Here is a Reddit summary of the recent Invention BTS video: https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/c...ntion_special/
It appears Jagex will be introducing a number of elite skills, beginning with Invention, to revolutionize the endgame level while also making lower tier activities worthwhile.
What was particularly striking to me was the vast amount of item sinks that will be implemented. It seems that a number of goldfarming methods, old and new, will result from this.
Notable excerpts:
Plan is to make every level worthwhile without making previous levels obsolete
ie You made Maple longbows, when you unlock Yew longbows you won't make maples ever again
What if you upgraded your previous item to better items (meaning you still need the lower level supplies)
Passive unlocks in a way that agility works? - Possibly Make-X is fasterDivine - Uses divine energy, basic tech
Dwarven - Big, heavy, industrial, steam machinery etc
Cave goblin - Electricity-based
Everything invented has medieval comparison points
Tech won't be too modern (eg Won't combine Dwarven unreliable trains with goblin tech to make electric powered train networks)
Can do other tech trees in the future in Batches (Elf - crystal technology, tzhaar, gnome clockwork, dragonkin etc)We're all used to maple logs being dirt cheap, and other low tier items being in laughably low gp ranges. It seems like these items might become far more profitable now as an actual use for them besides alching arises.Invention will be a huge item sink for
GWD items including shards
Barrows
All high level PvM equipment
Disassembling higher equipment will give higher resources (eg Drygores broken down may give drygore parts which is necessary for a specific augmentation)
Will also be item sink for regular items since they can be disassembled
Remove unused equipment like maple longbows
Will also be a money sink
What do you think of this future update? Keeping in mind that everything is in pre-development concept, I think that this will have some seriously awesome effects on botting and goldfarming.