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[Omicron]

Hello everyone,

I'm extremely happy to announce that raids are now available for everyone! The staff team and I have had a busy few weeks figuring out all of the details to put it all together, and I'm excited to see all of you online and enjoying the new content :) I've stayed up all night to make sure that all of the loose ends are tied, and I have no doubts that we may have missed a few things, so if you find any bugs please be sure to report them, and know that they will get resolved quickly.


Raids overview:

• Party features:
  • Your clan leader can create a party to enter the raids dungeon, at which point all clan members are notified that they have 2 minutes to enter the raid.
• General features:
  • 12 rooms total, not including the final Olm boss room
  • Scaling:
    • Damage, timers, rewards, etc are all scaled to the size of the party.
    • This does not mean a solo raid is an easy task, but it does mean that parties with large teams will be increasingly difficult as the size increases.
  • Items dropped on the ground(by players, or NPC loot) last for 1 hour before disappearing
  • Resources:
    • Overloads (dropped by Tekton, 1 for each player)
    • Boosts all stats by 6 + 16% every 15 seconds for 5 minutes
    • Hits 50 damage when you drink the first dose, but this is re-healed at the end of the 5 minutes.
  • Xeric's aid, Kodai, Elder, Twisted, Revitalisation and Prayer enhance potions available
  • Most resources can be collected as drops from bosses or mobs within the dungeon.
  • There will occasionally be a fishing spot to fish, but you must have kindling to light a fire and cook the fish.
  • Additionally, there is a room in the dungeon with a few bats to catch and cook.
• Death mechanics:
  • Although you do not lose items on death, if you die within the raid you will lose points:
  • Regular players lose 33% of their total points, whereas donators lose:
  • Donator: 30%
  • Super: 25%
  • Extreme: 20%
  • Legendary: 15%
  • Uber: 10%

Boss mechanics:

• Ice demon:
  • Sappling trees must be chopped in order to obtain kindling to light all 4 braziers surrounding the demon.
  • The icefiends will try to extinguish the braziers, and you must keep them fully lit for the boss to melt!
• Vasa Nistirio:
  • Vasa will attack players with Ranged based rocks, as well as a Magic-based special attack performed every so often where he teleports half of the players into the center of the room and stuns them. During this period, the non-stunned players must help their team mates by running as close to the center as possible.
  • The more distance between the non-stunned players and Vasa, the more damage dealt to those stunned.
  • Vasa will walk to one of the 4 crystals in the corners to heal every so often. If you do not kill the crystal in time, he will perform the special attack upon returning to the center.
• Vanguards:
  • The 3 different Vanguards(melee, magic, ranged) must be attacked with the opposite style to deal effective damage!
  • The most important thing to keep in mind for this room is that all 3 vanguards must be kept at similar hitpoints. If there is a difference of more than 20% HP for any of the vanguards, they will all heal the next time they burrow into the ground.
• Corrupted Scavenger:
  • You must search the chests in the room to feed the corrupted scavenger and put him to sleep.
• Skeletal mystics:
  • Simple room with 3 Skeletal mystics -- it is advisable to try not to aggrevate more than one at a time.
• Tekton:
  • Tekton is a powerful melee-based boss which obtains his strength from the Giant anvil in his room.
  • Every so often, he will head to the anvil to sharpen his blade. During this time, flaming hot shards will fly around the room (ranged based) and must be avoided. After a short period, Tekton will leave the anvil(enraged) and will be very aggressive and stronger than usual. After a short while, he will return to his normal(non-enraged) phase.
• Muttadiles:
  • The baby muttadile, which uses ranged attacks, must first be fought, while the mother attacks from the water with Magic. The idea is to keep the Muttadiles away from the meat tree, this can be done by either chopping the meat tree so that they cannot eat from it, or freezing them to block their path. Once the baby muttadilehas been defeated, the mother will come out of the water. She is significantly stronger, using all 3 combatstyles as well as having an impressively high hitting chomp(melee) which can hit up to 60.
• Deathly rangers and mages:
  • In this room, you must be wary of the 6 different deathlies which are protecting the Keystone crystal.
    • It is located on the other end of a crossrope, and if you cross over before killing the deathlies, there is a very high chance of being killed
• Olm:
  • Combat bonus scaling:
    • Combat bonuses scaled to party size
  • Phases scaled: (including the penultimate phase)
    • 2 phases for a 1 person party
    • 3 phases for a <= 7 person party
    • 4 phases for a <= 14 person party
    • 5 phases for a <= 25 person party(maximum)
    • (The later the phase, the more frequent the special attacks and more powerful Olm becomes)
  • Head attacks:
    • Drain spheres special attack which sap prayer and disable overheads:
      • Blue(magic) sphere
      • Red(melee) sphere
      • Green(range) sphere
    • Normal attacks:
      • Green "shard" (Ranged)
      • Green "orb" (Magic)
    • Posion special attack:
      • Affected players will repeatedly shout "Burn with me!"
      • Those who stand too close to someone burning will shout "I will burn with you." and inflict the poison upon themselves.
  • Acid pool shot
    • Olm will create multiple acid pools in the room in random locations, and players who step on them will be constantly dealt with poison damage.
  • Final phase only: Life Siphon
    • During this phase, Olm will shoot two blue pools out into the field, which all players are required to stand on. Any player not standing on this pool will be dealt damage, and Olm will heal itself by that amount of damage.
• Room effects:
  • Acid trail:
    • Olm will target 1 player who will create an acid pool wherever they walk, which other players must avoid.
  • Stalagmite fall - targets 1 player:
    • Olm will shout out a cry, and one player will have a red portal glow and stalagmites falling on them frequently.(they may damage other players in the vicinity)
  • Ground spikes:
    • Every player will see small spikes spawn under them, which will turn into a large crystal quickly thereafter and deal a high amount of damage to any players who have not moved away.
  • When Olm has dipped underground to recover for the next phase, the room will shake and stalagmites will fall and deal heavy damage.
    • Upon resurfacing, Olm will have moved to the other side of the cave.
• Left hand specials:
  • Lightning wave/wall that runs through the room
  • Player swap(confuse)
    • Two players are selected and a colored glow surrounds them. In 3 seconds, they must be on the same tile or close by, otherwise their positions are swapped and they are dealt damage based on distance
  • Heal aura (Final phase)
    • If you hit the left hand while the heal aura insignia is shown, your damage will work to heal the left hand rather than hurt it.
  • Olm's left hand will become unattackable every so often

