Old School RuneScape\u2019s \u201cmost unbalanced\u201d skill desperately needs a rework Old School RuneScape players are calling for Jagex to rework Smithing believing that the skill\u2019s content has aged poorly with mid-tier gear requiring too high a level to create. Highlighting the Artisan skill\u2019s biggest flaw, Old School RuneScape players want developer Jagex to rework Smithing and address its troublesome status as the \u201cmost unbalanced skill,\u201d in the game. One such user questioned why the level assigned to different gear is so arbitrary in a Reddit post that went on to receive over 3,800 upvotes. In this post, they provided several examples where the required Smithing levels do not align with the item\u2019s power level. This included the Adamant 2h Sword requiring 84 Smithing compared to a far superior God Sword only needing 80 while a Rune Full Helm requires 92 Smithing despite the best in slot Torva Full Helm being creatable at just 90 Smithing. These inconsistent requirements are a result of OSRS\u2019s age with the classic MMO\u2019s earliest content being implemented over twenty years ago and needing to be fixed as a result. This is true of Smithing with the skill being added in 2001 alongside the game\u2019s first-ever beta when Rune armor was the strongest available. This problem was already addressed in Old School RuneScape\u2019s sister game \u2013 RuneScape \u2013 in 2019. Rather than 99 Smithing letting you create Rune Armor, RuneScape players can instead make Trimmed Masterwork, one of the strongest Melee armor sets obtainable. Meanwhile, lower-tier armor like Rune and Adamant can be created with 50 and 40 Smithing respectively. A rework of this nature has proven popular amongst OSRS players, with one upvoted reply stating, \u201cI like what they did in RS3. A rune platebody requires 50 smithing which is also what the defence requirement is nowadays. It took some nostalgia value out of rune gear but I think it was a very much needed update.\u201d Though the majority supported a potential rework, not everyone was convinced with some players questioning how it would impact the Alchemy value of Rune items, enemy drop tables, and if it would even change how they interacted with or trained Smithing. Regardless, for an update of this scale to be implemented it would have to pass Old School RuneScape\u2019s polling system. While some big updates have been rejected by the community, others such as the upcoming Sailing skill have passed proving that OSRS players are more open to change than they were several years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Old School RuneScape\u2019s \u201cmost unbalanced\u201d skill desperately needs a rework Old School RuneScape players are calling for Jagex to rework Smithing believing that the skill\u2019s content has aged poorly with mid-tier gear requiring too high a level to create. Highlighting the Artisan skill\u2019s biggest flaw, Old School RuneScape players want developer Jagex to rework Smithing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}