JagexRowley

Honestly I get a little frustrated with seeing something like Desperate Measures and knowing how much of the work that went into that will never see use again, and it does feel wasteful.

Just a small note on this. The work that went into DM did see a lot of reuse, in the effigies D&D, Orthen dig site, the Raksha area and something else. It's not overly obvious due to how things were reused, but we did get a lot of use out of especially the environment work done for DM (which itself built on what was already created for Anachronia).

Taking your more general point, we have taken learnings from Anachronia that we're hoping to apply more in future. We'll see how that goes...

You don't need to compete with it - if you have the LOTD relic power active, you can complement it... ;)

More will be added to the skill over time, no doubt, but it's perfectly fine to stop training it if you've got what you want out of it. That's fine with us. There's already a bunch of reasons to train beyond 99 but it's fine if they don't encourage everyone.

I'd prefer it, in fact, if people did not force themselves to play content/games in general past the point where they are getting something out of it. I did some awful, long grinds in the name of unlocking Xbox Achievements when I was younger, which I now regret.

Powering the eight shadow anchors OR waiting for the shield pylon to be active are both ways to get that extra bit of shadow depth.

Transcribing the memory -> is one.

Ring of visibility OR shadow delver is the other.

One way would be to wait for the shield pylon event to be active. Another would be to power all shadow anchors.

After the mystery is complete, you need to talk to Dr Nabanik again. I think the Kharid-et opening cutscenes is being replayed for some people, but barrel through that and he should thank you for solving that mystery (and then complete the miniquest too).

Be certain you have completed the new miniquest (and not only the previously existing Archaeology mystery).

Have you already completed the Vault of Shadows mystery? (I would assume so you being 120 Arch.) In which case, you don't need any scrolls. Just talk to Nabanik again to complete the miniquest.

It was just a bit of humourous dialogue.

This is just in preparation for something else coming down the pipeline.

I'm assuming it's referring to the hat in today's new miniquest (not an actual party hat).

I think you'd struggle to PAY someone to take it off your hands. :P

Thanks, 'Relomia', if that's even your real name! :P

Not those party hats.

Don't panic.

Yes. They are quest object and cannot be used for anything other than the mystery.

Tune into the lore stream tomorrow if you can, I'll be talking about it in a bit more detail. The wording in that news post is a little odd to me, but it explains very little.

It has always been a miniquest. It has not degraded. If I had seen the news before it went out I'd have given the feedback to refer to it as a minquest (and I did tweet out a correction the day that news was released).

'Quest' and 'miniquest' are arbitrary distinctions anyway. It's something I will aim to cover in the lore livestream tomorrow, which should shed some light on things.

Don't get this confused with the 20 year veterans cape, which will first become available early next year (Feb iirc).

I'd love to know what put (both of) you off initially and also what brought you around.

Be sure you have handed in all of the journal page mysteries by talking to Dr Nabanik about each.