Tw1st

No support. I could see the possibility of the full clue hunter outfit giving a higher chance to receive "rare" items from clues but I don't agree with the outfit replacing the items needed to complete the clues. 

Sounds like it would be cool. Right now a lot of players feel clue scrolls are worthless which I do/don’t agree with depending on what type of account you play. The people that don’t find clue scrolls useful may find this as a motivator to go and do them.

Hello

 

Due to your friend Raud having way less free time than he used to, he has decided to take a step back. Yes, I have decided to resign from Server Moderator position and become an usual player again. These 2 months as a staff member have been really fun. Helping people out any way I can, doing staffing things and having some fun with other staff members.

 

I must say that current staff team is looking pretty strong and I would be just slowing them down. I have made a lot of good friends in there and also outside the staff team. Thank you, Staff team, for giving me a chance to work with you. Resigning decision did not come easily, but it just had to be done. 

 

I will still be playing Alora, because I got so many thing to accomplish still, even though I maxed my Elite Ironman, but I am not stopping here. So If you want to talk to me, my PMs are still open, unless I am trying to get 200M in skills like Noobair has done already

 

Thanks, Omicron Lowkey Dante hsoJ Sheep Salter Draisaitl king purple Ja ke To gain Not Hellish Kaamea Ramon Moe Chase EIM Chong Loo Mob1 iron aritus Iron Foxit Eim 40a Code 002 M A C K Epico EIM 1gp Smiv Scuffed EIM Paine Zach McCoy , for making staff team such a enjoyable place to be :)

 

All the best wishes,

Raud

Patch notes:

 

• Theatre of blood passages fixed
• Blast Furnace updates:
  • All bars can now be smelted in the Blast Furnace (fixes Gold, Steel, Iron)
  • Maximum amount of time you can buy in 1 shot for the Blast Furnace is 5 hours (to avoid people spending their entire cash stack)
• Ironman/Classic/Elite were unable to see ‘global’ items such as Snape grass spawns following the previous update. This has been fixed.
• “Stomp” emote would not work in certain areas, giving the “You cannot use this emote in the wilderness” error message. This should no longer occur outside of the wilderness.
• A warning message will now be given upon login to players using an outdated client. Anyone using a client from August or prior to will not be able to play Alora after October 9th, so we strongly urge you to get the latest client if you see this error message.

 

Hello everyone,

 

Today’s update is slightly delayed as I had to work on our security extensively this month. Now that I feel comfortable with the current state of things in terms of security, we can get back to the frequent updates :) This update is packed with many QOL updates, as well as some content which many of you will find useful such as the Blast Furnace. We’ve also managed to squeeze in some bug fixes, as well as some other cool things such as the metamorphosis Raids 1 pet and auto-looting coins with the Ring of wealth.

 

Please note that some of these updates (particularly the bug fixes) may have already been applied in-game, but were not yet included in an update thread.

