This Week in RuneScape: Ninja Strike 25 & Senntisten Archaeology

The Ninja Team are back, and this week they’ve been honing their attacks on Action Bars.

To kick things off, all RuneScape members will receive two free Action Bar Presets when they next enter the game, bringing the total to 15.

But how will you ever keep track? By naming them, of course – another thing you’ll be able to do from today’s update. Oh, and if you’re so inclined, you can also save the toggle states of your additional action bars with custom interface layouts now. Nice!

Lastly, the Ninjas have made tons of QoL improvements regarding how Action Bars are named, saved and described in-game. For full details, check the Patch Notes!

Our newest Archaeology mini-digsite is now open! If you have RuneScape Membership and level 60 Archaeology or higher, you’ll be able to explore the hidden mysteries beneath the lost Zarosian capital of Senntisten.

In Senntisten, you’ll explore six excavation spots across four different sites throughout the city. With a little bit of luck and perseverance, you’ll get your hands on 18 new restorable artefacts, uncover three new mysteries, and power up with the awesome Aurelius’ Mask Relic.

This powerful Relic will let you tap into the power of the shadows to zoom all over Gielinor by granting you all the benefits of the ‘Mobile’ perk. For reference, that means you’ll be able to use 50 Energy to get a 50% reduction on the cooldown of movement abilities like Surge or Barge. The catch is that you won’t generate Adrenaline on these abilities as you would normally – but that’s a small price to pay for speedy skilling!

Speaking of skilling, Senntisten will also provide you with the opportunity to gain some Crafting XP while repairing a few stained-glass windows around the city. That ought to brighten the place up a bit!

Premier Club is back! If you missed out on Gold Premier Club back at the start of the year, you’ll have a second chance to purchase it – and get your hands on all the same goodies – from August 16th (today!) to September 14th (not today!).

To reiterate, you’ll get all the same benefits as you normally would, including:

• 12 Months of RuneScape Membership
• Ozzie the Osprey pet
• Ceremonial Guard Armour
• Yak Track Premier Pass rewards
• And loads more!

Please note that the Premier Club Summer Sale offer is not available to past 2020/21 Premier Club Gold, Silver, and Bronze members. However Active Silver Premier Club subscriptions are eligible for upgrade to a Premier Club Gold Membership from the shop. But you won’t duplicate any items – so, for example, you won’t get any of the monthly drops you’ve already received for a second time.

For full details, check out the Premier Club page.

Teleport restrictions

Teleport restrictions have been removed from the following boss encounters:

• • Vorago
  • Solak
  • Nex: Angel of Death
  • Rise of The Six
  • The Liberation of Mazcab raid
  • Araxxor

Note: The teleport restriction remains in place for Telos due to the nature of the loot streaking system.

Hopefully, this will allow for a smoother boss experience for new and returning adventurers, as it removes the need to visit Death, or return to the lobby when you or a teammate make a minor mistake! We will continue to monitor as we actively look at ways to remove the friction from your endeavours.

Spells

• Divine storm now deals correct damage. (previously passed level 60 it gained 6 damage per level rather than 9.6
• Surge spells now scale to T99 damage (was T92).
• Smoke/Shadow Blitz spells now scale to T92 damage to match ice and blood.
• Barrage spells now scale to T99 damage.
• Aurora spells now scale to T99 damage.
• Increased the range of the 'ruby aurora' effect from 2 tiles -> 5 tiles.
• Spell tooltips now state which damage tier they scale up to.

Greater Concentrated Blast

We've taken steps to power down the Greater Concentrated Blast ability upgrade slightly so it fits where we feel a 'Greater' basic ability should sit. Below, we've broken down all the core information on where this sat and now sits within the magic ability set.

A live 4 tick* concentrated blast, on average deals 147.6% ability damage.

Due to taking 4 ticks, players would often cancel before the final hit for an average of 94.2%.

In live a Greater Concentrated Blast will currently deal on average 181.9% ability damage.

This is an average increase of 93% over a cancelled Concentrated Blast.

Our adjusted values bring the average damage of a greater concentrated blast down to 160.2% ability damage.

Over a standard concentrated blast cancelled, this is an increase of 70% damage.

Compared to a non-cancelled concentrated blast (2.4 seconds) this is still an increase of 8.5% down from 23% whilst still saving 0.6 seconds on the ability.

* 1 'tick' = 0.6 seconds"

As always, we'll continue to monitor how the ability performs and continue to make adjustments.

Greater Ricochet

With Greater Ricochet we felt that the amount of damage it did was too strong given the short cooldown and the fact it is classified as a Greater basic ability.

Rather than target synergies with on-hit effects, we have chosen to tone down the upfront damage to a point where we feel it sits comfortably alongside our other Greater abilities.

This means in order to get the most out of Greater Ricochet you want to focus on utilising on-hit effects (e.g Split Soul or bolt effects). Furthermore to this we have changed the interaction with the Enchanted Ruby bolts to no longer downscale the damage they do with the latter hits. The first three hits remain unchanged at 20-100%, 10-50%, 10-50% ability damage respectively.

