7/17/2023: K'ril Tsutsaroth (elite), Kourend achievement diary, more!

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Hey Etherealians,

Big content update out today for yall, with a whole new boss and achievement diary to tackle! Let's get onto the details, shall we?

K'ril Tsutsaroth (Elite)

The first of the updates is the long awaited magic-oriented elite GWD boss, K'ril Tsutsaroth (Elite).

 
Within the depths of the Zamorak zoo lies the elite version of the fabled Zamorak general, boasting powerful magic attacks that utilize all the strengths of Ancient magicks that reigned prevalent during the God Wars. Tackle different kinds of mechanics using your knowledge of ancients as well to take down this formidable foe!

You can access this boss like the other GWD elite bosses, right outside the chamber and selecting the instance option. Note that this requires 150 K'ril Tsutsaroth KC to be allowed to access this boss!

Defeating this elite boss grants 3 rolls on its drop table, which include a few new unique items!

Virtus recipe cache - Contains a recipe for the new BiS magic armour, Virtus armour. It grants slightly better stats than Ancestral robes, empowering magic even further!

Fractured staff of Zamorak - A new ancient magick-oriented staff that boasts extremely powerful stats as well as some passive effects: it increases magic accuracy and damage by 25% when casting ancient magic spells, triples the stat-lowering effect from shadow spells, triples the smoke spell poison damage, increases blood spell healing by 25%, and acts as an infinite source of blood runes!

Zamorakian intervention (perk) - A new perk that acts as the protect from melee prayer passively - does not work in PvP situations.

Kourend & Kebos Diary and Achievement Interface Rework

The Kourend & Kebos diary has been added! This provides some extra content to do in the usually-forgotten area of Zeah and provides some neat rewards with it! To coincide with this update, the achievement interface has been reworked! You can now access the achievement interface under the Journal tab and by clicking Achievements. Note that the "Achievements completed" section will be reworked soon to a different tab!

This will provide a more convenient way to navigate across achievements, showing this screen! You can return to this screen by clicking the button on the top left.

After selecting an achievement, you can still track the achievement like before by clicking the progress bar!

And finally, you can now view rewards for diaries that have completion rewards for completing an individual tier or the entire diary!

Now onto the rewards for completing the Great Kourend & Kebos Diary:

Each tier will grant a Rada's blessing of that tier, giving some nice Prayer stats and some convenient teleports to Mount Karuulm and the Kourend woodland.

Completing all easy achievements will make it so you will gain 20% bonus thieving experience when thieving from stalls in the Great Kourend plaza.
Completing all medium achievements will make it so you have a 10% chance to mine two dense essence blocks at once, stacking with the celestial ring.
Completing all hard achievements will grant you access to Resurrect spells in the Arceuus spellbook and make it so boots of stone are no longer required at Mount Karuulm.
Completing all elite achievements will give you a 20% boost to Farming experience within the Farming guild.

Certain achievements will grant levels to a new perk, Catacombs slayer, which boosts damage and accuracy within the Catacombs of Kourend by 5% per perk level.

Certain achievements will grant pieces to the Farmer's outfit, granting boosted experience to Farming when pieces of the set are worn.
Completing the entire diary will grant you a recipe to create the Slayer's blessing (rada), which combines both slayer blessing effects into one as well as grants it some extra stats!

Resurrect Spells

Resurrect spells are now accessible in the Arceuus spellbook after completing the hard tier of the Kourend & Kebos diary! These summon temporary thralls to aid you in battle, and they ignore defence and accuracy checks - meaning they will hit very frequently! Utilize these familiars to your advantage to help tackle some tough bosses or speed up kills in Slayer!

QoL Changes

A few QoL changes have been added - here are the notable ones!

Several shops and NPCs around home have had their names adjusted to be more easier to know what they sell.

The Thammaron's sceptre can now be swapped between it and an (a) variant which removes the use of its powered staff abilities but lets it autocast spells.

Added functionality to the Degrime spell to quickly clean herbs and gain experience while you're at it.

Added an unholy overload to the weekly task shop that instantly drains your Prayer points to 0 when used.

Added a new AFK farming spot in Hosidius - click the Plough to gain passive Farming experience!

The olmlet pet has a new pet perk - it increases damage and accuracy by 5% per pet level while in a CoX raid.

You can now make an imbued zaros max cape by combining the two capes together.

In other news:
- Overload potions from the daily point shop have been reduced to 7 points per potion.
- Abyssal ashes are now tradeable.
- Adjusted the drop rate of the Jar of dirt from Krakens.
- Increased the spawn speed of the Thermonuclear smoke devil from 50 ticks to 15.
- Added some missing shop functionality.
- Spiritual creatures should now have a teleport in the Slayer ring.
- Skotizo is now a multiway combat area.
- Added functionality to create Shayzien armour packs as an alternative smithing training method.
- Halved the prayer drain of the spectral ghosts in Cerberus.
- Fixed the amount of AFK shards received from the afk tree for donators.
- Reduced the amount required for the superheat adamant achievement to 250 as well as added functionality of the coal bag when superheating.
- Added some extra text to the mimic warning message to show that a fight is coming.
- Made ghosts from cerberus appear less often.
- Fixed some incorrect weekly task text.
- Added luck enhancer (CoX) to the donator store, which increases the purple cap when soloing a CoX raid and eliminates some unwanted items like prayer scrolls
- The Twisted buckler should now give +10 ranged strength and work as a shield for the spiked shield relic.
- Fixed a bug with the wild magic relic that didn't make it hit twice.
- Ahrim's staff and its lucky variant should now be able to autocast ancients.
- Added functionality to the Expeditious bracelet to count as 2 kills during a Slayer task.
- Taylor in the Farming Guild should now be able to look after your growing Celastrus tree.
- Added Celastrus seeds to the Brimstone chest.
- Fixed a bug with the Cloaked in Darkness achievement where it didn't account for the word "dark" as mentioned in the text.
- Fixed a bug with the no coal voting perk.
- Added functionality to the forge in the middle of Lovakengj.
- Fixed a bug where the Bar Alchemiser perk didn't account for its bar reducing capabilities when making multiple items at once.
- The bonecrusher will now take precedent over the noted bones donator perk in the Wilderness.
- Fixed a bug with an Agility achievement that awarded too much of an item.
- Reduced all the killcounts required to get into Elite GWD bosses from 250 to 150.
- Increased the drop rate of Elite scrolls from 1/250 to 1/150.
- Fixed some great olm bugs that were causing imbalance.
- Fixed a text issue in the Salve amulet (ei) examine.
- Fixed a bug when favoriting Sand crabs would give the wrong favorite.
- Pets unlocked from the vote cache will now increment your pet level accordingly.
- Fixed a bug that caused ranged attacks to path the player towards a Pest Control portal.
- Ninja implings should now only require 84 hunter instead of 85 hunter to barehand catch.