*cough* please don't pity me. they may not be my favourite skills, but i enjoyed them, especially firemaking. i have three skill capes - so what if they are the three above that you think are worthless, it still took me a long time to get them. i don't no life, i have a job that takes up 10 hours a day, so i get a few hours a night to play online. i can't get 99 in a week. it used to annoy me that people would laugh and take the p*ss, but now i am past caring. i am in a skilling clan where i hold my own around 30th of 70-odd in terms of overall levels and i am pleased to have a 70+ account with an overall of 1900+ with a combat level of only 115. people ought to stop criticising others skills and concentrate on their own - if anyone reading this has 99 fletching and it's their only skill cape, then well done to you, it's still an achievement. so i'm an idiot as well for not wanting to do combat? i have been playing for over 4 years and yet i have never been to GWD since it came into being and i don't really intend to. i don't like combat that much, i would rather skill tedious levels and calculate how much exp or how many runs i need to level. does that make me stupid too? I didnt mean combat in particular. I mean skills that dont involve any brains. And flethcing, cooking and firemaking are one of these. Buy x lobbies, x swordfish, x sharks and cook, easy as that. Yay, you can caculate how many sharks you need, very very complicated. It's also verry very expensive isnt it! (hell no). combat can involve no braining too (camping at bandits). I consider people who camp at bandits and have no game knowlegde whatseover noobs too... So people who don't waste 10 hours researching the fastest ways to level and instead start working on the skill immediately are idiots? Oh yeah, for that list of least useful 99's, why are smithing and construction there? They have abilities that they obtain at 99. Sure, smithing rune platebodies doesn't make much of a profit, but what if you got hacked and lost everything? Go get 20k for a rune pick and you have full rune.