Skills...

by **The Empty Lord** Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:35 am

First topic message reminder :

Imagine we had complete control over the skills within RuneScape, both existing and forthcoming; what would be our dream list?

Resource Gathering skills;
• Farming; cultivating plants for harvesting [of produce].
• Felling; cutting wood, and other resources, from trees.
• Fishing; procuring fish, and similar creatures, from bodies of water, lava or from the air.
• Mining; reprising minerals from the earth (and foreign substances).
• Rearing; animal husbandry (meat, pelts and other produce).
• Runecraft; collecting magical energies from altars constructed at magically-unstable locations.
• Skinning; carving flesh, and other prizes, from a dead carcass.

Processing/Production skills;
• Alchemy; the practice of converting one thing into another, using magical energies and other natural chemicals.
• Conjuring; the practice of spinning magical energies into a sustained form, such as weapons and armour.
• Cooking; the practice of preparing edible (and occasionally inedible) dishes.
• Fletching
• Herblore
• Smithing; the practice of metal-forging, such as weapons and armour.
• Stonecutting; the practice of gemstone-enchantment using light and magical energies, and augmentation. (inspired by Fable)
• Stonework;
• Tailoring
• Tinkering
• Woodwork; the practice of carving wood, to create items such as weapons, carts and canoes.

Combat skills;
• Attack
• Strength
• Sorcery
• Mana
• Ranged
• Marksmanship
• Defence
• Hitpoints
• Agility

Character Development skills;
• Bending; kinetic manipulation of the elements.
• Demonology
• Firecraft
• Hunter
• Mysticism
• Necromancy
• Prayer
• Slayer
• Thieving
• Summoning
• Zoanthropy

Recreational skills;
• Archaeology
• Construction
• Seafaring

Lost skills;
• Crafting, all over the place.
• Magic, all over the place.

I'm trying to recall them all. I think I've probably missed half of the existing skills. Tongue