RuneScape

Introduction

Get ready for the thrilling conclusion of the RS20 Miniquest Series in RuneScape's latest update, Once Upon a Time: Fortunes! After attending the party of a lifetime and traveling through time to save the game's future, it's time to put an end to Relomia's mischief once and for all. In this exciting third installment, players will need to recall three iconic quests from the 6th Age. To get started, simply speak to Closure in their office. Make sure you have completed the previous miniquests, Once Upon a Time: Foreshadowing and Once Upon a Time: Flashback. For an even more epic experience, it is recommended to have completed quests like Missing, Presumed Death, Dishonour Among Thieves, and Death of Chivalry. Once you've completed the miniquest, you'll be rewarded with a Medium XP Lamp and a cool cosmetic weapon override. Don't miss out on the action-packed conclusion of the RS20 Miniquest Series - it's a must-play for all RuneScape fans!

VIC THE TRADER

First of all, Gielinor’s most well-travelled trader is back in Gielinor. If you haven’t met Vic the Trader before, he’s someone whose acquaintance you’ll definitely want to make – his mystical mercantile magic will allow you to trade your leftover Bonus XP for lamps, skill outfits, and other useful goods. Vic will be sticking around until August 16th, so make sure you say hello before he leaves!

DOUBLE XP LIVE IS GO!

And of course, today’s the first day of Double XP LIVE! Between now and August 16th, you’ll have ten days in which to spend your 48 hours of Double XP time. It’s a great time to catch up on your favourite skills – anyone fancy a spot of Archaeology?

NEW PROMOTION: GIFTS OF THE CREATOR

We're excited to trial a new promotion on Thursday August 26th called Gifts of The Creator, which we believe offers the most transparency and choice in Treasure Hunter to date. In Gifts of The Creator, spending a Key gives you a clear choice between three options - a Medium Lamp, a Medium Star or 3 Mini Protean Packs (each containing 10 Protean items). For every Key you spend, you are guaranteed these choices without any variation in what you get. It's as simple as that. On top of the set value of Keys, Gifts of The Creator also contains a Reward Track packed with juicy yellow, orange, red and purple rarity prizes. These additional prizes are given out at set intervals of Keys used during the promotion - every 5 keys you'll get a bonus prize with red and purple prizes guaranteed to appear throughout the reward track! While the rewards within each rarity are unique to the player, you can always see the next 20 rewards and their rarity ahead of you. We hope this offers a good experience and great value, enabling you to make more educated decisions about how you spend your Keys.

DISCONTINUING HEARTS OF ICE

In addition, we've also decided to retire Hearts of Ice from Treasure Hunter within the next few months. Originally designed (among other things) to freeze out prizes you don't want, Hearts of Ice were originally intended to provide players more control over their potential rewards. However, with the changes we've already made and those outlined above, Hearts of Ice have become increasingly redundant and - for many - a very low value currency compared to something like Oddments. For these reasons, we feel it's best to streamline Treasure Hunter by removing Hearts of Ice and instead focusing squarely on Oddments. We'll be honouring any Hearts of Ice you currently own and converting them into Oddments at a ratio of 5:1 (Hearts of Ice : Oddments), with no cap on the number that can be converted. If you'd prefer to use your Hearts of Ice instead of converting them, please do so over the weeks ahead - we'll confirm the date of their removal as soon as we know. You might recognise this event as a spiritual successor to Balthazar’s Big Raffle, which last ran in September 2019. Aside from Leonard himself, who’s taken over proceedings, we’ve made a bunch of other improvements:

You can now receive Lucky Dip Tickets while training your skills or participating in combat.
We’ve added new prize categories! Read all about them in the ‘Rewards’ section below.
You can now see which rewards you’ve already won on the event interface.
You can also see your chances of winning a prize in each category on the event interface.
To prevent unscrupulous behaviour, all players must now have a total level of 250 to participate in the Lucky Dip.
You can enter up to 15 times a day.
You can choose to enter any category you wish, any time you want – whereas previously, the categories available were locked to particular days.
You can now purchase a ‘Lucky Dip Reclamation Service’ from the Marketplace. If you’ve missed any daily tickets by forgetting to talk to Leonard, this’ll let you claim them all back
The ‘Protean Pack’ category is now the ‘Item Pack’ category, which contains a wider range of prizes – including Dwarven Tools!
All rewards (including ones from Balthazar’s Big Raffle!) are now reclaimable from Diango in Draynor.
When the event ends on September 30th, Leonard will stick around for a seven-day grace period, which you can learn more about below.

