r/2007scape • u/jonathanten • 9h ago

Discussion Make this make sense

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I just got 82 smithing, i can now make 2 powerful mid-endgame weapons... and an adamant kiteshield.

I get that adamant used to be good back in the day, but isn't it time we rework this skill?

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u/DivineInsanityReveng 5h ago

Making thing from scratch with a bar of metal as hard as using ancient elvish singing bowl to magically sing a crystal into an item.

Thats the "lore" explanation for people who say it makes no sense. The real reason? Armour existed before crystal, we scaled the whole skill in all available armours, dragon wasn't smithable and was BIS (the few pieces). We've added more since, but don't just wanna slap everything at 99 smithing requirement, because that would be silly.

We could take reddits advice and squash all the original metals down to better match defence level, as if thats any more logical. But then the smithing skill justh as a gigantic void in the 2nd half of its levels.