Pre Purchase Update And More Updates
Jagex has just updated runescape, from what I’ve read of it, it looks pretty helpful. Going to try out the new prayer option in player owned houses after I finish this post, hopefully it will be a lot easier to use your bones on your altar from what I read in the patch notes on the runescape forums (the quick find code for the patch notes is “15-16-320-58575028″. Now back to this part of the update, the pre purchase option looks interesting, I had just previously purchased a saradomin stole on my pure without thinking that it needed 60 prayer for it, so will lose some money on that, hopefully with this update it will stop things like this happening again.
I wonder what the dragon platebody will look like after the update, I haven’t bought one back since the big crash in the market when it was first released. Hopefully the prayer button update will be handy, will check it out soon. The ranged weapon strength looks interesting, will come in handy when I go for 99 range soon.
When it comes to great weapons and armour there is plenty of choice in RuneScape. In fact there are so many different items it’s sometimes hard to keep track of them all. This is why we are introducing the pre-purchase advice tool. Before you buy anything – from a shop, at the Grand Exchange, or from another player – you can now check out what the bonuses of the item are, and, in the case of worn items, whether there are any restrictions that might prevent you from wearing them. You can use this tool to find out what skills you need to train, and what quests you need to complete, to use a particular item.
Those of you who are in possession of a dragon platebody will see that it has undergone a graphical overhaul, as requested by you on the forums.
Next, we have made a change to the equipped inventory screen for Ranged weapons, so now you can see the ranged strength of weapons like javelins, arrows and crossbow bolts.
The fourth upgrade for this week will save you valuable seconds in times of need. The Prayer button near the minimap has undergone an overhaul so you can now set a prayer, or group of prayers, before you go into action, and activate or de-activate it with one click. The button will also indicate the loss of Prayer points by gradually fading out – similar to the behaviour of the Hitpoints button. This should help prevent you accidentally running out of Prayer points, and finding yourself suddenly vulnerable to attack.
As you may know, we recently made some changes to the Culinaromancer’s chest in Lumbridge and the gnome cuisine fruit ‘n’ veg shop in the Grand Tree. We have now reconsidered these changes, and have decided to implement a different approach: we have returned the shops’ stock prices to their former state, and have removed the option to sell stock back to those shops.
Finally, we’ve taken on board the feedback you gave us about last month’s quest list improvement, and made changes in response to some common issues. New text makes it clear when not all quests are shown, but the best improvements are behind the scenes: the options you set before you log out will be there again when you return, and we have greatly reduced the delay involved in switching the list between quests and achievements.
Mod Fetzki
RuneScape Content Team Leader


March 25th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
The prayer altar update is great! It lets you select how many bones you want to use on the altar, just tested it then, seems a lot quicker, and saves a lot of clicks, which is what put me off prayer before lol.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Anything that saves clicks on Runescape is a good thing.
This prayer altar update certainly will make things easier for the prayer skill.