Advanced pulse core

Not to be confused with Pulse core.

Advanced pulse core
Detailed
Release	18 June 2015 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	No
Disassembly	No
Value	1 coin
Value	1 coin
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Destroy	Are you sure you want to destroy your Treasure Hunter prize? You cannot reclaim it.
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	0 kg
Examine	A powerful item that grants 150% bonus XP while active. Once consumed it will explode granting an XP bonus (up to 10%) to everyone around you, including yourself.

Advanced pulse cores are items obtained from Treasure Hunter from 18 June 2015 0:00 UTC to 21 June 2015 23:59 UTC, as well as being available through the Christmas Advent Calendar on 3 December 2015, 13 December 2016, and 19 December 2017, Vic's Store, Zodiac Festival rewards mid February 2018, and purchasable with oddments from the Oddments Store.

They give +50% extra experience that does not stack with other sources of bonus experience. It will explode after enough experience has been accumulated. Players can choose to lock any skill by choosing the "Toggle skills" option. The total experience given via the advanced pulse core is equivalent to a medium prismatic lamp.

When the advanced pulse core explodes, an effect is given to the player wearing the core and the players around them, giving them a 2% bonus experience buff. Every time another pulse core explodes, another 2% bonus is added to the buff to a maximum of 10% bonus experience. The effect lasts 10 minutes, with the timer being reset every time another pulse core explodes.

Both experience boosts from pulse cores will stack additively with normal bonus experience (but not Enlightenment aura). At maximum, when all three are active, players can gain up to 2.6x the normal experience. The pulse core buff also stacks with the Clan avatar's skilling buff as well as double experience weekends.

The 50% bonus does not work with disassembling augmented items.

The pulse core is worn in the pocket slot and is stackable, meaning players can wear multiple pulse cores at once. This allows them to receive all the bonus experience without having to check and re-equip pulse cores.

All previously existing pulse cores were upgraded to advanced pulse cores on 18 June 2015.

Combat Stats

Requirements						Tier
None						None
Class			Slot			Attributes
None						Armour				0
						Life points				0
Weapons		Main		Off		Prayer				0
Damage		-		-		Damage reduction
Accuracy		-		-		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Style		-				Style bonuses
Range		-				0		0		0
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Temporary skill boosts

The pulse core can boost skills in 4 categories: Gatherer, Artisan, Support and Combat. When a pulse boosts skills, it affects all skills in the set. The boost doesn't always occur after you finish a core, and thus, you may need to use multiple cores to get the desired boost.

Alternatively, it is possible for it to restore life points or prayer points instead. The amount of life points restored is equivalent to that of a Shark. For prayer points the value is equivalent to a Prayer potion.

Advanced pulse cores offer temporary boosts in skills aligned to an Expert cape of Accomplishment.

Category of boost	Skills boosted
Artisan	Cooking, Construction, Crafting, Firemaking, Fletching, Herblore, Runecrafting and Smithing.
Combatant	Attack, Constitution, Defence, Magic, Prayer, Ranged, Strength and Summoning.
Gatherer	Divination, Farming, Fishing, Hunter, Mining and Woodcutting.
Support	Agility, Dungeoneering, Slayer and Thieving.

The Gatherer skills are boosted by 11 levels, except Farming and Hunter. All the skills in the other categories are boosted by 7 levels.

Ironmen will not receive the skill boost nor experience boost from using a pulse core.

Drop sources

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Big event mystery box (Deathbeard's Demise)	N/A	2	Rare
Big event mystery box (Mental Health Awareness Week)	N/A	2	Rare
Big event mystery box (Rune Capers)	N/A	2	Rare
Big event mystery box (Zodiac Festival)	N/A	2	Rare
Event mystery box	N/A	2	Rare
Event mystery box (Aiding the Exile)	N/A	2	Rare
Event mystery box (Deathbeard's Demise)	N/A	2	Rare
Event mystery box (Going Like Clockwork)	N/A	2	Rare
Event mystery box (Mental Health Awareness Week)	N/A	2	Rare
Event mystery box (Rune Capers)	N/A	2	Rare
Event mystery box (Zodiac Festival)	N/A	2	Rare
Twitch loot crate	N/A	2	Rare
Antique chest	N/A	2	Uncommon
Big event mystery box	N/A	2	Uncommon
Summer loot piñata	N/A	4	Uncommon
Big event mystery box (Aiding the Exile)	N/A	1–2	Unknown
Event mystery box	N/A	2	Unknown
Piñata loot bag	N/A	4	Unknown
Skilling chest	N/A	2	Unknown
Summer piñata loot bag	N/A	8	Varies
Summer piñata loot bag (2018)	N/A	4	Varies
Big event mystery box (Going Like Clockwork)	N/A	2	Very rare

Trivia

• The pitch of the noise that an (advanced) pulse core makes increases every 1,000 experience that is used.
• Orbs of blue light orbit the player using an advanced pulse core, increasing in number and complexity as the bonus experience is spent. At later stages, the orbs also turn between blue and red and the frequency increases as the pulse core nears explosion.