This week, high-level herbalists will find a variety of new, untradeable potions at their disposal. Using your increased knowledge of the Herblore skill, you will find you now have the ability to add tertiary ingredients to some potions to increase their effect.

These potions aren't just limited to stat boosts either. Have you ever wanted to take your godsword on dragon-slaying trips? Now's your chance, with the super antifire potion (at level 84). Are you approaching near mastery of the Herblore skill? If so, there’s a potion that may just ‘overload’ your entire body (at level 96) – dare you drink it?

On a side note, those who can mix the extreme magic potion will find it doesn't work in a similar way to its lower-level equivalents. When used, this potion will boost all offensive spell damage by 40% for a duration of six minutes, and will stack with magic staves that boost magic damage.

Mod Chris L
RuneScape Content Developer



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In other news...

As part of the conversion of the worn interface and inventory to a newer internal file format, certain items now have clearer right-click options when using them. For example, the amulet of glory now lists the four different destinations it can take you to instead of just saying 'Operate'.

The Game Engine team have made sure the player list is now randomised to prevent priority being given to some players over others because of their IP address.

You can now navigate around the world map using arrow keys.

Iconis the wizard has set up a strange tent in a quiet field near Falador, not too far from his colleague the Makeover Mage, just through the members’ gate. He’s advertising there the wonders of his new picture-taking magic, which sends a still representation of any adventurer to a completely different plane of existence altogether: the RuneScape forums.

Expose yourself to the mischievous magic of Iconis’s impish business partner in the Photo Booth and you may find that the next post you make on the RuneScape forums will have a picture of your head and whatever was on it when the spell was cast. (Note that you can't pose for a photo while wearing or wielding borrowed items.)

There are only so many spells the poor imp can perform at any one time, though, so for the first few days, it might take several hours from you taking your picture to it being displayed on the forums. Iconis thanks you for your patience.

Mod Maylea
RuneScape Content Developer
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Mod Heinz
Web Systems Developer

Forum avatars sound cool, So some time this week?

..?

They are out. they appear atm.

Intense fail. Recover special = spec spamming. Super antifire = swarmed dragon spots. Extremes/overload = more OHKO'ing. Super prayer = GWD camping.
The whole update = herblore more of a money sink due to people trying to the the levels. Avatars = polishing a turd.

Am I forgetting anything?

This is what herblore wanted and if your saying herblore should be cheap so more people will use these then your mad.
Only 8000 - 10,000 - 12,000 players can use this update.

"The whole update = herblore more of a money sink due to people trying to the the levels."

8k - 12k player had those levels when there was no incentive. Now that there is, people will be buying up herblore ingredients en masse. I'm not saying it should be cheap, you should just be able to make a profit at some point.

I notice how you didn't refute my points, you just insulted me, and you even did that poorly.

So alot of people having and incentive to train a skill now is a bad thing o_O.

Well i would just use penguins for herblore :P

This doesn't mean everyone will want to go with herblore and in the end it will probably calm down and what would you expect from a herblore update?

Isn't it obvious alot of people will buy herbs for it? :P

Dragon bones have risen 60% in the last 180 days because of the prayers that were released a relatively long time ago. This isn't something that calms down. I would expect that when a skill is not profitable, an update would fix that. This just added to the problem.

Awesome update! Exactly what us high level players want, untradeable things that are actually useful.

Cause you cant buy them, herb is actually worth training now. Very well done.

Worth training? Worth 100000000 billion coins spent on random herbs to get some levels? They should have made them trade-able.

I just saw this. I can see why Jagex wants to rebalance combat.

This isn't my pic btw.

@Elkopoo,



is this the sorta thing you mean?

GF Runescape. You know it's reached the ridiculous stage when you can 1 hit people.

GF Runescape. You know it's reached the ridiculous stage when you can 1 hit people.

Do you mean a 99 hit? Or D claw spec twice which is OP. Either way, the easier it is to one hit people, the more it ruins PvP (which is already rather ruined with the whole waiting an hour to get potential.)

You know once they rebalance combat we'll all complain and want it back to the way it was. You'd sometimes think people just wanted the game to never update (but then they'd complain of having no updates.)

Do you mean a 99 hit? Or D claw spec twice which is OP. Either way, the easier it is to one hit people, the more it ruins PvP (which is already rather ruined with the whole waiting an hour to get potential.)

They probably rising because a high level prayer update is soon to happen.

I, herblore becoming a moneysink to use these is exactly what we needed. RuneScape is overflowering with GP atm thanks to 76k trick statues, and Jagex need to get rid of it.

This will get rid of a huge amount of that, all the pkers wanting these. I can't think of a more perfectly implemented update in this last year or two than this.

Oh, that's right. I forgot people can see the future. Silly me.


But it doesn't destroy the money, it just moves it around.

I agree with removing them from pvp worlds and bh, but removing from safe minigames is just silly.