26-Oct-2009 - Web of Shadows

A dark house portal has appeared to the south of Falador once again. Tremble as you approach it, for it leads to the house of the Grim Reaper, Death himself!

In this year's Halloween event, Death has a problem with an uninvited guest. Choose to help out and you will journey to a realm rarely trod by creatures with only two feet, and converse with its irritable monarch.

Completing the event will reward you with two new wearable items �€“ one of which has a mind of its own �€“ so seek out the house of Death...if you dare!

We've also created a wallpaper based on this event, which you can download here.

Mod John A
RuneScape Content Developer

Summary:
Where to start Web of Shadows:
Enter the dark house portal south of Falador.

Requirements to complete Web of Shadows:
None


In other news...

We�€™ve made some improvements to the way banks calculate your free space. Free-players who used to be members will no longer have to dump all their members items to be able to use their banks and everyone can now see their usage in more detail on the interface. For more information, please read the Controls - Banks page.

We've updated the bank to make it automatically resize to fit your screen better. The interface will automatically extend downwards to show you more of your bank items.

Zahur in Nardah, who's moved to the building east of the bank, will now decant all of your potions (in any combination) into 3-dose vials for you. He charges a small fee for this service to cover the cost of any extra vials needed.

We've swapped two tasks in the Ardougne Achievement Diary. The medium diary might look a little odd if you've already completed it, but you should still be able to wear the cloaks for their effects.

An auto re-pick feature has been added when harvesting your mushrooms, berries and fruit from Farming patches.

When collecting a single item at the Grand Exchange, left-click will now withdraw the actual item and right-click will withdraw it as a note. Withdrawals for multiple items will behave as before.

26-Oct-2009 - Anti 76king measures

As many of you know, since the opening of PvP Worlds, �€˜76k�€™ing has become a very common practice. We�€™ve never been happy about this as we believe it spoils the game experience for players who want to play on PvP Worlds as intended and exhibit their PvP skills, with high rewards for high risks, rather than it being a safe method for earning large amounts of money. Looking at our forums, it looks like many players feel the same way.

Designing and developing a solution to this issue that worked, but which did not lessen the rewards for legitimate kills, turned out to be rather tricky. We�€™re hopeful that the solution we�€™ve come up with will reduce 76King without having too significant an impact on legitimate PKers.

Players who trade kills will find that the drop they receive is lessened in value. Legitimate PKers might find that some of their kills will result in smaller drops (e.g. when getting revenge on someone who has just killed you), but since you�€™ll still only lose as much Earning Potential as is used for the drop, your average drop will stay the same.

Mod Chihiro
Senior Technical Developer

Enjoy the Halloween event. I might pop on and play a little to get the Halloween reward. I haven't for 2 years.

I always log in to get the rewards. It's hilarious how it's now rare to have a yo-yo and rubber chicken!

I had just missed the scythe when I started to play. When i found that out I became sad. I have the yo-yo though D:

This seemed rushed and not planned very well to me.

I always log in to get the rewards. It's hilarious how it's now rare to have a yo-yo and rubber chicken!

Just in case anyone hasn't done the quest yet, the prize is a web cape and Eek the spider. You also get all the previous Halloween emotes, including the zombie claw dodge and the zombie walk, scared and bat around you one. Pretty good rewardcruddy for a kinda easytedious, mind numbing, dull, nap time, overall crud quest.

Fixed. I just played, and I've got to say, I don't like it. I've played each and every H'ween event, so all I got was a boring spider and a cape. I totally liked last years, because you could actually enjoy it the entire period of days.

I didn't like it either... the only good thing is spider emote, but that's hard to see and gets old fast. I'm thinking that the xmas event might be huge.

I dunno why people didn't like it.

It was tedious and the reward sucked.

Yo so I haven't played RuneScape in like four years. What exactly is 76king, hmm?

76k or '76k'ing (formerly '25k'ing) refers to a PKing technique in a PvP world in which two players trade killing each other as a safe method for earning large amounts of money.

75k is the minimum worth of items a player needs to risk in order to obtain high rewards with PKing. This was intended to reward players to exhibit their
PvP skills with high rewards for high risk. (See Death and Drops (Loot).

In '76k'ing, each players brings at least 75k in coins as well as any other item (which makes the total worth rounded up to equal 76k) so that both meet the criteria of staking a high amount in order to obtain a good drop. They each take turns killing each other to obtain good drops with little risk.
Jagex released Update:Anti-'76k'ing Measures on 26 October 2009 to address this issue.

I personally love these events because for once your alongside other players having fun instead of being opposed to them.

Meh, thought the event was about average. And I liked the snow imp better than the spider.

To be honest I wonder if we don't see an actual quest come out later this week. I recall them saying in an old BTS that they would always release a quest and an event from now on. As far as I know, web of shadows was either a quest or an event.