Phil "Ralphedelominius" Comeau and I ducked into the Midway Games area at E3 for a chance to talk about Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar and to

preview the game's next free update, Book 10, which will be coming some time in August. Developed by Turbine and published in North America by Midway, LotRO

launched in late April of 2007.

First we chatted with Adam Mersky, Director of Public Relations for Turbine. Mersky was affable and eager to talk about
Lotro, despite the fact that we were just chatting to pass the time until the demo station was available. We talked a

bit about what Mersky called Chicken Play (more on that in a moment), and some of the other goodies that would be coming to LotRO soon.

"In the fall we're going to be looking at housing again," Mersky said. "I don't have many details to give you, though." He mentioned that the team was still

finalizing housing details, but that Turbine would possibly hold an event in the fall to "give people a preview."

Will housing be instanced? Mersky couldn't say. He did say, "We can't have tract housing in the Shire!" Then he laughed and added, "We're thinking that in

the way a character has slots, housing will also have a vault with slots. You can earn stuff, say a carpet, and then you'd put it in your carpet slot and it

would show up in the room."

Mersky seemed excited about the upcoming content in Book 10. "I think Book 10 is going to be a real big deal," he said. "Whereas Book 9 was all about big

open spaces and adding 10% more to the game, Book 10 will be smaller scale but will add new features and lots of new quests."

Phil Comeau commented that Lord of the Rings Online is one of just two games that he's still actively playing. "You know, that's the ultimate compliment,

right? When I talk to gaming journalists who usually review a game and move on, and they're still playing, that's huge."

"Well, I've hit a plateau around level 20 that I'm not too happy about..." Phil mused.

"Maybe you're like me, though," Mersky said, "and you're just taking your time and running around doing all the quests and such. You know, there's grind in

every game if you play it that way. Sometimes you've got to stop and smell the roses...enjoy the ride."

Without a segue, Mersky added, "I think Lotro gold has really raised the bar for quality. You can't come out and not be

polished. You have to remember it's not just the game, it's the service." He went on to make an example of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, referring to the way the

game's bugs and sluggish performance at launch caused subscriber numbers to drop dramatically.

"This is our Vanguard person," Comeau laughed, pointing at me. (I responded, "Guilty!")

"Ah, well but it's not that way...we learn from each other; we're not at war with each other," Mersky said.

At about this time the demo station opened up and we were introduced to Allan Maki, Content Designer for Turbine. It was clear from the get-go that Maki is

excited about lotro, because his enthusiasm for the game is palpable. He started off by showing us the entrance to the

city of Annúminas, which will be entirely opened to players in Book 10. Players entering Annúminas will arrive in a war zone, complete with scripted battles

to engage them in the unfolding storyline.


Maki also showed off session play (SP). Coming with Book 10, players will have the ability to spend Destiny Points for the opportunity to play a ranger, a

troll, or a chicken for a period of time. First we saw the ranger. Picture one of Aragorn's bretheren clad in fancy, ranger-esque armor. Then we saw the

trolls, who have massive AoE capabilities. "AoE is how they fight, and they do it well," said Maki, demonstrating the troll's ability to throw boulders and

damage multiple enemies at once.

And finally, we saw the chicken. We asked if chicken play was instanced, and Maki told us that it was not. In fact, chickens run in the world at large.

"You're a free range chicken!" Maki joked. "And one of the benefits of being a chicken is you run faster. Just imagine a couple groups of players all turning

chicken. You'd have a herd of speedy chickens coming at you over the hill."

Maki explained how players start in The Shire and complete deeds to earn the destiny points necessary for chicken play. He showed us a chicken engaged in

battle. The chicken was able to play possum. She also used an attack called Biting Shrew and another skill called Threatening Cluck. "This is really for a

touch of humor and fun," Maki said, "But there is a whole big quest line here with chicken play."

Maki talked briefly about bartering and showed us the bartering window. Essentially, players will be able to trade certain goods (instead of coins) with

special vendor NPCs.

