RuneScape Discussion

• December Mega-Patch
• Tweaks and Fixes (Patch Notes)

• Interface

• The Bank will now reliably remember the custom withdraw-x setting.
• The Bank will now reliably show the Beast of Burden withdraw option.
• Fixed an issue with bank tab separators appearing when searching for items.
• Fixed an issue when withdrawing a searched item temporarily displaying the item that was in the next bank slot.
• The scroll position in the bank is now reliably saved upon closing the bank screen.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the bank total space to display incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue related to the interface transparency setting resetting itself.
• Fixed issues with the ribbon and ribbon setup interfaces when using the legacy UI skin.
• Fixed an issue with loading screens when entering certain areas such as clan citadels.
• The minigames tab no longer vanishes in legacy interface mode.
• The Metrics graph now shows data again.
• Survival outfit feet are now correctly displayed in the wardrobe interface.

• Skills, D&Ds & Minigames

• The spikes in the middle of Kuradal's dungeon has been removed.
• Kuradal has caught 2 more abyssal demons for your slaying pleasure.
• Black wool and balls of black wool are now tradeable.
• Black wool is no longer prioritised when selecting a recipe at a spinning wheel.
• The increased chance of catching a Slayer monster's soul using an ushabti has been changed from requiring 200m XP to requiring level 120 Slayer.

• Quests, Challenges and Achievements

• Leaving the Grand Exchange during Evil Dave's Big Day Out will no longer try to continue the Defender of Varrock quest.
• Players can no longer start Evil Dave's Big Day Out without completing the Evil Dave section of Recipe for Disaster.
• An issue with reclaiming the broom during the third set of chores in Evil Dave's Big Day Out has been fixed.
• The "game of Pest Control" requirement to start Quiet Before the Swarm is now an optional requirement.
• The "complete the Conquest tutorial" requirement to start The Void Stares Back is now an optional requirement.
• A duplicate "access to the Warriors' Guild" requirement has been removed from the While Guthix Sleeps quest overview.
• The Dungeoneering smuggler now only has the option to change starting items if you have completed at least one Dungeoneering achievement (since your starting items are only exchanged when entering a dungeon if you have completed at least one achievement).
• Details for the desert, Tirannwn and Wilderness area achievements are now phrased consistently with other area achievements.
• The Ardougne hard set runescore has reduced from 20 to 15
• The Seers' Village medium set runescore has reduced from 15 to 10.
• The Ardougne "You're the Dirty Rascal" achievement runescore has decreased from 20 to 15.
• The lodestone achievements now each award 5 runescore.

• Tooltip changes

• The Mask of the Black Demon will now correctly show the amount of Black Demons killed.
• The Mask of the Automaton now shows the kills gathered with it and the days remaining until you can force a task with it.
• The ancient repriser's item charge tooltip now accurately reflects the remaining charge.
• The tooltips used for crystal tools are now accurate.

• Buff Bar changes

• When attacking a monster, a Reflect/Poison immune icon will now appear above them if they have that effect.
• The buff icon description for the Zaros Godsword special attack 'Blackhole' now correctly mentions melee damage being increased by 25% instead of 10%.
• A buff icon has been added to track the ammo stored in a cannon. This does not appear if the restock perk from Artisans Workshop is active.
• The following buff/debuff icons have been added:

• Prayer Drain debuff, this'll display the amount of prayer points being lost per game cycle, this will also scale with equipped Prayer bonus equipment (Note: The number is rounded down, so 1.8 will display as 1 for example)
• Shooting Star buff, now displays the time remaining on the effect
• Evil Tree buff, now displays the time remaining on the effect

• Stone Spirits, a timer will now display when these activate showing how long they're active until they expire
• A buff icon will display when Vengeance is active, and when it's been used a debuff icon will display showing the time remaining until it can be used again
• The teleblock debuff icon now displays the time remaining until the effect wears off
• The Fight Kiln Crystals (Invulnerability, Magic, Ranged, Strength & Hitpoints) now display a timer showing how long the effect is active for.
• A counter has been added for Onslaught which tracks each time it increments.

• F2P Changes

• A boat load of achievements have been made available to F2P players
• A boat load of daily challenges have been made available to free players
• Uncharted island maps are no longer dropped on free worlds.
• Divination boons (including the boon of elder energy) that require at least 10 Divination are now members only.
• Marrentill (grimy, clean and unfinished potion) cannot be acquired on free worlds, so is now members-only.
• Evil magic trees and evil elder trees no longer spawn on free worlds.
• The Agility level modifier to run energy recovery/drain is no longer capped to level 1 on free worlds.
• Wolves now drop wolf bones and wolf meat instead of bones on free worlds.
• Bat bones (and ground bat bones) are now available to free players.
• Bats of usual size (such as those in Silvarea) now spawn on free worlds.
• Zamorak robes (top and bottom) are now available to free players.
• Monks of Zamorak now have a chance to drop Zamorak robes.
• Druid robes are now available to free players.
• Thieves, farmers and various other citizens can now drop off-hand iron daggers.
• The notification when a player has achieved the maximum skill level total on a free world has been corrected from 1700 to 1869.
• Energy potions are now non-member objects and can be purchased on the Grand Exchange.
• Free players can now access Jatix's Herblore Shop in Taverley.

