Veridia 2.13.1: Mastery Rebalance, Nex Shards and Slayer Fixes

Realism and Extreme mastery

Realism and Extreme mastery drop bonuses have been rebalanced. Extreme keeps the bigger unique chance bonus, and the chance of a second unique is now the same in both modes.

• Completionist cape requirement: Mastery II now also needs a tier 1 Completionist cape, and Mastery III needs a tier 2 Completionist cape, on top of 150 and 200 total prestige. Prestige fee discounts and Completionist cape requirements still only need total prestige.

• Raids: The chance of a second unique from a Chambers of Xeric, Theatre of Blood or Tombs of Amascut chest is half your mastery's usual chance, so Mastery III gets 3.5% there.

Bosses and drops

• Nex: Nihil shards now drop at about the OSRS rate. Her shard drop is now 40 to 45 shards instead of 1 to 20, so the 250 shards for a Zaryte crossbow take around 30 kills instead of about 120.

• Blood reavers: Blood reavers in the Ancient Prison now have their OSRS drop table, including malicious ashes and Nihil shards. They used to drop nothing.

• Spiritual rangers: Spiritual rangers in the Ancient Prison now drop 2 to 7 Nihil shards instead of 2 to 5.

• Tombs of Amascut: Deathless boss-only raids now have a 1 in 25 chance to give a remnant of Akkha, Ba-Ba, Kephri or Zebak, picked from the ones you don't have yet. These couldn't be obtained from boss-only raids before.

• Skotizo: You can now attack Skotizo while the Dark Ankou and reanimated demon spawns are attacking you.

• Full inventory: Boss rewards that go straight to your inventory, such as Xamphur's, now go to your bank with a message when your inventory is full. If your bank is also full, or you're an Ultimate Ironman, the reward is dropped beneath you instead of under the boss.

• Leviathan: Its loot now drops under the player who earned it, instead of in the middle of its pool where only Telekinetic Grab could reach it.

Combat

• Dual macuahuitl: It now hits twice per attack, and the blood moon set's Bloodrager effect works with it.

• Torag's hammers: They now hit twice per attack, and the Torag's set effect can trigger at most once per attack.

• Special attack bar: The bar no longer stays lit after a special attack goes off on the same tick you turn it on, such as when you switch from the soulreaper axe to dragon claws and spec straight away.

• Catacomb Artillery: Setting up a dwarf multicannon in the free Catacombs of Kourend now tells you the perk only works in the paid Catacombs, which you enter through the statue in the middle of Kourend.

Skilling

• Chainshot: Steel bars can now be smithed into chains at level 34 Smithing, and a chain can be used on an anvil to link two cannonballs into two chainshot.

• Seed box: Pickpocketed seeds, such as from Master Farmers, now go into your seed box while it's open. You can also keep pickpocketing Master Farmers with a full inventory as long as the open seed box has room for their seeds.

• Dizana's quiver: Using sunfire splinters on a Shrine of Ralos now blesses the Dizana's quiver you're carrying or wearing, as long as you don't have essence and fire runes with you.

• Slayer Tower: The broken window in the tower wall, east of the entrance, now works as an 18 Agility shortcut to and from the banshee room.

• Skilling Points Shop: Buying the bottomless compost bucket now unlocks it in the collection log. Other collection log items from the shop unlock the same way.

• Barlak: Barlak in Dorgesh-Kaan buys long and curved bones again, taking every one in your inventory and bank. He pays 1,000 coins for each long bone and 2,000 for each curved bone, plus 4,500 and 6,750 Construction experience if you have a player-owned house and level 30 Construction.

Slayer

• Slayer Rewards: Buying from the Slayer Rewards shop works again. Since 2.13.0, buying items such as the Scroll of imbuing or a bonecrusher did nothing, and confirming an unlock such as Slayer Statues, or cancelling, blocking or storing a task, just closed the confirmation.

• Choosing your task: Champions who choose their own Slayer task now see the new task after picking how many to kill, and can pick TzTok-Jad or TzKal-Zuk on a TzHaar task again.

• Pedal to the Metals: It now also extends mithril, adamant and rune dragon tasks. Their own extensions aren't sold in the Slayer Rewards shop, so these tasks couldn't be extended before. If you bought one of the old extensions, it keeps working until you buy Pedal to the Metals, whose toggle then decides.

• Absolutely Slayin': The unlock now works. At level 99 Slayer, use a Slayer hood on a Slayer helmet, imbued or not, to make a Hooded slayer helmet. The unlock can now only be bought at level 99 Slayer.

• Slayer statue: The Slayer statue at home was hidden inside one of the gargoyle statues in front of the castle. It now replaces the west gargoyle statue, so you can see and use it.

Teleports

• Docks: The teleport menu has a new Docks category with a teleport to every mainland Sailing dock, from Port Sarim and the Pandemonium to Aldarin, Deepfin Point and Lunar Isle. Entrana isn't included.

• Varlamore: Aldarin, the Sunset Coast, Cam Torum, Tal Teklan, Auburnvale and Kastori are now under Cities. Quetzacalli Gorge, Salvager Overlook, Ralos' Rise, Darkfrost and Nemus Retreat are under Misc, and the Hunter Guild is under Skilling.

• Fairy rings: Eleven more codes now work: AIS, AJP, AKP, AKR, BJP, BLQ, BLS, CJQ, CKQ, DLP and DLS.

• Favourites: Every teleport in the menu can now be favourited, including the new ones.

Hollowmere

Alderman Ash's reward shop now sells supplies for tokens, with no limit on how many you buy.

Other changes

• Donator Barrows: The donator Barrows crypts on Mithril Island now hold five of each brother instead of three. They respawn in about 10 seconds instead of about 36, and the crypts are now multi-combat.

• Broadcasts: Level 99 broadcasts now show the player's game mode, for example "Iceomen has achieved level 99 Mining on prestige 5 in Extreme mode!"

• AFK zone: Both entrance gates are back, and passing through either one now takes you into the AFK zone instead of into the wall.

• Sophanem: The gate south-east of Sophanem, on the path to the Necropolis, now opens.