• Server:
  • Ladder/Staircase changes:
    • When using a ladder or staircase on Alora, you would previously be delayed 1 tick (0.6s) while you perform the animation.
      • This has been removed, and you will instantly use the staircase or ladder, similar to on OSRS.
  • Crafting guild fixes/changes:
    • The Crafting guild had many weird looking objects such as stalagmites, ice columns, etc that did not belong there. This map has been fixed entirely.
    • With the above fix, the following has changed:
      • More ores (particularly gold ores) can be mined.
      • A staircase to go upstairs to multiple Spinning wheels is now available.
  • Paul right-click trade:
    • We know how much some of you loved navigating through Paul’s dialogue to get to the Ironman shop, but unfortunately we’ve decided to add a right-click “Trade” option to speed things up for the rest of us!
  • Barrows change:
    • The dig radius around mounds has been increased.
  • Music cape emote:
    • The Music cape emote, “Air Guitar” has now been added.
  • Theatre of Blood fixes:
    • Sotetseg’s projectile attacks that disable prayer were disabling it too early — upon performing his animation, not upon the projectile landing on you. This has been fixed.
    • Fixed a problem with prayer icon not turning off (Chivalry)
    • Fixed an issue which blocked you from attacking some of the spiders in the Nylocas wave.
  • Ironman / Classic ground item filter:
    • Ironman and Classic accounts will no longer see ground items that belong to other players. This should make it easier to identify loot that is yours, as there should be no reason for you to see anyone else’s loot.
      • There are a few exceptions to this for the following game modes:
        • Classic:
          • As a Classic, you will still be able to see any loot (that is public) dropped by other Classics or creatures they have slain.
        • Elite Ironman:
          • As an Elite Ironman, you will still be able to see any loot (that is public) dropped by your partner or any creatures they have slain.
        • Specific item exceptions for all groups:
          • The Dawnbringer will always be shown as it is part of the Theatre of Blood mechanics to drop it between players.
  • Dragon sq shield ornament kit:
    • This ornament kit, which can be used to convert your Dragon sq shield into the gold-trimmed (g) version, can now be purchased from the Vote shop for 225 vote points.
  • Slayer Helm Recolour:
    • The colour of the Slayer helm has been tweaked so the standard and imbued versions are visually distinct. (See below)
  • Rejuvenation pool update (in POH):
    • Rejuvenation pools can now be used to restore your health, special attack, run energy, prayer and cure poison with only half the usual delay provided that you have not been in PvP combat within the last 3 minutes.
      • This does not apply to the rejuvenation pool at home, but only to the ones location in player-owned-houses.
  • Blast Furnace:
    • The Blast Furnace is now accessible! It can be reached through the Minigames section of the Teleport Wizard’s menu.
      • How does it work?
        • The Blast Furnace allows you to smelt bars while only using half the required amount of coal, while still receiving full experience. 
        • Ores are deposited onto the conveyor belt, and then smelted within seconds.
        • You can collect your bars from the dispenser, which may be cooled down with a bucket of water.
          • You can optionally use Ice gloves to collect your bars rather than cooling down the dispenser.
        • There is a bank chest very close to the furnace.
      • Cost:
        • The cost to smelt your bars in the furnace is 480k GP per hour. You can pay this fee to Ordan every hour, or pay him for many hours at once. This is to cover the labor of the 5 dwarves who run the machinery. You may find these dwarves’ names familiar. If your time runs out, you will not be able to deposit any more ores onto the conveyor.
          • You will be notified of your time remaining in the Blast Furnace periodically, and notified when your time runs out.
      • Notes:
        • You can store up to 200 ores in the melting pot.
        • If you logout, any ores or bars within the machinery will be lost.
  • Ice gloves:
    • These gloves, which allow you to collect bars from the Blast Furnace without needing to use a bucket of water, can be purchased from the Loyalty Point store for 50k points.
  • Buckets of water:
    • Buckets of water (used in the Blast furnace) can now be created:
      • Empty buckets can be purchased in the General/Ironman/Classic shops, and can be filled at any water source. 
        • There is also a bucket spawn at the Blast furnace.
• Chambers of Xeric reward update:
  • A new reward has been added to Raids 1: Metamorphic Dust!
    • This item can be used on an existing Raids 1 pet (Olmlet or Vanguard) to give your pet the ability to morph between 6 different Raids pets:
      • Olmlet, Mini Vanguard, Vasa Minirio, Tektiny, Vespina and the Puppadile!
    • Previously, there were only 2 pets that you could get (separately) through the raid, the Olmlet and Vanguard. These pets still function as usual, and are both still rewards from raids. The Vanguard can also be purchased in the donation shop. Note that the Metamorphic dust can be used on either of them to get the same final result (morphing pet).
  • How do I obtain it?
    • The Metamorphic dust can be obtained through the Chambers of Xeric if you’re lucky, with the drop rate being 1/400 as long as you complete the dungeon within average time and points.
      • This roll is completely separate from the usual drop table, so it will not affect your chances of obtaining other loot.
  • Notes:
    • Changes to Baby Vanguard:
      • Renamed to Mini Vanguard
      • Anyone previously holding Baby Vanguard will notice that their inventory icon has been updated to better reflect the pet
      • The Vanguard now has a dialogue
        • All of the new pets also have dialogues.
    • Once the dust is applied to one pet, any other raids pets you have (or receive from raids) will automatically have the morph feature.
• Recoil update:
  • Ring of recoils can now be “broken” by right-clicking on them and using the break option. This will reset the number of recoils they have remaining to 40, useful if you are low on recoils and do not want to carry another ring in your inventory to PK.
• Ring of wealth update:
  • The Ring of wealth (and it’s imbued version) can now optionally auto-loot your coins and tokkul from slain enemies! You can toggle this setting by right-clicking either ring and selecting the “Features” option.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes:
    • Discord status when fighting a barrows brother had a grammatical error.
    • Red skull will now go away after dying or entering and leaving a mini-game such as Fight caves.
    • You can no longer skip Extreme tasks for free by walking away before selecting an amount. If you do, a random amount will be selected for you.
    • You can no longer choose to assign a specific amount for TzTok-Jad or TzKal-Zuk tasks, you will only be assigned 1 of either.
    • Revenant ether collected by your bracelet will no longer be banked if your inventory is full.
    • Beret mask will no longer make your head invisible.
    • Barbarian icons (defender, attack, healer, collector) will now be worn in the glove slot rather than the cape slot, allowing you to wear a cape while having an icon equipped.
    • Justiciar armour requirements fixed (75 defence)
    • Christmas cracker bug fixes:
      • When using the cracker on another player and then cancelling, the dialogue would freeze.
      • If used on another player who logged out before you could confirm that you indeed wanted to use their cracker on them and they received the party hat, it would technically disappear. The cracker will no longer allow you to confirm that you’d like to use it if the other player has logged out or Died.
    • Pathfinding bug:
      • Fixed a major bug which allowed players to interact with objects/npcs/etc even though they were not close enough. For example, if you somehow could stop your movement forcefully (being frozen in combat or by other means) you could enter a cave from many steps away.
        • This applied to interacting with objects, npcs, items (picking up), as well as using items on players.
    • A bug which caused your character to look very glitched (“spaghetti arms”) after doing ::watchbr to watch a Battle Royale and then leaving has been fixed.
    • A requirement of 53 Fletching has been added to Toxic Blowpipe creation.
    • Gem/Coal bags can no longer be worn with the equipment interface bug.

 

• General
  • Further improvements have been made to our protection systems for DDoS attacks. We were hit with some attacks just over a week ago and did experience bouts of lag, but the server never fully crashed which is a great sign, and the attacks were mitigated relatively quickly. We’ve made even more changes to improve our firewall, and we’ll continue monitoring and improving our systems as required.
  • We've also improved our stability and are able to have longer uptime without lag as many of you have likely noticed :)

 

• Store:
  • Pet booster price reduced to 10 tokens from 15 to more accurately reflect its value.

