Hello everyone,   We're back with another round of updates, this time adding some updates that we're sure you're going to love. First and foremost, for those of you who are avid Dark mode users on your devices, Resource packs are now available on Alora! This includes many different skins that will recolor not only your game frame but also other other interfaces such as your bank. Speaking of banking, we've also overhauled the bank system, adding a plethora of new features including the Incinerator, being able to equip items in the bank, faster tab switching, more slots, and just a generally smoother experience. We've also brought some much requested changes, such as Theatre of Blood scaling, Nightmare drop rate boost, and more.   Rank tickets can now be purchased in our store, and these will essentially automate the custom donation process so that players don't have to reach out to us or use a middleman at all! If you buy a $100 Rank ticket, you can trade it to another player who can then open it and immediately have $400 added to their rank. There are two options for these tickets: $100 and $150, which give $400 and $600 towards rank, respectively. You can choose the quantity of each ticket you want to purchase, to reach the rank you're going for.    As we enter spring (and approach Easter), our Spring sale is officially live! Aside from plenty of discounted items, you'll also received 25% bonus tokens on all purchases, and even a bonus on our new Rank tickets. We've also brought back the infamous Easter box for a limited time, so make sure to get your hands on some Easter items while you can!     Store updates: Spring Sale: Our Spring Sale is now live! Enjoy 25% bonus tokens on all purchases, as well as the following discounted items: Elite void set Raid booster Gauntlet booster Mystery box Cosmetic mystery box Name change ticket Slayer helmet ornament kits (TzKal, TzTok, Vampyric) Limited items: Easter box: This item, similar to a Mystery box, can give you any of the following loot: Fully bunny suit (comes together) Full chicken suit (comes together) Easter basket Easter ring Rank Tickets (In-game Custom Donations) Custom donations for rank can now be easily purchased without having to wait for us to manually add them! You can purchase either a $400 or $600 Rank ticket ticket, which cost either $100 or $150, respectively. You can then open this in-game to instantly add either $400 or $600 to your rank, and your rank will automatically be upgraded if you reach a new threshold. Rank tickets are tradable, so you can sell them to another player who can also immediately open them to add to their rank! Unlike most items in the store, Rank tickets are not purchasable via tokens. They can be purchased at a set price of $100 or $150, so you'll have to purchase them separately on the new "Rank Donation" tab. Promotion: During the Spring Sale, you will receive the $450 and $675 rank tickets instead (+$50/$75 more than usual) as a bonus! Bank expansion scrolls update: You can now use up to 2x expansion scrolls to unlock a total of +200 bank spaces (+100 from each scroll). This brings the new maximum number of bank spaces to 1,200 (if you are the highest donator rank and also have your 2FA enabled). Client Changes: Shaded objects will no longer appear partially transparent when using GPU mode. This issue was present in many objects (and even players/npcs), such as the grand exchange pillars, the walls in the demonic gorilla dungeon, etc… Some very significant client changes have been made on the backend that cleaned a lot of visual issues up, and helped make some of the following changes possible: The inventory/minimap/chatbox will now properly clip to the edge of the screen. This was an issue on many players’ clients where these components would be floating a few pixels above the bottom of the client, or offset to the left of the right edge of the client. These components should now always be on the bottom or right edge of the client. Resource packs: Players can now install the fully functional resource packs plugin through the plugin hub to customize their client with any resource pack they’d like. This will work for nearly all interfaces, with the exception of a few custom sprites that will not be supported, so will still look like the old version. This generally will not happen on newer interfaces. The plugin menu now uses profiles, which track players plugins/settings, and can be easily switched between and imported/exported. The plugin-hub button has now been placed at the top of the plugin settings menu. The chatbox “Filtered” game tab option will now filter all spam messages from showing up in the main chatbox tab. There are thousands of game messages, and we’ve had to manually identify which ones are considered spam, so there are bound to be a few messages that are incorrectly indicated, so please let us know if you find any. We’ve generally tried to make important alert/one-time messages show up as game messages rather than spam, and have categorized most “unnecessary” or repetitive messages as spam. Increased the maximum capacity of the chatbox messages so that messages won’t disappear after only 100 have been stored. At any given moment, only up to 100 will still be visible, however messages won’t disappear as quickly anymore. For example, previously, if there were 100 spam messages in the chat box, they would start to