12/11/23 | Patch Notes - Distractions and Diversions
Hey there, everyone!
As of today’s patch, the new event system will be introduced within Neox! We’ve talked about this plenty, outlining how its primary purpose is to act as the foundation for which we’ll be able to easily build upon, so we won’t spend too much time reiterating upon the same notes. It’s been a little while since we’ve done a nice big update like this with some proper notes, so just a reminder… for those of you looking to speedrun through and get straight into the nitty gritty without the fluff, the formatted patch notes at the very bottom of this article outline all of the changes made within this patch!
We’d wanted to include the Instanced Infernal side content within this patch as well, however some last minute design changes and a couple of modifications to the behavior and performance caused us to postpone it until the next update we do (which won’t be too long from now)! Sorry about that. We’ll continue updating the Discord roadmap as well to reflect these sort of developments.
For those of you who enjoy reading through? Well, let’s get started!
Thanks,
Neox Staff
The Events System: "Distractions and Diversions"
So firstly, it’s important that we establish that although we’ve been referring as this new system to the “Event System”, (just because we… started doing that originally and haven’t made the switch… sorry!) they’ll actually be referred to as “Distractions and Diversions”, something infinitely more fancy sounding! This system is designed to cycle through events unique to our project that will happen every 2 hours. With these new events, members will be able to join in and earn all kinds of rewards, including those that’re entirely unique to the specific event’s drop tables and will provide bonuses throughout their adventures across the Neox world.
The events themselves will be managed by a newly introduced NPC at home who goes by the name of “D&D Announcer”, someone you might just see hollering every little while to announce the coming of new events and timers as they draw closer. Interacting with this NPC will allow members to view the planned schedule, teleport directly to the selected event grounds, or to go through additional dialogue and learn more about the system. He can be quite the chatty fellow, so do indulge him at your own discretion.
Additionally, this update will bring in a variety of new tasks involving D&D activities as a whole and for their respective events for members to complete and new titles to pursue! As always, we’ll look to continue expanding upon the task variety and titles that come with as we introduce new content.
Within the next section, we’ll outline each of the events being introduced within this patch. With the entirety of the groundwork for expansion on this system being introduced alongside these base events, we’ll be looking to continue introducing new events every little while for members to go through and experience!
• Shooting Stars - A mining event! Watch your heads!
• Empowered King Black Dragon - A wilderness centric boss event! Careful out there.
• Fish Whirlpool - A fishing event! Mind your footing and don't slip in.
• Impling Outbreak - A hunter event! Those pesky implings, when will they learn?
• Sliske’s Attack - A combat oriented, bossing event! These guys pack quite a punch.
Shooting Stars
In this event, a shooting star will crash somewhere around the world. Members will be able to gather around and mine this star, granting both mining experience and stardust. Don’t forget your pickaxe!
This stardust acts as a tradable currency members will be able to bring over to Dusuri’s Star Shop, located by the entrance of the Mining Guild in Falador, in exchange for the Celestial Ring (an item which gives a hidden +5 mining boost when charged with Stardust, and grants a 12% chance to mine double core ores), for Star Fragments (which can be used to cosmetically alter pieces of the Prospector outfit), or for other miscellaneous goodies.
Empowered King Black Dragon
Within this event, an empowered version of the King Black Dragon will appear West of the Demonic Ruins in the Wilderness. Be warned, however, that this is deep in the wilderness and is a multi-combat zone!
Any player who deals enough damage to the KBD will receive an amount of coins, wild essence, black dragonhide, and dragon bones based on the amount of damage dealt, as well as roll on its random drop table! The empowered version of this boss is absolutely nothing to be trifled with either, and even the boldest adventures may very likely find themselves quickly overpowered if they were to attempt the fight on their own, thus it is strongly encouraged less to fall to the temptations of attacking one another and more for the collaborative efforts of overpowering this wicked monster.
