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Good evening gamers!

It's been a while since the last staff update, so lets get this going. If you are interested in joining the staff team, make sure to apply here: https://www.alora.io...f-applications/

Promotions:

Real Ivy has been promoted to Global Moderator.

Ruwk has been promoted to Forum Moderator.

Max has been promoted to Server Support.

Secondary ranks:

Real Ivy has transferred secondary rank from Ivy to Real Ivy.

18 has transferred secondary rank from B to Kqt.

YeetMcSkeet has added a secondary rank to Iron Status.

GIM NoArN has added a secondary rank to WhoSaidThat.

Demotions:

-

Resignations:

-

Thank you, and see you soon  

Alora Administration Team.

Hello everyone,

With the recent release of our fifth Alora Leagues tournament, we're really excited to hear everyone's feedback about the mode, what they think about it, and how we can improve your experience. We'd like to hear any feedback you have regarding changes that can be made in any and all ways to improve the League. This includes changes to tasks (e.g. reduce 25 Master clue collection log slots to 15), as well as even adding new tasks that would be a fun challenge for players.

We're also looking to hear your feedback about balancing relics that may be underpowered or overpowered. We've expanded this league to include a new region (Tirannwn), a few relics from the recent edition of Raging Echoes League, and lastly the new Echo bosses.

We want the experience to be as enjoyable as possible, so if there is any content in these areas that is missing to improve the game mode, let us know and we'll implement it given that it can be done within a reasonable time frame.

We hope you're enjoying our fifth Leagues iteration, and we're looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Best Regards,

Welcome to the February-March edition of the Alora times.

I hope this year is off to a good start for you all.  If you missed it, our next Leagues event is right around the corner! We're excited to announce that we're hosting our 5th Alora League in less than two weeks, so make sure to mark the date on your calendar! Now lets see what exciting stuff has been happening on Alora for the past two months.

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Bonus Schedule For March

March Vote Competition [March 1st - March 21st]

Moons of Peril, ToB Buff, Amoxliatl & North Varlamore Expansion, Barehanded Fishing & more!

Royal Titans, Scurrius, Obor, Bryophyta, Colossal Wyrm + Varrock Agility & more!

Development Blog #20: Leagues 5 - Raging Echoes

Alora Leagues 5.0 (Launching Mar 21st) In-game & IRL Prizes!

If you want to check out our past updates, click here.

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Alora's Official Rules can be found here.

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The latest Staff Changes are as follows:

To see our past Staff Updates, click here.

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Here we honour our fallen comrades from the last month and there were a few of them! We wish them the best on their new Ironman journeys and better luck next time!

Stay up to date with some of our community members' recent Goals & Achievements: 

1000AtaTime

1000AtaTime - challenge account I’m going to regret

Selenagomez

SG2's Ice Bingo Recap

Cuiii

The Grind.

Muphin

Ivy's Goals and Achievements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make a topic in our Goals and Achievements section or send your achievement in the #newspaper_submissions channel in Alora Discord to be featured here!

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The winners of January & February MOTM's are...

Danny & Variant !

Congratulations! You have stood out in the eyes of the Alora community. Thank you for being great members here on Alora and enjoy your rewards. :)

The link to the Member of the Month thread can be found here.

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Make sure to check out our streamers and video makers. They would love to have you keep them company during their streams and check out the content they create for Alora!

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If I've missed anyone I do apologize, just message me on the forums or on Discord with a link to your channel and I will add you in.

That concludes this month’s edition of the Alora Newspaper! If you would like to see something added to the paper make sure to message H!

You can read the previous edition by clicking here.

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Hello everyone,

We have been eagerly waiting to reveal something we have been working on recently, and we feel like now is the right time to reveal it to you all, which is the fifth edition of Leagues!

For those unfamiliar with the idea of Leagues, it's quite simple. You make a new account that is locked to the island of Kourend and your goal is to complete as many tasks as you can in 6 weeks. As you complete more and more tasks, you will be given the option to unlock other regions. Achieving certain point milestones allows you to unlock Relics, which are overpowered boosts to your account.

Now lets run through all of this in a little more detail so you can familiarize yourself with what's to come.

Regions

This Leagues, we're spicing things up, rather than unlocking all the regions as you unlock new relics, you will now be able to choose 5/6 available regions as you complete tasks and progress, forging your own path.

You will begin in the Kourend region, with it automatically unlocked, and be able to unlock the Morytania, Varlamore, Karamja, Desert, and Tirannwn regions.

• Second region unlock:
  • 1 task completion required
• Third region unlock:
  • 90 total task completions required.
• Fourth region unlock:
  • 200 total task completions required.
• Fifth region unlock:
  • 400 total task completions required 

Unlocking the Morytania region will provide players with a Drakan’s medallion.

Raids Megarare Vouchers

This league, when you complete the Theatre of Blood, Chambers of Xeric, and Tombs of Amascut, instead of obtaining the corresponding mega-rare item (Scythe of Vitur, Twisted Bow, Tumeken’s Shadow), you will instead obtain a voucher than you use to claim any of the 3 mega-rare items.