• Shop stock changes

• Energy potions have been added to the Warriors' Guild potion shop.
• Oziach's rune shop now sells rune platebody, blue dragonhide body, and mystic robe top (instead of rune platebody and green dragonhide body) to accurately reflect the equipment unlocked by the Dragon Slayer quest.
• An NPC has been added to the Champions' Guild that sells T50 magic (mystic) armour (excluding mystic robe top but including gloves and boots) and weapons.
• Lowe's Archery Emporium in Varrock now sells ranged armour and weapons up to T40 (excluding crossbows and including javelins).
• Hickton's Archery Emporium in Catherby now sells ranged ammunition up to rune (including bolts and arrowheads), as well as zogre bows and brutal arrows. (In addition to the Fletching skillcape.)
• Brian's Archery Supplies in Rimmington now sells the same weapons as Lowe's Archery Emporium.
• The Warriors' Guild Armoury now sells melee weapons (including off-hands, claws and hastae), chainbodies, legs/skirts and helms up to T40.
• Poletax in Taverley now sells redberries, red/yellow/black/white beads and bear fur, for use in low-level Defence, Ranged and Magic potions.
• Plant pot packs are now available to buy from farming shops.

• Other Changes

• Seren godbow changes:

• Special attack now only costs 30% adrenaline.
• A 30 second cooldown has been added to the special attack and the cooldown is displayed on the debuff bar.
• Special attack will now work on Yakamaru and Telos P5.

• Cannons are now blocked from being placed in the following areas:

• Clan Island Area
• Clan Citadel Area
• Clan Keep Area
• Clan Meeting Area
• Azure, Viridan, Crimson, Cobalt & Crystal Skillchompa locations

• The Linza armour drop rate from Barrows has been increased from 1/512 to 1/192.
• Hundreds of monsters that drop main-hand weapons now have an equal chance to drop their off-hand equivalent.

• Ninja Fixes

• There is now a search option in the price checker interface to lookup the price of any item available on the Grand Exchange.
• The elite Varrock achievement set now provides a reduced chance of being randomly teleported within the Chaos Tunnels.
• Granite and sandstone can now be cut into smaller blocks in a single step, skipping the intermediary steps.
• NPCs and Runecrafting locations within the low level Runespan will now display the required Runecrafting level when examining them. NPCs that require level 1 will not display this.
• Hefin Worker and Musician outfits can now be disassembled, and players will no longer receive outfit pieces once they are stored within a player-owned house.
• Clicking to withdraw coins from the Queen Black Dragon reward chest will now move them to the money pouch.
• The equipped part name of each ship will now display within the Shipyards interface inside a player-owned port instead of the section name. For example, the ship will display "Tengu Rudder" instead of "Rudders".
• The ports interface will now automatically highlight the first available empty slot for Crew within the Ship edit screen when creating new Voyages. This will continue for each empty slot until all slots are filled in which the default Captain slot will be highlighted when entering/leaving the interface
• Hovering over the bosses within the beasts tab will now rotate their model. We believe this makes it at least 37% cooler.
• The Ashdale tutorial now starts the player in Revolution mode instead of Full Manual.
• Since Revolution largely automates combat, sections of the Ashdale tutorial that (circa EoC release) explained and enforced manual usage of abilities have been simplified or removed.
• The Ring of Stone can now be purchased from TzHaar-Hur-Lek within TzHaar City for 303,000 Tokkul
• Permanent bonfires now have a Configure option to swap the Firemaking and Cooking options, in a similar manner to portable forges.
• Greegrees can now be combined by using one on another. The new Swap option can then be used to swap a greegree for any that have been consumed.
• Some of the 8 greegrees that had identical names have been renamed to differentiate them.
• Removing furniture within a player-owned house will now offer a "yes and don't ask me again" option. This resets when logging out.
• The build option on furniture hot spots (except doors) within a player-owned house has been moved to be available on a left click.
• Divination wisps and fountains have been updated to match the colour of energy they provide.
• An achievement has been added for the Menaphos insects of the desert collection. It (and the other Menaphos collections) do not count toward the Taskmaster total, so it's not a completionist requirement.
• An achievement has been added for squishing up to 200 corrupted scarabs. Progress has been tracked since the Menaphos release. This does not count toward the Taskmaster total, so is not a completionist requirement.
• The Slay Bells Ring II, 'Phite for Your Right II and Game of Tombs II achievements have been removed from the Menaphos Pyramid Scheme achievement required for completionist cape, since they were not required when Menaphos was released.
• Boys to Menaphites is no longer listed separately in the Completionist Cape requirements, as it's part of Menaphos Pyramid Scheme which is a completionist cape requirement.
• All quests now display their length in the quest overview screen and when hovering their quest start icon on the worldmap.
• The quest list can now be organised by quest length.
• Quest overview screen changes:

