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World Event 2: Bird and the Beast


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11 December 2013

 Game Updates

The Bird and the Beast - World Event 2

Bandos and Armadyl are locked in a deific stand-off above Falador. From atop lofty towers, they're gathering divine energy to fuel siege weapons of prodigious power - enough to kill a god.

After pledging your allegiance to Armadyl or Bandos, you'll support the energy-gathering effort to help your god get his shot off first, killing the other outright.

Protect friendly caravans sent out to gather the energy and attack those belonging to the enemy; battle enemy players; build powerful war structures along the caravan routes and have your say in your side's grand strategy - all to make sure your god's the one standing at the end!

The stakes have never been higher, and the rewards are awesome: new combat abilitieshybrid armour with a chance to reduce cooldowns on combat abilities;titlescosmetic weapon overrides and - of course - plenty of XP.

Read on for further details, or get started now!

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The War Effort

Whether you're a battle-hardened fighter or a peaceful skiller, there's plenty that you can do to help determine the outcome of The Bird and the Beast. Everything described in this section will help your faction harvest divine energy and/or hinder the enemy in doing so, thus affecting the factions' overall score. At the end of the six week event, the side that has the highest overall score (as shown on the bar at the top of the screen in event areas) will emerge victorious - and for the losing god, it'll be lights out!

Contributing in also earns you renown that can be spent on rewards at your faction's quartermaster.

Note that this a safe event. If you die in one of the marked zones around RuneScape's major cities - be it to an NPC or another player - you'll respawn with all your gear intact at your faction camp.

Once you've spoken to Kara-Meir north of Falador and chosen your side, you're good to get started. Read on, and see the wiki for full details of everything you can do to help.

Caravans

Divination energy is gathered by caravans sent out by both sides. The position of active caravans can be seen on the war map in your faction camp, or the world map interface.

Attack your enemy's caravans and accompany your own to ensure your side comes out on top. If enabled via the Bird and the Beast interface, you can even fight other players for renown, heroic skulls and bragging rights. Note that having PvP enabled also increases your overall renown gain.

If you're not a fighting type, you can follow friendly caravans and help siphon divine energy when they stop, or you can halt enemy NPC diviners by clicking on them. You can also interrupt players who are siphoning energy by using a disruptor rod on them.

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Construction

RuneScape members can claim construction nodes along the caravan routes, and can choose from a selection of useful buildings to place there, whose handy effects include summoning friendly NPCs and increasing energy gathering speed. Once chosen, the initiating player will start to build, and others (both free players and members) can help.

Each claimed node acts as a teleportation destination for its faction, accessible via the war map.

If the opposing faction has claimed a node, you can work to sabotage it. If it's destroyed, its benefits will be removed its benefits and the node will be freed up.

Strategy

You'll have a say in a certain aspects of your faction's battle strategy.

One example is the construction of golems. Speak to the golem master on the first floor of your faction's tower to cast your vote on what body parts to use in its construction. The completed golems will defend or attack caravans (depending on how they've been built), thus contributing to the faction's score.

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Check out the strategy board and the voting board - both at your faction camp - for more voting opportunities. More will become available as the weeks go on, so keep checking back!

A World at War

NPC-versus-NPC skirmishes can break out at a number of locations in the world, and their outcomes affect your faction's overall score. Vote wisely on your faction's recruitment strategy - thus affecting the type of fighters your faction fields in these fights. And if you see one in progress, wade in and help!

More Spoils of War

When you sign up to a faction, you'll earn a token of fealty, which gives you 10 teleports to your faction camp per day and unlocks event-related buffs as your personal contribution increases, geared toward improving your performance in the event.

You can requisition rewards from your faction's quartermaster in exchange for your earned renown.

Among these are all-new combat abilities, usable from level 10 in their related skills:

  • Sacrifice: a basic ability (Constitution) that self-heals as you deal damage.
  • Devotion: a threshold ability (Defence) that grants 100% effectiveness of protection prayers for a time. The effect can be extended by killing enemies.
  • Transfigure: an ultimate ability (Constitution) that stuns you for a short duration, then heals more than twice any damage you've received during that stun, and subsequently imparts a lengthy stun immunity.
Renown will also buy you hybrid warpriest armour that scales in effectiveness up to level 75 Defence (50 for free players). Also, wearing three pieces or more of the armour earns you a set effect: a chance to reduce your longer ability cooldowns.