 

• Forum:
  • Our userbars have been updated! Thanks to @Dumbshit for creating the lovely new ones.
    • Along with these, we’ve added some new userbars that previously did not exist for Ironmen (they all used the default Ironman icon):
      • Ultimate Ironman
      • Hardcore Ironman
      • Elite ironman
  • Postbit backgrounds (background colors on posts) have been added for the following groups:
    • Official Designer
    • Designer
    • Ex-Staff
    • Youtuber
  • Discord widget color:
    • Instead of the usual purple color of the Discord widget, we’ve made it follow the color theme of the website (eg. If the right side of the page is green, the discord widget will be green). If you are on a solid color (eg. You always want the website green), the Discord widget will match this color.
  • Homepage:
    • Newspapers and community awards will now show up on the homepage news feed.
  • Meta image updated:
    • When posting Alora links (eg. On Discord) the old logo would be affiliated with the URL. This has been updated to match our current logo.
  • Elitist: Maxed Elite Ironman award (thanks to @EIM 1gp for the suggestion)
    • This forum award can now be awarded to you if you are a maxed Elite Ironman!
      • The award description has been added to the thread which lists them.
      • All current 11 maxed EIM’s have been given this award. Future maxed EIMs will need to submit a request.

 

 

Client:

• A bug which was introduced about a month ago was causing java.exe to not shut down gracefully when you closed the client, causing RAM to be taken up unnecessarily and eventually leading to lag, has been fixed.
  • This has only been seen by me personally on Windows 7. Windows 10 and OSX were unaffected.

 

 

Postbit backgrounds:

 

 

 

Pathfinding update media:

• OSRS: https://cl.ly/0e25a2565dcc
• Alora New: https://cl.ly/d7633a8ee443
• Alora Old: https://cl.ly/5976e2a3a588

 

Recoil:

 

Dragon SQ creation:

 

Blast Furnace:

 

Slayer helmet recolor:

 

Air guitar:

 

 

Ring of wealth auto-loot:

 

 

Metamorphosis dust:

 

Metamorphosis pets:

 

 

We hope you enjoy this update :)

 

Regards,

Omicron

What is your suggestion?: PvM Forum award

Is this in OSRS?: No, This is a Alora Exclusive

 

Has this suggestion been accepted already?: I have tried searching for it without succes.

 

How would this benefit Alora?: There is already a PvP reward and kind of a skilling away for forums so might aswell have an award for PvMers. It gets people to motivate themselves ingames to do more pvming and go for more than just the drops from the boss (forum award). 

 

 

Requirements: I would say you need the following.

1. 1000kc in 3 bosses

2. 200kc in 2 wilderness bosses

3. 100kc in Chambers of Xeric

4. 100kc in Theatre of Blood

(this is not my decison to make and will be discussed by staff)

 

Icon ideas: 

The current Icon of the slayer skill in-game.

A Sword with blood on it.

A normal skull with blood on it. (not the slayer skill skull)

 

If anyone that reads this and has an idea for an icon post it here!

 

Additional examples by @CodeLance :

 

 

 

Slayer Helmet (1k KC on multiple Bosses)

 

"Unforgiven | Given to those with a kc of over 1000 on 3 different bosses |"

 

Callisto (200kc in wilderness bosses)

 

"Unbeatable | Given to those with a kc of over 200 on 3 different wilderness bosses |"

 

Raids 2 Chest (100kc in Theatre of Blood (100kc in Chambers of Xeric)

 

"Determined | Achieved 100 kc in the theatre of blood |"

 

Raids 1 Lootbox (100kc in Chambers of Xeric)

 

"Persistent | Achieved 100 kc in the Chambers of Xeric |"

Hello Everyone! I've seen many of these progress reports, and have been meaning to make one for the LONGEST time. I won't say this will be perfect, but I would like to be consistent with this as possible. Also a massive shoutout to @Elite Sheets as i've used his template as it impressed me  :)

 

               CERBERUS             SLAYER                   DKS                  ZULRAH

 
                          Primordial boots                     Slayer helmet (i)                    Berserker ring (i)                     Tanzanite fang
                          Pegasian boots                      Ring of wealth (i)                     Archers ring (i)                          Magic fang
                            Eternal boots                            Herb sack                             Seers ring (i)                     Serpentine visage
                        Smouldering stone                   Salve amulet (ei)                       Dragon axe                           Crystal seed
                                                                           Imbued heart                                                                   Tanzanite mutagen
                                                                                                                                                                     Magma mutagen
 
                 BANDOS            ZAMORAK           SARADOMIN        ARMADYL
 
                          Bandos tassets                    Zamorakian spear                     Armadyl crossbow                   Armadyl helmet
                        Bandos chestplate                  Staff of the dead                       Saradomin sword                  Armadyl chainskirt
                           Bandos boots                    Zamorak godsword                     Saradomin's light                  Armadyl chestplate
                        Bandos godsword                  Steam battlestaff                    Saradomin godsword               Armadyl godsword
 
 
 
                 KRAKEN            DEMONICS         WILDERNESS       DRAGON 
 
                        Trident of the seas                  Amulet of torture                            Rune pouch                          KBD heads
                          Kraken tentacle                  Necklace of anguish                      Dragon pickaxe                    Draconic visage
                                                                       Ring of suffering                         Odium ward (1/3)                    Vorkath head
                                                                     Tormented bracelet                   Malediction ward (0/3)           Dragon warhammer

                                                                     Heavy Ballista (3/4)                    Revenant items (4/4)

 
 
