You do know some people are not hoarding them in the bank for exp only, but as a motivation for us to train the skill we cannot use the effigy for? Before this I would do Slayer, then do dailies/weeklys (Wicked Hood, Thieves Guild, Penguins etc) then back to Slayer or go do some more skilling This update has just sated my desire to raise those skills that I cannot use an effigy for icwutudidther Personally, I maxed out using effigies, but only as drops from when I got 99 slayer. I did go out an hunt for effigies from time to time, but I never considered training a skill solely off effigies. I still got millions of xp per skill is manual way. I don't see what the big problem is, but that's partly because I never got too attached to effigies. To me they were always just nice to have an freak out about, but never something that I needed to train my skills. Thousands have done it without them, and thousands will do it without it now.