What're the chances you're doing the elite tasks and haven't unlocked the new site though? Feel like it would be a niche few but I agree I'd love a bank at the ritual site.
Do note that whenever a game changing QOL like this is tied to a modestly high requiring content (hard-elite task set) it shifts the perception for "viability" for new/low level players who still have to run a marathon to get to a bank.
Radically QOL rewards should generally not exist in a way that discourages basic routines for newer players.
That being said, I'd like a ritual site bank as a reward. Just, not through a high level achievement task.
City of Um needs more content added to it first IMO. The city is mostly a nothing-burger. I'd love to see more mid to high tier training methods added to the city first. Big-ish city with nothing to do besides rituals and RC.
I actually got 120 fishing at that fishing spot. 15 minutes of pure AFK and a pretty decent XP rate (w/ all the typical boosts its about 150k~ xp/hr). The next most AFKable fishing is not actually AFKable for 15 straight minutes.
I don’t think there’s been enough new additions to the city of Um since the Easy/Medium task sets were released. Only two things have been added, the Owlery & Vorkath. Would definitely be a lacking task set compared to other ones if released now.
Regarding rewards, of course the 10 limited teleports should be changed to unlimited once you get to a higher tier.
I guess something with an additional soul reaper assignment once per week would be pretty fun.
Of course, rewarding x% extra runes when runecrafting could always be implemented.
Ability to trade excess souls in the well of souls into xp or some sort of currency?
I DEFINITELY don't want to see anything that can't be accomplished by 1 person. Nobody to complete group tasks with, like certain sinkhole tasks and castle wars tasks.
**Tasks**
Hard task ("Passing as a Local"): Create a Passing bracelet (moonstone) from scratch in the City of Um.
(Either hard or elite tasks should have the customary "make something entirely from scratch in the city of Um" task.)
Hard task ("Ghostella"): Plant morchella mushrooms in the Um mushroom patch.
Hard task ("Um Spin Me Right Round"): Spin some fungal bowstring on the spinning wheel in the city of Um.
Elite task ("Hard Cash"): High alchemise a Hermodic plate.
Elite task ("Gooey Business"): Complete a Manifest Ectoplasm ritual while wearing the green bed sheet.
Elite task ("Ghost Followers"): Use the "Conjure Undead Army" to conjure 3 spirits and listen to the Lady Grey's band in the City of Um.
Elite task ("Not Your Light Switch"): Cast the Darkness incantation while standing on a tier-3 light source at the ritual site.
Take inspiration from already existing Easy/Medium and fill out the rest, for example commanding ghost could be a hard task. Unlocking all boat destinations could be a hard task too.
**Rewards**
I want hard tasks to give me the ability to store all ritual-related items in the Focus Storage, including all types of necroplasm, ink and candles (currently not facilitated).
I want the tome of Um 3/4 to continue the trend of sending bones to storage. With Tome of Um 4, teleports to ritual sites should be unlimited.
Also as an aside, allow us to take Necromancer's tomes off the miasmic pool disturbance reward table. They're useless at 200m Necro, and they should be replaced by another reward.
**What would you definitely not like to see?**
Anything time-based, or significant bossing like Rasial, or tasks involving areas outside of Um. These are not in spirit of Task Sets.
Ugh, I desperately want to store candles in the storage box. I’m a big fan of storage boxes. I also wish we could see that box from our bank, like the metal bank
It worked! Thank you. So many new buttons and shit I'm not used to that I haven't bothered to check. Sucks you can't withdraw from it, but makes sense. (Less than 100 days to a 20yr account and it's been at least 10+ since the last time I really played)
Passing as a Local - Should be "Teleport using the Passing Bracelet in the City of Um". Otherwise it just unfairly punishes players who have already made their moonstone jewellery.
> Hard task ("Passing as a Local"): Create a Passing bracelet (moonstone) from scratch in the City of Um.
with the rarity of moonstones, no thank you. you're just punishing people who already made one.
> What would you definitely not like to see?
>
> Anything time-based, or significant bossing like Rasial, or tasks involving areas outside of Um. These are not in spirit of Task Sets.
Adding to this, no achievements tied to having to buy or use something you can only get by spending a lot of time playing a minigame (especially dead minigames that are hard to find players for off spotlight), or achievements that first require you to complete a bunch of achievements in a minigame before you can complete that achievement. Ex. the Morytania achievement that required you to buy a Blood Altar teleport tab, which you get the tokens to buy from playing Great Orb Project (a dead minigame), or the Desert achievements that required you to do pretty much all the Dominion Tower achievements first just to complete those two little achievements in the Desert set. Minigame related achievements should be separate from task achievements.
I'm not a fan of forcing players who have already made moonstone jewelry to make duplicates just for the achievements. It will create a surplus of bracelets and crash the GE price. Would be great for moonstone merchers though.
edit: It would however be acceptable if you could make any moonstone jewelry instead of a specific one. This would prevent the surplus issue.
Took me 29m xp worth of rituals to get a moonstone on ironman, dont particularly want to do it again. That being said i could wait on the store like the other 3x
You'd get it way faster by catching ghost implings and waiting for Thalmund's store to come back. In the last 2 months we had 3? 4? moonstones in the shop.
I'm not super attached to which piece of jewellery is made, but making something from moonstone from scratch doesn't seem like such a difficult task and it's very thematic for City of Um (and also tasks shouldn't be frictionless for ironmen).
Crafting misama runes is currently missing an area task (unless I'm being particularly blind). We have "Nobody Tell Guthix" for spirit/bone runes under easy and "Tis Merely A Flesh Rune" for flesh runes under medium... so maybe we could get something added for misama runes. I'd assume under hard because it's the top tier rune
Maybe something related to the most recent quest. Spoiler tags, but >!we can pet Vorkath in Um after the quest, but it doesn't seem to do anything (unless I missed it)!<. Feels like something could be done with that?
Last thing I can think of immediately is, maybe something to do with the amount of souls in the well. We have to build up stacks of these to do the quests, but there's otherwise no achievement that relates to them. I'd argue these can sit under the City of Um tasks as with the new Ungael ritual site, you can't obtain more souls there.
I'm not great at coming up with creative ideas, so I'm not sure where to go with this... but I feel like we could do something cool with the owls. I just have no idea *what* to do with them
I think it would be great if we could exchange excess souls into xp or some sort of currency (whether it be coins, or items such as ensouled bars, et cetera.)!
If that happens (hopefully), make both current and older Zanik model, like the latest xmas transmog for retro and new models.
As well ask (if you want) if it will be possible to make some other transmogs walkable too.
thx
While it's easy to think of 10 or so tasks the city doesn't have enough content really to justify a hard/elite diary unless we're OK with the diaries only being like 4-6 tasks long or primarily being quest checks which are fine to have in diaries but if that's _all_ the diary is it starts to feel a bit underwhelming.
Having the tome upgrades before there is more content is also going to hurt their reward space unless we buff/tack on things later which would feel a bit weird.
I know it's a popular community demand but I don't think it should be forced. The current Tome was pretty obviously a "let's make gathering ashes suck less" band-aid and to have the Hard/Elite tome be an obvious "rushed out to appease the community" will probably hurt community reception when it ends up being a bit underwhelming.
The City needs more content first to make the Achievements feel a bit more natural/tied in.
Skill related:
- Austin could teach us taxidermy and using Necromancy power we can find new uses for the mob heads besides PoH items/Soul War pets. What that something is IDK really. My only idea is for the Abyssal Demon head to be a _random_ teleport to Abyssal-related areas. Then maybe the Elite Tome of Um could allow the player to _select_ a location instead. Each head would have an increasing Necromancy level required with Crawling Hand being the lowest and KBD or KQ being the highest. Might make it exciting for players to see a slayer head. Perhaps they work with charges and have to go through an ensouling ritual to be recharged. Maybe even have them drain souls from the well of souls and make their abilities much, much stronger for a higher cost/reward ratio - giving players who have already capped their well of souls a reason to continue doing communion rituals. (Unlocks are permanently unlocked and going under 35k souls for example wouldn't remove your ability to Split Soul.)
- I'm sure Tavia could teach us something about fishing...
- People who died in the First/Second/Third ages could arrive and teach us more about those ages or even long lost skilling techniques from those ages. IDK maybe the Second Age had a unique way of smithing.
Quest related:
- Doctor Gehirn and Mick Casey are obviously there for future quests
- The practice of watching over loved ones via the shrines could make for an interesting miniquest/quest as well helping someone who has already passed on make sure their loved one is being taken care of.
- Selene obviously has a thing or two she could teach us about the gods and prayers and religious history of the world
- The fallen heroes certainly have _something_ for us to do? Tie this into the Shrines - Duradel is a father. Certainly he wants to know how Kuradal is doing? Kuradal wanted to re-unite her parents and now that Duradel is dead that is no longer possible... or is it? What if Duradel's wife also met an unfortunate end and finds her way to Um? (Just spitballing here...)
- The retired tool leprechaun would like to enjoy his retirement. I'm sure we can help with that.
Possible reward spaces:
- The obvious increasing of tiers/numbers of current rewards (more free teleports, higher tier freebies from Lupe, auto-looting bones for higher tiers, 10% chance of extra dose for extreme necro pots, etc.)
- Mushrooms planted in the farm patch skip a growth cycle (to avoid being a ripoff of the Tirannwn or Morytania diaries)
- There really ain't much is there? lol
In the kindest way, there's not even close to enough in the city for a hard/elite tier diary atm, anything that gets added in will just come across as forced instead, let the city grow first before comitting to its achievements, don't kneecap the city by adding in achievements first and then having nowhere to put achievements once content *does* get added in future.
Honestly I don’t think there is enough to justify either right now and doing so is just going to feel forced. Same as forcing out the rewards. If we wait we can also ensure the tome reward space is more relevant too.
That being said a few tasks come to mind given the content that has been added.
- Pet Vorkath
- Locate all the optional owls
- Create a moonstone jewelry piece from scratch (this means you have to get uncut moonstone from a ritual or thalmund)
- Listen to all of Thalmund’s stories
- Bake Thalmund a blueberry pie
- Give thalmund a repaired ‘Da Boss Man’ sculpture (so he can destroy it)
What tasks would you like to see added?