delete the older messages, even if the spam messages were being filtered. We’ve increased this limit by quite a bit, so messages will take a lot longer to disappear in general. Players can now install the C engineer: Completed plugin from the plugin-hub. Bank Interface Changes: We’ve updated the bank interface to match the OSRS version. This comes with many quality of life changes: Faster bank tab switching. There will no longer be a 1-tick delay when switching between bank tabs. Players can now remove placeholders from items in a bank tab by right-clicking that tab. Incinerator: Players can now drag items in their bank over the incinerator (if enabled in the bank settings) to completely delete the item stack, along with the placeholder. Equipment interface: Players can now access an equipment interface from the bank by clicking the button in the top-left corner. From this interface, players can view their stats/weight/bonuses, and unequip or bank items that are currently equipped. The search functionality should now also work properly, without resetting sometimes when players withdrew items. Players can now right-click the new equipment button to quickly select a preset from the Preset plugin. Well of Goodwill Top Contributor List: You can now right-click the Well to view a list of lifetime top contributors, with the cumulative amount of gold that they have contributed to the well. This list is fresh, so it'll only start counting after today's update, but it will not be reset at any point. This allows players to see which other players of the community are contributing the most. Theatre of Blood Changes: Bloat's stomp attack now works properly, dealing 40-80 damage to any player within his line of sight when he re-awakens. Most NPC’s are now immune to poison/venom. Verzik Vitur’s second and third phase no only have 3,250 hitpoints rather than 3,500. Players can no longer drain Verzik Vitur’s defensive stats. Verzik can no longer be frozen. Fixed a bug where damage from some attacks would register the phase 3 Verzik fight after she died. Fixed a bug where Verzik Vitur’s stats were not updating properly between phases. She was always using her phase 1 stats, causing her defence against attacks, and accuracy on players to be inaccurate. Hitpoint scaling: The hitpoint scaling system will now match OSRS, making it easier for smaller groups. Previously, we would reduce the hitpoints by 5% for each player missing (with the exception of 25% for only one player). The system will now reduce the hitpoints of bosses/Nylocas by 12.5% for each missing player up to a team size of 3. So a 5-man will have the normal hitpoints, a 4-man will have a 12.5% reduction, and a 3/2/1-man will have a 25% reduction. Nightmare loot changes: Phosani's Nightmare loot rates have been made 10% easier across the board. Drop boosters will have more of an effect a your chance to hit the Orb/Gear tables on rerolls, even in group Nightmare. As a note, this is a collective addition of however many players have drop boosters on in the party. For example, if only 1/5 players has a drop booster on, that will contribute 5% (25/5) to the overall boosted rate. If all 5 players have boosters on, the full 25% boost to hit the tables will be added. Guardians of the Rift changes: The Abyssal Protector pet was not being announced over yell/Discord. You can no longer obtain the Abyssal needle twice (it will roll another item instead if you already have it / used it to create a colossal pouch). The killcount on GOTR rare drop announcements was not being shown. The Guardians of the Rift event bonus will now be applied to the final amount of attunement earned at the end of the game. Fixed a bug where players wouldn't get the proper amount of GOTR catalytic/elemental points if they deposited too many at once. Forum award changes: Forum awards for Raid kill counts that are linked to capes (Eg. "Xeric's Guard 1" or "Sinhaza Shroud 4") have been reduced to the proper amounts, from: 500/750/1,000/1,500/2,000 -> 50/250/500/750/1,000 The main titular Forum award for each raid (eg. "Theatre of Blood" or "Chambers of Xeric", not related to capes) has been set to 100 killcount. Bug Fixes: The colossal blade now uses the correct combat style interface. The countdown for how long a mute will last when you try to speak should now show the correct number of hours remaining. Fixed a bug where the NPC Drop Searcher would show the wrong amount of coins dropped (45% lower). Fixed a bug where players needed at least 2 friends on their friends list to be able to tab-to-respond to a private message. Vorkath will now only use his Ice freeze/Acid pool special attacks after every 6 regular attacks. Added defence requirements to god-trimmed rune items. Fixed a bug where the game would announce that players needed 100 master clue completions for the scroll sack, when in fact it was 150 overall clue completions. Discord item drop announcements in the #game_news channel will now show the item icon. The Theatre of Blood outside Rewards chest (to obtain unclaimed loot) was the wrong chest object, and is now the one right across from the bank. Fixed a bug where Modern loot beams wouldn’t render as the proper object when the client was started in 2010 mode. Fixed a bug where the wall textures in the Rogues’ den were incorrect on 2010 mode when using the GPU plugin or 117 HD. The ring of 3rd age will now announce