Another feature coming to Book 10 is the Reputation System. Reputation is a means of gaining faction with certain NPC groups within the game either,

apparently by killing their enemies and completing quests. Earning their favor grants special rewards. "It's basically another way to advance your

character," Maki said. New public (non-instanced) dungeons will be opened up for questing related to the reputation system.

Maki also hinted at some raid content coming with Book 11, and said the community could expect an announcement very soon.

Attractive graphics, reasonable system requirements, solid gameplay dynamics and an unbeatable brand combine to make Lotro

gold one of the hottest MMO titles available. And with free updates coming at a rapid pace it's clear that Turbine is committed to keeping Lord of the

Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar a fresh and ever-evolving game.
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Levels and skills

The combat level of a player is calculated internally by the game engine using the seven combat skills. The maximum combat level in RuneScape is 126. In RuneScape Classic, the maximum combat level is 123. In both versions of RuneScape, the minimum combat level upon departure from Tutorial Island is three. As a player progresses, it becomes more time-consuming to obtain combat levels, due to the exponential progression of levels.

Attack is trained by using the "accurate" style of combat. Attack level determines how frequently a player's attack hits the opponent as well as the weapons a player can wield in combat.

Strength is trained by using the "aggressive" style of combat. Strength level determines the maximum damage during a single hit that a player can deal in melee combat. Higher strength levels are required to wield certain weapons and armour, such as halberds or granite weaponry and armour.

Defence is trained by using the "defensive" style of combat when fighting, by using the long-range style with most ranged weapons, and by having a spell selected when using a magic staff or wand in the defensive style. Defence level determines the chance of avoiding damage during an opponent's attack as well as the armour that a player can wear.

Hitpoints, which determines how much damage players can sustain before they die, is trained during any combat. Hitpoints lost in battle can be restored by eating food. Hitpoints also regenerate automatically as time passes. The rate of regeneration can be increased by the use of prayer or jewellery.

Magic is trained by using runes to cast spells. Magic level determines the spells a player can use, how often a spell hits an opponent, and how often a player avoids a spell. Many spells, such as teleport, alchemy, and enchant spells, are not combat related; therefore, magic can be trained when players are not actively engaged in combat. The maximum damage a spell can do is determined by the actual spell, not the player's magic level.

Ranged is trained by using arrows, throwing knives, and other projectiles in combat. Ranged level determines the chance of hitting an opponent with a projectile weapon, the amount of damage done, and the ranged armour and weapons that can be worn and wielded.

Prayer is trained by honouring the dead in various ways. Prayer level determines which prayers the player may use as well as how long prayers will remain active before players must recharge their prayer points at an altar or through the use of potions. Prayer was originally called necromancy in the extremely early stages of RuneScape.

[edit] Classes and styles

Unlike most games in the MMORPG genre, RuneScape does not require players to choose a character class but players once choose a combat class. Players are not bound to a specific category of combat, and they may freely change between the three styles of combat at any time simply by switching weapons, armour, or the form and focus of attack. Players can carry the weapons and armour of the three combat categories in their inventories, switching between or even combining the styles at will.

[edit] Melee

Melee fighting is the art of hand-to-hand combat, with or without weapons. Melee fighters, or warriors, concentrate on training their attack, strength, and defence skills as these skills determine the quality of the weapons and armour players are allowed to use as well as the amount of damage they can inflict or avoid in battle.

Melee armour and weapons are usually metallic or magical and are made of many different materials, from bronze to dragon, as well as many other specialty sets of armor. One such set is known as Barrows armor, and, when, worn in a complete set, with helmet, platebody, and platelegs, as well as its respective weapon, has a special effect that occurs randomly.[1][2] Many of the weapons and armour used by warriors can be made by players using the smithing skill. Specialty pieces made of other materials are also available.

Armour consists of various pieces, form fitted to protect various parts of the body. Players can wear a platebody or chainbody to protect their torso and arms. Platelegs or plateskirts protect the legs. Helmets to protect the head come in two styles: full helms complete with visors and plumes, and medium helms that are open faced. Gloves or gauntlets worn on the forearms and hands and boots on the feet effectively cover the player.

