Have trouble reading? I can see his point though. Even though you included summoning as a combat skill, not all familliars are combat based. The amount of times I have been mining/wcing/rc I have wondered how much easier it would be to have a pack yack, to store 30 extra ess/ores/logs. Think of how much time that would save! Plus the familliars that boost skills, how handy that would be if mining rune in the wild! Even little things like ravagers are handy when without a spade! The list is practicly endless for the use of summoning in a non combat related sense!