Hm. I support expanding roles instead of erasing them.

 

Maybe we can talk about Firemaking later.

And fletching and fishing and mining and a whole bunch of others right

fletching overhaul will presumably follow smithing overhaul

 

if anything needs purpose, it's hunter (and thieving)

^sorry, but hunter and thieving have lots of purposes. If you are looking at skills with no purposes then firemaking is the first one to come to mind, not saying that I want a firemaking rework (first). Even a skill like farming has less purpose than hunter :P But I get your point, hunter is quite broken nowadays.

They said once upon a time that Mining/Smithing rework would give them a good base model which they could then use to more quickly do similar reworks for wc/fletch, fish/cook and crafting.

 

Though tbh with how they revamped healing from food fish/cook kinda makes sense now, but wc/fletch and craft could certainly use some level appropriate re-jigging

 

But yeah all told a lot of skills really need reworks.

 

Agility needs better ways to train and a greater function than a few short cuts.

Farming is very 1 dimensional and could benefit greatly from assorted livestock ideas and some general sprucing to the mechanics of existing farming.

Hunter could use a bit more variety and definitely needs some more useful things injected into it

Firemaking just well, Fire...making...

Construction they kinda need to nuke the existing poh system and do something entirely new.

Firemaking just well, Fire...making...

I've thought prior that they could make firemaking a skilling version of prayer (i.e., provide skilling boosts). Seems they went the easier route with Seren stuff by simply making prayer also useful when skilling.

 

Anyway, you could have incense, which provide temporary buffs, tied to distinct firemaking levels. Bonfires could be elaborated on, perhaps used as a team-based incense equivalent. Allowing firemaking to buff other skills, when relevant, would also be neat: use firemaking to power special forges for increased efficiency while smithing, cooking benefits in special hotspots (smoking foods, better ranges, etc), farming side-thing (clear dead growth using applied firemaking to improve future crops). Even skills like thieving could benefit: using smoke to confuse targets and provide distractions in some more elaborate thieving method.

 

But a massive inter-skill game is unlikely.

Cooking could also use an overhaul. The easier to make foods are often the most useful ones. They should re-do it so that fish alone wouldn't be very good healing, you'd need the taters,pizzas,pies, etc.

Cooking could also use an overhaul. The easier to make foods are often the most useful ones. They should re-do it so that fish alone wouldn't be very good healing, you'd need the taters,pizzas,pies, etc.

And they should combine that with farming. Like tuna potatoes, but make them worthwhile XP for the time you spend on making them, both farming and cooking XP, make them heal a lot more than easier stuff. I seriously don't know how they cannot see this simple thing...

^sorry, but hunter and thieving have lots of purposes. If you are looking at skills with no purposes then firemaking is the first one to come to mind, not saying that I want a firemaking rework (first). Even a skill like farming has less purpose than hunter :P But I get your point, hunter is quite broken nowadays.

 

hunter:

 

- ingredients for herblore

 

farming:

 

- ingredients for herblore

- personal woodcutting spots

- ingredients for cooking summer pies and outclassed tuna potatoes

 

thieving:

 

- ironman

- making farming ingredients for cooking useless by providing an unlimited number of summer pies because of arbitrary developer decision making

Ninja teaser:

 

Familiars getting more lp.

 

http://t.co/cxiSsxDFZP

 

^sorry, but hunter and thieving have lots of purposes. If you are looking at skills with no purposes then firemaking is the first one to come to mind, not saying that I want a firemaking rework (first). Even a skill like farming has less purpose than hunter :P But I get your point, hunter is quite broken nowadays.

 

hunter:

 

- ingredients for herblore

 

farming:

 

- ingredients for herblore

- personal woodcutting spots

- ingredients for cooking summer pies and outclassed tuna potatoes

 

thieving:

 

- ironman

- making farming ingredients for cooking useless by providing an unlimited number of summer pies because of arbitrary developer decision making

 

Not going into detail for the other skills here, but why I said hunting is useful take for example:

Ranged ammo/weapons

Summoning ingredients (especially the cats are quite useful, or were... I may not be up to date)

All kinds of skill additions (rabbit foot, thieving gloves etc.)

All kind of pets (not really useful, but a nice addition)

Eagle transportation network

Hunting implings all over runescape.

