Penance horn

Penance horn

Release date	19 January 2010 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	No
Equipable?	Yes
Stacks?	No
High Alch	0 coins
Low Alch	0 coins
Value	1 coin
Destroy	Yes
Store price	0 coins
Examine	An ornate horn with a fading inscription.
Weight	0.4 kg

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The Penance horn can be obtained for free from Commander Connad at the Barbarian Assault activity (no Barbarian Assault points are required to acquire the horn which comes uncharged). The item gives double experience to Agility, Mining and Firemaking (burning logs). When receiving double experience from a skill task, the Penance Horn will lose some of its charge. The charges can be regained by fighting through all ten waves of Barbarian Assault several times. The player can click 'Check-potential' on the horn to see how many charges it has remaining. It can be upgraded to a Penance master horn, but the player needs to be level 5 in any Barbarian Assault role. Neither item confers any combat bonuses.

To begin charging the horn, the player should enter any waiting room and rotate the statue located in the northern part of the room. After rotating, the horn will gain charges as the player plays the activity, but no honour points will be earned. Thus, the player cannot charge the horn and gain honour points at the same time. If the player dies with the horn, Commander Connad will give it back for free and with the same amount of charges it had before it was lost. The horn does not need to be taken in to the activity to obtain charges.

At least 10 cycles of waves are needed to charge the horn fully if a player does waves 1-10. However, some players prefer to do waves 1-5, which fills the horn after 36 cycles.

Agility

The XP reward can be spent by completing agility courses, excluding the Werewolf Skullball, Agility Pyramid and the Penguin agility courses. When doing the Dorgesh-Kaan agility course, the horn only affects the experience gained from the obstacles, not the bonus from Turgall. Around 1,400,000 experience will be gained from a full horn at level 99.

Firemaking

Players will receive double experience for lighting logs while using the penance horn. The experience gained from lighting beacons is not affected. The experience from burning pyre logs in the Shades of Mort'ton activity is also not doubled. The penance horn does not work with curly roots at the Jadinko lair either. The Ring of fire or Flame gloves bonus does apply to the extra XP given by the horn. In other words, the total experience rate is x2.02 or x2.05 with one or both (of the ring of fire/flame gloves) equipped, respectively.

Without the Ring of fire or Flame gloves bonus around 3,500,000 experience will be gained from a full horn, but with the Ring of fire and Flame gloves bonus around 3,560,000 experience will be gained from a full horn.

Mining

Mining ores gives double XP with the horn equipped. When used with a Sacred clay pickaxe, players will receive 3x the xp from the ore—neither will degrade any quicker.

Example:

• Mining iron without either the Sacred clay pickaxe or the horn earns you 35 XP.
• Mining iron with either the Sacred clay pickaxe or the horn earns 70 XP.
• Mining iron with both the Sacred clay pickaxe and the horn earns 105 XP.

Note: The experience bonus does not work with a Shooting Star, when teleporting mining urns or when mining the living mineral remains to obtain living minerals, nor does it work in the clan citadel mining spot. Around 1,200,000 experience will be gained from a full horn at level 99.

Stages

The completion of any wave fills your horn by exp based on the point total for that round, averaging around 100 waves, or 10 rounds of all 10 waves, for a full horn. It's widely debated whether doing the entire 10 waves ten times is faster to fill the horn - it's also possible to fill the horn by simply doing wave one 100 times, since the bonus for doing higher waves may or may not apply to obtaining potential. Doing waves 1-5 is recommended if using this method.

NOTE: As of 11/04/2012 the horn has been updated to display a percentage of potential. Please submit data on the talk page.

Message	Agility Exp	Firemaking Exp	Mining Exp
Your horn has 0% potential remaining	0	0	0
Your horn is almost empty	22,824	250,000	13,985
Your horn has only a little potential remaining	74,471	500,000	42,600
Your horn is less than a quarter full	189,243	750,000
Your horn has 25% potential remaining	285,712	1,000,000
Your horn is around a third full	357,140	1,250,000
Your horn is almost half full	428,568	1,500,000
Your horn has 50% potential remaining	499,996	1,750,000
Your horn is nearly two thirds full	571,424	2,000,000
Your horn is around two thirds full	642,852	2,250,000
Your horn is less than three quarters full	714,280	2,500,000
Your horn has 75% potential remaining	785,708	2,750,000
Your horn is more than three quarters full	857,136	3,000,000
Your horn is almost full	928,564	3,250,000
Your horn has 100% potential remaining	999,992	3,500,000