this sounds like it should be good!

Wow 10% damage boost! 33's barrage!

I agree, very cool. It now makes mag-rangers more effective.

This rocks! Especially when I'm doing fish of guthix

new login screen is awesome

There's a new minigame?
I always wanted a new fishing minigame. /sarcasm

I like the updates It'll make it so much easier to do stuff that you don't want to use a staff in.

EDIT: I can't log in!

EDIT2: I just got the newest version of Java, so it works now . I'd give you a picture, but the ImageShack Upload thing isn't working right for me.

THIS IS AMAZING TBH. cant wait to go pvp >;D

i dont really care about this as much as i care about the new login screen

this is just another way of saying "okay guys, we've made it so u can now bot mage without any programs"

This is great i can now use iban blast and flames of zamorak effectively!!!

Best update in a while from Rest.

That's really awesome

It's a good thing they don't let people autocast alching spell and such.

we can finally autocast without a staff!

Watch out in PvP.

This is what we asked for, now we get it. LD-FS and better mage-ing.

It's possible to autocast god spells now!

How is that good? ...

whee and i recently bought a set of combination elemental staffs
those will be going up now i expect

People can do 2000 alchemys or so afking. Lots of skills have been made easier.

I can't think of many things worse than auto-casting high alchemy O_o

Finally, a real improvement to magic! This won't exactly balance the combat triangle, but it's a start...

Everyone can but that isn't what we are talking about.

omg i found a bug just now, u dont need runes to cast ice burst !!!!!!!!!!

This is a great update I hope this is one of many steps toward rebalancing magic.

This looks like it is pretty good although while they were updating magic they should have made it so miasmic spells only half the attack speed of melee.

@ Egg: Why? They're not amoung the staves that make spells do 10% damage, so wouldn't they go down since they are no longer required to auto-cast spells?

Anyway, I don't get why they'd give us this update now, considering how the uprising of fail-casters is getting pretty bad, but it's still quite a cool update. Auto-casting God spells would probably be very helpful for certain things.

You've got to be kidding me.

What? I don't see anything wrong here...

Still elemental staffs would be useful for sparing runes, I like this update good IMO, thanks jagex.

That's really helping afk training.

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Yeah like by 1.2k

Doesnt this mean you can failcast curse now?

I repeat myself, by 1.2k

It doesn't apply to any non-cb spells.

Wut? I thought they said there were taking action against failcasters but they just made it easier! Now you don't need a staff, dropping the mage bonus even more in failcasting
Edit: Not that that really does anything anyway

You really don't need to- and shouldn't- repeat yourself. It's just spamming.

Yes it does, that's the first thing I thought when I read the update.
This is also very good overall, I think it's one of those updates that will balance out the Combat Triangle.

Great Jagex, you just made failcasting easier.

More hybriders just auto casting then just running up and specing with ags or so.

Well I guess this means that they're trying to balance mage with range and melee.

autocasting ancients without needing tonns of elemental runes...

I think a lot of ppl missing the point here... Yes you can autocast without staff however if u want to then attack with non-magic weapon you have to switch off autocast to do so therefore this shouldn't affect hybriding too much. That said failcasting is a little bit easier now...

Hmm... this is a nice update

No staff autocasting looks quite nice, and the 10% bonus too !


-Gaia

I think all you have to do is select the attack mode on the weapon tab (when you're autocasting, all the buttons are grey; none of them are lit up), so it's not as hard to change from autocasting to melee attacking.

I really think stuff like the Ancient staff and Ahrim's staff should give a larger damage bonus, while 10% goes to the Mystic Battlestaffs. Full Void Mage should give a huge damage bonus.

That said, awesome update. As a person who loves magic I'm glad it's finally seeing some upgrades. Particularly happy to be able to autocast God spells and Iban Blast.

I don't get why everybody hates failcasting. Quite frankly it seems like a good, if slow, method of training magic.
Tapping 5 with your toe to alch is still the best though.

Like this update, makes using magic a lot easier now.

Can't wait for the combat tiangle rebalance, next year.