when obtained from a clue scroll. Fixed a bug where drinking a liquid adrenaline dose just before it ran out would cancel the timer on the new dose. Fixed a bug where the Vasa Nistirio crystals are now immune to range attacks and take reduced magic damage. Kephriti now has a bank placeholder. Phosani’s Nightmare kill counts will now be separately tracked from the nightmare’s killcount. This means that player’s Phosani killcounts will now start tracking kills from 0, since we previously were counting the Nightmare/Phosani killcounts as the same killcounts. A separate killcount on the Runelite hiscores panel has been added to show the Phosani kills. Fixed a bug where the "Swap fill" option for runecrafting pouches using the menu-entry-swapper was not working. Fixed a bug where players would visually clip through the Amethyst rocks when mining them. Chinchompa splash damage can now target any npc within a 3x3 area of the targeted NPC’s south-west tile. This includes larger npcs, as long as any of their covered tiles are within the 3x3 range. Chinchompa splash damage will now deal damage from 0 up to the damage on the initial target. General graardor will now only attack when he is within melee distance of his target. Commander Zilyana will now only attack when she is within melee distance of her target. The chinchompa splash damage no longer damages inferno pillars. Players can no longer join a Nex fight once Nex becomes attackable. Fixed various stretched mode bugs related to resizing the client/switching between resizable and fixed while using the GPU plugin. Fixed a bug with the chatbox not being positioned correctly when using stretched mode on the fixed gameframe. Fixed a bug with stretched mode not stretching correctly on the fixed gameframe. The Double ammo mould will now double the experience gained when 2 bars are smithed. Fixed a bug where box traps would stay on the ground indefinitely sometimes. Fixed a bug where Reese's name in the chatbox dialogue was null. Muttadile loot will no longer spawn on the water. Fixed a bug where equipping the Tumeken's shadow with the equipment screen open wouldn't refresh the magic damage bonus. The Tiny Tempor pet will now only be logged once in the collection log, rather than twice. Players can now inspect the Kodai Insignia. Bone bolts now properly provide +49 ranged strength. The blood essence now properly works at the blood altar when using guardian essence. Spirit flakes now double the amount of minnows rather than just giving 1 extra minnow. Cooking Raw karambwans will not give 190 experience rather than 80. The Al-Kharid shooting star's position has been moved a few tiles east so it does not overlap with the scoreboard. Claiming raids 1/2 capes will now add them to the collection log. The Attach option now works properly on the Cursed Phalanx item. Fixed a bug when changing pages in the giant's foundry mould setup interface. Fixed a bug where the slayer helmet damage effect wasn't applying if the dragon hunter crossbow/lance effects were being applied. Fixed a bug where the TOA statistics board wouldn’t track times for teams larger than 5 players. Fixed a bug where the TOA statistics board wouldn’t update a player’s personal best time properly for 5-man or larger teams. Fixed a bug where noted crushed gems were only sellable for 1 gp each. Dusk mystic will now properly be logged in the Collection log when obtained. Fixed a bug with the music plugin not working properly. Fixed a bug where the Elven crystal chest Infinity boots announcement would announce the regular Crystal chest count. Morrigan's Javelins/thrownaxes now have placeholders. Added a placeholder for Tumeken's Shadow (uncharged). Players will now be automatically freed from Verzik's webs when she dies. Players who do not contribute enough to get loot from nex will no longer get killcount either. This was seen as a bug where players would get the killcount for dealing the minimum 100 damage, but would not get any loot, since their contribution was minimal. As it stands, players must contribute over 25% of the average damage per player of the kill to get loot and killcount. This means that if Nex has 5,000 hitpoints, and there are 5 players, then each player must deal over 250 damage to get loot (25% of 1,000 damage). If there are only two players, then this threshold becomes higher, and to get loot each player must deal over 625 damage to qualify for loot/killcount. Quality of Life: Farming QoL: The maximum number berries harvestable from a bush has been increased from 8 to 16. The godsword attack sounds have been updated to match OSRS. Rocky pet can now be obtained by looting the Grand golden chests in Pyramid Plunder. Agility shortcuts that require Diary completion will now state all of the diaries that must be completed rather than just the highest one. Eg. You must complete the Hard diary to use this shortcut -> You must complete the Hard, Medium and Easy diaries to use this shortcut. Rare drop announcement update: The # of times a player has received a specific item will now be shown in a rare drop announcement. Previously: Omicron has obtained an Elysian sigil from Corporeal beast! (#4,522) Now: Omicron has obtained an Elysian sigil (2nd) from Corporeal beast! (#4,522) Theatre of Blood room timers now start when player passes the walkthrough barrier, rather than at the end of the previous fight. This will