[2021] The actual problem with skilling in OSRS

Originally posted by nickyGyul

That's not really what OP was getting at. OP was saying that there is an other way to bring back the intrinsic value of Skilling aside from making Skilling content competitive with bossing in terms of profit.

By making some of the upper echelons of gear require decent Skilling stats. So even if some of the parts (of the new BiS unique) get flooded into the game, at least legitimate players will feel rewarded for the time and gp sink that is training Skills. I personally thought that the Barronite mace was a really cool implementation.

Mod Curse is keen on a Completionist cape, but I feel like that would be a band-aid fix for adding value to other parts of the game. Adding it to the game will feel worse if 8/23 Skills have no great use outside of diaries and getting a Max cape.

Skilling would less likely feel like an arbitrary grind if it became equally important as other stats for account progression. I feel like the gp/hr with Skilling is a misdiagnosis of the problems with Skilling.

Plus, you've already pointed out that in order to get comparable profit via Skilling, one would have to sink in way more time training the skill compared to combat. Zulrah or Vorkath has a lower barrier to entry than the comparable gp/hr Skilling counterparts. You'd need near-99s to effectively make that gp/hr outlined in the wiki.

Originally posted by RaidsMonkeyIdeas

Ferocious Gloves gives a good precedent - Bosses drop the raw/tradeable material and you need high skills to make it, with the final product being untradeable so people can't just buy the completed product off someone else. This is how you make higher skill level relevant.

You're right about the BIS platebody example because if it only costs like 10 Logs to make, it would be dirt cheap due to how much is in the game. You would have to consume like 1,000,000 Logs or Ores to make it reasonable.

As for direct profit from skilling, more Hallowed Sepulcher/high-intensity activity that's locked behind higher skill levels is always welcome, especially if it's bringing in consumables as its primary source of gp - Blood Runes, Sanfews, etc. Avoid high intensity activities that are extremely monotonous like clicking NPC for Blood Shards/Crystal Seeds.

Sepulcher does a good balance between GP and XP because if you sacrifice most of GP, u can get slightly higher rates.