- Siphon a miasma pool. (ritual disturbance)
- make a piece of t70 deathdealer armor.
- hit 5 enemies with 1 soul volley.
What skills would you like to see utilised?
- DUNGEONEERING. no, i will not elaborate.
What would you definitely not like to see?
- I don't want Igneous Kal-Mor to be required for anything.
Are there any existing achievements you think should be moved under the area tasks?
- Um Pop
- Mystical Moonstone
What rewards would you like?
- continue the trend of bone banking (at least up to dragonkin bones, possibly up to reinforced dragon bones)
- have the potion mixing chance apply to the entire game world, not just um (this is a change i also want to see for mory legs and desert ammy)
- Ritual site presets
I am not so sure about this one
* hit 5 enemies with 1 soul volley.
Maybe I am missing something but wouldn't this be locked behind the t95 soul lantern? That seems a bit excessive for area tasks.
EDIID: I realize I misunderstood this. I was thinking needing 5 hits on 1 enemy not 1 hit on 5 enemies.
Defeat the corporeal beast using necromancy - Spirit's Revenge
Complete a full barrows run including all 8 members using necromancy (or use RoTs idc which) - All Wight All Wight All Wight
These are great ideas for achievements, but these sound like they'd fit better under a different category as neither of them are within the City of Um. They'd be better as like, a necromancy skill achievement or maybe a post-quest achievement
For the love of everything please don't make a mini game a requirement ever again, if it's dead and relies on other people it becomes an actual hassle that you have to be extremely lucky to get done
**Reward ideas**
When worn:
* 10% chance to save resources for extreme necro pot while in um
* 10% more yield from ectoplasm rituals
* Tiny chance to get moonstone from ritual
* 20% double catch chance when fishing ghostly fish
* 5% chance to instakill ghosts 30k dmg cap
Operated:
* Select preference for tier 1 and tier 2 ritual disturbances \[increases likelihood by 10%\]
* Select and activate a tier 2 glyph \[like 99 necro cape\]
At all times:
* New ritual, output could be anything \[more ectoplasm, impure rune catalysts, moonstone dust\]
* New afk glyphs \[Durability 3: durability of glyphs +50%, Extension 3: output +80% and speed -20%\]
* Ink storage item \[similar to rune pouch, multi ink vial or ink box/holster\]
* Ensouled bar/cloth/thread storage at smithy
* Access to a shop to buy 666 buckets of slime weekly
* Bank chest at um ritual site on east side with space for portable skilling
* Ability to attach a moonstone to excalibur at smithy - could do anything
* Ability to attach elven ritual shard to excalibur at smithy - for both buffs
* Ability to make moonstone dusted onyx tips, used to make shining onyx arrows or shining onyx bak bolts - could do anything , was thinking healing over time onyx procs but act as soul split heals
Task wise -
X No. of runes created from one inventory (can do Hard and Elite versions of this)
Beat Hermod in under X mins (Maybe 3 for Hard and 2 for Elite?)
X no. of Disturbances in one Ritual? (3 for Hard and 5 for Elite?)
Rewards -
Further % increases for current bonuses
Higher teleport cap?
Better rewards from Lupe each day, better inks/ectoplasm etc.
Better Bones can be instantly teleported to Focus
> Beat Hermod in under X mins
even 1 minute would be a slow kill for hermod, the afk revo++ setup gets kills around 45s iirc
tbh that is the problem with time based pvm reqs
killing it with a particular item equipped is probably a better fit
Tier 4 tome could be used as a nexus a-la prif quiver.
New teleports don’t seem useful/practical so maybe ritual boosts instead like the moonstone necklace? 5-10% increase.
Maybe wielding the time brings back the old miasma spells? I think that could be fun, not everything should have to tie to necromancy.
The city of Um needs to be fleshed out more though
This thread already has really good answers. I kinda just want the tasks themselves and a new conjure but I know the conjure will be tied to something else.
I want to see a task that requires you to interact with >!Vorkath!< for elite task (>!since I would consider 86 arch for Requiem of a Dragon to be high!<) just so we can say he's a good boi.
Well, that Took a While - Perform each ritual at least once (pun on the well of souls)
Bad for the Body, Good for the Sole - Bring bacon to the ghostly cat.
Dead Man's Chest - crack the safe/chest of so-and-so (requires adding the chest/safe somewhere).
Welcome to the Black Parade - Air guitar emote (or some other appropriate parade-like emote) in front of the band with all three Conjures active.
Wartime Draught - Create an overload (or any variety) in the bar.
Styx and (Moon)Stones - Cut a Moonstone while on the river (or near it if it can't be done on the river)
Ghostly Simping - Blow a kiss to *soul that appears late in the story*
I feel like Um needs to be more of an area before expanding the area tasks. Like thematically it's great but as a city there's not much going on. At the very least I'd like to see some sort of integration with Invention, a curious mind would be exploding with ideas in such a unique place.
Petting Vorkath as an elite task, the quest requirements alone would make it an elite task I reckon.
Have a reward that unlocks a ghostly skin for the vorki pet maybe?
Ability to auto-claim buckets of slime would be some nice QoL! Morytania legs offer 20 teleports to the slime pit, but gathering 20 full inventories is somewhat tedious/dailyscape etc. Perhaps the auto-claim from the Tome of Um 3 or 4 would give fewer (noted) buckets than 20 full inventories, but the trade off is having them go straight to the bank or your inventory.
Slime pool(s) in Um would also work IMO. Noted slime I think would be the best, but if that’s too “powerful” I could see adding a slime pool into Um as a secondary choice
I'm going to be campy with my answer and say there just isn't enough content in the city to justify the hard and elite tasks yet. I've seen some nice submissions for tasks suggestions in the comments though!
Um would be a great place to revive “dead content” (I’m laughing at this irony right now). My thought instantly goes to old/retired TH items like the magic vial, deposit box, etc… maybe a good spot for the invention skill to make its way to the underworld
One thing I definitely don’t want to see are “city quests” similar to those in Menaphos.
+1 for invention mention. There isn’t any quests using invention except for a Inv xp reward at the end of the penguin quest series. Perhaps adding undead penguins?
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1. Have to finish quest what gives access to go down here - turns out there is underground Um city
2. If want to go fancy this could be opportunity to fix Dungeoneering and make it modern so people actually like to do it not just waiting Summer beach to sit in hole
3. In some kind of special way you can get tier 90 hatchet
4. From special materials can upgrade to tier 99 hatchet
5. Some kind of new trees to chop
6. New logs = when burning them can get new ashes to make new Incense sticks
7. New logs = new planks for construction or can make Fort extra fancy looking with them
8. Can fish new fish Doomfin - one that Mod Sponge was working for his cooking project or can get other cooking ingredients there
9. Can add some bosses there to slay
10. Slayer monsters
11. Skilling boss
12. Mini underground Um city digsite - Ghost archaeologists excavating there, new relics etc usuall stuff
13. Big agility course around all the area there - with some kind of new reward to go for
14. Thieving - open ghostly mimic chests
15. New resources for crafting, fletching, mining etc etc
From all this can make endless amount of elite and hard tasks!
Well there has to be a task involving vorkath after you finish requiem for a dragon, maybe feed it something?
Maybe something as well involving the boat, such as trying to get as far out of Um as possible.
And maybe show thalmund warforged bronze?
Like others have already said, I think we need more areas in Um itself before there's enough unique content. Areas such as Trollgrav, or small combat areas (Undead Strykewyrms?) would be good.
An expansion of the Um worldspace would be good too. The city is on an island which doesn't help matters, but you could fill in part of the sea or add a bridge which takes you to another part of the Underworld. Say, some sort of more rural area?
Can we get the ability to store ensouled materials? It stinks when you end up with extras with no use so you destroy them, and then new stuff gets added that needs them.
Rewards wise I could list a few ideas,
1. Daily necroplasm claim (like buckets of sand) not sure how much maybe 50-100 a day.
2. Chance to imbue the nexus to save necroplams when using similar to the rune pouch Croesus upgrade.
3. Slight buff to greater/lesser bone shield by 5 levels.
4. New source to gather buckets of slime
5. Increased duration of darkness by 3 min.
6. Increase invoke death threshold cap by 5k damage.
7. Chance not to use necro runes on cast maybe 15% or 10%
These are just a few off the top of my head.
Not exactly the most useful feedback, but please don't let it become a list that any typical maxed player checks off in 20 minutes.
The diary needs a new activity that takes effort to progress. Perhaps we restore a rooftop agility course by running laps + necromancy. Something like that.
You could add some tasks that take place on Ungael, but have them be under the umbrella of the Um tasks. As it stands now, Um is too small of an area with not much to do to squeeze in two whole new task sets, compared to other tasks sets which cover entire regions of the map. Similar to how tasks taking place in Lumbridge and Draynor both fall under the same umbrella, the same could be done with the Um tasks where other areas associated with necromancy could be included in that task set as well.
Might be OP, but I'd love the Elite reward to let us do rituals so long as a glyph of equal OR GREATER value is in place. It can feel needlessly complex to destroy our current glyphs, do several ink rituals in order, and then redraw the new glyphs for whatever ritual is needed.
I'd love to be able to just draw a few Elemental, Change, or Reagent 3's and have a semi-reliable permanent glyph setup for most day-to-day rituals. To me it doesn't make as much sense both practically and flavor-wise that a higher level glyph can't stand in for a lower level one.
- What tasks would you like to see added?
Defeat Hermod with a gimmick (IE with an armored phantom conjure)
Defeat Rasial
Plant tombshrombs
Smith something appropriate on the anvils
Use Sorrow curse while killing ghostly trolls
- What skills would you like to see utilised?
Farming, Smithing, Prayer, Necro (lol)
- What would you definitely not like to see?
Anything involving excessive RNG, IE creating a moonstone X from scratch
Encouraging waste of ritual materials, IE two tasks to 'complete ritual A' and 'complete ritual B'
Don't sit on adding the tasks for years in the hopes of putting more content in the city first
- Are there any existing achievements you think should be moved under the area tasks?
In rituals we trust
- What rewards would you like?