GETTING TICKETS

You can get Tickets in all kinds of ways! To get you started, you’ll receive 10 free Tickets the first time you log-in during the event. You can also claim a free daily ticket from Leonard, opposite the Burthorpe Lodestone, once per day. You can obtain a second daily ticket by completing the Daily Challenge or by speaking to Gilly Willikers, who’ll be hiding out somewhere in Gielinor. Lastly, you’ll earn Tickets by playing the game as you normally would – by participating in combat and training your skills!

PRIZES

Leonard’s rounded up loads of fantastic prizes from every corner of Gielinor this year, but let’s take a look at those new categories, shall we? First of all, the new ‘Coins’ category will let you walk away with 100 million, 250 million, or 500 million coins. Wowza! The ‘Protean Pack’ category has been reshuffled into the ‘Item Pack’ category, which includes prizes like Portable Deposit Boxes, Dwarven Tools, Deathtouched Darts, and all that lovely stuff. Our last new category is ‘Golden God Wars’, which includes some super-shiny versions of the Bandos, Armadyl and Robes of Subjugation sets. Of course, you’ll still be able to win Balthazar’s old selection of favourites, including Golden versions of the Barrows and Warpriest Armours, Godswords, and Chaotic weapons. As noted above, these items will all be reclaimable from Diango – including the ones you won from Leonard’s predecessor, Balthazar. In addition, if you’re not lucky enough to win a grand (named) prize in your chosen category, you’ll still receive some Medium XP Lamps as a consolation prize. Winner winner, chicken dinner! But that's not all! On top of all of the above prizes there's also 5 limited edition titles up for grabs!

(name), First of the Lucky Five
(name), Second of the Lucky Five
(name), Third of the Lucky Five
(name), Fourth of the Lucky Five
(name), Fifth of the Lucky Five

These unique titles will be given out at random to five lucky players who take part in Leonard's Lucky Dip. You get one chance for every Ticket you enter into Leonard's Lucky Dip, so the more you play the better your chance of winning one of these fortuitous titles! Winning players will receive their titles in October.

REQUIREMENTS

You’ll need to have a total level of at least 250 and RuneScape Membership to participate in the Lucky Dip. Ironman accounts will not be able to participate.

GETTING STARTED

The Glacor Front is available on all platforms, including mobile, from Tuesday August 31st. It’s a members-only experience, and you’ll need 84 Slayer or more to fight the glacytes south of the Cathedral in the City of Senntisten. Remember that for each Front we release, you can benefit from free death reclaims and free Ring of Death charges when engaging in combat activities. With the Glacor Front, deaths are free forever for the normal mode (including for Hardcore Ironmen).

HOW TO PLAY

If you didn't have a chance to join us last Friday, you can watch the reveal stream over on Twitch, where we discussed the boss and mechanics in detail. You can also read this article for a detailed description of the boss and its various malicious manoeuvres, from its pillars of ice to its terrifying exposed core attack!

REWARDS (AS PROMISED)

The Glacor Front offers some of the most powerful rewards ever seen in RuneScape, so if you’re looking for wicked weapons, we suggest you jump on the polar express pronto. Here’s what you can expect to score while you protect Senntisten from Wen’s icy assault.

MAIN-HAND WEAPONS:

Dark Ice Shard

Type: Main-handed sword Stats: T85 damage, T85 accuracy Requirements to craft:

2 500 Glacor Remnants*
5 Dark Nilas'**
10 Black Stone Hearts
2 Glorious Bars

Has a set effect with the Dark Sliver of Leng/Dark Ice Sliver:

When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.

