We could also say that agility is the most useless. After all, you could just as well wait to have the run energy recharged, or if you are PKing, bring (super energy pots or better yet,) purple sweets! [/hide] But does Agility give you a gain?.. Yes it does. Be it quite minuscule it still does give something back to the player. What do you get back from firemaking other than exp and a loss of money? You could say that now you can light light Cave goblin mining helms for people for profit? Maybe go around offering to light mage log fires for people? That sounds like a real gain for getting those FM levels. Like I said arguing for the sake of arguing. Well that's not too great of an argument, just saying that its useful if it "gives something back to the player." You said yourself it gives experience and total levels, which is something given back to the player by the player's hard work in the skill. Therefore, Firemaking is a useful skill. However, going back to the point of the thread, I thouroughly believe that Firemaking is the least useful of any of the skills on Runescape. It's really just an extra requirement you have to get up in order to light something during a quest.