New Skill Levels: 110 Mining & Smithing

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE 110 MINING AND SMITHING UPDATE?!??

I picked a decent looking spot to grab a photo against a more recent boss, didn't. Wana dive into sanctum so Ossy jumped to mind

That decision's under the purview of our Live Ops colleagues for future consideration.

We've not modified proteans in this update.

Personally I'd be inclined to use them now, while DXP is running.

The max cape has remained the 99 cape when skills have increased to 120, so we've followed suit with that convention. Still need 99 all skills to enter the max guild.

Comp cape requires the Master Skiller achievement which requires the highest non-virtual level in every skill, so that's affected by the new 110 Mining and 110 Smithing skill chain achievements. Those 2 achievements have a generous grace period.

We're not adding 110 capes.

There's also a few new achievements, at least one for each skill on comp cape and bringing Mod Jack's mithril metal upwards lore from the M&S rework design in-game in master quest cape's Lore->Books category.

Release the lorehounds!

Welcome back to RuneScape!

Everything is Oresome has RuneScore and a functional ore box benefit.

So we made a separate primal achievement so the benefit doesn't become locked where you can't use it during one's journey to 99.

I did also try to get both pickaxe creation achievements onto comp cape, but design said no, so no stress there. Achievement is its own reward.

Gratz on 110 Smithing! The primal equipment tier should make your journey to virtual 120, and my journey to 200m, less of a grind. ;)

Eventually 120 all is the goal (other than you, Invention, you over-achiever with your wacky elite skill 150 levelling curve).

The new strategy is we're taking individual skills project by project in 10 level increments to 110, then in future years another 10 levels to 120, to ensure players get frequent skilling updates in relatively short development cycles, rather than 6 month+ reworks or anaemic unlocks in some level bands.

That does mean we have a minimum 110 content deliverable that must be met in a reasonably short timeframe, so we have to be very brutal what quality of life improvements we include and consider them stretch goals.

We were able to squeeze almost all our nice-to-haves into this update by virtue of the recently reworked state of Mining & Smithing.

I suspect some subsequent skills will be trickier to extend, and consume more of our development time to achieve the core deliverable 110 content.

Agree that the dragon pickaxe drop rate is Karamjan bananas, but fixing that was out of scope for this 110 skilling update. Though limiting supply is how it holds its value.

You won't need a dragon pickaxe for the level 100 upgrade to the pickaxe of earth and song, for what it's worth.

Nope. Similar to masterwork armour essences, the intact weapons are required to create masterwork weapon essences.

<3 It was a time-consuming pain to fix, not going to lie. Every single smithable object had a parameter on it enforcing a make limit of 1, and there were some corner cases where that was necessary to preserve exceptional functionality, so had to check each manually.

Glad we managed to squeeze in this stretch goal though.

No plateskirt, no chainbody. (Though the platelegs have a somewhat skirtlike element to their design.)

Primal follows a similar pattern to orikalkum, necronium, bane, elder rune where there's a narrower set of items to keep the artist time at our current fidelity manageable.

Most of the items at a new artisan tier just exist as XP training fodder, since once you have a fully upgraded set for your own use, there isn't much of a demand to keep smithing more equipment other than to sink them out for burial XP, modest moneymaking or filler invention components.

We'll tell the fanatics to yell louder next time.

Would be cool! But nope, if you want to completely assemble a 2h masterwork sword, you'll need to complete all steps. (Or, if you prefer braver souls to engage in bossing for those weapon drops, empty your coffers into the Grand Exchange like me for the privilege of saving life and limb.) A master smith perseveres in their craft.

Yep, primal is the 100 core Smithing tier after 90 elder rune, so uses similar tiered burial mechanics for XP training and respect.

Nope, following the precedent of https://runescape.wiki/w/A_Song_of_Earth_and_Pickaxes and https://runescape.wiki/w/Imcando_Attitude, creating the level 100 augmentable pickaxe has an achievement but isn't required for completionist cape or trimmed completionist cape.

Nope. I suspect world 70 Artisans' Workshop if you're also Smithing or one of the Skill Total worlds would be popular choices, though.

Yes, but you can augment the masterwork 2h sword to use divine charges as the degradation mechanic.

Glad to hear it! The fanatics report they've enjoyed getting to meet new people and flaunt their FashionScape.

The Smelting interface already has a quantity slider to make multiple bars, inventory space permitting.

Smithing is following suit. (Pun intended.)

Nah that’d get really annoying, we’d never do that sort of thing…

Yep, because primal's the level 100 equivalent of level 90 elder rune. Exists primarily to train the Smithing skill to the next tier, plus provide a baseline of self-made tank armour, so PvM power armour holds its value.

Masterwork's a particular high-skilling-effort power armour niche somewhere inbetween, but that's very atypical for where artisan/manufacturing skills like Smithing have to coexist in the skilling vs combat equipment meta.

The new augmentable pickaxe and masterwork sword will take up a fair bit of your time, and there’s an MQC req with this update too :D

Yep, primal armour can be burialised (is that a word? It's a word now) at the artisans' workshop in a similar fashion to elder rune, bane, necronomiconimodium, etc.

Primal can indeed be burial’d (buried?)

There are some additional achievements you'll need to complete to reclaim comp cape and master quest cape (mentioned elsewhere in this thread), but the 110 Mining and 110 Smithing achievements on comp cape have a grace period.

So take your time, stop to smell the grit, and enjoy the grind.

Pheasantly plucked. A couple comp achievements, on par with existing comp achievements for Mining and Smithing, plus the 110 skill chain achievements that have a grace period. Something for master quest cape. Nothing new for trim.

Azanna just be honest, you’re built different

Pickaxe of Roll and Rock

Currently, that's what we've had to do. Technically the level 100 armour should have a level 100 Defence requirement.

But until Defence is increased past 99 (and the combat team want to increase all the combat skills at once in a coordinated effort with appropriately resourced updates, so that's not an option with this year's already packed schedule), our only option at present is to require the current maximum combat skill level of 99 when a level 110 skill requires a combat skill other than Necromancy.

They’ll be available from a few different things like some chests, bosses, and slayer monsters.

Separate to any 110 skilling updates, i’d like to look at addressing stone spirit drop rates and quantities in the future so as to steady the supply of them, as they’re a bit too abundant right now

As with masterwork armour, there's a new comp cape achievement for unlocking the ability to create the masterwork 2h sword, but no achievement for creating masterwork equipment.

Too early to say and I've not personally been involved in those discussions, but from what I gather, there's a preference to increase the combat skills altogether, when the time comes, to avoid a combat style imbalance.