Slay thousands of skeletons in RuneScape’s upcoming Halloween event

Throughout today’s developer Livestream, Jagex revealed particulars on the upcoming Halloween occasion for RuneScape. The reside stream featured neighborhood supervisor Mod Hooli, reside stream producer Mod Spear, and junior content material developer Mod Zura. Celebrating Halloween has turn out to be a convention for Jagex, with this being the eighteenth Halloween occasion launched for its well-liked MMORPG.

This yr’s occasion will perform as an growth of final yr’s. As soon as once more, it’s going to happen on the Halloween Hub in Draynor Manor. Three of the 4 mini-quests and actions current final yr will make a return. Alongside these will probably be two new mini-quests and actions to finish.

What’s new?

The primary new exercise includes a hack-and-slash impressed recreation mode the place you slay 1000’s of skeletons. The participant has to leap between these to kill them, while additionally utilizing particular skills which have cooldowns to hurry up the method. Finishing this exercise gives Spooky Tokens, Slayer expertise, and Magic expertise.

The opposite new exercise on this yr’s RuneScape Halloween occasion is cannoning Crassians. As its title would counsel, this includes firing a cannon at Crassian monsters for Hunter and Fishing expertise. There are three lanes that the Crassians can stroll down. By switching between every lane and taking pictures the Crassian you’ll be able to maximize expertise good points. This performs equally to tower protection video games like Vegetation vs. Zombies.

You may spend any Spooky Tokens earned by collaborating in these actions at Dying’s Spooky Reward Store. At this store, Dying will promote returning cosmetics from final yr’s occasion in addition to a bunch of name new stuff. Moreover, Jagex is utilizing this occasion to convey again cosmetics from a number of different previous Halloween occasions. This would be the first time gamers could have the prospect to accumulate a few of these cosmetics in a number of years.

The ultimate enchancment comes within the type of a Spooky Time Buff rework. Throughout final yr’s occasion, this buff randomly triggered buffing expertise gained in Draynor Manor by 10%. This yr, although, the buff will as a substitute apply each three hours making it simpler to plan round. Furthermore, the expertise buffs that Spooky Time gives while energetic have been boosted as much as 12%. Ironmen and ironwomen accounts will be unable to profit from this bonus nor buy experience lamps and stars from the reward store.