                 GENERAL            BARROWS                RAIDS I              RAIDS II
 
                           Elite void ranged               Ahrim's armour set (4/4)             Dexterous prayer scroll          Avernic defender hilt
                            Elite void melee                Karil's armour set (4/4)                  Arcane prayer scroll                 Ghrazi rapier
                            Elite void magic              Dharok's armour set (4/4)                     Twisted bow                     Sanguinesti staff
                              Fighter torso                 Guthan's armour set (4/4)                  Twisted buckler                     Scythe of vitur
                              Graceful set                    Torag's armour set (3/4)                 Ancestral robe top              Justiciar faceguard
                          Dragon defender                Verac's armour set (4/4)               Ancestral robe bottom         Justiciar chestguard
                                Fire cape                                                                                  Ancestral hat                  Justiciar legguards
                           Occult necklace                                                                              Kodai wand 
                             Abyssal whip                                                                                 Elder maul
                             Ranger boots                                                                     Dragon hunter crossbow 
                              Inferno cape                                                                               Dragon claws
                    Achievement cape (54/54)                                                                  
                       Completionist monkey

 

                    HYDRA                                                   SKILLS

 

                               Hydra's eye                                      Attack 99/99                  Hitpoints 99/99                 Mining 99/99          

                              Hydra's fang                                   Strength 99/99                   Agility 99/99                  Smithing 99/99

                              Hydra's heart                                  Defence 99/99                 Herblore 99/99                 Fishing 99/99

                              Hydra leather                                  Ranged 99/99                  Thieving 99/99                Cooking 99/99

                                Hydra claw                                     Prayer 99/99                   Crafting 99/99              Firemaking 99/99

                                 Hydra tail                                       Magic 99/99                   Fletching 99/99           Woodcutting 99/99

                                                                                  Runecrafting 99/99               Slayer 99/99                  Farming 99/99

                                                                                  Construction 99/99               Hunter 99/99             Total lvl: 2277 / 2277

 
 
                                                                                               Overall Rank - 2

 

                                                                         BANK PIC (Apologies for the messy bank)

 

 

This is probably the most diabolical bank you've ever seen but i'm too lazy to fix it. This will conclude this weeks progress update. Last Updated: 07/04/19.

The only one i support is maybe add a few more mahogany trees, im saying no support to the other suggestions.
My reasoning for it adding the teleport wizard has been suggested many times and has and most likely always will be declined because this would split the community wich we dont want to happen due to the fact edgeville is our home city and is also the first place new players see when they logg in.
Same goes for the fishing locations i rather keep it as it is right now to prevent a split community.
The extra banker at the ores and trees is not needed because its a small effort to type ;;dz and your at the banker, and you can run right back to the ores and trees.

 

Account (IGN) -  Tw1st

What rank are you applying for? - Corporal

Why do you think you deserve this rank? - Well 'deserve' would be a stronger word then what I would use myself, but I would like to be Promoted to Corporal rank, just to work my way up my ladder, i love C O A.  The members in it are FAM<3 and TBH i feel weird being a recruit, i feel too "at home" 

Do you agree to be Non-Toxic?- Of course

Explain why COA interest's you?

Many Reasons...

the community

the cleaniness

the respect towards each other

 

i could go on & on , but that would mean i be missing out on advertisment and my gains x[)... 

 

 Love ya'll

 

APPLICATION ACCEPTED RANK : Corporal!!

• This guides aim is to explain how to get 200m in skills, not 99. Theres enough guides on the forums for those. In this guide i assume the player knows the basic information about the skill, how it works etc.
• In my calculations i used the following bonusses: Well of goodwill, 50% bonus xp from votebook. (as you should use these whilst going for 200m's for sure!)
• The following extra bonusses could be used to speed things up: Bonus event xp, Gods blessing, skill of the day bonus, items for bonus xp (see skills), wilderniss xp.
• Get the gods blessing whenever you can, its worth it!
• My calculations show the amount of actions from 0 to exactly 200m xp.
• Getting donator before doing any of these grinds is worth it. The extra options and noted supplies add up.

 

Below is every single skill. Ive added calculations and some important info for each skill. 
The important numbers are green.

Hello there folks!

 

I'm back again with some new signatures that people purchased from my shop and with official accepted userbars that might be added to forums soon.

 

Signature requested and purchased by @mr playlist

 

Signature requested and purchased by @Iron Foxit

 

Lastly, the userbars.

 

I appreciate all of your guys input on what you thought about the userbars, so i decided to completely rework them in a more simple way but still having a professional touch towards it, me and our glorious owner @Omicron discussed alot about what kind of userbars would fit, and with his help and with you guys glorious CnC I now have created a new batch of Alora userbars that might be replacing the new ones in the near future.

 

 

Thank you all for the amazing support every since i became the official designer, you all have been a great inspiration for me to continue on and learning more and more about design every day just so i can improve for the sake of you guys and Alora, thank you!

 

If you want to see this entire update, click HERE!

