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Rikornak
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Most likely not - nor should they be now, since they're actually intended to gain level 80 material following monday (I mean it was a level 75 tree for a level 50 material - so either you adjust the material to the tree (which they basically did and which allows them to make more existing trees relevant) - or you adjust the tree to the material (which I personally would have preferred for simplicity, but which admittingly wouldn't have fixed more existing trees).

But as it stands you basically also could ask why bane ore can't be mined by free players.
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16-Jun-2023 06:49:26 - Last edited on 16-Jun-2023 07:00:42 by Rikornak

Kat Stryke

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On one hand, it does seem even less likely this will ever happen now. Jagex didn't make magic trees available to F2P when they were tier 75 items. Now that they are tier 80 trees, it would be surprising if they turned around and let F2P chop magic trees, given their reluctance to give free players anything beyond the most basic content.

However, since we can still burn and fletch magic logs, it does make sense to allow F2P to chop their own logs, instead of relying on members to sell them these logs on the G.E. Jagex could do right by F2P and correct the skill imbalance - not by taking away yew trees from F2P, but by allowing magic trees to be cut by all players with 80+ Woodcutting.

The Varrock sewer resource dungeon, if made available to free players with 65+ Dungeoneering, would be a good source of magic trees. The presence of the moss giants would make it tough on the level 3 bots, as well as skillers. The skillers could gather their magic logs outside the Mage Training Arena.
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27-Jun-2023 21:37:19

Dilbert2001
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Free players get wood boxes and spirits now. These things increased their WC productivities already. For F2P to access magic trees, perhaps we need to see higher tier of trees than Elders for members, but I really doubt this will happen any time soon given RS3's skilling is getting more and more about new mechanics like perks, skill trees, Archaeology powers etc. Tier progression is just an afterthought, perhaps once in 5 if not 10 years.

28-Jun-2023 18:37:47

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