Fans of Runescape's Barbarian Assault in-game minigame have oft voiced their dissatisfaction with the rewards offered by the game. Jagex today responded to those concerns by not only offering new and greater rewards but by subtly tweaking and improving several aspects of the minigame itself.
Among the major changes to Barbarian Assault are:
- New Penance horn that lets you gain double XP in Agility, Firemaking and Mining (in a similar fashion to the tools from Stealing Creation).
- New colours of abyssal whips.
- New Penance trident weapon.
- Penance armour stat improvement and Prayer restoring set bonus.
- Penance gloves now reduce more weight.
- Gamble points rebalanced (they still include a rare chance for dragon armour).
- Ability to show off your achievements in the roles of attacker, defender, collector and healer.
- High score tables for the attacker, defender, collector and healer roles.
- Waiting rooms increased in size.
- Additional wave room ticket system for saving progress through battles.
- Blue penance eggs now reduce the target Penance’s stats and deal damage