 

Here is the second update:

 

• Revenant weapons:
  • The Revenant drop tables have been updated with brand new weaponry and equipment! All of the Revenants now have a chance to drop the following:
    • Amulet of Avarice
      • This amulet will cause all drops within the Revenant caves to be noted. This includes non-revenant NPCs as well! The caveat is that the amulet will cause you to be skulled at all times. If you choose to un-equip the amulet, your skull will fade after 20 minutes.
    • Craw’s bow
      • This two-handed bow requiring 60 Ranged, when charged with ether, will deal an extra 50% accuracy and damage against any enemy in the Wilderness. It will consume 1 ether per shot, but does not need ammunition (similar to the Crystal bow).
    • Viggora’s chainmace
      • The one-handed Chainmace has similar bonuses to the Dragon scimitar, but offers 50% extra Melee accuracy and damage against any enemy in the Wilderness.  
        • Stackable with Slayer helmet / Salve amulet effects.
    • Thammaron’s Sceptre
      • This one-handed sceptre has similar bonuses to the Master wand, but will deal 100% more magic accuracy and 25% more damage to any enemies in the Wilderness.
  • Notes for all weapons:
    • Stackable with Slayer helmet / Salve amulet effects.
      • Will consume 1 ether per attack. 
      • Ether charged inside the weapon will be dropped on death.
• Rare drop announcement update:
  • Rare drop announcements will now show the # of kills / completions where applicable.
    • For example:
      • Old:
        • “Omicron received 1 x Abyssal whip as a drop!”
      • New:
        • “Omicron received 1 x Abyssal whip as a drop! (Kill #33)”
  • This applies to:
    • Rare drops (including boss pets)
    • Raids 1 & 2 loot
    • Inferno completions
• Raids 1 - Chambers of Xeric:
  • When receiving a rare drop, instead of the announcement saying “Omicron received a Twisted bow as a Raids reward!” it will say “Omicron received a Twisted bow as a Chambers of Xeric reward!”
  • Olm changes:
    • The falling rocks will now deal less damage (max hit of 33 rather than 45)
    • Using Magic against Olm’s Right Claw will now be more accurate.
  • Tekton changes:
    • Tekton’s defence has been reduced overall.
• Raids 2 - Theatre of Blood:
  • Milestone capes:
    • ToB milestone capes are now available! Speak to Harpert near the Theatre, right next to the Vote booth by the bank. He will award you with capes at the following milestones:
      • Sinhaza shroud tier 1 - 100 completions
      • Sinhaza shroud tier 2 - 500 completions
      • Sinhaza shroud tier 3 - 1,000 completions
      • Sinhaza shroud tier 4 - 1,500 completions
      • Sinhaza shroud tier 5 - 2,000 completions
  • Loot changes:
    • The chance of obtaining rare loot has been slightly boosted for any team of any size.
    • The chance of obtaining rare loot has also been boosted a bit more for solo players, due to the difficulty of completing a solo raid.
    • The following loot will now appear more commonly:
      • Avernic hilt
      • Justiciar armour
    • Any other loot has the same rate as before, aside from the overall loot boost that has been applied.
  • Weapon changes:
    • Considering the Twisted bow has a damage boost within both raids (it is less powerful outside of raids for balance purposes), it only makes sense that the new Theatre of Blood weapons also have a boost within raids (and only within raids!) to balance them against the bow.
      • The Ghrazi Rapier, Scythe of Vitur and Sanguinesti staff have all received slight damage and accuracy boosts within raids (both raids 1 & 2). They have been untouched in terms of accuracy and damage outside of raids, though.
    • Scythe of Vitur fix:
      • Now properly hits nearest 2 other npcs (in a 180 degree arc, with your main target being in the centre at the 90 degree mark).
      • Damage is unchanged as it has the same bonuses, max hit and special function as OSRS.
      • The attack animation for the Scythe has been updated to the same one from OSRS.
      • The graphics (red swipe effect) will now look smoother (100% to OSRS, changes depending on direction you are facing)
  • Other:
    • Miscellaneous performance improvements.
    • Boss HP bar / orb changes: (Will require a client restart/update)
      • HP bar has been shortened slightly.
      • The percentage text on the HP bar of the boss would sometimes glitch and not be in the right position. This has been fixed.
      • Fixed the health orbs for your teammates. They will now show the amount of hitpoints your or your teammates have lost. 
• Discord updates:
  • The discord icon for the server has been updated to look more professional and uniform with Alora’s theme.
  • Discord Rich Presence:
    • Discord will now be able to identify what you are doing on Alora! If you are in a raid, you’ll be able to let everyone know, and they’ll know how long you’ve been raiding for.
      • Activities included:
        • Raids (both Chambers of Xeric and Theatre of Blood)
        • Pest control, Duel arena, Clan Wars, Battle Royale, Barrows, Fight caves and The Inferno (including the wave you are on).
        • Skilling (any skilling activities provided you are not in a raid or mini-game)

If you would like to see this entire update, click HERE!

 

Here is the third update:

 

