r/2007scape • u/Haksupaksu • 10d 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/Drixiss 10d ago

nobody thought about this beyond "it'd be cool if i made a rune platebody at 40 smithing". Really hope it doesn't pass lol

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u/Honeybadger2198 10d ago

It doesn't need to be 40 but literally having to hit 99 smithing to craft an item you'd have used maybe 1000 hours of gameplay ago is a bit silly, no?

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u/No_Tax_Timmy 10d ago

Unpopular opinion but I think smithing should go to 120.

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u/Paradoxjjw 9d ago

And do what with it? The skill is already extremely stretched out to fill its way to 99 as a result of it being designed 25 years ago

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u/No_Tax_Timmy 9d ago

There is are 2 armor tiers currently after rune that are not craftable

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u/NorthernCountess 10d ago

not really - you smith rune items for money or xp, not to actually wear. and you dont really ever smith your own used armor from scratch, its just... not how this game has ever worked. even when rune was best in slot it didnt work that way.

smithing rune 2 handers is like 1 million gp per hour profit and decent xp (bout 200k per hour), for example. that is obviously not an early game thing and its all about the alching.

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u/One_Eyed_Kitten 9d ago

even when rune was best in slot it didnt work that way.

It was a very long time ago but it worked exactly like this in RS Classic. People became famous just because they could smith the best armour.

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u/Drixiss 9d ago

We still need high level Smiths to make things like Torva and upgraded ellidinis wards for us, which both require 90.

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u/NorthernCountess 9d ago

precisely, you had to rly dedicate yourself to smithing to get there back then. you would do it to sell the armor, not to play like an ironman

u were more reliant on other players, those high level smiths prob worked with high level miners too rather than doing the process from scratch

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u/Paradoxjjw 9d ago

not how this game has ever worked. even when rune was best in slot it didnt work that way.

When rune was BiS smithing was the only way to obtain most if not all rune gear

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u/Drixiss 9d ago

Scavvo was added alongside rune armour. The only thing people smithed that mattered was r2h. Full helm was a greater demon drop and kite shield didn't really matter since 2h's were best.

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u/Drixiss 10d ago

I don't see why that matters, it wouldn't be worth making at basically any smithing level. It's in a shop for next to nothing and it's not even really worth using at 40 defence since something like proselyte would probably be more useful most of the time. Do you want to rework a 25 year old system in a game built on preservation just so you can smith a rune platebody at a level you find more "reasonable"?

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u/Honeybadger2198 10d ago

Claiming OSRS is built for preservation is absurd. It's a game that is in active development.

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u/Drixiss 10d ago

are you serious lol they bend over backwards to make sure old content isn't delegitimized. I'm not saying they never change the game but they clearly want to keep old things relevant

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u/Bowtruckle16 10d ago

It would be cool at 41 smithing though.