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Desert Treasure II - Rewards Beta

• Players can now test out all the rewards from Desert Treasure II and the post-quest bosses, including four new rings, Ancient Sceptre upgrades, Virtus Armour, The Ruinous Powers Prayer Book and the community-designed weapon!

Poll 79

• Slayer Masters can now increase the number of Revenants received per task.
• Players will now be guaranteed a Slepey Tablet at 100 Phosani’s Nightmare Kill Count. Players who already meet this requirement will receive the Tablet on their next kill.
• Larran's Keys are now tradeable and sellable on the Grand Exchange.

Other Changes

• Artio, Calvar'ion and Spindel have been added to the HiScores.
• A display unit from Varrock Museum has been extracted from inside a wall.

PvP Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period B:

• 560 - (UK) - PvP World
• 579 - (US) - High-Risk PvP World
• 561 - (UK) - Free-to-Play PvP World
• 580 - (US) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been de-activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Main' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

After you've completed the quest you can go back and fight the four bosses for a chance to bag yourself one of the mighty rings of power!

Ring of True Blood

• +12 Melee Strength

Ring of True Ice

• +15 Magic
• +2% Magic Damage

Ring of True Smoke

• +10 Ranged
• +2 Ranged Strength

Ring of True Shadow

• +12 Slash Bonus
• +4 Melee Strength

Requirements:

• 75 Magic
• 60 Strength
• 50 Attack

Attach one of these swanky little gems to your Ancient Sceptre and you’ll empower the associated Ancient Element by 35% while giving the other Elements a 10% buff (as the Ancient sceptre already does) to boot!

Blood ancient sceptre

Blood spells heal for more. Usually these heal for 25% of damage dealt, but this bloody sceptre will have you leeching harder than your fellow raiders!

• 25% x 1.35 = 33.75% heal.
• 1.35 is the multiplier as a result of 35% increase.

Ice ancient sceptre

Stop! Sceptre time. This Icy weapon will hold your opponents in place long enough for the Empty Lord to rise again...

• Rush - 8 ticks (4.8s) -> 10 ticks (6s)
• Burst - 16 ticks (9.6s) -> 21 ticks (12.6s)
• Blitz - 24 ticks (14.4s) -> 32 ticks (19.2s)
• Barrage - 32 ticks (19.2s) -> 43 ticks (25.8s)

Smoke ancient sceptre

Use this if you're looking to inflict your opponents with a particularly tenacious toxin!

• Rush/burst - poison severity increased from 10 to 13.
• Blitz/barrage - poison severity increased from 20 to 27.

Poison severity can be a little confusing, but we'll try to put it simply

Whenever poison damage is dealt, the game calculates (Poison Severity + 4) divided by 5. For Smoke barrage using the Smoke ancient sceptre, this works out as (27 + 4) divided by 5, meaning whoever you've poisoned will be dealt 6 damage. After this poison tick, the poison severity is reduced by 1, and the poison damage calculation repeats until the Poison Severity hits 0.

Note if you're trying to work anything out for yourself that Old School almost always rounds down, so if your poison damage looks like a 6.2, it'll round down to a sensible 6!

Shadow ancient sceptre

This will increase the amount you lower your target's Attack level (or other stats if used in conjunction with Virtus' robes, more on that below!)

• Rush and Burst spells have had their Stat drain increased from 10% to 13%
• Blitz and Barrage spells have had their Stat drain increased from 15% to 20%

Requirements:

• 75 Defence
• 80 Magic

While fighting the four post-quest bosses, you’ll be able to obtain components – one from each boss. Combine them, and you can make pieces of the coveted Virtus Armour. We’re yet to determine how much of each component you’ll need, but we can say that you’ll need to fight each boss at least once to assemble the full armour set.

On the plus side, the pieces of the Virtus Armour are tradeable and do not degrade. When worn, each piece gives a 4% damage increase to all Ancient spells. Wearing all three pieces also nets you a set effect that buffs Ancient spells:

• Smoke spells reduce healing by 30% while the target is poisoned.
• Shadow spells also drain Strength, Ranged, Magic and Defence as well as Attack.
• Blood spells can heal up to 20% over the player's max Hitpoints.
• Ice spells have 10% additional accuracy against frozen targets.

Virtus Mask

Virtus Robe Top

Virtus Robe Legs

Requirements:

• 80 Attack
• 80 Strength

Each of the four bosses fought after the quest will have a chance of dropping a specific item that is used to make this axe, meaning players must kill all four bosses to assemble it.

Every time the player attacks with the axe, they will take 8 damage and gain a stack of the buff. For each stack of the buff, they will gain 6% bonus Strength level. The stacks cap at 5.

While equipped, the player has an overridden Special Attack bar that shows the number of stacks they have. They can use the special attack while they have 1 or more stacks, to consume all of their stacks to deal a bigger hit.

The special attack gains 6% bonus accuracy per stack, in addition to the previous 6% bonus strength. Regardless of if the attack hits or not, the player will then be healed by (8 x Stacks consumed), regaining all the health they spent obtaining the stacks. Players will not take damage if they cannot gain a stack, and don't gain a stack if they cannot take damage.

