Santa's Reindeer, Item Balance, QOL, Slayer Helmet Changes & Fixes

24th December, 2024

Time for another update, this one will include some fixes to freezing, teleblock, some adjustments to defensive bonuses, a christmas event and some QOL!

Improvements

Combat

  • Teleblock will now last for 5 minutes, unless the target has prayed mage. If praying mage the teleblock timer is halved.
  • Note: Healer at home will remove the teleblock effect.
  • You will no longer be able to use teleporting objects when frozen.
  • Overload: Will no longer damage the character when used.

Defensive Bonuses

  • Removed absorb bonuses from boots and shoulder pets.
  • Adjusted the absorb values of most equipment, excluding RS ones.
  • Adjusted the defensive values of most equipment, excluding RS ones.
  • Reduced the magic defence of some bosses and monsters.

Item Changes

  • Increased the melee strength of melee amulets.
  • Magic weaponry will no longer require attack levels.

ESQ Hotkey

  • You can now assign ESQ in the fkey hotkeys.
  • Note: When ESQ is assigned, you can no longer close interfaces with the "ESQ" hotkey.
  • Note: Must use updated client for this to work - if you're using launcher all you have to do is restart Nebula

Slayer

  • Reduced the spawn rate of superiors on Sumona+ masters - ::superiors has the new rates.
  • Reduced the spawn rate of some boss superiors.

Slayer Helmets

  • Slayer helmets are now auto-kept on death.
  • Imbued slayer helmets will now give an additional effect, increased the accuracy and maxhit even more depending on the helmet.
  • Example: Abyssal slayer helmet will now give increased bonuses against any monster with "Abyssal" in its name.

Kept On Death

  • All colored shoulder pets are now auto-kept on death.
  • Ragnos' Backpack

Free Shops

  • Added fighter torso to the melee armoury shop.
  • Herblore shops now noted.

Delivery

  • Significantly increased the chance to receive higher tier packages.
  • You now require combat level 120+ to pick-up a package.

World Bosses

  • Will now drop its loot under the boss.
  • Will no longer drop spawnable items.
  • Added upgraded weaponry to the drop table

Sacrifice

  • Barrows can now be sacrificed.

Content Additions

Santa's Reindeer

A super quick christmas event, every hour the Reindeer will spawn somewhere in the wilderness. Use your reindeer locator find the Reindeer. Only the first 6 players who interact with the Reindeer receive rewards and account benefits.

When you interact with the Reindeer you get teleblocked for 5 minutes, and frozen for 15 seconds.

  • Pick up the Reindeer locator from Santa, near emblem trader. Use the locator find out where the Reindeer is.
  • Loot, guaranteed 500-1000 galactic tokens, 30 minutes of XP and Drop rate

Special Rewards

  • Christmas shoulder pets: Depending on tier, gain extra rewards when voting. From 25 to 75% chance.
    • 10 minutes of increased drop rate
    • 10 minutes of increased experience
    • Extra vote book
    • XP Lamp
    • Galactic tokens
  • Golden Christmas Octo
    • Same rewards, with increased quantity as well as vote mystery box added to the rollable rewards.
    • The Golden Christmas Octo is in the extreme rare category; so if you get it, run as fast as you can!
  • Reindeer F* Shoulder Pet
    • Increases overall experience gained by +50%
  • Reindeer antlers
    • Alternative ingredient to upgrade the bottomless brew, overload, agression or renewal.
  • Cosmetics
    • If you'd like to see how all christmas cosmetics look like - check the Christmas category in the Transmogrifier to preview it.
  • Other Rewards include armour sets, weaponry and battle pets!

Credit Shop

  • Added Reindeer F* shoulder pet to the "Limited" credit shop category.
  • Added white xp shoulder pets to the shoulder pet category.

Thank you all for reading the log! Hope you guys appreciate and enjoy this one <3 More to come as always!