• Suggested quests can now be clicked to jump to that quest, like required quests.
• The suggested requirement disclaimer has been standardised.
• The Fifth/Sixth Age footer has been simplified, removing the expand button and including less text.
• Dimension of Disaster has been re-classified as a Sixth Age quest.
• The following quests have been re-classified as Fifth Age: Animal Magnetism, Ernest the Chicken, The Fremennik Isles, Glorious Memories, Mountain Daughter, Royal Trouble, Rune Mysteries, Throne of Miscellania, Tower of Life, Underground Pass.
• Hero's Welcome now has suggested requirements of One of a Kind and Ritual of the Mahjarrat.
• Ritual of the Mahjarrat now has The General's Shadow miniquest as a suggested requirement.
• Kindred Spirits now has Deadliest Catch as a suggested requirement.
• Birthright of the Dwarves now has The Fremennik Isles and Watchtower as suggested requirements.
• Legacy of Seergaze now has Shades of Mort'ton as a suggested requirement.

• A quest icon has been added to the Wanted!, Monkey Madness, Recruitment Drive, As a First Resort, Zogre Flesh Eaters, Vampyre Slayer, Dream Mentor, Blood Runs Deep, Between a Rock, Contact!, Legends' Quest, Rag and Bone Man, Monk's Friend, Observatory Quest, Clock Tower, Gertrude's Cat, Fairy Tale I and Fairytale II quests.
• Now that all quests have an overview screen (praise be to Mod Stu), clicking a quest in the Featured tab now opens the quest overview, instead of the quest journal.
• Reward lamp changes:

• Dragon Slayer's Defence and Strength lamp requirements have been lowered from 50 to 40.
• The required level for the reward lamps of Dragon Slayer and The Knight's Sword are now listed in their quest overview, and if not yet claimed there's a reminder in the quest's journal.
• The Dragon Slayer and The Knight's Sword reward lamps are now bankable. (Though they can be destroyed and reclaimed from the quest giver when needed.)
• The Vampyre Slayer Attack XP lamp can now be used in any basic combat skill.
• The Prayer XP for completing the One Piercing Note quest is now awarded in the form of a lamp.
• The Summoning XP for completing the Wolf Whistle quest is now awarded in the form of a lamp.

• Pieces of Hate Rewards Insight
• Evil Dave and DOOM DOOM, DOOMLY DOOM!
• New Charity Initiative
• The Twelve Days of PvM
• Incoming Clan Upkeep changes

• Side note regarding new citadel plots

• Drop Rates Revealed - Miscellaneous Edition
• Month Ahead: December 2017

Listener Questions and Discussion

Question from Trekkie

With premier club being a good way to make a fast influx of money for the coming year, it is still cheaper for those who were grandfather into the $5, or even $7 a month plan.

For those who were grandfather in, what would you do as jagex to get those grandfathered in to pay more for more benefits?

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Other Things

• Remembrance, AAA Games, Squats, and Neutrality
• December SkotM Update
• Achievements of the Week

• Sugar_man - 99 Summoning, December 7, 2017
• Ridley - 120 Thieving, December 7, 2017
• Touchpad_pro - 200m Hunter XP, December 6, 2017
• Rei_66 - 99 Hunter, December 5, 2017
• Mskonnan10 - 99 Ranged, December 5, 2017
• Rei_66 - 99 Agility, December 5, 2017
• Cq_sethron - 99 Runecrafting, December 3, 2017
• Jade_gizmo - 99 Crafting, December 3, 2017
• Cyanpnir - 99 Constitution, December 2, 2017
• Miss_alaska - 120 Slayer, December 2, 2017
• Choto_3000 - 99 Firemaking, December 2, 2017
• Fallen_fire - 120 Dungeoneering, December 2, 2017
• 82ndairborne - 120 Fishing, December 1, 2017
• Vanitk - 99 Smithing, December 1, 2017
• Rei_66 - 99 Construction, December 1, 2017
• Rei_66 - 99 Invention, December 1, 2017
• Ilikeslayer - 99 Farming, December 1, 2017
• Choto_3000 - 99 Runecrafting, November 30, 2017

• Shane’s Pick: iStockNow
• What have we been doing?

Show Data

• Episode Title: The RuneScape Gemstone
• Teaser: The biggest collection of patch notes and ninja fixes ever! Including lots of focus on F2P usability, shops, and achievements! Also our thoughts on player hosted events supported by Jagex and an update on the rewards for Pieces of Hate.
• Recorded Date: December 8, 2017
• Release Date: December 8, 2017
• Hosts: Shane and Tyco Elf
• Duration: 2:10:05
• Editing Notes: None