This is great for people that enjoy doing a specific raid but would love to experience a megarare from another raid.

Echo Bosses

Each region has a specific boss that players will be able to take on in a harder echo variant.

Players can do so by killing the normal boss, and obtaining the corresponding echo orb to challenge the echo boss, similar to the Awakener's orb in the main game.

Rewards

• Sol Heredit:
  • Sol heredit (echo) will drop the Sunlit Bracers and the Sunlight Spear:
    • Sunlit bracers:
      • These bracers, when equipped, will double any base healing received from sources such as the amulet of blood fury, blood spells, guthan’s, etc..
      • The effect does not double modifiers, such as the Zuriel’s staff/bloodbark effect on blood spells.
    • Sunlight Spear:
      • This is a powerful spear that can charge up special attack stacks, one for every time the players attacks with it, up to 20 stacks.
      • It has a unique special attack that consumes 7 stacks, attacking all enemies in a 3x3 area with typeless damage.
      • The damage is also boosted by 3% for every prayer bonus the player has.

• Kalphite Queen:
  • Kalphite Queen (echo) will drop the Drygore Blowpipe.
    • Drygore Blowpipe:
      • This is slightly weaker version of the toxic blowpipe, but has no special attack and does not require zulrah’s scales to use.

• Grotesque Guardians:
  • Grotesque Guardians (echo) will drop Gloves of the Damned.
    • Gloves of the Damned:
      • These have the same stats as Barrow’s gloves, but also apply the effect of the Amulet of the Damned.

• Corrupted Hunllef:
  • Corrupted Hunllef (echo) will drop the Crystal Blessing.
    • Crystal Blessing:
      • This blessing provides +5 prayer bonus, and allows all melee weapons to take advantage of the accuracy/damage bonus of crystal armour.

• Hespori:
  • Hespori (echo) will drop a Nature's Reprisal.
    • Nature’s Reprisal:
      • This is a very powerful weapon that can attack with magic/range/melee, similar to salamanders, but more powerful, having an attack range of 7 tiles.

Relics

Relics are powerful buffs which are unlocked with League Points. Relics offer bonuses that boost actions related to gathering, processing, teleportation, and combat. Upon completing the league tutorial, players are presented with the choice of their first relic between three. Additional relics can be unlocked as players reach certain point thresholds and unlock new tiers.

We thought it would be a good idea to show you all of the relics so that you can plan ahead, so lets dive right into it!

Tier 1:

Tier 2:

Tier 3:

Tier 4:

Tier 5:

Tier 6:

Tier 7:

We will have another thread posted soon, which will outline general information and showcase some of the in-game & irl prizes.

We hope to see you enjoy our fifth edition of leagues on the 21st of March!

Wishing you a great week,

Alora Staff Team

What is your suggestion?:

Add a new game mode, Hardcore Ultimate Ironman

Is this in OSRS?:

No

Has this suggestion been accepted already?:

No, but it has been suggested several times.

How would this benefit Alora?:

I thought I'd suggest this and maybe give it a little push to convince Omicron to add it , by ironing out some details it should hopefully make it easy for him.

As we know, UIM was released on OSRS to add an extra challenge to ironman, by removing access to a bank. At the time this was awesome, but since then, various mechanics have made it extremely easy to play the game mode, such as 1 hour death timers, item retrieval locations such as nightmare and zulrah, and looting bag. 

This has essentially turned UIM into the regular ironman mode with limited bank space. 

By adding HCUIM, this eliminates all these issues and makes it an actual challenge to play the game.

General:

It has been nearly 3 years since our last game mode, so in my opinion this is a perfect time to slot it in. 

If we look at other game modes, HCUIM is one of the last modes that fits perfectly into the current structure. For example you have normal mode, and the ability to play harder normal modes such as classic and realism. You have ironman and hardcore ironman. The only gap in the current structure is UIM -> ?.

In-game icon:

The game mode icon will pretty much look the same as HCGIM, but with the UIM icon obviously.

Mechanics:

The idea is to combine both UIM and HCGIM mechanics into this game mode. For example, HCUIM won't have access to seed vaults. Managing Miscellania won't be available, and you lose your status if you die anywhere in the game, except duel arena, castle wars and last man standing. This includes losing status at places like cox, all quests, and so on.

Restrictions:

Since it will be a new game mode and people would like to compete for ranks and "first to" achievements, I think it would be a good idea to restrict a few mechanics for the first few(3?) months after release, these being:

Prevent HCUIM players from being able to loot the supply & bloody chests.

These are so insanely overpowered, and if you join a clan then there will be no hope of getting them.

Limit HCUIM players to 6 vote book openings every 12 hours.

Any rich player will just spam open thousands of them for crystal keys/bonus experience.

If there's other stuff, please let me know below.

Experience rate:

I was originally thinking 8x experience rate, but considering the restrictions and difficulty of the game mode, I am suggesting 10x or even 12x. I will include a few options in a poll above.

Thanks for reading, and please let me know your thoughts below, I'm happy to answer anything.