Last Man Standing Rewards

[intu]

Rewards

 

 

Let's talk rewards. Currently, LMS doesn't offer any rewards outside of the GP prize awarded to winners of high stakes games. This is unusual for a mini-game given that they typically offer rewards that are also useful elsewhere. Below is a list of proposed rewards, most of which have been suggested by the community. Let us know what you think and if you have any ideas of your own, feel free to send them our way! 

Deadman Armour
 

In the currently retired Deadman mode, there was a set of armour that players could purchase for blood money. Unfortunately because the armour wasn't very good and blood money could be farmed, the armour was not widely used. So our first reward idea is to remove the stats from the pieces (top, bottoms, and cape), making the set cosmetic only, and add them to the LMS store. 

Trouver Parchment

While in the Wilderness (under level 20), some untradeable items will break on death instead of being lost. Players can take these broken items to Perdu who will repair them for a fee. In order to encourage use of these items in deeper Wilderness, we propose a consumable scroll that can be handed into Perdu. He would then use it to enchant one of these items. 

An item enchanted this way would not be lost on death above level 20 Wilderness. Instead, the item will lose its enchantment and be kept in its broken form as if the player had died in under level 20 Wilderness. This will also occur for PvM deaths. In a PvP situation, 75% of the repair fee of the item will be dropped to the floor for the killer as coins. 

This is expected to widen the range of items used in the rest of the Wilderness. Because players will no longer have to go get these items again and possibly endure the grind again (defender, void etc), you're more likely to see them appear. 

The cost of the scrolls is subject to balancing and testing. 

Halos  

For Many years Castle Wars have offered the 3 God Halos as rewards. But what about the other gods? Armadyl, Bandos, Seren, Zaros, and Brassica have been underrepresented in the headwear department. As a result, we would like to offer 5 brand new Halos as rewards. These will have the same stats as the existing halos, but will allow you to support the god of your choosing. 

XP Rewards

For the top 5 players in any competitive game of Last Man Standing, we would like to offer an XP reward, through a tome or token that can be redeemed in a combat skill of their choice. The XP awarded will be 35 x skill level. 

This number is subject to balancing through testing and the beta phase. 

Games Played/Won Cosmetics

These would be similar to the capes awarded for Chambers of Xeric or Theatre of Blood completion milestones. We would like to add two separate versions: one to show games played and another to show games won. 

3-Tick Speed One Handed Weapon

For a long time now OldSchool has had the Event RPG and more recently received the Ham Joint as quick weapons to help train certain pure builds. We would like to offer another weapon to add to this list but one that is a bit more thematic with the regular weapons of Old School. 

This weapon will attack once every 3 ticks and be one handed. 

Guthixian Icon/Staff of Balance
 

 

In early 2018, players gained the ability to add a Saradomin's Light to a Staff of the Dead. This added some variety as a high level magic weapon that could cast Saradomin Strike. But what about Guthix? 

With this reward, players would be able to take the Guthixian Icon to Juna. She would then infuse it into a Staff of the Dead, creating the Staff of Balance, 

The staff of balance would have the same stats as both the Staff of Light and Staff of the Dead, and be able to cast/autocast Claws of Guthix. 

Bolas

 

The bolas is a thrown ranged weapon that would require 70 ranged to wield. When a bolas is thrown as an auto-attack, it binds the player for around 10 seconds. It is possible to miss the bind as with other attacks from a weapon. Thrown bolas cannot be retrieved from the ground or by any Ava's device. 

The bolas will carry the same offensive stats as a rune knife but with an attack speed of 6. The attack range of the bolas is 7. 

Staff of Paralysis

The Staff of paralysis is a one-handed staff which requires 70 magic to wield. The staff would hold up to 1,000 charges and require 3 Nature, 4 Earth, and 4 Water runes per charge. 

On each cast, the staff of paralysis would have a 1/10 chance of turning off your opponent's run. The staff would have a maximum damage of 10 and has an attack rate of 5. 

In LMS only cosmetics

 

When we're good at something, we like to show it off. With this in mind, we want to offer the ability to unlock cosmetic changes to the starting equipment described earlier. For example, you could change your mystic robes to light/dark/dusk, your ranged equipment to gilded, and your rune equipment to any of the god and gilded variants. 

We have heard your suggestions on some other items, such as moving imbues, Korasi etc. However, with other discussions taking place, we have decided that these may be better suited for other upcoming content. 

 Negative XP Lamps
 

 

One suggestion we've had had been to add negative XP reward lamps as an LMS reward. Since they were last polled, there has been continued demand for and discussion around the topic. These would allow players to remove a small amount of experience (~500xp) from a combat stat below level 50. Doing so means players could 'fix' their accounts by removing unwanted experience. 

These lamps could potentially be used to remove XP awarded from quests, increasing range of account builds possible for PKing. This would open up a range of exciting possibilities to shake up PvP. 

However, there is also a technical issue to overcome. Currently, XP removal has very strict restrictions built into the game engine to minimise the risk of accidental XP loss, which could be very serious for a player's account. Now that players would be able to trigger it arbitrarily, we would need the engine changed to ease these restrictions while still providing the necessary safety checks. 

Let us know what you think of the idea. If the suggestion is taken forward, negative XP lamps would be polled again before being added into game. 

All other rewards above and any that are added will also be polled. Before then, let us know your thoughts and suggestions!

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i couldnt delete this so ignore this lmaooo

 

Edited July 13, 2019 by intu

[intu]

talked to people about the rewards and a lot of people didnt know they existed, so here they are.

 

Thoughts?

[Hope]

shit theres some good stuff here 

[E-Boys]

Thanks for the copy & paste ❤️

[intu]

Just now, E-Boys said:

Thanks for the copy & paste ❤️

YEAH NO PROBLEM BUDDY NOT LIKE I HAD TO EDIT IT 50 TIMES

[Hope]

yerp

[ubermensch]

Halos really stood out to me, Zaros halo would be sick. Pretty good that they're putting effort into this, I think the tribridding aspect could make it active.

[Alcohol]

Are these your suggestions or actually from hq itself?

 

From what iv heard there prob be casual for point system and competive for gp.

[E-Boys]

4 minutes ago, intu said:

YEAH NO PROBLEM BUDDY NOT LIKE I HAD TO EDIT IT 50 TIMES

Don't take that tone with me young man

[intu]

Just now, Alcohol said:

Are these your suggestions or actually from hq itself?

 

From what iv heard there prob be casual for point system and competive for gp.

From HQ

[John]

Honestly pretty good. New halo colours stood out for me

[Bryce]

I love this, I did from the moment I saw it, gives me a reason to enjoy main bridding without a main improving at no cost and can earn a new coloured halo for my pure. Doesn’t hurt the games integrity I’m all for it!

Edited July 13, 2019 by Bryce

[Jesse``]

No more excuses for being a shitter with def xp eh?

[Sickmager5]

56 minutes ago, Hope said:

shit theres some good stuff here 

 

[Some God]

oo nice

[T0niss]

all i need is -2 def exp

[Real Me]

good shit 

[Burak]

BRING BACK BOLAS

[Pat]

Bolas

[Mike]

 

thank you.

[dan]

4 hours ago, Hope said:

shit theres some good stuff here 

 

[Erik]

@Bolas

[Utc]

damn thats very interesting ?

[Forced]

minus xp lamp goat yes

[`SZN]

Give me negative xp