Loyalty Programme - Batch 3

Today sees the release of our first tier 4 aura, a range of new combat auras with some amazing visual effects, and some excellent choices for those pursuing a peaceful path. There’s something to suit every loyalty point balance so, if you haven’t already, sign up to our Members Loyalty Programme now!

Auras...

First up is our first tier 4 aura: Aegis. It’s our priciest aura at 84,000 points, but it’s accordingly powerful, reducing damage taken by a percentage based upon your Defence level. The Aegis effect lasts for 30 minutes, or until it has absorbed an amount of damage also determined by your Defence level. This affects all damage types and stacks with armour, making you a burly bastion of resilience in the hairiest of combat situations.

The Salvation and Corruption auras both offer increased Prayer XP and a means of prayer point recovery. While the effects of these auras are identical, visually they’re very different, bestowing you with angelic or demonic wings depending on your chosen version.

The Ancestor Spirit aura gives you a chance that, when you’re struck in combat, the ghostly forms of your forebears will return to wreak vengeance upon your assailant with a retaliatory attack. This works in both PvP and PvE.

The Dark Magic aura is sure to become a favourite among magic-users everywhere, as it has a chance to add an additional damage-over-time effect to any direct-damage spell. Again, this works in PvP and PvE.

Fight fans will also enjoy the Berserker aura which gives an Attack and Strength boost for a short time, and the Regeneration aura, which increases life point regeneration.

There are some new options for skillers, too: There’s an all-new Greenfingers aura for farmers, which prevents crops from becoming diseased and gives a percentage chance for increased crop yield. Hunters among you will enjoy the Tracker aura, which increases your chance of successfully trapping hunting targets.

On top of all this, we’ve added new tiers to many of the auras already available, including Knock-Out, Call of the Sea, Five-Finger Discount, and many more.

Click here for full details of available auras, including durations, cooldowns and loyalty point costs.

Emotes...

There are now eight new emotes to choose from, at a range of loyalty point prices to suit everyone. Ever felt the need to express your irrepressible mirth by rising on the seismic tide of a Lolcano? Perhaps, instead, you’d prefer to crescendo malevolently into an Evil Laugh. These, and more, are now available from Xuan’s store.

...And Much More!

There are four exotic new costumes available, each in a range of colours. Whether you’re looking to style yourself as a Colonist, an Aztec, a Musketeer or a Highlander, there’s a choice for every fancy-dress party or period re-enactment. Feel free to visit our costumes page for a preview before you choose!
We’ve added some new titles too, including Prince/Princess, Archon and The Awesome.

Finally, there are several new re-colouring options, as well as the option to change the transformation bestowed by the ring of stone.

Full details of the rewards offered as part of the Loyalty Programme can be found here.

Improvements

There’s little that can’t be accomplished with some hard capital and a sturdy set of tools, and with this foundation in mind we’ve introduced some much-requested usability improvements in the Money Pouch and Tool Belt.

At the bottom of the mini-map interface, you’ll notice a small icon depicting a pile of coins. From now on, coins can be stored here rather than in your inventory, if you would prefer. You can right-click coins to add them to the money pouch from your inventory. Remember that coins are safe from being dropped on death unless they are in your inventory when you die in the Wilderness.

The tool belt icon can be found in the bottom right of your equipped inventory interface. Most tools can be added to this belt, so they can be used whenever you need them without taking up inventory space.

To add a tool to the belt, right-click on it from your inventory. For certain tools, such as pickaxes and hatchets, only a bronze item can be stored. While the tool belt won’t replace your shiny dragon gear, it is great for performing varied skilling tasks on the fly. We’ll be adding functionality to this in the future, including support for Dungeoneering.

Last, but not least, we’ve given all members 30 extra bank spaces!

Mod Raven, Mod Avatar & Mod Srowley

In Other News...

The Thanksgiving event has now ended and is no longer accessible in-game.
The armour from the new Polypore Dungeon now lasts about 3x longer before degrading; to balance this, the slash defence of the ganodermic poncho has been reduced. The polypore staff and stick have had their melee stats removed, so they no longer have an Attack requirement.

