Family Crest - Which Gauntlets?

Unlike OSRS, upon completing Family Crest, we can NOT change them out to the others, we are stuck with the initial selection until a patch in 2005.

Which did you select and why?

Chaos - increase damage of the 4 bolt spells
Cooking - reduced burn rate while cooking (effectively invisible +9 cooking lvls)
Goldsmith - 50% more exp from gold bar smithing, doesn’t work with superheat.

I’m attracted to the idea of hitting 15s with fire bolt myself, but my second choice would be the cooking gauntlets

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I’m undecided on this, I think gold smith will only be worth while with later updates which we are a few years off, particularly blast furnace I think the change was 2007 where gauntlets worked there.

Cook gauntlets will help more early game, so I’m leaning most to that.

Chaos be good if you plan on a lot of dragons etc, much more powerful spells I remember using these on steel dragons back in the day :smiley:

Between chaos and goldsmithing I think. Cooking gauntlets are high fashion but you stop burning most food eventually anyway so I think they’re only useful for sharks after a while?

Arguably chaos gauntlets depreciate pretty quickly as well once you unlock wave spells, but deaths are expensive so the +3 is never entirely irrelevant.

Goldsmithing gauntlets seem to have the most utility for the longest time. Bonus smithing xp all the way to 99. And smithing isn’t exactly the quickest to train so I think you’ll feel the most benefit here.

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I picked chaos. Long-game I think 15 damage with chaos will be useful in slayer.

I chose goldsmithing as an ironman since smithing and crafting are both big skills I need to train and it lets me do both, one with pretty much the best (ironman anyways) rates in the game right now, I think.

Do goldsmith gauntlets really not give the bonus xp with superheat? If that is the case, when was the update to change them to work with superheat, because it worked from the start of OSRS so it must have been before 2007.

cooking bc u stop burning sharks at 94. Without gauntlets and 99 cooking u still burn 9% of ur sharks.

goldsmith doesn’t work with superheat?

As far as I can tell looking at the code there is no extra check for HOW you’re smelting the gold bar when adding the multiplier from goldsmith gauntlets, it only checks if you’re wearing them. I’ll test it out sometime but I don’t have gold rn and don’t feel like dropping everything and mining some.

Edit: checked the code for superheat itself and there is absolutely a check in there to see if you’re wearing goldsmith gauntlets. No idea why people are saying it doesn’t work, it absolutely should.

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Thanks for confirming that. It’s good to know I haven’t been wasting my time leveling everything up for Family Crest.