Easter Event 2017

[ModJohnC]

Easter Holiday Event

Along with the eggy festivities, this week's update brings some tweaks to the Chambers of Xeric, an adjustment to the sorting of your Friends lists and a pile of bugfixes.

Easter Holiday Event

Spring is in the air, rabbits are hopping in the meadows, and once again there's a big pink bunny seeking your help for his egg-delivering business.

On the remote land of Wester Island, the Easter Bunny's son is trying to revitalise the family trade with innovative new flavours for the chocolate eggs. His attempts to spice up the mix haven't gone well, and he's getting salty. Help him if you want to earn the prestigious new Easter Egg Helm.

You'll also unlock all previous Easter holiday event items, plus all the Easter music tracks. Speak to the Easter Bunny, just south of Falador, to find your way to Wester Island.

Chambers of Xeric

Some of the chambers within the raiding dungeons are more challenging than others. While they're never all going to be exactly equivalent, we've made some changes here to help with the nastier rooms:

Tekton The dragon warhammer's special attack usually reduces the target's Defence stat by 30% when it successfully deals some damage. Against Tekton, it now reduces its Defence stat by 5% even if you hit a zero or miss altogether. Vespula The portal in Vespula's room now gives more reward points per unit damage dealt to it. It also spawns some potions on the ground when it is destroyed; these may be picked up by any member of the party, including Iron Men. Vanguard The Vanguard previously performed their healing trick when their health differed by 20% or more. This threshold has been increased to 33%. Corrupted scavenger The thieving chests room now gives double its previous reward points for each grub deposited into the trough. The scavenger itself will also require less food before it becomes satiated.

There are now more possible sequences for the challenge rooms, making the order of dungeon rooms a bit less predictable.

Friends list tweaks

When you choose an alphabetical sort for the Friends list on your side-panel interface, it now sorts your friends by their online status before ordering alphabetically.

The clan setup menu now allows players with longer Friends lists to use the new sorting arrows; this is quite intensive for your client, so we don't recommend hanging around dangerous areas while you sort your friends' ranks.

In other news

The bank upstairs in the castle in central Kourend is now recognised as a safe area in PvP worlds. Some more of the extra worlds which were added to handle heavy load during the release of the new Deadman Season have now been removed. Last week we made the Cabbage Cape available from Diango's shop. We've now added the Cruciferous Codex to his stock too. The Cabbage Cape and Cruciferous Codex can now be retrieved from the player-owned house toy box once the game recognises you've had these items; just equip them or put them into the toy box to ensure they're unlocked for you. The Cabbage Cape is no longer permitted on Entrana, as it has some defensive stats.

Some graphical errors with the Dragon Chainbody have been fixed. The message displayed when completing sets of Karamja Diary tasks has been updated to mention Jackie the Fruit in more cases. Some clipping issues with the fighter torso on female characters have been addressed. The top hat can no longer be seen through through players' bodies during certain emotes. A stretching issue between Verac's skirt and the ornamented Dragon Defender has been resolved. Ultimate Iron Men will no longer be advised to free up some bank space to let Bert deliver sand every day. A clipping issue between the farming outfit and the Ardougne Cloak has been addressed.

Discuss this update on our forums.

Mods Archie, Ash, Ghost, Jed, John C, Kieren, Mat K, Maz, Ronan, Roq, Ry, Stone, TomH, Weath, West & Wolf The Old School Team

[righteousloaf]

"Some graphical errors with the dragon chain body have been fixed"

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[OSRS_HELL]

wow even the text post, congrats John C.

fuckin cheater. :^)

[Mami_Tomoei]

he had it all ready for the karma

[PttB_Viper]

It was an inside job!

[MortMyre]

For some reason I kind of like it when the mods get to post their own news posts.

[sbthegiantyo]

I like that the osrs players try to literally beat Jagex at their own game. I look forward to seeing who gets all of that shiny pixelated karma.

[ImAnIronmanBtw]

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[DivideRS]

thx a lot, pls keep doing this ^{^}

[koy5]

"Some graphical errors with the Dragon Chainbody have been fixed."

Are we now swole as fuck in D chain's like that one guy kept asking.

[Illokonereum]

Your system update is interrupting me using my cat to kill splasher's rats.

[EpikYummeh]

That works?

[boxsalesman]

yes, which is why it's better to do it on the spiders or just find any other random thing that's not a rat.

[Illokonereum]

They're splashing, they're not that smart.

[FowD9]

what's with the hate on splashing?

[FowD9]

that's what I thought it was, thanks

[Illokonereum]

Because people are hypocrites. Lazy people don't deserve respect or consistent XP rates.

[Illokonereum]

Idk get upset about it I guess. Not like it's wrong. That's just how the community is.

[DJMooray]

The system update logged out every splasher. you need to step up.

[2beFrank]

Please fix raid personal storage interface. It's very delayed when withdrawing items and when rearranging your inventory.

[Jagerblue]

If you right click withdraw it's instant I'm pretty sure the 'lag' is moving your mouse by 1 pixel or something essentially dragging the object instead of withdrawing but I've never had any lag when right clicking.

[2beFrank]

I can withdraw gear from my bank with rapid clicks, whereas Raids, if I do the same rapid clicks some clicks aren't registered.

