Advanced pulse core

Advanced pulse core is a Treasure Hunter reward. If the associated promotion is not currently active, it may not be obtainable.

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Not to be confused with Pulse core (historical).

Advanced pulse core
Release	18 June 2015 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	No
Destroy	Are you sure you want to destroy your Treasure Hunter prize? You cannot reclaim it.
Actions
Backpack	Wear, Check charges, Toggle skills, Destroy
Equipped	Check charges, Toggle skills
Values
Value	1 coin Cash out: 500 coins
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Weight	0 kg
Examine
A powerful item that grants a +50% XP boost when in the pocket slot. Once consumed it will explode granting an XP boost (up to +10%) and a random buff to you and nearby players.
Advanced data
Item ID	34918
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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Advanced pulse cores give +50% extra experience that stacks with bonus experience already owned. 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, scaling with your total level.

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.

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.

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 XP Weekends.

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

Combat stats

Requirements						Tier
None						None
Class			Slot			Attributes
None						Armour				0.0
						Life points				0
Weapons		Main		Off		Prayer				0
Damage		-		-		Damage reduction
Accuracy		-		-		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Style		-				Style bonuses
Range		-				0.0		0.0		0.0
FAQ • docs

Obtaining

Advanced pulse cores can be obtained through the following ways:

• Purchased for 35 credits from Vic's Store: 1 core
• Purchased for 800,000 coins from the Travelling Merchant's Shop: 1-3 cores
• Purchased for 250 oddments from the Marketplace: 2 cores

It could formerly be obtained during:

• 18 June 2015 when all previously existing pulse cores were upgraded to advanced pulse cores
• Treasure Hunter from 18 June 2015 0:00 UTC to 21 June 2015 23:59 UTC
• Christmas Advent Calendar on 3 December 2015, 13 December 2016, 19 December 2017
• Zodiac Festival mid February 2018
• Various other Treasure Hunter promotions

Temporary skill boosts

The pulse core can boost skills in four categories: Gatherer, Artisan, Support and Combat. When a pulse boosts skills, it affects all skills in the set. This does not apply to free-to-play, only members. 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.

The amount of boost received scales with the individual levels of the skills being boosted. Ironmen will not receive the skill boost or the escalating bonus experience buff from using a pulse core.

The boost will decrease by a single point at a time until depleted. It can be refreshed to full effect and duration by finishing a new pulse core, but only if the newly-finished core also rolls to boost the same skills. The first point of the boost will last 45 seconds; every subsequent point will last 1 minute until it reaches 0. For instance, an Archaeology skill of 100 will be boosted to 108/100. After 45 seconds have passed, the boost will reduce to 107/100. After 1 minute, it will reduce to 106/100. It will then continue to reduce by one point per minute until fully depleted.

Category of boost	Max. boost	Skills boosted
Artisan	7	Cooking, Construction, Crafting, Firemaking, Fletching, Herblore, Runecrafting, Smithing
Combatant	7	Attack, Constitution, Defence, Magic, Prayer, Ranged, Strength, Summoning
Gatherer	7	Hunter
	8	Archaeology, Farming
	11	Divination, Fishing, Mining, Woodcutting
Support	7	Agility, Dungeoneering, Slayer, Thieving

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Antique chest	N/A	2	Uncommon
Big event mystery box (Birth by Fire) Build A Beach	N/A	2	Uncommon
Big event mystery box (Breaking the Storm) Premier Club 2022	N/A	2	Common
Big event mystery box (Breaking the Storm) Travelling Artisan	N/A	2	Uncommon
Big event mystery box (Deathbeard's Demise)	N/A	2	Rare
Big event mystery box (Going Like Clockwork)	N/A	2	Common
Event mystery box (Breaking the Storm) Winter Chill Off	N/A	2	Common
Skilling chest	N/A	2	Common
Summer Escape	N/A	1	Uncommon
Twitch loot crate	N/A	2	Uncommon

Store locations

Travelling Merchant's Shop

This table shows the next 5 dates^(wrong?) on which advanced pulse core is available in the Travelling Merchant's Shop, where it can be purchased for 800,000 coins.

Date	Runedate	Slot A	Slot B	Slot C
15 May 2022	7382	Slayer VIP Coupon	Advanced pulse core	Dungeoneering Wildcard
1 June 2022	7399	Advanced pulse core	Tangled fishbowl	Large goebie burial charm
4 June 2022	7402	Advanced pulse core	Small goebie burial charm	Large goebie burial charm
16 June 2022	7414	Advanced pulse core	Menaphite gift offering (medium)	Large goebie burial charm
1 July 2022	7429	Advanced pulse core	Unfocused damage enhancer	Unfocused reward enhancer

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• patch 7 March 2022 (Update):
  • The Marketplace product information for the cinder and advanced pulse cores has been updated to correctly reflect their functionality:
    • The cinder core description has been changed from stating it grants a "250%" bonus XP burn rate to "+150%".
    • The advanced pulse core description has been changed from "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." to "A powerful item that grants a +50% XP boost when in the pocket slot. Once consumed it will explode granting an XP boost (up to +10%) and a random buff to you and nearby players.".

• patch 7 June 2021 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue that prevents the 'X' graphic from disappearing when deselecting a skill in Pulse cores.

• patch 18 January 2021 (Update):
  • You can now disable the Archaeology skill on both cinder and pulse cores.

• patch 28 August 2018 (Update):
  • Players who have toggled beneficial boosts off will no longer receive pulse core buffs.

• patch 31 October 2016 (Update):
  • Depleting a pulse core by gaining more XP than it had available will now award the correct XP.

• patch 2 November 2015 (Update):
  • The pulse core buff timer will now attempt to re-sync itself to prevent an incorrect time being shown.

• patch 29 June 2015 (Update):
  • The advanced pulse core buff icon has been updated to display the new model.

• update 18 June 2015 (Update):
  • Added to game.

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.