Wilderness Rejuvenation Improvements
Mage Arena II Improvements
In our Wilderness Rejuvenation retrospect news post, we agreed that the release of Mage Arena II wasn’t to either your standards, or the standards to which we hold ourselves. To remedy this we have updated the appearance of the three bosses, we’ve updated their mechanics, and we’ve expanded on the lore surrounding Kolodion and the three bosses.
Revenant Drop Table Update
We learned rather quickly that you weren’t overly pleased with the 100x item drop from Revenants, with a common complaint being that it felt artificial and unlike other drops in RuneScape. Alongside this, the average GP/h fell below the intended rate relatively quickly after the Revenant Cave release. To offset both of these, we’ve made a number of changes to the Revenant drop table. We have removed the 100x drop, we’ve adjusted the weighting across the normal loot table whilst removing some of the less valuable drops and increasing quantities of others. Additionally, we’ve added Statuettes as unique drops to Revenants. These can be sold to the Emblem trader for 4 million GP, 8 million GP, and 16 million GP respectively, they can also be alched (high alchemy, not low alchemy, of course) for 60% of this sell value. These changes help to bring the average GP/h in line with what was proposed when the Revenant Cave was first polled.
Again we’d like to reiterate that we are open to replacing the Statuettes in the future if unique rewards can be agreed upon, and we encourage you all to send in suggestions for new rewards in this forum thread, or on Reddit (/r/2007scape/ and /r/oldschoolrs/).
Other Changes
Alongside the graphical overhaul of the bosses we have replaced the Demon’s heart drops from Saradomin’s boss and Guthix’ boss. This is to ensure the drops are now more thematically fitting.
Kolodion’s dialogue has been updated to reflect an expansion in lore surrounding the bosses fought during Mage Arena II.
The Enchanted Symbol no longer asks which boss you would like to search for when you have only one boss left to kill. Now it’ll just help you find the last remaining boss.
The effectiveness of the Twisted Bow when used against Mage Arena II bosses has been reduced to bring it in line with the effectiveness of other weapons.
Porazdir. Once one of Zamorak’s most trusted generals. He now roams the Wilderness, killing all in his path.
Justiciar Zachariah. One of the last remaining justiciars of Saradomin. He relentlessly pursues Porazdir on behalf of his god.
Derwen the Ent. An ancient servant of Guthix. He has devoted himself to maintaining balance across the Wilderness.