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4-Dec-2012 - The Brink of Extinction - Grandmaster Quest
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Topic Started: Dec 5 2012, 12:47 AM (139 Views)
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Kire667
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Dec 5 2012, 12:47 AM
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source: http://services.runescape.com/m=news/the-brink-of-extinction---grandmaster-quest video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkJNKDEHyeE&feature=player_embedded discussion: http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/l=0/sl=0/forums.ws?15,16,563,64128767 patch notes: http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/l=0/sl=0/forums.ws?14,15,135,63743300
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4-Dec-2012 - The Brink of Extinction - Grandmaster Quest
The Brink of Extinction (members only)
The crisis in TzHaar City is about to reach breaking point. Ga'al - TzHaar born without the inherited memories of their forebears - were once merely an anomaly, but now they're the only TzHaar being born from the eggs at the birthing pools. If this continues, the TzHaar race - as we know it - will cease to exist and TzHaar society will collapse. The TzHaar-Mej have a radical solution, but they'll need you to return to the Elder Kiln - home of the shadowy TokHaar - to enact it.
Fight your way through some of the most complex combat challenges we've ever unleashed, making full use of the new system released with the Evolution of Combat, and dig deep into TzHaar lore to solve puzzles on the way. You'll also find yourself in the middle of a clash of ideals between the TzHaar and the TokHaar, and the solutions on the table involve pain, death or both. It's up to you - and a rogue Ga'al bearing a particularly painful grudge - to retain the fragile peace between these two ancient races.
This Grandmaster quest contains some of RuneScape's toughest combat, and the rewards are appropriately prestigious. Along with 100,000 Mining XP, 275,000 XP in the core combat skill of your choice and a TzHaar title, you'll earn the ability to smith and wear obsidian armour, and will gain access to an all-new solo combat area: the Fight Cauldron.
Obsidian Armour
This mighty new gear looks truly spectacular, and works much like Void Knight armour: the body armour can be paired with melee, range and magic-specific helms, each giving a 10% accuracy bonus in its style. It requires no less than 80 Defence to wear, and the completion of The Brink of Extinction, and its stats are suitably spectacular: equivalent to Torva armour, with additional damage reduction per piece against against creatures within the TzHaar City and its surrounding PvE minigames (the same creatures affected by the TokKul-Zo). However, you'll take triple damage if you use it against other players, or in any other location. It also degrades, and new pieces must be made once the armour is destroyed. That said, for a run through the Fight Cave or the Fight Kiln, there's no better gear out there.
The armour and its raw materials are untradeable, and smithing it is no small feat: you'll need 90 Smithing to complete a full set, and the obsidian shards needed to make it can only be found in one place...
The Fight Cauldron
In the Fight Cauldron you'll face the full might of the TokHaar, dodging lava and doing battle with everything they can throw at you: from the humble TokHaar-Hur, all the way up to indomitable TokHaar-Ket-Zek.
All enemies you defeat within the Fight Cauldron will drop obsidian shards. If you have the Smithing level necessary, these can be smelted into obsidian bars and smithed into obsidian armour.
The onslaught will continue until you choose to leave or are killed. You won't lose any of your gear upon death, although you will expend runes if you're using magic, and anything left on the ground - such as arrows or bolts - will be left behind.
Last, but not least, you'll have the option to donate TokKul at a coffer near the Fight Cauldron entrance, which will give any obsidian armour a defensive buff during your next session in the Fight Cauldron.
The TokHaar live for battle, so steel yourself and step into the Fight Cauldron for all the combat you can handle, as well as all the obsidian shards you can carry!
Enjoy!
Mod Stu
Where to start The Brink of Extinction:
Speak to TzHaar-Mej-Ak or TzHaar-Mej-Jeh in the TzHaar City's main plaza.
Requirements:
Level 80 Defence Level 80 Smithing Level 72 Mining The Elder Kiln
Behind the Scenes Video
If you haven't already, you can take a tour of the new TzHaar content in our latest Behind the Scenes video:
In Other News
Attack, Strength, Magic, Ranged and Prismatic skill pendants will appear more frequently on the Squeal of Fortune this weekend. There'll also be a limited-edition TzHaar Whip available on the Squeal of Fortune until the end of the year, which can be converted into seven different versions with level requirements from 1-60, with stats increasing each tier. It looks truly awesome and - for the first time - allows use of a whip while levelling up to 70 Attack. More details to come soon! It is now possible to convert a Prismatic Pendant into a skill for which you have owned an equivalent necklace, as long as you have destroyed the one that you already own. Recharging with gems and reclaiming cosmetic pendants from Diango remain unchanged. An amazing range of TokHaar-themed armour overrides is now for sale in Solomon's General Store. Slayer masters now give out useful information about your current Slayer target's weakness, via the 'Have you got any tips for me?' conversation option.
The patch notes archive can be seen here.
Discuss this here.
Patch notes http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/l=0/sl=0/forums.ws?14,15,135,63743300
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4th December 2012
Graphical: Dean Vellio now wears the current version of the Bandos armour. Removed the rogue fishing spot from Death Plateau. The effect on pactbreaker longsword off-hand is no longer misaligned. The noble hat override now sits correctly on female players heads. An issue has been fixed with the inventory icons for the dragon crossbows. Performing alchemy with a sheathed staff no longer uses the "staff" alchemy animation. An NPC in the Desert Treasure quest has been altered so he is no longer wielding an old dragon dagger p++. Uraeus (apep's axe) no longer floats behind the player rather than sheathing properly. The Dominion Tower rune pickaxe now uses the updated model. A stretching issue with the frog mask has been fixed. The diamond sceptre and golden hammer will no longer allow their animations to be performed while sheathed. Salamanders can now be sheathed.