• Any additional hits, as a result of the Caroming perk have been toned to 5-15% ability damage, down from 10-50%.
• Enchanted Ruby bolts will no longer scale their damage down when triggered as part of Greater Ricochet.

Instability

The Staff of Armadyl's special attack - Instability.

• Restored the ability for auto attacks critical hits to fire off extra spell casts.
• Fixed an issue where the extra spell cast from the staff was doing offhand damage if you were using dual-wielded weapons.
• Extra spell casts can now only fire off if the critical hit is on the player's main target.

Those of you who haven’t yet received your Guardian’s Gift have until August 24th to log-in and do so. It’s claimed automatically, so there’s no need to faff about with forms and whatnot – just log-in, and you’ll receive your gift. You can use this gift later.

As a reminder, this is our way of saying thank you for your patience during the Log-in Lockout back in April and making things right for those of you who were affected. The Guardian’s Gift gets you access to loads of useful wishes to help you make up for lost time, so it’s well worth picking up!

Find out more here.

Ninja Strike 25: Action Bars

• Added two free Action Bar Presets for members, bringing the total to 15.
• Action Bar Presets can now be named in a similar fashion to Bank Presets.
• This option can be found in the Action Bars submenu in Settings
• Renamed various instances of ‘actionbar’ in the Settings interface to ‘Action Bar’.
• Players can also save the toggle states of their additional action bars with custom interface layouts.
• This will only apply to layouts saved after today’s update
• The main Action Bar’s minimised and maximised states can now be saved with custom interface layouts.
• The ‘Setup Action Bar’ option has been renamed to ‘Auto-setup Action Bar’ on desktop and ‘Auto-setup Revolution Action Bar’ on mobile, for clarity.
• A new setting has also been added which toggles a confirmation option before auto-setup of Action Bars
• Action Bars no longer use numbered wording such as ‘secondary’ or ‘quinary’, and will instead be called ‘Additional Action Bar #’.
• Also changed all mentions of ‘Primary Action Bar’ to ‘Main Action Bar’ for consistency
• The Action Bar Presets 1-15 are now correctly called Action Bar Preset 1-15 across the game.
• Specified that the keybinds for switching Action Bar Presets are only for the Main Action Bar
• Added line breaks to the Action Bar Keybind settings within the Keybinding interface
• Added more descriptive text to various settings and options within the Action Bar Binding settings.
• Fixed an issue where the max hitpoints figure would not show if the player had five digits of hitpoints and the Primary Action Bar was compacted horizontally.

Elder God Wars Dungeon - The Nodon Front:

• HOTFIX - The change to Kerepac's time thread tear which removed the ability to stand under the boss to mitigate the attack has been reverted due to feedback.

User interfaces

• Interface tutorials for the bank, shop, smelting and smithing interfaces now only occur when a player triggers them from the help button for the interface or during the paths in Burthorpe/Taverley.
• PC and Steam users that install a fresh client or have recently cleared their cache will now see a Terms and Conditions popup on first loadup.
• Players will now be prompted to enter a valid date of birth when logging into the game if they haven't already done so.

Burthorpe Path

• Fixed an issue where you would be unable to purchase any herblore achievement capes while considered to be on the burthorpe path.
• Fixed an issue where leveling up during the Burthorpe path system would reset your action bar.
• Fixed an issue where players would not be able to obtain outfit fragments while considered to be on the Burthorpe path.

Friday August 20th | 14:00 Game Time | Elder God Wars Dungeon: Second Front Reveal

You may have staved off the Nodon Forces but the war has just begun... and a second chilling power approaches.

Join us this Friday as we reveal the next instalment of the Elder God Wars Dungeon.

Watch live on Twitch.

RuneTube

New to questing? Not sure where to start? Laser Shark has you covered! In this video you'll learn about 10 useful quests that'll kickstart your journey into Gielinor and get you embroiled in some of the most exciting early-game storylines.

Awesome Art

We’re just buzzing over Flerby’s adorable dinosaur plushie! Ugh, we just want to reach through the screen and give him a lil’ squish. But in lieu of that, we’ll settle for seeing more of your fabulous creations – fluffy or otherwise - on the RuneScape Art Community Discord. See you there!

Pink Skirts

Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are some of our upcoming favourites:

Rex Matriarchs

• Hosted by: Pippyspot & Boss Guild
• Date/Time: Wed 18 Aug 2021, 20:00 - 21:00
• World: 88
• Location: Rex Matriarch Lair

Great Orb Project

• Hosted by: Hazeli & Minigames FC
• Date/Time: Sat 21 Aug 2021, 08:30 - 09:30
• World: 65
• Location: Runecrafting Guild

If neither of those take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!

Scaper's Screenshots

Community Shout-Out

Our community shout-out this week goes to… Minigames! If you enjoy being distracted and diverted by the minigames RuneScape has on offer (or if you just want to hang out with some supremely cool players) then this is the discord server for you!