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Desert Treasure II

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Desert Treasure II

Desert Treasure II
Type Quest
Videos 2 (first 2023-07-30, latest 2025-01-30)
Main source A Plea To Jagex (OSRS)

Desert Treasure II is a quest topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2023-07-30 and 2025-01-30. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Stats and numbers

  • Over 100 Vardorvis kills he averaged roughly 25k GP per kill, half as much as a demonic gorilla, and one of his drops was 64 bronze javelins.1

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says Desert Treasure II brought potential and disappointment: the Duke Sucellus is a wall you fight after a skilling portion, Vardorvis is a walk back and forth between two tiles, the Whisperer does not damage you throughout the fight, and the Leviathan is stand in place and swap prayers with the occasional barrage to get behind him.2
  • Gnomonkey criticises the ring shard system because you cannot see your shards, which encourages camping one boss, and the Soul Reaper axe needing an untradeable hilt piece from each of the four bosses forces you to choose between grinding for a ring or moving on; it prevents people from getting lucky and from going dry.3
  • Gnomonkey calls Desert Treasure II almost exactly what he expected: four additional Muspahs (really three, as Duke is a meme boss fight), a host of bugs, and an overall hollow update because of the lack of the Ancient prayer book addition.4
  • Gnomonkey cites Desert Treasure II's conflicting, bizarre drop mechanics for items that did not make sense coming from those bosses as an example of Jagex struggling with rewards.5

Events

  • There was an issue on release day with the ring drops where none were dropping, and not a single Ultor ring dropped on day one.2
  • The Soul Reaper axe was maxing over 400 with its special attack for several hours after the first was obtained.4
  • The Awakened bosses were released a few days after Desert Treasure II, much earlier than expected, which worried Gnomonkey that it was a rush job to appease complaining players.4

Trivia

  • On day two a developer explained in the QA that the Desert Treasure II rings use a unique drop system where you must roll a ring three times to receive it, effectively an invisible, untradeable shard system like the Venator bow's from Muspah, or more like Sire's bludgeon.1

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-01-30 No Rewards and Dead Content - New Enrage Boss (OSRS) Added: 1 statement (opinion)
2023-07-30 A Plea To Jagex (OSRS) Page created: 8 statements (event, opinion, stat, trivia)
## See also

References

  1. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 18:46 ↩↩

  2. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 18:17 ↩↩

  3. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 19:15 ↩

  4. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 19:44 ↩↩↩

  5. No Rewards and Dead Content - New Enrage Boss (OSRS), 2025-01-30. ▶ 5:35 ↩

Quests

Desert Treasure II • RuneScape 3 quests • Varlamore: The Final Dawn

Category: Quests