Crysanna

If it wasn't made for pets, then why do we have pets linked to the summoning skill? Pets do help me with summoning, it makes me want to train what I consider a fairly useless skill in regards to the way I personally play this game.

I've had an untrimmed herb cape for over a year now. It amazes me how shocked people are that it's *still* untrimmed and people bug me constantly about getting another 99. I love herblore. It's the only skill I could ever imagine getting to 99 and I have no desire to get another one anytime soon. I don't wear it because I want respect, I wear it because it was something I accomplished in the game. I actually think I get less respect wearing it because it is untrimmed but I really don't care what others think. :) My only complaint about the cape is the constant questions "How much did you spend on herblore? How long did it take?". That can be easily solved by not wearing the cape when I'm not interested in explaining to people that it cost me NOTHING (traded pots for herbs, collected my own seconds, made too many vials to count) and I have never purchased a herb... ever. It also took FOREVER because I did everything myself (instead of buying levels).

One of my Runescape goals is (err was) to acquire all of the summoning pets. It helps me want to train summoning (I hate fighting) and gives me something to look forward to. I recently got 71 summoning for the SOLE purpose of getting an Ex-Ex Parrot only to find out that I have "too many" pets and need to dispose of one in order to get this particular pet. I tried looking around at various website guides (including this one) and could not find any information about a restriction. I did find people on the RS forums ranting about only being allowed 1 pet per 10 summoning levels. Since I have 8 pets already (at level 71), I can see this becoming a problem. By the time I reach 99 summoning, there will be 4 pets that I absolutely cannot have due to this "restriction". I do not want to get rid of my other pets! I have taken the time and effort within the game to grow them into adults and would like to keep them. So what if it kills my bank space? I've had bank space issues for about 4 years now (I'm a packrat) and have always made due, making space when absolutely necessary. I have just come to terms with the fact that I cannot get all of the colours/types of animals and use all 50+ of the God bird eggs that I have been collecting since they came out (which begs another question, why can we only have ONE bird and the eggs are untradeable? At least give us some semi-decent Summoning XP for growing a God bird to maturity so we'd be inclined to dispose of them and use another egg) and now this pet limit thing. :( AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!