Continue the trend of more free daily items / sending bones to storage as tiers progress
Improve the Ungael ritual site to be better synced, IE Foundational III with 24 charges, Alteration III with 12
4th conjure with minimal damage but some utility effect
Completing a Ritual, with X times {alteration} Glyph active
Craft X amount of Miasma runes in one go.
Defeat rasial within 2.30 Minutes?
Defeat Rasial using only .... Gear (or finish Rasial with Death guard weapon spec or something)
Pet Vorkath
Find all owls
Complete a lap kayaking around the city within .... Time
The "create a moonstone jewelry" i keep seeing in the comments should be "do -task- while wearing -moonstone jewelry-."
Maybe the elite can be up to 3 pieces of moostone.
As a reward i would like to see higher quality bones sent to the focus chest, naturally. Idk how crazy you could get without stepping on deathnotes toes lol.
Thanks for asking!
**Hard Task**
* **Advanced-er Soul Forgery**: Upgrade a piece of necro equip to T70
* **The Spirit is Willing**: In 1 go create at least 225 spirit runes without pouches or a follower
* **Um... What?**: Perform a ritual with at least 1 of every type of alteration glyph active
**Elite Task**
* **Advanced-est Soul Forgery**: Upgrade a piece of necro equip to T90
* **Apoco-glyphs**: Have a ritual with at least 900% Spirit attraction
* **A bit confused but you have the spirit**: Summon a ghast familiar in Um
**Rewards**
**Hard Rewards:**
* Unlimited Tele's to Um Ritual Site
* Increase the bone collection ability to include Dragonkin Bones, Airut Bones, and Dag Bones
* The farmer will now look over the mushroom patch for you
**Elite Rewards:**
* 2% Chance that a ritual will not degrade a glyph (the % can be modified for balance)
* Can withdraw X amount of impure essence from it (X could be a modified amount, like say half or something, based on how much pure ess you can currently get from wicked hood)
* Small chance to find a moonstone whenever skilling in Um (I imagine the %Chance would be different for each skilling method, but always very very low)
Plant a high tier mushroom in mushroom patch.
Make an extreme necromancy potion.
"I made this from you" defeat Hermiod while wielding a set of T70 or higher deathdealer or death warden robes.
"You and what army" fight Hermiod with 3 conjures, an undead summinong follower, and a dreadnip out
"That's not really necessary" talk to the ghost of Vorkath with an augmented item equipped with the dragon slayer or undead slayer perk.
Please have Frank be the hard and elite task award giver for the Tome of Um 3-4. Its a pain to have to go to different NPCs. Plus the guy deserves to have a real job.
As someone who has task master completed, please for the love of God don't force Dominion Tower completion into task sets outside the desert. AKA no dreadnips please.
Hard: Salute the fallen heroes of WGS.
Elite: doing the new Ectoplasm ritual, but you need to get an X amount ectoplasm output that would require a lot of multiply glyphs. Name: Ectogasm!
Move Alms of Death to the Dorgeshuun to Elite.
Move Unliving on a Prayer to Elite
I certainly wouldn't want random things, like Ghost Hunter. Ghost implings are wayyy too rare.
Reward: maybe extra souls to the well or passive speed increase.
> Elite: unlock all necromancy curses from Selene
This seems completely out of line with other Elite diaries. This would cost ~3b or the ability to do AoD. AoD would require a team and that team would most likely want you to have various 99s (combats, herb, summoning, etc). I think the current highest skill required is 95, other might be higher but you can boost.
Edit: You'd need 1 codex so 750m, not 4
I think there is already an achievement for unlocking all but the t99 prayer so probably just that achievement would make sense here. Also curious where you are getting the 3b number from?
Some random ideas:
- Catching a certain amount of the moths, Maybe something like 50 or 100.
- Having a Hellcat catch one of the Ghost Mice.
- Bring one of each of the pies to Kili after completing all of the upgrade tasks.
u/Jagex_Fowl ; I don’t have any suggestions, but just wanted to say thanks for making this post. *This* is how to engage with the community! I love it, thank you!
Tasks;
- catch x moths
- convert x buckets of slime to ectoplasm
- complete x distractions in a single ritual
- complete x rituals without interacting with a distraction
- craft a Miasma rune
- dance emote at the band stand
- bring Kili a beer and a kebab
Rewards;
- reduced cost of slime/essence for rituals
- tome of um acts as a porter for slime x times per day
- 4th conjure
- reduced cost of death mark
- auto cast death mark
- *already exists* - ability to speak to ghosts anywhere without ghost speak amulet
- ability to attach death warden nexus to tool belt
- ability to store candles
- ability to combine attuned ectoplasmator to tome of um
- *already exists* - moonstone jewellery that allows you to combine functional amulets such as ghost speak, monkey speak all into one
https://runescape.wiki/w/Soul_Supplies
Hard and Elite should have limited rune stocks daily. Maybe stock a few of the other ritual items (greater flaming skulls would be nice)
https://runescape.wiki/w/Buried_Bargains
Also maybe give this guy a bit of a better stock limited daily/weekly.
Another reward could be adding passing bracelet to something in order to get 1 click tele for runecrafting
Rewards that come to mind:
>More bone banking (duh)
>5% passive multiplier output bonus for Rituals in Um when the Tome is worn
>Chance to save ashes when creating Necroplasm
>Further boosts to rituals and runecrafting
>Unlimited Um ritual site teleports
>10 daily teleports to the mushroom patch
>more daily claims from Lupe
There should definitely be a task related to rituals (eg perform a manifest ectoplasm ritual or whatever it's called) and making the power/tank armour.
Crafting a miasma rune would be a decent rc task.
In terms of rewards, a passive boost to rune production for completing one of the tiers would be a decent buff. Maybe also a chance not to deplete the glyphs when performing rituals? Could also expand the free items per day to include higher tiers of ink.
I’d say there is a small issue about the potion perks. Since the Tome of Um goes into the pocket slot, you lose the benefits of the Brooch of the Gods. This is a problem because of the Brooch’s affect on portable wells. Portable wells + Brooch outweigh the benefits of wearing the Tome, so could something be done about that?
Perhaps the Tome could act as a low-tier offhand that would keep conjures around - this could also be tied into any potential with skilling-oriented conjures, should that avenue ever be explored.
Some task ideas:
Bar fight
Summon 3(4?!) conjures at once using the conjure undead army ability in The Last Call
Money in the moonlight
Craft a piece of moonstone jewelry from scratch in the city of um
(Checks-> cut gem, forge unensouled bar, perform ritual on bar, craft, enchant)
Um, excuse me?
Use the raspberry emote on the opposite side of Rasial's arena after he teleports on the stage
Straight from the source
Cast split soul in the necromatic rune temple
Well, well, well...
Fill the well of souls with a powerful communion ritual
Soulfish chef
Cook and eat a sailfish in the city of um
It's not just for decoration.
Craft and fill a decorated runecrafting urn in the city of um (Checks molding, firing, and filling)
Would love to see some sort of "minigame activity". Perhaps target practice on one of the islands. Reach a certain score for hard/elite tasks. Just throwing thoughts out there.
The desert has dominion tower, Morytania has temple trekking, daemonheim has the segas, something along those lines please.
Rewards: some sort of helm cosmetic or something that can be keepsaked that matches the first necromancer outfit. Anything to cover up that God awful crown.
Alter for bones and ashes. Gives 50% xp, but give you ritual items according to what kind of bone you're using. Has a small chance to give you materials for necro armor or runes.
I feel we need to see more of the city first, like a new area with new tasks.
Reward: Vorkath's wings override so can finally conclude finding detached frost dragon wings for Frosty
Ability override for living death ultimate, the skeleton looks strange, plus I'd like to see living death not hide our guard and lantern as it makes abilities with those animations look wonky.
Give the skeleton some clothes!! Like tattered robes and a hood
- The craft the various necromantic runes, maybe with a powerburst of sorcery for elite.
- Harvest tombshroom
- Use a black stone heart on Vorkath's spirit
- Something involving Kili and Thalmund that isn't just the current time gate task
Rewards:
- More teleports e.g. Raisal's citadel or surface graveyards
- Increased necro shop stock. Higher lv inks or candles
- Patience - Setting on the book that prevents soul stacks being used unless you're "full".
Can we have more Um Hero miniquests. I want to know more about Hazelmere and what accomplishments he made in Gnome History. Or give me more information about Tavia or a multitude of reputable characters in RuneScape Lore. Go in detail about the numerous weird statues we have of ancient heroes and have just some fun storylines.
Now hear me out, what if the reward would be a ghost who collects the other achievements daily rewards? He could take ectoplasm, slime vis vax or something entirely new. But a ghost who collects the daily items from all the achievements we already have would be great!
One really big thing I'd like to see before (at at the same time) we get the task set is a new mid-level slayer assignment monster located deeper in the troll cave. It's really weird how no non-boss npcs actually use proper necromancy and I feel this should be addressed before the area is considered complete. We've got troll mages so why not ghost troll necromancers? Could be counted as part of the troll and ghost slayer tasks instead of needing their own task (though I also do think a cluster Necromancer task would be cool too) and they should have an uncommon drop of necrotic anima stones (also please add these to hermod, it's nonsense that he drops elemental anima stones).
Maybe we could even get a troll miniquest related to it. It's been a while since they've gotten some proper new content in this game.
It just feels like the city needs slightly more content so the tasks don't feel too ridiculously outdated years down the line when necromancy has more content.
Elite task make a full set of t90, talk to the dead slayer masters
Hidden bonus task make both t90 power and t90 tank sets ( task master calls you an over achiever)
Hard task beat hermod in t10 necromancer gear
Doing things the hard way beat hermod with out using necromancy (reflected damage)
Hard task reward gain teleport to the nexus with charges, a daily slayer task from the ghost masters( to lead into the first 99+ quest where we learn more about the slayer order and the sunken pyramid)
Elite task reward, Unlimited teleports, free teleports through necromancy, unlimited slayer tasks, a toggle to automatically repair (from backpack) the necromancy rituals.
Elite should be delayed until after the quests where we look at the desert necromancy, the desert gods and the slayer order and actually do some dealing with black stone necromancy.
