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Boss Pet Overrides | God Wars Dungeon 2 Improvements
Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)

Ashdale is no longer visible in NXT from the Void Knight Outpost or the south shore of Feldip Hills.
Removed some lines of voice over referring to green clothes from the Death Lotus assassins during the minigame "A Simple Favour" in a player-owned port.
The daily limit on the amount of Runespheres players can participate in has been removed. However, the rune dust cap is still in effect.
Ultra-growth potions now work on the tree patch at Herblore Habitat.
Boss pet objects are no longer destroyed on death. Instead, they can be reclaimed from Death with a reclaim cost of 8000 coins each.
The kill count multiplier is now cleared when leaving The Heart.
Improved the following Seren spells and prayers:

Fortitude: Now grants +15% defence, +3% damage reduction, 10LP + 10LP per constitution level, +10% accuracy when using defensive abilities.
Intercept: Duration has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
Prisms: Re-casting prism spells will restore half of the equivalent prism duration within range.

Single-target ancient spells will now activate only on the main target if used with AoE abilities.
Multi-target ancient spells will now only consume runes for one cast if activated when using AoE abilities.
Switching from a members’ world to a F2P world will now change players to the standard prayer book. When switching back to members’ worlds, the previous settings will be restored.
Updated several combat ability tooltips to better reflect the effects of the abilities.
Smoke Tendrils no longer require the target to stay still.
The Invention pogo stick is now a level 1 weapon.
Free players can now smith their own throwing knives and off-hand throwing knives.
Made changes to the Shipyard view in player-owned ports to improve framerates, and improved camera movements when jumping between ships.

Listener Questions

Question from Wiley

Hello, Wiley here with a head scratcher this week. I was doing some math on bonds the other day after listening to your discussion about the pay to win YouTube video. All my figures are from grand exchange prices from May 8th, 2016, I rounded where it would simplify numbers without skewing them too much and are in US Dollars (sorry Shane). $25 prepaid bond cards give players four tradeable bonds, each if sold at GE standard price would give the player 10,714,541 coins. This puts a real world cost of one million coins to $0.58. This allows us to actually label in game items with real world values. For example: dual ascension crossbows come to $73.84, dual seismics $220.28, and $1.00 will get you 19,265 cabbages. First off do you think it is reasonable to assign these actual values to in game items as a way of judging your characters monetary worth or do you think that examining items in this way is something that should never be done in the game? Working off that, if a person is working a full time job at $10.00 an hour (the normal starting wage here, I am unsure if it is comparable where you guys live), gets paid a 1.5 ratio for overtime, and pays a traditional 33% tax rate the would bring home $10.05 an hour or, if turned into wealth in the manner above, 17,231,137 coins. Do you think that there should be a way within the game of making money at a comparable speed to this, or is it best that buying bonds directly producing more wealth is the way to go as it produces more revenue for Jagex as a company? Thank you for the show and don't forget to feed the ancient cabbage from Meg's cases to your baby troll to always have a special little cabbage running around your player owned home.

Question from Colton

Hello, to our lovely hosties! Earlier this week, Magebit of RSWeekly responded to Shane's Prestige Mode Runelabs post by saying that he feels to true fault in Prestige is the lack of actual new content and incentive to prestige a skill. Do you feel his assertion that Prestige needed this to be completed properly from its prototypical form? If so, how would you propose incentivizing players to prestige outside of the highscores table? Also, sleeping with a fan on, yes or no?!

Love,

Colton

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Show Data

Episode Title: Bias Pet Overrides
Teaser: Boss Pet Overrides, free-to-play knife smithing, our RuneLabs supported ideas, and the question of bias in social networks arises once again! Should Facebook be more transparent?
Recorded Date: May 12, 2016
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Hosts: Shane and Dave
Duration: 1:41:42
Editing Notes: None