RuneScape’s 23rd Anniversary Event Offers Fancy Hats And A Choice Of Daily Buffs

RuneScape is celebrating its 23rd anniversary, not with the traditional anniversary cape giveaway, but with a colorful birthday hat instead. The Birthday Buff Bonanza event has officially begun in the free-to-play MMORPG featuring daily buffs that you’ll need to activate to gain progress towards unlocking, not one, but two Fancy Hat headgears.

“Each [buff] activation from January 8th to 21st will earn you progress towards the fanciest hat in all of Gielinor,” says Jagex. “But there are two, you say? That's right, you'll get both a Fancy Hat and a Fancy Hat (Retro) – they're unlocked at the same time!”

As for the buffs themselves, you’ll be able to activate one of three daily buffs throughout the event that will fall into one of three categories: Combat, Skilling or Miscellaneous. The options will be the same for all players but you’ll only be able to choose one.

“Once you’ve chosen, you get a two hour buff that only ticks down while you are logged in. Feel free to take breaks,” the studio explains. “If the day ticks over while your buff is still active, you will be able to keep using it for its remaining duration as long as you don't log out or hit the lobby. Doing so will remove your active buff and give you the new day’s choice of buffs. You will not be able to stack multiple buffs on the same day.”

However, it’s worth noting that the buffs will only be available for active subscribers. Ironman and free-to-play players will be able to unlock a cosmetic override version of the Fancy Hat through other means.

Meanwhile, Jagex has made changes to the Vorkath loot table to include Tier 90-92 items that will allow you to enhance Dracolich armor without the need to use enhancement materials. The reward drops for both the normal and hard versions of the instance have also been tweaked.

Details can be found in the latest RuneScape newsletter here.