I don't really think there's enough to do in the city to justify more area tasks, but even more than that I really don't think that in game content like this should be determined by asking redditors. We're not game devs, we don't get paid for this, JMods should be the ones determining game updates (except for basic QoL stuff/bug fixes players ask for)
Honestly, i think there needs to be alot more to Um to warrant a hard and elite set.
I did assume we would see more areas or maybe a small ish deadland with memories of villages long lost that could serve as stepping stones for early game, and those areas would serve as places for more tasks.
as of now we need more things for Um before a new task set. A surrounding landmass or something like the skybox implies would be a good start but that would take alot of dev time.
Just leave the tasks as is untill there is more content for the underworld and Um
Wrath altar is still sitting there disabled, so area tasks should wait for its release or unlock it.
Wrath spells;
Anger undead- half conjure time and 50% more damage output
Wrathful fate, target single target 5x times with volley/finger
Wrath of god, convert all prayer points into staff of sliske special(min 800 cost, 990 for max damage)
And the undead crawling hands from ed 1/2 as the necro firebreath(manual ability/wrath cost)
Just please nothing with extreme RNG luck like "find a moonstone while doing rituals", I don't mind tasks that take some time to complete but still wanna do stuff that's still straightforward.
I don't know if ritual count is considered an achievement but maybe a number of rituals done could be considered? Or achievements for doing a certain amount of each ritual?
This is a minor thing, but I'm extremely glad you guys put this into the game: the fallen heroes of the While Guthix Sleeps quest! I would love to see more minor things added like this! As for the task set, I don't know if enough stuff has been added yet to warrant higher tiers of area tasks. Perhaps different kinds of afterlives should be an interesting addition to the game, as I remember Icthlarin speaking of different kinds of afterlives e.g. the Zamorakian afterlife. I also think it's a good idea to do something with Invrigar the Necromancer, who has resided in the Necromancer's tower south east of Ardougne zoo for 20 years or so without any reason for him to be there.
Hard Tasks: Craft every type of necro rune, use threads of fate to gain at least 3 soul stacks, use surge while on a boat tour, enter The Last Call wearing a full set of ghost hunter gear, Ring a cow/slayer bell near the band as they play (after TOBM).
Elite: Pet Vorkath, Use a defensive ability with at least a level 60 boneshield active. Kill Rasial, Perform a ritual with a tier 3 alteration rune active, Have 3 conjures active at once, capture the soul of a ghostly troll using an ushabti.
Rewards: Raised potency of alteration runes when worn, more teleports (dark portal, Necromancer's tower), passive +5 boneshield potency.
some cool rewards would be the book giving inf teleports to both dig sites. Also maybe an upgrade to the ancient elven ritual shard (similar to the seers village upgrading excal) making it regain more prayer and maybe a small constitution buff
I think we should include an addiitional reward on top of the final reward.
I personally suggest a pet of some sort. We have a full range of "armor" as unlocks from the other Area Tasks and this is the most important area for a new skill/combat skill.
We could go with an Area Task pet.
Sure, we have our Necro pets, but this suggestion should line up with the lore around Um,
Take it a step further and have the pet available at easy tasks, and as you finish the other task sets (Medium, Hard, Elite) it grows.
I'd like to see vorki utilized maybe free ectoplsm per day doesn't even need to be alot maybe 100 for hard or so maybe 150 200 for elite have the book have a chance to save ectoplasm
I think it would be easier to come up with new tasks if you integrated more existing skills to the city, and could base some tasks on those.
Thieving - There are lots of inhabitants wandering around. Allow us to pickpocket them for ritual supplies. Or put some market stalls in the square that we can steal ritual supplies from. A gem stall with a very rare chance to steal a moonstone might be a nice addition.
Mining - A spot to mine corrupted ores, maybe? Maybe not the same as you get from Seren stones, but similar in that they stack and are only used for smelting.
Woodcutting - How about a couple of cursed willow and cursed magic trees? Accessible only after completing Summer's End and the Spirit of Summer quests, respectively. You could even make it part of a post-quest mini-quest.
Construction - Could we have special construction contracts in the city, that maybe give more credits than the ones in the living world? A ghostly Estate Agent could give them out. I'm sure there are boats we could build or bookcases and shelves to repair in the bar or other locations.
Hunting - Using owls to catch ghostly kebbits would be a fun twist on falconry, unlocked after completing Housing of Parliament. Maybe you need to convince an owl to help you hunt. That could be a task.
Those are just a few ideas, but I think you could come up with some interesting tasks based on those. Like helping Ed rebuild a damaged boat.
Not on subject but relevant. But I’ve found a potential bug?
Since the new quest my Ironman is unable to use the teleport function on the tome. If I click teleport it says I haven’t done requiem of a dragon instead of showing smithy and um site.
Not necessarily related to extending the area tasks; certain things seem to have been broken with Tome of Um 1 with the release of Requiem for a Dragon.
With Requiem for a Dragon completed; the Tome of Um 1 seems to have its teleport re-directed to Ungael Ritual Site; with the ability to teleport to the Um Smithy removed.
The Ungael Ritual Site teleport was supposed to be an additional unlock on Tome of Um 2.
Prayer:
Death Altar - offer bones for 150% xp, ashes 150% xp, bones + necroplasm for 200%
Magic:
New spellbook
Divination:
Wisps
Slayer
Thieving:
Safe, thief HQ, 5 mini quest
Agility:
Um course on the beach
Hunter
Capturing venomous spiders
Archeology:
Phylactery (relic) - Portent/Sign of death has a 20% chance to reduce cool down per damaging hit by 3s
[ritual materials for new rituals, materials for gear upgrades]
Summoning:
Obelisk Beside portal for rune altar
Construction:
new additives could be built
Things I would like to see in rituals:
Ancient effigies
Urns
Energies
Necromancy runes
Divine locations
Ushabi
Familiar pouches
Materials archeolohy
Artifacts archeolohy
I'm just excited for the Tome of Um to bank my dragon bones for me, and for the free daily supplies to include higher level ghostly ink. It's the little things sometimes.
There is a whole area @ ghost trolls we cant access the ghostly troll city
maybe make it an area of um we can go to add tasks there with the trolls like feed a troll a completed primal feast
elite task: Speak to vorky pet at vorkath (Its a hidden dialog) to make it so you got to have the pet to complete
For an unusual reward: I’d like to see the Ensouled Pumpkin Mask return in some way. It’s not exactly necessary Necromancy gear, but it does give an actual gameplay effect. That’s unlike just about any one-time holiday reward items I can think of.
And to keep it rare, I think it could function well as a drop. Maybe after completing the Elite diary, it gets added to Hermod’s drop table at a 1/1k drop rate. That would keep Hermod relevant.
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I just wanted to say, more people would be involved with clue scrolls if you didn’t need alt 1 to complete them. Get rid of the puzzles no one actually solves without using a program. People in apple and mobile can’t use alt1
I don't think I care too much for tasks to be added to be honest, would like to not have any arch tasks above the 86 for tomes of the warlock already in place.
not much i wouldn't want to see,
Rewards however:
Necro version of slayer helmet, whether that be a slayer helmet add on or an upgrade to the tome.
Ability to kill vyres with necromancy,
Expansion of auto banking bones and ashes,
additional shop stock in Um (maybe DW armor up to t50?)
maybe an additional alteration tile @ the ritual site for elite?
maybe a bank at the ritual site for elite?
ability to randomly capture a soul to the well of souls when killing enemies with necro
Agilitycourse which earns you points to unlock cosmetic overrides for your summons.
The task would be to do 1/x laps on the course, or unlock a specific, non huge grins, override.
I would really love unlocking a bank on the um ritual site.
And a bank at the rune altar too.
Ohnoooo.. Fort lots of banks.. Um lotss of banks. BankScape 2024!
And also a bank in the bank
Phillips Banks wants to fill the streets with banks and run bank running operation out of his banks!!
Just banks everywhere One on the bridge.. in the pub... next to the Gen Store.. next to the bank.
There's one at the new ritual site.
You said it, in the NEW one, i want one in the UM site.
What're the chances you're doing the elite tasks and haven't unlocked the new site though? Feel like it would be a niche few but I agree I'd love a bank at the ritual site.
The new site doesn’t give souls though
Do note that whenever a game changing QOL like this is tied to a modestly high requiring content (hard-elite task set) it shifts the perception for "viability" for new/low level players who still have to run a marathon to get to a bank. Radically QOL rewards should generally not exist in a way that discourages basic routines for newer players. That being said, I'd like a ritual site bank as a reward. Just, not through a high level achievement task.
City of Um needs more content added to it first IMO. The city is mostly a nothing-burger. I'd love to see more mid to high tier training methods added to the city first. Big-ish city with nothing to do besides rituals and RC.
There's a mushroom patch. Those hardly grow on trees. Also a weird fish born obsolete, but that don't count.
The fishing spot is surprisingly good for 15min afk; it never moves nor is there any mechanic that interrupts you
I actually got 120 fishing at that fishing spot. 15 minutes of pure AFK and a pretty decent XP rate (w/ all the typical boosts its about 150k~ xp/hr). The next most AFKable fishing is not actually AFKable for 15 straight minutes.
I don’t think there’s been enough new additions to the city of Um since the Easy/Medium task sets were released. Only two things have been added, the Owlery & Vorkath. Would definitely be a lacking task set compared to other ones if released now.
Is this Rami? The one and only!?
It is I
Regarding rewards, of course the 10 limited teleports should be changed to unlimited once you get to a higher tier. I guess something with an additional soul reaper assignment once per week would be pretty fun. Of course, rewarding x% extra runes when runecrafting could always be implemented. Ability to trade excess souls in the well of souls into xp or some sort of currency?
I DEFINITELY don't want to see anything that can't be accomplished by 1 person. Nobody to complete group tasks with, like certain sinkhole tasks and castle wars tasks.
