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16 Feb

The Isle of Souls

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Originally posted by Regenitor_

Fascinating. Really appreciate the reply West!

Do you personally prefer TAPP or Ideation? I suppose both have their perks - TAPP sounds like it might've been more conducive to your professional development but ideation sounds like it produces better outcomes for the game more consistently?

I think I used TAPP once or twice to play around with some shaders but I mainly used it to generate updates for oldschool. Ideation has evolved over the years and it's essentially what I was doing before but much more refined so I definitely prefer it over the former. We've got plenty of great updates from this process and we're all currently working on something quite exciting - I think it might be the most participants we've ever had in a single update proposal before.


10 Feb

The Isle of Souls

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Originally posted by Regenitor_

Just curious about your ways of working - when you say free time, do you mean to say that this was a passion project of Ry's that he worked on outside of office hours? Or have you guys gone back to that old "TAPP" time model where employees get a certain amount of time allocated in a given month to work on whatever they like?

When we lost TAPP we were given a new iteration of that called "Ideation" as many of the ideas that go on to become updates for the game originated in TAPP time. It's a little different as we take 2 days at the end of the month rather than every other Thursday/Friday. It's a lot more focused on ideas for OSRS while previously TAPP could really have been anything, from going over some online courses to working on other games/disciplines.


23 Jan

I mean if we talk about what's too overpowered for it's tier..

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Originally posted by little_timmylol

Insane how they think nerfing face guard will have any impact whatsoever anywhere in the game. Is this really the type of trivial shit they’re spending time on?

Funnily enough I believe the faceguard was the catalyst to the entire discussion re-emerging. On release, it wasn't received in an overly positive way as it usurped a BiS item from a high level boss with a medium level slayer creature.

The fallout from that was a string of meetings where we discussed as a team what needed a nerf and what required a tier adjustment but unfortunately this was delayed quite heavily by COVID and then TBL. While some things may seem trivial now I can assure you there was a point in the past where players were very concerned about it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be on our agenda.


06 Jan

Change the Snow Globe to look like it did back in the real 2007scape, not some snowless ham-fisted CoX advertisement

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Originally posted by TorturedNeurons

Don't mind it being the CoX area necessarily, but the lack of snow is sad.

I remember making snow for it so unsure why it isn't in there :/ In hindsight it would've made much more sense to have made Mt Quidamortem a snowy mountain...


15 Dec

Tempoross Poll Results

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Originally posted by AllLightsFuckedd

I cant wait for heron recolour!

Me too! Always been my least favourite pet and I have 2 of them. It’s going to be based off the great blue heron so it should go well with a fishing skill cape :)


13 Dec

My reddit suggestion 4 years ago actually made it into the game! I wonder if my original post was inspiration for Bird House Trapping? I guess we will never know? 💡

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Can’t say for sure but it’s likely! I do remember the meeting we had when we were going over the ideas for Fossil Island and there was a discussion changing the construction elements of birdhouses to crafting. Construction is a lot more logical - can’t recall quite why we specifically changed it though.

Most ideas that go into game are generally inspired by user posts here in some way or another :D


11 Dec

A Kingdom Divided with the Arceuus spellbook and Shayzien rework: Poll Blog

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Originally posted by NoCurrencies

I think they've just somehow made a big oversight concerning the potential usefulness of those teleports. They didn't indicate anywhere in the blog post that they have any interest in nerfing clues. This change would also nerf farming for belladonna and the Morytania farm patch. Given how much easier it is to do farming these days, it hardly seems to be what they're going for... randomly nerfing content like that is probably not a design principle of theirs when the game has gotten steadily powercreeped in the last 7 years

Yeah, just an oversight on my behalf - sorry about that. Lumby graveyard is still not worth keeping for a single clue, the others have far more interesting use-cases so we’ll adjust those come Monday :)

A Kingdom Divided with the Arceuus spellbook and Shayzien rework: Poll Blog

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Originally posted by DJMooray

Are the new ashes going to be able to be used in place of regular ashes as well?

Yep - they’re still ashes of some kind :)

A Kingdom Divided with the Arceuus spellbook and Shayzien rework: Poll Blog

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Originally posted by Senario-

  1. Resurrect creature is very weak with a max hit of 3.
  2. I find it weird that death charge on the magic spellbook gives you special attack which benefits mostly the best melee spec attacks in the game like claws. Why not have it be a buff that if you kill a slayer mob during its duration (.6 sec per magic level) it gives you a buff that saves x% of powered staff charges for x seconds, maybe 1 minute as well, the initial duration ticks down and this spell should act like a noncombat spell able to be cast in between ticks? This way it makes magic that is single target more of an option for general slayer while simultaneously being useless vs bosses because you wont get a kill that easily.

One of the biggest issues with slayer using magic as single target at the moment is that it simply is much worse than range even if you cant use a cannon due to cost. If the spell was like this and had a relatively cheap upkeep per minute at least you might see some people ...

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  1. Trying to be cautious initially, can amend numbers if there’s a case for it.
  2. This is true, I quite like the idea you’ve suggest! Making single target magic more viable is definitely something we’re interested in. Although, having more magic weapons with specs is something we could do more of as well.
  3. Seems odd to me for those to apply to ashes, leaves it open for making an item specific for ashes in the future, worth a discussion for sure.

Thanks for the feedback :D

A Kingdom Divided with the Arceuus spellbook and Shayzien rework: Poll Blog

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Originally posted by Ukgamer125

Are Demonic Offering and Sinister Offering giving both prayer points and 3x xp rates? If so how many prayer points do they provide.

