No. This is a better idea.
So, first you need a skill that provides for all skill levels across all boards. You need something that combines all of RuneScape's skills all into one. You need something that makes use of all other skills. This skill is Runewording (tentative title). So, you come across rare drops called runes, and these can be from lower-level Slayer monsters, and if you find one, you can pick it up and use it for a "Rune Word". When you find it, say, from a Crawling Hand from Slayer, you can keep it. Then, if a Runecrafter wants to make the same rune from scratch, he must have knowledge of that rune by doing a quest and then make it, using higher level Runecrafting, perhaps in the 80-90 range of Runecrafting. However, a lower level player could find the same rune from a lower-level monster, such as Crawling Hands or Cave Crawler, what have you. But to make and craft those runes, you must have a higher-than-average Runecraft level. So then, using the Smithing skill, at higher levels you can make platebodies, platelegs, kiteshields, helmets, and weapons that each correspond to a different combination of runes. Each "socketed" armor or weapon is unuseable until you socket them with the correct runes, but you can make these weapon and armor pieces at higher levels of Smithing. Only with a true Master Smithing level can you make intricate socketed weapon and armor pieces. However, you might also be able to get these socketed armor and weapon pieces on drops from certain Slayer monsters.
When you place the correct combination of runes in the correct numerical combination of sockets, you can make a certain "rune word", providing various benefits for your character at any level. One good low-level rune word might provide more gold dropped from monsters at the cost of reduced defence. One high-level one might provide more DPS at the cost of reduced maximum hitpoints.
That is my un-evolved idea.
15-Dec-2022 22:08:04