Weapons are a mix of medieval and fantastical.[2] Daggers, swords, longswords, two-handed swords, scimitars, maces, warhammers, battle axes, spears, halberds, claws, and whips are commonly available. All the Dragon Weapons and the Abyssal Whip and Mauls have a "Special Attack". Rune claws also have a special attack. Pickaxes and hatchets, while intended as tools for mining and woodcutting, can also be used as weapons.

[edit] Ranged

Ranged fighting is the art of combat with projectile weapons. Many of the weapons used by rangers can be constructed by players using the fletching skill. Many of the ranged armour can be constructed by players using the crafting skill.

Ranging armour is constructed of lightweight materials to enable rangers to move and fire their weapons effectively. While mostly intended for ranging, the use of this type of armour is common among meleers due to the fact that they can give decent defence while being lightweight as well. Materials for armour include cowhide and various dragonhide leathers, as well as snakeskin.[1] Specialty pieces, including a Robin Hood hat and Ranger boots, are also available.

Ranging weaponry consists of bows and crossbows, as well as thrown weapons, such as knives, darts, and javelins. Bows are made of different types of wood with metal fittings and come in short, long, composite, and ogre variants. Arrows used as ammunition for bows can be constructed by players from wooden shafts with metal arrowheads. Crossbow bolts can be tipped with gemstones, which can then be magically enchanted. Some types of bow also have special attacks.[2]

The ranging skill is useful because it allows the player to attack from a distance or across a fence instead of close up melee fighting. Ranging can also be used at "shortcuts" across the map that allow players to cross rivers or fences more easily.

[edit] Magic

Magic combat involves the use of spells powered by runes in the player's inventory. The runes, which are consumed upon the casting of a spell, can be purchased or created by players using the runecrafting skill. With the appropriate runes and skill level, players can cast a variety of spells.

Three separate spellbooks exist in the magic skill. The default spellbook is the most diverse and is available to all players, although some of its spells are restricted to those players who choose to pay a monthly fee for additional content (members). It contains combat, teleportation, and helping spells. The ancient magicks spellbook focuses on combat and teleportation spells and can only be used after completion of a difficult quest that is restricted to members. The lunar spellbook, also available only to members after completion of a quest, uses a special kind of rune, astral runes, and focuses on team cooperation and noncombat spells. Players who have earned the right to use various spellbooks can change freely among them; however, they must travel to specific locations to do so.

Magical armour is comprised of robes made from simple cloth, so as to allow more magical energy to flow through the mage without the hindrance of inflexible or uncomfortable materials. Any protection against physical attack provided by robes is derived from magical enchantments.[1] A mage's abilities can be enhanced by using magical staffs, which can be used as quarterstaves in melee and may supply an endless supply of certain runes, and wands.[2]

[edit] Combat triangle

The three classes of combat in RuneScape form the combat triangle. Each class has its own disadvantages and advantages over the other classes. Many variables, such as the weapons and armour used as well as the relative statistics of the combatants, affect the outcome of any battle.

Warriors have an advantage against rangers because of the poor melee defence bonus of the ranger's leather armour, which allows the warrior to deal heavy damage to the ranger. A warrior's metallic armour is also very effective when defending against the ranger's projectile weapons.

Mages have an advantage against warriors due to the magic conducting properties of the metallic armour worn by warriors. Magic spells can bind and freeze players for a small period of time, keeping warriors, with their short-range weapons, from reaching mages.

Rangers have an advantage against mages as their leather and dragonhide armour have high magic defence bonuses. Arrows easily pierce mage robes to cause damage to the wearer. Rangers' long-range attacks allow them to deal damage from a distance even when bound or frozen.

[edit] Player versus monster

Players engage in combat with NPCs for many reasons. Experience in attack, strength, defence, range, mage, and hitpoints is gained by inflicting damage upon opponents. Prayer experience is gained by burying the bones left behind when certain NPCs die or by simply killing certain NPCs. Wealth is gained by defeating many NPCs, as they drop items, equipment, or coins when they die. Quests are often completed by defeating a particular monster or group of monsters. Mini-games, such as Pest Control, the Barrows, or the TzHaar Fight Cave, require players to defeat monsters in order to gain rewards.

