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21-Feb-2011 - Attack of the WildyWyrms!


Floor66

2011-02-21 10:52:39

21-Feb-2011 - Attack of the WildyWyrms!
Attack of the WildyWyrms!

What’s that coming out of the ground? It’s a WildyWyrm! For the next two weeks (until the week commencing 7th March), these overgrown cousins of the strykewyrms will be underground in three multi-way areas of the Wilderness, waiting for members to stomp on their hiding places. Wake one, and player-killers will find that their battles take a turn for the chaotic: a towering WildyWyrm will rise up and attack from all three corners of the combat triangle, attempting to drag players underground, remove their ability to use prayers, and even hurl balls of flame that bounce from one adventurer to the next.

These monsters have a combat level of 382, but they have the potential to become far more dangerous, as Jagex Moderators know that the WildyWyrm’s mind is weak and can be controlled. With the WildyWyrm under their control, the moderator can choose whether it attacks with melee, ranged or magic, and, more importantly, they will be able to increase the creature’s Defence and Attack, raising it to a potential combat level of 562! Sadistic JMods will even heal the WildyWyrm to make sure that the WildyWyrm is more than just a nuisance as you player-kill.

You will be able to find these huge, hulking beasts in three areas of the Wilderness for the next two weeks only. If you are not interested in fighting the WildyWyrm, it might be worth avoiding these areas for the next two weeks:

In the forest east of the Chaos Temple (level 11 Wilderness)
North of Clan Wars (level 42 Wilderness)
Between the Lava Maze and Red Dragon Isle (level 42 Wilderness)
Mandrith and other Edgeville characters will announce if a Moderator has taken control of a WildyWyrm in the Wilderness. WildyWyrms do not follow the rules of traditional strykewyrms, so you do not require any Slayer levels or the use of a fire cape to fight it.

If you are fighting a WildyWyrm, keep your eyes open for JMods in the area; if one takes control of a WildyWyrm, you will find that the name of the WildyWyrm changes to that of the JMod in control of it. While under control of a JMod, you can guarantee that the fight will become more dangerous and prolonged, so be prepared for the additional difficulty.

The WildyWyrms are located in dangerous, multi-way areas of the Wilderness. It is likely that other players will attempt to player-kill you as you fight in these WildyWyrm areas, due to the increased danger, so only player-kill here with items that you are willing to lose. As with the rest of the Wilderness, you will not leave a gravestone behind when you die, and your items will be visible to the player who dealt the most damage to you (or to everyone in the vicinity if no player damaged you). Click here to read more about the Wilderness.

On the week commencing 7th March, the WildyWyrms will be removed from the game, while its drop, the fury shark, will be removed from the game on the week commencing 28th March, 2011.

Fury Shark:

Contribute to the death of a JMod-controlled WildyWyrm and you will receive the guaranteed reward of a cooked fury shark. Defeat a normal WildyWyrm and there is a small chance of receiving this untradeable drop.

Fury sharks are delicacies that heal 230 life points in combat and 280 life points outside of combat. That makes them second only to the baron shark in terms of life point-healing fish. If dropped on the floor, a fury shark will be visible as a conventional shark to other players.

On top of this, the fury shark is blessed with the ability to protect items on death for one minute after being eaten. This item protection works in the same way as the Protect Item prayer: if you die while you are under the effect of the fury shark, you will retain 4 items if you are not skulled, 1 item if you are skulled, and 0 items if you are on a High-risk Wilderness World. The fury shark is an alternative to using the Protect Item prayer or curse; it cannot be used to increase the effects of them. By offering an alternative to using the Protect Item prayer, you are able to choose another prayer to take into battle.

The fury shark will stay fresh until the week commencing the 28th March, 2011, when they will rot away into nothingness. Make sure you eat your sharks in that time – you’ll never forget the flavour!

Mod Chris L
RuneScape Content Developer


http://services.runescape.com/m=news/c=OZG74FyPiZg/attack-of-the-wildywyrms

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What do you guys think?
BTW! REFLECTION HOOKS ARE OUTDATED NOW.

