RuneScape Discussion

Excalibur, Enhanced Excalibur and Augmented Enhanced Excalibur now have a consistent default action (Activate) when equipped and in the Backpack. This allows Excalibur's healing special to be activated with ease.

Players can now use the 'Configure' option to choose whether to instead use Wield/Remove as the default action.
After dragging Excalibur from the Backpack to the Action Bar, you can choose which default option the Action Bar uses.
The 'Configure' option also lets you choose what you'd like to shout when Excalibur is activated. 'Silent' is the default option.

You can now hold the Shift key and click items in the Backpack to drop them (if they support dropping, of course). Players will need to opt-in to this setting by navigating to Gameplay -> Interfaces -> Inventory.
Doubled the output of Dinarrow components (Sharp Shell Shards, Tempered Fungal Shafts, 'Propellant') from the 3 'Accidental' Fletching and Firemaking activities south of the Anachronia dinosaur farm, and entirely reworked the eggsperimentation eggtivity to support a greater range of low- to high- intensity gameplay.

Wherever possible, Bank chests, booths and bankers now have a Load Last Preset option. This reloads your most recent Bank preset without needing to open, populate and close your Bank interface.
The 'Dare to Die' song that plays at War's Retreat now fades in more gently and plays at a lower volume, so that its drum track is gentler on the ears when passing through the PvM hub.
A repetitive moan in the Zombie Walk idle animation, audible to all nearby players, has been removed.
A repetitive meow in the idle animation of some cats and kittens, audible to all nearby players, has been removed.
By player request, we've reverted the sound played during clue scans to its pre-June version.
The individual charges of Revenant Drop Enhancers can now be stacked in your Currency Pouch, freeing up Bank space.
When loading a Bank preset including items that can be filled with essence, their current contents are now emptied into the Bank before refilling them, in case they contain a different type.
Rebalanced and updated the rare and super-rare loot tables to remove some of the less valuable items (Runite Stone Spirits, Molten Glass and Raw Lobsters) and increase variance of items dropping in multiples.

She will tell you how long it has been since the current encounter started. No more guessing how fresh the travelling merchant is!
If no event is currently present, she will instead tell you how long it has been since there was an encounter.
She will pass on the rumours of what stock the travelling merchant has that day.
When the game servers reboot as part of the weekly update, there was a minimum of 45 minutes before the first encounter in deep sea fishing (such as the travelling merchant) could appear. This is no longer the case and such encounters can now potentially (depending on RNG) appear immediately after a game server reboot.

Lord of Bones now reduces armour at 0.2% per stack to maximum of 40%
Vorkath's 'Ice Circle' attack no longer damages dreadnips or Seren spell prisms.
Vorkath breath attack has been updated to provide better visual feedback
Hard mode achievements have been added for the Zemouregal & Vorkath battle.
Some items obtained from Battle of Forinthry reward chests are now noted.
Players now only take damage if they stop in a poison pool, however, if a poison pool spawns on them, they can mitigate damage by running to an empty square, when the pool appears. If crossing a single pool they will only take damage once a player stops in it.
Added the Vorkath Necromancy weapon overrides to the Zemouregal and Vorkath encounter's drop table.

Ironmen can now purchase double wrapping paper from the marketplace.
Updated the bank chest in the Christmas Village to better fit the environment.
Updated trees in the Christmas Village
Vorkath will now appropriately award wrapping paper
F2P players will be able to purchase the Winter Hat and Scarf from the Christmas Spirit Store.
The advent calendar now mentions the prize received when opening a window.

The Lumbridge Water Wheel has been fixed. That's wheely good news.
Fixed interactions between interface scaling and field of view.
Improved quality of game render scaling.
Improved quality of interface scaling on desktop.
Improved quality of FXAA on mobile, and on desktop when game render scale is not 100%.
Improved performance and game rendering quality when interface scale is set to less than 100%.
Improved performance and quality when 'Game View' is resized using Edit Layout.
Reset game render scale setting to account for Windows/macOS DPI scaling, due to performance issues.
Players wanting native 4k can manually change the setting back to 100.
Players using 4k resolutions may observe UI and game rendering being upscaled to 4K at high quality, costing some FPS depending on your system display scaling settings.

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Episode Title: For All Intents And Purposes
Teaser: The December Community Hitlist strike arrives with changes to the Master Max cape, Excalibur shouts, Zombie moans, and rare drop table. Dinarrow production was doubled, new brands of fertilizer were added, and we ask: was this the right move?
Recorded Date: December 7, 2023
Release Date: December 8, 2023
Executive Producers: Shane, Cireon, and Tanis
Producers: Avernic and Xurdones
Hosts: Shane, Tanis, and Avernic
Duration: 1:20:09
Editing Notes: None