[2019] Short M&S Rework Feedback

Originally posted by pacquan

Here's a list of my personal feedback towards the M&S Rework. Please feel free to retort any of my claims and/or add your own.

• Coal and Bane Ores visually too similar

• Necrite and Adamantite Ores visually too similar

• Extremely Difficult to spot Rockortunities at Bane ore due to white environment

• Trahaearn hour feels like one step forward and one step back. 20% bxp but no rockortunities. Edit: I've just had bad luck, apparently having multiple of same animica are more common than I believed.

• Artisans Workshop Respect feels much slower than pre-update. For the time, money, and effort to make a full set of burial armor, the respect reward feels VERY underwhelming.

• Ceremonial Swords. I would much rather be able to make ceremonial swords on my own volition as a method to max respect and suffer lower xp/ore. As a personal suggestion, I would rather Doric & Boric tasks be introduced as a D&D that can be given randomly while mining or smithing.

• What incentive is there to mine in the wilderness?

• Can we get an icon on the buff bar for the Varrock Platebody?

• Just my 2 cents, but elder rune pickaxes and the Pickaxe of Earth and Song just aesthetically dont look or feel like BIS items. There was that glass-like intricacy to the crystal pickaxe that made it feel pristine but E&S just looks like an imcando with some extra details.

• Someone stated in a previous livestream that DeepSea Fishing Frenzy was a failed attempt to offer a high-intensity skilling method. I feel like 4tick mining and rockorunities has been an incredible improvement on that model.

• Can we toggle off specific geodes?

• The Master Clue step that requires you to smith a Rune Full Helm takes significantly longer than pre-update, can this be looked into?

• Tuned Bane ore cannot be stored in Metal Bank

• When opening Geodes, filter out the chatbox messages and open them much faster. I don't think it needs to be so time-gated if we're just getting 80% trash gems. EDIT: Spam click to open fast, but the auto-open really needs to just open fast as spam clicking anyways.

• Ore Box max capacity of 140 is nice, but it barely lasts a half hour at animica rocks. I'd rather just just porters than have to bank every half hour (and even more regularly at lower tier rocks). I wouldn't be opposed to more high tier options to upgrade the box further (quest rewards, artisan workshop reward, turn the box into untradeable).

• The smithing interfaces are by-far the most un-intuitive part of the update. Move the Bar selection window in the SMITHING interface to be more like a menu ribbon and auto-collapse all the project selection windows by default except for your most recently smithed item.

• There is definitely a vanacy in smithing for a useful familiar.