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Primal Binds

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I appreciate the attention to woodcutting but this update seems like dead content on arrival.

It doesn't add any groundbreaking new xp rates or methods of woodcutting, doesn't make woodcutting a skill that can be done for decent profit, and the rewards aren't that useful to anyone besides the sack for ironmen.

The lumberjack outfit is cool but can be obtained significantly faster from temple trekking.

28-Jun-2023 21:53:27

Dilbert2001
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If you are talking about OSRS's Forestry, the point is most certainly to give OSRS players a taste of RS3 style WC and community training activities like Evil Tree.

Of course there is always a point to get more xp training with more players. We have a lot of such communal activities in RS3. OSRS players and Jmods like them so they added them. More xp is definitely a good reward for some players. As for gp/item/gameplay rewards OSRS Forestry seems to be lacking comparing to RS3, but this is almost always the case in that game because it is basically a bunch of unrelated game modes and minigames. It is hard to add rewards to a piece of content (especially the neglected skilling content) and make them useful in the game modes.

Now if you are looking at RS3, it doesn't need Forestry because it already has a lot of such content, and when they bundle them up with other skills/activities because they can and OSRS can't, they have a lot of rewards to offer to different kinds of content and different players seeking different kinds of rewards for different skills/activities.

28-Jun-2023 23:51:08 - Last edited on 29-Jun-2023 00:31:23 by Dilbert2001

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I'd have to agree with Dilbert2001. Tremendous explanation.

It's more of having additional options to train the skill. Especially in a way that is community/socially focused. Most of the resource based skill training methods tend to benefit players for being alone instead of sharing resources (e.g not cutting the same tree as someone). This gives everyone the opportunity to participate as a group instead of standing at a lonesome tree by themselves somewhere if they should chose to do so.

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29-Jun-2023 04:55:52

Tenebri
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Primal Binds said :

It doesn't add any groundbreaking new xp rates or methods of woodcutting,


you are doing it wrong then.

pretty much every place you cut trees is now almost double the xp rate it was before.
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29-Jun-2023 09:41:08 - Last edited on 29-Jun-2023 09:42:07 by Tenebri

Dilbert2001
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faster xp rate is definitely a reasonable bonus idea out of not many viable ideas to start with, although it probably means lower log prices because the big issue remains there are no content adding to the consumption of logs.

What can you do if you were the OSRS developers though? Are you going to make logs required to play other game modes/minigames like pay 50k logs to enter LMS or BH? Or you want to add Tbows and other combat rares to the bird's nests? :D

29-Jun-2023 18:57:22

mastercast3r
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Dilbert2001 said :

What can you do if you were the OSRS developers though? Are you going to make logs required to play other game modes/minigames like pay 50k logs to enter LMS or BH? Or you want to add Tbows and other combat rares to the bird's nests? :D
How about making a new way to use logs?

Just as a random idea, not really a suggestion, how about a new type of bow with a new type of arrow.

Or perhaps they can add construction to the new skill, so you can make new boats if you choose and they would have certain advantages to the ones you buy or steal.

30-Jun-2023 00:46:11 - Last edited on 30-Jun-2023 00:48:43 by mastercast3r

Dilbert2001
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mastercast3r said :
Dilbert2001 said :

What can you do if you were the OSRS developers though? Are you going to make logs required to play other game modes/minigames like pay 50k logs to enter LMS or BH? Or you want to add Tbows and other combat rares to the bird's nests? :D
How about making a new way to use logs?

Just as a random idea, not really a suggestion, how about a new type of bow with a new type of arrow.

Or perhaps they can add construction to the new skill, so you can make new boats if you choose and they would have certain advantages to the ones you buy or steal.


There is always the issue of "power creep" in OSRS. Making new items will most likely destroy values of existing items. That's why the killed Ruinious Powers. So don't expect OSRS will let skillers make things similar to tbows.

Even just new tier of logs will destroy values of existing logs already.

30-Jun-2023 01:22:27

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