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.

Graphical:


The Mage Arena water pool now looks like it has water inside of it.
The elite void knight robes no longer causes hip displacement when wielded with a 2-handed sword.
Side-part long female hairstyles no longer intersect with the lord marshall cap.



Quests & Tasks:


Clicking out of the cutscene in My Arm's Big Adventure no longer leaves a player inside the cutscene.



Skills & Minigames:


The dominion marker's duration when placed has been increased from 2 minutes to 15 minutes. A warning will appear when this is about to happen.
The aura graphical effect is now removed when weapons are unequipped with the Slippery Fingers handicap in Dominion Tower.
The Life Saver handicap in Dominion Tower now saves players a little more reliably when taking a lot of damage.
Dagannoth Mother (v1) can no longer be hit with fire spells when she is green in Dominion Tower.
Autocast is deselected more reliably when starting certain fights in Dominion Tower.
Auras running out in Tears of Guthix no longer causes the player to run.



Other:


The cabbage skillguide icon for the Polypore dungeon on the Dungeoneering skill guide has been updated to be an image of a ganodermic beast.
Curses will now affect the correct player after attacking one player, then attacking another who doesn't retaliate.
The vecna skull's time remaining message now uses correct grammar when the timer reaches 1 minute remaining.
A spelling mistake in the Ramokee Skinweaver's chat has been fixed.
The Dungeoneering section of the Smithing skillguide now lists the correct amount of arrow heads per bar.
Deflect Magic no longer hits incredibly high when wearing Veracs equipment.
A typo has been fixed when a clan runs out of resources when Smithing.
The Halloween '11 music track is now unlocked on login.
The tooltip on the Slayer rewards interface for "Never assign X again" has been shortened.
While on a free world, tooltips for members' only skills on the skills interface are now readable.
A certain area near a rock wall in the desert no longer teleports the player to the other side of the wall.
Player display names on Quick Chat worlds now appear in the correct position.

I don't now what to buy!!! :o Everything looks pretty cool though...Money pouch is kinda iffy, but we'll see.

Got a chance to log in for a while today. I had 32k points saved up, but none of the new auras interested me so I spent most of my points on older stuff. Got vampyrism and runic accuracy then bought 2 of the outfits in the special deals section. In the future I'll probably buy some more tier 1-2 auras for skilling rather than save up for anything very expensive.

I like the money pouch/toolbelt, but I've seen a few bugs with the game requiring an item in my inventory that was already in my toolbelt, and when I log into the game the icon for the money pouch doesn't show up until I withdraw/add money.

I LOVE this update. Money pouch and tool belt are SO awesome.
New loyalty awards sound great to me, my only problem is that I feel a little overwhelmed, I would rather there be less choice so I could try to collect everything (I am just weird like that though, I think Jagex did a nice job with this batch).

Excellent update. Much needed bank space, tool belt is amazing, money pouch will take some time to grow on me, but I do like it, and new loyalty rewards are very nice as well. A lot to be enjoyed in this update. ^_^

Love the toolbelt except it would be nice if we could store better tools such as adze or even rune hatchet/pickaxes - money pouch is awesome too!

as for the loyalty rewards, I've been saving up for the Queen title so the new ones don't really effect me at all as I'm definitely getting my Queen title no matter what

Pretty good updates.

Money pouch and Toolbelt are very handy to have.

Looking forward to trying some new Auras and re-colouring of some items ^^

Big fan of this update. Money pouch is kind of weird, but very convenient, and the tool belt is also very nice. As for the new loyalty rewards, just more emotes and outfits for me to get, auras don't hold any interest to me. Not that I'm complaining, the emotes and outfits are sweet, I just can't keep up with how fast they come out.

The belt and money pouch will take some time to get used to, but after that, as well as a few bugs Jagex need to iron out, I think they will be very useful

Since this update has anyone else have their Runescape become very laggy?
Mine is getting really bad, every time I teleport it lags for a long time, even lagging me out every like 30 mins, which makes runecrafting very hard. :x