Game Update - Yama, the Master of Pacts

Patch Notes

• Patch notes
• Yama, the Master of Pacts
• Competition
• Yama will be returning to his throne at 6PM GMT. This'll give all players a fair chance at competing - More information will be posted in #announcements soon!
• Rewards
• Yami (pet)
• Unique Perks:
• Hellbound: Provides an extra 15% damage against demons.
• Specialist: Increases your special attack damage & accuracy by 10%.
• Oathplate Armour
• Soulflame Horn
• Contract of Reckoning
• A contract which allows you to fight Yami in his "Hard Mode" version. This version grants buffed drop-rates on uniques / pet and a chance to receive the "Purifying Sigil" which can be fused with Oathplate armour to create Radiant oathplate armour.
• Contract Terms
• Yama must be defeated alone.
• Yama's health is increased to 2,875.
• Yama's defence bonuses are now +80 crush defence and +666 for all others.
• Yama's attack cycle is accelerated from 8-tick to 7-tick.
• Yama does two standard attacks before a special attack.
• Glyphs protect players for 2 ticks instead of 10.
• Glyphs respawn faster.
• Players take x3 more damage when absorbing a Glyph of Fire.
• Prayer points are drained x3 more when absorbing a Glyph of Shadow.
• Shadow Waves and Fire Streaks appear more frequently.
• Special attacks in phase 1 land 1 tick earlier than usual.
• Phase transition thresholds trigger at 75% and 50% health.
• The Judge of Yama throws fire bombs every 3 ticks, and throws two per attack.
• Shadow Waves and Shadow Crashes are more frequent in phase 3.
• Fixes
• Tombs of Amascut
• Akkha: Butterfly strategy should now work correctly.
• Akkha: Now always walks up to the target, even if not using melee.
• Akkha: The shadows should no longer walk away after taking damage.
• Kephri: Her attacks no longer deal damage after she's died.
• Kephri: Now attackable with halberds.
• Kephri: Arcane scarabs now only move after 3 successful hits.
• Kephri: Now cancels incoming damage when she goes into paralyzed phase.
• Kephri: Attack counter now reset during phases, meaning she won't do a special immediately after coming up again.
• BaBa: Challenge room is now much faster. The waves were also incorrect and have been updated for both solo and groups.
• BaBa: The rolling boulders are now more consistent.
• BaBa: Jungle japes invocation now spawns 1-2 banana peels (instead of always 2).
• BaBa: The banana peels now properly stun the player for 2 ticks.
• BaBa: The shockwave now starts on the aggroed player instead of a random team member.
• Zebak: Challenge room acid damage has been heavily lowered.
• Zebak: Improved blood clouds - they now spawn on the edge of the arena and wait 1 tick after reaching a player before dealing damage.
• Zebak: Blood Blitz attack no longer deals as much damage. Now also deals more damage if standing next to another player.
• Zebak: The jugs no longer take as long to break after being hit.
• Zebak: The second tidal wave now spawns on the northern side of the arena.
• Zebak: Reduced player movement stall during roar attack.
• Zebak: Now has the same animation and delays when doing blood blitz or spawning blood clouds.
• Zebak: Saradomin godsword & Blowpipe special attacks now heal when used against Zebak.
• Warden P2: Now deals chip damage through prayer.
• Warden P2: Slowed down Warden obelisk lightning skulls attack slightly.
• Warden P2: Obelisk attacks no longer deal damage when the warden's core is ejected.
• Warden P2: Improved core ejection, now picks a more relative direction and is 1 tick slower.
• Warden P2: Heavily reduced the damage of the big ball of energy if all players helped disperse it.
• Warden P2: Thralls can no longer deal damage to the core.
• Warden P3: Energy siphons now have health bars.
• Theatre of Blood
• Verzik P3: Delayed phase starting by an extra tick.
• Pestilent Bloat: Damage dealt when being hit by a falling limb.
• Pestilent Bloat: Reduced the duration you're stunned by if hit by a falling limb.
• Pestilent Bloat: You're now able to tick-eat the stomp attack.
• Maiden of Sugadinti: Corrected the amount nylocas heal her when they reach the boss.
• Sotetseg: Now correctly skip an entire attack cycle after firing a bomb.
• Sotetseg: Adjusted the fire bomb projectile, meaning tick eating is more reliable.
• Sotetseg: Now properly skip two full attack cycles in solo hard mode after sending the red bomb attack.
• Xarpus: Fixed a bug causing Xarpus' exhumed lasting an extra 2-ticks than intended.
• Fixes #2
• Herblore relic is now re-enabled.
• Fixed being unable to use the "Swap" option on upgraded revenant weapons.
• Nid pet is now able to utilize the "Arachnid" pet perk.
• Fixed formatting of the Shooting star prospect time remaining message.
• Fixed Sea Kraken not being able to be attacked by halberds.
• Fixed the Runecrafting relic not converting the correct amount of runes to experience.
• Thralls will no longer cause the monster you're currently attacking to try retaliate against them.
• Thralls no longer proc Leviathan's stun effect.
• Thralls will now always tyr to attack your current target.
• Thralls can no longer attack Warden's core
• Fixed Phosani's nightmare last phase not being damageable.
• Fixed presets containing a Divine rune pouch, not correctly granting all 4 slots of runes back.
• Fixed compost bins located in newer Farming lots not being interactable.
• Fixed GIM storage unit deposit inventory / equipment not working with the whitelisted untradeable items.
• Fixed GIM storage stacking chargeable items.
• Fixed not being able to charge upgraded tridents.
• Fixed Duke Sucellus tier 2 relic not allowign you to hold the correct amount of resources.
• Sunfire splinters are now tradeable.
• Fixed leafbladed spear skill requirements to wield.
• Fixed the Mark of darkness buff overlay timer.
• Fixed breaking down multiple venator shards not multiplying the total essence you receive.
• Additions & Content
• Added "Hunter's Rumours" which can be completed by speaking to one of the Guild Hunter's located under the Hunter's Guild.
• Added the ability to "Uncharge" imbued Fremmenik rings.
• Added the "Ctrl + Click to invert run mode" setting
• Added the ability to craft Aether runes.
• Added the ability to mix Surge potions.
• Added a new Donator benefit that increases the amount of combination runes received when crafting them.
• Added the 'Weapon Upgrade Overlay' to the Items kept on Death interface. This'll allow you to easily tell if an upgrade is lost on death or not.
• Added missing Farming related NPCs around the Varlamore patch (North of Hunter's guild)
• Added unique % amount to each Raid.
• Chambers of Xeric unique % will appear in the point overlay, where as the other raids will display once the raid has been completed.
• Balancing & Adjustments
• Auto-pickpocketing is now limited to 200 steals before it's stopped.
• Bounty-Hunter target overlay will no longer display your targets' username / combat level.
• Increased Bounty-Hunter target cooldown from 20 seconds to 1 minute.
• Ward of Arceuus spell duration now scales with your magic level.
• Exchanging Dizana's quiver now grants 10k splinters (up from 4k).
• Store changes
• Raid core packs
• Super ironman mystery boxes
• Discount on spookier outfit / super mystery boxes