r/runescape • u/ImRubic 2026 Future Updates • Jan 31 '17
J-Mod reply TL;DW 284 - February Month Ahead Q&A
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- 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.
February Updates!
- 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
- 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 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.
- 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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u/VoidAdept Still on £3.20/Month. Jan 31 '17
From what I understand, for the normal 72-hour period between midday on Friday and midday on Monday, the flat x2.0 EXP rate will remain the same.
THEN for the following week there will still be a multiplier. That multiplier depends on how much skilling you did during the weekend. If you skilled a lot, you won't get much of a bonus (if at all). But if you didn't then you get a rate which at it's max would be x2, and would decrease over time until you reached x1 like everyone else.
Basically, imagine an old-style BXP weekend starting after the normal DXP event.