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Postby Brian1775 » Mon Feb 12, 2007 21:50

This news was taken directly from runescape.com.

[center]12 February 2007 - A sq'irk a day...[/center]
Osman, known for his peaceful, innocent life relaxing in Al Kharid, has of late been miserably staring into an empty glass of sq’irk juice. For years he was able to deal directly with the sorceress to provide his favourite tipple, before their disagreement over prices. Since then, Osman has tried desperately to find out how she grows them, but the secret is so well kept that not even he can find it.

Osman has thus been forced into adopting a more devious (though some might say lazy) approach, and for that he will need your help. Once you work out how to get into the sorceress's concealed garden, it will be up to you to watch the routes of the patrolling guards and sneak past for the fruity rewards. Different seasons are rumoured to affect each of the gardens, and it can be assumed that more experienced thieves will have access to more bountiful sq’irk trees. Even if helping Osman is not to your taste, the gardens are also home to herb-beds, which could be plundered by those wary enough to avoid any guardians. So head to Al Kharid to help this thirsty gentleman of leisure or to stock up on ingredients - either way, there are profits to be had in this new minigame.



In other news:

Following requests from players, we've taken a look at the way the combat system handles your attack style when you're autocasting spells. People were finding that the system would put them into the defensive mode if they ran out of runes or switched to a different kind of weapon. This isn't necessarily useful, since some fighters prefer not to get Defence XP.

Instead, the system will now try to remember the last combat mode you were in before you started autocasting spells. If you're autocasting spells in the mode that doesn't give Defence XP and you switch weapons or run out of runes, you should find yourself in that combat mode. If you're autocasting spells in the mode that does give Defence XP, you should instead find yourself in a defensive combat mode.

As with all changes to the combat system, we advise you to take extra care, to make sure things are behaving how you expect them to.
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Postby Syntax Error » Mon Feb 12, 2007 22:31

I tried this. It's one of those things where it's too crowded the first day or two.


I got like... 6 herbs. I didn't try getting the fruits.
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Postby G M0n3y » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:03

I heard about this quest several months ago and have been waiting for it. I might try it later on.
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Postby mangleman » Wed Feb 14, 2007 15:14

man I hope that theiving really is good here... would be nice if I could get some faster herbs
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Postby downninja570 » Wed Feb 14, 2007 19:16

Don't waste your time getting the herbs, you get way too many low level ones for it to be worth it. The fruits on the other hand are pretty decent thieving xp.

4 spring fruits = 1350 thieving xp
3 autumn fruits = 2350 thieving xp

The only 2 I've done, but once you get good at it you can get like 10k in 10 minutes
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Postby Viper Mage54 » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:32

i agree downninja, the fruits got me some theiving lvls on my main pretty quickly. I enjoy theiving there.
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Postby downninja570 » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:49

One 'rant' i guess about this tho, i think it should give some sort of agility xp as well. It really has nothing to do with thieving, more like stealth :shock: and they've worked farming in there also. I think some agility xp would be a nice add-on
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