Ataraxia Updates #48 - 9th August 2023

[Jaedmo 781]

  

 

[+] General Changes

- Updated Queen Black Dragon drop table to the M&S rework items
- Portable workbench/Skillcape "saved a plank" messages are now filterable
- After being sent to AFK island your active pocket slot books will now deactivate
- Wearing a Zuk cape while being Maxed/Comped/Comp (t)'d will now give you the relevant experience boost as if you were wearing them
- Added Nex: Angel of Death music to the lobby/fight
- Added RS3 Araxxor loot interface
- Added RS3 Rise of the Six loot interface
- Added RS3 Barrows loot interface
- Added RS3 Sophanem loot interface
- Added RS3 Queen Black Dragon loot interface
- Added 'Note produce' functionality on Tool leprechauns
- While excavating in Archaeology, Master members who have the Auspicious Arch perk will continue to excavate after finding an artifact 
- Buffed the amount and drop rate of Resonant anima of Ful from TzKal Zuk
- King Black Dragon private instances for Platinum members+ will now spawn 3 instead of 1
- Adjusted King Black Dragon unique drops to match RS3's drop rate (buffed)
- Foultorch messages and Maxed reputation messages are now filtered
- Ek-Zekkil's special attack will start at 2 more bleed stacks with regular Gloves of Passage equipped, 4 with the enhanced variant
- All Divine location spots will now double the resources with the Double gathering event
- Removed object animations for Crystal triskelions, they're now much quicker to open
- Noted Dragonstone necklace in the Master donator shop
- Added Aura refreshes and Life refreshes to the Reaper shop
- Powerburst CD will now reset on Banking for master members
- Powerburst CD and Enhanced excalibur cd will reset on Altar of War for all players

 

[+] Welcome Back!

- Added a message to show everyone online when someone has returned after a period of inactivity!
- We have lots of people come and go through Ataraxia and I think it was an excellent suggestion to show appreciation when people have returned after a break:

 

[+] Fleeting/Laceration/Blast diffusion Boots

- It's been brought to our attention how overshadowed Magic and Melee are by Ranged
- In order to somewhat combat this and give Magic/Melee a comparatively powerful piece of equipment like Ranged and the Swift gloves, we've made some changes to the boots from Raksha

- As you can see, the Magic and Melee boots now have a low % chance to double hit your target
- As we couldn't buff both without giving Ranged something, they have the same % chance to apply a small 'bleed' attack on your target
- This change is also hoping to bring a bit of life to these boots.
 

[+] Pontifex Shadow Ring

- You can receive a Pontifex shadow ring by restoring a Pontifex signet ring (damaged) and clicking transform:

- The Pontifex shadow ring has a variety of passives:

• Tier 2 Luck
• +1% experience in Divination
• Chronicle fragments have an increased chance to spawn
• Rockertunities have an increased chance to spawn
• Time sprites will remain at hotspots for longer

- You can also charge the ring with 1,000 of each Resonant anima of Ful, Bik, Jas and Wen to provide different effects depending on which you charge the ring with:

Resonant anima of Jas: Kerapac, the Bound will no longer stun you under the impact of his Jumping Slam ability
Resonant anima of Wen: Your protection prayers against Arch-Glacor's auto-attacks are 10% stronger
Resonant anima of Bik: Stat drains within the Croesus encounter are reduced by 25%
Resonant anima of Ful: Income damage from geysers in the TzKal-Zuk encounter is reduced by 25%

- Each 1,000 added upgrades the tier of the ring, starting at 2. Tiers increase the minimum Tier of trove you receive from Elder god wars bosses, Ring tier 2: (base) Trove tier 1, Ring tier 3: Trove tier 2, Ring tier 4: Trove tier 2, Ring tier 5: Trove tier 3, Ring tier 6: Trove tier 3

- You can upgrade the ring by imbuing it, this will require 10,000 of each Resonant anima of Ful, Bik, Jas and Wen:

- Doing so upgrades it to the Enriched pontifex shadow ring, this ring has upgraded versions of the regular ring's passives:

• Tier 3 Luck
• +3% experience in Divination
• Chronicle fragments have a further increased chance to spawn
• Rockertunities have a further increased chance to spawn
• Time sprites will remain at hotspots for even longer
• Unique drops at Elder God Wars dungeon chance increased by 2%

- Finally, you can overcharge the ring, with 5,000 more of each Resonant anima type, to do so, have the 5,000 of the 4 types of anima and click charge:

- Overcharging your Pontifex shadow ring grants all of the benefits as a passive, without having to equip the ring, with the exception of the luck bonus, skilling effects and prayer bonus.