• Loyalty rewards: Chompy bird hats: (Thanks to @Master Alora for the suggestion!)
  • You can now purchase one of the 3 tiers of Chompy bird hats from the Loyalty point exchange!
    • There are only 3 hats to purchase in the store, but purchasing any one of them will actually give you the entire set of chompy hats in that tier (6 different colors).
    • The cost of each set is not cheap, though, coming in at:
      • 100,000 points for Tier I
      • 200,000 points for Tier II
      • 400,000 points for Tier III
    • These hats are not tradable. If lost on death, you can reclaim them from the Lost items manager for 100k, 200k or 400k gp per hat depending on the tier.
• Raids 1 changes (Chambers of Xeric):
  • Balancing:
    • Great Olm has been made ~33% less accurate, and it’s max hits on same attacks have been reduced by ~25%.
      • Affected attacks:
        • Crystals beneath feet
        • General head attacks (projectiles)
        • (Rock fall damage was nerfed 25% last update)
    • Tekton’s accuracy and damage have both been nerfed by 25%.
  • Bug fixes:
    • A bug with Vasa Nistirio which caused him to null and the raid to be restarted should now be fixed.
    • A bug which caused Vasa Nistirio to not launch his Rock attacks for awhile if you went through the raid quickly has now been fixed.
    • It was possible for Vasa to use a final attack before dying (while it’s HP was 0). This should no longer occur.
• Raids 2 changes (Theatre of Blood):
  • Bug fixes:
    • The loot chest would only show 4 items, it will now be able to show up to 6.
    • The loot chest would sometimes show air strike symbols on the interface, this should no longer occur. Additionally, some users have reported crashing after opening the chest and trying to close it, this should also no longer occur.
    • The loot interface is also now more centered on the fixed screen mode.
    • Fixed a bug with the Scythe of Vitur causing it to be able to murder pets (Sorry, little guys).
      • Crafting will also be more specific, rather than just stating “Training Crafting” it will display details such as “Crafting Battlestaves”.
        • Thieving icon was entirely missing and has been added.
        • When training Slayer, it would frequently alternate between “Training Ranged” (or Melee/Mage) and “Training Slayer”. Slayer will now take precedence so that your status doesn’t update every second or two. 
• Barrows reward updates:
  • A previously requested feature, your barrows loot will now appear on an interface upon looting the chest!
  • Additionally, your loot will be added to your inventory if possible, and if not, it will be dropped on the ground.
  • Rather than a maximum of 4 times, you can now receive up to 7 rewards from the barrows chest. (Minimum 3)
  • You can now receive Crystal key halves and/or coins (1-100k) from the chest.
  • Lastly, the value of your chest will be displayed in a red chatbox message (Eg. “Your loot is worth approximately 2M gp!”). 
    • This is simply an estimate based on exchange prices and should be taken only as a reference.
• Revenant changes:
  • Revenants will now drop up to 15 ether, rather than the previous maximum of 10.
  • The minimum combat level required to enter the caves has been reduced from 50 to 40.
• Slayer update:
  • When being assigned an Extreme Slayer task, you can now choose how many of the monster you’d like to be assigned.
    • The minimum size of the task is 3, and the maximum is 35.
• Combat/PvP changes:
  • Ranged weapon speeds:
    • The Twisted bow’s “Rapid” mode was the same speed as the regular mode. It will now fire 1 tick faster while on Rapid.
    • The Crystal bow overall (every combat style) was 1 tick too slow and will now fire more quickly.
  • Magic weapon speeds:
    • All magic spells have a delay of 5 ticks (3 seconds between each attack), but certain built-in spells fire more quickly and were not as fast as they should be. The following trident-based weapons will all now fire 1 tick more quickly (2.4 seconds) than regular Magic spells, matching OSRS and making Magic a more viable PvM method:
      • Trident of the Seas (and (e) version)
      • Trident of the Swamp (and (e) version)
      • Dawnbringer
      • Sanguinesti staff
    • Note that the firing speed is *only* faster when using the built-in spells for these staffs, and that the normal spell delay and melee attack delay will apply if the built-in spell is not used!
  • Scythe of Vitur fix:
    • Although the Scythe’s multi-damaging effect only works in Multi-combat zones, the Scythe is supposed to hit larger creatures (Eg. Cerberus) up to 3x, even in non-multi zones. This has been fixed.
  • Barrage gap:
    • The barrage gap has been increased to the correct distance, meaning that your freezes should land if you are within distance of your opponent (and they are not immune to freezing after just having unfrozen, of course).
  • Magic weapons with built-in spells not working in PvP:
    • Previously, the Trident of the Swamp/Seas and the Sanguinesti staff could not be used in the wilderness at all. Now, they will still not allow you to attack with the built-in spell, but you can use it to manually cast other spells on players (eg. Using a Trident to cast Ice barrage).
  • Red-skull command:
    • You can now red-skull yourself, which means you cannot protect any items whatsoever. The protect item prayer will be disabled for those with a red skull, allowing high-risk fights to take place. 
      • Similar to the normal skull command, using the ::redskull or ::redskullme command will give you a red skull for 20 minutes. You can also speak to the Emblem trader to be red-skulled.
      • Protect item will be disabled, and if you already have it enabled upon typing the command, it will be turned off.
  • NPC aggressive distance for most NPCs has been slightly reduced (from 4 steps to 3) within the wilderness.
• Ring of suffering effects:
  • You can now use a Ring of recoil (noted or unnoted) on your Ring of suffering to charge it, imbuing it with the same recoil properties!
    • A maximum of 100,000 charges, equivalent to 2,500 rings (40 charges each), can be stored.
      • Keep in mind that these recoils/charges cannot be removed from the ring.
    • The effect is toggle-able, so if you are training combat and do not want to waste charges, you can disable it.
    • Charges are not lost upon death.
• Bracelet of Ethereum updates:
  • You can now uncharge your bracelets for 250 ether each. 
    • Simply right-click and use the “uncharge” option.
  • Bracelets can now be toggled to auto-loot ether from your slain revenants.
    • You can enable this option (disabled by default) by right-clicking your bracelet and selecting “Toggle-absorption”.
    • Note that this will only auto-loot ether dropped by a monster that you have defeated, and not someone else’s ether that may be laying on the ground.
• Looting bag “open” option:
  • You can now “open” your looting bag to auto-loot any items that you pickup in the wilderness!
    • This option will save you time when PvMing (or PvPing), and can be toggled by right-clicking the Looting bag and selecting the “Settings” option
    • You can “close” your looting bag with the same right-click option, though it is closed by default.
    • Keep in mind that this only works for items that are tradable and picked up within the wilderness.
• Vorkath fixes:
  • Attack adjustments (previously inaccurate to OSRS):
    • All 3 Dragonfire attacks (purple, green and red) can now be fully defended against (deal 0 damage) if you are using a Super anti fire and an Anti-dragon shield (or Dragonfire ward/Dragonfire shield). Using lesser protection, such as a regular Antifire potion, or having no dragonfire-protection shield will lead to varying and higher amounts of damage.
    • The white dragonfire attack, which summons the Zombified spawn, will no longer deal any damage to you. It is simply a summon animation/projectile.
    • The dodgeable dragonfire attack’s max hit has been increased from 99 to 115 if not dodged.
    • Protect from Magic will now completely negate any damage from the Magic attack (blue projectile).
• Jugs of Wine:
  • Jugs of wine can now be created by using grapes on a Jug of water!
    • It requires level 35 Cooking, and will grant 300 Cooking experience.
  • You can drink Jugs of wine to restore 11 hitpoints.

