Summer Sanctum Patch Week - This Week In RuneScape - RuneNation (2024)

Primal Fanatics have been spotted around Gielinor telling players about a Mining and Smithing update. Beware these strange individuals and their suspiciously snazzy armour!

If you do want to know more about this update, keep your eyes peeled for more news later this week - and get your pickaxes ready for when it launches on August 12th!

Double XP is currently active and ends on Monday, August 12th at 12:00 PM Game Time. Plenty of time to get some extra combat training in, or hone your Artisan or Gathering skills ahead of the upcoming Skilling boss release! Check out the full details here!

We're excited to announce RuneScape Ahead, a brand new show where we'll take you inside our future plans for RuneScape! In this first edition of the show, we'll be revealing our Content Roadmap up to mid-2025 - and even a little beyond.

Don't miss the RuneScape Ahead live premier alongside your fellow 'Scapers on August 15th at 17:00 BST at YouTube.com/RuneScape.

Check out our recent blog to learn more!

The Sanctum of Rebith launch had been a wonderful experience to watch, and even more fun to play! We just wanted to give an extra shoutout to the players who dove in head first and secured the first defeats of all the bosses in the Sanctum!

Sanctum of Rebirth

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from reclaiming the 'Potion of Zombification' during the 'Soul Searching' quest if the player had spoken to the Suspicious Stranger but had not yet boarded the Gondola.
• Divine Rage's Skill Guide Entry is not listed within the Curses section anymore.
• Fixed an issue where Kezalam's line attack didn't apply an attack delay, resulting in the animation being cut short.
• Fixed an issue that prevented 'Nakatra, Devourer Eternal' from being correctly set as a hard mode Reaper kill if the boss was killed in hard mode.
• The boss will now correctly award the following for a hard mode Reaper kill:
• 30,000 Slayer XP
• 25 Reaper Points (at a base level, this may be increased with boons or unlocks)
• Fixed an issue where the volatile scarab akh didn't spawn correctly while fighting against Nakatra with four players.
• The Scripture of Amascut will now consistently deal the correct number of hits in PvP combat.
• Fixed an issue where bars above the Sanctum of Rebirth bosses overlapped during the fight.
• Fixed an issue where using defensive abilities, such as Resonance, would incorrectly display a miss/shield hitmarker instead of 1 damage.
• Updated Kezalam within the Sanctum of Rebirth to now phase at 33.3333....% lifepoints instead of 33%, due to feedback. This means that she will now phase at 400k and 200k lifepoints, rather than the previous 396,000 and 198,000.
• Fixed an issue where the shadowsands gorilla akhs within the Sanctum of Rebirth would move unintentionally. Creepy!
• The Scripture of Amascut DoT now uses the correct combat style damage.
• Fixed an issue where some DoTs couldn't be removed with Numbing Roots.
• Added UI popups to the Sanctum of Rebirth in order to give players information about the death mechanic within Normal Mode:
• Implemented a UI popup for 'Divine Protection' for when the buff is applied. This will appear the first time a player begins an encounter.
• Implemented a UI popup for 'Resurrection Sickness' for when the debuff is applied. This will appear the first time a player begins an encounter.
• Implemented a one-off message that will appear the first time the player interacts with the Sanctum entrance, noting that deaths are safe in Normal Mode.
• The following actions now have improved targeting behaviour:
• Dive - Only allows you to target the ground
• Intercept - Only allows you to target other players
• Herblore bombs - Only allows you to target NPCs and the ground (and other players if in PvP)
• DevNote: This is a short term improvement to mitigate against targeting unintended entities while we investigate a more global solution.
• Fixed several instances of 'waiver' being spelt as 'waver' in the Soul Searching quest.
• Removed a double 'the' from a sentence in the Soul Searching quest.
• Fixed an issue with the 9x9 (6x6 safe area) telegraph visual used for the Sanctum Shockwave attack within the Nakatra encounter in the Sanctum of Rebirth.
• Fixed an issue where the difficulty displayed on the boss healthbar was incorrect after dying and re-entering the instance while fighting against Nakatra in a group.
• Fixed an issue where the moonstone shards within the Sanctum of Rebirth would retaliate when attacked.
• Improved the clean up time for moonstone shards within the Sanctum of Rebirth to allow for much smoother movement when traversing the environments.
• Following feedback, implemented the following changes to the Vermyx boss encounter within the Sanctum of Rebirth:
• When we would spawn Coilspawn as part of the bosses rotation in hard mode, we now only spawn 2. This occurs at the end of Vermyx's ability rotation.
• Phasing
• Note: Hard mode still begins with 4 Coilspawn alive.
• Amended the target marker that appears during phasing.
• Removed one of the Coilspawn that spawns during phase transition.
• The 'Channels power from the Sanctum towards the west/east' message is only shown once per phase.
• Amended the above messaging to be more specific.
• During phase transition, the northwest and northeast Coilspawn are only spawned once, so if you manage to kill it, this will give you a bit of safe space to work with.
• If you kill the coilspawn in the above location, the souls will spawn faster on the next rotation.
• Note: Depending on when you kill it; this might not occur until the next rotation.
• Souls spawn 1.2s earlier in hard mode.
• Soul bomb
• Attacks the area below the players feet instead of following the player.
• Deals AoE damage (3x3)
• Telegraphing has been added to indicate the area of effect.

General

• Fixed an issue with the overriding of the Ishhara pet.
• Fixed an instance where Karamja music would play in Erjolf's cave.
• Nomad's Bounty rewards will no longer be discarded if the player closes the reward chest without having any Inventory and/or Bank space left. Instead, they will be warned that the rewards will be lost on logout if they have no space for them.
• Fixed typo in the examine text of the Powder of Penance.
• Fixed an issue causing Lupe's free daily supplies being sent to the Inventory instead of the Bank when the Focus Storage is full.

Starts August 8th | Ends August 12th | DXP Dozen

Dive into this DXP-themed Dozen promotion! Choose prizes to fill up gems, and crack 'em open to win from your chosen selection!

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Pink Skirts Player Events

Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:

• Hosted By: Redwigon and Aarie
• Date/Time: Saturday August 10th, 18:00 Gametime
• Location: Varrock Square
• World: 76
• FC: Ahelp

• Hosted By: Miss Misty
• Date/Time: Wednesday August 7th, 20:00 Gametime
• Location: Edgeville Bank
• World: 60
• FC: Miss Misty

• Hosted By: M e r c y & Dung Titan
• Date/Time: Saturday August 10th, 13:00 Gametime
• Location: Rex Matriarch Lobby
• World: 35
• FC: Dung Titan

If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!

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Necromancy Discord Server

Wow! One whole year since Necromancy was unleashed on all the mortals of Gielinor.. How time dies .. I mean flies Many have conquered the skill. Many are still progressing through the trials of the undead. Rasial, probably isn't pleased To celebrate the admin team over at the Necromancy Discord Server will be running the following events :

Rituals 'n' Reminisce - Tuesday, 6 August 2024 22:00

DXP will be live! That means DXP from rituals. Meet at the Um ritual site to relax and chat about then and now stuff World 76 City of Um ritual site

Thank you, nex - Friday, 9 August 2024 23:00

Anyone stuck on their Tier 80 (power) armour upgrade task?? Fear not, Bradleyjs has you covered. World 76 Ancient Prison

sKill + sKrib - Saturday, 10 August 2024 22:00

Join us for some Necromancy themed skribbl.io with the killer Ahelp server! Portables will be provided at Fort Forinthry World 76 Fort Forinthry + skribbl.io skribbl.io link will be provided during the event.