History RuneScape / TropesHtoP

* PinataEnemy: The Living Rock Patriarch, which gives 30% more experience than a normal enemy and drops a number of noted items such as Diamonds, Rune Ore, Blood and Mud Runes as a 100% drop, totaling little over 200k for one kill, though it takes a couple hours to respawn per world and is surrounded by other aggressive monsters inside a single combat area.

* OutsideTheBoxTactic: This is a key aspect of "skilling bosses" in both [=RS3=] and [=OSRS=] and encounters like them (such as [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Big Game Hunter]]). These are foes that can only be defeated by using non-combat skills, though they tend to avert SheatheYourSword (you're still fighting the boss, just in an unconventional way).

*** Tagga, a miner called the Massacrer of Moles, suspected that the results of an attempt to exterminate small moles in Senntisten (while doing the sort of agricultural "cheating" that would lead to the Falador Giant Mole ages later) would only lead to lots of Giant Moles menacing the city. Tagga was ultimately proven right, as a mine outside the city held a veritable army of Giant Moles. Rather than let the armies of Senntisten get themselves killed trying to fight in the tunnels, Tagga snuck past the moles to weaken the mine's core support, telling their men to undermine the outer supports and collapsing the entire mine, burying the moles alive. (Tagga found the city's reaction--an honor conveying nothing of Tagga's actual skills or passions, only a single, desperate action in response to the city's stupidity, with a statue in the city graveyard to remind them of of their own mortality--disgusting.)

*** Tier 99 Curses, obtained by using a codex dropped by Nex: Angel of Death, are the Infinity Plus One Prayers and a substantial damage boost...and cost hundreds of millions of GP to obtain. And you only get one combat style's curse per codex used, meaning you'll need three total.

* InfinityPlusOneSword and InfinityMinusOneSword: Due to the sheer amount of weapons in the game, tendency for exponential price scaling with item quality, and power creep over time, high-level weapons often exist on a sort of gradient between the two--what's an InfinityPlusOneSword for one player might be an InfinityMinusOneSword for someone else, depending on that player's ability to make cash and their levels. (For Ironmen, who don't have access to the Grand Exchange, many more weapons fit the InfinityPlusOneSword description.)
** At present, the t95 Magic staff, the Fractured Staff of Armadyl is bar none 'the' Infinity +1 weapon. Requiring either '6 billion GP' (almost triple a max cash stack) or a grind of one of the hardest bosses in the game to solo (or a *very* long grind to obtain through duo or trio kills) and incredibly expensive upkeep, you’re rewarded with the remade form of one of the most storied Elder Artefacts in the entire game…and can deal the best DPS in the entire game with it while its special is active.

*** Enchanted Bakriminel Bolts, Deathspore Arrows, and Splintering Arrows act as the ammunition equivalent for Ranged, especially the former (which would have Tier 99 damage should a Tier 99 weapon exist outside of Daemonheim!)
** After that are the other t95s and strongest t92s: the Dark Blades of Leng (t95 melee dual wield), the Ek-Zekkil (t95 melee two-handed), the Eldritch Crossbow (t92 2h crossbow), the Blightbound Crossbows (t92 dual wield crossbows), the Seren Godbow (t92 bow), and the Wand of the Praesul and Imperium Core (t92 wand and orb). While nowhere near the power of the Fractured Staff of Armadyl, they remain incredibly good in their own right, each acting as the best weapons for those specific style combinations.

** At Tiers 70-80 (e.g. Chaotics, Godswords, the Armadyl Crossbow, Abyssal weapons, Barrows weapons, Crystal weapons, the Sunspear), we see weapons that are much easier to obtain yet are still moderately effective in high-level combat, with some costing less than 100,000 gp. Blisterwood weapons can be fletched with ease once you've completed The Branches of Darkmeyer. The Vanquish and Sunspear are t75 and t78 weapons that can be used in any combat style and only require questing to obtain.

* KillEmAll: Jagex's apparent solution on what to do with the Signature Heroes in the Sixth Age. They've dialed back after 2016, though.
** Sir Owen ends up [[spoiler:dead during "The Death of Chivalry", before being raised badly by Saradomin and remaining partially undead, unable to adventure again until a solution is found. The solution is eventually found offscreen, though, letting him return for Azzanadra's Quest]].
** Xenia tries to [[spoiler:hinder the plans of the Elder Gods in "Heart of Stone", and also ends up dead in a magical explosion. While she returns to help out in "Nomad's Elegy", she stays in the afterlife for good]].
** Linza finally gets ADayInTheLimelight in [[spoiler:"Kindred Spirits", and her main contribution to the plot is to betray the PlayerCharacter at the last hour in an ill-fated DealWithTheDevil (i.e. Sliske), ending with her getting killed off and immediately raised as the newest Barrows wight, "Linza the Disgraced"]].

* IdiotBall: Apparently duct-taped to [[spoiler:Linza]] in "Kindred Spirits" as [[spoiler:she made a DealWithTheDevil with Sliske to betray the PlayerCharacter to him in exchange for protection from the Dragonkin, when Sliske's deceptive and manipulative ''modus operandi'' should be common knowledge among the prominent heroes of the world. She ends up dead and is raised as Sliske's newest Barrows wight, fulfilling the "protection" end of the bargain]].