If you would like to see this entire update, click HERE!

 

 

Many thanks to Omicron for all of these updates and fixes!

Over the last two months there have been some changes to the staff team, you can see them below:

 

Staff changes: 7/05/2018, 7/28/2018, 8/06/2018, 8/15/2018, and finally 8/27/2018.

 

Promotions;

Draisaitl has been promoted to Administrator.

hsoJ has been promoted to Administrator.

king purple has been promoted to Event Manager.

Not Hellish has been promoted to Global Moderator.

Kaamea has been promoted to Global Moderator.

Ramon has been promoted to Forum Moderator.

plete me has returned as Server Moderator.

EIM Chong has been promoted to Server Moderator.

Mob has been promoted to Server Moderator.

Raud Flame I has been promoted to Server Moderator.

Loo has been promoted to Server Moderator.

Iron Foxit has been promoted to Server Moderator.

iron aritus has been promoted to Server Moderator.

Epico has been promoted to Server Support.

Code 002 has been promoted to Server Support.

Eim 40a has been promoted to Server Support.

M A C K has been promoted to Server Support.

EIM 1gp has been promoted to Server Support.

Smiv has been promoted to Server Support.

Resignations;

F 8 has resigned from Event Manager.

Jare has resigned from Administrator.

Jake M has resigned from Server Support.

EIM Systemic has resigned from Server Support.

Dutchie has resigned from Server Moderator.

Endeavor has resigned from Server Moderator.

Elite Ultima has resigned from Server Support.

 

 

Demotions:

Algalon has been demoted from Forum Moderator.

Vexxed has been demoted from Server Support.

EIM Hentai has been demoted from Server Moderator to Server Support.

Marushin has been demoted from Server Moderator.

Mors has been demoted from Server Support.

Shamrock has been demoted from Server Support.

Ulsa has been demoted from Server Support.

 

 

For more info on the Staff updates, click HERE!

I have decided to interview two more people this newspaper, the first being iron aritus!

 

 

Greetings iron aritus.

 

Xuf: What was the last picture you took with your phone?

 

iron aritus: I took a picture of my dessert.

 

Xuf: Have you ever been pulled over by a police officer?

 

iron aritus: Unfortunately, I did 2 weeks ago due traffic. I was driving a bit faster than the limit an I got pulled over by the police and resulted a fine.

 

Xuf: What is the last lie you told?

 

iron aritus: To a friend that I couldn't hangout due I was playing Alora, Theatre of blood.

 

Xuf: Is there anyone you would trust with your life?

 

iron aritus: There is no such person I will trust with my life than my own mother.

 

Xuf: What is your perfect pizza?

 

iron aritus: Barbecue Chicken pizza, no doubts.

 

Xuf: If you could've personally witnessed anything in time, what would it be?

 

iron aritus: No answer to be honest, since I have a few things I want to witness but I just cannot choose.

 

Xuf: If you could be any age for a week, what would it be?

 

iron aritus: I would say 35, since at that age I nearly reach half of my lifetime and I want to see how successful I am then or not.

 

Xuf: What question do you hate to answer?

 

iron aritus: The question I would hate the most is if I love my mother more or my girlfriend, since I don't want to hurt one.

 

Xuf: If you had a brainwashing machine, who would you use it on and why?

 

iron aritus: Floyd Mayweather, for the money and the fame.

 

Xuf: What type of music do you listen to?

 

iron aritus: Mostly Top 40 radio music / EDM.

 

 

 

Next on our list is Diseased!

 

Xuf: How does it feel to finally be done 4.6B XP on a UIM?

 

Diseased: I feel that "finally" is the wrong word to describe how I feel. It’s nice to be able to forget about collecting skilling supplies, and having to work around experience bonus events and skill of the day. I definitely feel more free, free to do what I like which at the minute has to be raiding and PvM as a whole.

I never just focused on maxing, Nacyto was there to do the rushing part However, I spent a lot of time doing other stuff focusing on getting best possible gear to do slayer with, completionist cape/monkey etc. If not my playtime for 4.6B would have been a lot better

Xuf: What was the most difficult skill to get 200M in with the difficulties of UIM?

 

Diseased: So what is considered difficult when skilling in Runescape? The amount of time spent for 200M? The annoying skilling methods you have to do? Or something completely different?

