Well, now the new mania is "lagex i wunt droagn pix plz" on the RS OF, but I was thinking about this. Wouldn't mining become easier with its introduction? Of course it would! Someone would first buy one and mass-mine stuff. There would be a load of, say, Coal in RS, which would first fetch a nice profit but then it would decrease prices as the supply would be darn high. Is there anything true in this little thought? Tell me if I'm a noob at this.

Well, now the new mania is "lagex i wunt droagn pix plz" on the RS OF, but I was thinking about this. Wouldn't mining become easier with its introduction? Of course it would! Someone would first buy one and mass-mine stuff. There would be a load of, say, Coal in RS, which would first fetch a nice profit but then it would decrease prices as the supply would be darn high. Is there anything true in this little thought? Tell me if I'm a noob at this.

 

 

 

No1 would alone massmine anything: many of them would come to the game around the same time. No matter what way it was gotten (unless by anew skill), it could be gotten by so many that no1 could abuse it. Second, it most likely wouldn't be THAT powerful.

 

 

 

The demand and supply meet quite well in mining now. Because of high level prices the price of ores isn't too low and the number of miners keep the prices low enough. A new pickaxe wouldn't most likely affect to ore prices at all, it would just make this skill a bit easier.

Unless it got you 2 ores at once.

 

Unlikely though.. :anxious:

Unless it got you 2 ores at once.

 

Unlikely though.. :anxious:

 

 

 

Nah, i don't think that will ever happen,

 

I think it will be just like the Dragon axe, it will only look good and won't

 

be much faster to mine than with the Rune pickaxe.

It wouldn't affect the prize so much, unless it's really, really good. This is because demand and supply both are on about the same level now, and it will take alot of hard pushes to this before anything seriously change could happen in the mining buisness.

1st it would be members only and members hate to mine for the most part to my knowledge.

 

 

 

2nd ore respawn would put a pretty unmoveable cap on the ore pre hour.

Before they give us a new pic axe, they need to completely rework mining.

 

Compare it to fishing..rock is there, then gone. in Fishing you, and everyone else, just keep going. even after catching something.

Spooferfish: I think it should remain the same. That is what makes mining a unique skill. So no, let's NOT compare it to fishing. (I think supply would increase a lot if it was like fishing tbh)

 

25leaf: To your 2nd point, I thought of this, in the guild, many coal rocks remain unmined for quite a bit before someone attempts to mine them, because there is so many and everyone is still trying to mine other rocks.

 

 

 

Well, it seems I didn't make a good point tho... :cry:

Unless it got you 2 ores at once.

 

Unlikely though.. :anxious:

 

 

 

Nah, i don't think that will ever happen,

 

I think it will be just like the Dragon axe, it will only look good and won't

 

be much faster to mine than with the Rune pickaxe.

 

 

 

why is it around 3mil if its only for the look?

In my opinion the D axe really does have a noticeable increase in speed, and with the competition in mining it would make a world of difference. I dont think an incrase in ore would crash the economy though.

Before they give us a new pic axe, they need to completely rework mining.

 

Compare it to fishing..rock is there, then gone. in Fishing you, and everyone else, just keep going. even after catching something.

 

Every skill is unique in the way you do it (well the raw-material ones)

 

 

 

Mining = never moving spot, and only 1 player gets the reward from each rock

 

Fishing = moving spot, and the amount of players does not effect you at all.

 

Woodcutting = never moving spots, and more then 1 player gets the rewards from each tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am happy they arent all the same... so :shame:

This is the General forums, not the General P2P. And since a dragon pickaxe will probably be members, I say, "Wrong forum."

wrong. i would not like one, as i do not like mining

frankly, i'd prefer a mining update. Mining currently is click, get ore. There is no other way to train the skill. There needs to be a few more options, and they will do that. Woodcutting is exactly the same way, except you can get more than one "thing" per "thing" #2". Those 2 were obviously the front-runners on "what skill needs to be updated poll". Kinda a tip off to jagex. So i suspect either a d-pickaxe or a mining update in the near future.

 

 

 

In terms of how good it will be...i think it will be like the dragon axe with wc.

Unless it got you 2 ores at once.

 

Unlikely though.. :anxious:

 

 

 

Nah, i don't think that will ever happen,

 

I think it will be just like the Dragon axe, it will only look good and won't

 

be much faster to mine than with the Rune pickaxe.

 

 

 

why is it around 3mil if its only for the look?