* PlotInducedStupidity: Several quests involve you being quite gullible. Of course, you ''can'' choose not to be gullible, but that unfortunately means [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption you can't finish the quest]].

* JokeItem: Several, especially the holiday items. Ironically, some of these are now the most valuable items in the game.

* NiceHat: The party hats. Their rare status makes them SeriousBusiness. The rarer ones are worth literally billions of coins, in a game where ten million per hour is fast.

** [[spoiler:Moia]], whose parents are [[spoiler:[[HumanMomNonhumanDad Lucien and an unknown woman]].]]

** At present, the t95 Magic staff, the Fractured Staff of Armadyl is bar none 'the' Infinity +1 weapon. Requiring either '6 billion GP' (almost triple a max cash stack) or a grind of one of the hardest bosses in the game to solo (or a *very* long grind to obtain through duo or trio kills), you’re rewarded with the fractured form of one of the most storied Elder Artefacts in the entire game…and can deal the best DPS in the entire game with it while its special is active.
** After that are the other t95s and strongest t92s: the Dark Blades of Leng (t95 melee dual wield), the Ek-Zekkil (t95 melee two-handed), the Eldritch Crossbow (t92 2h crossbow), the Blightbound Crossbows (t92 dual wield crossbows), the Seren Godbow (t92 bow) and the Wand of the Praesul and Imperium Core (t92 wand and orb). While nowhere near the power of the Fractured Staff of Armadyl, they remain incredibly good in their own right, each acting as the best weapons for those specific style combinations.
** After that are the weaker t92s, the strongest t90s (the Seismic Wand and Orb and the Noxious Scythe), and the “combat triangle” weapons. These aren’t as useful or as rare as the higher-level weapons, but they remain effective.
*** Enchanted Bakriminel Bolts, Deathspore Arrows, and Splintering Arrows act as the ammunition equivalent for Ranged, especially the former (which would have Tier 99 damage should a Tier 99 weapon exist outside of Daemonheim!)
*** The Combat Triangle weapons (Terrasaur Maul, Hexhunter Bow, Inquisitor's Staff) are only Tier 80, but can even outperform the Tier 92 weapons against enemies tagged as using the combat style they're strong against. Their prices put them mostly in the InfinityPlusOneSword range, though.

** Lesser Tier 90 and some Tier 88 weaponry (Drygore weapons, Noxious staff and bow, Ascension Crossbows, Seismic Wand/Orb, Spear of Annihilation) tends
to be similar but much less expensive.

** At Tiers 82-88 (e.g. God Wars Dungeon 2 general weapons, Superior Ancient Warriors' equipment, the Wyvern Crossbow), we start to see weapons that more clearly fit the InfinityMinusOneSword description. While many are still expensive by low-level standards (e.g. the Dragon Rider Lance) or require long grinds to obtain (Ports weapons), they tend to still be effective against high-level enemies (especially the Wyvern Crossbow and God Wars Dungeon 2 weapons).
** At Tiers 70-80 (e.g. Chaotics, Godswords, the Armadyl Crossbow, Abyssal weapons, Barrows weapons, Crystal weapons, the Sunspear), we see weapons that are much easier to obtain yet are still moderately effective in high-level combat, with some like the Abyssal Whip costing less than 100,000 gp. Blisterwood weapons can be fletched with ease once you've completed The Branches of Darkmeyer. The Vanquish and Sunspear are t75 and t78 weapons that can be used in any combat style and only require questing to obtain.

** [[https://runescape.wiki/w/Mod_Dolan%27s_rubber_duck Mod Dolan's rubber duck]] is an untradeable item that is dropped at a 10,000 rate from using the Fertiliser ability of legendary pets.

** The Arch-GLacor, the boss of the Glacor Front in the Elder God Wars Dungeon. The lore mentions even bigger versions of him called Ur-Glacors.

** The Arch-GLacor, the boss of the Glacor Front in the Elder God Wars Dungeon. There are even bigger versions of him called Ur-Glacors in lore.

* IdeaBulb: An emote.

** In the ''[=Old School RuneScape=]'' quest Dragon Slayer II, Galvek unleashes a fireball that ends up incinerating his master on Galvek's defeat.

* PyroManiac: Really, anybody training Firemaking counts, but Emmett from "The Firemaker's Curse" stands out. He's covered in burn scars, his idle animation is ''setting himself on fire for fun'' and rolling to put himself out (which explains the burn scars), and he's genuinely thrilled by the Firemaking puzzles in Char's caves. Also the name of an Invention perk for Firemaking that gives you a chance to burn all your remaining logs in your inventory at once.

* InterfaceScrew: Part of the Runescape 3 update was the New Interface System, a fully customizable [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin interface system]] intended to allow players to view the parts of the HUD relevant to the parts of the game they wanted to play, and minimize unwanted clutter. Unfortunately, editing the interface itself can be confusing for some, and the default layout is different from the classic one.