Ninja Strike 15: Combat Tooltips
Hey, remember the Ninja Player Advocacy Group (PAG)? That daring group of players who helped us out a few months back? Well, the Ninjas were so inspired by their comments that we've got another juicy Strike based on the Ninja PAG, community feedback, and some of our own ideas.
What is this delectable update, you ask? It's Combat Tooltips! Read on to learn more...
Combat Tooltips
The Ninjas have really hit the books these last few weeks (our local library is pretty mad about it, actually) in order to update every single Combat Ability Tooltip in the game. Whether you're attacking, defending, or buffing, you'll find that the information provided in tooltips is clearer and more readable than ever.
How'd they do it? By cutting down the information provided into precise, bullet pointed chunks, and ensuring that terminology is consistent across every tooltip. For example, 'weapon damage' and 'activate spell damage' is now always referred to as 'ability damage'. You'll also notice that key words and terms have been highlighted so you can spot them at a glance. No more agonising over cryptic messages in the heat of battle!
In addition, all Combat abilities now have an icon which denotes whether the ability is single-target, multi-target, self-target, or area of effect.
Lastly, the existing timer icon has been updated. Snazzy!
Combat Quality of Life
In addition, the Ninjas have made a few Quality of Life changes under the general Combat umbrella. Here's a selection:
- The Asylum Surgeon's Ring's cooldown now appears on the Debuff Bar.
- The 'Relentless' Invention perk's cooldown now also appears on the Debuff Bar.
- A new Primal Extract recipe has been added which allows you to turn Enhanced Replenishment Potions into Adrenaline Renewal Potions.
- God Books, Illuminated God Books, and Erethdor's Grimoire now toggle 'off' upon death while you have a Ring of Death equipped.
But that's not all! Be sure to have a peek at the Patch Notes tab for all the other details of this week's Ninja Strike.
Essence of Finality Recolours
The Essence of Finality amulet and its ornate counterpart can now be dyed seven new colours using simple dyes, opening up a world of possibilities for presets, keybinds and Inventory management.
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In this week's Patch Notes you'll get to swot up on everything the Ninjas have been doing this week, along with a few extra changes and fixes that snuck into the update.
Ninja Strike 15: Combat Tooltips
Combat Tooltips
- All combat abilities have been rewritten for clarity and readability, and all of them now follow a bullet pointed template including the following information (where applicable):
- Flavour text which describes the ability and mentions whether it has a bleed or burn effect.
- The primary damage range of the ability, including minimum and maximum damage.
- Secondary or conditional damage figures.
- Whether the ability is channelled or inflicts damage over time.
- Whether the ability behaves differently in PvP situations.
- Made various consistency changes.
- The terms 'weapon damage' and 'activate spell damage' are now consistently referred to as 'ability damage'.
- Key words such as effects and values are highlighted in white text.
- Ability durations are now shown in exact seconds to account for game ticks.
- All combat abilities now have an icon showing whether they are single-target, multi-target, self-target or area of effect.
- The existing timer icon has been updated.
- The above changes do not yet affect specific weapons' special attacks, or Essence of Finality ability descriptions.
Combat Quality of Life
- The Asylum Surgeon's Ring's cooldown now appears on the Debuff Bar.
- The 'Relentless' Invention perk's cooldown now also appears on the Debuff Bar.
- A new Primal Extract recipe has been added which allows you to turn Enhanced Replenishment Potions into Adrenaline Renewal Potions.
- This recipe is similar to the existing Adrenaline Renewal Potion but replaces the Super Adrenaline Potion with an Enhanced Replenishment Potion.
- Fixed various inconsistencies between the Herblore Skill Guide and the Make-x interface regarding the Adrenaline Renewal Potion.
- God Books, Illuminated God Books, and Erethdor's Grimoire now toggle 'off' upon death while you have a Ring of Death equipped. This behaviour is in-line with scrimshaws and intended to prevent charges from being wasted while preparing for combat.
- Special attacks that require no target can now be activated using the Constitution special attack ability from both the Ability Book and the Action Bar.
- The Zaros Godsword and the Eldritch Crossbow have been added to the list of weapons that can be activated without a target. The full list is as follows:
- Staff of Light
- Staff of Darkness
- Dragon Battleaxe
- Zaros Godsword
- Eldritch Crossbow
Other
Graphical and Engine improvements
Improvements
- Hide and Seek penguins have been updated with their Christmas models, which will appear in-game from December 2nd.
- Stackable items can now be crafted even if there's no empty spaces in your Backpack.
- The Essence of Finality amulets can now be dyed different colours.
- The skill prerequisite for the 'Ever So Clever' Achievement has been reduced to 17 Farming and 20 Construction, with a note that 81 Farming and 40 Construction are not required if trading rather than breeding, Trevor.
Fixes
- The pop-up notification indicating lower damage when equipping the Tirannwn Quiver now appears correctly and will not appear again for five minutes.
- The large dragonkin statue north of the Anachronia Base Camp now counts towards the 'Stone Cold Observers' Achievement.
- Iron accounts are no longer able to receive the medium protean box from Premier Club.
- Fixed an issue where Egil could be spawned multiple times without being removed.
- A tile along the Falador Wall will no longer force players to walk away from it.
- Players will no longer be able to walk through the Mining and Smithing noticeboard near the Artisans' Workshop.
- You can now enter the Mage Training Arena from the basement with a pet or familiar that you have already summoned.
- When completing a contract for Father Aereck using all mahogany planks, you will now receive 5 Contract Credits, as intended.
- Fixed a typo in the Construction Contracts UI that only became visible after completing a contract.
Livestreams
J-Mod Livestreams
Tuesday November 24th | 17:00 Game Time | J-Mod Tea Break with Mod Ryan and Mod Jack
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RuneScape Reads
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Pink Skirts Event
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Head to Varrock West Bank on World 3 tonight, November 23rd between 21:15 and 22:15 to see what's up.
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