Troll Invasion

Trolls have begun their invasion of Burthorpe in earnest, leaping from the Death Plateau into the Imperial Guard’s ranks. The Guard’s claws are not quite enough to hold them back, so they need your help. Whether you’re a skiller or a fighter, the Guard welcome you.

You can choose between fighting them head on, or repairing the single defence that stands between the trolls and a fleshy buffet. Opt for close combat and you’ll be thrown into 20 increasingly difficult waves of trolls; starting with common mountain trolls, you’ll quickly be dodging the strikes of dynamite trolls, troll summoners and Cliff - he’s big, he’s ugly, and he once ate a coastline. If that sounds too tame, there’s a 7-wave version to test your mettle. Only 7 waves, you say? Try holding back Cliff with dynamite, runts, spells, poison and rocks whizzing past your head!

Crafters, constructers and firemakers can also take on the trolls. Tend the ballistas, top up the oil drums and repair broken walls to frustrate your opponents. Just make sure the trolls don’t get their stone mitts on your defences, or they’ll start pummelling it into nothingness. Hardcore defenders will even find morale boosting effects that can be used to whip up the Imperial Guard into a troll-busting force.

You’ll be able to fight against the troll invasion whenever the fancy takes you, but you will only receive an XP reward for doing so once a month. Try to make the most of that attempt, as the XP you receive is based on how many waves you manage to survive or how many trolls you kill defending the keep! You’ll then be able to put the XP into a skill of your choice, in a similar manner to Penguin Hide ’n’ Seek.

Mod Nancy and Mod Chris L
RuneScape Content Developers

Summary:
Where to start Troll Invasion:

Talk to Captain Jute in Burthorpe, near the Warriors’ Guild

Requirements to start Troll Invasion:

There are no requirements to play Troll Invasion

Patch notes for this update: (Click to View)

The following small fixes and adjustments have now been made to the game. If you spot any further bugs in-game, please use the Bug Report feature ('Submit a Bug Report' under the 'Help' drop-down menu of the website).

Graphical


The 3rd tier duelist hat no longer transforms into the 2nd tier hat when performing the emote.
Torva platelegs no longer stretch during certain emotes.
Items dropped on a rug in Canifis no longer clip with the rug.
A crossbow shortcut in Yanille no longer causes scenery around to disappear.
A hole next to the Granite Quarry no longer appears to be filled in.
Some height mapping has been smoothed out near the Slayer master’s house in Burthorpe.
A roof on Barbarian Outpost has had textures added to it.
Aggie has now been updated to match the Draynor version in the Swept Away quest.
Some flickering issues have been fixed in portions of the Forgettable Tale... quest.
The Fremennik Saga bear pelt no longer clips with the floor.
Some patches of shadow in Taverley dungeon have been removed.
Some strange shading on the back of the Runecrafting player kit blouse has been fixed.
A monk of Entrana's chathead has been altered to reflect his appearance.
Parts of Varrock Castle’s wall have been updated to give them a grey top when remove roofs is enabled.
The roof corners of the anvil building in Yanille now disappear correctly with remove roofs enabled.
The boards in the Pattern Recognition random event classroom no longer flicker.
A table in Varrock Castle no longer clips with the floor.
A missing chathead animation in some Skaldrun dialogue has been fixed.
A platform no longer clips with the ground in the Miscellania dungeon.
Sir Bedivere and Sir Pelleas now have the correct colour hair on their chatheads.
It is no longer possible to see through the back of the wall in the Signature Heroes saga starting room.
The Poison Arrow's pub board is now coloured.
The princess blouse is no longer grey when worn.
Dungeon triangle keys are no longer sat too high in the player's inventory.
Thaerisk's chathead hair colour now matches his model.
Some water near Piscatoris has had the heights levelled out to prevent dark lines appearing on the minimap.
Lady Keli no longer jerks her leg when walking.



Quests


A piece of Deadliest Catch dialogue no longer states that ‘The Guns’ is talking when it's Jones.



Activities


The ramokee room checkpoint in the Thok it to 'em saga no longer causes a door to become impassable.
The fire that melts Skaldrun out of the block of ice no longer appears before it's lit.
The Signature Heroes will now follow you more consistently during the Three's Company saga.
The spellbook in the Signature Heroes saga will no longer revert to the normal spellbook.
A typo in Ozan's chat in the Signature Heroes saga has been fixed.
The ‘mark’ option on shades in the Thok it to 'em saga has been removed.
Ending the Signature Heroes saga will no longer leave any weapons equipped.
All children now disappear correctly in the Vengeance saga.
Some storage boxes by the ‘All Fired Up’ beacons were missing; they have now been replaced.



Miscellaneous


The Steel Titan once again uses its melee attacks in PvP combat.
TzTok Jad's attack sounds have been updated to give a magic charging sound, and ensuring the sounds can be heard from maximum attack distance.
The Completionist cape now counts as the Ardougne cape when pickpocketing.
Fist of Guthix ratings once again display correctly using quickchat.
Some dialogue has been updated to state that the geyser titan also recharges rings of wealth.
Packs of Juju vials of water have had their shop prices increased to match the price of individual vials. You will also be able to buy more vials on the Grand Exchange.
The Kal'Ger cutscene in Dungeoneering will now play more consistently.
A tile in the upstairs of Bob's Axes no longer blocks the player.

Surreal event pls.

Agreed with Crow, we'll see about making it into an event for the clan, assuming everyone doesn't rush to do it right away. Might be better to hold off 'til next month, though. Also kind of depends on if this event is instanced, and it kind of sounds like it is, so having it as a clan event may not work too well.

Loving this update already and I haven't been into the game to play it yet. Reasons why this update rocks:

1. The boss troll's name is Cliff, which is hilarious considering Crow almost made Clifford a troll in the "What RuneScape NPC are you?" thread. Cliff, you troll!

2. Being able to choose the skill to put your exp in is always nice. I really enjoy hunting penguins, so them adding another, similar event (even if it's only monthly) will help out quite a bit when it comes to leveling those not-so-fun skills. ^_^

Huzzah to a great update!

Completed the easy version of it which has 20 levels. Was extremely easy as you'd guess it would be, especially since there's a potion in the corner that for each wave you can use 5 times and it heals all your health, prayer and restores all stats back to full, but it will disappear if you let the dynamite guy run into it (Just range him once and he explodes).

The only real damage you attain is due to you being silly and not moving for either the mage's roots spell or the ranger who throws boulders.

All in all pretty fun and neat update in my opinion, I haven't had the chance to try the harder version of it yet, but seen a youtube video of 'Cliff' on the final wave on it and it seems pretty easy as well.

Edit: Oh and just to add to this, making it an event even this month wouldn't be so bad because people can redo Troll Invasion multiple times a month, just not able to gain experience the second time around per month. Maybe during this first month, people who have already completed it could redo it in the harder version if they haven't done so already, and those that haven't tried it out yet could go get their experience for this first month.

How much exp did you get from it, Ex?

57k prayer xp at prayer lvl 85.

Nice, not bad! I wonder what the difference would have been had you done a more difficult mode. I'm sure the fansites will have the information posted pretty soon.

Nah they won't lol, you can't do the harder mode until after you have done the easy mode first I believe. So no one will be attaining the harder difficulties experience this month.

Even at once a month, 57k at 85 is really good, gives me yet another way to raise my RC. Hopefully the harder version is super difficult, but also gives more exp than the easy one. Anxious to see.

* Clifford ponders what runescape were thinking and thinks it went like this:

"Damn dat clifford is sexy. Lets put him in an update."