However, the more powerful monsters can drop Clue Scrolls. These scrolls are often long and tedious mini-quests, but almost always provide worthwhile rewards. Very often, these scrolls involve visiting someone, or searching hidden crates or areas.

[edit] Player versus player (PvP)

[edit] History

In the earliest versions of RuneScape, players could not engage in player versus player, or PvP combat. With the release of the third version, PvP combat was introduced to the game; however, players were required to choose whether they wished to play as player-killer characters or non-player-killer characters. Players were allowed to switch from player-killer mode to non-player-killer mode only three times, after which they remained at their chosen setting forever.

PvP combat could take place in most locations throughout Gielinor. Lumbridge was eventually designated as a neutral area where players could not attack each other in order to prevent players from being killed again immediately after respawning, a practice known as spawn camping. NPC Guards and White Knights patrolled the cities of Varrock and Falador respectively, breaking up PvP battles by attacking the aggressors; however, these guard units were limited in number. When all the guard units in the city were already engaged in combat, PvP combat flourished.

On 13 August 2001, this system of PvP combat was replaced by the Wilderness. Over the next few years, Jagex continued to add locations for PvP combat in mini-games, such as Castle Wars, the duel arena, and the TzHaar fight pits.[3]

[edit] Wilderness

See also: the Wilderness

In the Wilderness, a barren area located in the northern part of the RuneScape map, players can engage in combat with each other, a practice commonly known as PKing (player-killing). Players may attack any player within a specified range of combat levels dictated by the level of Wilderness. This level increases as players proceed further north into the Wilderness.

Players who initiate combat by attacking other players are identified by a skull icon affixed above their heads for approximately 20 minutes. This is commonly known as being skulled. If the aggressors subsequently die while skulled, they drop all items they are carrying at the time of death on the ground, instead of keeping their three most valuable items. Use of prayer can allow skulled players to retain their single most valuable item. The items dropped can be picked up by other players. However, the items appear first to the player who dealt the dead player the most damage. Only after do the items dropped appear to other players.

Some players will create special PKing characters, known as pures, in order to optimize certain skills while keeping their combat level low. This is accomplished by heavily training the skills that are being optimized (usually range, mage, or both), while training the other combat skills to the minimum level required for effectiveness or not at all. In most cases, defence and/or prayer is sacrificed for high ranged, magic, and/or strength, leading to a misleading combat level to deceive the enemy.

Some players will band together to form teams that travel the Wilderness together, defending themselves from attack more effectively than a single player. These larger groups lead rise to more complex combat strategies, such as the "Death Dot", where all players stand on one square of the map making them appear to be a single character. Teams may be formed for one foray into the Wilderness, or they may be part of a larger clan. Most clans are permanent organizations, complete with websites and forums.[citation needed] Clan members usually have something in common, either combat levels, RuneScape goals, age, or other factors, that bring them together as a cohesive unit to perform various functions together.

[edit] Duel arena

The Duel arena is located in Al Kharid and is available only to members. It allows a formal fight between two and only two players. The combatants must agree to the terms and conditions of their fight before it starts. Players can choose to duel for fun and experience or to stake items or gold pieces that the winner will receive. The players will not lose the items that they did not stake when they die.

[edit] Castle Wars

Castle Wars is a combat-based minigame, similar to capture the flag, in which two teams of players attempt to invade the enemy team's castle, steal their flag, and bring it back to their own castle. Players can choose to fight on the side of Saradomin (blue) or Zamorak (red) by entering a portal. There is a third "side", which is Guthix (green). If the player chooses to enter the Guthix portal, the player is placed on the team with the least amount of players. Inside the game players can pick-up bandages, barricades, and other items to help bring the team to victory. Players may only attack their enemies on the opposing team, and dying inside the minigame carries none of the normal penalties such as loss of items and being transported to a respawn point. The game lasts twenty minutes. Each player on the winning team gets two tickets, which can be exchanged for decorative armour, while a tie results in all players in the game getting one ticket.

