design balancing.

There's always a risk when working with 22 years of content relevant to a new Skill that we can miss older content methods that are outside our intentions for the XP balance of the skill. There was nothing wrong being done by doing this.

Essentially it was a nice find, but something we wanted to close off for balance reasons rather than being a bug that was abused.

This is a known issue that's affecting a small subset of players. Sorry you've been affected.

If you log out and retry the cinematic, you should be offered the option to skip. This is a workaround for anyone running into this - let us know if it helps you progress.

We're consistently monitoring XP earn rates across the Skill to ensure all methods are within reasonable expectations for progression.

It was valid, you absolutely didn't break any rules or doing anything untoward. We addressed the rate because it was as outside of intended experience rates based on our designs - partly due to it being an outdated method.

Anything you earned is legitimate, even if we needed to address the XP rate, so you've still got the gains from the method even if it's not viable anymore.

Have you tried recently? We deployed a Hotfix that lets you skip the cinematic, which we believe will be a temporary workaround for the issue.

Thanks for reporting this. We've got this logged and are investigating a fix.

Sorry to hear this. We're looking into it and we'll keep you updated.

Thanks for the report. We're looking into this as a potential bug immediately.

We recommend submitting a Lost Item report asap for the team to look into restoring this: https://support.runescape.com/hc/en-gb/articles/209366569-Lost-items

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Zone out skilling Necromancy with this Lofi mix of music from the City of Um and a host of RuneScape classics by talented community composer @Gawkie!

This also features some stunning art by community artist Suizzy, with animation by Frosty Anthony.

Check out the mix here: ...

There is some new Necromancy merch on the horizon!

Must be. This definitely is not a feature of Necromancy.

Post Zamorak was different though, and I'll explain why.

We were operating in a bit of a 'hanging in there' style on the CM side at that time.

I've talked about this on some recent community podcasts, but to put it honestly, there was a lot of change needed across the team that needed to be in place to improve our communications (including the CM team).

The way we operated, processes, how we stay a lot closer to dev in remote working environments - we'd been so fixated on just keeping up with everything that we hadn't spent the time to rip the band-aid off, step back and make big fundamental changes.

In the last half of year, it was rough for us - we had to spend the time to step back massively so we could put the right things in place to get to where we are today, knowing how much that would be a noticable drop off for all of you while we did so.

I say this a lot which is "judge us by what we do, not what we say". But what I hope is you've f...

They won't due to the embargo. Likely will after that ends, but that won't be anytime soon.

Yeah this is correct. Being able to dye the T95 gear (which will be the only Necromancy gear to support dyes) will come after release.

We don't expect it the wait for that to be long, but with the amount of art going into this release, we had to push it back slightly to make sure we could spend the time on it that it deserves.

We can confirm the boss in November will not be Necromancy only.

The bosses releasing with Necromancy are that way to make sure they are a test of what you've learned in Necromancy - and lore wise, the only way to truly defeat them is to destroy them with Necromantic energy.

The good news is it specifically says "New Halloween Event" for that reason!

The team are working on something fresher for this year's Halloween Event.

As a note on Necromancy launch -

While the update time is 12:00 Game Time on August 7th, we expect 10-15 minutes of downtime while it deploys.

Team are getting this in now. Got overlooked on the upload.

Team are getting this updated.

It will be 1pm UK time, which is 12pm Game Time.