I would probably say crafting, not because doing the crafting is super difficult. However more the amount of inventory/looting bag space it would take in order for you to gather all the supplies required. And It’s been a while since I did them, and some of the “recent” updates like spinning flax, boss drop table buffs and battlestaff crafting surely will make it a lot easier for future ultimates/iron man to achieve.

Smithing is another one I would consider “difficult”, simply because the only really viable method of getting your smithing experience is via vote books. Making this skill completely depend on you having alts or a different account to fund it for you. I really dislike that this is the way to go, but it is sadly also too late to change.

Features such as gold smithing gauntlets and maybe even blast furnace/motherlode mining will make for a nice alternative method to get your experience. However this doesn’t seem to be on the priority list as of now.

But I’m a bit special in the head, especially because my favorite skill was without a doubt hunter, closely followed by slayer. And I almost miss my private chin cave every day when I log in to play

Xuf: What is the hardest thing about being UIM besides not having a bank?

 

Diseased: Sticking to your original plan and complete it step by step, if you don’t do this you will end up with space issues and your journey will become less enjoyable.

I decided to change a bit in my plan and go for all achievements when I really shouldn’t have. I had a lot of skilling supplies stacked up (100m+ smithing experience & A LOT of herblore and crafting experience, max gear(bandos, armadyl, zenyte jewelry, bp etc) - If I died 100s of hours of progress would have been lost). I’m of course talking about the wilderness achievements.

Keep in mind that this is now risk free due to the death mechanic changes the gamemode received a while back.

However with some help from a 6-7 bodyguards (thanks friends) and some really good planning I managed to pull it off without losing anything.

 

Xuf: What made you want to start a UIM?

 

Diseased: I was really bored of Runescape. Getting experience on normal accounts, regular ironman was just something I’ve done so many times in the past on different servers, live game etc.

I didn’t really like the play-style of having no bank at first, however I grew to like it a lot - and with great motivational help from my closest UIM friends I got hooked, and I really don’t see myself enjoying any other game mode for longer than maybe a few hours/days.

Xuf: What are your plans for Alora now that you're max XP on UIM?

 

Diseased: Now that I have space for cool stuff I really want to finish a few goals of mine, one being completely “swag” out my UIM with raids rewards and other smaller PvM drops. I don’t see myself grinding for all pets, it is way to random of a goal for me to ever complete - However the forum award for 15 unique pets is within reach so I might as well get it

Xuf: What is your favorite memory on your way to max XP on your account?

 

Diseased: Hunter was nice. Not really sure if I have specific moment that I would call my favorite. Think it is overall the people I’ve met and become really great friends with throughout my journey mainly the boys from my clan. But as of recent I think one of my greatest memories without a doubt is when I got 200M mining/200M all. All I wanted was to make sure that the server would receive a message of me getting 200M everything, you know how you also get a message for 99 everything. However guess King decided to hype it up and invite everyone online at the time to come get it with me. Felt super good, everyone showing up both friends and friends to be. Sadly I did not take any pictures from it. But it was truly a great time.

Xuf: Would you do it all again?

 

Diseased: Yes and no. Truly is the greatest time I’ve had on Alora and Runescape as a whole, however now I’ve crossed that off my list and now there is different goals to be achieved. I also think that I have reached a point in my Runescape life that I’m done grinding for 200Ms - I think I’ve proven to myself now that I’m good enough of a skiller!

Xuf: What was the easiest part of UIM?

 

Diseased: Getting distracted from your original plan, haha. Runescape is a great plan, that allows you to do a lot of different activities and almost switch in between them whenever you want. That is not the case with UIM.

Xuf: What is one tip you have for any UIM trying to max?

 

Diseased: Make a plan. Make a plan. Make a plan. Make a plan. You don’t have to follow your plan 100% but have an idea of what you want to do, what your goals are and what order you would like to achieve things in order to unlock next step. Makes the game mode easier and also less stressful - Don’t go to wilderness risking your “bank” guys. Stupid idea.

 

Xuf: Are you going to go for max XP on any other modes?

 

Diseased: No. I have my normal account with 2B experience that I play on from time to time, but as I said in one of the earlier questions everything else just start to feel boring once you have tried out and really gotten to like the ultimate game mode. Many people have suggested I try classic or elite for the challenge of slower experience gain. But to me slower is not equal to more fun. If it was I would be on oldschool right now instead of talking to you guys.

For everyone slightly bored, slightly autistic like me I can really recommend this game mode to you. It is a super annoying game mode and really not a game mode for everyone's taste, but it feels super rewarding achieving whatever your goals might be.

Any questions and such just shoot me a pm in-game, on the forums or even discord - You can find me under the “Veteran” section on the Alora discord

 

Disclaimer:

Have any interview questions you would like to ask any of the staff members?

Don't hesitate to send Xuf a private message via forums/discord and I'll include them in next edition along with the answers from that staff member!

 

 

 

 

The MOTM poll has concluded and here are the final results received from the community.

The 3 top winners have been picked and the final voting has taken place among the staff team

 

The very final winner of August MOTM is...

 

 

Jare!

 

Congratulations Jare!You have stood out in the eye of the community as well as in the eye of the staff team. Thank you for being a great member here on Alora  :)

Contact Lowkey for your 3 bonds prize in-game, and your Forum Awards will be active shortly.

 

Stay tuned until the next month when voting takes place!

The August Community Awards are out now!

Visit this link to see the results;

https://www.alora.io...-award-results/

 

 

That concludes the end of this newspaper! 

Read our last newspaper by clicking HERE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ps i stole omnicorns laptop and gonna put bxp on forever muahahah