[edit] TzHaar fight pit

The TzHaar fight pit is a combat arena located under the Karamja volcano. Players can enter the arena and fight each other to the death using any style of combat. Players who are killed in the fight respawn in the waiting area with all their items; therefore, there is no risk. The last player standing receives a prize and is marked in the next battle by a red skull above his or her head.

[edit] Player owned houses

Players may create combat rooms in their houses using the construction skill. In the combat room, they can build several combat rings each with their own rules. All of these combat rings allow players to gain experience in the combat skills.

Players cannot gain or lose items in any combat room, as players will simply reappear outside the ring should they die, with no loss of items. Players like to place bets on who will win, and the combat ring is popular for clan events. Combatants gain experience for every blow landed - as with other forms of combat.

Players may also build their own throne rooms and dungeons. In the throne room players can turn their dungeon on and off and can also turn on player vs. player (PvP) mode. There is still nothing to lose in a PvP dungeon, but if players make it to the treasure room and defeat the boss, they can gain treasure (donated by the house owner). The owner of the dungeon may place various monsters in the dungeon for other players to fight; these monsters range from a basic skeleton guard to a powerful steel-scaled dragon available only to those who have a very high construction level.

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Combat

Main article: RuneScape combat

Combat in RuneScape is not a trainable skill in itself; instead, combat level is calculated internally by the game engine, which applies a formula to the combat skill levels. The skills included in combat are attack, strength, defence, hitpoints, magic, ranged, and prayer. Experience in each of Attack, Defence and Strength is gained when the appropriate attack style is used. HP experience is gained when any attack style is used, but at a lower rate. The other combat skills are increased like normal skills, although ranged depends on damage dealt for experience, like attack etc. Prayer and magic have uses other than in combat. Magic can be used to enchant items such as jewellery and orbs, smelt ores, turn items into gold and teleport yourself and target players. Prayer is used, apart from protection, to keep your items in death and to bless holy and unholy symbols with the relevant prayer books. It is considered one of the hardest levels to improve.

 

Extracting

These skills involve the extraction of raw materials from the environment, supplying the processing skills and helping on quests such as Heroes' Quest (members).

 

Fishing

Fishing requires the player to use a fishing tool (Such as a fishing rod) with a fishing spot to catch fish, which can be cooked and used to heal lost hitpoints. Higher level fish can only be caught through the challenging Trawler Minigame. Lower level fish can also be caught through this method, although many people are needed for the completion of the minigame. Fishing with a big net in areas such as Catherby can let you catch items such as boots, gloves, seaweed and caskets (with sometimes amazing rewards inside). Many players fish so they can sell their catch, especially lobsters, swordfish and sharks, to other players. Fish can be sold raw or cooked (although they both sell for the same price in the general stores), allowing the purchasers to use the food to restore health, or to cook raw fish themselves to gain cooking experience.

 

Mining

Mining requires players to use pickaxes to extract ores, gems, clay, and other materials from mining rocks. Players can extract better ores and materials and can use better pickaxes to help in mining faster as their skill levels increase. The materials extracted are used in smithing, crafting (and magic), runecrafting, construction, quests, or mini-games.

 

Woodcutting

Woodcutting requires players to use an axe to chop down trees and collect the logs. Normal trees yield only one set of logs each before they must respawn; all other trees yield several sets of logs. Players can use better axes as their skill levels increase, allowing them to chop trees faster. The logs cut are commonly used in the fletching, construction, and firemaking skills.

 

Farming

Farming allows players to grow various vegetables, flowers, hops, herbs, bushes, trees, and other plants from seeds, which can be purchased, pick pocketed, harvested from some plants, or obtained from various monsters drops and random events. At certain levels, players may plant certain plants or a scarecrow in order to protect crops in the flower patch from disease. Many complaints have, however, been voiced about this skill since each lot of crops takes hours of concentration from the farmer. Farming tools can be kept by useful Tool Leprechauns at the various farming patches. Although the main patches consist of two vegetable patches, a flower patch and a herb patch, special patches for trees, bushes, mushrooms, cacti and many more exotic plants can be found in appropriate areas. The farming skill, available only to paying members, was released on

 

Processing

Raw materials produced with extraction skills are made into finished goods using processing skills.