Bobzilla69

2011-02-21 10:55:05

the WildyWyrms sound so cool, bet the jmods will have great fun killing everyone.

also thats crazy the buffs they can do to them, and healing…..

Edit: Good news is wont be long till an hooks update due to the time of day :)

Nava2

2011-02-21 11:41:36

Thats just stupid.

Rich

2011-02-21 11:46:01

So pretty much you can now get raped by JMods and some mad worms which are under their control in the wildy? Sounds great…

Floor66

2011-02-21 11:47:29

Only in certain areas, but… yeah.

x1ras

2011-02-21 11:54:02

So the week I booked off work to play in the wildy (yeah I know I'm sad) is now ruined by vastly overpowered wyrms and power crazy jmods.
I guess I'll just have to do something productive instead. :(

grats

2011-02-21 11:59:12

Glad I stay out of wildy :P

Bobzilla69

2011-02-21 12:49:19

Hooks dont get downloaded into SMART.

The hooks are in the reflection include in a file called Hooks.simba, there will be a post with them once we have someone with an updater on, so bare with us for a bit, shortly after simba will have the update or you can manually update it.

noidea

2011-02-21 13:33:54

Great.. They should have confined this to a small area. This is just dumb.

Floor66

2011-02-21 13:34:40

What do you mean? This is ONLY in 3 multi areas.

P3rs0nal1ty

2011-02-21 13:35:29

This sounds completely rediculous. i think imma get with a clan and pk some kids that are fighting it tho, because i believe there will be alot of 100's attempting it in nice armour/weapons. especially whips. MmMmM tasty. im looking at this as profit… (:

Gu3st...

2011-02-21 13:44:14

Why is it so that every game has to have worms coming up from the ground?

wow has it too

grats

2011-02-21 14:07:17

Because tunneling worms like tremors
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/

is and always will be badass B)

P3rs0nal1ty

2011-02-21 14:19:18

From: Zyt3x
Why is it so that every game has to have worms coming up from the ground?

wow has it too


is that starcraft 2 zyt3x? (:
been thinkin about buying it.
looks pretty nice. graphically.

Mystic

2011-02-21 14:19:59

I agree with NoIdea :p
Kind of dumb lol.

grats

2011-02-21 14:34:09

From: P3rs0nal1ty
is that starcraft 2 zyt3x? (:
been thinkin about buying it.
looks pretty nice. graphically.


Yea it's SC2, it is pretty good.

Hairy Pomegranate

2011-02-21 14:36:51

I was going for a 48h+ Ratinator proggy when they did this. Now I'll just have to start over :3

x1ras

2011-02-21 14:37:18

From: grats
Because tunneling worms like tremors
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/

is and always will be badass B)


Star Wars has worms too and Beatle Juice.

Hell, even my dogs got worms.

grats

2011-02-21 14:38:54

From: xiras
Star Wars has worms too and Beatle Juice.

Hell, even my dogs got worms.


Loool'd

Dude beetlejuice, brings back memories


From: Hairy Pomegranate
I was going for a 48h+ Ratinator proggy when they did this. Now I'll just have to start over :3


Yea, I tried doing color only with ratinator and it hardly worked =/

x1ras

2011-02-21 14:43:37

From: grats
Loool'd

Dude beetlejuice, brings back memories


Its one of my fave films but whenever I watch it I have to watch Drop Dead Fred too or I just dont feel right

Tlachtli

2011-02-21 14:50:03

Let's not forget this space worm, who could shrug off a nuke to the face:


P3rs0nal1ty

2011-02-21 15:19:14

From: Tlachtli
Let's not forget this space worm, who could shrug off a nuke to the face:


i Lol'd

From: grats
Yea it's SC2, it is pretty good.


You think its worth buying?

grats

2011-02-21 15:26:46

From: P3rs0nal1ty
i Lol'd



You think its worth buying?


Yea the custom games engine is a lot more friendly now, also it supports C? or C++ etc, which will.. eventually.. produce WAY more games than warcraft 3's custom did.. and that was already an insane amount

I'm a big custom playing guy, so..

