Ataraxia Updates #49 - 6th September 2023

[Jaedmo 781]

   

 

We're currently trialing a potential fix for the 'hourly' lag spike/s.

As we're unsure if this will fix it or make it worse, please bear with us for any potential downtime following the update.

[+] General Changes

- Rare mystery boxes are now discontinued
- Skipping the Rise of the Six cutscene now requires the perk "The Skipper" instead of Diamond member
- Buffed the damage from Fragmentation shot while using Fleeting boots
- Buffed the damage from Combust while using Blast diffusion boots
- Increased the amount of Aura and Life refreshes in the Reaper shop
- Banking now restores Familiar special attack energy (for masters)
- Banking now resets Vengeance cooldown (for masters)
- Buffed anima rate for TzKal-Zuk and Kerapac
- All combination items for Inverted capes are now named: Inverted cape item (skill name)
- Logging out will now reset your Elder overload salve (unlimited) cooldown time
- You can now convert your Enhanced excalibur (irreversible) to a one click version that is unequippable
- Switched the options on the Archaeology material boxes so 'Open-100' is first
- Disabled Bounty hunter finding targets in the Wilderness
- Exiting Rise of the Six will now reset your Igneous Kal capes and Fractured Staff of Armadyl cooldowns
- Master members will have their Fractured Staff of Armadyl special attack cooldown reset when banking
- Master members will have their Enhanced excalibur special attack cooldown reset when banking
- Added portable station filters to messages that were missing
- Updated the Rare item token shops so you can sell the last two rotations of rare mbox rares
- You can now use ;;copydropcatcher player_name (with the perk) to copy someone else's block list
- Surge, Escape, Bladed dive and Barge will now only put you in combat if you were already in combat before using them
- Double drop rings will now function for Elite Dungeon loot even if you have auto-loot enabled
- Hops patches can now be teleported to using the Amulet of Farming (Bushes and Cacti patches option)
- Elven ritual shard cooldown now resets at Altar of War (banks if you're master)

 

[+] New Perks Interface

- Something that's been in the works for ages! Thanks to Neutrino for designing it and Armar for making it function!

- You can now store all of your Ataraxia dollars in the interface and withdraw them whenever you'd like!
- The interface will track your Donor rank and tell you your progress to the next one!

- There is also some predetermined Suggested perks for new players to pick from! If they buy a suggested perk it will replace it with another
- You can buy the Suggested perks from the [i] button! 

- You can also specifically pick categories of perks and read them all/filter by price or whether you've unlocked them or not!

- When buying a perk, it will change the blank star to a gold one:

- You can now also Activate/Deactivate all of your perks through the interface, this will have a Gold outline with a blank star:

- You can also view the description of on any perk you click on the right of the interface:

[+] Speedrunning Rewards

- The first Speedrunning event was a moderate success, there will be action taken in the future to ensure more participation!

- Armar managed to add in a Roadrunner icon to the title.. As requested by Cj
- Congrats to all participants.

 

[+] Ranged Update

- Something that has been needed for a long time is Ammo scaling...
- Simply put, this scales down the damage of ammo you're using to the tier of bow you're using it with..
- If you're using a Chaotic crossbow with T99 ammo, that ammo damage will only be T80
- This was a necessary change in striving towards a balanced combat triangle.

 

[+] Pernix Quiver

- You can now craft a Pernix Quiver using Fragments Of Pernix's Quiver
- You can receive these fragments from any T3 Elder godwars Trove:

- The quiver itself will equip in your Ammo slot:

- You can store up to 2 different types of ammo in your quiver, the highlighted ammo will be the one in use:

- You can choose which one you want to focus through right clicking:

- You can then easily cycle between which ammo type you want, check the amount or remove them:

- When equipped you'll have access to two Ranged abilities that allow you to easily switch between the two via your Action bar:

- You can store up to 20,000 ammo of each type in the quiver
- The passive effect will increase your max hit by 4% when the target is below 25% health
- You can have multiple Pernix quivers and you can colour them using the Dyes from the Loyalty shop:

 

[+] Slayer Update

- Slayer has received a major update! All tasks and task amounts are now accurate to RS3:
 

[+] Abyssal Creatures

- Abyssal savages, Abyssal beasts and Abyssal Lords have been added
- You can access these through the ;;t interface:

- These can all be found in the wilderness:

Abyssal Savage
Slayer Level: 95
Combat Style: Magic from melee range
Weakness: Water spells
Special Ability: Abyssal demon teleports

 

Abyssal Beast
Slayer Level: 105
Combat Style: Melee
Weakness: Slash
Special Ability: Abyssal demon teleports, Tongue lash

 

Abyssal Lord
Slayer Level: 115
Combat Style: Magic
Weakness: Ranged
Special Ability: Abyssal demon teleports, Spawns Tentacles that deal Magic damage (kill these)
Notes: Counts as 5 towards Abyssal demon task

- All of the combat scripts are added for these monsters
- These Abyssal creatures all drop a new item "Abyssal flesh" which can be used to upgrade Armour spikes or Armour spikes (alloy) to Abyssal armour spikes/Abyssal armour spikes (alloy) at a rate of 10 flesh to 100 spikes, the effect of which will be shown in a video below

- Abyssal savages don't drop anything unique of note
- Abyssal beasts have a 1/5000 chance off-task and a 1/1000 chance on-task to drop Jaws of the Abyss:

- The passive ability is not yet added and might be expanded in the future.
- Abyssal lords have a 1/10000 chance off-task and a 1/2000 chance on-task to drop Abyssal scourge:

- You can see the affects of the Abyssal scourge in this short video:

 

 

 

- As well as the affects of the Abyssal armour spikes in this short video:

 

 

[+] Nodon Dragonkin

- As well as the Abyssal creatures, Nodon Dragonkin slayer assignment and creatures has been added!
- You can find these at the Nodon front, accessed through teleporting to the Slayer assignment on ;;t like so:

- You can now fight:

Nodon Artificier
Slayer Level: 92
Combat Style: Magic
Weakness: Ranged
Special Ability: After 6 attacks will say 'Feel the flames', just move out the way or take lots of unavoidable damage

Nodon Guard
Slayer Level: 92
Combat Style: Melee
Weakness: Air spells
Special Ability: After 6 attacks will say 'ARGHH!' and jump to quake in your direction, avoid it :)

Nodon Hunter
Slayer Level: 92
Combat Style: Ranged
Weakness: Stab
Special Ability: After 6 attacks will say 'BOMBS AWAY!' and rain arrows on your position, avoid it :)

Siege Engine
Slayer Level: 92
Combat Style: Ranged
Weakness: Water spells
Special Ability: Will always fire an attack at your current position

Nodon Engineer
Slayer Level: 92
Combat Style: All styles
Weakness: Air spells
Special Ability: Has the powers of all Nodon monsters
Notes: Has a chance to spawn the Nodon enforcer

Nodon Enforcer
Slayer Level: 92
Combat Style: All styles
Weakness: Air spells
Special Ability: Has the powers of all Nodon monsters, will spawn alongside a henchman (random nodon)

- As we don't have Cannons, Kinetic cyclones or Oldak coils, the rare drops from the Nodon dragonkin are fairly irrelevant.
- They do, however, have a pet drop:

 

[+] Greater demon berserker and Ash lords

- Finally, Greater demon berserker and ash lords are added! Both can be killed on a Greater demon slayer task reducing the counter by 8 per kill or on their own respective slayer tasks
- You can access these through ;;t > Slayer:

Greater demon berserker
Slayer Level: 1
Combat Style: Melee
Weakness: None
Special Ability: 'Strong Guard' You will have 100% hit chance and deal damage based on your accuracy

Greater demon ash lord
Slayer Level: 1
Combat Style: Magic
Weakness: None
Special Ability: 'Strong Guard' You will have 100% hit chance and deal damage based on your accuracy

- The final Slayer change is that Mandrith is now the highest level Slayer master! He requires 120 combat and 95 Slayer.
- And an alternative to the low level Slayer masters is now Jacquelyn:

 

[+] Event Token Changes

- Events have been reworked slightly, as there was an issue of people hoarding their tokens waiting to be able to pick specific events, I've removed the option to pick a specific event
- Your options are now:

- Selecting Random Event will activate any random event
- Selecting Random Skilling Event will activate one of the following: Double Gathering, Double Spotlights, Triple Experience, Contract EXP
- Selecting Random Combat Event will activate one of the following: Double Drops, +25% Drop rate, Double Slayer & Reaper, Double Spotlights or Extra Damage
- Selecting a random category will cost 2 tokens instead of 1, however, if you're a Master Member, you can use just 1 token for any option
- Furthermore, as it's all easier to activate now, Events can now overlap! You will receive a warning dialogue if an event is already active:

- Rolling the same event won't make the token useless, it will add to the timer of the current event like so:

- This also allows for the possibility of Extra damage, Drop rate and Double drops all at one time 

 

[+] Reaper Task Changes

-Most of the previous experiences of hunting Reaper tasks was skipping tasks until you could find the one you want...
- Which, for progressing players is ok, as they might get a task that they could do but may not feel like it but do it anyway
- However, for end-game players, they'd spend an exorbitant amount on trying to get a specific task they want
- Firstly, skipping Vorago will rule out Vorago from your next skip, so you won't waste money on skipping back to back of the same Boss
- Also, we've added the ability to pick your task.. Provided you have every Reaper perk unlocked:

- Selecting the first option will open up the following interface:

- You can pick any task you would like for only 30m (15m if you have The Discounter perk)
- We've also added a new Reaper Perk for 1,500 Reaper points:

- So when you pick a task you will be able to pick between the Min amount, Assigned amount, Max amount like so:

[+] Loyalty Shop

- Updated the loyalty shop with some new goodies:

- You can now buy Herb boxes and Secondaries boxes for 1,000 points each
- Aura refreshes cost 15,000/25,000/35,000/50,000
- You can buy an Ataraxia coin sack which contains between 5 and 250 Ataraxia coins for 20,000
- You can buy Elite dungeon booster tokens and Skilling booster tokens for 100,000 each
- You can buy Keepsake keys for 125,000 each
- Hoping this is something you all like if you've got a few loyalty points laying around...

 

[+] Bug Reports

- Fixed disassembling Igneous stone giving 1 of every Invention material
- Fixed Tavia's fishing rod not working outside of Deep sea fishing
- Fixed Bait and Switch not counting towards Cooking contracts
- Fixed Destroy item dialogue button shortcuts
- Fixed Divination contracts not accounting for double resource gathering
- Fixed not being able to close the Construction interface on mobile
- Fixed charges tooltip display for some weapons/armour

 

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[A Tuna 1]

Can't wait to come back, loving new standard content 😄