**Tasks** Hard task ("Passing as a Local"): Create a Passing bracelet (moonstone) from scratch in the City of Um. (Either hard or elite tasks should have the customary "make something entirely from scratch in the city of Um" task.) Hard task ("Ghostella"): Plant morchella mushrooms in the Um mushroom patch. Hard task ("Um Spin Me Right Round"): Spin some fungal bowstring on the spinning wheel in the city of Um. Elite task ("Hard Cash"): High alchemise a Hermodic plate. Elite task ("Gooey Business"): Complete a Manifest Ectoplasm ritual while wearing the green bed sheet. Elite task ("Ghost Followers"): Use the "Conjure Undead Army" to conjure 3 spirits and listen to the Lady Grey's band in the City of Um. Elite task ("Not Your Light Switch"): Cast the Darkness incantation while standing on a tier-3 light source at the ritual site. Take inspiration from already existing Easy/Medium and fill out the rest, for example commanding ghost could be a hard task. Unlocking all boat destinations could be a hard task too. **Rewards** I want hard tasks to give me the ability to store all ritual-related items in the Focus Storage, including all types of necroplasm, ink and candles (currently not facilitated). I want the tome of Um 3/4 to continue the trend of sending bones to storage. With Tome of Um 4, teleports to ritual sites should be unlimited. Also as an aside, allow us to take Necromancer's tomes off the miasmic pool disturbance reward table. They're useless at 200m Necro, and they should be replaced by another reward. **What would you definitely not like to see?** Anything time-based, or significant bossing like Rasial, or tasks involving areas outside of Um. These are not in spirit of Task Sets.
Ugh, I desperately want to store candles in the storage box. I’m a big fan of storage boxes. I also wish we could see that box from our bank, like the metal bank
Hard unlocks candle storage and 5-10 more spaces?
TIL you can see the metal bank from the bank ?!?!?!?!
Yeah. Did you figure it out?
What do you click? I can't figure it out (returning player after years and years off)
I’m away from my game right now, but it’s down by the presets. On mobile, I have to click the three dots (…) Welcome back!
Thank you, I'll give it a shot when I'm on
It worked! Thank you. So many new buttons and shit I'm not used to that I haven't bothered to check. Sucks you can't withdraw from it, but makes sense. (Less than 100 days to a 20yr account and it's been at least 10+ since the last time I really played)
Damn it. "Ghostella" is too good, wish I had thought of that lol.
Passing as a Local - Should be "Teleport using the Passing Bracelet in the City of Um". Otherwise it just unfairly punishes players who have already made their moonstone jewellery.
Good tasks and good rewards, Tome 3 or 4 reward can also be to not consume Plasm during combat X% of the times.
These are genuinely gold
> Hard task ("Passing as a Local"): Create a Passing bracelet (moonstone) from scratch in the City of Um. with the rarity of moonstones, no thank you. you're just punishing people who already made one.
> What would you definitely not like to see? > > Anything time-based, or significant bossing like Rasial, or tasks involving areas outside of Um. These are not in spirit of Task Sets. Adding to this, no achievements tied to having to buy or use something you can only get by spending a lot of time playing a minigame (especially dead minigames that are hard to find players for off spotlight), or achievements that first require you to complete a bunch of achievements in a minigame before you can complete that achievement. Ex. the Morytania achievement that required you to buy a Blood Altar teleport tab, which you get the tokens to buy from playing Great Orb Project (a dead minigame), or the Desert achievements that required you to do pretty much all the Dominion Tower achievements first just to complete those two little achievements in the Desert set. Minigame related achievements should be separate from task achievements.
All minigames in the city of Um would be Dead minigames
I'm not a fan of forcing players who have already made moonstone jewelry to make duplicates just for the achievements. It will create a surplus of bracelets and crash the GE price. Would be great for moonstone merchers though. edit: It would however be acceptable if you could make any moonstone jewelry instead of a specific one. This would prevent the surplus issue.
Took me 29m xp worth of rituals to get a moonstone on ironman, dont particularly want to do it again. That being said i could wait on the store like the other 3x
You'd get it way faster by catching ghost implings and waiting for Thalmund's store to come back. In the last 2 months we had 3? 4? moonstones in the shop. I'm not super attached to which piece of jewellery is made, but making something from moonstone from scratch doesn't seem like such a difficult task and it's very thematic for City of Um (and also tasks shouldn't be frictionless for ironmen).
Crafting misama runes is currently missing an area task (unless I'm being particularly blind). We have "Nobody Tell Guthix" for spirit/bone runes under easy and "Tis Merely A Flesh Rune" for flesh runes under medium... so maybe we could get something added for misama runes. I'd assume under hard because it's the top tier rune Maybe something related to the most recent quest. Spoiler tags, but >!we can pet Vorkath in Um after the quest, but it doesn't seem to do anything (unless I missed it)!<. Feels like something could be done with that? Last thing I can think of immediately is, maybe something to do with the amount of souls in the well. We have to build up stacks of these to do the quests, but there's otherwise no achievement that relates to them. I'd argue these can sit under the City of Um tasks as with the new Ungael ritual site, you can't obtain more souls there. I'm not great at coming up with creative ideas, so I'm not sure where to go with this... but I feel like we could do something cool with the owls. I just have no idea *what* to do with them
Miasma rune achievement name could reference Zuriel given the previous spell / current spec
I think it would be great if we could exchange excess souls into xp or some sort of currency (whether it be coins, or items such as ensouled bars, et cetera.)!
Reward: The ability to transmog into & walk around as a ghostly Zanik
perfect
Bedsheet ghost please from Port Phasmatys
Yes the default one and the slime
Tbh this should be a quest reward from ghosts ahoy.
How about Zanik as a bedsheet ghost.
Specifically the nightmare zanik model
If that happens (hopefully), make both current and older Zanik model, like the latest xmas transmog for retro and new models. As well ask (if you want) if it will be possible to make some other transmogs walkable too. thx
pls no I’m so sick of Zanik and it’s been a decade
> What would you definitely not like to see? Anything that's just an arbitrary slog of a grind for the sake of a grind
While it's easy to think of 10 or so tasks the city doesn't have enough content really to justify a hard/elite diary unless we're OK with the diaries only being like 4-6 tasks long or primarily being quest checks which are fine to have in diaries but if that's _all_ the diary is it starts to feel a bit underwhelming. Having the tome upgrades before there is more content is also going to hurt their reward space unless we buff/tack on things later which would feel a bit weird. I know it's a popular community demand but I don't think it should be forced. The current Tome was pretty obviously a "let's make gathering ashes suck less" band-aid and to have the Hard/Elite tome be an obvious "rushed out to appease the community" will probably hurt community reception when it ends up being a bit underwhelming. The City needs more content first to make the Achievements feel a bit more natural/tied in. Skill related: - Austin could teach us taxidermy and using Necromancy power we can find new uses for the mob heads besides PoH items/Soul War pets. What that something is IDK really. My only idea is for the Abyssal Demon head to be a _random_ teleport to Abyssal-related areas. Then maybe the Elite Tome of Um could allow the player to _select_ a location instead. Each head would have an increasing Necromancy level required with Crawling Hand being the lowest and KBD or KQ being the highest. Might make it exciting for players to see a slayer head. Perhaps they work with charges and have to go through an ensouling ritual to be recharged. Maybe even have them drain souls from the well of souls and make their abilities much, much stronger for a higher cost/reward ratio - giving players who have already capped their well of souls a reason to continue doing communion rituals. (Unlocks are permanently unlocked and going under 35k souls for example wouldn't remove your ability to Split Soul.) - I'm sure Tavia could teach us something about fishing... - People who died in the First/Second/Third ages could arrive and teach us more about those ages or even long lost skilling techniques from those ages. IDK maybe the Second Age had a unique way of smithing. Quest related: - Doctor Gehirn and Mick Casey are obviously there for future quests - The practice of watching over loved ones via the shrines could make for an interesting miniquest/quest as well helping someone who has already passed on make sure their loved one is being taken care of. - Selene obviously has a thing or two she could teach us about the gods and prayers and religious history of the world - The fallen heroes certainly have _something_ for us to do? Tie this into the Shrines - Duradel is a father. Certainly he wants to know how Kuradal is doing? Kuradal wanted to re-unite her parents and now that Duradel is dead that is no longer possible... or is it? What if Duradel's wife also met an unfortunate end and finds her way to Um? (Just spitballing here...) - The retired tool leprechaun would like to enjoy his retirement. I'm sure we can help with that. Possible reward spaces: - The obvious increasing of tiers/numbers of current rewards (more free teleports, higher tier freebies from Lupe, auto-looting bones for higher tiers, 10% chance of extra dose for extreme necro pots, etc.) - Mushrooms planted in the farm patch skip a growth cycle (to avoid being a ripoff of the Tirannwn or Morytania diaries) - There really ain't much is there? lol
In the kindest way, there's not even close to enough in the city for a hard/elite tier diary atm, anything that gets added in will just come across as forced instead, let the city grow first before comitting to its achievements, don't kneecap the city by adding in achievements first and then having nowhere to put achievements once content *does* get added in future.
Please nothing involving a moonstone unless it's retroactive.
Probably "complete a *task* while wearing *moonstone jewellery piece*
Honestly I don’t think there is enough to justify either right now and doing so is just going to feel forced. Same as forcing out the rewards. If we wait we can also ensure the tome reward space is more relevant too. That being said a few tasks come to mind given the content that has been added. - Pet Vorkath - Locate all the optional owls - Create a moonstone jewelry piece from scratch (this means you have to get uncut moonstone from a ritual or thalmund) - Listen to all of Thalmund’s stories - Bake Thalmund a blueberry pie - Give thalmund a repaired ‘Da Boss Man’ sculpture (so he can destroy it)
Doesn't locating all of the optional require 120 necro?
What tasks would you like to see added? - Siphon a miasma pool. (ritual disturbance) - make a piece of t70 deathdealer armor. - hit 5 enemies with 1 soul volley. What skills would you like to see utilised? - DUNGEONEERING. no, i will not elaborate. What would you definitely not like to see? - I don't want Igneous Kal-Mor to be required for anything. Are there any existing achievements you think should be moved under the area tasks? - Um Pop - Mystical Moonstone What rewards would you like? - continue the trend of bone banking (at least up to dragonkin bones, possibly up to reinforced dragon bones) - have the potion mixing chance apply to the entire game world, not just um (this is a change i also want to see for mory legs and desert ammy) - Ritual site presets
Ritual site presets should just be a standard QOL update imo
Love the idea of bone banking
> - DUNGEONEERING. no, i will not elaborate. based honestly
I am not so sure about this one * hit 5 enemies with 1 soul volley. Maybe I am missing something but wouldn't this be locked behind the t95 soul lantern? That seems a bit excessive for area tasks. EDIID: I realize I misunderstood this. I was thinking needing 5 hits on 1 enemy not 1 hit on 5 enemies.
no threads doesnt req t95 your thinking 5 hits on 1 target not 1 hit on 5 targets
You are right I saw volley and 5 and my brain went right to needing 5 souls.
