Deadman: Armageddon

Deadman: Armageddon
Type		Deadman
Open date		19 July 2024
End date		3 August 2024
Update blog		Deadman: Armageddon & While Guthix Sleeps Updates
Removal update		Unknown (edit)

Deadman: Armageddon is an updated variant of Deadman Mode released on 19 July 2024 that lasted until 3 August 2024. This variant of Deadman was announced during the 2024 Winter Summit. During the summit, it was stated that this variant will have larger breach events, the return of sigils with improvements, keys and other additional content.

Official worlds

World	Location	Members	Activity
581	United States (east)		3-50 Deadman
557	Germany		3-50 Deadman
543	United States (west)		3-50 Deadman
542	United States (west)		3-50 Deadman
562	United Kingdom		3-50 Deadman
595	Australia		3-50 Deadman
471	United States (east)		51-70 Deadman
461	Germany		51-70 Deadman
440	United States (west)		51-70 Deadman
592	Australia		51-70 Deadman
403	United States (east)		71-90 Deadman
457	Germany		71-90 Deadman
411	United States (west)		71-90 Deadman
590	Australia		71-90 Deadman
402	United States (east)		91-110 Deadman
406	Germany		91-110 Deadman
410	United States (west)		91-110 Deadman
536	Australia		91-110 Deadman
401	United States (east)		111-126 Deadman
405	Germany		111-126 Deadman
409	United States (west)		111-126 Deadman
412	Australia		111-126 Deadman

Sigils

Main article: Deadman: Armageddon/Sigils

Sigils are useful power-ups similar to the relics of Trailblazer Reloaded. They provide XP boosts, speed increases, combat boosts, and other benefits.

To use a sigil, a player must attune to it while in a safe zone. This causes it to become untradeable (although the player may still lose it on death). Players can unattune to a sigil while in a safe zone, causing it to become tradeable again. Up to three sigils can be active at any one time. Unlike Deadman: Reborn, players are not restricted to having only two combat sigils at a time.

Sigils come in three tiers. When a player starts Deadman: Armageddon for the first time, they will be presented with a selection of Tier 2 sigils. The selection is the same each time for all players, but this allows the player to attempt different strategies as Deadman progresses. The three starting sigils cannot be traded on the Grand Exchange until players can access the 71-90 bracket world.

Sigils can be obtained as drops from NPCs and monsters as part of the Deadman-only drop table, training gathering skills, and can be traded via the Grand Exchange. However, they cannot be traded directly from player to player. A random sigil can also be claimed every 24 hours as part of a starter pack.

Trinkets

Trinkets are items that have special abilities. They obtained through either killing monsters, through other players in the Grand Exchange, or through breaches.

There are four trinkets available in Deadman: Armageddon:

Trinket	Effect	Notes
Trinket of advanced weaponry	Opening it will give players a random corrupted weapon	This trinket can only obtained as a drop from monsters spawned in a breach
Trinket of fairies	Allows players to remotely access fairy rings and spirit trees
Trinket of undead	Summons a random thrall	This trinket has a 10 second cool down
Trinket of vengeance	Casts the Vengeance spell	This trinket has a 30 second cool down

Breaches

Time and location

At predetermined moments of the day, two breaches would open in random locations and begin spawning a stream of boss monsters. One breach will open in a single-way combat location, while the other will appear in a multicombat area. Breaches can appear in any dangerous area of the world, that is to say, anywhere outside of safe zones. Players will be notified of the locations once the breaches spawn. Players can speak to Perdu to find the location of any active breaches. Breach NPCs that aren't killed by the time a breach finishes will stick around for 30 minutes before despawning. After a player earns 42,000 points from breaches, they will no longer be able to earn points there.

A set of breaches will tear open at three fixed points in time every day, and a fourth random time.

• 02:00 UTC
• 10:00 UTC
• 19:00 UTC
• Random time each day

More monsters will travel through the breach in higher level bracket worlds. Multiple players can attack the same boss that spawned through a breach in a single-way combat zone; players can also be attacked by another player in a single area if they are not being attacked by the boss.

Breach boss rewards

Breaches are the only way to obtain blighted items and Ancient Warriors' weapons in the Deadman Armageddon tournament. Bosses that spawn through a single-way breach and those that spawn through the multi-way breach both share the same loot mechanics. All bosses share the same loot table.

