5/9/2023: Wilderness Slayer Dungeon additions, Gear disassembler, more!

[Ene]

Hey Etherealians,

Today's update (and soon again sometime this week) are geared towards Wilderness changes - making the popular PvP spot more enticing to risk it all in as well as for people to try their hand at PKing! We'll try to aim for another update for next Tuesday rather than the Tuesday after next to incorporate something else that took a lot more development time as expected, so stay tuned for that.

Wilderness Slayer Dungeon Changes

The first big change this update is some needed additions to the Wilderness Slayer Dungeon! Many favored high Slayer experience monsters have been added, such as Mutated bloodvelds, Greater nechryaels, Abyssal demons, Kalphite soldiers and Dust devils have been added to different enclaves in the dungeon! Slayer ring teleports have also been updated to include these new spots. 

Additionally, a brand new Slayer NPC has been added - the Edimmu. Edimmus require a Slayer level of 75 to kill, and are pretty easy to kill! They can be found in the northern part of the Slayer dungeon. Edimmus drop the brand-new Robes of ruin - a new tribrid armour set that provides a 10% damage and accuracy boost against monsters in the Wilderness!

Furthermore, the entire Slayer dungeon will be permanently classified as a Wilderness hotspot - meaning blood money gains from killing players in the area will be increased by 50% as well as the chance to get a Wilderness reward casket will be doubled.

Xamphur Collection Log Reward

Xamphur now has a collection log reward when his collection log is complete! The Xamphur's salve amulet is a direct upgrade to its predecessor, the Salve amulet (ei). This amulet gives slightly increased Prayer stats from its predecessor as well as a 30% increase in accuracy and damage when fighting the undead. Note that this boost does not stack with the Slayer helmet.

Gear Disassembler

A new item has been added to Rasolo's weekly shop for 50 weekly task points - the Gear disassembler. This item can be used on crafted recipe items to disassemble them into their components - the recipe and the required items, while consuming the gear disassembler. This will make unwanted crafted recipe items have a use rather than just permanently staying untradeable for the player.

Throwback Tokens

A new currency has been added - throwback tokens! These tokens can be obtained every 3 consecutive days of voting - but are also tradeable with other players. These tokens can be interacted with to open the throwback token exchange, which contains a lot of previous event items such as the Batwing bow recipe, Ice sickle recipe, event auras, and more! Note that these won't be cheap in order to retain the value of original players receiving these event items, however.

Dream Potions

Recently, we've noticed that the participation of Dreamland has gone down due to more ease of access for Herblore secondaries - so to remedy this, we've added the new dream potion as a possible reward from Dreamland. These dream potions can be drank from to give 50% bonus experience to one skill of choice for an hour - but beware, you can only drink one dream potion at a time.

New Voting Page

Thanks to the work of Advistane, we now have our new voting page! This page can be accessed at https://ethereal-ps.com/vote.php. To make things less stressful for voters, we have chosen only two big sites for us! Each site voted on will give 3 voting tickets.

In other news:
- Zygomites are now interactable with in both Zanaris and Fossil Island, with buffed mushroom spore drop rates!
- Buffed the drop rate of Zenyte shards from Demonic gorillas.
- The Osmumten's fang and its imbued variant will now hit for full damage against the Corporeal beast.
- The Nightmare has been temporarily re-enabled for further testing. Please report any bugs that may cause a fast kill.
- Sounds have been added to the Nightmare to easier differentiate between ranged and magic attacks as well as when the totem is charged.
- The rate for certain golden ticket PvM kills has been increased.
- Removed menaphite thugs, kalphite queen, and blurite as potential golden ticket options. Added Vorkath as a potential golden ticket target.
- Fixed a bug in the displayed announcement when a player gets a rare drop from Xamphur.
- Buffed the amount of coins and other items received from Larran's chest.
- Vorkath's head will now properly display on the Vorkath collection log.
- Xamphur and Phantom hands will now be affected by the Salve amulet.
- Added Guardian boots to the vote store for 15 vote tickets.
- Mystic robes (dusk) will now provide a 5% increase to accuracy and damage for Magic against your Slayer target.
- Ironmen can now trade with normal players but normal players cannot give ironmen items (useful for transferring items)
- Event hosts can now end current running golden tickets and spawn the evil bunny.

[Aterian]

Updates have been looking good!