While Guthix Sleeps | July 10th

One of RuneScape's most iconic quests has finally made the jump to Old School!

Changelog July 10th

While Guthix Sleeps

This week we're bringing one of RuneScape’s most iconic quests to Old School. It’s While Guthix Sleeps! The incredibly talented OnlyTrails has summed up our latest quest additions in video format for those who might want something to watch during downtime:

https://youtu.be/qmHw2nXBqtM?si=Mzjj-QqjrHEAAW2z

If you can't see the video above, click here to watch it!

This Grandmaster quest sees you continue the Mahjarrat storyline, hunting down one of the most powerful artefacts in existence while ensuring it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

This artefact is known by many names – most recently, the Stone of Jas. It has shaped the course of Gielinor’s history, from the creation of the first Runes to the fall of Zaros. It was last seen at the devastating end of the God Wars, when Zamorak, in a fit of rage, used it to reduce the land of Forinthry to the Wilderness we know today.

Angered by Zamorak’s actions, Guthix rose from his age-long slumber and banished the gods. He hid the Stone of Jas far underground, where it could never disturb the balance again...

But while Guthix sleeps, nefarious forces have been gathering; the Mahjarrat. Shaped by war and deadly ritual, their plans for the Stone can only lead to catastrophe.

Facing off against the Mahjarrat is nothing new for dedicated adventurers – at every turn, they seem to grow in power and wage war against the people of Gielinor. In their last attempt, we saw them set out to tear Varrock apart with an undead army in Defender of Varrock. What are they plotting now? You’ll have to play the quest to find out!

If all that lore is a bit much to digest, PoisonedPotion has condensed it all into one epic video breakdown. Check it out below:

https://youtu.be/4SQb6lH29x4?si=W4SjbY_LoIOKEO14

If you can't see the video above, click here to watch it!

Requirements

Quest Requirements

This grandmaster quest is not for the unprepared! You’ll need to complete the following quests before taking it on:

• Defender of Varrock
• The Path of Glouphrie
• Fight Arena
• Dream Mentor
• The Hand in the Sand
• Wanted
• Temple of the Eye
• Tears of Guthix
• Nature Spirit
• A Tail of Two Cats

You’ll also need a total of 180 Quest Points to start the quest.

Skill Requirements

Here are the skills you need to stand a chance against the evil Mahjarrat:

• 72 Thieving
• 67 Magic
• 66 Agility
• 65 Farming
• 65 Herblore
• 62 Hunter
• Ability to enter the Warriors' Guild

Quest Rewards

• 5 Quest Points
• 80,000 Thieving XP
• 75,000 Farming XP
• 75,000 Herblore XP
• 50,000 Hunter XP
• Access to the Ancient Guthixian Temple and tormented demons

If you think you’re ready to get started, head to Taverley and speak to Ivy Sophista, who’s keen to follow up on an ominous letter...

If you need a visual, here's where you can start the quest!

Tormented Demons

As part of this historic quest, we're summoning back an iconic enemy: the tormented demons. Wreathed in flame and called forth to stop you meddling in Mahjarrat plans, these monsters aren't to be taken lightly. But with great risk comes great reward, as the tormented demons have the chance to drop the Tormented Synapse and the brand-new Bone Claws. You'll need to collect two of the dropped Bone Claw and put them together to form the new weapon.

The Tormented Synapse is a tradeable unique drop that can be used to craft three new Demonbane weapons: Emberlight, the Scorching Bow, and the Purging Staff. You’ll need at least level 74 in the relevant skill to craft all three weapons. Unlike other craftables, we’re not giving you the option to have a skilled NPC craft it for you. This means that mains and Irons alike will have to graft for their spoils, but these powerful weapons are well worth the effort.

We developed all four new weapons, including the Bone Claws, through community consultation, taking on your feedback and tweaking the stats so each item felt more in-line with their positioning.

Demonbane Weapons

We discussed all the new weapons in detail in our rewards blog, but there have been a few tweaks since then. Let’s get up to speed...

