JagexRowley

Lodestones (originally) were purposefully put slightly out of the way (in comparison to direct teleport spells), as they were meant as a convenience, but with drawbacks. I would be opposed to moving this lodestone into the village vs, say, adding a new Draynor Village teleport spell or some other new option.

Draynor Manor and Village are, together, Draynor, and the crossroad made most sense at the time for lodestone placement, though there is no direct teleport spell to Draynor Village. There is, however, this to consider: ...

This is very true, or at least it is in my personal experience. We were able to release Arch remotely because all of the difficulties were already behind us and we were dev complete, but collaboration and decision making is noticeably slower now.

Us not talking about the new projects we're working on contributes to this issue too. Also, extending the post-release support period for updates (Arch, 120 F&H), while absolutely worthwhile, delays starting work on the next thing.

This is not to say that remote working (nor these other examples) are the only reasons why things feel like they've slowed down, but they are things that should not be discounted.

The certifications from the quest are for your Earth Sciences exam (academic), whereas the qualifications within the skill are more akin to job title. There is some dialogue already that covers this.

I'd still like to see some further tweaks made to the quest (changing interactions to match the skill and unifying the quest tools with the skill's tool belt tools).

The script simply checks the highest tier of luck is active regardless of source. The way to tell which effect is being trigger (Arch relic or ring worn) is the message you see when it triggers. If that mentions "the relic power within", the relic is what triggered, else it will mention the name of the worn item.

If you have the tier 1 relic power active and are wearing a luck of the dwarves, and the message when luck procs mentions "the relic power within", that might be a bug (though possibly just a messaging bug, not necessarily incorrect luck tier applied). Otherwise, it is probably just a matter of perception.

Should be fixed with the next update, maybe the one after.

" These were some earlier ideas about a dig site that wasn't created in the end. It was about these ancient constructs that preserve memories in these "time bubbles". "

Slight clarification here. The tower was not a planned dig site, but rather the earliest concept for what became the monolith - a mysterious central location for the skill, which would have fulfilled much the same function, but in a more elaborate fashion.

The dialogue is ambiguous enough that it could be read not as him trying to recruit you, but as imploring the new Guildmaster to put more effort into recruitment Get to work!

This map is correct. For an area, it includes all spots including material caches. The mass grave island's unique drop is the icyene remains. The underwater cave gives mosaic pieces. You don't need to believe this, but if you are searching for a specific buckler, at least try following this map first. If anyone has evidence this is not the case, please do tweet me, but memory is an unreliable form of evidence.

Mod Ryan is adding one for the praetorium, and I've done same for Everlight and an additional option at Infernal Source. Not sure when those will hit LIVE yet, though.

Bandosian culture draws inspiration from Prussian history; parts of what used to be Prussia now sit in a host of countries in that region. Nosorog is rhinoceros in a number of countries in that part of the world, including Russia.

I originally went with nashorn, then nasarag, but nosorog just felt more like a Bandosian word, more guttural.

The Warforge itself also takes a lot of cues from Mesoamerican history - things like the ball game, flower wars, arena sacrifices, 'megahitter'/macuahuitl, etc - not Bandosian culture as a whole, just the culture of that particular place.

Hope that's of interest. It's all just a starting point, though. Taking things wholesale is less interesting.

As others have said, the site story explains why, but perhaps you've missed this part... The entire purpose of that whole site is to achieve this aim (the gate connects to Dis, the capital of Pandemonium, on Infernus). Necromantic summons (if we ever make them and they come from Summoning) would need to come from a different 'source'.

It does, thank you. I'll take a look into this today.

Um, the keys from fishing and mining are a 100% guaranteed drop if you don't already have one after 50 successful catches/ores. I would imagine you already got this key and either used or destroyed it somehow.

Talk to Zanik at base camp about Into the Forge and/or wait for next week's update (which should contain an addition I made that tells you which keys you have left to find).

Or try turning off you GOTE/porter if using them, as someone else suggested (though we have not seen any bugs that this is causing any issue, it can't hurt to try).

The fix you likely heard about was to Velcuia - Bandosian II and III collections. There are no plans to adjust any goblin general collections.

Stormguard/flying, from the outset, was intended to answer some of these long held issues. My hope was to get us closer and I think we have. :)

To give a bit more context to this thread, we did intentionally take the spirit of necromancy into Archaeology in order to capture some of its appeal. This is most obviously seen in the narrative of Kharid-et and some of its artefacts.

Ancient Summoning took up the slack on the mechanical front too, even though thematically separate from necromancy.

Sailing sort of makes its presence felt a tiny bit with the Stormguard wingsuit (if you squint really hard). Though, this is harder to see without knowing our concept for what Sailing could have been, perhaps one day will be.

It was the other way round as I recall it. It was a serious idea that never came to anything, which players caught wind of, and then it became a joke, and then devs built on the joke (Sailling skill in Gower Quest, a Sailling preset name in the bank, etc). We'd have to undo that thinking first before making another serious go of it, if we ever wanted to that is.

Wartface collects goblin artefacts; Bentnoze non-goblin artefacts. That their collections then sit in different level ranges is fine - they aren't the only collections that do so. They arguably have better rewards than Velucia too (though that remains to be seen once prices of things settle more).

It's helpful to highlight things like this to keep the ideas out in the community, generate discussion on them. Our thoughts are that if we ever got serious about making Sailing, we would likely first have to show a conceptual demo of it (e.g. on some future live stream) to sell its potential, and to put to bed the idea that it's a meme. It was a serious consideration originally and only became a joke/meme over time, but the core idea is still a solid one - it just needs selling to people to get them out of that 'it's a joke' mindset.

It was just a cheeky way to make clear (ish) there was no Hazelmere luck relic, to save people time from trying to figure out how to get one.