We’ve taken a careful look at the extreme Herblore potions we released a few weeks ago and have now reintroduced them to safe PvP minigames – that includes Castle Wars, Soul Wars, safe Clan Wars, TzHaar Fight Pit, and the Duel Arena (but not ‘no-potion’ fights or Tournaments).

As part of this, we’ve slightly changed the way in which the extreme magic potion works – it now provides a visible Magic stat boost of 7, which decreases over time as with other stat-boosting potions. The normal magic potion’s level boost has been increased to +5. We have, however, also made a change to the Magic skill itself, so that if your Magic level is boosted by any means, you will inflict +3% magic damage per boosted level. This is on top of the +10% magic damage you inflict when wielding certain staves.

Part of the reason for these changes is that we’ve added four new high-level elemental battle spells to the standard spellbook. The Wind Surge (level 81), Water Surge (level 85), Earth Surge (level 90) and Fire Surge (level 95) spells each require one blood and one death rune, and some air runes (and some water, earth or fire runes for those respective elemental spells).

The max hit of Fire Surge is:
28 without boosts
30 with a magic damage-boosting staff
33 with extreme magic/overload
37 with both extreme magic/overload and a magic damage-boosting staff

With those updates, you’re going to need some more runes, so, to top it all off, Runecrafting also gets a tweak. As of today, crafting multiple runes out of one essence has changed for the better. Before, you would only gain the ability to craft an extra rune at specific Runecrafting levels (e.g. 2 air runes at level 11, 3 air runes at level 22, 4 at level 33, and so on). Now, there is a ‘chance’ of getting an extra rune on ‘some’ of your essences if you are between those set levels, with that chance increasing as your level increases (e.g. at Runecrafting levels 12-21, you will gain 2 or 3 air runes per essence). If you want to imagine it visually, what used to be a step graph has been smoothed out into a curve. This is explained in a little more detail in the Game Guide, but the bottom line is that you’ll receive more runes for your hard work.

Mod Chris L (potions/Magic), Mod Rathe (new spells) and Mod Nancy (Runecrafting)
RuneScape Content Developers


In other news...

Your run mode setting is now stored between logins.

You can now take Ava's Attractor and Accumulator to Lanthus and you will be able to retrieve dropped ammo while in Castle Wars. There's also a toggle option on both items to allow you to stop receiving junk.

The pharaoh's sceptre now displays its remaining charges in the name of the item.

The Summoning skillcape now has a boost option to match other skillcapes.

Cannons will no longer waste cannonballs on NPCs in the process of dying. You can now also top up the ammo when it's already firing and there’s an auto-setup feature.

Bones to Peaches and Bones to Bananas can now be used to convert any bones up to and including big bones.

The update affects the crafting of all runes...hence the RSOF outrage. There are a lot of ways Jagex could've increased the supply of runes in RuneScape, and/or lowered prices...this might've been the worst.

I still find it funny that Jagex are constantly changing the extreme potions. Anyone could've know the response when they were initially released (except Jagex that is.) Would be nice if they stuck to something for once and didn't keep ummming and ahhhing about their updates.

Haha Xela, besides the fact that Nats are going to crash, and Pure ess is skyrocketing, I guess it's nice.
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Prices will probably settle back to normal in a week or two though, I hope.

We need a new spellbook that primarily uses nature runes. Since the trade removal days, the % of players alching has dramatically decreased.

no haymesay, I am saying that we might have an influx in people alching, not to mention more people will be wanting to get to those high level combat spells and will likely alch to get there. oh well, at least alching takes items out of the economy.

And to the last couple of posters, the chance of an extra rune is like 45%, so thats pretty common. Nat prices will drop, and pure essence is gonna skyrocket. It's impossible to buy in GE on max atm, apparently.

Also, I do think the spells are worth it, I was looking at the stats and the new spells give much more than the xp of the corresponding death spell and blood spell, so in the end you get better results and faster training. (and I have heard that barrage and such use like 6 different deaths and bloods)

I found it also funny that they bothered to work out the max hit of the spell for every combination of potion. It's kind of like a "Mage isn't underpowered, see? We've even written out the facts just to convince you."

Useless telling us the max hit is 37 with the ultimate potion because guess what, you can't pvp with it so it's of no use.

Ugh, I wish for once there was an awesome update

Haha Xela, besides the fact that Nats are going to crash, and Pure ess is skyrocketing, I guess it's nice.
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Prices will probably settle back to normal in a week or two though, I hope.

Because those nats now aren't worth as much. They probably will be again after the fuss has died down, but for now the world is over.

And then people who had double nats will realise they can get treble nats, and people who run nats will get doubles, and the price will probably reach something like what it was anyway because the great alching machine rolls on.

Now, there is a ‘chance’ of getting an extra rune on ‘some’ of your essences if you are between those set levels, with that chance increasing as your level increases (e.g. at Runecrafting levels 12-21, you will gain 2 or 3 air runes per essence).

Is it for sure that above the highest level you get more runes? There is no higher amount of nats to get above double nats. The article stated:

I haven't read any threads about this on RSOF, so I'm not aware of any official statement from Jagex on this.

Sounds good for the free to players that need an extra few spells to get up to that very hard to reach level of 99 magic. It's not that bad an update for members either, although the prices are going to go seesawing for runes and Mage pots.

Except for the fact that they require blood runes.... (not f2p) ....(or at least I don't think they are...?)

My mate at 96 RC seems to be under the impression that he can get treble nats.

You guys who say this'll settle down are wrong, it's a very high chance of getting more runes.

My friend who is 88 rc has like a 66% chance