Hati & Skoll Return
RuneScape members only
Head to the Fremennik Province and talk to Vali or Rellekka for directions
Find Eir just south of the Golden Apple Tree in the south-east of the Fremennik Province
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Hati and Sköll are back for a whole wintery month. Hunt them down for rich XP rewards and - if you don’t already have them - some ice-cool cosmetic items.
If you've hunted the beasts before, it'll all be quite familiar. The main change is that the XP rewards are now given as a combination of normal XP and Bonus XP.
If you're new, or just need a reminder, read on. There are three things you can do:
Hunt Down Hati
Hati - the legendary wolf of Fremennik legend - can be found wandering the woods south-east of Rellekka.
He's tough, and his attacks accurate, but work together and you'll take him down. Anyone who contributes to the fight will be eligible for loot when the wolf howls his last.
There's a high chance that he'll drop Hati paws - cosmetic gloves that can be clicked to claim normal and Bonus XP in your choice of combat skill. He can also drop a cosmetic hood and cloak, if you don't already have those.
Summon Sköll
Sköll is Hati's wilier sibling, and must be lured to Gielinor by adding logs to the bonfire, west of Rellekka's entrance.
Once 120 logs are added to the fire (across all worlds, including all players) Sköll will show his face. Like Hati, you may need help to defeat him, but anyone who contributes - be it in combat or by adding logs - will be able to loot him when he falls.
He can drop Sköll boots - which grant normal and Bonus XP in Agility or Woodcutting when clicked - and a cosmetic amulet, if you don't have it.
Find Eir's Gear
Eir is a Valkyrie who's sure that the Sixth Age is the End of Things. She's also lost her helmet and spear, and needs your help to get them back.
Defeat Hati or Sköll - or harvest enriched wisps at the colony south-east of Rellekka - for a chance to get one of these items. Repeating these actions will get you duplicates, so to collect Eir's gear you'll need to:
- Get two of one type of item (helmet or spear)
- Trade with another player for the other
Once you've got both, speak to Eir by the Golden Apple Tree. You'll get a chunk of normal and Bonus XP in your choice of Prayer or Divination, plus cosmetic overrides of Eir's helmet and spear, if you don't have them from last year.
Enjoy!
Hati and Sköll are here until the 19th of February, so be sure to get your rewards before then.
Please note: if you have unclaimed Bonus XP on gloves or boots from a previous year, be sure to claim if before participating in this year's event - otherwise, it will be lost.
Have fun, and join the discussion below.
The RuneScape Team
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In Other News
From tomorrow, you'll be able to start submitting your RuneLabs ideas. Read Mod Kelpie's guidelines, if you haven't already, and start planning your first pitch!
Mod Lee is staging a massed assault on the Kalphite King on Wednesday the 21st at 21:00 PST/05:00 UTC on World 51. Visit the Community Events thread for further details.
The RuneScape News Feed can now be viewed from the lobby.
PATCH NOTES:
Graphical:
Weapon animations which previously overrode incorrectly after using a combat ability will no longer do so.
HTML5 client users will no longer stand on the Hefin church flags while running on the agility course.
Skills, D&Ds & Minigames:
The chest in Varrock's church now displays the correct Treasure Trail hint.
Players can no longer take Skeletal Horror bones out of the D&D.
Players are no longer able to teleport out of the Sinkholes reward room.
The dragon battleaxe special attack buff is now cleared upon starting a duel.
Quests, Challenges and Achievements:
The instructions for the 'Properly Metal' Tirannwn Task have been clarified.
The quest start screens of the Between a Rock... and Lost City quests have been updated to reflect combat level calculation changes.
Other:
The XP rewards given out by Hati, Sköll and Eir have been rebalanced.
Several issues which caused the camera to act incorrectly upon log-in have been fixed.
Consequently, the camera will now face south instead of north when logging in.
Clan keywords have been updated with additional options.
'Ironwoman' and 'Ironman' are now available as clan job titles.
Players who leave or are removed from their clan are now able to rejoin their old clan immediately. They must still wait 7 days before they can join a different clan.
The ancient artefact drop has been added to Vorago's Beasts page.
Ironman players are no longer able to mine living rock creatures that were killed by other players.
104m XP achievements will now broadcast correctly to friends.
Auras will no longer display on the buffs panel when logging into a free world.
It is no longer possible to skull a PvP opponent by attacking their familiar.
Players can no longer attempt to repair a blood necklace at 100% durability.
References to Islwyn when converting crystal seeds to weapons have been removed.
Players will now correctly receive seeds - if relevant - from tree patches, if cleared via the tree directly instead of via the farmer.
Corrected the initial wield message for newly crafted crystal weapons to mention weapons instead of armour.
A number of spelling and grammar issues have been fixed across various pieces of content.
The following improvements have been made to the portable well:
Meilyr combination potions may now be combined at a portable well for extra XP, though without a chance to make extra combination potions.
Unfinished potions can now be made at a portable well.
Water containers can now be filled by using them on a portable well.
The following changes have been made to Araxxor:
Spider leg drops will now broadcast to your friends list.
The araxyte pheromone drop rate has been increased.
The preferred Araxxor style in instances or with a pheromone is now guaranteed to spawn based on the weapon in your right-hand.
Ninja fixes:
By speaking to Bob Barter at the Grand Exchange, you can now toggle whether or not you wish to receive the remaining vial after finishing the last dose of a potion.
Boss pets will now show the tier 3 loot beam as the previously-used tier 1 loot beam was not always appearing.
The Rise of the Six bobblehead pets, Vitalis, Bombi and TzRek-Jad pets now show their owner's kill count of the relevant boss when a player interacts with the pet.
Players can now use their keyboard to control stances on Hefin serenity posts and on the gnome glider interface.
The Motherlode Maw rewards have been adjusted to replace the runite items, to make the rewards slightly more elf-like.
Players will now receive a message in their chatbox when a gardener agrees to look after a patch.
Players can now move the XP popup interface by using 'Edit Mode'.
There is now an entrance into Rellekka in the eastern spear wall.
Players can now set the target level on each skill to 120, similar to Dungeoneering, instead of manually having to set the equivalent value in XP.
Players can now toggle to rotate their loot beam at Death's office, which will cycle through their unlocked loot beams.
Daily challenges now give more useful information about what is needed to hand in on completion of the challenge.
Players can now quickchat how many Treasure Trails they have completed: Group Events > Fun stuff > Treasure Trails.
The following changes have been made to the Familiarisation D&D:
All worlds now start Familiarisation at the same time.
The D&D tracker now accurately shows the starting time of Familiarisation.
All summoning obelisks that allow entry to Familiarisation will now sparkle when the D&D begins, and will also offer a teleport to Pikkupstix.