I think Mod Jack mentioned wanting to add Orichalcum and Necronium with a mining and smithing rework, to give a smithable equivalent to the dragon and barrows tiers.

Honestly another set of questions should be answered sometime soon:

 

Q: Does our experience after level 80 roll over into the "elite skill" or do we need to have flipped a switch prior to hitting level 80?

 

Q: Will these elite skills only receive xp from items broken down that are relative to that skill?

(probably and most likely a yes)

 

Basically, think of Inventor as a completely new skill that unlocks once you reach level 80 in those 3 skills. Since its a new skill, its exp is entirely unrelated to the exp in other skills. So, the exp doesn't roll over, but training regular Smithing won't get you exp in Inventor anyway, and training inventor probably won't get you regular smithing exp.

^ Yeah Helring basically covered it

 

The idea of the elite skills is not they are an add-on or modification to an existing skill.

 

They are a skill in their own right. The difference is they are about combining other talents we already have to do new things and therefore you need a base level of knowledge in those feeder skills to begin.

 

For example Inventor is about taking various technologies we know from around the world - dwarven metal working, elf crystal, cave goblin electrics, gnome mechanics etc. - and working to combine them to make new things. To begin inventing you need a base level of knowledge in smithing and crafting so that you know how to work with these various materials. Plus a level of knowledge about divination to help use the energies to fuse the techs together and fuel their functions.

 

Once you have unlocked inventor it has its own xp scale and levels totally independent from smithing, crafting and divination. The only link after you've unlocked it is you will need smithed goods, crafted goods and divine energies as resources to use in inventor.

 

I think some of the other examples they gave in the stream perhaps make it clearer than inventor does.

For example Necromancy it would be an elite skill likely requiring prayer, magic and summoning to unlock.

Prayer because it is a skill that gives us some knowledge of bones/corpses and spiritual power.

Summoning because it gives us knowledge of bringing spirits from other realms to our side and binding them to our service,

Magic because we would need arcane knowledge to be able to re-build a body and hold it together.

to put it in simpler terms, instead of just a collection skill and a refining skill, now it's two or more of those pairs feeding into another tier of refining

Next year is the construction rework right?

What is always coming but never arrives? The construction rework.

 

I believe the current plan is next year yes, but I wouldn't put too much faith in the scheduling based on what has happened in the past. Maybe it will become a RuneLabs idea at some point and finally pushed through.

The last I heard to do with reworks as a whole was 'maybe one next year' without any specifics as to which one.

So I'm guessing that means I should sink money into construction to finish that 99, huh? Unfortunate, but whatever. 

What is always coming but never arrives? The construction rework.

 

I believe the current plan is next year yes, but I wouldn't put too much faith in the scheduling based on what has happened in the past. Maybe it will become a RuneLabs idea at some point and finally pushed through.

Also the smithing update, which has already been coming for much longer than construction XD

TL;DR suuplied by ItsSuity on reddit:

 

TL;DW 075 - Q&A + Beach Party

 

 

Beach Party:

 

Portable forges hotfixed

Choose which bones are crushed with bonecrusher (potentially next week)

x2 Abyss RC XP

Buyable item (~500k) that x3 RC XP but makes you a target to PvPers

- x2/x3 are just numbers, still need to balance (Pi wants to match runespan rates)

Strawpoll: Do you want Abyss RC XP buffed (Yes with PvP item)

 

 

Beta polls:

 

1.2s Barge bind

Removed Barge's cooldown shared with Surge/Escape (can now Surge Barge to close huge gaps)

Old batch of Beta updates are going to go live (eg No legacy SS cap)

Possible to get each other killed during Raids

There was a line of code that reduced legacy damage to Araxxor by 25% which will be removed

The red meteorite chunks will be used for raids (save them)

Ironman group bossing should include raids

The group bossing update will make it possible for Ironmen to get comp cape

 

 

Addy and Rune dragons:

 

Gravestones will appear outside World Gate for deaths in Kethsi (next update)

Strawpoll: Should Rune dragons be unaggressive (52% Yes)

Rune dragons won't be first hit gets drop (next update)

Rune dragons XP buff (slayer XP at least as good as Glacors)

DFH drop rate:

- Addy same as Mithril

- Rune dragons dont drop

 

