Hi,

I've made quite some interesting changes to the game today. First of all thank you very much for giving me feedback in the Player Survey thread! Most changes for today have directly resulted from your feedbacks.

Summing it all up in a list:

• Guardian Angel ability added. Talk to Brother Althric in Edgeville Monastery for more information!
• K'ril Tsutsaroth now drops battle robes. They are the level 75 magic counter part for Bandos and Armadyl.
• Overall low alchemy and high alchemy gold values increased by a lot (more than general store value!).
• Barrow item reward chance doubled.
• Smithing and Agility xp rates have been doubled. We aim to have less double XP weekends and to have the xp rates fair in general. This is why we're now adjusting too low xp rates for certain skills. The xp rates for smelting bars are even *4 now, rather than *2.
• All ornament kits can now be removed from their upgrades to get the original item back plus the ornament kit.
• A client issue causing disconnects was fixed. (Some of you were suffering from this on 13th of November)
• Overall medium and low level monster drops overhauled. Beginners should gain money much easier now.
• Low and High alchemy can no longer be cast on untradable or destroyable items.
• Fight pits minigame was fixed. You're now able to attack your opponents.
• Slayer points rate has been increased by 50%.
• Fire cape bonuses buffed to keep up with the competition of skillcapes and the max cape.
• Ava's accumulator combat bonuses buffed.
• Wizards east of Barbarian now drop robe skirt (g) and (t).
• Monks in Edgeville Monastery now drop monk robes. Moreover, monk robes give +11 prayer in total. Making them valuable items for losing less prayer points.
• Dropping items no longer closes interfaces.
• Robin hood hat ranged accuracy changed to 3 and ranged strength changed to 3. (This change was made due to the robin hood hat being better than the armadyl helm offensive wise)
• Right-click options added to Meteora and the Dark Mage for even quicker spellbook changes.
• Dragon platebody defence bonus increased.
• Upgraded dragon armour (g) and (sp) now gives additional strength bonus too.
• Bandos and Armadyl chest and legs give more strength bonus.
• God staves can now only autocast their respective spell. (Flames of Zamorak, ... ) They can be used with every spellbook and are now 1h weapons.
• Smoke demon 90 Slayer requirement removed. Now only 1 person with 90 Slayer is needed to enter the room and everybody may damage him.
• Rod of Ivandis total charges doubled and total repair prices doubled.
• Rod of Ivandis models updated. It now looks like an armadyl battlestaff.

Due to the increased xp rates for smithing and agility I've now disabled double experience rate for non-combat skills. Free member remains active for the entire weekend though.

Please also bear in mind that some of the updates require a client restart. You're not forced to do so but some changes will only be seen after this update has taken place.

All the best,
Thomy