Ring of kinship

Ring of kinship

File:Ring of kinship melee.pngFile:Ring of kinship ranged.pngFile:Ring of kinship magic.png
Release date	April 12 2010 (Update)
Members?	No
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	No
Equipable?	Yes
Stacks?	No
High Alch	0 coins
Low Alch	0 coins
Value	1 coin
Destroy	You can get a new one from the Dungeoneering tutor outside the castle at Daemonheim.
On death	Not reclaimable from gravestone
Store price	Not sold
Examine	This ties you to your allies and enables party configuration in Daemonheim.
Weight	0 kg

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The Ring of kinship was released on 12 April 2010 along with the Dungeoneering skill. It provides an unlimited number of teleports to the Dungeoneering peninsula called Daemonheim, along with numerous other uses including the ability to enter the dungeons, view Dungeoneering party details and customise the ring to apply various combat and non-combat classes. The ring is given to the player by the Dungeoneering tutor at the entrance of Daemonheim and is the only item (other than the Orb of oculus, the Mad necklace or the Skill Pendant) that players are permitted to take into the dungeon from the surface. The Ring of Kinship made Dungeoneering accessible for all players. This item is available to both Pay-to-play and Free-to-play players. It gives no bonuses when worn. If this Ring is not among your Protected Items upon death, you will not be able to find it at your Gravestone and will have to manually get a new one.

Note: The Ring of kinship's teleport can not be used over Level 20 Wilderness, or while in combat.

Alternative methods of arriving at Daemonheim are:

• Taking a ferry from the dock behind Al Kharid bank, also accessible from Lumbridge swamp.
• Taking a ferry from the dock behind the bank in Taverley.
• Venturing through the Wilderness from Varrock and heading east.

A player teleporting using the Ring of kinship

Bonuses

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Attack bonus
0	0	0	0	0
Defence bonus
0	0	0	0	0
Other bonuses				Slot
0	0	0%	0

Parties

Each party of players is linked by a Ring of kinship which allows the player to form, join, and manage a party. There is also a room in Daemonheim which allows players to have a party selected at random for them.

To form a party, the player must click on the "Form Party" button in the Party Details interface. Once the party is formed, the player may invite other players to the party or leave the party (so others can invite the player). There are options to change the floor number and complexity level, and another to toggle Guide Mode on or off. It also shows the player's current progress and previous progress.

Reset Progress

There is also the option to reset progress. When your progress has been reset, you will keep your current prestige, which will give Dungeoneering experience from this prestige when completing dungeons again.

12 possible roles

Classes

As of 19 July, 2010, members can now customise their ring by purchasing class upgrades with Dungeoneering tokens. There are 12 possible classes, and only one may be active at a time. In order to take advantage of the upgrades, players must wear the rings.

If a player dies outside of Daemonheim with the ring, the player can regain it from the Dungeoneering Tutor for free. The ring will not lose its upgrade, and the tokens spent on upgrading the ring are not wasted.

An upgraded Ring of Kinship does not have any boost in a F2P world.

Role	Class	Effect
Meleer	Tank	Damage is reduced when wearing a shield
	Tactician	Increase the chance of hitting when in the accurate stance
	Berserker	Increases Strength level when in the aggressive stance
Ranger	Sniper	Increases the chance of a max-hit when in the long-range stance
	Keen-eye	Chance of decreasing an opponent's defence level by 1 when in the accurate stance
	Desperado	Increases Ranged level when in the rapid stance
Mage	Blazer	Damage increased when using Elemental spells
	Blaster	Chance to slow down an opponent's attack speed and snare them when attacking
	Blitzer	Chance of increasing the speed of casting Elemental spells
Skiller	Medic	Increases the amount of life points healed when healing other players
	Gatherer	Chance of gaining extra resources and reducing the damage taken when failing a skill task
	Artisan	Chance of saving resources when making items and increases Runecrafting levels when calculating multiple runes

Each ring has 10 tiers, and at each tier the effects are increased. The cost of upgrading increases dramatically after tier 8 because players who have earned enough tokens to achieve those tiers will also have a significantly increased capacity to earn Dungeoneering tokens.<ref name="dun1.5faq">Mod Emilee. "Game Update FAQ - 19/07/10". 25 July 2010. Recent Updates Forums. *</ref> To get tier 10 in all of the 12 roles you must obtain 3,878,580 tokens which is equivalent to at least 38,785,800 XP (Level 110).