Hairy Pomegranate

2011-02-21 15:35:46

I think I'll personally wait until the other 2 expos come out and buy them all as the battlechest (saves money that way) :)

Echo_

2011-02-21 16:41:10

The mods should be working to improve the current financial status of Jagex instead of riding around on giant virtual worms. This update was meaningless, I don't see why anybody would risk losing all of their stuff just for an item that they can't even sell, and will eventually disappear if they don't use it.

P3rs0nal1ty

2011-02-21 17:02:39

From: grats
Yea the custom games engine is a lot more friendly now, also it supports C? or C++ etc, which will.. eventually.. produce WAY more games than warcraft 3's custom did.. and that was already an insane amount

I'm a big custom playing guy, so..


hmm, i never really messed around online cuz i didnt play warcraft too much, but it does sound fun. i will probably be buying it as soon as i get a new processor.

From: Hairy Pomegranate
I think I'll personally wait until the other 2 expos come out and buy them all as the battlechest (saves money that way) :)


thats a smart idea, ill probably be doing the same. money saving FTW (:

From: Echo_
The mods should be working to improve the current financial status of Jagex instead of riding around on giant virtual worms. This update was meaningless, I don't see why anybody would risk losing all of their stuff just for an item that they can't even sell, and will eventually disappear if they don't use it.


Yeah this was a poor choice by jagex. there is no drop worth getting. OOH a shark! woot!….. no. and people will be easily pked by others. so, boo jagex. and on the financial side, yes, theyre in a rut. so why would they release a non - revenue gaining update?

BKNYKavkaz

2011-02-21 18:35:08

Whats the point of this? Any special drops? No? ….. Useless.

TomTuff

2011-02-21 19:10:36

From: Echo_
The mods should be working to improve the current financial status of Jagex instead of riding around on giant virtual worms. This update was meaningless, I don't see why anybody would risk losing all of their stuff just for an item that they can't even sell, and will eventually disappear if they don't use it.


This is what I thought. They need to make something to give incentive for people to pay for a membership :( EG 500k prayer xp/h for free :D

Flight

2011-02-21 19:18:09

I don't think it's worth the risk, as I'll take a full inventory of Rocktails over a Fury shark any day…

TomTuff

2011-02-21 21:31:02

It seems there is also another added benefit that wasn't in the runescape home page article:

Fury sharks additionally have the ability to protect one worn item or an item in a player's inventory for up to one minute after being consumed; the effects of this are identical to that of the Protect Item prayer, though the effects do not stack. However, consuming a fury shark will have no effect on a High Risk Wilderness World as players may not keep any items they possess at the time of their death per the nature of these worlds.

RS.Wikia.com's article on Fury Shark

P3rs0nal1ty

2011-02-21 21:38:11

From: TomTuff
It seems there is also another added benefit that wasn't in the runescape home page article:

RS.Wikia.com's article on Fury Shark


this was presented in the article on rs's homepage.

Tlachtli

2011-02-21 22:35:06

From: TomTuff
EG 500k prayer xp/h for free :D



But in all seriousness: They did supposedly just get funding from some big player (don't remember who), so maybe they're celebrating that by taking control of large worms (wyrms?) and killing high leveled players.

Seems kinda unwarranted, and they should either be trying to get more people to buy membership or trying to stop botters (as if… :stirthepot: )

tofurocks

2011-02-21 22:50:48

This seems like a terrible update with a poor reward.

P3rs0nal1ty

2011-02-21 23:47:21

From: Tlachtli

But in all seriousness: They did supposedly just get funding from some big player (don't remember who), so maybe they're celebrating that by taking control of large worms (wyrms?) and killing high leveled players.

Seems kinda unwarranted, and they should either be trying to get more people to buy membership or trying to stop botters (as if… :stirthepot: )


LMFAO'd at picture! hahahaha


From: tofurocks
This seems like a terrible update with a poor reward.


No kidding. they should have done something like an xp bonus equipment. such as the haiti update boss. maybe make brawlers still obtainable?