Quests, Challenges & Achievements: Creating an elemental shield no longer incorrectly checks for the un-slashed variant of the Elemental Workshop book. Fixed several typos in the Rune Mysteries and Rune Memories quests. Wizard Mizgog will no longer mention Wizard Grayzag if Grayzag is not in the tower. The Holy Grail quest information reflects the correct stats to wield Excalibur.
Skills & Minigames: A hard clue scroll riddle has been updated to reflect the correct location to dig in the Wilderness. After throwing a ranged weapon at Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza, you will immediately come out of the combat stance so you can perform an emote. Duel arena now states "No Abilities" rather than "No special attacks". Troll Invasion no longer stops players progress if they stand on certain squares in the minigame.
Combat: Ranged and magic dragonfire shields now protect against skeletal wyverns. The lightning staff is now correctly a two-handed weapon like all other staves. Players who reach combat level 151 through leveling their defence level will no longer get the message you have reached the highest possible combat level of 200. The Tzhaar-ket-om is now classed as a crush weapon. Clicking on the chat box (instead of hitting enter) will no longer cause abilities to be used while typing. Snipe no longer causes Rapid Fire to only fire one shot. The Zamorak fighters in the Ourania altar are now aggressive again. Elemental wizards now award XP correctly. Bandits now appear as a target when attacked. Icefiends have been updated. Lent versions of the Godswords are now correctly triggering their passive effects.
Other: Slayer Masters now give out useful information about a players current Slayer targets weakness. An issue with the blue dragonhide from Treasure Trails being for members has been fixed. Karamjan rum is now drinkable. The desert effect now works in all new areas of the desert. The chat pane resize arrow no longer disappears when you resize the game window. Fire giants dying in the Chaos Tunnels will no longer drop their loot on an unreachable tile next to the lava pit. Using a single karambwan on a fire no longer only lets you cook poison karambwan. Cleaning grimy spirit weeds no longer opens the interface for cleaning fellstalk. Praying mantis pouch materials have been corrected. Players will no longer be notified that they don't have enough ingredients to make a pizza when successfully making a chocolate cake. We've adjusted the skill guide and in-game notification on Bronze minotaur requirements. Grimy herbs will now be correctly named in the feedback message seen when cleaning them. The progress bar for skilling will no longer remain on screen after a full screen interface is opened, interrupting the skilling. Poison is no longer carried through Dungeoneering floors. Group Gatestone teleport now has the correct magic level listed. We've updated the tooltip on five battlestaves so they now state 40 magic instead of 30. Gravite weapons no longer show up as members only in the skill advance guide. The "Rigour" Dungeoneering reward has been removed from the skill advance guide. The crystal bow has ammo type thrown rather than ranged on the GE. Ganodermic armor now has correct requirements listed on skill guide. The Stealing Creation reward pickaxes have been given the correct wield requirements. The Dungeoneering interface has been updated to have the correct values for the arcane necklaces. Players now must stand next to an elemental altar to cast the Enchant Orb spells. A Bunyip's Swallow Whole now gives the correct amount of life points. Several off-hand items have had their names changed from "Offhand" to "Off-hand" for consistency. The Wilderness Manual and Items Kept on Death interface no longer state that you keep 3 items unless skulled. The Penance set now restores the correct amount of prayer points per minute. Twisted bird skull and demon horn necklace now restores the correct amount of prayer points. The pharoah's sceptre now behaves correctly on the action bar. The Magic Skill Advance Guide now lists the Grifolic wand, shield, and orb as members items. The Zamorak coif now displays the correct level requirements on the Grand Exchange. Blue dragonhide coifs are now correctly providing magic defence. The Mage of Zamorak no longer mentions being skulled. When you gain a level in Prayer your prayer points are now increased correctly. Penance armour has been updated on the skill guide to show the correct requirements. The coal bag no longer has a null option on the actionbar.
Jagex can't seem to make updates without far more glitches, can they? Amusing they had lend godswords glitch out and not properly use powerful attacks, coal bag on action bar appeared as null, and NPC wielding old versions of non existent Dragon Dagger (p).
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Dec 5 2012, 07:02 AM
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The new armour isn't that great next to the way it looks, if i would get it when it would be just for the looks.
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Dec 5 2012, 08:48 AM
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New quest was loads of fun
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  Previous display names: TzHaarmeleon, Tusionite, Toroid, Gluons, Glooey, Red Gnome, Adorno X Always reverted to Glooozo
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Kire667
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May 22 2013, 01:23 PM
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It's about damn time! The hardest secret of RuneScape was finally uncovered May 14th 2013 long after the quest and content was added.
http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/forums.ws?74,75,269,64839676 Quick find code: 74-75-269-64839676
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Welcome!
THE GA'AL HAS BEEN FOUND. SEE THE NEXT POST FOR THE METHOD!
The aim of this thread is to discover how to see the Ga'al that can appear anywhere in Gielinor post-Brink of Extinction, once you meet the special conditions, in order to translate the final bookcase (and learn about the Elder Gods!).
This Ga'al has been in-game since the release of Brink of Extinction on December 4th, 2012. The Ga'al (TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot) was found on May 14th, 2013, at 16:27 BST.
This thread is a revival of the old one, but with more recently updated information.
The friends chat that is being used is Miroorules . The information in this thread is a combination of ideas from that friends chat, and from Azlordros' old thread.
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