Loot from the Breach monsters will be as follows:

• The MvP (player with the most damage to the boss) will have a chance to get a unique drop.
• The non-MvPs (top 15 players that have dealt damage to the boss) will receive regular breach loot and chitin.
• Players who did damage to the breach monsters but did not do enough damage to be in the top 15 damage dealers will not receive loot or points for that kill.

Monsters slain at breaches have a chance of dropping corrupted weaponry, which are variants of existing weapons with lower equipment requirements, as well as approximately 20% lower offensive bonuses compared to their regular counterparts. There are seven pieces of corrupted weaponry in total:

Notes

Bracket worlds

Starting out

As players gain additional combat levels on their Deadman: Armageddon profile, they will progress through five distinct combat brackets, with each combat bracket having access to a separate world. Upon entering a new combat bracket, including the starting one, players will be given one hour of PvP protection, meaning they cannot attack nor be attacked by other players. Certain bosses cannot be fought while the protection period is in effect.

On first entering a Deadman: Armageddon world, players will find a starter pack in their inventory containing some basic untradeable weaponry for all three combat classes, coupled with twelve tunas. These packs are again given out after dying at the hands of another player, and can also be reclaimed from one of the combat tutors if lost. Starter weapons cannot be used to attack other players.

Players can also receive a free teleport to certain destinations once a day by speaking to Nigel. Count Check will not teleport the player to the Stronghold of Security however.

Multipliers

As players move up the combat brackets, they will gain the benefits of increasingly higher experience multipliers, in addition to an ever greater drop rate multiplier for a specific list of unique items. Nigel cannot help players lose experience they have gained, and as no experience is lost on death, it is not possible to move back down a combat bracket in Deadman: Armageddon. Players can ask Nigel to lock their experience, preventing any further experience gain for all combat skills.

The experience multipliers are also applied to experience rewards obtained through lamps. Prayer is counted as a combat skill for the purpose of these multipliers.

Level bracket			Combat XP	Skilling XP	Drop rate
3	–	50	10x	10x	2x
51	–	70	10x	10x	3x
71	–	90	15x	10x	3x
91	–	110	15x	10x	3x
111	–	126	15x	10x	4x

Automatic quest unlocks

Finally, players will automatically unlock certain quests as they move through the combat brackets, which are listed below. Starting with the second bracket, players will also be given the choice between two smaller lists of quests upon entering a new bracket, of which they can unlock one. It is not required to have picked the partial set of quests from a storyline in order to choose the complete storyline later on. On entering a new bracket, players can pick which storyline they would like to unlock at a time of their own choosing.

No experience is received in the form of a quest reward for automatically completed quests. Likewise, experience rewards that can normally be claimed after a quest's completion (such as Daero's training) cannot be claimed if the quest has been unlocked automatically.

Items normally received as quest rewards will not be awarded, although re-obtainable quest rewards can be reclaimed as though they had been lost, and a small number of special items can be claimed from the combat tutors in Lumbridge upon automatically unlocking certain quests.

3 – 50	51 – 70	71 – 90	91 – 110	111 – 126
Ernest the Chicken Goblin Diplomacy Rune Mysteries Shield of Arrav Druidic Ritual Priest in Peril The Restless Ghost Animal Magnetism Holy Grail Merlin's Crystal Alfred Grimhand's Barcrawl Fairytale II - Cure a Queen Fairytale I - Growing Pains Lost City Nature Spirit	RFD: Another Cook's Quest RFD: Mountain Dwarf RFD: Goblin Generals RFD: Pirate Pete RFD: Lumbridge Guide RFD: Evil Dave RFD: Skrach Uglogwee Slayer reward: Bigger and Badder	RFD: King Awowogei Tree Gnome Village The Grand Tree Monkey Madness 1 Troll Stronghold Slayer reward: Malevolent masquerade	RFD: Sir Amik Varze Dragon Slayer I Heroes' Quest	Recipe for Disaster Black Knights' Fortress Murder Mystery One Small Favour Shilo Village Jungle Potion King's Ransom
	Option 1	Option 1	Option 1	Option 1
	Fremennik storyline #1 – #4 (complete) The Fremennik Trials The Fremennik Isles Lunar Diplomacy The Fremennik Exiles	Gnome storyline #1 – #4 (complete) The Grand Tree The Eyes of Glouphrie Monkey Madness I Monkey Madness II	Desert storyline #1 – #4 (partial) Prince Ali Rescue Icthlarin's Little Helper Contact! Beneath Cursed Sands	Dragonkin storyline #1 – #3 (complete) Dragon Slayer I A Tail of Two Cats Dragon Slayer II
	Option 2	Option 2	Option 2	Option 2
	Elf storyline #1 – #5 (partial) Plague City Biohazard Underground Pass Regicide Roving Elves	Mahjarrat storyline #1 – #6 (partial) The Dig Site Hazeel Cult Fight Arena Enakhra's Lament Temple of Ikov Desert Treasure I	Myreque storyline #1 – #5 (partial) In Search of the Myreque In Aid of the Myreque Darkness of Hallowvale A Taste of Hope A Night at the Theatre	Mahjarrat storyline #7 – #11 (partial) Making Friends with My Arm Hazeel Cult Fight Arena The General's Shadow Devious Minds His Faithful Servants Secrets of the North