allow players to take a break before entering the next battle, without sacrifice their time record. Players who are locked out of their account via 2FA will now be asked if they'd like to be taken to the Account Recovery section on the forums. A confirmation window will now be shown when buying Mithril seeds, to prevent players from purchasing large amounts they accidentally. Players can now select the "View-laps" option when right-clicking Grace to see their lap completions. Players can now set an alchemy warning by right-clicking on the high or low alchemy spells. This warning is set to 1m by default, which is what it was prior to this addition, but players can now increase or decrease the limit to whatever they’d like. The Dragon 2h special attack now works properly. The special attack will attack up to 14 npc’s and 3 players that are 1 tile away from the player. The world map is now supported on Alora’s native HD, so HD players can now properly make use of it. Vespula’s enrage attack will now only hit players if they’ve been within melee range of her for 2 ticks. She will first scan 1 tick before she attacks to find eligible players in her perimeter, and will then attack them the next tick if they are still there. This should fix the issue of players randomly being hit while running under vespula sometimes. Clan leaders can now set a clan rank icon to any icon, even if they are occupied by one or more offline/online player. Leaders will be warned that the icons will be removed before they can change the rank icon. The Crystal bow and all the variants of it now have the proper attack sound. The Masori assembler will now go to the reclaimables shop and can be re-purchased for 100k. Added an option to check your charges while equipping the Holy sanguinesti staff. Messages that take up more than one line in the chatbox will now take on the most recent color of that text, rather than the default color. Fixed a bug where the Theatre of Blood health bars would not reflect the opponent info plugin setting right when the bar first appeared. The Bone Dagger now has its special attack. The special attack will guarantee a hit on the target if you were not the last player to attack the target. On a successful hit, the target will have their defence drained for the damage done, similar to the BGS and Dorgeshuun crossbow. Players can now poison the bone dagger to create the P/P+/P++ versions. The ::maxhit command will now also display DPS when attacking an NPC. Players will now gain points equal to the damage inflicted on the Het seal in the Tombs of Amascut. The Login screen fire will no longer be renderable if the player is using the default Alora login screen. Added all of the hunter NPC spawns to the Piscatoris Hunter area. Players can no longer walk on the tiles that the teleport wizard and healer are standing on in Edgeville. Players can now hide the Wiki banner through the Interface Styles plugin. Various fence/stone shortcuts have been added around the game. The Player indicators plugin now properly shows custom rank/player icons if applicable. Misc: To account for increases in vote point boosts and the removal of a vote website, the price of Skin color tickets in the Vote shop has increased from 2,500 to 3,500 for all normal colors, and 6,500 to 8,250 for the Rainbow ticket, respectively.  Music Changes: Added 80 new songs that are unlockable. 50 of those are automatically unlocked when a player logs in, since they are from quests or inaccessible area. The other 30 will be unlockable around the game, primarily in areas/dungeons around Darkmeyer, Prifddinas, and Kourend. Gold Sink: Players with at least level 47 Construction can now build a gold sink in their kitchen for 10 condensed gold bars, 5 mahogany planks, and 5 gold leaves. The Condensed gold bars can be purchased from the construction exclusives shop for 50m each. Building the sink will also provide 11144 base construction experience.   We hope you enjoy this update!   As always, please report any bugs that you encounter immediately so that we can swiftly patch them up.   Regards, Omicron & Chad

  Howdy Alorians and welcome to the 2023 Spring Community Awards! This will be the first voting of the fourth year seasonal community awards, good luck to all nominees.    <3   This thread will be up until 03/27 and the results/signatures will be posted by 03/31, don't miss your chance to vote!   Thank you for participating!   <3   RULES:   1) Guest Accounts will not have their votes counted! 2) You must fill out the entire template provided below. If you do not have anyone to vote for please leave it blank instead. 3) You may NOT vote for yourself. 4) You CANNOT vote for the same person more than 6 times. 5) Any troll posts will be removed and the poster will be infracted. 6) No buying/selling or asking for votes.   Any breached rule will result in disqualification.   Please fill out  75% of the template or your votes will not be counted!       Staff     Best Event Manager:    Best Administrator:    Best Global Moderator:    Best Forum Moderator:    Best Server Moderator:    Best Server Support:    Most active on Discord:    Most active In-game:    Most active on Forums:    Most Respected:    Most Potential Promotion:    Funniest Staff Member:    Overall Best Staff Member:      Players     Most Active In-game:    Most Active on Forums:    Most Active on Discord:    Most Active Overall:    Most Wealthy:    Most Addicted to Gambling:    Most Friendly:    Most Respected:    Coolest Veteran:    Best Helper:    Best PKer:    Best PvMer:    Best Raider:    Best Skiller:    Best Clan:    Best Ironman:    Best Hardcore Ironman:    Best Ultimate Ironman:    Best Elite Ironman:    Best Group Ironman (Player):    Best Group Ironman (Team):    Best Hardcore Group Ironman (Player):    Best Hardcore Group Ironman (Team):    Best Realism Player:    Best Classic Player:    Best GFX Designer:    Best Youtuber:    Best Streamer:    Top Overall:        Good luck to all nominees.   <3