Emberlight is created from a fully charged Arclight and a Tormented Synapse, and you'll need 74 Smithing to do it. You no longer need to charge this weapon with Ancient Shards. It has increased Stab and Slash Accuracy, as well as the same 70% increased Accuracy and Damage bonuses as its predecessor. Additionally, it improves on Arclight’s Special Attack, lowering the Strength, Attack and Defence of demons by 15% of their base level +1, and non-demons by 5% of their base level +1. That’s a 5% increase!

Scorching Bow requires 74 Fletching and a Tormented Synapse, but once created has 124 Ranged Accuracy and 40 Ranged Strength. It also has 30% increased Accuracy and Damage against demons, plus a nasty Special Attack which binds your enemy for 5 ticks while dealing 1 bonus damage – and if they’re a demon, it binds them for 20 ticks, increasing the bonus damage to 5.

Purging Staff can be synthesised using a Tormented Synapse and 74 Crafting. Rather than giving you an outright damage boost against demons, this weapon instead autocasts combat spells from the Arceuus Spellbook. On its own that doesn’t sound like such a great reward – but using Demonbane spells will double the bonuses. Additionally, the Purging Staff has a Special Attack. You must be on the Arceuus Spellbook to cast it (which is handy, given the Staff’s effect), and you must be targeting a demon. When used, the Special Attack will cast the highest available Demonbane spell at your target. If your target is killed by the spell, you’ll restore 25% of your Special Attack energy, and the delay on your next attack will be reduced by 3.

If the sight of all those numbers fills you with DEMONIC RAGE, you’re ready to pick up our next weapon...

Bone Claws

As the Dragon Claws are remaining in Chambers of Xeric, we wanted to develop a new set of claws that matched the rush of landing the originals. The Bone Claws also bridge the gap in Melee spec weapons between the cheap and cheerful Dragon Dagger and the monstrously expensive Dragon Claws. You'll find that the Tormented Demons drop the singular Bone Claw, and you'll need to collect and combine two to get your hands on the finished Bone Claws.

This weapon works much the same as the latter, while giving you a chance to inflict Burn on your target. While Burnt, the target will be dealt 10 damage over the course of 40 ticks (1 every 4 ticks). This effect can stack up to five times.

So that's two new unique drops leading to four brand new demonic weapons – not a bad haul!

New Discord Emotes

To celebrate the launch of While Guthix Sleeps, we worked with community creator Jordbear to bring a suite of new OSRS and While Guthix Sleeps emotes to our Official Discord server and Twitch channel! You can check out more of Jordbear's work on her website or on her X (Twitter) account.

Staying on theme, we have seven quest-inspired emotes, though to avoid spoilers, we're keeping a couple secret until tomorrow.

We also wanted to have a set of core emotes that encapsulate both classic OSRS vibes and more recent favourites.

We love these familiar faces in Mina's adorable art style, and if you do too, you can have access to them on our Discord server and Twitch channel now. We hope to see you spam your favourites in our future streams!

Speaking of which…

Launch Stream

Tomorrow, July 11th from 16:00 BST you can catch the While Guthix Sleeps launch stream live on Twitch and YouTube! We'll be chatting to Mods Ed, Kieren and Rice all about the quest, the rewards and of course the lore. We want your questions, so keep an eye out for our Reddit thread and social posts where you can ask ‘em! Not only will you get to hear firsthand how this quest made its way to Old School, you'll also get to meet our newest Community Manager, Mod Blossom, who’s finally making her livestream debut!

We'll see you there!

Limited Edition Pins

To celebrate While Guthix Sleeps coming to OSRS, AngelsScapes has worked her magic on four new limited edition pins! Check out the Tormented Demon, Lucien, Broav, and Surok Magis below. Available on the official merch store now.

Follow @AngelsScapes for all the news on new official pin and keyring releases!

Pride Event

As we move from June to July, the 2024 Pride event comes to an end. We hope all of you enjoyed helping Kit on his quest, and we’d like to thank you all for helping us celebrate with pride!