Deaths, skulls, and safezones

Deaths

The consequences of dying in Deadman: Armageddon largely resemble those of dying in permanent Deadman Mode in terms of bank raiding, meaning:

• When dying at the hands of another player, the ten most valuable items or item stacks in the victim's bank are given to the killer in the form of a bank key.
  • In the case of item stacks, 80% of the stack is handed to the killer, while 20% is kept by the victim.
  • Items stored in a safe deposit box, accessed by speaking to a Financial Wizard, are protected from any bank robbery.
• Trade offers that are listed on the Grand Exchange at the time of death are irrevocably lost.

In other areas however, key differences exist:

• No experience is lost on death, under any scenario.
• Whether someone is skulled or not has no influence on how death plays out outside of a safezone. All equipped items are lost on death to a monster or player, whether skulled or not.
• In the event a skulled player dies inside a safezone, the fate of their untradeable items depends on whether they have been hit by another player:
  • If no player has hit them, untradeable items will be lost entirely.
  • If they have been hit by another player, untradeable items will either break or be given to the opponent depending on the item.
• Attuned sigils are always kept, and any sigils in the bank (including unattuned ones) are always kept.
• When dying at the hands of another player, a starter pack is handed out upon respawning in Lumbridge.

Skulls

Although skulling plays no meaningful role in death behaviour, some limitations still result from sporting a skull:

• Skulled players cannot attune or unattune sigils;
• Safezones cannot be accessed while skulled;
• Certain unsafe areas are inaccessible to skulled players as well.

Safezones

The areas designated as a safezone are largely the same as they were during the Deadman: Reborn game mode, which are marked on the following map of Deadman Reborn safezones. In addition to those areas, the Warriors' Guild is a safezone as well in Deadman: Armageddon.

Points

Main article: Deadman: Armageddon/Points

Points can be earned through a variety of activities during Deadman: Armageddon, such as completing Combat Achievements, Achievement Diaries, Treasure Trails, killing bosses, or gaining levels. These points allow players to climb the dedicated leaderboard, in addition to earning a chance of partaking in the prize money, which is distributed to randomly selected players among those who earned the highest number of points. Players will not be able to gain points during the finale. Point accumulation ends when the servers close on 3 August.

Points only determine one's position on the leaderboard and influence the distribution of prize money, but serve no gameplay purpose besides that.

For an overview of all the various activities that award points, see the main article.

Rules

Allowed

• Swapping gold between a main game profile and a Deadman Armageddon profile is allowed, but as it necessarily involves trust trades, doing so is at each player's own risk.

Disallowed

The following actions are not permitted during the Deadman Armageddon tournament.

• The use of illegal third-party clients or plugins, that is to say clients that are not on the list of approved third-party clients.
• Muling, the practice of safely storing items on a secondary account.
• Boxing, or engaging in fights with allied players or monsters to avoid combat with other players.
• X-logging, a technique used to avoid other players by closing the client while attacking a monster in a single-way combat area.
• Ragging, or the practice of targeting specific players while carrying little to no risk, often with disruptive intent.
• Account sharing, that is have multiple people take turns playing one account in order to accrue points, gear, and levels as intensively as possible in a limited-time tourney.

Finale and prizes

The last player left alive in each of the finale worlds will walk away with a nice chunk of change, with other prizes doled out via raffle. A player's chances improve depending on how many points they have accumulated.