Yep. Probably 1 bone per point but if there’s demand some of the more expensive ones could give 2 points.

A Kingdom Divided with the Arceuus spellbook and Shayzien rework: Poll Blog

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Originally posted by Diaper_Hunter

Will the new ashes gives you prayer xp from all of them x3 with the new spell?

990xp per three hellhound ashes.Also what will the cooldown be on that spell ?

That’s correct but those hellhound ashes should probably be called Cerberus as we’re not proposing to change hellhounds to no longer drop bones - but we probably will discuss it next week. No cooldown but the spell will be quite slow, like the length of high alchemy.

A Kingdom Divided with the Arceuus spellbook and Shayzien rework: Poll Blog

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Originally posted by nightcracker

These new spells bar a couple are way too weak/useless. This is probably to make them easier to pass, but it simply means nothing changes, no one will use the spellbook.

  • Requires 76 Magic & Book of the Dead equipped
  • Costs 5 Blood, 10 Fire & 1 Cosmic runes to cast
  • In addition to the runes, casting this spell costs 6 Prayer points Grants 88 Magic experience
  • Has a max hit of 3

I need to switch gear, pay almost 2k in runes and lose 6 prayer points to get the privilege of fighting along the equivalent of a giant rat for 60 seconds!?

Have some guts and introduce some new content that can at least stand next to current content, rather than always staying in the shadow.

I get what you’re saying, we’re vying on the side of caution. If we go big though then it just doesn’t pass anyway as it’s too meta changing. I think it’s better to start small with new mechanics and build up later once they’ve been experimented with by the players.

A Kingdom Divided with the Arceuus spellbook and Shayzien rework: Poll Blog

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Originally posted by NoCurrencies

Can we please NOT REMOVE existing teleports? I actively use Draynor Manor and Fenkenstrain's Castle teleports on my iron man all the time and I really don't want to lose those...

Draynor Manor teleports are great for planting belladonna, easy clues, and getting to Sourhogs when Turael Skipping.

Fenkenstrain's Castle teleport happens to be my personal closest teleport to the Morytania farm patch (can't get an ectophial on my account), but it's also an excellent teleport to have for dragon impling calls since that's a rare impling spawn point, and having those teletabs in my bank means I usually get there faster than others in my CC who are using the ectophial and running West.

I just don't see why removing these teleports is necessary when this update will already remove 18 SPELLS from the spellbook. Thanks for your consideration.

Honestly, wasn’t expecting this much push back for these teleports! Not having access to the ectophial sure does change things though and the draynor, while very niche is understandable.

The idea of not adding additional teleports was mostly because of how many there currently are that have questionable utility when compared to other spellbooks. Happy to look at the others though - there’s nothing useful about the west ardy teleport that I’ve somehow missed is there?

A Kingdom Divided with the Arceuus spellbook and Shayzien rework: Poll Blog

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Originally posted by Tf2_man

Love to see the arceuus spellbook rework being looked at - though could we get the Draynor teleport via other means? I get removing the Lumbridge Graveyard teleport as that one is pretty useless, but the Draynor TP is useful on farm runs.

Was unaware that the belladonna patch was used that much, my bad. Would swapping out the west ardy teleport be a better option? Unless that has some niche use I’m unaware of :D


09 Dec

Christmas 2020

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Originally posted by rRMTmjrppnj78hFH

The necromancer style robes rs3 has is pretty sick. Would love for them to come to osrs.

They're quite cool! I would probably remove some of the detail as they're fairly busy but certainly a possibility in the future (:

Christmas 2020

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Originally posted by NinjaGamer1337

Judging by the fact they said the armour being tradeable was a problem, it's going to be untradeable and only unlockable by doing the minigame

The final product will still be tradeable. The concern was the fact that the armour could be made with no minigame interaction from anyone as splitbark armour is already all over the game. It will also limit the speed at which they come into the game as only specific players will be able to create them.


11 Nov

The Better Render Plugin is phenomenal - Found out that all of the other realms are stored above the overworld map, and its ABSOLUTELY huge!

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Originally posted by BioMasterZap

How hard would it be to move those maps elsewhere? Aside from Wilderness, they seem like they'd be quite in the way of Acheron...

It would be a hefty task to move them all as there is a lot of content up there, including both raids. Fortunately for something like Acheron we could fake it on the world map in a similar way the in-game dungeon maps are put together. However, I can't see the wilderness ever being expanded with a new bit of continuous land - it would require some kind of transport system to get there so it too could be 'faked'.

The Better Render Plugin is phenomenal - Found out that all of the other realms are stored above the overworld map, and its ABSOLUTELY huge!

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Ah, you’ve found the maps that we know as ‘extra’. I recently discovered just how close it was to the overworld this year when seeing how far we could extend the wilderness and was a little disappointed to see how close they were. Those maps are generally areas that fall into the category of either an area that is to be instanced or an area that exists in another realm (rune alters etc). The dungeon map is even further north of those...


28 Oct

Leagues II - Trailblazer Megathread

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Originally posted by [deleted]

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Yes it does, but you need to exit via the barrows crypts for the chest to reset so it doesn't really help much :P

Leagues II - Trailblazer Megathread

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Originally posted by Banking-Botanic

It actually fixes runecrafting if you can teleport to the runecrafting altar, then the bank then the altar again. It makes it easier to gather literally every secondary for herblore and it fundamentally changes how bossing can be if you can bank and return in 5 seconds. Actually such a cool formula change to the game.

This was genuinely the greatest thing I used it for during testing - makes Runecraft a decent skill!