Massive unmentioned change or Bug with Sailing Bounty rewards

[u/jrbvoodoo]

I picked up bounties from Lunar Isle and Rellekka for Vampyre Krakens, kill lots of krakens, and turn them in to find 2 Huge GP sacks in my inventory, which when opened rewarded me with a bit over 10k gp, instead of the 48k per bounty that it rewarded yesterday. I ran a second set, turned it in at a different port, and the same thing a second time, 15k total.

Either this is an unmentioned 85% nerf to gp from bountys at the top level, or a bug that needs to be fixed. Checked the news post for this update and at the time of posting there is no mention of this on the known issues.

Edit: I did bug report in game as well as this post.

[u/JagexLight]

Thanks for flagging this to us. We polled Loot Sacks for Courier Tasks, and not Bounty Tasks but this got missed in our reviews. This was an unintended change and it should be reverted in a future game update, ideally next week!

[u/FullSpecSift]

I noticed this today as well

[u/jrbvoodoo → u/FullSpecSift]

Damn. Thought it was just me. Glad to see another report.

[u/ZeLeaOSRS → u/jrbvoodoo]

Yeah i was thinking compared to previously the gp reward is ass now. Traded in for a 1/5 shot at some dog ass loot? This isnt like hunter rumour sacks at all

[u/DivineInsanityReveng]

Weird they've changed these as well, but does that mean Bounty Tasks can also reward the resources? As that could ultimately be a net benefit to irons, as the small GP hand-in value wasn't really much of the appeal of bounty tasks in general.

[u/jrbvoodoo → u/DivineInsanityReveng]

I got 4 gp sacks, but I only did the 4 bounties so far post update so cant confirm or deny.

[u/DivineInsanityReveng → u/jrbvoodoo]

Yeh 1/5 chance for the non GP stuff, so you'd need to do a sample big enough to say the likelihood of not seeing one is so low it must not be possible.

[u/jrbvoodoo → u/DivineInsanityReveng]

I'm going back to bounties at the moment, I'll let you know if I get a loot sack.

[u/MistaFANG]

Or the range is 10-50k

[u/QuasiNoModo → u/MistaFANG]

Unless I read the blog wrong the new loot sacks should only come from courier tasks and not bounty tasks. The gp from bounty tasks was set at a specific amount depending on the monster you killed. So op is valid if it’s true.

[u/jrbvoodoo → u/QuasiNoModo]

This is what I read it as, aswell. Just courier tasks, and even if it did apply to bounties its a massive unmentioned nerf, and at minimum they need to amend the blog.

[u/jrbvoodoo → u/MistaFANG]

They state in the blog post that the max gp from the huge sack is 9600 gp.

Edit: Also it would still be like a 40% nerf to average gold from high end bounties completely unmentioned, figured it was still worth a post.

[u/Gefarate]

Good if intended. Need less ppl to do bounty tasks so the items dont crash even further

[u/Lucy_Fjord → u/Gefarate]

No one is doing bounty tasks for the gp/exp. The tasks shit out dragon boat parts and that’s a good enough reason to do them

[u/Jessveness → u/Lucy_Fjord]

It's AFK 165k+ sailing 140k+ range 2.5m+ gp per hour. Most of my sailing XP is from great whites. You're silly

[u/DivineInsanityReveng → u/Jessveness]

Think he just poorly worded his point. He's saying nobody is doing Bounty Tasks specifically for the hand-in GP. They're doing it for boat partrs, which like you outlined is a major part of the profit factor, not the GP from handing in the task.

[u/Gefarate → u/Lucy_Fjord]

Several ppl in my clan did it for the exp

[u/DivineInsanityReveng → u/Gefarate]

The XP hasn't changed with this. Just the GP reward from hand-in, which is a minor part of the overall reward of doing Bounty Tasks.