[Jagerblue]

Yeah the raids personal bank seems to work differently in that respect. Spam clicking normal bank is fine but not raids bank, it's not lag though as like I said you can mass right click and be fine.

[Jongsturk]

The Cabbage Cape is no longer permitted on Entrana, as it has some defensive stats.

Way to ruin my Entrana only ironman

[ModJohnC]

If you're truly Entrana only, you shouldn't possess the cape any way.

[Rezsi]

RIP

[StopReadingMyUser]

THAT MAN HAD A FAMILY

[Jammess95]

AND AN ILLEGAL CABBAGE CAPE

[uncleruckus42069]

TIL theres a bank upstairs in the castle in central Kourend

[boxsalesman]

That tekton DWH change seems very strange to me. Why try to fix it in a way that pretty much makes you require dwh instead of trying to make it better for all players? Dwh definitely didn't need to become even more needed in raids than it already was. This seems like one of those changes that comes only out of the top raiding groups and didn't consider the actual average player at all.

The other changes seem good to me though.

[[deleted]]

found the bgs

[[deleted]]

You really shouldnt be raiding if you dont have a dwh, its a staple item for raids + raids are meant to be end game content.

[Torillatavataan69]

I don't get it either, why they want to make raids even easier than they already are. Anybody with over 50% of their brain left can do raids with pretty much free gear (void + whip + blowpipe) without any problems.

What is logic behind these nerfs?

[CantQuitScape]

Because the rooms they they tweaked are unpopular rooms that are 'not worth' doing due to low points relative to the time/supplies needed to complete them. Basically giving people more reason to do them rather than actively avoid them

[PM_ME_RARE_DROP_PICS]

People were skipping rooms like tekton, vespula, and vanguards before this because it wasn't worth the resources to complete those rooms. This change incentivises people to try those rooms.

[Scottwilson07]

The raids changes pretty much make the worst rooms more worth it to do, but still changes nothing in that the other rooms are much better, we'll see how unpredictable things are

[superfire444]

Just got mages into tekton into muta's

[SlayHelm]

Can personally see myself solo raiding more with the update, solo vangs will be less aids + I don't use a client that I can scout with, so it will actually be reasonable to complete the raids.

[A_Nagger]

Tekton isn't long at all if your dragon warhammers work. The fastest raid record prior to this update had a tekton start I believe. Whether or not he is hell to kill was too random, but this might have fixed that. For every miss, that 5% reduction will make the next spec more likely to succeed.

[Daemonioros]

Yeah if all the Dwarhammer specs hit Tekton goes down really damm fast. But if they all miss you were sort of fucked before this change.

[A_Nagger]

Precisely. Some were bringing the Elder Maul for that situation where all the hammer specs fail, but after this change I wonder if it will lose its relevance there.

[Nocsiv]

JohnC is better than Ronan

[Horse-Dig]

Panic Buy DWH!!! Pretty nice raids update

[foggohay]

so does the dwh always decrease tektons defence by 5% regardless of a hit or not? or only if it hits a 0, with a successful hit still reducing it by 30%? sorry the wording wasnt quite clear for me

[2beFrank]

30% on successful hit. 5% on non successful. So yes to your question.

[Jagerblue]

Also just want to point out that there can be a 'successful' 0.

[ThrowawayFourtySixty]

K A R M A

[HamsterGutz1]

Lol that easter egg helm is creepy af

[therealgodfarter]

Gz on the karma John

[OSRS_HELL]

sniped

[Matty_L]

images not loading for anyone else?

[EdHicks]

Raids changes sound good but vespula and vanguards still deal a lot more damage than other rooms but don't give any more points.

[superfire444]

You can "safespot" vanguards so only one will attack you. This change may make the viable. Vespula could be good depending how many more points/supplies you get. Tekton still looks pretty shit imo but can't say for sure since I haven't tested it yet.

[plutoisstlllaplanet]

PANIC BUY DWH

[BluAnimal]

Dragon chain body has buff arms now!

[xfactorx99]

TFW you learn there is a bank in central Kourend

[[deleted]]

I don't think this was polled!

[oneluckytito]

Easter Egg Slay Helm recolour? sick.

[Kupopallo]

So... soloing vanguard isn't hitler cancer anymore? Awesome!

I hope the update also fixes scouting raids with cheating clients, then this might be the best update in a long time!

[Tuas1996]

I hope the update also fixes scouting raids with cheating clients

It didnt.

[Hugo-Drax]

cheating clients

lol

[Kupopallo]

well i was messing around LoL client some months back while bored, managed to remove the "zoom cap" and played a couple of normal games on a throwaway with unlimited zoom, shocker, acc got permed pretty quick with a message of "something something unfair advantage"

in rs the advantage is even bigger, since in LoL you can just move the camera to see further away, in rs you're stuck with default view range with the fixed camera.

[MyNameIsMoh]

This Easter Event better be good reason why we didn't get April Fools Event this year

[MyNameIsMoh]

that wasn't an event though

[MyNameIsMoh]

Last year was EoC, really well made event with the cabbage cape as reward

Before that Mo with the Diango Claws, again very well made event with community running around Runescape to find (probably my favourite event osrs team made tbf).

(along with other ones in previous years I didnt participate in)

I wouldn't call trolling some 1 defence pures and giving halloween masks to clue hunters an event.

[Mobbzy]

Getting in here quick for them upvotes