Divination

Divination is a gathering and manufacturing skill that was developed by humans shortly after the beginning of the Sixth Age. It involves gathering Guthix's residual life-force, which is leaking throughout Gielinor. To do this, the players gather divine energy from wisps and then use this energy to make items such as portents, signs, and divine locations.

History
In the Year 169 of the Fifth Age, the Assassination of Guthix took place. In Year 0 of the Sixth Age this has resulted in the manifestation of wisps and the appearance of craters throughout Gielinor. As researched by May Stormbrewer, the wisps are a fusion of memories and divine energy. The memories are remnants of Guthix's life force, which hold his residual power within them, and were expelled from Guthix after his death and thus spread throughout the world.

Divine energy is the result of the Edicts of Guthix, which were believed to be a physical barrier around the world which prevented the Gods from entering Gielinor. Upon Guthix's death however this barrier shattered and fell down to the surface. It is believed that the power of the shield is held within the divine energy. Divine energy and memories combined together and formed wisps.

Guthix's death also caused the various craters to open around Gielinor. It is highly speculated that the death of Guthix has damaged the world and that damage has manifested itself as the craters. It is probable that Guthix's death has rendered a great imbalance within Gielinor, and so the life force of the world (Anima Mundi) is now "bleeding" due to this imbalance. The wisps gather around these craters as they are attracted to this life force, because this is one of the powers that Guthix used to become so powerful. This same force, now saturates the wisps as his memories.

Those who study Divination west of the Battle of Lumbridge, as well as many adventurers, are trying to return the memories to the various craters as it seems that giving Guthix's life force back to the Earth, heals it to some extent, although it is unknown whether this ritual will be able to fully restore the Anima Mundi.

It is unknown at the moment if the world can be repaired without Guthix. It has been speculated that the life force of Gielinor may merely continue to leak from the craters, resulting in further degradation of the world. The consequences of such damage is thus unknown, but is likely to be catastrophic.

Getting started
To learn about the Divination skill and to begin training, players can talk to Orla Fairweather in the Divination Camp south of the Draynor jail. She will say that there are many wisps located around Gielinor from which the player can gather memories. The player may then convert the memories into experience or energy to create products, such as signs or portents.

Harvesting
To harvest energy, a player must first activate a wisp. This is done simply by choosing the "harvest" option (left-click the wisp), at which point it will turn into the corresponding spring and the player will begin harvesting memories of the same tier for minimal experience. Every harvest provides the player a number of energy of the spring's type, depending on the player's level, and a good but not 100% chance of harvesting that type of memory. There is also a small chance that the player will harvest an enriched memory which provides double the normal experience.

Divine energy
The amount of energies gained when harvesting a spring changes based on level. Energy is harvesting from springs regardless of whether the player successfully gets a memory. From levels 1 to 54, the player will only harvest 1 energy at a time. At levels 55 through 74, this is increased to 2 energies per harvest. At levels 75 and beyond, the player will gain 3 energies every harvest.

Chronicle fragments
Around once per minute, each player has a chance that a chronicle fragment will spawn when collecting from wisps, with approximately a 1 in 25 chance. When a Chronicle fragment spawns, it is temporarily instanced so that only the player for whom it spawned may see it. After a short while, other players will be able to catch it. Catching 10 of these will grant additional divination experience when given to May Stormbrewer, more if offered at Guthix's shrine.

Enriched memories
In addition to regular wisps are the rare enriched wisps that spawn an average of every 20 minutes (due to server lag, enriched wisps will spawn every 20 minutes 15 seconds, to within about 5 seconds; however, as of a hotfix on August 23, 2013, enriched wisp respawn timers are now reset frequently so that the average time between enriched wisps is 20 minutes). These activate into enriched pools and guarantee an enriched memory will be harvested, but do not guarantee a memory will be harvested; i.e. you will get double experience each time you attempt to harvest, but may get experience without harvesting a memory. In addition, any of the first four people to start harvesting from it who have at least one normal (not enriched) memory in their inventory will have one absorbed in exchange for the enriched pool lasting a little bit longer. If this happens, the player will get a message in their chatbox. The higher your Divination level the more chance you have of harvesting an enriched memory.

