Runecrafting and new combat

[loreal]

Really don't feel like scouring through 200 pages in the EoC megathread in the main forum, so please bear with me. (Side note: What is the point of having all that in one thread? I get that you want less clutter and to keep discussion in one place but it makes it impossible to find specific things.)

 

So chaos, death and blood runes are a lot less useful in the new combat. This will of course negatively impact runecrafting. Has Jagex said anything about how they will improve runecrafting or is it their intention to make the skill useless?

[Low Levelled]

so you assume we have some way of getting info about what jagex has planned? and even if we did, who's to say they'd follow through with their plans?

[Bxpprod]

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The change already has occurred (re: Runespan).

Edited August 26, 2012 by Kimberly
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[loreal]

so you assume we have some way of getting info about what jagex has planned? and even if we did, who's to say they'd follow through with their plans?

 

Jmods frequently tell us what they have planned. So yes.

 

 

The change already has occurred (re: Runespan).

 

That's interesting. So basically they're just going to make Runecrafting a skill that's just there (like almost every other skill) ? Something you need to meet requirements. Seems like a suboptimal solution.

[Lord Slayas]

As far as I know, they haven't released any information about an EOC Runecrafting update. I tend to agree, that the change has already happened with the Runespan being implemented. There have been various hints placed that old style rcing will be completely removed at some point, so yeah, Runecrafting will most likely become another generic skill with no real use.

[Aiel]

I'm sure more chaos/death/blood runes come into game from monster drops then runecrafting anyway. It was a redundant skill to begin with, runespan just made it a less annoying redundant skill.

 

And attacking hedgehog for saying that it's inefficient was unnecessary, since the only reason you should be crafting them is if you think its "fun" and this update shouldn't change that, should it?

[Saradomin_Mage]

Jagex have stated that they intend for spellcasting to be cheaper because it was "too expensive" in live, so I doubt they'll change any rune creation rates at this point.

[Kimberly]

Please just answer the questions at hand in accordance with the H&A Posting Guidelines by directly answering the TC's questions. If someone should or shouldn't do something, explain why. The reverse holds true for the TC: don't flame people for the suggestions they offer.

 

Thanks for your cooperation :)

[Estoc]

Let people play however they want.

Since people can't possibly know how you want to play unless you tell them, they assume you want the best method. Most do. When you're worried runecrafting will become less viable, it implies you were using the best method because if you were doing something like crafting chaos runes you'd be using a method so bad you'd probably have reasons other than efficiency for doing it and thus not care about a decrease in value of the runes. So the only thing to take away from your post is that you think crafting chaos/death/blood runes is a good method and so people try to inform you, only to be told that "they don't let anyone play how they want to". That's how I see it anyway.

 

As for the question, no, nothing has been said as far as I know and I doubt it will be since Runecrafting seems to be shifting from the money making skill it was around 2006 to a generic "fast xp no profit" skill.