[+] Kerapac, the Bound

- Kerapac, the Bound is the latest edition in the Elder Godwars saga!
- Kerapac brings numerous powerful items and has an awesome and entertaining fight
- Ordinarily, I'd post a bunch of photos and details on the fight and mechanics.. though, this usually adds up to about 1,000 words and 20 pictures and realistically probably doesn't get absorbed as easy as I intend/gets immediately ignored upon the next update
- I think it's about time I start learning these bosses myself and releasing guides for them along with the update.. So, that's what I'm going to do
- The Video below will detail the Normal mode and Hard mode encounters:

 

- As you can see, Normal mode is relatively easy, stand under Kerapac to avoid the time rifts and then try push dps to avoid the lightning waves
- Hard mode on the other hand is a bit more challenging, I planked a few times as you could see purely from the lightning waves so be sure to push dps when it matters to try and avoid those phases
- As stated, Kerapac's drops can be available from normal and hard mode but only the Fractured staff of armadyl pieces drop from the hard mode encounter
- Here's a list of all of Kerapac's rare drops (his regular drops are all accurate to the RS wiki):

 

[+] Kerapac's Wrist Wraps

- Kerapac's wrist wraps are new Magic style gloves
- You can receive them as a rare drop from Kerapac, the Bound and upgrade them using a Leng artefact and 1,000 Glacor remnants:

- As we don't have Dragonbreath, instead, Kerapac's wrist wraps will have a 5% chance per hit of inflicting your target with combust, which will deal 20-37% ability damage every 2 ticks for 10 ticks, this chance is raised to 10% with the Enhanced wrist wraps.

 

[+] Fractured Staff of Armadyl

- Fractured Staff of Armadyl is a T95 2-handed staff which can be sourced through killing Kerapac, the Bound
- It requires three tradeable pieces to create and 95 Crafting:

- Fractured Staff of Armadyl has a powerful special attack called "Instability", it requires 50% energy and has a 60 second cooldown
- For 30 seconds if you critically strike with a magic attack, a second hit will apply dealing 90% of the damage, if this attack crits, it will then deal another third hit dealing 50% of the damage, if this third attack crits, it'll then do a fourth and final hit for 25% damage
- Here's a quick video of the special attack in action:

 

[+] Scripture of Jas

- Scripture of Jas is the newest pocket slot book which is dropped by Kerapac, the Bound:

- As stated, on damaging attacks there's a 33% chance to cause a Time Rift, which will store damage dealt from your attacks and then unleash 20% of that damage at the end of the timer
- Here's an example:

 

[+] Kerry

- Kerapac, the Bound's boss pet is Kerry!
- There are two variations:

Echo of Kerapac recolour (1,000 kc)

 

[+] Rare Mystery Box Rotation

- This is the LAST rotation until Rare mboxes take a hiatus.
- The new Custom rares:

Camouflaged partyhat (purple)

Nebula partyhat (purple)

Nebula Santa hat (teal)

Nebula Halloween mask (teal)

Bloom Halloween mask

Psychedelic Halloween mask (purple)

Nebula Halloween mask (purple)

Constellation partyhat

 

 

[+] Bug Reports

- Fixed Al-Kharid staircases getting you stuck in mid-air
- Fixed Enhanced excalibur duplicate trivia question
- Fixed Alchemic smithing perk description
- Fixed Skilling backpack equip option to talk to Skilling master
- Fixed Prifddinas agility Zipline direction
- Fixed ladder at Stormguard citadel for clue scroll taking you to Baxtorian falls
- Fixed Lumbridge chicken staircase putting you mid-air
- Fixed Imcando pickaxe/mattock trivia question answer
- Fixed entering an instance forcing music changes if you have playlists playing
- Fixed hardmode bandos fight not retaliating after killing once
- Fixed Bombi recolouring not working for familiar pet overrides

 

Keep up to date on Ataraxia 2 through our Discord: https://discord.gg/yuKh6Qt/

 

 

[A Tuna 1]

Yasssss

 

Though a quick F in the chat for the Prif Agility zipline being "fixed". That was a feature, not a bug 😡