Converting
The memories (both standard and enriched) are to be deposited in the energy rifts nearby. There are 3 options with depositing at the rift:


 * Memories to Energy
 * Converts each memory into 2 to 5 energy; and enriched memories into twice the amount.
 * This option produces the most resources but grants only 1 XP per conversion, the slowest rate.
 * Memories to Experience
 * Converts each memory into experience. Standard memories will be deposited before enhanced memories.
 * Memories and Energy to Experience
 * Converts energy and memories into experience at a higher rate. Each standard memory will use up 5 energy, and each enriched memory will use up 10 energy. The result is a higher rate of experience at a greater cost. Enriched memories in your inventory will be deposited first automatically, followed by standard memories. You will automatically continue to convert memories for the normal experience rate when you run out of energy.
 * This option provides a faster experience rate at the cost of resources.
 * It should be noted that the experience per energy is fixed for each tier. For example, in the first tier, converting 5 energies and a regular pale memory yields 0.5 bonus experience, and 10 energies and an enhanced pale memory offers 1 bonus experience, i.e., 0.1xp/energy.

Rift locations


There are many energy rifts located around Gielinor. Some require a higher Divination level than others.

Note that you can get 10% bonus experience from converting with the appropriate boon. See the respective wisp pages linked for information on the fastest means of travel. A player may have all boons (which they have the level to create) active at one time. The xp values below have not calculated the boost gained from boons.

Boons
Boons are permanent, single-use items that give 10% more experience when converting memories of a given tier. Only one of each tier can be used, but once it is used the effect lasts forever. They are made by using a certain amount of energy of either the same tier or one tier below the boon being made.

Portents
Portents are single-use items carried in the backpack that activate automatically when certain conditions are met. There are four types: restoration, item protection, life, and passage (portent of passage is only available in Daemonheim - see also Dungeoneering/Divination).
 * Restoration portents heal the player when they drop below 50% health.
 * Item protection automatically keeps an additional item when a player dies.
 * Life resurrects the player after death and provides 25% of the base life points.
 * Passage allow you to pass through Dungeoneering skill doors that you normally cannot get through up to a certain number of skill levels above the door requirement.

Signs
Signs are single-use items carried in the pocket that activate automatically when certain conditions are met. There are four types: respite, porter, item protection, and life.
 * Respite automatically extend the amount of time your gravestone has before it disappears.
 * Porter automatically teleports collected items to your bank (urns will still work).
 * Item protection automatically keeps an additional item when a player dies
 * Life resurrects the player after death and provides 25% of the base life points.

Divine locations
Divine locations (often referred to as nodes) are skilling hotspots which may be placed by the player at the expense of energy and a secondary ingredient. A player may only create one divine location per day. Most divine locations last 30 seconds after the first interaction, however some of the higher level locations last for only 23-25 seconds.

Transmutation
You can use your divine energy to turn lower level resources into higher level resources.

Temporary boosts

 * A brown spicy stew can temporarily boost or decrease one's Divination level by up to 5 levels.
 * The Divination cape temporarily raises one Divination level when one right-clicks the cape whilst wearing it and selecting 'Boost'. However, similar to all Capes of Accomplishment, level 99 is required for this.

Cape of Accomplishment
The Divination cape can be bought from Orla Fairweather for 99,000 coins upon achieving level 99 in Divination.

Pre-release
The skill was first announced in an IGN article on 3 May 2013, which was later corroborated on 6 May by a Jagex Moderator (Mod Seven) on Twitter to be the new skill.

The June 2013 BTS contained some fairly major hints on the matter.

It was revealed that Divination will be released in August of 2013, shortly after the release of RuneScape 3.

When asked about the mechanics of Divination as compared to Fishing and Mining, Mod Mark stated:

In the same 'Around the Campfire' Q&A BTS Video Mod Mark states that Jagex plans to release a few weeks after RS3 but no confirmed date has been given. It has also been confirmed that there will not be a quest to introduce the skill, like there was with the release of Summoning. Mod Mark has confirmed that Divination will not be available to free players, outside of the usual level 5 trial. He has also confirmed that Divination, unlike Dungeoneering, will not be trainable up to level 120. A poll for the final skillcape design was started on 25 July.

On 1 August 2013 it was confirmed while training the skill, you will collect divine energy from Wisps, which can be used to create new pocket or inventory items that activate under certain conditions and provide certain benefits such as preventing a killing blow being dealt to you.

On 6 August 2013, the skill cape option 6 was confirmed out of the poll results.

Trivia

 * Divination's Cape of Accomplishment was the first to have its colour scheme decided in a guaranteed content poll.
 * Divination will be the companion to a new production skill set to be released sometime in the future.
 * Training the skill was originally much faster. A number of training glitches were fixed within the first few hours:
 * Players could double click on a dying spring to gain extra harvests.
 * Multiple players could catch a single chronicle fragment.
 * Enriched wisps were not synchronized, so players could hop worlds for continual harvesting.