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The quartermaster can also grant you faction-specific emotes and titles, as well as generous XP lamps.

More rewards will open up as the weeks progress. Be bold, be resolute, and check back as the event goes on!

Finally, you'll be able to collect sacred metal fragments and faction-specific weapon components as you fight and work on battlefield structures. 1000 fragments and a weapon component can be combined to make orkish or aviansie weapon overrides for claws, shields, throwing weapons and wands.

Keep Up the Fight!

There's something for everyone to do here, in our most epic in-game event yet. The event will develop and escalate as the weeks go on, with plenty of surprises to come. Watch the news and in-game notifications for details!

Fight for the future of your favourite god, but - most importantly - have fun!

The RuneScape Team

How to start The Bird and the Beast:

Speak to Kara-Meir just north of the Falador lodestone. Further details on how to contribute to your side's war effort can be given by those in your faction's camp.

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In Other News

  • Head over the our Twitch channel this evening from 5pm GMT, where Mod Silent and Mod Moltare will be discussing all things related to The Bird and the Beast.
  • Please note that Summoning familiars and cosmetic pets cannot be active within The Bird and the Beast's designated areas. They will disappear upon entry, and re-appear upon exiting.
  • Premier Club membership can now be purchased with RuneScape Bonds!
  • Vorago has deemed the 'Undefeated' title to be too easy to attain. As such, he has stripped all players of this title, and created a new form of attack, which he'll unleash on certain weeks. Players will need to complete a fight where Vorago uses this new attack to retrieve this elite title.
  • It's now possible to repeat the Ashdale tutorial by speaking to Gudrik in Taverley.
  • A collection of small fixes and tweaks have been made to the Ashdale tutorial.
  • Solomon's General Store can now be found in-game, just south of the Grand Exchange.
Take a look at the patch notes for other updates released today.

Discuss this on the forums.

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The opening cutscene is glitchy as fuck. :sly:

 

But I do prefer this event to Sara vs Zammy already. I also like that you can speak to the gods. Armadyl is kind of a bad ass when you get to know him. 

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The Bandos cosmetics are really good looking. Also, my 50k sacred metals that I saved from the last event carry over here! So once I grab all 3 of these weapons then I will switch over to Armadyl to be a part of the slaughter. It won't even be close. Jagex needs to intervene.

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Yeah. The events been up for two hours and already we've claimed every single camp site on 66. Bandos has nothing. :X The event's already broken. But hey! I like that it only takes an hour to cap! If you cap every day you're likely to get about 2 mill con xp. :o

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What reasons should someone do this?

New set of armor that reduces ability cooldowns, new emotes, new titles, new abilities, and the ability to gain about 2 mill con XP for free for an hours worth of work every day for 6 weeks. There are more perks, I'm sure, but those are the ones that stick out for me. You can also trade your renown points in for XP lamps. You can pretty much get a free large XP lamp every day for an hours worth of work. 

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I'm trying to just get the cosmetics for the Bandos side but it's actually stupid as hell. I can't fucking do a thing without getting my ass handed to me by a massive group of guys in tier90 gear. It's actually instant death anywhere I go. I guess I'll have to resort to turning OFF pvp and settling for the slower, crappier XP rates.

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These events are going to be terribly boring if they all end up as popularity contests. 

 

I'm raging because I destroyed my sacred metal fragments.

+1

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This event is actually pretty damn fun. At least the convoy/PvP parts.

The skilling is entirely afk, so that's bearable.

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So I don't really understand this world event.

 

You can gain construction XP and cap fast that way

 

 

Or you can PvP for.... no reason at all? (some really bad shit prayer xp)

Or you can follow convoys for hours and hours for a 1 in 1000000 chance to get a cosmetic weapon? (no xp gain)


This event is fucking terrible. The Battle of Lumbridge was actually better. At least there, we had fucking enemies to kill and got rewarded for doing so.

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I smacked my fucking hammer against the same fucking construction node for a fucking hour and the progress bar did not move one pixel.

How the fuck are we supposed to get anything done?

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