Reward system:

• Based on real loot tables from OSRS
  • Chance to hit unique table scales based on the points you received in the raid(from damage or skilling)
• Loot amounts by donator rank:
  • Uber: 5
  • Legendary: 4
  • All others(including non-donators): 3
• Amount of resources and supplies are partially based on the points you've received
• Olm pet with the proper dialogues // animations(laughing animation as well)

Weapons:

• Twisted bow:
  • Highly increases damage and accuracy against targets based on their magic level/bonuses
• Elder maul:
  • A two-handed weapon which deals incredibly high damage.
• Dragon sword:
  • A sword with a special attack which increases accuracy/damage by 25% and ignores protection prayer.
• Kodai wand:
  • 15% chance to not remove runes for casting a spell(Also fixed for both SOTD's -- was broken)
  • Unlimited water runes
• Dragon hunter crossbow:
  • 10% more damage and accuracy against Olm, dragons and Wyverns
• Dinh's bulwark
• Dragon thrownaxes
• Prayer scroll
• Dragon harpoon
  • Catch fish at a 20% faster rate
  • You can also save an inventory spot by equipping the harpoon, provided that you have 60 attack.
  • (Infernal harpoon will be added soon, along with fixing the old infernal equipment)

New prayers:

• *Note*
  • All of the following prayers must be unlocked by a Prayer scroll.
  • Upon reading the scroll, you can select 1 of the 3 prayers to permanently unlock.
• Preserve:
  • Requires level 55 Prayer
  • Boosted stats last 20% longer
• Rigour:
  • Requires level 74 Prayer
  • Increases Ranged attack by 20% (accuracy)
  • Increases Ranged damage by 23%
  • Increases Defence by 25%
• Augury:
  • Requires level 77 Prayer
  • Increases Magical attack by 25% (accuracy)
  • Increases Defence by 25%

General updates:

• Equipment tab changes:
  • Right-click options on jewellery
• OpenGL rendering distance increased:
  • While on OpenGL mode, you will now be able to see more of the landscape, with the rendering distance increased by almost double what it was at before.
• Fixed all crossbow speeds(Besides rune/addy which were already correct)
• Webshop changes:
  • Uber donator rank has been added which includes:
    • An enhancement to the Legendary donator benefits, with two useful new benefits:
      • 5 items vs. the usual 3 from a raids reward chest
      • Only 10% of your points are lost on death in a raids session rather than 33% for normal players
    • More benefits will be added in the near future!
      • Additionally, there will be a "benefits" table added to the webstore for a clear chart of the benefits that each rank receives.
  • Shop item additions:
    • Dragon warhammer
    • Prayer scroll
      • You can use this to unlock any one of the new prayers(Preserve, rigour augury).
    • Dragon harpoon
  • Promotional sale:
    • Mystery box - 45 tokens
    • Super combat potions - 25 tokens
    • Verac's armour set - 55 tokens
    • Armadyl crossbow - 225 tokens
    • Imbued heart - 300 tokens
• Voting changes:
  • Voting points have been increased to 25 instead of 20 as there are now 5 toplists to vote on rather than 4 (4 minimum to get an auth)
• Occult ornament kit is now functional

Enjoy! And good luck :)

Regards,
Omicron

[Gigabyte]

Good job Omicron

[O T T O]

Hype@@@@@

Thanks for all the hard work you've put into this!

[Demolition]

Amazing! Great work!!!

[Diva]

I must be in heaven

 

Thank you so much for all these updates & RAIDS especially.

No words to describe how thankful we are!

[Mod Ash]

Going to camp the living crap out of these raids. Xdddd

[Spring lemon]

Thank you!

[Hoestie]

gfx rank ingame fix pls my yell says 'player' 

[Jare]

So stoked for the community. Unreal work, my man. So excited for the future.

[Sux]

Amazing update. 

Keep up the fantastic work.

[Tommy]

I'm pumped to get into this, just as I max out. Shouldn't be long now!

[Poor Level 3]

Can't wait to get on!

Hands down amazing work. There's no other words.

[uTorrent]

This is the most impressive content update I've seen come out of an RSPS. Was fun to help test with the rest of the staff team.

[Strato]

RAIDS ARE HERE!

So excited to be a part of all this! Can't wait to test it out and get some juicy rewards

[Flipper]

The hype of a wait is now over with, RAIDS!!!

Ah, this is one awesome, huge update. Thank you Omicron for the hard work you've put into this update!

[Sahr]

Love the updates but I can't help but feel the Dragon Sword should have been added elsewhere.

[Syntax]

the best team size is 7 i assume? gj btw

[Cheez]

great job its time!

[Chance]

Amazing, words really can't describe how happy I am!

Thank you so much for making raids come to an rsps and thank you for how much work you put into doing it!

Good job guys, well done! *Claps* *Confetti Launcher*

 

Got to get my hands on that dragon harpoon xD

[Mathias]

Well done!