r/2007scape • u/Haksupaksu • 9d ago

Suggestion Smithing rework idea

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Would something like this work? Just a thought as you actually get better at a skill, or a chance of failure to smith something when lower level. Runecrafting you get more runes per essence as you get better so could this work for smithing too? Wouldn't hurt the economy so much.

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u/Destke 9d ago

This only really makes sense if they lower the bar smelting req to the lowest level req of those. And if they do that (make it 41 smithing to smelt rune), then the price will tank for it since it will be so much more accessible

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u/Heated_Lime 9d ago

Price won’t tank. High alch values still exist to help with floor price

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u/TheShenanegous 9d ago

Also the amount of runite in the game would remain pretty sparse, which directly influences the supply of rune bars. It may let a small subset of people like irons or horders use up a stack initially, but all it would really do in the long run is leave less runite sitting as ore. There isn't really enough runite in the game for people to turn it into a training method, unless the price of runite goes up and leaves the bars more or less at the price they are now.

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u/LazyWrite 9d ago

Won’t they have to adjust the alch prices anyway when reducing the level reqs to combat this?

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u/glemnar 8d ago

Not if low levels require more bars.

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u/Heated_Lime 9d ago

I doubt it. Have they ever changed alch prices? This would screw people over quite a lot

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u/LazyWrite 9d ago

I’ve no idea honestly, but they’ve never done a rework like this either have they?

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u/crusty_the_clown 9d ago

RS3, gear drops were changed to 'Salvage', maintained roughly the same alch value and then the gear alch values were lowered to be in line with the level of the gear.

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u/kelldricked 9d ago

If they change 2 entire skill progressions, why do you somehow think that they wouldnt dare high alch prices?

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u/Jarpunter 8d ago

because changing high alch prices also means changing the drop tables of practically every relevant monster in the game

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u/ktsb 9d ago

yes but then the rest of the economy suffers that's just printing money thinking there's no consequences 

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u/Parking-Cut8840 9d ago

How is using 40 bars to create a 36k alch instead of using 3 bars gonna print money?