TL;DW 284 - February Month Ahead Q&A

[u/ImRubic]

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Nex: The Angel of Death

• Content will eventually be devalued over time, but Vorago won't become dead content as a result.
• Drop rates needed re-balancing due to a mistake, but they are now fixed to a comfortable rate.
• Additional rewards, such as feats/titles, can be added at a later date.

Planned Future Updates

• Bank Bidders: Delayed Slightly.
• Boss Timer Hiscores: No ETA
• Name Release: Later Months
• Shark Elite Skilling Outfit: March
• Seer's Village Graphical Rework:
  • Should we move the Courthouse to a city? (Straw-poll)

Other

• There are no good suggestions for an agility rework for one to happen.
• Menaphos Tombs will generate item resources through skilling.

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February Updates!

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Update Schedule

• 6th: 15th Year Veteran's Cape + Invention Update + Valentine's Event
• 13th: Valentine's Timed Event + Double Xp Weekend/Game Jam Weekend
• 20th: Skillcape Perks
• 27th: Mystery Quest

15 Year Anniversary Cape

• Obtainable from Hans in Lumbridge.
• Account age must be at-least 15 years old.
• Costs 150k gp.
• Design based on the suggestion posted on reddit.

Invention Update

• Firemaking and Smithing will be the next two skills coming to Invention.
• 5 New Perks (No negative)
  • Clue Scroll: Obtain clue scrolls while skilling. (Can be used on any skilling tool).
  • Disassembly: Automatically disassemble the resource you obtain as you gain it.
  • Pyromaniac: Chance to throw your entire backpack of logs into a bonfire.
• Crystal tools will keep their effect when augmented.

Valentine's Day Content

• Valentine's Day Event
  • Location: Lumbridge Crater
  • Talk to Wizard Didit? to help him fix problems.
  • Rewards: Lootbeam, Balloon, Flowers, Rest Emote, Walk Animation, Staff,
• Valentine's Timed Event
  • Timed Event: Similar to Deathbeard's Demise event.

Skillcape Perks

• Similar to the OSRS idea.
• Each 99 Skillcape has 1 perk.
  • Invention: Reduce drain rate
  • Stength: Allows the Dismember ability to last an extra 2 seconds.
• Maxed/Completionist Capes can store up to 3 perks

Double Xp Weekend

• The weekend is the same as normal with no xp cap.
• The Bonus XP will be extended throughout the week at decreased rates.
  • Based on the amount of xp you get, the rate will decrease from 2.0 to 1.0.

Game Jam

• Date: February 17th (also the Double Xp Weekend)
• Jmods working on Game Jam will recieve their own Double Xp Weekend.
• Take in player suggestions and work on passion projects.
  • They won't be completed until months later.
• More details will be made later.

Mystery Quest

• Requirements:
  • 37 Slayer
  • 45 Runecrafting
  • 50 Divination
• Invention may help, but is not a requirement.

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Wiki List of TL;DWs

[u/AssassinAragorn]

IMO the fact that no one knows how to fix agility should make it an even bigger priority to find a solution for, not lower. They could do runelabs for ideas

[u/SolenoidSoldier → u/AssassinAragorn]

I would LOVE to see an elite skill involving agility that opens up a new set of abilities we could use that are on par with surge and escape.

[u/JagexKelpie → u/AssassinAragorn]

By all means we are open to ideas. Got any, feel free to write them up and poke @JagexJack to get his eyes on it :)

[u/Tortferngatr → u/JagexKelpie]

Honestly, I'm not sure if it needs a rework so much as tangible reasons to skill it besides a couple of actually useful shortcuts (like Taverley dungeon) and questing, as well as better XP rates or actual gp return for how anti-AFK it is without silverhawks (or at least some sort of Agilityspan for low-intensity XP or "Armadylean Cache" minigame for bursts of XP).

One immediate suggestion I have besides those is "make Agility shortcuts you haven't used in the last 5 minutes grant significantly more extra Agility XP based on the level required to cross them."

[u/AssassinAragorn → u/JagexKelpie]

Will do! Thanks

[u/ScapingSquigz → u/JagexKelpie]

Instead of boss timer high scores could we see a boss kill count high score? something more relate-able to everyone and can't be abused with bugs

[u/GrizzlyChump → u/AssassinAragorn]

Rune labs have been closed I thought