Tier	Cost
	Upgrade	Cumulative
1	135 dungeoneering tokens	135 dungeoneering tokens
2	175 dungeoneering tokens	310 dungeoneering tokens
3	335 dungeoneering tokens	645 dungeoneering tokens
4	660 dungeoneering tokens	1,305 dungeoneering tokens
5	1,360 dungeoneering tokens	2,665 dungeoneering tokens
6	3,400 dungeoneering tokens	6,065 dungeoneering tokens
7	6,800 dungeoneering tokens	12,865 dungeoneering tokens
8	18,750 dungeoneering tokens	31,615 dungeoneering tokens
9	58,600 dungeoneering tokens	90,215 dungeoneering tokens
10	233,000 dungeoneering tokens	323,215 dungeoneering tokens
Total		323,215 dungeoneering tokens

Controversy

When the Ring of kinship classes were released on 19 July 2010 with the Dungeoneering 1.5 update, in the original update post, the berserker class effect was described as "Increases Strength levels when calculating damage."<ref>Mod Mark, Mod Chris L, Mod Liono and Mod Trick. "Dungeoneering Update". 19 July 2010. RuneScape News. *</ref> Players who purchased this class quickly discovered that when they used spears, they did not get the damage boost. They began to suspect that in order to gain the damage boost, they had to be in the aggressive stance, which spears did not have. They cited the Dungeoneering 1.5 Developers' Blog, which had a work-in-progress screenshot of the class interface which described the berserker class effect as "Increases max hit when in aggressive stance."<ref>Mod Liono. "Dungeoneering: Beyond the Release". 28 May 2010. Developers' Blogs. *</ref> Initially, Mod Mark H confirmed that the berserker class did not require the aggressive stance to use,<ref>Mod Mark H. "-PLEASE!- Change the Tank Ring". 19 July 2010. Recent Updates Forums. *</ref> however soon afterwards Mod Emilee and Mod Trick confirmed players' suspicions that they must be in the aggressive stance.<ref name="dun1.5faq"></ref><ref name="ModTrickconfirms">Mod Trick. "Bezerker problem, Mod Mark H". 21 July 2010. Recent updates Forums. *</ref> Many players were very upset by this, since many meleers use spears exclusively while in the dungeon, due to the fact that they have the ability to fight with stab, slash or crush without having to change weapons. They felt that they had wasted a vast amount of tokens on a ring that was of no use to them, and that they were not at fault due to the discrepancy between the Update post, the Game Guide, and the actual mechanics of the game. In response to this, Jagex began looking into ways to reimburse players,<ref name="ModTrickconfirms"></ref> and stated that they were working on a one-time only reset option, which was offered on August 19, 2010.

Other uses

Free players may find the Ring of kinship useful for a variety of tasks, as it teleports players very close to a bank. This can be used to make Fishing, Woodcutting, or Cooking less time consuming. Members can combine this ring with a Spirit graahk familiar for Runecrafting but using a TokKul-Zo (Charged) or Ring of duelling are still faster options. It is also a viable teleport to Al Kharid, since players can teleport to Daemonheim, then take the nearby ferry to Al Kharid. Although the teleport cannot be used within combat, it has no combat bonuses and is allowed to be taken onto Entrana. Law rune running can be convenient as banking time is shortened.

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  The Party interface

• The ring's right click options

  The ring's right click options

• The ring's teleport location

  The ring's teleport location

Trivia

• Prior to July 2011, if a player left a dungeon early by climbing the ladder in the start room, it was possible to rejoin the party by entering the name of a member currently in the party. This only worked if that member had private chat on. Typing the player's own name did not work and would result in the message, "You want to party with yourself?" It is no longer possible for a player to rejoin a party after leaving using the ladder in the start room.
• When the ring is held up to an open flame outside a dungeon, or when destroyed on top of the Wilderness North Volcano, a message appears, alluding to the One Ring from the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
• There is also an Easter egg if you use it on a fire inside Daemonheim.
• When one is on a Free to Play server and attempts to Teleport to Daemonheim with the ring while dungeoneering, a message will appear that says "You must be in a member's world to do this," although members may not teleport out of a dungeon via the ring either.
• If the Ring of Kinship is destroyed or banked before starting Dungeoneering, you will be granted another one.
• Whilst Dungeoneering, the Ring of Kinship cannot be destroyed.
• In Vengeance, one of the Fremennik Sagas, it is revealed that the Ring of Kinship is what makes you respawn when you die in Daemonheim.
• The Ring's teleport still uses the old teleportation sound.
• If you create a Dungeoneering party then leave it without entering a dungeon, a message will come up saying "You collect your toolbelt as you leave". Even though you did not enter a dungeon or even take the belt off.

• What happens when the ring is used on a regular fire outside of Daemonheim.

  What happens when the ring is used on a regular fire outside of Daemonheim.

• What happens when you attempt to destroy it at the Wilderness North Volcano.

  What happens when you attempt to destroy it at the Wilderness North Volcano.

• An easter egg when using the Ring of Kinship on a fire in a dungeon.

  An easter egg when using the Ring of Kinship on a fire in a dungeon.

References

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