RS Beta Patch Notes 9-14-2012

Abilities:

● You no longer jump further backwards using the Surge ability after Escape.
● Camera no longer locked when escaping while using a lodestone.
● Fixed minor typos in the ability tooltips.

Combat:

● Tower guards in the Ranging Guild now have different combat levels and equipment.
● Treus Dayth in the Dominion Tower no longer hides quite so often.
● Mutated Jadinko Guards now do more damage
● Fixed an issue with ogres in the Godwars Dungeon attacking players who were wearing Nex armour.
● Dragons are no longer able to do melee attacks from range
● Fixed an issue where some rock crabs were not attacking players.
● The Thrower Trolls in Death Plateau will now throw rocks at the player.
● Warped Terrorbirds in the Poison Waste dungeon can now transform properly.
● Non-silver weapons can no longer damage a vampyre if dual wielded with a silver weapon.
● You can now range the Tower Archers in the ranging guild.
● Black Knight Titan is now aggressive towards the player in the Dominion Tower.
● Familiars can no longer attack NPCs in Kurdel's Dungeon that are not your task.
● Patrolling Guards in Burthorpe are now able to defeat the invading trolls.
● Fixed issue where some prayers prevented quick prayers from being deactivated.
● Fixed an issue where Lifepoints were not being removed after replacing a shield with a weapon.

Graphical:

● Void melee helm no longer causes player next to stretch.
● Dramen staff inventory icon now matches the staff's model
● Fixed the animations of a number of skeleton enemies.
● The banner carrying goblins at the Godwars Dungeon now have an attack animation
● Wearing a Promethium Maul and Gorgonite platebody in Dungeoneering causes the maul to bounce back and forth when running.
● The Ivandis flail can now be sheathed.
● The Lesser Runic staff's sheathed model is now correct.
● Dominion Tower gloves now have a particle effect.
● Shopkeeper in Lumbridge no longer has a stretched jaw
● Fixed an issue with the Virtus top stretching.
● Removed the green square from the Ahrim's wand.
● Holy Cithara no longer remains on your hip if played while sheathed.
● The Wooden shield from the Player-owned house can now be sheathed.
● Wearing the TokHaar-Kal with a Ganodermic Poncho on a female no longer causes the cape to bounce around
● The Giants hand and the Broomstick can now be sheathed.
● Snowball is now correctly aligned with player's hand
● Minor stretching has been removed from the Rune kiteshield.
● Players can no longer keep their dungeoneering appearance upon leaving a dungeon
● Fixed stretching on Longbows when sheathed.
● Fixed an issue where the royal d'hide chaps create a gap on male character's ankles.
● Fixed the stretching on Fareed's neck.
● Male version of the Runner hat has been increased in size
● The stealing creation staves no longer looking like an air staff.
● The leather stealing creation tops no longer cause male heads to bob.
● Void Ranger helm chat head now matches its in-game model.
● The battlestaff no longer looks like an air staff
● Fixed Device is now held correctly
● Magic Secateurs no longer change colour when weapons are sheathed.
● Eye glow auras will now be positioned correctly on the player.
● Ghost model in Soul Wars will no longer stretch.
● Fixed an issue with the Dragon Platebody that made the thumbs on female characters stretch.
● The Abyssal Vine Whip is now correctly sheathed on the player's hip.
● Weapons are no longer appearing equipped, when suffering the Slipery fingers handicap in the Dominion tower.