It is worth noting that this is a deep wilderness event and in a multi-zone, so members will be able to attack one another during this event! A warning is generated when using the Teleport function of the D&D Announcer regarding this.
Fish Whirlpool
This particular event will cause a large whirpool to appear randomly somewhere within the world, from which members will be able to receive spirit flakes and fishing experience from!
When held in your inventory while fishing regular fish, spirit flakes will be consumed to grant a 50% chance to catch double fish. Also, as a very rare chance, members may also be able to receive the Tome of Water from the Fish Whirlpool. This off-hand book provides infinite water runes for casting spells, and boosts the accuracy and damage of water and curse spells by 50% and 20% respectively. The Tome of Water must be charged with Soaked Pages to provide these benefits, which can also be obtained from this event!
Impling Outbreak
During this event, implings will swarm a random location and members will be more than welcome to chase them down and round them up! Implings that spawn during the outbreak are much more likely to be of higher tiers, such as Dragon and Lucky.
When the outbreak ends, players who’d participated will receive an amount of Hunter experience based on how many implings they caught during the event, plus be able to walk away with everything that’d scavenged from the implings themselves.
Sliske’s Attack
When this event happens, Sliske will appear at the Barrows area, on top of Ahrim’s mound, and summon empowered versions of the Barrows Brothers! Members will be required to defeat the brothers in order to complete the event.
Whilst fighting the brothers, Sliske will spend his energy to heal them. Once he runs out of energy, he will retreat abandoning his wights. Following this, members will be able to take the brothers down completely and will receive drops based on their contributions to the killing of each brother.
Defeating the brothers will reward members with Barrows Shards, coins, and runes! Additionally, there’s a slim chance to gain a Barrows Lockbox or Amulet of the Damned. Much like with the Empowered Black Dragon, these iterations of the Barrows Brothers are significantly stronger than the originals and it is strongly encourage that members work together to take them down!
Discord Notifications
Alongside this patch, we’ve also made some revisions to the way the Discord notification system works in order to properly accommodate for this new system. For those interested, several new roles have been introduced that members will be able to access by simply heading into the role-selection channel within our Community Discord and using the corresponding reactions to each event to be notified of their starting time and general location!
As time goes on and we continue to add new Distractions and Diversions alongside new Neox World Events, these roles will be updated and built upon, so be sure to stay tuned!
The roles themselves are pinged using Discord’s notification system.
Patch Summary
As always, below will include a thorough breakdown of all elements added within this patch. We’d originally wanted to include the Instanced Infernal, however some last minute design changes have caused us to postpone it until the next patch. Sorry, everyone! If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to share feedback within our Community Discord.
Features
- Added a D&D system. Every 2 hours, on the hour, a new activity will begin.
- These activities will be announced through ingame broadcasts, as well as by the D&D announcer NPC located on Neox Island.
- The D&D announcer also has the ability to teleport you directly towards any active D&D, and can show you the schedule for future events.
- D&Ds follow a fixed rotation in the order that they are listed below. However, administrators have the ability to start any given D&D at any time, so keep your eyes peeled for surprise events.
- There are 5 different types of D&Ds available with this update. We will be expanding it with more types in the future.
- Shooting Stars
- A shooting star will crash somewhere around the world. Mine it to obtain mining experience and stardust.
- Stardust can be used to purchase items from Dusuri’s Star Shop, located by the entrance to the Mining Guild.
- Dusuri sells the Celestial ring, which gives a hidden +5 mining boost, and when charged with Stardust, grants a 12% chance to mine double core ores.
- Dusuri also sells Star fragments, which can be used to cosmetically alter pieces of the Prospector outfit
- Empowered King Black Dragon
- An empowered version of the King Black Dragon will appear west of the Demonic ruins in the Wilderness. Be warned that this is deep in the Wilderness and a multi-combat zone.
- Any player who deals enough damage to the KBD will receive an amount of coins, wild essence, black dragonhide and dragon bones based on the amount of damage dealt, as well as a roll on its random drop table, which contains many valuable items.
