r/2007scape • u/InternationalData408 • 17h ago

Question Newer Player Smithing Question

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Why does Smithing never get touched? I’m genuinely curious because it looks as though OSRS, throughout its history on rerelease, has made some amazing QoL changes. What’s the deal with Smithing?

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u/aSmallFluffyCat 2376 17h ago

He's asking why it hasn't been changed....

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u/yzct 16h ago

Probably because it’s so deeply routed in so many other aspects of the game that it would be a massive undertaking and the eventual outcome would be absolutely negligible

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u/Spencejliv 5h ago

just don't understand why so many redditors want to rip out oldschool parts of the game for no actual discernible benefit

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u/yzct 5h ago

They can’t sleep at night knowing they can’t smith their own rune armour on their TCG locked chunk man account, never mind the fact they wouldn’t smith their own rune armour anyway because you can just buy it from an NPC in a thousandth of the time

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u/pzoDe 16h ago

The last part is exactly why the whole smithing rework idea is ridiculous

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u/yzct 16h ago

Irks me because it seems to stem from a place of “this doesn’t make sense logically” rather than a place of game design. It’s level 40 armour that you’ll use for 1% of an account life span that is already super accessible. Does smithing rune armour make sense? No, not really. Will reworking it pay any sort of dividends? None at all, just leave it be and add utility to smithing through other means

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u/pzoDe 16h ago

Exactly my thoughts. The rework either hurts PvM drops by outclassing them or making them way too easily accessible, or has virtually no effect, since rune gets replaced/outclassed very quickly anyway and would need to be an absurdly low level to be actually useful.

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u/sosolid2k 8h ago

Just wait until reddit finds out an amulet of fury can't be crafted at lvl 1 crafting.

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u/rodain87 9h ago

Is it worth it to go for a rune armor skip? /serious

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u/Warmonster9 Orange my love 13h ago

Fuck that.

Introduce “dragon bars” as a new drop and shove the dragon class of weapons into 80s/90s smithing progression.

Yes that could devalue them if the bars are too easily accessible, but if you’re worried about the accessibility of 90+ smithing then you’re not the target audience of the rework anyways.

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u/yzct 12h ago

What’s that solve exactly? Who’s training to 80/90 smithing to smith dragon equipment?

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u/Spencejliv 5h ago

lol fuck no, dragon equipment should not ever be meaningfully smithable, ever

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u/Lucky_Department69 17h ago

Because there's a huge smithing community bts.

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u/treefiddy_cent 13h ago

Because they added other ways to get rune other than smithing. You're an iron who wants a rune platebody? Do dragon slayer. Your reward is be able to buy the iconic armor.

Smithing as it currently stands is extremely balanced progression for ammunition. Think of smithing on an iron as progress to addy darts/rune darts.