 

 

 

Because you can only get it from 3 lvl 303 monsters, and even then it's not a common drop...yet it's really easy to get a rune axe? :roll:

Well let's use the rune axe and dragon axe as an example(sorry if this example is used already, just read the post and replied). When the dragon axe was released were there people mass WCing with them? Even if there were, they were no better then a rune axe. Even when they got a power boost, they were not that much better then a rune axe. It will probably be the same, it won't be that much better then rune.

freesia made an intelligent post on teh effect of something like a dragon pick theoretically would mean you could 1/4 hit iron and half hit coal just like iron.

Before they give us a new pic axe, they need to completely rework mining.

 

Compare it to fishing..rock is there, then gone. in Fishing you, and everyone else, just keep going. even after catching something.

 

 

 

Screw you 99 miners!

i dont want a dragon pick, because mining should remain the hardest skill to train and 2nd most profitable of all time

Unless it got you 2 ores at once.

 

Unlikely though.. :anxious:

 

 

 

Nah, i don't think that will ever happen,

 

I think it will be just like the Dragon axe, it will only look good and won't

 

be much faster to mine than with the Rune pickaxe.

 

 

 

yup, I agree. The dragon axe cuts justa wee bit faster then rune, because I am sure JAGEX was in tune with woodcutters concerns about the perceived end of the woodcutting world, if the dragon axe was released. It was released, the world didnt end, and it DOES cut faster, but not enough to "ruin" or drastically change the RS economy. IMHO the dragon pickaxe would closely replicate this. It would pick a slight percentage faster then the rune one, look pretty, and maybe even have a cute little special to use against the rock monsters that pop up. Not the end of the world. I dont mine, but someday intend to :)

 

 

 

maybe by then it will be out.

i dont want a dragon pick, because mining should remain the hardest skill to train and 2nd most profitable of all time

 

 

 

Mining is pretty much the only skill that hasn't had an update during rs2 times that would actually help training it. We've gotten few lazy mining areas but that's it. Only fm is another that hasn't had a helpful or a big update yet.

 

Hunter = implings

 

Rc = abyss

 

smith = smith/smelt-x

 

cook = cook-x

 

fishing = monkfish

 

construction = item storage room, crystal saw

 

Prayer = ecto, altar, dagannoth bones, ogre bones

 

thieving = pyramid plunder, gloves of silence (or whatever they were)

 

slayer = dark beast, later unique drop for them

 

farming = fertile soil lunar spell, magic secateurs

 

Woodcutting = dragon axe

 

fletch = fletch-x

 

magic = ancients, lunars

 

crafting = onyx, bracelets

 

ranged = red chinchompa

 

farming = sara brews, farming, new ways to get bird nests fast

 

agility = new course 2 times a year

 

melee skills = new weapons, armours, etc.

 

 

 

When I look at the updates other skills have gotten, I don't think dragon pickaxe would be that bad update. Mining already is somewhat forgotten skill and almost the only skill that hasn't had a real update. Also a new pickaxe wouldn't make it that much easier. However it would make it less irritating to train. I also don't see a reason why it should stay one of the hardest skills (it isn't the hardest btw) to train.

It would not impact on the prices, sadly the fact in the majorty of the resourses come in via autoers...... the people using dragon pick axes will be using them for the extra xp, and not the extra profit...... having a dragon wood cutting axe is too expencive to actually gain you more money.

 

 

 

I have my axe for the XP.

I thought it was clear from the achievement diaries that Jagex spends weeks doing what they call balance which is making sure things fit in the game.

 

 

 

Look at the dragon axe, at first it didn't have any difference. Did they forget to make it better or just expect it to be used as a weapon? Or perhaps, and far more likely, they knew what serious impact this could have on the game, and easily make it unbalanced if they were not careful. Eventually they made it wc a bit faster, but only a bit. It's not remarkably faster and that's probably because that would mean completely screwing over how logs are obtained.

 

 

 

Same goes for mining, although mining is even harder. What are all these ridiculous speculations of mining multiple ores at once? that effectively cuts the price of ALL ores in half, as well as this pickaxe being ridiculously expensive. Expect the same you get from the dragon axe really but yes I hope they do release it for two reasons

 

 

 

First of all, monster hunting just rules, greatest form of PVM ftw! Another extremely dangerous monster in a crazy dungeon filled with trecherous monsters? Count me in! This is what RPGs are all about!

 

 

 

Second of all, faster mining even if it would be slight is great.

The dragon set still needs to be completed, the pickaxe could be next. :D

The prices on ore might depress a bit when dragon pickaxe comes out, but it'll hardly be gamebreaking. Your best example is impact of dragon axe on wc or abyss on rc.