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. Although they are not weapons, they can also be used to cast Bladed Dive. Skilling off-hands are not currently augmentable, but this is being considered for a future update.

There are currently four skilling off-hands:

Tool	Provides benefits for	Requirements to use	Requirements to create	GE Price
Artificer's measure	Crafting Construction	None	99 Crafting 102 Archaeology	Untradable
Orthen furnace core	Firemaking Smithing	None	99 Smithing 102 Archaeology	Untradable
Tagga's corehammer	Mining	80 Mining	80 Smithing	72,894,290
Sana's fyrtorch	Woodcutting	80 Woodcutting	80 Fletching	96,546,277

Despite not having any usage requirements, due to the Artificers measure and the Orthen furnace core being untradeable, their creation requirements can also be considered their usage requirements.

Development

Although not considered to be skilling off-hands, the Combined Catalyst fragment and its three components are items that are similar in function, and predate the skilling off-hand concept. The idea was originally revealed at RuneFest 2017 along with concept art for several planned skilling off-hands, but their development was 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, though different from Shauny's original concept. A second pair of skilling off-hands was added to the game among rewards from the Croesus skilling boss in the Elder God Wars Dungeon.

Concept art for Skilling off-hands shown at RuneFest.

Update history

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• update 27 September 2021 (Update):
  • Tagga's corehammer and Sana's fyrtorch added to game.

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

• update 19 October 2020 (Update):
  • Artificer's measure and Orthen furnace core added to game.