Ring of Wealth, Shanties, Trolls and Dungeoneering

We’ve got a bumper pack of updates this week including making the ring of wealth more useful, shanties recounting your previous piratical adventures, new-look trolls roaming around their renovated home of Trollheim, and a raft of gameplay improvements for Dungeoneering.

Ring of Wealth

The ring of wealth has been a kind of lucky charm for RuneScape players for many years now – even though its effects were limited, and the wealth it brought was of dubious value, many still chose to wear it for good luck. We have now improved it so that it will better increase your chances of receiving rare items from drops or clue scrolls, occasionally improve some common drops, and give you bonus items in a few specific pieces of content. What’s more, the ring will now also let you know when it has made a difference to your drops, so you can better judge how useful wearing one is for how you play.

More specifically, wearing a ring of wealth will slightly increase the drop chances of many rare items obtained from Slayer monsters and various bosses, as well as all clue scrolls. The ring will also increase your chances of getting better rewards and more items from various activities, including looting the Barrows chest, Pyramid Plunder (including sceptres and new 'jewelled statuette' loot), taking out Bork (guaranteed improvement to his drops), catching kingly implings, and further improving your chances of receiving gems while mining (if also wearing a charged amulet of glory).

Additionally, we have added two teleport destinations to the ring: the Grand Exchange and, if you have finished the Throne of Miscellania quest, to Miscellania too. Rings of wealth can be recharged in the same ways as amulets of glory.

Mod Piesche
RuneScape QA

Dungeoneering Tweaks

For a while now, we’ve been collating a list of things that we wanted to do to Dungeoneering to make it a smoother and more enjoyable experience for all. Today, we’re releasing a big batch of those improvements!

The most noticeable change is to how the prestige system works. When an already 'checked off' floor is completed again, you no longer suffer a direct penalty. Instead, a different floor in the same theme will be ticked off, giving you an appropriate amount of Dungeoneering XP for your time invested. There’s no advantage to be gained from repeating ticked off floors, but this will make it much easier to find common floors to play when raiding Daemonheim with a group of other players. For specifics on this change, read this Dungeoneering FAQ about prestige.

Among the other improvements, we have added a timer to the end interface, cut charge times on the monolith, increased colour convergence within the overgrown garden and much, much more. For a full list, please read this update's patch notes.

Mod Trick
RuneScape Content Developer

Shanties

Your various pirate-based misadventures in RuneScape have involved a fair bit of head trauma, so what better way to both remember and reminisce upon your briny achievements than with some 'rum'-sozzled, poorly rhymed sea shanties? If that peaks your interest, then you should head to either Port Sarim docks or the larger of the two pubs on Mos Le’Harmless and have a chat with Bard Roberts (and his critical chum, the cranky Stanky Morgan).

He’ll happily belt out a tune or five regaling you with the events of the Pirate’s Treasure, Rum Deal, Cabin Fever, Great Brain Robbery and Rocking Out quests (assuming you’ve completed them, of course). It’s the perfect way to remember the story so far while you wait for the next pirate quest – A Clockwork Syringe – which is due later this month.

Mod Liono
RuneScape Content Developer

Graphical Updates

We have all sorts of graphical updates for you this week, the main one of which is a rework of all trolls (in the style of those seen in the recent King of the Dwarves quest). It wouldn’t have been right to not also update their mountainous home, so you’ll see that Trollheim and the surrounding areas have been spruced up too. As well as trolls, RuneScape’s yaks have had their animations and sounds improved, plus Lumbridge Swamp has been made to look more gloomy and, indeed, swamp-like.

RuneScape Graphics


In other news...

Snow effects have been updated throughout the game to use effects similar to the Christmas 2010 event.

Summoning familiars can now run – look at them go! They should now do a better job of keeping up with you, which means you shouldn’t have to use the 'Call' button as much.

Those who have read or are interested in the first official RuneScape novel, Betrayal at Falador by T.S. Church, might like to take the time to have a quick chat with Doric, Reldo, King Roald and Sir Amik Varze. They have some stories of their own to tell, which may well reference parts of T.S. Church’s second book, Return to Canifis, which is due out later this month. To read an excerpt from the second book, visit this page on the Titan Books website.

Patch Notes (Click to View)

Graphical


* The ready animation when wielding Verac's flail has been fixed.
* The Miscellanian castle no longer has a broken rug.
* Two floating lamps in the water room in the Elemental Workshop have been removed.
* Items dropped in the Brimhaven pub will no longer clip with the rug.
* The mime random event no longer has flickering issues.
* A torch in Catherby no longer clips with the roof.
* Water around the Fremennik Province has had flickering issues fixed.
* Teleporting using a mounted amulet of glory will now use the correct animation.



Miscellaneous


* Player-owned house servants will no longer display a blank chatbox when not typing a number when collecting from bank.
* A typo in the Werewolf Agility course has been fixed.
* Placing an object on a table will now consistently give a despawn time of 7.5 minutes, instead of relying on which corner you placed it on.
* You will now continue to autocast combat spells if your Magic stat drops below the required level for a spell. This is consistent with how Ranged and melee work.
* Levelling up multiple times in one skill will now tell you how many levels you gained, and the skill advance guide will display new actions available for each level gained since you last clicked on the advance guide in that session.
* The steel titan’s special attack will work more consistently in PvP combat situations.
* A warning message has been added to the lava titan familiar’s ability to teleport players to the Wilderness.



