OSRS Huge Upcoming Varlamore The Rising Darkness Update

If you have been enjoying the new continent, Varlamore since its release, you will enjoy it a lot more. Check out this guide to learn all about the new updates coming to this continent, including quests, areas, bosses and skilling activities!

Varlamore Rising Darkness

This is the first update that will be coming to Varlamore this year, planned to release on 25th of September. So what are they adding in? Well firstly there will be a huge new area to explore in Varlamore. The theme for this area seems to be that of vineyards and summer! There is also a second area that includes a mountain with a boss fight. Within these new areas there will be two newly added quests, let’s check them out!

Heart of Darkness

This quest will follow the storyline of the previous quests so you will need to have completed the quest “Children of the Sun” and “Twilight’s Promise”. You can click on the names of the quest to check out our guides on them! You will also need to have the following skill requirements:

• Level 55 Mining
• Level 48 Thieving
• Level 48 Slayer
• Level 46 Agility

You will also need to have some decent combat gear with the recommended combat level being level 65!

Death on the Isle

This quest is pretty much Murder Mystery 2, where you will be investigating a murder case, questioning servants, guards, landlords and maybe even a dog! To start this quest you will need to have the following requirements:

• Completion of Children of the Sun.
• Level 40 Thieving
• Level 45 Agility
• Level 30 Crafting

This quest will also have a combat encounter as the recommended combat level is 50!

More Unannounced Quest

Jagex also teased us with some quests, but they didn’t get into the specifics of them. All we know is that this quest will require the completion of “The Ribbiting Tale of a Lily Pad Labour Dispute”, which if you have not done already you can check out our quest guide on it!

New Group Boss - Hueycoatl

This boss seems like a hybrid of a bird and a Chinese dragon. Found on top of the newly added Darkfrost mountain, this boss is a mid-level group encounter that can be really profitable! The current recommended combat level for this boss is 90+ with having access to the protection prayers, but who doesn’t have that am I right?

Mechanics

First and foremost this boss will not be an instanced encounter, so anyone that has climbed the mountain can hop into the boss fight. However, there is a player limit of 20 per world so on the release date you might need to hop some worlds. Jagex also mentions a solo option for the encounter and it is most likely going to work the same way as instanced God Wars Dungeon. Interestingly enough there will be dwarves and priests that will help you in your battle against this ferocious creature. Dragonbane weapons will also be especially effective against this boss!

This boss has a huge serpent like body and throughout his life he dug and created a lot of holes for his body to pass through the mountain. At the beginning of this encounter you will be climbing up this mountain and your road will be constantly blocked by the body parts of this coiled snake, as you chop your way on top of the mountain, the fight will get increasingly more difficult and when you reach the peak you will be face to face with this boss! Here is the TL:DR version:

• You will join the dwarven party to raid this monster.
• You will start climbing up the mountain to kill it.
• Furthermore, you will be attacking the parts of this monster that are sticking out from the mountain while avoiding hazards. Protection prayers will be a must for this part.
• When you get through the body parts you will climb to the summit and fight the head.
• This creature can use its tail to defend itself and when that happens you will need to break his defense.
• Hit its head until it's dead!

With the knowledge of the following rewards we also assume that the boss will be weak to magic attacks, especially earth spells but this is just a speculation.

Rewards

Let’s talk about the most exciting part of this boss fight, rewards!

Tome of Earth

Following the trend of the elemental books, the earth one will be joining the tome family! Like other tomes when charged, this will provide infinite earth runes and a +10% damage boost to earth spells. You can charge this tome with soiled pages, which can also be obtained from the boss.

Dragon Hunter Wand

Finally we are getting the missing link to the dragon hunter weaponry! Like other dragon hunter weapons this will be especially effective against the dragonkin. Let’s see what this wand can do:

• This wand requires level 65 Magic to wield and can autocast any spell from the standard spellbook at the usual 5-tick speed.
• It will provide the user with +10% Magic strength, +50% Dragonbane accuracy and +20% Dragonbane strength!

This wand will be super effective against any dragonkin slayer task that has a weakness to spells!

Hueycoatl Hide Armor

This new set will just be like any other dragonhide set, meaning it will have a head, body, legs and vambraces. This new set however will be an improvement to the blessed dragonhide armor which is currently the best hide armor for Ranged in the game. It is not that huge of a difference tho, it will have +8 prayer bonus and +9 magic defence bonus over the blessed dragonhide.

This set will also require level 40 Defence and level 70 Ranged to equip, but like always legs and vambraces will have no defence requirement!

Prayer Regeneration Potion

The final reward you can get from this boss is a prayer regeneration potion. If you are familiar with Runescape 3 you know what this is already, bur for those who do not know, here is what it does:

• After drinking this potion your prayer will regenerate 1 point every 12 ticks for 8 minutes.
• This should equal 8 points per minute and a total of 66 points overall per dose.