 

Cooking

Cooking allows players to prepare their own food, which is eaten to heal hitpoints. Meals can also raise levels temporarily, as can drinks. For example, Fish pie, Garden pie, Slayers' respite and Dwarven stout raise fishing, farming, slayer, mining and smithing respectively. Farming, fishing, combat and hunting provide most raw food to be cooked. Bread and other such foods do not reqire any skill to gather the raw materials for and no experience is gained through that. The most common foods are fish, although other foods such as vegetables, stews, and pies are common. Even more complex foods can be cooked, such as complicated mixed drinks and multi-step desserts. Cooking is regarded as the simplest skill to train, as several players have earned the maximum experience points, a feat requiring over ten times as much experience in the skill as attaining the maximum level.[5]

 

Crafting

Crafting allows players to make various items with traditional crafting skills, such as potterymaking, glassblowing, leatherworking, goldsmithing, weaving, and silversmithing. Gems may also be cut to be used in jewellery and staffs be made for magic. All ores needed for crafting can be mined in the crafting guild, which requires level 40 crafting to enter and a brown apron. Items for skills such as prayer, herblore, combat, magic, smithing, mining and some quests can be made through crafting. A player may need to advance a few levels in order to make some of these item types.

 

Firemaking

Firemaking allows players to cook food when a range or oven is not available. Food cooked on a fire is more likely to burn than food cooked on a range, and many foods cannot be cooked on a fire. The logs used can be bought or obtained using the Woodcutting skill. Fires made using higher level logs do not burn longer than those made from lower level logs; the length of time the fire burns is completely based on the number of people at its surroundings. Firemaking is also needed to provide light from candles or lanterns in dark places and to burn pyre logs, which train the prayer skill by burning shades (a type of ghost found in Mort Myre).

 

Fletching

Fletching is a members' skill used to make arrows, bows (including crossbows), and other projectile weapons from raw materials found throughout Gielinor. Higher level woods require higher experience levels, making better bows and ammunition that shoot more accurately and with more power. The strongest bows, which are made from yew or magic trees, are also popular items to "alch", or convert to gold using the High or Low Alchemy spells. This is a popular way to train magic and is how many players on members-only worlds make much of their money.

 

Runecrafting

Runecrafting allows players to create the rune stones, or runes, required for casting magic spells. Runes, which are small stones that can be infused with different kinds of power, are created from rune essence. Power is infused into the rune essence via altars specific to the type of power, creating runes. Runes that require membership to be able to craft, such as Cosmic, Chaos, etc... can only be crafted with "Pure Essence", which requires a higher mining level to mine, as well as membership. Access to altars is granted by possessing the appropriate talisman, these talismans also being able to help the player locate an altar. Players can also choose to make and wear enchanted tiaras instead of carrying talisman. Many players train runecrafting by using groups of runners, who transport the rune essence to the runecrafter in exchange for the end product, allowing the runecrafter to train more quickly. Paying members have access to the Abyss, after completing a mini-quest, which is an area which allows players to reach the runecrafting altars more quickly but with a higher risk of losing items through death.

 

Smithing

Smithing uses the ores obtained from mining to make armour, weapons, and other items. The first stage of smithing is smelting the raw ores into usable bars. When smelting iron ore into iron bars there is a 50% chance of success of smelting it successfully into a bar unless wearing an enchanted ruby ring. The second stage of smithing is forging the bars into usable items on an anvil using a hammer. Not all items of that metal can be smithed and not all weapon materials can be smithed (eg. Dragon). Most pieces of armour and weaponry require more than one bar to forge, and more valuable bars require higher smithing levels and more coal to smelt. Smithing is one of the most difficult and expensive skill to train.

