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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.

Thank you everyone for your detailed feedback and discussions on the Clan Avatar XP Boost being enabled for Necromancy Launch.

Based on the feedback, we have decided the Clan Avatar Experience Boost will NOT apply to Necromancy during the XP embargo. We have updated the post to reflect this change.

Ultimately, we agree this is the fairest move to make given the time remaining till release for capping, as well as for those who may not have found a clan to call home yet.

Thanks everyone for your patience.

Based on the feedback, we have decided the Clan Avatar Experience Boost will NOT apply to Necromancy during the XP embargo. We have updated the post to reflect this change.

Ultimately, we agree this is the fairest move to make given the time remaining till release for capping, as well as for those who may not have found a clan to call home yet.

Thank you (and everyone else) for the feedback on the Clan Avatar Boost.

There's some points being raised around this that are worth further discussion. When the team are back in tomorrow, we're going to take a look at the feedback and consider it fully.

That's not a promise of change, but we did want you all to know your comments are being heard and will be addressed with a response either way.

This is the last in our pre-launch Insights series, but we will have more Necromancy info to come. Quite a bit coming out over the next week in various forms.

There's a lot to unpack with making that change to the other styles, let alone the fact it will also take some significant design and development work.

The main thing is not changing the core fundamentals of any existing Combat Skill without players having a strong say.

Necromancy gives us a huge opportunity to try a lot of ideas we have to evolve combat in the game within the confines of a single, new skill experience. We're not messing with anyone's existing playstyle in Melee/Mage/Ranged by doing that, which is important.

As Mod Ryan said - if they are well liked and perform well, some of these changes could very well happen to the other styles. But first it's about getting these new ideas in your hands via Necromancy, seeing what you all would love about the approach and going from there.

You won't be able to use them as the two new Necromancy bosses can only be fought with Necromancy.

We'll add a bit of clarifying wording there, it's not implicitly mentioned like it is with Rasial. Thanks for the feedback.

Hermod is a repeatable boss to confirm.

Just to confirm - this isn't an intended change. It's been bugged and we're looking into it.

This is something we've discussed coming out of this.

We were aware this was coming a few weeks ago, but to hold our hands up, we (meaning the CM team) overlooked communicating it early as we've been pretty wrapped up in a lot of other things.

The feedback has been heard - we'll look at how we can capture this stuff and get it out earlier in future.

It does yes! As long as your account is part of a Jagex account.

Honestly that would make for a really interesting stream. Will raise the idea with Doom!