Gamers welcome to the March edition of the Alora Times! Sorry for the late post, but have a bit of a power outage situation from the storm the other day in Kentucky   :lol:. Hope you enjoy the read! Also make sure to follow Alora on FB and Instagram above and join the discord.        <3 Theatre of Blood Drop Rate Boost & Upgrades, Trading Post Item Sink, Interface Changes, and much more! - 11th February 2023     Bonus Schedule for March -  1st March 2023   March Vote Competition [March 1st - March 20th] - 1st March 2023   If you want to check out the entire update list, click here. There were no new rule updates this month!         The Official Rules can be found here. The latest Staff Changes are as follows:   Promotions: Ivy has been promoted to Global Moderator. Randell has been promoted to Forum Moderator. Lucas has been promoted to Server Moderator.     Secondary ranks/Name changes: Gazoo has changed secondary rank from honeyman to mercato. N has changed their name to Lucas   Resignations: Lunchbox has resigned from Global Moderator. Krest has resigned from Global Moderator.     For more info on Staff Updates, click here.   This month we have a some good interviews from some long time players. Up first is Iron Tard.    GIM SSS: Do you prefer cats or dogs? Why? Iron Tard: I'm a sucker for fat stupid cats.   GIM SSS: What has been your most bizarre life experience? Iron Tard: Babysitting danlish   GIM SSS: What are your current plans with your Alora account? Iron Tard: I'm not really focused on anything right now, just doing what I feel like doing.   GIM SSS: If you could add 1 new skill to OSRS/Alora, what would it be and why? Iron Tard: Milking. https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/10kuac4/new_skill_unveiled_milking/   GIM SSS: Give me your best dad joke. Iron Tard: What has five toes but isn't your foot? My Foot.     And up next we have Yautja!   GIM SSS: Do you prefer cats or dogs? Why? Yautja: I love both, but I've always had cats so I would have to go with cats from my experience from having them.   GIM SSS: What has been your most bizarre life experience? Yautja: Meeting Iron Tard, guys wild.   GIM SSS: What are your current plans with your Alora account? Yautja: All pets and some gear like all visages, full inquisitor, and at least 1 orb from Nightmare.   GIM SSS: If you could add 1 new skill to OSRS/Alora, what would it be and why? Yautja: Sailing obviously.   GIM SSS: Give me your best dad joke. Yautja: Why did the monkey fall from the tree? Because he is dead.       Disclaimer: If you'd like to be interviewed or see a particular member of the Alora community interviewed and/or particular question answered, make sure leave your nomination on the Newspaper Interview Nomination thread each month or you can DM me on discord at IronCountry#4540.                              Here we honor our fallen comrades from the last month and there were a lot of them! We wish them the best on their new Ironman journeys and better luck next time (1000+ Total Level).   Spotlight                       Stay up to date with the progress threads from the following members of the Alora Community:     Andy November Progression Dump / All TOA Rares Achieved   Sassa fras II - 17   ferinlith My Path to 4.6B XP   H Ex UIM - H Progress Thread #3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   HC Trill HC Trill Series                 Disclaimer: Make a topic in our Goals and Achievements section or PM me on the forums/Discord with your accomplishment to be featured in this section! The winner of January MOTM is... saeed     Congratulations! You have stood out in the eyes of the Alora community. Thank you for being a great member here on Alora and enjoy your rewards. :) The link to the Member of the Month thread can be found here. Also, please make sure to check out our streamers and video makers. They would love to have you keep them company during their streams and check out the content they create for Alora.     Video Makers Not Magnata https://www.youtube.com/Magnata5K Eim Bonk https://www.youtube.com/c/Bonkloots TreuMeR https://www.youtube.com/c/TreuMeR_RS DickRockhard https://www.youtube.com/c/JTooSquared JACKYT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-vsmNi1JfecO4tEJTl9OA   [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTVLVu1HQxc[/youtube]   If you enjoy Alora content, make sure to hit the Subscribe button on their channels to show them your support!   If I've missed anyone I do apologize, just message me on the forums or on Discord with a link to your channel and I will add you in. That concludes this month’s edition of the Alora Newspaper! If you would like to see something added to the paper make sure to DM me on discord at IronCountry#4540. You can read the previous edition by clicking here