Double XP & Amascut next steps - This Week In RuneScape

Amascut, the Goddess of Destruction, has been wreaking havoc on players all week, but some brave adventurers have managed to bring her down in the Race to World First. A massive congratulations to the first team to do so! P U P, Evil Lucario, Aaron Hunns, G0att and Glue lovingly titled "The Slurpers" due to one of them (not naming names) noticing how often the player character makes a drinking noise while doing PvM. Special thanks to their coach Jere for helping coordinate the strategy!

Be sure to check out the winning moment from the stream!

Also dive into the full final run from Evil Lucario's perspective including team voice comms!

And if you want to enjoy the whole stream which ran for over 11 hours you can check out the full videos here & here!

With the first kills now behind us, we're looking ahead to the launch of the Combat Mastery Achievements, coming in the near future. While we haven’t set an exact date just yet, the rough ETA is around one month after the boss's release. We’ll share more details soon.

Alongside the achievements, we also plan to release the 4,000% Enrage version of the fight. Originally, this was intended to launch with the other Enrage tiers, but as we approached release, we chose to take some extra time to tweak and refine it based on early feedback from the Race to World First.

With that in mind, we’d love to hear more from those of you who have already faced Amascut this week. Please continue sharing your thoughts and experiences via the official Discord and subreddit, your feedback is invaluable in helping us polish the encounter even further.

We look forward to seeing everyone complete unorthodox achievements and 4k enrage in the near future!

Working on leveling your Crafting to make Masterwork Magic Armour? Or maybe your working on the plethora of skilling requirements needed to face off against Amascut? Well look no further than Double XP!

Double XP is a 10-day event starting on Friday, August 15th and lasts until Monday, August 25th starting and ending at 12:00pm Game time. During this you will have 48 hours of Double XP to use at your leisure. You can pause the timer at any point, so you won't lose even a second of precious training time. Learn more about how it works here!

Double XP With MTX Limitations

During this Double XP event a number of MTX items will be unavailable for use and be unavailable from Treasure Hunter, for more information on this Experiment including which items will be unavailable please check out our recent newspost here.

Hotfixed

• Fixed an issue where occasionally minions and floor telegraphing were not clearing as expected as Amascut was defeated in Phase 7
• Fixed an issue with Amascut's shield not reaching 0 to transition her correctly from phase 6 into phase 7

Amascut, Goddess of Destruction

• The player receiving a unique loot after a kill will now glow along with the chest
• Resolved an issue that allowed multiple people to follow the path of light in phase 6 and get stuck
• Updated the hitbox for the echo of Het and the chains in the prison rooms
• Fixed an issue in Amascut Phase 6 where it was possible to kill NPCs in the incorrect order on the platforms and get stuck
• Made a change to the engulfing shadow HP that Amascut absorbs on phase 6, Amascut's actual HP will now remain untouched until the absorbed HP has been depleted
• Made the sweeping telegraphing in the main plaza (Phase 2/4) easier to see
• Fixed an issue where players would be able to obtain multiple lore books in smaller teams
• Resolved an issue where occasionally, Tumeken would sneak out of the area with you!

Eclipse of the Heart

• Buying access to the 4th room in the player owned slayer dungeon has been added as a requirement to the trimmed completionist cape.
• Added some missing dialogue to Pharaoh Leela inside Menaphos throne room during Eclipse of the Heart
• The quest boss encounter with Amascut can now be replayed without cutscenes by speaking to Icthlarin in Menaphos.
• Fixed some PH text in the adventures log for the Eclipse of the Heart quest.
• Reduced chat message spam from the Boon of Apmeken.
• Some incorrect impostor mapsquares in the Sophanem quest instance have been fixed.
• The gift of friendship sound effect now only plays on the affected player.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from moving souls within the fourth room in the sunken pyramid.
• Apmeken can no longer leave the desert via Shantay Pass.