The event may be over, but you can still find Sir Kit Breaker hanging out with Gilbert in the Glade, ready to supply you with any previous years’ rewards you’ve missed out on. He's holding back on this year's rewards though, so you'll need to check back next June for those!

Our team pours so much love into our Pride events and it brings us so much happiness to see you all playing and enjoying them. Thank you again for making Pride 2024 special!

Deadman: Armageddon

With Deadman: All-Stars fresh in our minds we want to take a moment to look forward and remind you all that Deadman: Armageddon will open next week on Friday July 19th, at 17:00 BST!

If you're looking for rapid progression, game-changing Sigils, Breach-based battlegrounds, numbers going up, and all-out PvP chaos then you’re in luck, because Armageddon is looming. This is two weeks of Old School as you’ve never experienced it before, alongside a bunch of fearsome cosmetic kits you can bring back to the main game. There's bound to be something for you, whether you're after a new look for your Imbued God Cape, some darker themes for weaponry like the Voidwaker or Volatile Nightmare staff, or just a big ol' rug for your Player Owned House. It really ties the room together!

To read up on all things Armageddon, check out this blog detailing all of the core gameplay features and a recently-updated table highlighting a helping of hotly-requested tweaks.

Remember, even if you're not looking to participate for yourself, you'll be able to catch a brand new, bracket-by-bracket Finale format on Saturday, August 3rd from 6pm BST by visiting our livestream over on Twitch! Worlds open for participants at 5pm BST.

OSRS at SGDQ!

That's a whole lot of letters...

We wanted to take a moment to extend our congratulations to A Cold One for representing Old School over at Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ for short)!

Games Done Quick are a charity organisation who've been raising money for years via speedrunning marathon events. Near enough every video game you could think of has been featured at a Games Done Quick event and this year Old School RuneScape made its way onto the list!

Congratulations to A Cold One for putting up a very respectable 29:35 Chambers of Xeric: Challenge Mode Solo time while sporting some fetching Mole Slippers, and a huge thank you to everyone who supported his run by watching along at home, donating via GDQ to Doctors Without Borders (a.k.a. Medecins Sans Frontieres) or enjoying a watch party after crashing Keizaron's UIM at Sand Crabs.

You can watch the run back by clicking here or checking out the video below, and even though SGDQ has ended for the year, you can still donate by visiting this page.

https://youtu.be/rIHcdiSI6vg?si=6yMhqj-IcGBLxV1E

Cookbook Cookout

'Scapers have been taking to their kitchens and grinding their IRL cooking skills with the Official RuneScape Cookbook! We've loved seeing all of your tasty creations, and reading your glowing reviews. Thanks to your help, we’ve reached 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon - Thank you!

We just had to share some of the delicious creations you've been whipping up, so take a look at some of the more recent offerings below.

Infernal sauce and Shrimps from Lauren, there's even a video.

Green Gloop Soup, Shrimps and Cake from @sarahdominist.

And a host of other recipes! Tasty!

If you’ve got your copy, we want to see what’s cooking! Share your photos and videos using #runescapecookbook. No judgement here – we’re all levelling up our Cooking skill to beat the Culinaromancer together!

We have heard rumours of some great flash discounts on Amazon, but you’ll need to be quick – we don’t know how long they’ll last!

Other Changes

• Removed Larran Keys from the zombie pirates’ loot table and slightly increased the average quantity of cannonballs. Larran Keys can still be obtained while on a zombie or pirate Slayer Task.
• Fixed a bug where Nex's minions could take burn damage whilst invulnerable.
• When you put Sandstone into the desert grinder, your progress is now output via a game message rather than having Drew pop up a dialogue box every time. He'll still call out to warn you if the grinder is full.
• Added audio feedback to some buttons on the Grand Exchange Offer menu.
• An Agility short-cut is no longer listed twice in the Skill Guide.
• You can now collect Herblore supplies from the Perilous Moons dungeon faster.

PvP World Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

• 539 - (US) - PvP World
• 318 - (UK) - Bounty Hunter World
• 548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
• 577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
• 559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

World 569 (AUS) for Bounty Hunter has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Zerker' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

You can also discuss this update on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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