- Fish Whirlpool
- A Fish whirlpool will appear at a randomly chosen fishing location.
- Players can fish from the whirlpool to obtain spirit flakes and Fishing experience. When held in your inventory while fishing regular fish, spirit flakes will be consumed to grant a 50% chance to catch double fish.
- Rarely, it is possible to receive a Tome of Water from the Fish whirlpool. This off-hand book provides infinite water runes for casting spells, and boosts the accuracy and damage of water and curse spells by 50% and 20%, respectively.
- The Tome of Water must be charged with Soaked pages to provide these benefits. Soaked pages can be obtained from Fish whirlpools.
- Impling Outbreak
- A swarm of implings will spawn in waves at a randomly chosen city.
- Implings spawned during the outbreak are much more likely to be of higher tiers such as Dragon and Lucky.
- When the outbreak ends, players who participated will receive an amount of Hunter experience based on how many implings they caught during the event.
- Sliske’s attack
- Sliske will appear at the Barrows area, on top of Ahrim’s mound, and summon empowered versions of the Barrows brothers.
- Defeat the brothers to complete the event.
- Sliske will spend his energy to heal the brothers. Once he runs out of energy, he will retreat, abandoning his wights.
- Defeating the brothers will reward you with barrows shards, coins, and runes. If you’re lucky, you may also obtain a Barrows lockbox or the Amulet of the damned.
- Added 17 new tasks related to D&Ds.
- Added a new title, Distracted, which has 2 different variants. The silver variant can be unlocked by completing any D&D. The gold variant can be unlocked by completing a total of 50 D&Ds.
- Added a new title: Starboy/Stargirl (based on character gender). Unlocked by completing the Shooting stars section of the Collection Log.
Improvements
Godwars Dungeon Changes
- The Armadyl, Bandos, Saradomin and Zamorak generals now use the same group loot drops system that Nex and the multiway Wilderness bosses use, allowing multiple players to receive loot and kill credit per kill.
- Drop rates have been slightly adjusted due to this change, but remain about the same as before for solo players.
- Kree’arra’s ranged defence bonus has been reduced from +200 to +50.
- The method typically used to bypass Kree’arra’s astronomically high ranged defence, splash damage from chinchompas, does not work on Neox. To compensate for this without introducing such an obscure and unintuitive method, we’ve opted to reduce the defence bonus significantly.
Corporeal Beast Changes
- As with the Godwars dungeon bosses, the Corporeal beast now uses the group loot drops system, in order to incentivize group bossing.
- Sigil drops are now much more common.
- Added a new sigil drop, the divine sigil.
- Can be used to create the Divine spirit shield, which reduces damage taken by 30%, at the cost of Prayer points equal to half of the amount the damage is reduced by. If you do not have enough Prayer points, the damage will not be reduced.
- Added the divine sigil to the Corporeal beast section of the Collection Log.
- Reduced stab defence bonus from +25 to -25.
- Similar to Kree’arra, the main method typically used to kill the Corporeal beast hinges on rather unintuitive mechanics. This change aims to make traditional methods more viable and to support group bossing.
Fixed
- Runes crafted at the Ourania altar now counts towards Runecrafting daily/weekly/monthly challenges.
- The Muddy chest located at the center of the Lava Maze can now be looted with a Muddy key.
- Fixed a bug allowing you to complete the ‘Reach level 99 in all skills’ monthly challenge with one less level than intended.
- Adjusted the timings and delays for many Agility course obstacles.
- Fixed the spelling of Pollnivneach in the Agility course portal dialogue.
- Fixed the ‘Harvest a White lily’ task not completing correctly.
- Fixed the Abyssal dagger (bh)’s special attack second hit doing 15% reduced damage rather than only 5%.
- Fixed an issue where experience mode XP multipliers were not applied to the Dark relic from CoX.
Removed
- Nothing’s been removed!