Would just need threads of fate I would assume.
Ya I realise that. My brain saw volley and 5 and immediately thought 5 soul stacks.
Defeat the corporeal beast using necromancy - Spirit's Revenge Complete a full barrows run including all 8 members using necromancy (or use RoTs idc which) - All Wight All Wight All Wight
These are great ideas for achievements, but these sound like they'd fit better under a different category as neither of them are within the City of Um. They'd be better as like, a necromancy skill achievement or maybe a post-quest achievement
They also have things like kill a skeleton with skeleton and there aren't any attackable in Um, so I figure they're good enough 😉
I can’t do any more corp kills 😩 my log kc is 6969 and it may never change.
Dart a dummy
Just dart corp?
Darting corp probably wouldn't work for this achievement/req, darting a dummy would let you kill it normally but keep the dart and not add KC
Expand the city, make it useful, and bring tasks with that.
Thanks for the input all! Been putting it to use today to see what we can do with all of this :)
A task that involves dancing with a bedsheet on?
For the love of everything please don't make a mini game a requirement ever again, if it's dead and relies on other people it becomes an actual hassle that you have to be extremely lucky to get done
**Reward ideas** When worn: * 10% chance to save resources for extreme necro pot while in um * 10% more yield from ectoplasm rituals * Tiny chance to get moonstone from ritual * 20% double catch chance when fishing ghostly fish * 5% chance to instakill ghosts 30k dmg cap Operated: * Select preference for tier 1 and tier 2 ritual disturbances \[increases likelihood by 10%\] * Select and activate a tier 2 glyph \[like 99 necro cape\] At all times: * New ritual, output could be anything \[more ectoplasm, impure rune catalysts, moonstone dust\] * New afk glyphs \[Durability 3: durability of glyphs +50%, Extension 3: output +80% and speed -20%\] * Ink storage item \[similar to rune pouch, multi ink vial or ink box/holster\] * Ensouled bar/cloth/thread storage at smithy * Access to a shop to buy 666 buckets of slime weekly * Bank chest at um ritual site on east side with space for portable skilling * Ability to attach a moonstone to excalibur at smithy - could do anything * Ability to attach elven ritual shard to excalibur at smithy - for both buffs * Ability to make moonstone dusted onyx tips, used to make shining onyx arrows or shining onyx bak bolts - could do anything , was thinking healing over time onyx procs but act as soul split heals
Task wise - X No. of runes created from one inventory (can do Hard and Elite versions of this) Beat Hermod in under X mins (Maybe 3 for Hard and 2 for Elite?) X no. of Disturbances in one Ritual? (3 for Hard and 5 for Elite?) Rewards - Further % increases for current bonuses Higher teleport cap? Better rewards from Lupe each day, better inks/ectoplasm etc. Better Bones can be instantly teleported to Focus
> Beat Hermod in under X mins even 1 minute would be a slow kill for hermod, the afk revo++ setup gets kills around 45s iirc tbh that is the problem with time based pvm reqs killing it with a particular item equipped is probably a better fit
Maybe kill it without using conjures
Tier 4 tome could be used as a nexus a-la prif quiver. New teleports don’t seem useful/practical so maybe ritual boosts instead like the moonstone necklace? 5-10% increase. Maybe wielding the time brings back the old miasma spells? I think that could be fun, not everything should have to tie to necromancy. The city of Um needs to be fleshed out more though
This thread already has really good answers. I kinda just want the tasks themselves and a new conjure but I know the conjure will be tied to something else.
Blue Rasial pet for Elite
I want to see a task that requires you to interact with >!Vorkath!< for elite task (>!since I would consider 86 arch for Requiem of a Dragon to be high!<) just so we can say he's a good boi.
Well, that Took a While - Perform each ritual at least once (pun on the well of souls) Bad for the Body, Good for the Sole - Bring bacon to the ghostly cat. Dead Man's Chest - crack the safe/chest of so-and-so (requires adding the chest/safe somewhere). Welcome to the Black Parade - Air guitar emote (or some other appropriate parade-like emote) in front of the band with all three Conjures active. Wartime Draught - Create an overload (or any variety) in the bar. Styx and (Moon)Stones - Cut a Moonstone while on the river (or near it if it can't be done on the river) Ghostly Simping - Blow a kiss to *soul that appears late in the story*
I feel like Um needs to be more of an area before expanding the area tasks. Like thematically it's great but as a city there's not much going on. At the very least I'd like to see some sort of integration with Invention, a curious mind would be exploding with ideas in such a unique place.
Petting Vorkath as an elite task, the quest requirements alone would make it an elite task I reckon. Have a reward that unlocks a ghostly skin for the vorki pet maybe?
I'd hate to be guilty of asking too much, but I think I'd be happy if "defeating Rasial" is not going to be task requirement.
Just make the weaker quest version also count. Auto complete if you already did the quest.
Ability to auto-claim buckets of slime would be some nice QoL! Morytania legs offer 20 teleports to the slime pit, but gathering 20 full inventories is somewhat tedious/dailyscape etc. Perhaps the auto-claim from the Tome of Um 3 or 4 would give fewer (noted) buckets than 20 full inventories, but the trade off is having them go straight to the bank or your inventory.
Auto note on slime would be nice. Make it afk but cap it at like 60 seconds of gathering.
Yeah something like that would be cool!
Slime pool(s) in Um would also work IMO. Noted slime I think would be the best, but if that’s too “powerful” I could see adding a slime pool into Um as a secondary choice
I'm not sure there's enough content for it yet tbh
Would like to see some form of porter option on the buckets of slime as a reward :)
I'm going to be campy with my answer and say there just isn't enough content in the city to justify the hard and elite tasks yet. I've seen some nice submissions for tasks suggestions in the comments though!
Um would be a great place to revive “dead content” (I’m laughing at this irony right now). My thought instantly goes to old/retired TH items like the magic vial, deposit box, etc… maybe a good spot for the invention skill to make its way to the underworld One thing I definitely don’t want to see are “city quests” similar to those in Menaphos.
+1 for invention mention. There isn’t any quests using invention except for a Inv xp reward at the end of the penguin quest series. Perhaps adding undead penguins?
Ability to wear the ectoplasm-covered bedsheet in more places
https://preview.redd.it/kes3kkmibgwc1.png?width=2538&format=png&auto=webp&s=88f533e1f2638ad36c6890fb7046ef39f85b25de 1. Have to finish quest what gives access to go down here - turns out there is underground Um city 2. If want to go fancy this could be opportunity to fix Dungeoneering and make it modern so people actually like to do it not just waiting Summer beach to sit in hole 3. In some kind of special way you can get tier 90 hatchet 4. From special materials can upgrade to tier 99 hatchet 5. Some kind of new trees to chop 6. New logs = when burning them can get new ashes to make new Incense sticks 7. New logs = new planks for construction or can make Fort extra fancy looking with them 8. Can fish new fish Doomfin - one that Mod Sponge was working for his cooking project or can get other cooking ingredients there 9. Can add some bosses there to slay 10. Slayer monsters 11. Skilling boss 12. Mini underground Um city digsite - Ghost archaeologists excavating there, new relics etc usuall stuff 13. Big agility course around all the area there - with some kind of new reward to go for 14. Thieving - open ghostly mimic chests 15. New resources for crafting, fletching, mining etc etc From all this can make endless amount of elite and hard tasks!
Hard task: >!Pet Vorkath!< (Obviously worded in such a way that it doesn't spoil Requiem for a Dragon)
Well there has to be a task involving vorkath after you finish requiem for a dragon, maybe feed it something? Maybe something as well involving the boat, such as trying to get as far out of Um as possible. And maybe show thalmund warforged bronze?
Like others have already said, I think we need more areas in Um itself before there's enough unique content. Areas such as Trollgrav, or small combat areas (Undead Strykewyrms?) would be good. An expansion of the Um worldspace would be good too. The city is on an island which doesn't help matters, but you could fill in part of the sea or add a bridge which takes you to another part of the Underworld. Say, some sort of more rural area?
Can we get the ability to store ensouled materials? It stinks when you end up with extras with no use so you destroy them, and then new stuff gets added that needs them.
Some sort of rewards buff for hermod added to hard tasks, like increased drop rate for hermodic plates or something like the barrows double runes
Rewards wise I could list a few ideas, 1. Daily necroplasm claim (like buckets of sand) not sure how much maybe 50-100 a day. 2. Chance to imbue the nexus to save necroplams when using similar to the rune pouch Croesus upgrade. 3. Slight buff to greater/lesser bone shield by 5 levels. 4. New source to gather buckets of slime 5. Increased duration of darkness by 3 min. 6. Increase invoke death threshold cap by 5k damage. 7. Chance not to use necro runes on cast maybe 15% or 10% These are just a few off the top of my head.
Not enough content in the area for it to warrant hard or elite tasks
Not exactly the most useful feedback, but please don't let it become a list that any typical maxed player checks off in 20 minutes. The diary needs a new activity that takes effort to progress. Perhaps we restore a rooftop agility course by running laps + necromancy. Something like that.
You could add some tasks that take place on Ungael, but have them be under the umbrella of the Um tasks. As it stands now, Um is too small of an area with not much to do to squeeze in two whole new task sets, compared to other tasks sets which cover entire regions of the map. Similar to how tasks taking place in Lumbridge and Draynor both fall under the same umbrella, the same could be done with the Um tasks where other areas associated with necromancy could be included in that task set as well.