Items:

● The Berserker necklace now increase the damage done by obsidian weapons .
● Ram skull helm has been given stats.
● Fixed an issue where transforming a clay weapon into a staff while wearing a shield allowed players to wield a staff and a shield together.
● Fixed an issue in the magic skill guide which had the wrong items as members.
● Magic composite bow is now also considered a shield to put it on par with the magic longbow.
● The Demon Horn Necklace will now restore the correct amount of prayer points when bury bones.
● Prayer bonus added to the Ancient Mitre.
● Spirit cape is no longer classed as a Magic item
● Holiday items no longer cause the player to go into the old idle stance.
● Lunar gear has had its stats reduced to bring it inline with other gear of its level.
● Frost dagger, ice dagger and flame defender can now be used again in Dungeoneering.
● Mithril Grapples can no longer be used as ranged ammunition.
● Faithful shield stats have been edited and can now be sheathed.
● Fixed the equip requirements for the Granite maul.
● The Sacred Clay hammer no longer has weapon stats
● Korasi's sword has had its stats greatly improved.
● The Elite void knight robes and Void knight deflector have has their stats added.
● Keris now does damage equivalent to daggers of a similar level.
● The Mindspike staff now allows players to correctly switch out between the 4 elements of the staff is made of via a mesbox.
● You can now use the Celestial and Magical blastboxes with staves in Dungeoneering.
● The Ancestor spirits aura will now correctly summon spirits
● Dominion mines can be deployed again, and do the correct damage.
● Added stats to the Mage books.
● Necromancer robes and illuminated books now have their prayer bonus
● White weapons have been restatted to match black weapons.
● Iban's staff's hit bonus has been increased.
● Bound Doomcore staffs are now two-handed staffs.
● Klan's gauntlets have been statted.
● Treasure trail biscuits will now restore prayer points.
● Added an 80 Armor bonus and a 20 defence requirement to the Amulet of defence.
● Increased the effects for the blood necklace in Dungeoneering.
● Berserker Ring and Beserker Ring (i) now have different stats.
● Corrected the examine information for the royal bolts.
● Added a prayer bonus back to the Summoning Skillcape.
● Added stats to the Morytania legs.
● Fixed issue with Bolas continuing to be used despite having run out.
● The bolas can now be thrown from range.
● Fixed an inconsistency with the member's status of the Splitbark and Mystic weapons
● Blue Dragonhide armour is now free to play.
● Purple sweets healing amount corrected on tooltip.
● Shield bows will no longer stay equipped if worn into a "No shields" handicapped dominion tower battle.
● The Mystic steam staff no longer has a damage stat.
● Dominion staff and sword have now been statted.
● Fixed an issue within the Equipment interface that was showing incorrect damage totals.
● Equipment interface will now display the correct armour value of items.
● God arrows have had their hit bonus increased.
● Fixed an issue where armadyl runes were not being seen by the interface, greying out the Story of Armadyl spell.
● Reduced the hit chance on a number of battleaxes which were not in-line with equivalent weapons.
● Fixed an issue with a missing item in the Dungeoneering reward shop.

Other:

● Fixed an issue in fixed screen mode where ability descriptions were being displayed off-screen.
● Fist of Guthix reward shop now shows the correct item requirements.
● Dungeoneering reward interface has been updated to include new stats of certain items.
● The judges have fixed the Ranging competition at the Rangers guild so you can now properly compete again.
● Fixed an issue with the tool-tips for food not being large enough.
● Grapple shortcuts now work correctly with a crossbow and grapple equipped.
● Updated references to the Wind spells to now refer to them as Air spells.
● Shades in the Stronghold of Security now give XP on death.
● Encouraging Pauline will now award agility XP.
● Selecting the TokHaar-Kal after completing the fight kiln will no longer tell you incorrect stats for the cape.
● Experience is now gained for killing a living rock creature.
● Players can now rest while having a shield equipped and not sheathed.
● First blood task no longer states that you can use steel equipment at level 5
● Fixed minor spelling error in ability description.
● Updated the "Creature's max hit" details on the Monster Examine spell.
● Fixed an issue where players were unable to rest while wielding certain weapons
● Corrected a typo on the Lunar: North Ardougne Teleport.
● Handicap nudge button in the Dominion Tower can no longer be used as many times as the player likes.
● A number of combat related spells in the lunar spell book have been moved to the offensive spells tab.
● Wilderness portals can now be used while stunned.
● Changing stance during home teleport will now stop the teleport