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Best Event Manager: @Moe

Best Administrator: @A

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Best Hardcore Ironman: @Sit

Best Ultimate Ironman: @Ult 420

Best Elite Ironman: @Anttihirvi

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Just to clarify on the difficulty of obtaining loot:

The update notes said something about loot being easier to obtain on Phosani, this was actually incorrect and the drop rate is the same as a regular Nightmare solo session. It may be quicker to complete Phosani given the lower HP, but the boss itself doesn't have an easier loot rate. I've been told that many more drops than usual were entering the game since the Phosani update, and this can be attributed to a few things:

1. Many more people fighting the Nightmare since the update

2. Nightmare loot bonuses that have been turned on more regularly since the update

3. Potentially faster kill times on Phosani

With that being said, we can try to make Phosani more difficult if necessary. I don't think that the loot rate necessarily needs to be adjusted though, since both modes are the same and I just took the rates from OSRS.

I personally disagree.

"Which will result in the content just dieing out." -> The reason you're seeing a lot of drops is due to more people actually doing nightmare now. If anything, the content was already dead and is being revived.

The screenshot you linked, if we take a look at the dragon warhammer for example: https://gyazo.com/0a...02b0f2e93be7a8f -> This only covers 57% of the actual drop-rate of OSRS. Which means the Harmonised orb would be roughly ~1/855, and the armor parts being ~1/285; which is roughly the rate Alora has right now. 

If we take a look at the OSRS Phosani drop table: https://gyazo.com/a4...beb24df1e0aae0a, the Inquisitor armor is a 1/1000, which would make it roughly 1/570 on here. Given that this is a RSPS, and the Inquisitor armor like casual has stated has barely any use within the game, I believe that a ~1/220 per Inquisitor piece (roughly the current rate) is justified. We also need to keep in mind within the hard mode the hits are much more accurate and deadly. 

"At the moment there is absolutely 0 reason to do regular nightmare." -> There is a lot more people doing nightmare now though. 

 "Just wear bandos and dfs and with a hasta and a blood fury and you will legit use 4-5 doses of brew to kill it. (Without even pray flicking)" -> That is not accurate. I do not prayer flick, and I use an elysian, inquisitor's mace, full bandos, blood fury, thralls, death charge, dragon claws, and sang staff to kill it. Rough estimated value of gear would be ~7b yet I still use a full inventory of food (and even sometimes die due to the melee attacks hitting up to 98 through elysian).

" But at this point phosani is just shitting out drops." -> More people are doing the content, means more drops are being brought into the game. 

"Considering with an optimal setup 6:30m kills arent even hard." -> My best time with my gear setup stated above is 7:06, with a 1 minute respawn timer. 6:30 is very hard to achieve, even Classic uses an 8 way switch, with prayer flicks, harmonised orb, full inquisitor, and still barely touches 6:30. 

"(And I could be wrong but i feel like here its better than regular nightmare + its 2x faster) which means its atleast 2x better than regular nightmare." -> It is 20% faster than the regular nightmare. Nowhere twice as fast. This was also stated within the update.

All in all, I think this update actually revived the nightmare content. Inquisitor is way too overpriced currently, especially given it is only useful in 2 places (theatre of blood, and the nightmare). It isn't even useful in Phosani due to the hit accuracy of range, effectively making it only useful in theatre of blood.

TL;DR: I don't support this change. 

i think the reason its shitting out loot o much is because now you have more people willing to do nm so more drops come into the game along with most of the endgame pvmers having high gear average about 10+ kills an hour and they are willing to grind it more yes prices will go down some but not by a lot right away. increasing the unique drop rate imo is not a bad idea to raise it some but don't think it should be tanked to make it where its dead content like it was in the start of nm. 

If anything some of the drops should be more common. Inquisitor armour is barely used anywhere as it is, it doesn't justify the cost to use either. You're better off buying bandos and using that for 1% of the price. Volatile staff is legit impossible to come by for pkers because there have only been 9 dropped since the content was released nearly 2 years ago (on a private server).

I think it's fine as it is at the moment.

Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Alora Times.

Phosani's Nightmare, Bloodbark/Swampbark, Portal Nexus, New Agility Courses, Slayer helmet facelift & More! - August 29th, 2021

September Vote Competition [1st-15th] - September 1st, 2021

Bonus Schedule for September  - August 31st, 2021

If you want to check out the entire update list, click here.

There haven't been any changes to the rules this month, but feel free to look them over for a refresher. 

The Official Rules can be found here.

There have been quite a few changes to the staff team this month, you can see them below.

September 2nd, 2021

For more info on Staff Updates, click here.