• Each of the five finale winners will receive $3,000, for a total of $15,000.
  • This is increased from last year, where finale winners took home $1,000.
• One of the top five players, based on points, will win $1,000.
• Two of the top 25 players, based on points, will win $1,000 each.
• Three of the top 1% of players, based on points, will win $1,000 each.
• Two of the top 5% of players, based on points, will win $1,000 each.
• Two of the top 20% of players, based on points, will win $1,000 each.
• In addition, no contestant can win twice. If player is the last survivor and win $3,000, they will not be eligible for any of the points-based prizes.

If a player's points total puts them higher up the leaderboard, then they will still be eligible for all of the lower draws - assuming they have not won a prize already. This means that a player in the top five would be eligible for all five of the raffle draws unless they have already won a prize.

Winners

On 28 August 2024 the winners were announced in an update blog:

Bracket winners - $3,000 each:

• 45 – 50 bracket: Taatuh DMM
• 51 – 70 bracket: Antibone
• 71 – 90 bracket: solo timbo
• 91 – 110 bracket: KalculatorV4
• 111 – 126 bracket: N/A - Pending further checks

Points-based winners - $1,000 each:

• Gl Im Tom
• KoruKoru
• Deadmen RS
• Yberi
• ufj
• Osetek
• Pro Invasion
• Pile ofDeath
• ahka TOA
• Mooonaltray

Rewards

See also: Deadman Reward Store

Reward		Deadman points	Description
	Armageddon weapon scroll	12,000	Take this to Nigel to give the Armadyl Godsword, Volatile Nightmare Staff, Dark Bow and Voidwaker a cosmetic theme from Deadman: Armageddon.
	Armageddon cape fabric	6,000	Take this to Nigel to give the imbued Saradomin, Guthix or Zamorak Cape a cosmetic theme from Deadman: Armageddon.
	Armageddon teleport scroll	9,000	A scroll which unlocks the Deadman: Armageddon home teleport animation.
	Armageddon rug	3,000	A fearsome yet stylish souvenir from Deadman: Armageddon.

W345 Transfer

After the event a players character, pets, stats and untradeable items will transfer to world 345. However all tradeable items will be lost including those in the safety deposit box. In world 345 transferred players will get 12 hours protection and spawn in Lumbridge.

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:31 July 2024| |0}} {{#explode:31 July 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:31 July 2024| |2}}]] (update)	The prices of certain Deadman items for bank keys has been adjusted. If a player getting special attacked by the Morrigan’s javelin is using Protect from Missiles, the bleed damage should now correctly respect this and be reduced by 40%. Taking the cages up and down in Chasm of Fire deals damage to the player, as intended. These changes only apply to Deadman mode. Fixed a bug where losing one minute of Deadman protection when logging out wasn't working, leaving it vulnerable to infinite protection abuse. If you chose the Path of Mahjarrat from the tier 4 Quest Lamp, you can now correctly claim 10 museum kudos for the Curse of the Empty Lord miniquest. The new Deadman versions of the imbued Mage Arena capes can now be stored in the cape rack space of the Player Owned House.
[[{{#explode:24 July 2024| |0}} {{#explode:24 July 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:24 July 2024| |2}}]] (update)	The infernal chef now gives cooked karambwan as opposed to poisoned. The number of cyclops in the cyclops room of the Warriors' Guild now scales with the number of players in the room. Players can no longer roll the skilling supply loot table while mining rune essence, and can no longer chop undead trees. The doors in the Grand Tree no longer change locations on Deadman worlds. Players will no longer receive skilling supply Loot when in an instance. The rate of the bleed effect on Morrigan’s javelin has been increased and the damage per hit has been increased to 10. The UI now correctly reflects the remaining time before this year's Deadman ends. The warning messages that played when players attuned to Sigil of the Fortune Farmer and interacted with impling jars has been removed. The quantity of breach NPCs at region breaches has been increased. The number of Slayer points required to choose a task when using the Sigil of Slaughter has been increased from 30 to 60. Players with less than 90 Slayer points will be warned that they won’t have enough points to cancel a selected task. When attempting to log in to a Deadman world with W45 data, players will now be informed that they must reset their permanent Deadman account with Nigel in Lumbridge. Deadman tournament accounts, specifically one Defence pures, can now progress through Heroes' Quest. Normal Deadman and other normal accounts remain unchanged. Multiple 3-50 and 51-70 Deadman worlds were removed.

Sources

Newsposts

Post	Date
Deadman: Armageddon & While Guthix Sleeps Updates	17 July 2024
Deadman: Armageddon - First Look	21 May 2024