Dungeoneering – General


* As mentioned in the news, Dungeoneering prestige has been rewritten, so that when completing an already completed floor, a different floor from the same theme will be crossed off instead.
* The Kal'Ger cutscene will no longer be skipped in certain circumstances.
* Trying to quick-switch a non-customised ring of kinship will no longer complain about teleporting.
* Entering a dungeon will now give information about the dungeon floor entered in the chat window.
* The lower-levelled Dungeoneering floors have had their XP rates increased.
* Resources in Dungeoneering will appear more frequently on lower complexity settings.
* Access to Daemonheim has been made easier from Lumbridge. (As this effectively makes the nearby crossbow shortcut obsolete, anyone who had built a hidey-hole here before today’s update should check the hidey-hole to have some teak planks reimbursed. Anyone who chooses to build a hidey-hole here from now on, say for the Construction XP, does so knowing about this bridge, so will not receive such compensation.)
* The end of dungeon interface (the ‘Winterface’) will now display the time that was taken to complete the floor.
* Low-levelled enemies in the frozen theme have had their stats lowered.
* Dungeoneering coins are now easier to pick up.
* Several objects, such as the toolkit, have been made tradable, to allow them to appear to all players when dropped.


Dungeoneering – Skills


* Dungeoneering altars will now bury all bones.
* Dungeoneering Runecrafting now uses Make-10/50/100 (instead of Make-1/5/10).
* Several Dungeoneering skills, such as cooking in a dungeon, have had their speeds increased.
* It is now possible to downgrade Summoning charms to lower-levelled versions by using them on a Summoning obelisk.
* Lit cooking ranges will now last three times as long.



Dungeoneering – Bosses


* The smuggler will now explain boss tactics better.
* The divine skinweaver in the skeletal horde boss room has been updated to also display what she is saying in the chat window.
* Astea Frostweb’s magic attack has been lowered on low-tiered versions.
* Plane-freezer Lakhrahnaz’s shove attack now has a cooldown to prevent him using it too often.
* Lexicus Runewright will spawn fewer books on low-levelled versions of the boss.
* Night-gazer Khighorahk’s torches will stay alight for longer in solo dungeons.
* Sagittare will now teleport closer to the player to prevent excessive running.
* Stomp will now drop fewer rocks, and more will be removed each time rocks disappear.
* The gluttonous behemoth now has less health, and will only eat to full health once per dungeon.



Dungeoneering – Challenge Rooms


* Dungeoneering challenge room failure rates have been lowered for low-levelled players.
* Failing in challenge rooms will no longer drain stats.
* ’Mercenary Leader’ has been rewritten to more accurately reflect the level of the Dungeoneering party, as the calculation was setting it to be a bit too harsh.
* The ‘Sliding Statues’ challenge room has been rewritten to fix occurrences of the room being impossible to complete. It is also possible to pull statues now.
* The ‘Monolith’ challenge room has been changed to stop the shades from taking too much energy from the monolith, and the monolith will reach fully charged faster.
* The ‘Flower Roots’ challenge room will now not fail if you have the correct skill requirements, if you pull the plant at the right time.
* The ‘Ten Statue Weapon’ challenge room (five with weapons, five without) will now have fewer statues in smaller parties.
* It is no longer possible to fail to repair the walls in the ‘Collapsing Room’ challenge room.
* The ‘Toxin Maze’ challenge room will now remove the obstacles on completing the room.

I haven't been to either place but I have seen pictures of them and I think they look great (especially Lumbridge Swamp).
Forgot to a buy a RoW after reading BTS, bought one for 75K 2 minutes before the update though. I will use it for slayer, clues, barrows and bork (if I ever do bork).
All in all a decent update, I can't really judge the DG update since I don't completely understand but from what I read it seems good
I have seen people rage and quit rs because some people got lots of good drops due to a Row glitch..seems sad to me. I couldn't care less, and I am happy for the people who got one.

Awesome awesome update. Ring of wealth more useful is very nice, definitely will make Bork and scrolls ever more fun.

Shanties and Graphical Stuff, eh, it's neat, nothing to complain about but not psyched.

Dungeoneering. Thank you Jagex. Thank you. Can't say everything benefits me really but all of the boss imporvements are super super nice, particularly for a guy who solos all of his dungeons. The auto checkoff if you've completed and exp boosts for lower floors is quite nice as well.

All in all, great set of minor updates here.

I forsee a crash in most resource items. With the RoW update came new drops for many monsters, these drops include things like 50 rune bars, 1k air orbs, 500 raw sharks, 10 palm seeds, thousands of yew logs/coal ores (I've seen pics of 4k+ of these so far), saw a 5k+ coal drop, 100 clean snapdragon and even 50 clean torstol... all noted.

These drops are going to kill skillers.

I am fairly certain that those are glitchs, just because those are ridicolous drops and there have been other glitches with these updates as well.

The only good thing to come out this update is the troll update.

love the Troll Update.

i should try the row later D:

I am fairly certain that those are glitchs, just because those are ridicolous drops and there have been other glitches with these updates as well.

I think if they were glitches Jagex would already be fixing them, so far people are still getting drops like this currently. Many are suggesting that it's a way to combat bots but the only thing I see bots doing about this is keeping there accounts online longer.

Maybe I am wrong then.
Still..I doubt I will notice anything price wise.

No!! I hope this dosn't kill skillers! Hope everything gets fixed then