Is it a steel scimitar from drops, plus whatever you can smith?
I’m porting my OSRS ironman snowflake rules to my account on this game, and probably the most relevant rule is that I don’t buy anything from shops unless that’s the only way to get it, or it’s a trivial item like a hammer.
For this game, that means I need to craft my runes for magic, and ranged is possible only with arrows gotten from drops. That leaves melee as the only way to really grind any combat, and the gear situation is pretty bleak. That makes smithing pretty important, and since I don’t think there is another way to get the rune pickaxe other than the dwarf shop, I can just buy it. However I don’t really know what the gameplan will be for smithing yet.
Any ideas?