There’s no real reason to require an avernic to fortify one because it doesn’t replace avernics. Losing +30 accuracy is more than enough already. There’s quite a few reasons not to do it, like we don’t need UpgradeScape to reach a point where you require a raids item just to give another raids item some stats it should already have. Then some people say “of course you’d have obtained multiple avernics”. Even if you have looted multiple hilts, there’s no guarantee that you’d still have multiple hilts laying around. Most people would death coffer or sell off for a bond. Takes a lot of the hype out of getting a new raids item if you have another raid to grind just to use it. Then a +0 str bonus, 30mil+ more expensive shield would make it almost useless in PvP. Of course everybody would swear they don’t care about that, but the truth is half of COX drops are propped up from PvP. There’s really no reason to do this other than to artificially prop up the money making from TOB, but even then that comes at the expense of making TFA less profitable. submitted by /u/WaveDashSpeedKick
Originally posted by u/WaveDashSpeedKick on r/2007scape