Combat Beta is awesome - it is great, especially making changes to the ancient spell books by replacing shadow with gale, blood and smoke with blood fire and miasmic with rock. Ice remains the same and that's cool. However, one thing I don't like about the ancient spell book is that the effects don't last long. Please keep the duration of the effects the same, for example, all rush spells are 5 seconds, burst spells 10 seconds, blitz spells 15 seconds and barrage spells 20 seconds. That is the only change to the ancient spell book that should be made. Restricting them all to 10 seconds against NPCs and 5 seconds against players is too short. They are becoming even weaker than normal spells and ranged abilities. If that happens why would players bother completing desert treasure? Desert treasure is one of the impossibly hard quests on Runescape so players who have completed the quest should be rewarded much better than now in Beta. Apart from this, the combat update is awesome! Keep it up Jagex!
Yours faithfully.
SamanthaWing
a.k.a Princess of Water
01-Jul-2012 05:24:40