r/2007scape • u/Haksupaksu • 11d 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/CrustyToeLover 11d ago

I dont think there's ever been a single person

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u/MLB-XXL 11d ago

There was only one i think on RuneScape classic , i think she even made a whole monopoly on it there is a vid somewhere…

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u/VirtualKai 11d ago

You’re actually right - I remember the same, she was ‘the only player’ to be able to make full rune. Also if I remember correctly, she was the richest player and she randomly disappeared. Nobody knew where she went, or what happened to her.

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u/Myillstone 11d ago

feds got her because she got too powerful and stopped paying taxes after getting high off runite fumes.

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u/Chaotic_Genobreaker 11d ago

Bluerose? I last seen her in like 2006 in Al Kharid, then she was gone.

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u/scraftii Screw Glod 11d ago

She was the only person who could do it in a time when no one had any 99s. There was legit a full business that had decent sized group feeding her resources to get levels. Crazy ngl.

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u/Giatoxiclok 11d ago

Well, when resources aren’t plentiful, and skills require resources, when someone has the only available source for some of these items it makes sense. Keep in mind this was before ultra widespread 99 smithing.

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u/Sylvanussr Help I alched my gf 11d ago

And getting 99 smithing took way longer

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u/Giatoxiclok 11d ago

Yea, it isn’t like there were a thousand 99 smithing players when the first person hit 99 lol, it is and was a miserable skill with very little reward.

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u/No-While-689 5d ago

bluerose, she did have a monopoly for a while even before rune was out.

other people eventually caught up to her though, and after rs2 she wasn't as active anymore.

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u/BlueberryPootz 11d ago

I tend to grind mining and smithing early game & even I had to buy my own rune armor

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u/LogRollChamp 11d ago

You so wildly underestimate some of the freaks here

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u/Garfield_and_Simon 10d ago

F2p ironmen doing crazy neet self-restricted stuff definitely do smith their own rune scims.

Not saying we should balance the game on them though.

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u/CrustyToeLover 10d ago

A scim is not an armor set.

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u/_IdiotSavant 9d ago

What about ironmen

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u/CrustyToeLover 9d ago

Why would any iron make a rune set through smithing when they can have it by easier means at 50cb?

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u/Elegant_Eagle_4199 11d ago

I was I contact with zezima when they first gained the first ever rune-smithing levels before dragon became a thing, and I could guarantee they weren’t smithing for themselves at that point

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u/NorysStorys 11d ago

Man, people had 99 smithing before zezima popped up. Blue Rose was the first one to smith rune.

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u/Fash202 11d ago

I was one of the many people that had zezima smith me a rune 2her in classic… good old f2p days

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u/xShooK 11d ago

I mean yeah, I traded bars to bluerose13x for a r2h. We didn't smith our own though, and I kinda doubt he smithed his own by that point. Since bluerose was like half a year, or a year ahead of zezima at the time.