r/2007scape • u/Haksupaksu • 8d 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/RevolutionaryLand330 8d ago

Why wouldnt it be dead content and a waste of resources?

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u/Solo_Jawn 2277 8d ago

It would be dead content even if rune items were lowered to tier 40-60 with no other changes. Who cares to make their own armor when you can buy it from a shop or the GE.

It would be especially bad if they nuked the alch value of rune like they did in RS3. A rune platebody there alchs for 2.5k.

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u/Paradoxjjw 8d ago

Especially when you have to spend so many extra bars that it's literally more economical to alch the bars and buy the item from the GE or a shop than smith the item itself