T95 Magic Dual Wield Beta - News - RuneScape

T95 Magic Dual Wield Beta - News - RuneScape - RuneScape (2024)

We have just launched today a Beta that will run until June 6th to playtest three potential concepts for the effects of our new T95 Magic Dual Wield weapons that will be coming from the Sanctum of Rebirth. Players will put them through their paces, give us their feedback and help us decide on the final design for these weapons.

You will also be able to try out a more eccentric change we are considering for Magic! We initial put out the idea of switching around Sonic Wave and Concentrated blasts to be Dual Wield and 2H abilities respectively, from listening to player feedback since that stream we have decided to try out a more refined approach.

We've unlocked the abilities Magma Tempest, Sonic Wave and Concentrated Blast so that they can be used either two handed or dual wielding. What this means is you can try out the weapons with the normal live game abilities or mix in GSonic and Magma tempest to see if they could be a better fit. Let us know more about what plays well when you get your hands on them.

Which Effect?

Dive in and get to grips with the new wand and orbs and help decide on which version of the set effect is the most enjoyable! This is your chance to help shape the impact of these powerful weapons so be sure to be thorough in your feedback, we wanna know what you like, what you dislike, what you would want to see. Really focus on how they feel opposed to "Is it strong" we can always tweak numbers to increase power but we want to get the feel right first!

Wand / Orb set 1 - First effect would be generating a stacking buff using non basics then consuming that buff using basic abilities for increased adrenaline. With the second benefit building off the first and giving a flat cooldown reduction for Wild Magic when the buff is consumed giving players a more stable flow of damage and adrenaline.

1 - Non-basic abilities generate 2 stacks of Insatiable for 3.6s. Basic abilities consume Insatiable, increasing adrenaline gain by 25%. (from 8->10 not 8→33)
2 - Consuming Insatiable reduces the cooldown of Wild Magic by 6s.

Wand / Orb set 2 - The second set effect would be building off from the first set but instead of a stable flow of cooldown reduction it would be a more powerful RNG effect.

1 - Non-basic abilities generate 2 stacks of insatiable for 3.6s. Basic abilities consume Insatiable, increasing adrenaline gain by 25%. (from 8->10 not 8→33)
2 - Consuming Insatiable has a 35% chance to refresh the cooldown of Wild Magic

Wand / Orb set 3 - An alternative playstyle of increasing Damage over time effects that ramps up in power the more you stack this new debuff and adds effects like refreshing their cooldowns, or making them hit instantly.

1 - Damage over time abilities deal 30% more damage. (only combust/corruption blast affected as the only DOT magic abilities)
2 - Damage over time abilities generate Essence Corruption with each hit.

1 Essence Corruption stack: Your Damage over time abilities have a 30% chance to empower, dealing the damage instantly and refreshing their cooldown.
25 Essence Corruption stacks: Deal bonus damage against enemies (100% of stacks + 100% of your Magic level).
50 Essence Corruption stacks: Basic abilities generate an additional 3.6% adrenaline over 6 seconds.
Maximum stacks: 100

When you get onto the beta check in at War's Retreat and speak with Hatye, just north of War, he will be selling the wand and orbs alongside other items that like augmentors to help you test things out fully!

Please note that these weapons will come with the 'Charging' passive during this beta (effects are not active until they have been equipped for several seconds) currently this is not set in stone to transfer to the live game, this is both to enable a smoother testing experience and to gather data on less switch reliant rotations.

How to get involved

Ready to give the Beta a try? Heres how:

Jagex Launcher

Head to the taskbar and close any running instances of the Jagex launcher.
Click this link.
The link will load the Jagex launcher then start loading the Beta, logging you in automatically.

Non Jagex Launcher

Click this link, then log in as normal.

On first login, your live save is imported into the Beta. You can re-import your save into the Beta once per hour.

Once youve given the changes a try, share your feedback with our team through the following channels:

The #rce-chat-sanctum and #rce-dev-questions channels in the Official Discord.
This Beta Thread on the subreddit.

Please note that not everything that is showcased in the Beta will automatically make its way into the live game. We will endeavour to work with players to refine the changes shown and bring them into the live game when theyre ready!

- The RuneScape Team

T95 Magic Dual Wield Beta - News - RuneScape - RuneScape (2024)

FAQs

How do you dual wield in old school Runescape? ›

3 Answers. The only way to fight with dual-wielded weapons is by equipping a normal one-hand weapon in the main weapon slot and an "offhand" weapon in the offhand/shield slot. These offhand weapons are separate items from the regular weapons, each corresponding to an existing one-hand weapon.

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Can you dual wield in Runescape? ›

Dual wielding is a feature released with the Evolution of Combat. It consists of wielding two weapons, a main-hand weapon in the weapon slot and an off-hand weapon in the shield slot. Many main-hand weapons in the game have off-hand replicates (eg. off-hand dragon dagger), while others have equivalents (eg.

Can you actually dual wield? ›

Dual wielding is the technique of using two weapons, one in each hand, for training or combat. It is not a common combat practice. Although historical records of dual wielding in war are limited, there are numerous weapon-based martial arts that involve the use of a pair of weapons.

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Which class can dual wield? ›

If your goal for your character build involves specializing in dual wielding, you can certainly do so. Generally, classes emphasizing melee combat with physical weapons (not spells) tend to work best with two-weapon fighting—fighters, rogues, rangers, paladins, and barbarians.

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Does dual wielding do more damage? ›

While most of the time, per hit, my experience that dual wield definitely do more damage. But the moment when it comes to Grand weapons. It becomes clumsy. Long swords on the other hand appears clumsy but they FEEL way better and smoother than Grand size weapons.

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Do you need two weapon fighting for dual wielding? ›

Dual Wielder Feat

They can draw or stow two one-handed melee weapons when they'd usually only be able to draw or stow a single weapon. However, this feat does not allow the character to add their ability modifier to their offhand attack damage; they would still need the Two-Weapon Fighting style for that.

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Does dual wielding give you two attacks? ›

Dual Wielding works like this: You get your primary attack, and after 1 primary attack you can use a bonus action to get the offhand attack. If you multiclass into Rogue - Thief you get two bonus actions, that combined with 5 levels of fighter will get you 2 primary attacks and 2 offhand attacks.

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How do you duel in Runescape? ›

Simply right click on another person and choose to duel them. If the person accepts your challenge, you will then be taken to the dueling screen. Here you select your different dueling options (magic on/off, retreat on/off, prayer on/off, weapons allowed) and whether or not you wish to stake any items.

Where can I learn dual wield Classic? ›

Duel Wield is learnt from your class Trainer.

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How do you dual wield in Elder Scrolls? ›

When dual wielding weapons, the Dragonborn has four options of attack: attacking either with left or right weapon, attacking with both weapons simultaneously (by pressing both attack buttons at the same time) and performing a dual wielding power attack. All four attack types are affected by the Dual Flurry perk.

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