Ruinous Powers Beta v2

Ruinous Powers Beta v2
Open date		14 June 2023
End date		21 June 2023
Update blog		Ruinous Powers Beta v2
Removal update		More Poll 79 Changes

The Ruinous Powers Beta v2 ran to further test various rewards that have passed the Community Consultation polls for Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire. This is so that players can try out the rewards and give feedback before a second poll is brought forward to ask players whether they'd like the rewards in question to be implemented in the live game as a reward from the post-quest bosses.

Compared to the first beta, all Combat Achievements are completed, though players must claim the rewards from Ghommal before being able to benefit.

The rewards that are being tested are as follows:

• The Ruinous Powers prayer book
• Soulreaper axe
• Virtus robes
  • Virtus mask
  • Virtus robe top
  • Virtus robe bottom
• Best-in-slot rings:
  • Ventor ring
  • Bellator ring
  • Ultor ring
  • Magus ring
• Ancient sceptre upgrades:
  • Smoke ancient sceptre
  • Shadow ancient sceptre
  • Blood ancient sceptre
  • Ice ancient sceptre

Upon the first beta, several changes were made

• Overhead protection prayers have been changed from Deflect prayers to Dampen prayers.
  • Dampen prayers grant 100% damage reduction against the corresponding style, but increase your damage taken by 10%.
• Annihilate and Decimate have had their Ranged strength and Strength bonuses reduced from +30% to +27%.
• Annihilate and Decimate have had their Ranged and Melee accuracy bonuses increased from +20% to +25%..
• Gambit has been reworked into a 4th pinnacle offensive prayer called Intensify.
  • Intensify increases your accuracy with all combat styles by 40% when activated, but cannot be used at the same time as any of the other pinnacle offensive prayers (Annihilate, Decimate and Vaporise).
• Prayer level requirements for each of the pinnacle offensive prayers have been increased to better reflect their power.
• Glacies' Vow has been reworked and will now reduce your target's Magic level by 10% of damage dealt, up to a maximum of 15% Magic level reduction.
• Cruor's Vow has been reworked and will now consume 3 Prayer points to heal 3 Hitpoints when killing an NPC.
• Fumus' Vow has been reworked. While active, applying poison to an NPC will cause the first poison damage tick to apply instantly.
  • This means if the poison you're applying has a higher poison severity than whatever poison is currently affecting an enemy, you'll see extra hitsplats. In simpler terms, turn this on for a little extra oomph when using any poison weapons.
• Vindication has been reworked to trigger at 10% of your Hitpoints and restore them by 25% of your Prayer level, the same as Redemption.
• Rebuke has been reworked and will no longer increase your damage taken or grant passive recoil damage, but amplify the damage that other recoil effects grant by 50%.
• Protect Item has been added to the Ruinous Powers.
• Prayer point drain rates are lower across the board.