To create this new beautiful potion you will need to have a brand new herb. To get this herb first you will need to get the herb seed from the boss itself. Once you have the herbs you will combine it with the brand new ingredient Aldarium. This process will require level 58 Herblore.

If you are wondering where you can get the new secondary it is explained in the next section!

New Herblore Training Method - Mastering Mixology

This new activity is the Giant’s Foundry equivalent for Herblore. It is a mini game that offers lower experience but costs much less while providing a shop with incredible rewards.

This activity does not use any secondary ingredients so you might want to stack up on herbs. In this activity you will be receiving orders and processing herbs and brewing potions from those to satisfy these orders. Here is a step by step guide:

1. Take your unnoted herbs and use them on the refiner. This processes them. It auto processes all your herbs in your inventory but you can manually click to fasten this process.
2. Refining herbs will give you “Mox, Aga or Lye” pastes, and you will need all three of these to satisfy the requests. So before starting to play this minigame, stock up these ingredients as much as you can.
3. You can store 300 of each ingredient into a hopper, you can bank the rest.
4. Once you start you will be presented with 3 potion orders which you can choose from, just like the Giant’s foundry. You don’t need to memorise anything as there will be notes to tell you what you need to put in and mix.
5. After this you will need to use the levels to mix the ingredients and this process will fill up the mixing vessel.
6. After mixing the ingredients, you will need to pick up the mixed vessel and either concentrate, crystallise or homogenise it, using the corresponding machines.

1. After you are done with your work, place it on the conveyor belt to receive your rewards. The points you will receive are dependent on how much Mox, Aga or Lye you used to create the potion.
2. Use the points to purchase brand new rewards and enjoy the process!

Rewards

Here are the rewards that you can expect to buy from this minigame.

Potion Packs (Money Making)

This pack just like the herb, gem or the clay pack is an untradeable pack that rewards tradable potions to the player. There will be three variants for this pack that you can choose from:

• Apprentice pack which requires level 60 Herblore
• Adept pack which requires level 70 Herblore
• Expert pack which requires level 85 Herblore

The higher tier the pack you open the better rewards that you will get! So start grinding that Herblore level, if you want a quick guide on how to get to Level 85 Herblore, check out our guide by clicking here.

Aldarium & Goading Potions (Money Making)

These two potions will be tradable, and they are quite amazing.

The potion of Goading will aggro any nearby non-aggressive enemies within a 9x9 of your player character. This potion will be incredible for AFKing and training Slayer!

You will be able to earn a new secondary called Aldarium from this activity and if you read the boss rewards you know what this is used for! Using this ingredient with a harralander potion will create a Potion of Goading, which requires level 54 Herblore. Also you can use this ingredient together with the Huasca herbs to create the Prayer Regeneration potion. This requires level 58 Herblore.

Reagents Pouch (Must Get, Quality of Life)

This reward is untradeable. This item is the counterpart to the herb sack, it will store 26 of all secondary ingredients making traditional herblore training much more efficient and AFK. You also do not need to manually remove the ingredients the game will automatically use the ingredients stored in the pouch!

Alchemist Outfit (Must Get For Herblore)

This is yet another skilling outfit being added to the game, and trust me you will want to get this one before training Herblore.

Wearing this outfit will provide you with a 10% chance to save your secondary ingredient from being used.

Pre-Pot Device (Optional, Quality of Life)

This item is a huge quality of life item for all you raiders out there. You can fill up this device with potions of your choice and click once to consume all of those potions at once. This will save time, as you don’t need to constantly bank your potions, take out new ones and so forth.

Potion Storage (Must Get, Huge Quality of Life)

This unlock will provide you with a separate interface in your bank where you can store any and all of your potions without taking up bank space and don’t worry this will not make banking potions more annoying, you will still be able to store your potions to your bank tabs like you would normally do, but now they will not take any bank space.

New Colossal Wyrm Agility Course 

Here is a quick breakdown of this Agility Course:

• It has two routes, first one requiring Level 50 Agility and second one Level 62 Agility.
• This course provides lower experience rates than other courses of the same level. However it is more relaxed as the animations are much longer.
• As you run this course there is a chance to obtain termites, just like marks of grace. You can bring these termites Worm Tongue to purchase some rewards.

Rewards

First and foremost you can buy Colossal Wyrm Agility course teleport to increase your efficiency with this course.

Secondly you can buy Amylase packs to craft those potions.

Thirdly you can buy a re-colour for your graceful set, which looks pretty dope not gonna lie.

Lastly you can buy a squirrel transmog which turns your little guy into a skeleton.

If you are looking to dive deeper, here is the OSRS team's video about this update!

Well this is it for the first update to Varlamore. We will update you further when there is more news so keep an eye out for our blog posts!