I agree. Hunter is the least in need of a rework

Im excited

I agree. Hunter is the least in need of a rework

...What, as a whole or compared to the other crap skills

 

I agree. Hunter is the least in need of a rework

...What, as a whole or compared to the other crap skills

 

this

Regarding invention as far from what I've been able to find on resources needed:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm thinking we should be saving our seasinger magikae and tetsu tsuba.

Hold on now, wasn't that first thing the most contested part of Invention 1.0?

Hold on now, wasn't that first thing the most contested part of Invention 1.0?

I don't remember them saying that, but I'm definitely satisfied since I have 2 superior helms I accidentally made.

Good thing I have 6 of the components banked :)

 

 

^sorry, but hunter and thieving have lots of purposes. If you are looking at skills with no purposes then firemaking is the first one to come to mind, not saying that I want a firemaking rework (first). Even a skill like farming has less purpose than hunter :P But I get your point, hunter is quite broken nowadays.

 

hunter:

 

- ingredients for herblore

 

farming:

 

- ingredients for herblore

- personal woodcutting spots

- ingredients for cooking summer pies and outclassed tuna potatoes

 

thieving:

 

- ironman

- making farming ingredients for cooking useless by providing an unlimited number of summer pies because of arbitrary developer decision making

 

Not going into detail for the other skills here, but why I said hunting is useful take for example:

Ranged ammo/weapons

Summoning ingredients (especially the cats are quite useful, or were... I may not be up to date)

All kinds of skill additions (rabbit foot, thieving gloves etc.)

All kind of pets (not really useful, but a nice addition)

Eagle transportation network

Hunting implings all over runescape.

 

 

firemaking doesn't need a rework because you can replace light orbs in dorgeshkaan and reduce the failure rate of hand cannons

How does that constitute a rework?

 

Fire make -> Make fire. If anything some more content can be added to it.

 

Hunter is very rich in content, but boils down to hunt things. It could use some polish and QOL,

How does that constitute a rework?

 

Fire make -> Make fire. If anything some more content can be added to it.

 

Hunter is very rich in content, but boils down to hunt things. It could use some polish and QOL,

I agree with you, but frankly fire making is a very simple and under qualified skill compared to the others. I think if anyone hopes to see firemaking remade into anything entertaining it would have to be remade into a more robust survival skill. Frankly I could easily see Jagex taking firemaking and making it a core concept piece for an elite skill for survival. They would simply leave firemaking as a basic form of survival.

 

How does that constitute a rework?

 

Fire make -> Make fire. If anything some more content can be added to it.

 

Hunter is very rich in content, but boils down to hunt things. It could use some polish and QOL,

I agree with you, but frankly fire making is a very simple and under qualified skill compared to the others. I think if anyone hopes to see firemaking remade into anything entertaining it would have to be remade into a more robust survival skill. Frankly I could easily see Jagex taking firemaking and making it a core concept piece for an elite skill for survival. They would simply leave firemaking as a basic form of survival.

 

 

Firemaking doesn't need to be removed, renamed, or much of anything. It just needs a purpose and content to match. Much like ideas I laid out earlier in this thread.

Pretty sure that's what strilmus was trying to say: just because there's a list of things that the skill can do doesn't mean that they're useful or desirable. On paper, Hunter has a ton of uses, but not many of them are particularly good and the skill itself is really clunky.

Firemaking doesnt have that much potential. It is a skill developed early in the game when scope of game play was much simpler.

Firemaking doesnt have that much potential. It is a skill developed early in the game when scope of game play was much simpler.

 

If you assume firemaking to just be a skill about lighting some logs to make a fire and move one square west, then yes. But firemaking being a skill about fire itself could be much more impressive and useful. I suppose you didn't read the link, so I'll quote here for simplicity:

 

 

I've thought prior that they could make firemaking a skilling version of prayer (i.e., provide skilling boosts). Seems they went the easier route with Seren stuff by simply making prayer also useful when skilling.

 

Anyway, you could have incense, which provide temporary buffs, tied to distinct firemaking levels. Bonfires could be elaborated on, perhaps used as a team-based incense equivalent. Allowing firemaking to buff other skills, when relevant, would also be neat: use firemaking to power special forges for increased efficiency while smithing, cooking benefits in special hotspots (smoking foods, better ranges, etc), farming side-thing (clear dead growth using applied firemaking to improve future crops). Even skills like thieving could benefit: using smoke to confuse targets and provide distractions in some more elaborate thieving method.

 

But a massive inter-skill game is unlikely.