Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to summarise Tuesday's livestream, Rubic!

You've provided an excellent summary of the ethos and objectives behind 110 skills.

(It was Tuesday, right? It's been the kind of release week where Tuesday feels a lifetime ago. We've got a big list of tasty 110 M&S patch notes in Monday's news post for you, though.)

Have you created the masterwork 2h sword? I'm hoping to finish mine this weekend.

Frankly it's a matter of scoping to time and resource - there's a lot we could do, but what can we do in the time we have?

The roadmap determines roughly when projects need to release and how many will simultaneously be in flight, all with their own prioritised needs.

Working back from there, crunching the time estimate numbers and looking at what we could efficiently produce and prioritising what was truly necessary for the update, models and materials for a 1h primal weapon were at the bottom of the list and had to be cut for time, to ensure priority character art requests like the primal armour, masterwork weapon and both types of pickaxes were included.

Thanks for the write up Rubic!

Mickey misspoke a bit here as we never intended to add a passive or spec to the Sword, as we detailed in our blog way back in May.

Since Monday's release we've been discussing the feedback on the sword and Primal equipment (and everything else) and what desires there are from players. Mod Jack spoke a bit about it on the livestream yesterday during the skilling section.

Baseline is we'd love to look at things like the melee M&S armours as a whole, not just Primal, as any changes we'd intend to make for that would propogate throughout the entire skill (or start at a certain tier like level 70) for consistency reasons. It's worth stating though that these sorts of changes would most likely be their own update, one under the purview of the combat team.

Similarly, we've discussed the feedback on Masterwork weapons and what's to be expected of the updates, and been looking at ways to deliver on the desires here too. Once we're more concrete on 110 Woodcutting & Fletching soon, hopefully we can discuss it more.

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I'm definitely more of a skilling/questing-oriented player than a combat player, but to me, the core principle of consistent tiering (level 100 resources to gather = level 100 to smith = level 100 to wear/wield = level 100 stats, fully upgraded) for craftable equipment is really important. Some of that isn't entirely achievable until wear/wield requirement skills are above 99, of course, but we can tweak that retroactively when the time comes.

There's a lot of other levers we can pull on - augmentation, degradability, power vs tank, survivability features, specs and passives, etc - to differentiate bossing and skilling combat equipment, and likely other players would prioritise those as distinguishing factors.

But to me, numbers lining up makes my brain happy, and makes the whole process of setting goals for levelling easier to digest and work towards.

This is something i’d like to look at in the background, without the intention of buffing or nerfing anything specifically. Just overall reducing the frequency and quantities from various sources, maybe in some cases outright removing/replacing them.

Yeah, the seemingly tight timescales worry me too! Thankfully it's our job to worry about it. ;)

But it's important to keep up the roadmap release cadence and deliver on our promises, and it's very easy to feature-creep projects into time-consuming reworks, if we don't keep a firm hand on the rudder.

So I understand the necessity for having a clearly defined minimum viable product focused on feeding insatiable highly-engaged high level players.

For what it's worth, the importance of re-tiering Fletching's current core equipment is something we've heard emphasised a lot from players, something Mod Jack keeps trying to squeeze into the schedule, and something I personally care about a great deal.

Unfortunately, for a lot of players, skill reworks are seen as healthy but aren't seen as an acceptable substitute for new skilling content.

So the 110 updates prioritise delivering (for 1-2 skills) a level 100 band of skilling content and increasing the level cap to 110, keeping things lean to get that to you in no more than a few months, to attempt to meet that need for regular beats of moar skilling content.

And though re-tiering is by default out of scope for 110 updates, Breezy, Jack and I started a Fletching re-tier (the mini-rework you described) in May's gamejam, and 2024's final gamejam is currently scheduled shortly after 110 Woodcutting & Fletching releases, where I'm hoping to continue with a Fletching re-tier for future consideration.