Theatre of Blood Rewards: Tournament World Feedback Tweaks

[15/03/18] - Scythe of vitur Slash attack bonus changed to +110 and attack rate changed to 6 rather than 5.

[15/03/18] - Removed detail regarding the Avernic hilt dropping on death to avoid confusion until a more fitting solution is available.

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[20/03/18] - Scythe of vitur vitur Slash attack bonus changed to +110 and attack rate changed to 5. [20/03/18] - Clarification added regarding Avernic hilt dropping on death. [20/03/18] - A change has been made to the Sanguinesti staff, allowing it to have an additional max hit over the Trident of the swamp.Last Thursday we launched two Tournament worlds which allow you to access the weapons and armours proposed in the Theatre of Blood Dev Blog, found here More detail can be found in last week's news post . We've been closely monitoring your feedback since then and have some adjustments we'd like to make based on what we've seen. These changes have been added to the Tournament world, giving you have plenty of opportunity to test them out further before the poll goes live in-game! As soon as the updated rewards are live we will send an in-game broadcast message, alongside updating this post and tweeting about it from the official Old School RuneScape Twitter We saw many of you weren't happy about the name of the Infernal defender, so we've changed it to the. We've added a new story to go along with it too! In addition to this, we want toslightly so that it'sthan originally proposed. If a player dies below level 20 Wilderness with the Avernic defender, it will revert to a broken Avernic defender, which can be repaired for 1,000,000 coins by using the item on Perdu. The player that gets the kill would be awarded 1,000,000 from the defender, in addition to the normal loot their opponent would drop. Deaths above level 20 Wilderness will be treated the same as any other untradable item, meaning the person wearing it will not get a broken Avernic defender back - it will be lost.Much of what we saw regarding the Sanguinesti staff was that it's cost was too high for the amount it healed. We're opting to reduce the cost to, and increase the chance of the healing effect occurring to a. We're also changing it so that it will haveover the Trident of the swamp.The Ghrazi rapier is a non-degradable alternative to the Abyssal tentacle, offering aincrease in overall dps. It is the best Strength training weapon in most circumstances, as well as being superior to other stab weapons, due to the fact it is one-handed. However, we'd like to make some minor changes to make it just thatbyWe're happy with the general feedback we've seen regarding the Justiciar armour and its effectiveness in PvM situations, so we're not looking to make any changes to its base stats. We are however looking to, byeffect whenWe received overwhelming feedback that many of you did not like how the Vampyrium vambraces required a pair of Ranger gloves to complete. In light of this, we've removed them as a requirement, meaning. No changes will be made to the stats they provide.The Scythe of vitur was pitched as being a very slow, hard hitting 2-handed weapon. Unfortunately, it is let down mostly by its low accuracy and speed. We believe that byandwill make the scythe a much more viable weapon than it currently is. We'll also be changing the current aggressive attack option from Stab to Slash.As always, we'll be monitoring your feedback very closely. Further changes may be made where necessary and will be highlighted at the top of this post within a changelog list.and provide any feedback in this forum post , Reddit ( /r/2007scape and /r/oldschoolrs ) or Twitter using