# RuneScape Combat Mastery Achievements - Product: RuneScape (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/runescape) - Vendor: Jagex Ltd - Date: 2025-02-17 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1343400/view/569245302427484431 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/runescape/releases/2025-02-17-combat-mastery-achievements What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Combat Mastery Achievements system with 6 tiers (Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite, Master, Grandmaster) split into Kill Speed, Kill Count, and Mechanical achievement categories - **added** — War's Blessing passive reward system with 4 tiers that unlock at point thresholds (19, 137, 659, 1351) to enhance combat progression - **added** — War's Grimoire item at War's Retreat that allows swapping between unlocked spellbooks after 750 boss kills, and prayer switching at Tier 3 War's Blessing - **added** — Ability to choose boss rotation for Barrows: Rise of the Six and Araxxor encounters upon reaching Tier 3 War's Blessing - **added** — Ability to choose boss rotation for Vorago encounter upon reaching Tier 4 War's Blessing - **changed** — Previous achievements moved into the new Combat Mastery system - **changed** — Kill count achievements are retroactively applied to player accounts upon update launch, but kill speed achievements are not retroactive Listen up Project, War has a new task for you. Combat Mastery Achievements are here. Have you wrecked and ruined your way through the bosses of Gielinor? Ready to flaunt your PvM power level? **Combat Mastery Achievements** are made for players just like you—gain recognition for your PvM prowess by completing new combat-focused tasks. This exciting new achievement system will have you tackling challenges of all difficulties as you take on bosses from 24 years of PvM history. The **Combat Achievements** are split into 6 tiers: **Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite, Master,** and **Grandmaster**! The question is, where will you land? ##### **Where to get started** To get started on this journey you just need to open up your Hero menu (F1) and go to the Achievement tab, here you will find a new section for Combat Mastery and can track your progress and plan out your next goals. You can also head down to War's Retreat to speak with War about Combat Mastery. ##### **How does it work?** Launching with this update is a whole slew of new Combat Achievements alongside several previous achievements being moved into this system. These Achievements are generally split into three main categories: **Kill Speed, Kill Count** and **Mechanical** achievements. - **Kill Speed - Defeat a boss within a timeframe.** - **Kill Count - Defeat a boss a certain number of times** - **Mechanical - Defeat a boss in a specified way such as avoiding being hit by a specific boss mechanic.** Mechanical achievements may be split into two additional achievement subtypes. **Unorthodox** and **Perfect**. - **Unorthodox - Complete the encounter in an 'unorthodox' way, such as not resolving mechanics** - **Perfect - Complete the encounter in a 'perfect' way, such as avoiding all avoidable boss mechanics** Kill times were calculated using boss completion data from the past year. We established breakpoints for each difficulty tier based on our target distribution of players across categories, further refining these with personal experience and insights from our internal team. **Kill count achievements** will be retroactively applied to your account once the update goes live, but **kill speed achievements** will not be retroactive. Keep in mind that current kill times don’t account for the exact number of players in an instance—only that the total number of players was within or below the recommended limit for the encounter. Each achievement will fall into one of the tiers, and you'll accumulate points based on the tier of the achievement you complete : Tier # of tasks Points per task Points in tier Easy 19 1 19 Medium 58 2 116 Hard 173 3 519 Elite 172 4 688 Master 92 5 460 Grandmaster 44 6 264 Total 558 2066 You don’t need to complete the achievements in any particular order—you’re free to tackle previous tiers or jump ahead to the next one. Chart your own path and progress through these achievements as you see fit! As you reach key point thresholds (**19 / 137 / 659 / 1351**), you'll unlock **"War's Blessing"**, a set of passive rewards that will help enhance your combat journey and further empower you as you push forward. ##### War's Blessing Tier 1: - Quick Access to the central Sarcophagus during the Barrows Encounter. - 5% increased chance of activating Reaper's Choice - 1 free attunement for War's boss portals per day - 5% increase to earned Marks of War ##### War's Blessing Tier 2: - No longer require kill count for all God Wars Dungeon encounters (excludes Nex) - Your kill count requirement for all God Wars Dungeon 2 encounters are reduced by 50%. This stacks additively with any reputation rewards from the Heart of Gielinor. - Your Sign of Life cooldown is reduced by 50% - 10% increased chance of activating Reaper's Choice - 2 free attunements for War's boss portals per day - 10% increase to earned Marks of War ##### War's Bl _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1343400/view/569245302427484431]_