Deflect Melee / Magic / Ranged

• Reduces damage from the appropriate style by 90% (36% in PvP scenarios), but has a 50% chance to deal 10% of the pre-mitigation damage back to the attacker.
• For example, if you're using Deflect Melee and an NPC hits you with melee that would deal 49 damage, you'll receive 4 damage and deal 4 damage to the NPC.

Ancient Precision

• +20% Attack

Ancient Strength

• +20% Strength

Ancient Sight

• +20% Ranged Attack
• +20% Ranged Strength

Ancient Will

• +20% Magic Attack

Trinitas

• +15% Attack
• +15% Strength
• +15% Ranged Attack
• +15% Ranged Strength
• +15% Magic Attack

Decimate

• +20% Attack
• +30% Strength

Anihilate

• +20% Ranged Attack
• +30% Ranged Strength

Vaporise

• +25% Magic Attack
• +4% Magic Damage

Gambit

• Provides +8% Accuracy in all styles when used.

Whether you're using this for better odds on hitting that juicy Dragon Warhammer Special attack or flicking between this and your protection prayers to maximise your damage output, we're confident players of all skill levels will be able to get value out of Gambit.

8% Accuracy might not look like much to some of you but combined with the other Offensive prayers above, finding any opportunity to throw Gambit into the mix will take your damage potential to new heights - even if it's something you only bring out for the occasional Special attack!

Rebuke

• Increases your damage taken by 15%, reflects 15% of any damage dealt to you.

This is pure risk vs. reward. Sacrifice a protection prayer for a chance at unleashing a devastating Vengeance, or just passively recoil damage in scenarios where you don't feel like you need extra protection.

Vindication

• When reduced below 10% of your maximum HP (without taking lethal damage), heal for 15% of your Prayer level and lose any remaining Prayer points.
• For 6 seconds after Vindication triggers, your next attack will deal 10% bonus damage.

While it's not entirely offensive and could save your life in a pinch, a well-timed Vindication might serve as a means for you to turn your near-death scenario into a swift change of fortune.

Cruor's Vow

• While active, you have a 10% chance to heal 10% of damage dealt.

All this combat is thirsty work, consider keeping yourself topped up with a sanguine treat!

Glacies' Vow

• While active, you have a 20% chance to deal bonus Magic damage.
• This bonus damage rolls off of your equipped style against your target's Magic defence.
• The damage dealt is 10% of your initial hit.

Chill your target to the bone and shatter them with some recurrent damage.

Umbra's Vow

• While active, drain your opponent's Defence by 10% of your damage dealt.
• Umbra's Vow respect the same limit as Shadow spells, meaning Defence cannot be lowered by more than 15% of its initial value.
• This reduction would apply before other Defence reduction effects, meaning there's still value in using this alongside something like the Dragon Warhammer.

It's difficult to spend every waking moment with your guard up. Slip into the shadows and get the better of any terribly tanky opponent.

Defence reduction is extremely valuable in Old School these days. While the Accursed Sceptre introduced a means of lowering Defence from afar (a role previously only filled by the Bone crossbow), many players often feel like it's not worth the Special attack energy required. If you're able to pump the damage out, here's a reliable way of knocking those Defence values down (albeit with limited effectiveness compared to staples like the Dragon Warhammer or Bandos Godsword).

Fumus' Vow

• While active, attacks consume 10% of your poison severity, to deal the same amount as bonus poison damage to an enemy.

This one's a little confusing and perhaps best-illustrated by an example plus a look at how poison actually works in Old School. We'll use the Alchemical Hydra's poison pool for our example.

When you're inflicted with poison, while it might look like a number that just says 'you're about to take this much damage', there's a little more going on under the hood.

The Alchemical Hydra's poison pool will inflict you with a poison severity of 30.

Every time poison damage ticks, the damage you take is equal to (poison severity + 4) all divided by 5. You take some damage, your poison severity decreases by 1, rinse and repeat.

In this example, the poison that these pools inflict you with will deal 6 damage. Since 30 + 4 is 34, divided by 5 gives 6.8, which we round down to 6.

With Fumus' Vow activated, your next attack after being inflicted with this poison will deal 3 additional damage, and reduce your poison severity to 27.

Ultimately, Fumus’ Vow means that you can remove poison faster while converting it to additional damage output. Practical and cool!

Ruinous Grace

• While active, drain Prayer Points instead of Run Energy.
• This drain rate is modified by Prayer bonus and does not take into account effects like Stamina.

Ruinous Smite

• While active, reduce both yours and your opponent's Prayer Points by 33% of your damage dealt.

Wrath

• While active, deal damage equal to 25% of your Prayer level in a 5x5 radius around you on death.

Rejuvenation

• While active, regenerate 1 HP every ~20 seconds.

Metabolise

• Reduces action delay (not eat delay) by 0.6s after eating.
• Similar to Preserve, must be active for some length of time (such as 15 seconds) before taking effect.
• After this 'wind-up' time, deactivating Metabolise will reset your action delay to your weapon's attack speed or leave it unchanged - whichever of these values is greater

Eat food, get back to fighting more quickly. Simple enough! We spoke about this one further up in the blog but just to reiterate again, Metabolise being active does not mean you'll be able to eat multiple pieces of food more quickly than before.

Berserker

• While active, combat stat boosts last 50% longer