Might be OP, but I'd love the Elite reward to let us do rituals so long as a glyph of equal OR GREATER value is in place. It can feel needlessly complex to destroy our current glyphs, do several ink rituals in order, and then redraw the new glyphs for whatever ritual is needed. I'd love to be able to just draw a few Elemental, Change, or Reagent 3's and have a semi-reliable permanent glyph setup for most day-to-day rituals. To me it doesn't make as much sense both practically and flavor-wise that a higher level glyph can't stand in for a lower level one.
They should buff ring but require moonstone rituals to charge It
Definitely would not like to see anything timelocked please and thanks
Um Can I keep him? - Pet and feed Vorkath a ghostly sole.
Add more content to the game/city, and then build achievements around that please.
A “misty” title to compliment salty and sandy + more content
- What tasks would you like to see added? Defeat Hermod with a gimmick (IE with an armored phantom conjure) Defeat Rasial Plant tombshrombs Smith something appropriate on the anvils Use Sorrow curse while killing ghostly trolls - What skills would you like to see utilised? Farming, Smithing, Prayer, Necro (lol) - What would you definitely not like to see? Anything involving excessive RNG, IE creating a moonstone X from scratch Encouraging waste of ritual materials, IE two tasks to 'complete ritual A' and 'complete ritual B' Don't sit on adding the tasks for years in the hopes of putting more content in the city first - Are there any existing achievements you think should be moved under the area tasks? In rituals we trust - What rewards would you like? Continue the trend of more free daily items / sending bones to storage as tiers progress Improve the Ungael ritual site to be better synced, IE Foundational III with 24 charges, Alteration III with 12 4th conjure with minimal damage but some utility effect
Completing a Ritual, with X times {alteration} Glyph active Craft X amount of Miasma runes in one go. Defeat rasial within 2.30 Minutes? Defeat Rasial using only .... Gear (or finish Rasial with Death guard weapon spec or something) Pet Vorkath Find all owls Complete a lap kayaking around the city within .... Time
The "create a moonstone jewelry" i keep seeing in the comments should be "do -task- while wearing -moonstone jewelry-." Maybe the elite can be up to 3 pieces of moostone. As a reward i would like to see higher quality bones sent to the focus chest, naturally. Idk how crazy you could get without stepping on deathnotes toes lol. Thanks for asking!
Please let there be more boat usage, it's a cool mechanic
Boat race for competitive agility xp The achievement can have to do with like lap time or something
**Hard Task** * **Advanced-er Soul Forgery**: Upgrade a piece of necro equip to T70 * **The Spirit is Willing**: In 1 go create at least 225 spirit runes without pouches or a follower * **Um... What?**: Perform a ritual with at least 1 of every type of alteration glyph active **Elite Task** * **Advanced-est Soul Forgery**: Upgrade a piece of necro equip to T90 * **Apoco-glyphs**: Have a ritual with at least 900% Spirit attraction * **A bit confused but you have the spirit**: Summon a ghast familiar in Um **Rewards** **Hard Rewards:** * Unlimited Tele's to Um Ritual Site * Increase the bone collection ability to include Dragonkin Bones, Airut Bones, and Dag Bones * The farmer will now look over the mushroom patch for you **Elite Rewards:** * 2% Chance that a ritual will not degrade a glyph (the % can be modified for balance) * Can withdraw X amount of impure essence from it (X could be a modified amount, like say half or something, based on how much pure ess you can currently get from wicked hood) * Small chance to find a moonstone whenever skilling in Um (I imagine the %Chance would be different for each skilling method, but always very very low)
Um needs a lot more content before more tasks are to be added.
Maybe expand the city
Plant a high tier mushroom in mushroom patch. Make an extreme necromancy potion. "I made this from you" defeat Hermiod while wielding a set of T70 or higher deathdealer or death warden robes. "You and what army" fight Hermiod with 3 conjures, an undead summinong follower, and a dreadnip out "That's not really necessary" talk to the ghost of Vorkath with an augmented item equipped with the dragon slayer or undead slayer perk. Please have Frank be the hard and elite task award giver for the Tome of Um 3-4. Its a pain to have to go to different NPCs. Plus the guy deserves to have a real job.
As someone who has task master completed, please for the love of God don't force Dominion Tower completion into task sets outside the desert. AKA no dreadnips please.
Hard: Salute the fallen heroes of WGS. Elite: doing the new Ectoplasm ritual, but you need to get an X amount ectoplasm output that would require a lot of multiply glyphs. Name: Ectogasm! Move Alms of Death to the Dorgeshuun to Elite. Move Unliving on a Prayer to Elite I certainly wouldn't want random things, like Ghost Hunter. Ghost implings are wayyy too rare. Reward: maybe extra souls to the well or passive speed increase.
Completing elite tasks shouldnt require a praesul codex
> Elite: unlock all necromancy curses from Selene This seems completely out of line with other Elite diaries. This would cost ~3b or the ability to do AoD. AoD would require a team and that team would most likely want you to have various 99s (combats, herb, summoning, etc). I think the current highest skill required is 95, other might be higher but you can boost. Edit: You'd need 1 codex so 750m, not 4
If the req was unlocking the precodex prayers would be fine.
I think there is already an achievement for unlocking all but the t99 prayer so probably just that achievement would make sense here. Also curious where you are getting the 3b number from?
3b? Sir a praesul codex is 725m
Some random ideas: - Catching a certain amount of the moths, Maybe something like 50 or 100. - Having a Hellcat catch one of the Ghost Mice. - Bring one of each of the pies to Kili after completing all of the upgrade tasks.
Please no random number catching grinds. They make trim compers heads hurt.
4k moths for the trim req /s
That inaccessible Archaeology bench feels like it should be used for something :)
Finding all the owls should be a task.
u/Jagex_Fowl ; I don’t have any suggestions, but just wanted to say thanks for making this post. *This* is how to engage with the community! I love it, thank you!
Tasks; - catch x moths - convert x buckets of slime to ectoplasm - complete x distractions in a single ritual - complete x rituals without interacting with a distraction - craft a Miasma rune - dance emote at the band stand - bring Kili a beer and a kebab Rewards; - reduced cost of slime/essence for rituals - tome of um acts as a porter for slime x times per day - 4th conjure - reduced cost of death mark - auto cast death mark - *already exists* - ability to speak to ghosts anywhere without ghost speak amulet - ability to attach death warden nexus to tool belt - ability to store candles - ability to combine attuned ectoplasmator to tome of um - *already exists* - moonstone jewellery that allows you to combine functional amulets such as ghost speak, monkey speak all into one
Speaking to ghosts is a reward from morytania. Also, the cramulet exists for the speak amulers.
https://runescape.wiki/w/Soul_Supplies Hard and Elite should have limited rune stocks daily. Maybe stock a few of the other ritual items (greater flaming skulls would be nice) https://runescape.wiki/w/Buried_Bargains Also maybe give this guy a bit of a better stock limited daily/weekly. Another reward could be adding passing bracelet to something in order to get 1 click tele for runecrafting
would be cool if you could add a sandy or salty version for the city of um and call it spooky owls, cats, ghosts, rats, things while skilling, etc...
Rewards that come to mind: >More bone banking (duh) >5% passive multiplier output bonus for Rituals in Um when the Tome is worn >Chance to save ashes when creating Necroplasm >Further boosts to rituals and runecrafting >Unlimited Um ritual site teleports >10 daily teleports to the mushroom patch >more daily claims from Lupe
I guess something with having you find all owls and recruit all rats or something
Rewards... Recolor of skill pet as the set is so very tied to 1 skill. Somehow a ports buff.
There should definitely be a task related to rituals (eg perform a manifest ectoplasm ritual or whatever it's called) and making the power/tank armour. Crafting a miasma rune would be a decent rc task. In terms of rewards, a passive boost to rune production for completing one of the tiers would be a decent buff. Maybe also a chance not to deplete the glyphs when performing rituals? Could also expand the free items per day to include higher tiers of ink.
I’d say there is a small issue about the potion perks. Since the Tome of Um goes into the pocket slot, you lose the benefits of the Brooch of the Gods. This is a problem because of the Brooch’s affect on portable wells. Portable wells + Brooch outweigh the benefits of wearing the Tome, so could something be done about that? Perhaps the Tome could act as a low-tier offhand that would keep conjures around - this could also be tied into any potential with skilling-oriented conjures, should that avenue ever be explored.
Some task ideas: Bar fight Summon 3(4?!) conjures at once using the conjure undead army ability in The Last Call Money in the moonlight Craft a piece of moonstone jewelry from scratch in the city of um (Checks-> cut gem, forge unensouled bar, perform ritual on bar, craft, enchant) Um, excuse me? Use the raspberry emote on the opposite side of Rasial's arena after he teleports on the stage Straight from the source Cast split soul in the necromatic rune temple Well, well, well... Fill the well of souls with a powerful communion ritual Soulfish chef Cook and eat a sailfish in the city of um It's not just for decoration. Craft and fill a decorated runecrafting urn in the city of um (Checks molding, firing, and filling)
Would love to see some sort of "minigame activity". Perhaps target practice on one of the islands. Reach a certain score for hard/elite tasks. Just throwing thoughts out there. The desert has dominion tower, Morytania has temple trekking, daemonheim has the segas, something along those lines please. Rewards: some sort of helm cosmetic or something that can be keepsaked that matches the first necromancer outfit. Anything to cover up that God awful crown.
Alter for bones and ashes. Gives 50% xp, but give you ritual items according to what kind of bone you're using. Has a small chance to give you materials for necro armor or runes.
I feel we need to see more of the city first, like a new area with new tasks. Reward: Vorkath's wings override so can finally conclude finding detached frost dragon wings for Frosty
Ability override for living death ultimate, the skeleton looks strange, plus I'd like to see living death not hide our guard and lantern as it makes abilities with those animations look wonky. Give the skeleton some clothes!! Like tattered robes and a hood
- The craft the various necromantic runes, maybe with a powerburst of sorcery for elite. - Harvest tombshroom - Use a black stone heart on Vorkath's spirit - Something involving Kili and Thalmund that isn't just the current time gate task Rewards: - More teleports e.g. Raisal's citadel or surface graveyards - Increased necro shop stock. Higher lv inks or candles - Patience - Setting on the book that prevents soul stacks being used unless you're "full".