Disclaimer:
If you'd like to 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. 

Here we honor our fallen comrades from the last month. 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:

@Who is Ivy

https://www.alora.io...d-achievements/

@Isekaii

https://www.alora.io...-with-loot-tab/

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@Aeroblast proving the house pet exists!

https://www.alora.io...ctually-exists/

Checkout @Luka Doncic's HCIM sick progress

https://www.alora.io...k-update-goals/

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 August MOTM is...

KP

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.

Streamers

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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!

You can read the previous edition by clicking here

inferno training is free if you do the waves. no support.

Gamers,

I am placing a bounty on the new Bow of Faerdhinen, active immediately.
Become the 1st player to receive the enhanced crystal weapon seed & create the Bow to win.

PRIZE: FULL JUSTICIAR SET  

WINNER: AMICA

When complete, PM me to claim your prize. GOOD LUCK!


-REZZ

I would like to take a moment and give a BIG thank you to: Arosa, Amica, To gain, & Livn Country for assisting with the league. Make sure to thank the boys! I hope all 69 participants had fun in Alora's second PvM League!

Winners will be contacted to claim prizes.

TOP 3 Team Points

$250 1st Place Winner - #CantCompete (3610 points)

Realmungard Dab R E Z Z gim crohn

$150 2nd Place Winner - Horny Boys (3425 points)

Real Alan Gigawatt Yautja Wo oD Lukey

$100 3rd Place Winner - #Fortnite (2715 points)

AmrH420 Miq I Plank AFK Ky

TOP 3 Individual Points

1B 1st Place Winner - Realmungard (1635 points)

650M 2nd Place Winner - AmrH420 (1590 points)

350M 3rd Place Winner - Real Alan (1005 points)

FIRST RARE DROPS

First to get Inferno Pet - Gimslaving from EWS 150M

First to get a Twisted Bow Drop - Stone from Demotivated Lizards Ancestral Set

First to get a Scythe of Vitur Drop - Unclaimed Justiciar Set

First to get a Nightmare Staff Drop - Unclaimed 250M

First to get a Nightmare Orb Drop -  Realmungard from #CantCompete 400M

First to get a Dragon Warhammer Drop - High groupie from Big Monke Good 250M

First to get a Sigil Drop - Yautja from Horny Boys 400M

View the completed leaderboards here: https://docs.google....dit?usp=sharing

Username: Gimslaving

Discord Name: Enslaving#6055

Game Mode: GIM

Playtime: 250 days

Proof of Combat/Skills:  https://gyazo.com/b1...7bb8b06951684ed

Do you agree to all of Paragon & Alora's Official Rules?: Yes

Reason for applying to Paragon?: Pvm in general and i'm looking for a new clan

Referred by a Clan Member (Who?): N/A

"Side note - I think it's interesting how... many of the players who think the house pet drop rate is fine as is... are the same players who got their house pets via the marble incense burner bug. "

Pretty cringe to assume this without any factual knowledge of how someone actually obtained the pet. I was well past 200m Construction when I obtained mine and received the pet from mahogany tables. Cheers on putting the ass in assumption.

Hi @Real Alan, couple of things I'd like to touch on.

1. I'm someone who has 400m construction XP across a handful of accounts, and almost all of it was done with pet boosters + the golden hammer because I really wanted the pet. I've gotten a grand total of zero pets.

2. I am biased because I see the house pet as something that is extremely rare and should remain THE skill pet to grind for.

3. You are asking for community feedback for a continuation to your May 28 suggestion (i.e. reworking the chances of getting the House Pet from the current training meta) so I provided my response. You and Detharrow can claim all you want that this post is "only game feedback" and "not for you to support/not support", but in reality it's just another suggestion post to rework the pet rates but with a poll component. Moving on....

The main problem i have with this entire post, and your response, is that the pet chance rework has only been live for about three weeks, NOT five months. The title of the post is technically correct, that there have been no pets for five months!!  But looking closer, the reason there were no house pets from *roughly* late Feb to July 1 was because it just wasn't possible from the new training meta until the July 1 update.  Nobody could cheese 99/200m construction XP anymore due to the removal of incense burners (which was stupid easy, let's all be honest), so I suspect almost everyone was using Mahogany Homes to train from then onward.. which, as we already established, resulted in zero pets until Dan finally patched the issue in the July update.

So as I see it, what we have is three weeks of the rates being as they "should" be, and no pets. Considering the time gaps in pet drops in the Discord pics you provided, that's nothing crazy out of the ordinary, especially when you consider that fewer and fewer people are maxing their accounts/going for 200ms.