RuneScape Road Trip 2015 kicks off on the 1st of May � a month of task chasing and community events for where you'll uncover some cool rewards.
Tick off tasks in your new Road Trip Journal � by yourself or with JMod help � and unlock the four-tier Explorer's Aura, which grants you increasing access to your own personal combat or skilling area throughout the month.
Complete the lot and get a new companion pet, plus the Hiker's outfit and Partyhat Firemaking animation, if you missed them last year.
Read on for more information!
To start, speak to Challenge Mistress Fara in Burthorpe or Challenge Mistress Heriau in Prifddinas. They'll give you your Road Trip Journal so you can get started.
You can manually complete one task per day. You can also automatically complete tasks, using chits gained once per day by heading to Lumbridge Crater and receiving one from a JMod!
To make sure no-one misses out, JMods will dispatch a team of highly trained JMod clones every four hours on weekends, as well as the 4th and 25th of May.
With those two exceptions, JMods will be available - in person - every weekday in May to hand out chits at 12:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC with JMod clones available regularly outside those hours. For full details of when you can collect your chits from JMods or their cloned counterparts, .
Note that chits can be stored up and used at any point during the month.
Tasks fall into four categories:
Skilling:
Combat:
Social/Minigame:
Miscellaneous:
Each task you complete � manually or by skipping � gets you an XP lamp.
Complete a category and you'll unlock the Explorer's Aura. Once per day� for 30 days from when you first unlock it � this will grant you access to an instanced area where you can skill or kill to your heart's content, with increased XP and gathering rates.
Right-click the aura itself to spawn a portal to the area. Whenever you enter, you'll choose whether it contains combat or skilling content. It will contain enemies or skilling spots appropriate to your level, and you can change by leaving and re-entering the area. It'll always contain a bank chest and deposit box.
As you complete more categories, the aura's tier will increase � and so will its activation time:
Note that � upon increasing tier � the aura can be activated again the same day.
Each category will also reward you with a compass piece, and when you've got all four of these the completed compass will lead you to the final Road Trip reward: a companion pet and large XP lamp.
You can also get the hiker's outfit from last year by claiming the journal and completing categories, if you don't already have it:
Finally, you can claim the Partyhat Firemaking animation override by completing all the categories, if you don't have it from last year.
We're also running a set of bonus weekends, similar to last year. The order and duration of some of the bonuses has changed, so do read through the list below.
Note that all bonuses start and end at 12:00 UTC (Game Time), on the days given. Ironman accounts are not eligible for these bonuses.
Skiller Weekend | 1st May - 4th May
Minigame Weekend | 8th May - 11th May
Dungeoneering Weekend | 15th May - 18th May
Special Ports Bonus | 15th May - 1st June
Slayer & Boss Weekend | 22nd May - 25th May
There are some cracking bonuses to be had over the May weekends, so gather some friends and get stuck in!
Hit the road and have a magnificent May! Have fun, and over on the forums.
The RuneScape Team