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Azanna just be honest, you’re built different

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.

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.

Primal can indeed be burial’d (buried?)

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.

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, 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.

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

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

Smithing is following suit. (Pun intended.)

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

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

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

Nope, following the precedent of https://runescape.wiki/w/A_Song_of_Earth_and_Pickaxes and ...

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

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.

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

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.

<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.

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

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.