Warding

Warding is a proposed mage armour production skill that was first proposed at RuneFest 2018 by Mod West. Warding was proposed as a sibling skill of Crafting and Smithing that specialises in the creation of armour for mages, as Smithing and Crafting are used to create armour for melee and ranging respectively.

Warding would use barks, cloths and leathers to create into equipment, obtainable from new Hunter creatures and Farming produce as well as killing certain monsters. To collect magical power for the armour, players need runic energy, which can be obtained by casting spells on certain monoliths. The armour can then be created by drawing a ward on the ground, channelling the runic energy into the newly created armour.

Warding would also be used to dissolve some items to create runic energy and possibly give back some components of the item, acting as an item sink. For example, dissolving an adamant platebody would possibly give back some adamantite bars.