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@JefftheSpartan Sorry, just saw this. I don't know what is going on with soul dye (it may or may not be part of other content this spooky season, but isn't something I touched as part of the Halloween event). Boss pet skin drop chance is effectively 2x over last year (and irons can buy them).

@JagexRowley With you working on halloween this year, can we get an update on a few pain points from last year? Will Soul dyes be available in some form this year? Are pet override skins from the maze be reasonably obtainable? Or able to be traded to irons like FSW items?

PSA on Halloween (scythe pet) - there are 4 Sunday ceremonies this year (that's a whole extra chance at the pet); all clan confections handed in this event (up to 100) improve the drop chance for the pet; it also has a new "overrides" mode for scythes plus a few other weapons...

Other QOL changes include: ghost implings just drop bone darts directly, bone clubs are only lost 1/3 times when used on a skeleton/zombie, the boss changes daily on rotation, rather than weekly (for easier access to your favourite boss/preferred loot).

Given total entries last year, them being finite won't affect the vast majority of players, plus also this year's event runs for 4 weeks instead of 3, so most players will be able to enter more than they did last year (should they wish to).

PSA on Halloween (Maize Maze) - entries this year are finite (one 3x and two 2x loot entries per day, plus however many 3x and 2x loot tokens you find while skilling) but drop chances for unique rewards (reaper masks and boss pet skins) are 2x more common to balance this out.

24 years of intrigue have led to this moment… 🌑 Eclipse of the Heart is now LIVE! 😾 Face the Devourer, and prepare for the Amascut boss encounter ahead of the official launch on Aug 4.

It took a long time to get here and there were some bumps and bruises along the way, but I am immensely proud of the whole team, and for how they have brought this series to its conclusion! I hope everyone enjoys the finale!

@JagexFowl Nicely done!

@JagexFowl @Demonheadge @RuneScape @JagexAlex Not this time, this was one of mine! :P (It's an ever-so-slight nod to a Resi 4 easter egg, but we only had vampyres in a cardboard cut-out style, AFAIK.)

Knock, knock. Who's there? @RuneScape @JagexAlex @JagexFowl

@Demonheadge Snoot!

So my GF pointed out to me that this skeleton is playing the trumpet with it's nose. I cannot ever unsee this.

@JagexShrike Given one of the requirement, I'm dubbing it the 'Noo-Noo pickaxe'.

yeah yeah we know what the new pickaxe is called now but I'm personally referring to it as the Pickaxe of [THE ELDER SWEAR]

@PrideslayerMMA Seems unlikely.

would a sufficient amount of Anima "Roake Pthen" translated to Elder Necromancy, be able to revive dead Elder gods? @JagexRowley

@PrideslayerMMA @RuneScape No, they are not.

Mahs Egg. Corrupted by a Scar of Black Stone. @runescape @JagexRowley could i ask sir, is Memorian Crystals Kreath Takla? They seem to function similarly with Zaros, being almost "alive"

@ItsDarthMagus I wouldn't necessarily consider that to be a Zamorak symbol. Reminiscent of one, but more stubby and angular.

@JagexRowley Is the Zamorakian symbology on the Bandosians spear from Archeology intentional? Notice it today

Big Game Hunter players: what shop additions and/or quality of life might you wish to see? Non-Big Game Hunter players: what's keeping you back from playing it? (Just canvassing ideas, may not lead anywhere yet.)

@DatShokotan @Legend_Arts There's always a chance.

@JagexRowley @Legend_Arts So you're saying there's a chance

I havent seen the livestream but I hope we can have owen, ozan and ariane helping with this mess, so we can have a completed cicle of that cinematic that jagex made a decade ago... youtube.com/watch?v=CdRUcF…

@DatShokotan @Legend_Arts The HD trailer had a skeletal dragon, I believe; Vorkath is zombified. I reckon we will come full circle one day, but I would posit not yet...but maybe it's close enough. :)

@Legend_Arts That RSHD trailer went hard! But lets be real do you think the Vorkath devs remembers about it lol

@PrideslayerMMA A good thing from the perspective of conscious mortal life, perhaps...but just look at the mess they've made of the universe since. The elders care about the balance of anima; that balance was disrupted and now look at the place.

Azzanadra confirms Her corruption was the same as what ascended him, but this statement seems to imply her corruption was a good thing..? even if you can't clarify could i be expecting some of these juicy questions to be answered in the foreseeable future?

Hey! @JagexRowley i was hoping i could ask you a bit about Mah. i'm Working on a Zaros mini doc and i obviously see ties to Erebus, (black hands on his armour) but this intrigued me.... She would understand "The Potential for Conciousness" is This a reference to Vos and XT?

@RsnDefeater I did some work to allow them to be combined, but was moved on to something else (though that did get picked up by another dev for an update this year, so in theory it should be coming 'soon'). :)

@JagexRowley Hi Rowley, did you make a decision whether brawling gloves will be made stackable/combinable?

Brawling gloves - combine/stack and swap skills (perhaps a la proteans) have been noted as possible things to do...but what else might you like to see done with these things?

@RS_NEXT_GEN @JagexRyan @JagexSponge We established phantoms as a class of undead primarily for balancing considerations, but also agreed we wanted to only add things to Necro as was needed (so early on decided not to add a phantom conjure at launch just for the sake of it).

@JagexRowley @JagexRyan @JagexSponge Any chance you’re able to offer any insight as to whether a phantom was ever the plan for launch? what it might’ve done mechanically? No worries if not!

I wouldn't be surprised if *at some point in development* players were going to be able to conjure phantoms. The texture exists and phantom conjures appear in the Necromancy marketing/concept artwork I don't know this for certain though, it might not be the case at all