 

Runefest:

 

October 3rd

Tobacco Dock, London (same place 3 years in a row)

Different side of the venue

USA is too expensive

Tickets on sale early July

£99 + booking fee

Bonds to pay for ticket, hotel and even flights

Invention steam-punk theme

Night before party will be bigger and better

They'll get everyone in this time (unlike last year)

 

 

PiPad:

 

DG: Look into interfaces not closing when a door is opened

 

 

Lumbridge Beach:

 

Screenshots

4-5 days of creating the beach

Chance to get Tortoise

- 3/day

- 2 for every daily challenge you do

- TH

- Tortoises are tradeable before you claim the pet

Ice creams are tradeable

Cocktails are untradeable

F2P can do most of the content

- Can't do sand castles (Con XP)

0 Portals (D&Ds are P2P)

Double XP in the abyss for runecrafting? That's nice but it means what, do all that clicking and micromanagement to barely break runespan XP rates and make a little profit? If anyone does abyss runecrafting (haha) what is the XP rate currently? I'm curious.

 

Beach party sounds good, particularly if they make it mostly available to F2P as advertised. It'll be something new certainly.

Double XP in the abyss for runecrafting? That's nice but it means what, do all that clicking and micromanagement to barely break runespan XP rates and make a little profit? If anyone does abyss runecrafting (haha) what is the XP rate currently? I'm curious.

 

Beach party sounds good, particularly if they make it mostly available to F2P as advertised. It'll be something new certainly.

Tops out at like 57-65k an hour last time anyone bothered to check. That was doing deaths/bloods i believe.

 

Double XP in the abyss for runecrafting? That's nice but it means what, do all that clicking and micromanagement to barely break runespan XP rates and make a little profit? If anyone does abyss runecrafting (haha) what is the XP rate currently? I'm curious.

 

Beach party sounds good, particularly if they make it mostly available to F2P as advertised. It'll be something new certainly.

Tops out at like 57-65k an hour last time anyone bothered to check. That was doing deaths/bloods i believe.

 

Hmm nice, would you happen to recall whether that was before or after freerunenergyscape?

 

 

Double XP in the abyss for runecrafting? That's nice but it means what, do all that clicking and micromanagement to barely break runespan XP rates and make a little profit? If anyone does abyss runecrafting (haha) what is the XP rate currently? I'm curious.

 

Beach party sounds good, particularly if they make it mostly available to F2P as advertised. It'll be something new certainly.

Tops out at like 57-65k an hour last time anyone bothered to check. That was doing deaths/bloods i believe.

 

Hmm nice, would you happen to recall whether that was before or after freerunenergyscape?

 

Pretty sure after.

Abyss is probably closer to like 30k/h, if you're crafting close to 3000 essence on deaths/bloods.

I enjoy sleuthing all this future update info for the community.

Funny thing is this is the last one I need to add to my belt. Here is our next ninja teaser image:

 

Very good, toggle is common sense for bonecrusher but will be appreciated ::/.

Funny thing is this is the last one I need to add to my belt. Here is our next ninja teaser image:

 

 

*sniff*

 

It's beautiful!

Beta polls:

1.2s Barge bind
Removed Barge's cooldown shared with Surge/Escape (can now Surge Barge to close huge gaps)
Old batch of Beta updates are going to go live (eg No legacy SS cap)
Possible to get each other killed during Raids
There was a line of code that reduced legacy damage to Araxxor by 25% which will be removed
The red meteorite chunks will be used for raids (save them)
Ironman group bossing should include raids
The group bossing update will make it possible for Ironmen to get comp cape

 

... 2H abilities? Panic buy Scythes? :P

 

Confirmed ;)

if the runes created aren't enough to be equivalent to the booster cost, there's not really much point, especially when it isn't working towards the final wicked cape tier lol

Have they fixed bonecrusher not working while training hunter?

nvm. forgot hood tokens just give teles not more ess

 

 

Do we have any info yet on what the relics will do for raids yet?

Have they fixed bonecrusher not working while training hunter?

It also doesn't work at in boss rooms at gwd for some silly reason, right?

Advanced pulse cores coming this weekend...I guess a slightly buffed version of the old promotion. Pushing the limits of bonus xp >.<.