/u/JagexDaze How does the triple charm effect work with Familiarisation and the charming potion buffs? Do they stack?
They are additive so 3 + 3, so for each charm dropped, you will receive 6.
Hey, this will work identical to Hazelmere's ring. Because I'll almost certainly miss some information probably best checking the wiki for a full breakdown: https://runescape.wiki/w/Hazelmere%27s_signet_ring
Just want to clarify this, and other future buffs in this event, and how they work. If they have '+' at the front, this means this will be an additive buff alongside everything else.
In your example here, it is stacking additively with all your other Multiply buffs taking it from +340% to +390%.
Any other buffs that you see as part of this event using this language will work the same way. We'll take the feedback on board though and try to make this clearer in the future however.
So if I get a task that I can mass farm in my posd, I can spend 2 hours sitting on the one task?
Absolutely! Go crazy and just keep hitting those mobs!
So thrillseeker, if I have 60 lava strykewyrms to kill I can farm them for two hrs and still be on 60? Will I receive slayer xp and benefit from slayer helm still?
Yup that is how it will work!
Does Ritualistic- increased necro output ritual buff include more souls to the well of souls?
Yes
I have a question regarding the Vorkath Event Shards. When are they going to be removed? I already have eight shards but I would like to start the event on Thursday. Mr. Mordaut mentioned that he would be around for a while to allow for late completion, but I'm not sure exactly how long that will be. Can a JMod provide any insight or information on this?
Mordaut will be around for this week and will disappear at 00:00 Monday 11th December.
Hey, Mordaut will be around for you to claim the reward until 00:00 Monday 11th December (so basically you have this week to do so!)
No - the reason being we want to give freedom for you to do whatever you want, and additionally don't want to punish new players who don't have to access to the high-level skilling methods.
Hey, would it be possible for you to DM me your display names so we can investigate please?
My general rule of thumb is: if I see your drops still there, then it's yours.
If they're gone, the spot is free game.
Although I generally hop cause it's better to waste 10 minutes hopping than half an hour at half exprates.
And thank whichever God tier Jmod invented PoD.
You're welcome!
Interestingly we were talking about this earlier today. It has been trapped behind a few things and I'm currently in the midst of some projects right now, but we're looking to find a space to do finishing touches and get QA sorted.
So it's not been forgotten but will still be a bit longer!
How it's been for years is the following: there is NPC's around that shout "Human!" if you are not disguised, this aggros vyres onto you faster than waiting for them to turn around and spot you manually. In the video around 0:17 one of the NPC's shouting in the NE walks away and there is no other around to spot him and force aggro on him.
Normally there should be another static NPC to the SW (looking at the compass) which does a fairly good job in aggroing, but walking under these npc's make them move which happens a lot due to players doing Clue scans in the area.
Please correct me if I am wrong, or feel free to look into the NPC code in your spare time, but this is how I have seen it over 5 years ago where a group of people used to stand under/lure NPC's to specific tiles to get better xp/h (because of the better aggro).
TL;DR I really don't see an issue in this Twitch clip other than expected behaviour.
Absolutely correct - if the 'scouts' see you and shout human they do a hunt around themselves to find a vyrelord and tell it to attack you. As you mention at 17s, there are no NPCs close enough to hear the shout and therefore no extra vyrelords begin to attack.
Oooh, now you're making life difficult!
So we've done some investigation and it turns out - it's not a bug and it's always been this way.
Are you ready for an adventure?
Having looked at the vyrelords, it turns out they are quite a unique NPC in that they have a field of view of 180 degrees. This means they can only see players that are front of them (from right to left of the way they're facing). That NPC that you noticed that wasn't aggressive was because it was facing away from you; as soon as it turned you can see it then becomes aggressive.
To clarify further that this hasn't changed, we managed to find a video from 5 years ago that shows exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfmsG6sMsac&t=206s
They even comment how it doesn't have aggro and you need to use Corruption and Dragon Breath!
Hope that explains it! You're really testing us now, and unveiling some real fascinating facts about some RuneScape mobs.
Read moreI haven’t used aggros recently, so I’m unsure if there has been a change or not, but here is my experience:
The first dose will have the interval effect. After that has taken effect for about 30 seconds (enough time for all mobs around you to have aggro’d you), it SEEMS like those mob spawns are automatically attracted to you going forward (meaning they lose the interval effect and are immediately aggressive as they continue spawning). If you let the aggro effect deplete to 0, all mobs reset and you have to start again (meaning you drink another dose and the interval effect occurs).
My theory is that the aggro effect is attached to the spawn as opposed to the mob. When the mob spawns through an aggro’d spawn, it takes on that aggro effect.
Hope that isn’t confusing, and again, I could be completely wrong (the devs obviously know the details better), but I’m just speaking from my experience.
You're completely wrong, but also somewhat right in what you're saying :D
To explain how it works, imagine a timer that goes off every 3 seconds - when it does, it will try to find one NPC and it will trigger that to aggro the player. That is consistent and nothing ever changes the rate or the behaviour - from start to finish, this remains constant.
However, talking about spawns it differs depending on if an NPC has a spawn anim or not - but let's say it does as the majority of new NPCs do have them. The NPC spawns and on average let's say most spawn anims are 1.8 seconds long. During that spawn phase the aggro potion could target the NPC, spawn anim ends and the NPC will instantly target you. Anim was 1.8s, aggro timer rate is 3s - this means there's a 60% chance that it will appear to instantly target you, and if not it's probably coming in the next second which could also feel almost instantaneous.
Final point as I still see debate going on - I am completely happy to be wrong an...
Read moreIs it possible to check if aggro pots were changed at any point?
1 mob every 3 seconds feels weaker than it used to be.
I've gone all the way back to release and this number has never changed.
Hey,
I've just looked into this to see if I can find any cause of the issue - and as Sponge said before there have been no recent changes that we can see which would cause this effect. There does seem to be a misunderstanding in how the potion works so just to confirm the potion will aggro 1 mob every 3 seconds; it will not (and never has) aggro'd a whole area at once from what we can tell.
In both your videos above - you can see a new NPC being caught by the potion at each 3 second interval. The first is a bit more awkward to see as some NPCs are getting caught on the scenery, but the second video shows it clearly working as expected.
If you have any more info or could show it not working as mentioned above, please let us know so we can investigate more!
Read moreIs there a reason surge/bladed dive is even disabled in some places?
It's a safety measure - we'd rather whitelist areas than have a blacklist. This is because you could potentially get into all sorts of strange situations otherwise.
Seems sensible. Any other areas you'd like to be able to Surge?
Hey, this is actually something we've been discussing internally and after talking to an artist, there is a bit of a trade off as the textures would need adjusting to allow recolouring which would flatten some of the colours.
I'm not sure if we'll be able to change it for this one, but we're aware of its popularity and could potentially bring into future designs.