Skilling off-hands

Skilling off-hands are items that can be equipped in the off-hand slot to provide benefits to certain non-combat skills. Skilling off-hands are not currently augmentable, but this is being considered for a future update.

There are currently two skilling off-hands:

Tool	Provides benefits for
Artificer's measure
Orthen furnace core

Although not considered to be skilling off-hands, the Combined Catalyst fragment and its three components are items that are similar in concept.

Development

The concept was originally revealed at RuneFest 2017 along with concept art for several planned skilling off-hands, but their development was later cancelled. Mod Shauny later picked up the project for Game Jam (2019) before he left Jagex, halting their development again. Two skilling off-hands were finally released as rewards from the Orthen Dig Site.

Update history

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• patch 16 November 2020 (Update):
  • Skilling offhand effects no longer function in free-to-play.

• update 19 October 2020 (Update):
  • Added to game.