The Brink of Extinction - coming to RuneScape next week!
Posted Nov 30, 2012, 7:36 PM UTC
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I feel like killing the Butcher from Diablo III now.
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I'm not the only one that saw the resemblance :D
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haha, was going to post something along the lines of this but you beat me to it!
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That obsidian armor looked like it had some fairly significant stats.
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Yup. In the BTS vid, I saw that a full set of obsidian armor, with shield, gave 744 armor and 7440 lifepoints. That's a bit more than Nex armor with a Dungeoneering shield gives.
And there's a set for each class.
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Only with lp, nex has more defence. Edit: I may be confused disregard this for now.
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No its not. Nex armor has less LP and more Armor. Even with a bandos warshield.
Source: I looked up the items and did the math myself when I saw the stats on the BTS video
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I thought this was going to be a joke about everyone quitting.
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Really really looking forwards to this! 78 Mining and 75 Smithing - Really hope I don't have too much work to do in order to consume this content.
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I too have farmed the first boss in Diablo III
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New grandmaster quest referencing Diablo 3?
Half Life 3 Confirmed.
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Another TzHaar quest or minigame?
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quest and minigame is unlocked after quest
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Does this remind anybody else of D3? It's like the first boss you come to.
Looks cool though, can't wait! :-]
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If you haven't seen the BTS video.
I am glad that a high level quest is finally coming out again, even though I am not the biggest fan of the TzHaar series it will still be awesome :)
Also excited for the armor, wonder if that is a reward for the quest or a reward from the minigame thing afterwards?
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Wonder if it will feature voice acting. Would be awesome to see such production assets in higher level quests.
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Is there another kiln/ caves?
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Hopefully the armor stats are fixed by release. Don't want a repeat of the hybrid armor problem.
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I think I smell another trim req....
Damnit.
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DO YOU SEE THAT ENEMY OVER THERE?
GLORIOUS!
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Looks good! Looking forward to play this quest
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I thought the brink of extinction dropped on the 20th.
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It's pretty cool that you're naming an update after the state of your game
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Please not another fight caves/kiln.
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Indeed that would suck if they made another one.
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the brink of extinction! You mean like this game?
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No.
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After the End Of Combat (EOC), comes the Brink Of Extinction. Or maybe it's the other way around? :) (Actually, I like the EOC.)
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I am so goddamn excited for this quest.
A new combat based Grandmaster after nothing but novice quests for the past six months? Count me in!
I still hope there'll be voice acting in this one but I doubt it, since it's TzHaar and the last quest just had voice acting.
But consecutive quest updates, that's always awesome.
To be honest, I hope there isn't voice acting. Whenever there is, the player character has almost no lines, and by extension, seems to have no personality. In older quests, I love hearing (or reading, I guess) my,character's response to frightening news, especially in quests like the Void series. Having our character dialogue limited to asking questions and relaying information just... Doesn't sit well with me.
Allow me to present another argument against voice acting.
"Gee, it sure is BORING around here."
That hasn't got anything to do with voice acting. That's a totally different issue that annoys me aswell, in new quests even the new non-voice acted ones the character has no dialogue or any lines that show off the chathead. And is just limitted to options, this is the downfall of new quests. But it's nothing to do with voice acting though, character lines aren't meant to be voice acted, they tried that once and people complained, then they came to the conclusion that players would rather read their lines hearing their own voice in their head.
I know why we get little lines in voice acted quests, and I'm saying I don't like it. However, I have noticed that with new quests, if they're not voice acted, they're more likely to have player lines.
I really wish eventually Jagex would give our characters voices, and we have the ability to change the pitch, similar to Soul Caliber games. I know this isn't likely to happen, so I'm just hoping that they get over the whole "voice acting" thing. Yeah it's nice, but if the chat head doesn't match what the character is saying, then it ruins the immersion, at least IMO.
Actually they've already confirmed that this quest, and all the other TzHaar content, will be given voice acting. It was in one of the Live Q&A sessions, I believe.
I know how you feel, when I resumed my membership last may, after catching up on the quests released while I was gone, I was really annoyed when they released nothing but easy quests, and quests are my favorite thing about runescape.
Another grandmaster? Seems like I'm never gonna get that quest cape...