Development Blog #21 - Leagues 6 - Development Blog - Alora

Hello everyone,

We are excited to show you all what we have been cooking for our sixth edition of Leagues. In this dev blog, we will be going over what to expect, both new and old content.

For those unfamiliar with the idea of Leagues, it's quite simple. You make a new account that is locked to the island of Kourend and your goal is to complete as many tasks as you can in 6 weeks. As you complete more and more tasks, you will be given the option to unlock other regions. Achieving certain point milestones allows you to unlock Relics, which are overpowered boosts to your account.

Now lets run through all of this in a little more detail so you can familiarize yourself with what's to come.

Regions

We will be running back the system we had during the last leagues, but with a few changes. By popular demand, we have unlocked an extra region for you to enjoy right off the bat; Karamja along with Kourend. This will give you that little bit of variety at the beginning to spice things up.

We have also expanded the list of regions with two new additions; Fremennik and the Wilderness! This unlocks content such as the Dagannoth kings and its echo variant, Duke Succellus, Vorkath, Corporeal Beast, and a lot more!

It's important to remember that you will have to be very careful when selecting regions, as you can only unlock three other regions on top of Kourend and Karamja.

Third region unlock:
- 90 total task completions required.
Fourth region unlock:
- 200 total task completions required.
Fifth region unlock:
- 400 total task completions required

Unlocking the Morytania region will provide players with a Drakan’s medallion.

Raids Megarare Vouchers

Just like last leagues, when you complete the Theatre of Blood, Chambers of Xeric, or Tombs of Amascut, instead of obtaining the corresponding mega-rare item (Scythe of Vitur, Twisted Bow, Tumeken’s Shadow), you will instead obtain a voucher than you use to claim any of the 3 mega-rare items.

This is great for people that enjoy doing a specific raid but would love to experience a megarare from another raid.

Echo Bosses

Each region has a specific boss that players will be able to take on in a harder echo variant.

Players can do so by killing the normal boss, and obtaining the corresponding echo orb to challenge the echo boss, similar to the Awakener's orb in the main game.

Rewards

Sol Heredit:
- Sol heredit (echo) will drop the Sunlit Bracers and the Sunlight Spear:
  - Sunlit bracers:
    - These bracers, when equipped, will double any base healing received from sources such as the amulet of blood fury, blood spells, guthan’s, etc..
    - The effect does not double modifiers, such as the Zuriel’s staff/bloodbark effect on blood spells.
  - Sunlight Spear:
    - This is a powerful spear that can charge up special attack stacks, one for every time the players attacks with it, up to 20 stacks.
    - It has a unique special attack that consumes 7 stacks, attacking all enemies in a 3x3 area with typeless damage.
    - The damage is also boosted by 3% for every prayer bonus the player has.

Kalphite Queen:
- Kalphite Queen (echo) will drop the Drygore Blowpipe.
  - Drygore Blowpipe:
    - This is slightly weaker version of the toxic blowpipe, but has no special attack and does not require zulrah’s scales to use.

Grotesque Guardians:
- Grotesque Guardians (echo) will drop Gloves of the Damned.
  - Gloves of the Damned:
    - These have the same stats as Barrow’s gloves, but also apply the effect of the Amulet of the Damned.

Corrupted Hunllef:
- Corrupted Hunllef (echo) will drop the Crystal Blessing.
  - Crystal Blessing:
    - This blessing provides +5 prayer bonus, and allows all melee weapons to take advantage of the accuracy/damage bonus of crystal armour.

Hespori:
- Hespori (echo) will drop a Nature's Reprisal.
  - Nature’s Reprisal:
    - This is a very powerful weapon that can attack with magic/range/melee, similar to salamanders, but more powerful, having an attack range of 7 tiles.

Dagannoth Kings
- Dagannoth Kings (echo) will drop the Amulet of the monarchs and the Emperor ring.
  - Amulet of the monarchs
    - A three-in-one amulet, with upgraded stats compared to the rancour, anguish and occult.
  - Emperor ring
    - A three-in-one ring, with upgraded stats compared to the ultor, bellator, magus, venator, suffering, and ring of the gods rings.

King black Dragon
- King black Dragon will drop the Thunder khopesh and the Thousand-Dragon ward.
  - Thunder khopesh
    - It has a passive effect that grants standard, successful hits a 20% chance to summon a delayed lightning bolt at the target's location, damaging enemies in a 3x3 area for up to 50% of the player's max hit
  - Thousand-Dragon ward
    - While equipped, the player is immune to a number of status effects and attacks, including poison, venom, dragonfire (except from drakes), icy breath, swamp decay, disease, desert heat, and chill stat-drains

Relics

Relics are powerful buffs which are unlocked with League Points. Relics offer bonuses that boost actions related to gathering, processing, teleportation, and combat. Upon completing the league tutorial, players are presented with the choice of their first relic between three. Additional relics can be unlocked as players reach certain point thresholds and unlock new tiers.

We think the Relics are in a good spot, but we feel like a few tweaks here and there to spice things up would be greatly appreciated.

First of all, we have changed the Tier 4 combat relics. Instead of picking one combat style for the entirety of leagues, you now get to pick them at tiers 2, 4 and 6 in any order which allows you to enjoy combat to its full potential.

We have also decided to include the Corrupted Shark and Corrupted Potion from Gridmaster, which are unlimited consumables.

We are also introducing two more relics to the table; Golden God and Reloaded, which can be found in Tier 4.

And last but not least, we are tweaking the experience and drop rate modifiers just a little bit so you can fly through as much leagues content as possible.

Tier 1: