RuneScape Discussion

The shadows on snow have been toned down.
Using the Borrowed Power wish from Pauline will no longer disconnect the player if using the wrong spellbook.
Regenerate is no longer triggered by Revolution.
Revolution now fires combat abilities when stats are boosted.
Fixed lag when minimising/maximising in normal mode on some Windows systems.
Fixed possible cause of crashes when multitasking with other applications on Windows.
Reduced memory usage of animation system.
Reduced driver overhead of animation system (especially on AMD graphics cards).
Improved robustness of device loss recovery (less likely for things to render broken or crash after PC sleep, driver crash, minimising compatibility mode, switching GPU, etc).
Reduced CPU usage of animation, picking and entity logic systems, especially at framerates well below 50.
Reduced stutter/frameskip when loading or moving around, especially on AMD graphics cards.
Reduced instances of white/noisy pixels on terrain at extreme glancing angles with anisotropic filtering enabled.
Implemented immutable texture storage extension, which may improve performance on some GPUs.
Fixed an issue which prevented quickchat from working on quickchat worlds.

Upgrade to the pirate teleport, more teleports
Madame Shih: Link pirates into the eastern lands, ports, arc, etc. Bridge character between these.
Izzy No Beard pirate graphical update (image)
Release date: Early 2018 (February-ish?) - Why not set fixed date?

Seekers and soul gazers becoming a Slayer task. Takes place in Zamorak's hide-out, after Dishonour Among Thieves. Souls to be added to slayer codex. Level 71 and 99. Drops hexhunter bow, gains a bonus for creatures weak to arrows and using magic, making it almost equivalent to a tier 92 bow for those creatures. Create stalker arrows from stalker essence and dark arrows.
Christmas 2017

Christmas grand exchange, max guild, and some of prifddinas. Santa wants to bring his gnome toy to life, the quest will focus on bringing him to life. Skilling methods for runecrafting, summoning, crafting, smithing, prayer and divination unlocked. Winter weekends returning (forum thread).

Jacket: Direct teleport to clue location.
Shorts: Performs the correct emote for emote clue.
Guards: Ability to use teleport scrolls from bank.
Greaves: Infinite run energy for a period of time.
Backpack: Reroll the current active clue you have for that tier.
Set effect: Each piece acts as the correct hide-hole equipment and Luck of the Dwarves when opening the casket. 1 less clue to gain a reroll point & ability recharge. 1 less step to complete a clue scroll.

One passive effect will be the number of clue scroll tokens you receive increasing. Outfit charged by completing clues, per 5 clue scrolls, one charge to an active clue teleport.
Rewards: 2nd age armour and weapons, augmentable, tier 91 (image) Pyjamas! (image) Robin Hood outfit (image) and robin hood hat upgrade. Tuxedo and ball gown (image) More rewards to come.

Around the world in rich areas, break up Thieving, tutor is in the Thieves' Guild. Starts at level 65, goes up to 99. Will receive an untradable resource. Return these to the Thieves' guild for hanky points and XP. Item that prevents stuns for 30 seconds (Thieves kit).

All auras moved to the aura management screen. Can be activated without equipping and moving items to and from the bank. Favorite auras can be activated via right click. Extend with vis wax and from Death’s store through interface.

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Episode Title: Combat Pets and Obscure Drop Rates
Teaser: Combat pets and their early reception, a post-mortem on Dimension of the Damned, analyzing what makes the 2018 premier club worthwhile, a look at upcoming content, and obscure drop rates including the fabled draconic visage!
Recorded Date: November 24, 2017
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Hosts: Shane, Tanis, and Tyco Elf
Duration: 2:32:49
Editing Notes: None