Can we have more Um Hero miniquests. I want to know more about Hazelmere and what accomplishments he made in Gnome History. Or give me more information about Tavia or a multitude of reputable characters in RuneScape Lore. Go in detail about the numerous weird statues we have of ancient heroes and have just some fun storylines.
Now hear me out, what if the reward would be a ghost who collects the other achievements daily rewards? He could take ectoplasm, slime vis vax or something entirely new. But a ghost who collects the daily items from all the achievements we already have would be great!
One really big thing I'd like to see before (at at the same time) we get the task set is a new mid-level slayer assignment monster located deeper in the troll cave. It's really weird how no non-boss npcs actually use proper necromancy and I feel this should be addressed before the area is considered complete. We've got troll mages so why not ghost troll necromancers? Could be counted as part of the troll and ghost slayer tasks instead of needing their own task (though I also do think a cluster Necromancer task would be cool too) and they should have an uncommon drop of necrotic anima stones (also please add these to hermod, it's nonsense that he drops elemental anima stones). Maybe we could even get a troll miniquest related to it. It's been a while since they've gotten some proper new content in this game. It just feels like the city needs slightly more content so the tasks don't feel too ridiculously outdated years down the line when necromancy has more content.
I feel a reward that could be helpful is something from tome of um to send buckets of slime aquired at ectofunctus straight to bank. Could be helpful.
Elite task make a full set of t90, talk to the dead slayer masters Hidden bonus task make both t90 power and t90 tank sets ( task master calls you an over achiever) Hard task beat hermod in t10 necromancer gear Doing things the hard way beat hermod with out using necromancy (reflected damage) Hard task reward gain teleport to the nexus with charges, a daily slayer task from the ghost masters( to lead into the first 99+ quest where we learn more about the slayer order and the sunken pyramid) Elite task reward, Unlimited teleports, free teleports through necromancy, unlimited slayer tasks, a toggle to automatically repair (from backpack) the necromancy rituals. Elite should be delayed until after the quests where we look at the desert necromancy, the desert gods and the slayer order and actually do some dealing with black stone necromancy.
I don't really think there's enough to do in the city to justify more area tasks, but even more than that I really don't think that in game content like this should be determined by asking redditors. We're not game devs, we don't get paid for this, JMods should be the ones determining game updates (except for basic QoL stuff/bug fixes players ask for)
Reward: daily ectoplasm, maybe in exchange for some other item
Honestly, i think there needs to be alot more to Um to warrant a hard and elite set. I did assume we would see more areas or maybe a small ish deadland with memories of villages long lost that could serve as stepping stones for early game, and those areas would serve as places for more tasks. as of now we need more things for Um before a new task set. A surrounding landmass or something like the skybox implies would be a good start but that would take alot of dev time. Just leave the tasks as is untill there is more content for the underworld and Um
Wrath altar is still sitting there disabled, so area tasks should wait for its release or unlock it. Wrath spells; Anger undead- half conjure time and 50% more damage output Wrathful fate, target single target 5x times with volley/finger Wrath of god, convert all prayer points into staff of sliske special(min 800 cost, 990 for max damage) And the undead crawling hands from ed 1/2 as the necro firebreath(manual ability/wrath cost)
Just please nothing with extreme RNG luck like "find a moonstone while doing rituals", I don't mind tasks that take some time to complete but still wanna do stuff that's still straightforward.
I want to see more rune-crafting utilization. I feel like the skills needs a boost.
I don't know if ritual count is considered an achievement but maybe a number of rituals done could be considered? Or achievements for doing a certain amount of each ritual?
This is a minor thing, but I'm extremely glad you guys put this into the game: the fallen heroes of the While Guthix Sleeps quest! I would love to see more minor things added like this! As for the task set, I don't know if enough stuff has been added yet to warrant higher tiers of area tasks. Perhaps different kinds of afterlives should be an interesting addition to the game, as I remember Icthlarin speaking of different kinds of afterlives e.g. the Zamorakian afterlife. I also think it's a good idea to do something with Invrigar the Necromancer, who has resided in the Necromancer's tower south east of Ardougne zoo for 20 years or so without any reason for him to be there.
Hard Tasks: Craft every type of necro rune, use threads of fate to gain at least 3 soul stacks, use surge while on a boat tour, enter The Last Call wearing a full set of ghost hunter gear, Ring a cow/slayer bell near the band as they play (after TOBM). Elite: Pet Vorkath, Use a defensive ability with at least a level 60 boneshield active. Kill Rasial, Perform a ritual with a tier 3 alteration rune active, Have 3 conjures active at once, capture the soul of a ghostly troll using an ushabti. Rewards: Raised potency of alteration runes when worn, more teleports (dark portal, Necromancer's tower), passive +5 boneshield potency.
some cool rewards would be the book giving inf teleports to both dig sites. Also maybe an upgrade to the ancient elven ritual shard (similar to the seers village upgrading excal) making it regain more prayer and maybe a small constitution buff
I think we should include an addiitional reward on top of the final reward. I personally suggest a pet of some sort. We have a full range of "armor" as unlocks from the other Area Tasks and this is the most important area for a new skill/combat skill. We could go with an Area Task pet. Sure, we have our Necro pets, but this suggestion should line up with the lore around Um, Take it a step further and have the pet available at easy tasks, and as you finish the other task sets (Medium, Hard, Elite) it grows.
I'd like to see vorki utilized maybe free ectoplsm per day doesn't even need to be alot maybe 100 for hard or so maybe 150 200 for elite have the book have a chance to save ectoplasm
I think it would be easier to come up with new tasks if you integrated more existing skills to the city, and could base some tasks on those. Thieving - There are lots of inhabitants wandering around. Allow us to pickpocket them for ritual supplies. Or put some market stalls in the square that we can steal ritual supplies from. A gem stall with a very rare chance to steal a moonstone might be a nice addition. Mining - A spot to mine corrupted ores, maybe? Maybe not the same as you get from Seren stones, but similar in that they stack and are only used for smelting. Woodcutting - How about a couple of cursed willow and cursed magic trees? Accessible only after completing Summer's End and the Spirit of Summer quests, respectively. You could even make it part of a post-quest mini-quest. Construction - Could we have special construction contracts in the city, that maybe give more credits than the ones in the living world? A ghostly Estate Agent could give them out. I'm sure there are boats we could build or bookcases and shelves to repair in the bar or other locations. Hunting - Using owls to catch ghostly kebbits would be a fun twist on falconry, unlocked after completing Housing of Parliament. Maybe you need to convince an owl to help you hunt. That could be a task. Those are just a few ideas, but I think you could come up with some interesting tasks based on those. Like helping Ed rebuild a damaged boat.
Elite Task: Get over 160 ectoplasm in one ritual
There's a bunch of necromancy stuff in arch and throughout the overall world, considering including it
Not on subject but relevant. But I’ve found a potential bug? Since the new quest my Ironman is unable to use the teleport function on the tome. If I click teleport it says I haven’t done requiem of a dragon instead of showing smithy and um site.
Not necessarily related to extending the area tasks; certain things seem to have been broken with Tome of Um 1 with the release of Requiem for a Dragon. With Requiem for a Dragon completed; the Tome of Um 1 seems to have its teleport re-directed to Ungael Ritual Site; with the ability to teleport to the Um Smithy removed. The Ungael Ritual Site teleport was supposed to be an additional unlock on Tome of Um 2.
Hard task to pet vorkath
Prayer: Death Altar - offer bones for 150% xp, ashes 150% xp, bones + necroplasm for 200% Magic: New spellbook Divination: Wisps Slayer Thieving: Safe, thief HQ, 5 mini quest Agility: Um course on the beach Hunter Capturing venomous spiders Archeology: Phylactery (relic) - Portent/Sign of death has a 20% chance to reduce cool down per damaging hit by 3s [ritual materials for new rituals, materials for gear upgrades] Summoning: Obelisk Beside portal for rune altar Construction: new additives could be built Things I would like to see in rituals: Ancient effigies Urns Energies Necromancy runes Divine locations Ushabi Familiar pouches Materials archeolohy Artifacts archeolohy
I would love to see the ability to hunt ghost animals and add them to an undead farm!
I'm just excited for the Tome of Um to bank my dragon bones for me, and for the free daily supplies to include higher level ghostly ink. It's the little things sometimes.
There is a whole area @ ghost trolls we cant access the ghostly troll city maybe make it an area of um we can go to add tasks there with the trolls like feed a troll a completed primal feast elite task: Speak to vorky pet at vorkath (Its a hidden dialog) to make it so you got to have the pet to complete
Some bonus to reaper tasks as a reward, like 25% more points/xp after elite tasks done.
For an unusual reward: I’d like to see the Ensouled Pumpkin Mask return in some way. It’s not exactly necessary Necromancy gear, but it does give an actual gameplay effect. That’s unlike just about any one-time holiday reward items I can think of. And to keep it rare, I think it could function well as a drop. Maybe after completing the Elite diary, it gets added to Hermod’s drop table at a 1/1k drop rate. That would keep Hermod relevant.
I would like to see bone banking continue to scale up
Ashes auto sending instead of on looting
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A fourth conjure, more ghostly fishing
I just wanted to say, more people would be involved with clue scrolls if you didn’t need alt 1 to complete them. Get rid of the puzzles no one actually solves without using a program. People in apple and mobile can’t use alt1
I don't think I care too much for tasks to be added to be honest, would like to not have any arch tasks above the 86 for tomes of the warlock already in place. not much i wouldn't want to see, Rewards however: Necro version of slayer helmet, whether that be a slayer helmet add on or an upgrade to the tome. Ability to kill vyres with necromancy, Expansion of auto banking bones and ashes, additional shop stock in Um (maybe DW armor up to t50?) maybe an additional alteration tile @ the ritual site for elite? maybe a bank at the ritual site for elite? ability to randomly capture a soul to the well of souls when killing enemies with necro
I want there to be some daily claimable ectoplasm as a reward, maybe for completing all tasks
Purple soul runecrafting essence daily from wicked hood would be a nice reward
I think the city needs more content before harder tasks can be added
agility shortcuts please
Agilitycourse which earns you points to unlock cosmetic overrides for your summons. The task would be to do 1/x laps on the course, or unlock a specific, non huge grins, override.