Dark Shard of Leng (Hard Mode only)

Type: Main-handed sword Stats: T95 damage, T95 accuracy Requirements to craft:

7 500 Glacor Remnants*
10 Dark Nilas'**
1 Dark Ice Shard
1 Frozen Core of Leng***

Special attack:

Icy Tempest (Costs: 20% adrenaline) - Imbue your weapons with the power of primordial ice. For 30 seconds, your damage cap is increased by 30%. This special attack has a cooldown of 60 seconds.

Has a set effect with the Dark Sliver of Leng/ Dark Ice Sliver:

When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.

OFF-HAND WEAPONS:

Dark Ice Sliver

Type: Off-hand dagger Stats: T85 damage, T85 accuracy Requirements to craft:

2 500 Glacor Remnants*
5 Dark Nilas'**
10 Black Stone Hearts
2 Glorious Bars

Passive effect:

When worn, the melee ability Hurricane can be cast while dual-wielding (this effect is usually locked to two-handed weapons only).

Has a set effect with the Dark Shard of Leng/Dark Ice Shard:

When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.

Dark Sliver of Leng (Hard Mode only)

Type: Off-handed dagger Stats: T95 damage, T95 accuracy Requirements to craft:

7 500 Glacor Remnants*
10 Dark Nilas'**
1 Dark Ice Sliver
1 Frozen Core of Leng***

Passive effect:

When worn, the melee ability Hurricane can be cast while dual-wielding (this effect is usually locked to two-handed weapons only)

Has a set effect with the Dark Shard of Leng/Dark Ice Shard:

When both weapons are worn, the melee abilities Hurricane and Destroy no longer share a cooldown.

ARMOUR:

Enhanced Nightmare Gauntlets

Stats: T90 variation of the T85 Nightmare Gauntlets. Same effect. Requirements for crafting:

1,000 Glacor Remnants*
1 Leng Artefact****
1 Nightmare Gauntlets

Enhanced Gloves of Passage

Stats: T90 variation of the T85 Gloves of Passage. New effect:

Enduring Ruin - After the Havoc or Smash ability successfully hits your next melee attack within 6 seconds deals 10% increased damage and the target takes 20% increased damage from bleeds for 10 seconds.

Requirements for crafting:

1,000 Glacor Remnants*
10 Necronium Bars
1 Leng Artefact****
1 Gloves of Passage

Enhanced Kerapac's Wristwraps

Stats: T90 variation of the T85 Kerapac's Wristwraps. Same effect. Requirements for crafting:

1,000 Glacor Remnants*
1 Leng Artefact****
1 Kerapac's Wristwraps

COSMETIC REWARDS

Glacor's Adornment Requirements for crafting:

1,000 Glacor Remnants*
2 Dark Nilas'**

Arch-Glacor's Adornment

5,000 Glacor Remnants*
5 Dark Nilas'**

Ur-Glacor's Adornment

10,000 Glacor Remnants*
10 Dark Nilas'**

* Basic crafting ingredient, required for most rewards (also drops from Slayer glacors). ** Rare crafting ingredient required for basic weapons. *** Very rare crafting ingredient for enhanced weapons. Only available in Hard Mode. **** Rare crafting ingredient, required for the glove upgrades. Available from 5 mechanics turned on or in Hard Mode.

PETS

Gladys (Arch-Glacor Boss Pet)

Check out this cool critter! Gladys is your very own mini Arch-Glacor. Something to remember it by…

SCRIPTURE OF WEN

The Elder God Wars Dungeon will introduce brand-new God Books based on each of the Elder Gods. These God Books offer improved stats over Illuminated God Books, and each come with a unique effect. In the Glacor Front, the book is the Scripture of Wen, which offers:

- - +5 Prayer bonus
  - +8 to all styles
  - Special Ability - Sheer Cold - Each attack have a chance to summon an icy beam for 3.6 seconds that attacks anythings standing in it. Once targets have been hit 5 times by the beam, they will shatter for 400% ability damage.

The Book itself can only be acquired as a drop from Arch-Glacor, but Pages can be dropped by any enemies on the Glacor Front. *Note: Elder God Books cannot be illuminated.