Or a actual hard 99 such as rc or slayer I'm sorry for feeding the troll, but this gentleman is very wrong. Approximately 2,116 people have achieved the phenomenon known as level 99 Mining. While around 3,828 players reached 99 Slayer. Mining has been out since the beginning of the game, Slayer was released in 2005. I'm sure that if Mining were not difficult, it would at least have 10,000 players who have maxed out their Mining level by now. I'd like to add that Slayer is also a P2P skill, meaning that only members have the opportunity to max out the skill, while everyone is given the opportunity to max out Mining. While Rune-crafting has approximately 400-500 people less with 99 than Mining does, you still have to consider that Rune-crafting was released in 2004. I agree that Rune-crafting and Slayer are pretty "difficult" skills, but Mining is at least equally difficult to these two, or can be argued to be even more difficult.