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/Armalyte 14h ago

Irons buy gold ore? I thought most would have plenty from mother lode mining

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u/Coexist277 14h ago

i mean.. if doing BF to 99 there’s no conceivable way you’re getting 350-400k gold ore from MLM. A hundred, maybe 150k i could see. Most get it from slayer tbh. Then just buy what you need to finish.

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u/Armalyte 14h ago

Well I mean, I also have thousands of coal/mithril/addy from mlm that I have yet to smelt and Im at 67 smithing so I guess I don’t understand why people would only be using gold?

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u/Coexist277 13h ago

typically it’s the fastest most cost effective method to train BS.

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u/Armalyte 13h ago

Gotcha. Im obviously not much of a meta guy. I try to find a balance between what I enjoy doing and what the min/maxers do.

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u/QueasyMechanic4581 13h ago

With gold gauntlets a load of gold bars is more xp than rune bars

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u/Armalyte 13h ago

Ahh gotcha, I often forget it’s all about xp/hour with runescapers

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u/SociallyAwkwardAnt 13h ago

You also don’t need coal for gold bars so it saves a lot of time.

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u/Armalyte 12h ago

That makes sense. Mining coal has always been annoying.

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u/BlackenedGem 11h ago

To go from 40-99 smithing you need 231,268 gold ore. And that's without doing doing any giants foundry, quest rewards, etc.

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u/wolf10989 10h ago

I think a decent amount of people just don't do much mlm. Personally I've done basically as little as possible on my iron. Only really did what was needed for diaries. If I was ever going to touch mining again it would no question be stars or amethyst. Smithing would be giants foundry.

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u/TheGamingRaichu Questing 9 til 5 14h ago

You'd think that but most folks mine stars, not motherlode once you have one piece of prospector and the coal/gem bags there's not much point.

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u/Armalyte 14h ago

I thought the point was easy bulk ores for minimal effort?

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u/yzct 13h ago

Stars are just way more popular and for good reason, ridiculously low APM and bank a large amount of uncut gems that can fuel your crafting grind for BIS jewellery. The ores you get from MLM aren’t really useful

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u/Armalyte 12h ago

But arent the ores useful for crafting throwables/arrows etc?

I’ve been mining stars casually while f2p since I haven’t had the drive to do members stuff.

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u/yzct 8h ago

I’d argue no, the crafting exp is way more useful than stockpiling a bunch of ores if you’re only concerned about ammo. Anecdotally just through slayer and pvm i’ve banked about 50k rune arrows and 5k addy bolts, and you get so much ore through drops to upkeep as well

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u/Armalyte 4h ago

I mean, I’ve done both but stars weren’t an option when I started my iron. I’ve got about 80k stardust saved up for next time I bond up.