Dev Blog: Corp

[Del]

Corporeal Beast Drops

tl;dr at the bottom

 

Corporeal Beast has been a talking point among Old School players for some time now. With the boss essentially completed the discussions have moved towards what Corporeal Beast will drop.

We have talked to players about this and gathered a lot of feedback. The overall response has been phenomenal and has proven just how passionate many Old School players are when it comes to Corporeal Beast. This blog will go over the conclusion we have come to and what we are proposing for Corporeal Beast drops.

 

Signature drops

The Divine, Elysian, Spectral and Arcane sigils were the main draw for Corporeal Beast killers back when the boss was originally released and many Old School players have been asking to see them return along with the spirit shields that they were forged into.

Based on the feedback that we have received over the past months, we would like to offer the spirit shields as they were. Alongside this, we would like to offer the option to re-balance the Divine spirit shield.

 

The Spirit Shields

 

The spirit shields are the shields created from the sigils dropped by the Corporeal Beast. They are created by attaching a sigil to a blessed spirit shield (also obtained by killing Corp) which will require 85 smithing and 90 prayer.

These shields are incredibly strong but keep in mind that they are coming from a boss that, if released, will be the strongest boss in the game.

 

Spectral Spirit Shield

• Stab attack: 0
• Slash attack: 0
• Crush attack: 0
• Magic attack: 0
• Range attack: 0
  
• Stab defence: +53
• Slash defence: +55
• Crush defence: +73
• Magic defence: +30
• Range defence: +52
  
• Prayer: +3

Arcane spirit shield

• Stab attack: 0
• Slash attack: 0
• Crush attack: 0
• Magic attack: +20
• Range attack: 0
  
• Stab defence: +53
• Slash defence: +55
• Crush defence: +73
• Magic defence: +2
• Range defence: +52
  
• Prayer: +3

Elysian spirit shield

• Stab attack: 0
• Slash attack: 0
• Crush attack: 0
• Magic attack: 0
• Range attack: 0
  
• Stab defence: +63
• Slash defence: +65
• Crush defence: +75
• Magic defence: +2
• Range defence: +57
  
• Prayer: +3

Special effect: The Elysian spirit shield has a 70% chance of reducing the damage you receive by 25%.

 

Divine spirit shield

• Stab attack: 0
• Slash attack: 0
• Crush attack: 0
• Magic attack: 0
• Range attack: 0
  
• Stab defence: +63
• Slash defence: +65
• Crush defence: +75
• Magic defence: +2
• Range defence: +57
  
• Prayer: +3

Special effect: The Divine spirit shield has a 100% chance of reducing the damage you receive by 30%. Your prayer points are drained for 50% of any damage that is negated.

 

The reworked Divine

 

The reworked Divine spirit shield that we will be offering alongside the original will have the damage reduction effect lowered to 25%. This is the only difference between the original and the reworked Divine.

This is only a slight change but along with the lack of beasts of burden to carry prayer potions the shield should be well balanced for Old School. Players able to get their hands on the high end shields will have to choose between the free damage reduction of the Elysian shield and the guarantee of the damage reduction from the Divine at the cost of their prayer points.

Other drops

 

We would like to offer Corporeal Beast with his old drop table in tact. We will be able to gather further feedback on this tomorrow as Mod Ronan will be killing 1,000 Corporeal Beasts at 9pm BST over on the RuneScape Twitch.tv channel. The boss will have the old drop table with everything at the same rarity (including sigils)!

We are looking forward to seeing what you have to say on the subject of Corp and invite any and all comments below (or anywhere else you can get a hold of us).

Mods Alfred, Ash, John C, Mat K, Reach, Ronan & Weath
The Old School Team

 

tl;dr

plans to release corp with the spirit shields intact (same stats and special effects)

offering an option to rebalance the divine by changing the damage reduction from 30% to 25%

same drop table as old rs (onyx bolts etc.)

mod ronan is killing 1k of them tomorrow

nice sara pet benniee you fucking loser lmao

Edited September 9, 2014 by Del Muro

[Eruzione]

Honestly don't care that much about the fact they're implementing spirit shields, I just want to camp it for a while and make some money.

Edited September 9, 2014 by Alex

[The Zane]

Corp was always fun

[Regnierz]

nice sara pet benniee you fucking loser lmao

 

this

 

Doesn't seem like a huge nerf, can't imagine it would impact the price or desirability of the shield much to lose 5% damage reduction. I don't really care because I'll play OSRS for RoT and for events regardless of what kind of shields they add

[Sh0w]

[Kerkennah]

Well

Now you have zammy hasta & Rune defender

 

Free kills at corp right?

[Sh0w]

Well

Now you have zammy hasta & Rune defender

 

Free kills at corp right?

Hastas will only deal 50% dmg. You will have to use zammy spear

[Adam]

nty

[Imperica]

pls..

[@b289]

:(

[≈Phaeo]

looks good

[Cross]

nah fuck spirit shields

[Villiska]

It's not like they'd effect PvP in any way considering single is dead. It'd be nice to kill it with rot again and see what splits we can get.

[Fasty]

Cool

[Gpet]

Is really sick man haha :)