 

Independent

 

Agility

Agility is a members' skill used to access remote areas and to take shortcuts, especially in the wilderness and on some quests. Many areas that contain slayer monsters have agility shortcuts to help higher level players reach the monsters they wish to slay more quickly. As players train the agility skill, their stamina regeneration rates increase, which allows their run energy to restore faster. Agility is the only member skill that retains its effects when players are on free to play servers. The agility skill was released on

Construction

Construction is a member's skill that allows players to build houses complete with several styles of room and furniture. When players first begin construction, they only have two rooms and can only build crude furniture. As players advance, they have a wide array of rooms available for customisation, though there is a limit of thirty rooms. Players can plant trees and shrubs in their garden or build furniture for their parlour, dining room, study, and bedroom. Players may also construct specialty furniture for their kitchen, workroom, and game room. Houses may also have unorthodox rooms such as a personal chapel, dungeon, throne room, and portal chamber, a room which provides teleports to various areas on the map. On 18 October 2006, Jagex added a costume room to the construction skill, which allows players to store various "fun" items and costumes, along with a few armour sets and holiday items.

Construction first appeared in RuneScape Classic as "Carpentry". It was impossible to gain experience, and was later replaced with agility. The skill was re-introduced by Jagex on 31 May 2006. Introduction of the skill was hinted at in the Behind The Scenes for May,but many players were surprised and excited by its release. The large number of players trying to train the skill caused many players to experience lag, and Jagex installed eleven additional servers to help alleviate the problem.

Training construction requires more money than any other skill. High-end supplies cost an extreme amount of money to purchase, and can only be acquired by paying the large cash sum. Construction has been viewed as a successful method by Jagex to curb the rate of inflation but it is seen by some as wasteful, even to the fact that you can get free drinks, food, and many other supplies for free at the required construction level and materials.[citation needed]

[edit] Herblore

Herblore is a members' skill for creating a variety of potions that give players temporary boosts to statistics, restore attributes, remove poison, and other effects. Players must find and identify herbs, locate ingredients, and mix the potions in a glass vial.

Hunter

Hunter is a members' skill that involves catching animals, such as birds, butterflies, or imps. Recently, a mini-game has been added allowing players to catch implings, relieving them of their treasure. This minigame was released to the RuneScape community on the 11th of June 2007. It is called 'Impetuous Impulses" and is currently the most recent minigame. Players must set traps, leave bait, or investigate burrows. Possible rewards of this skill involve using hides or remains of hunted creatures in order to make capes and unique armors that help the success rate in catching animals or reduce the weight of the items in your inventory. This skill was released on 21 November 2006 and is the newest skill so far.

Slayer

Slayer is a members' skill that allows players to kill specialized monsters that would otherwise be impossible to defeat. To train the slayer skill, players must get assignments from slayer masters. The assignments instruct them to defeat a certain number of specific monsters. If a slayer master gives an assignment that the player feels is too tough (for example, Black Dragons), the slayer master in Burthorpe could give a new assignment with monsters that are not as tough. This assignment, you cannot refuse. The slayer skill was released on

Many slayer monsters are located in special areas and require innovative methods and special equipment to kill. Slayer monsters usually drop better armour and equipment than other monsters at similar levels.

Thieving

Thieving is a members' skill that allows players to obtain money and items by pickpocketing NPCs, by stealing from market stalls, and by unlocking various chests throughout Gielinor. Thieving also allows players to unlock doors, with or without lockpicks, using unorthodox methods in order to access areas that they could not reach by other means. Many quests require certain thieving levels.

Capes of Achievement

Capes of Achievement, also known as Capes of Accomplishment or simply "Skill Capes", were released on 18 October 2006. They can be purchased only by members who have reached level 99 in a skill. The location each cape is sold varies. When worn they can temporarily boost the level of that skill to 100. The capes allow their owners to perform an emote unique to that skill. Players who have got to level 99 in more than one skill receive a Skill Cape that is trimmed to designate their multiple level 99 skill status. A Cape of Achievement is also available to players who have completed every quest in the game. Players must complete new quests as they are released in order to continue to wear the quest cape and to use its emote, thus making it the hardest to keep.[19]

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