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Heka of Tumeken

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Heka of Tumeken

Heka of Tumeken
Type Item
Videos 1 (first 2022-02-26, latest 2022-02-26)
Main source The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS)

Heka of Tumeken is an item topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2022-02-26. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Stats and numbers

  • The planned Heka is powered like the trident or Sanguinesti staff with a built-in spell, charged with soul and chaos runes: one soul and three chaos runes per cast.1
  • The planned Heka has an attack range of six tiles, one less than the Sanguinesti staff.2
  • The Heka's main twist is its attack speed: three attacks at two ticks each like a blowpipe followed by a powerful four-tick hit, a four-attack cycle of ten ticks, which constantly attacking is about 4% more powerful than the Harmonised nightmare staff while not needing the standard spellbook.2
  • The Heka's cycle is saved for as much as 10 ticks, so you can do three small casts, switch to a twisted bow for a shot and switching back immediately casts the powerful fourth hit; this was bugged in the beta and did not work this way.3
  • Standard spellbook effect: the final hit receives a 10% damage boost.4
  • Ancient spellbook effect: the final hit blasts a 3x3 area.4
  • Lunar spellbook effect: the final projectile heals up to 5 teammates in its path for 5% of your Magic level rounded down (4 at 99 Magic, 5 boosted by an imbued heart, 6 if boosted in Chambers of Xeric) and the wand gains an extra tile of range, matching the Sanguinesti staff.4
  • Arceuus spellbook effect: an impermanent drain like Turmoil in RS2, draining the target's Magic by 5% (stacking to 20% over repeated cycles) and boosting your Magic by 50% of the drained amount, capped at 15% additional level; Gnomonkey assumes this means about 113-114 Magic, not much above an imbued heart's 10-level boost.4

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey notes Jagex did not say how the Spellbook Swap spell would work with the Heka.5
  • Gnomonkey says the Heka's complexity (it took him two long paragraphs to describe) shows Jagex is struggling to make a decent magic weapon, which is understandable since magic damage is calculated from the monster's Magic level.6
  • Gnomonkey says the standard-spellbook effect is only about a 5% DPS increase over the stock Heka (since the 4-tick hit is half its DPS), is outweighed by the ability to use thralls on other books, and is boring; he sees it used mainly at Kraken where thralls cannot be used.7
  • Gnomonkey says the ancient AoE effect only fires once per ten ticks so it is limited to uses like catching double spawns in the Nylocas room at Theatre of Blood, would not beat normal barraging for Slayer tasks, and is too slow for the Maiden crab stack.8
  • Gnomonkey doubts the Lunar healing effect is useful: it is unclear if it works when teammates are stacked, it may not work in single combat like healing an alt at Kraken, and he would prefer a big AoE heal around you; it would mostly be used by Chambers of Xeric teams.9
  • Gnomonkey considers the Arceuus drain effect by far the most interesting and most likely to be used, since it works anywhere you are forced to mage due to defence and still allows thralls; it would have huge application at Zulrah and the Great Olm in team Chambers of Xeric and might shift some metas such as Bandos.10
  • Gnomonkey says the Heka would be good in the same places magic is currently good, by 4-10% more than the Harmonised staff depending on spellbook, and would be difficult at Zulrah and nearly impossible for solo Olm but shine in team Chambers of Xeric.11
  • Gnomonkey contrasts this with the twisted bow, the best DPS at over 25 bosses, and the scythe, which changed where you use each style by a dramatic margin; he only sees the Heka possibly changing style at Bandos on Arceuus spellbook and doubts it would even beat the Bow of Faerdhinen there.11
  • Gnomonkey worries that tying the Heka to spellbooks means swapping with a magic or max cape, which is limited to five swaps per day, which he calls terrible design; he would rather tie effects to attack style or use gems or a hilt like Nightmare staffs, and says the Heka would be a small upgrade over the Harmonised staff while the Sanguinesti staff keeps its utility.12
  • Gnomonkey says the community reaction to the Heka would not resemble the awe when the twisted bow or scythe were announced, which knocked everything old out of the park, and that the shock and awe of a hyper-rare raid super weapon is one of his favourite things about raids.13

Events

  • In February 2022 Jagex described the Heka of Tumeken as a new magic wand for Raids 3, the big nasty drop equivalent to the scythe or twisted bow from the other raids, filling out the combat triangle with a magic super weapon.1
  • Jagex released a beta for the Raids 3 weapons and many people found the original Heka cumbersome; Gnomonkey says it needed an incredibly specific cycle at the Great Olm for questionable benefit over the Sanguinesti staff and had similar issues at Zulrah due to her diving.3
  • In response, Jagex gave the Heka's final powerful hit an extra effect depending on your spellbook, seen every ten ticks of attacking; Gnomonkey thinks tying it to spellbooks is a mistake.14

Revision history

Date Video Change
2022-02-26 The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS) Page created: 21 statements (event, opinion, stat)
## References

  1. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 0:29 ↩↩

  2. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 0:59 ↩↩

  3. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 1:26 ↩↩

  4. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 2:29 ↩↩↩↩

  5. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 3:01 ↩

  6. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 3:32 ↩

  7. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 4:02 ↩

  8. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 4:32 ↩

  9. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 5:06 ↩

  10. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 6:09 ↩

  11. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 7:07 ↩↩

  12. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 7:43 ↩

  13. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 8:40 ↩

  14. The Raids 3 Twisted Bow is Disappointing (Heka of Tumeken OSRS), 2022-02-26. ▶ 1:58 ↩

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