110 Crafting

• In-progress tailoring and fletching items are now protected on death.
• Masterwork magic armour can now be custom-fit by the master crafter in the Crafting guild. As with Elof's custom-fitting of trimmed masterwork melee in the Artisans' Workshop, this doubles maximum degrade charges, adds degrade protection from Slayer/Reaper targets, but custom-fit is untradeable.
• Masterwork magic armour (including custom-fit) now uses a repair-with-items rather than repair-with-coins system, consistent with trimmed and custom-fit masterwork melee (albeit repaired from your backpack rather than an anvil). As there isn't untrimmed masterwork magic equipment to use as repair ingredient, repair requires 1 of its primary ingredient, masterwork white cloth (and like augmented masterwork melee, 32 divine charges to repair augmented masterwork magic).
• The hover tooltip for custom-fit masterwork melee and magic now describes their degrade protection benefit.
• Added GE item set boxes for primal and starbloom + 1 to + 5.
• Added a space to the name of starbloom "+1 to +5" robes to be consistent with "+ 1 to + 5" smithed armour.
• In-progress starbloom and masterwork drafts are now the colour of their finished cloth.

General

• Flesh crawlers and Moss giants no longer drop spirit weed seeds within free to play worlds.
• Sunspear weapon override no longer requires the item to be keepsaked in order to be used as an override.
• The activation of the Imp Souled perk no longer blocks the progression of the daily woodcutting challenges.
• Fixed an issue which caused the Powerburst of Acceleration to reset cooldown on movement abilities such as Dive only once when used within the wilderness with PvP disabled.
• Fixed an issue that caused the ESC input to not function when using alternative ways of closing the congratulations prompt that appears after completing a bonds purchase.
• Fixed an issue where Choose a Path interface could appear during the mining section of Tutorial Island.
• Ravenous ghoul's soul can now be captured with a Ushabti by defeating Ravenous ghouls.
• The relic power 'Persistent Rage' can no longer be used during the quest 'Broken Home'.
• Sandy clues are now referred to as 'Holiday treasure trails' rather than 'Customer Support treasure trails' within RuneMetrics.
• Resolved an issue whereby defeating Nex, Angel of Death can reward the base tank with a reward from the secondary drop table.
• Fixed an issue which caused Vorago weapon pieces to disappear from the encounter whenever the player carrying them teleported out of the encounter while changing phases, the items should now be safely moved to the next portion of the encounter.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from placing souls in the sunken pyramid.

Starts August 14th | Ends August 25th | Shining Prismania

Prismatic stars and lamps that shine brighter than ever!

August 13th - RuneSkill & Chill: Great Gielinor Run

Join Mod Yuey and the community as they go out for a leisurely stroll across Gielinor! Catch it live on our Twitch Channel at 16:00 Gametime!

Community Showcase

Runetube

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Pink Skirts Player Events

Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:

Dungeoneering Team Forming

• When: Thursday 14th August, 18:15 Gametime
• Who: Jen & Redwigon
• Where: Daemonheim
• World: 77
• FC: DGChat

General Graardor HM

• When: Tuesday 12th August, 08:30 Gametime
• Who: Evenstar8888 & Naughty Nubs Clan
• Where: Bandos Stronghold - God wars Dungeon 1
• World: 12
• FC: Ahelp

Corporeal Beast

• When: Monday 11th August, 19:00 Gametime
• Who: Patrick K & Clackworthy & J3F
• Where: Corporeal Beast Lair
• World: 123
• FC: Patrick K

If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!

Community Spotlight

Mazcab Academy

Mazcab Academy is a learner friendly Discord community for the Liberation of Mazcab Raids in RuneScape.

They offer:

• Daily Raids, in the early evening game time and around reset.
• A ranking feature to show what you are able to do
• Discord roles to show off your Mazcab related achievements
• A strong admin and teachers team that will always help you with your questions!
• The opportunity to grow from Goebie Zero to Goebie Hero and become a Mazcab Master!

Link: https://discord.gg/egQBwuM

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