firemaking it the cheapest skill to level (besides free ones like fishing and stuff) only costs 325k to 99 :) 5m to max it :o

firemaking it the cheapest skill to level (besides free ones like fishing and stuff) only costs 325k to 99 :) 5m to max it :o

 

 

 

Err......where are you getting your numbers from?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree with the "Cape of Patience" idea. If I have the patience to sit through 90-something-k of maples, I deserve a cape....or at least a cookie.....

 

firemaking it the cheapest skill to level (besides free ones like fishing and stuff) only costs 325k to 99 :) 5m to max it :o

 

 

 

Err......where are you getting your numbers from?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

exactly what i was thinking i know i paid more than 5m for 99 fm lol.. I don't remember the exact amt but i did yews from i think 70-99 which is def way more than 5m

I like the emote of the cape. Horrid colour though...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In any case, everyone who is disrespecting the cape, obviously hasn't spent a few hours doing the skill. It requires your full attention, it requires money and quite a lot of time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for the idea that everyone is getting the cape: at this moment exactly 1600 people have 99, 1985 people have 95. That makes a lot of people who are still very far from the cape!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I myself will be getting the 99 (not sure whether I'll buy the cape), simply because of manage thy kingdom. I get a steady supply of 5k maples a week and I'm not a fan of merchanting. Soon I'll get 99 fletching off them, next I'll be burning them till 99 eventually... Why not?

If you equate use with the ability to make gp then no, firemaking doesn't fall into that criterion. My initial reason for getting 99 fm was two-fold. I liked that it was a really 'pointless' skill which few poeple could be bothered to level. Secondly I really hate having to buy and sell things so I found it easier to keep all the logs I got from Miscellania. Back when I started saving up my logs in June '06 for 99 fm, the capes weren't around. I just so happened to do my mass burning for 99 the same month the capes came out....go figure. The capes have certainly made it a much more popular skill to get to 99 but that's the way things go. I'm biased on this so take it for what it's worth but I still prefer the fm cape over the strength cape which is more common (14.9k 99's atm) than even fletching or cooking. And before anyone feels the need to rebut that, I didn't say anything about ease I just said it was more common.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The point to take away is there are no good capes or bad capes, just ones you like to wear or feel personally accomplished for having. One person may really like his fishing cape whereas another couldn't care less about his own.

99 firemaking is respectable in my eyes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

people talk about how its so "fast" and "buyable" when its still a lot more work than most of these people have done on any skill. 99 firemaking is not cheap by any means, and will still take you at least weeks to get while training it constantly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One more thing: 80 firemaking IS VERY VERY GOOD. Most people have never really done shade burning. Level 80 firemaking enables you to burn the highest level shades, which get you some really nice addy and rune rewards, along with tons of CLUE SCROLLS. For the kinds of items you get out of the chests, up to 80 firemaking should never, ever be called useless. Anything over that is arguably useless and just for looks, but firemaking still has much more use in it than it did before shade burning.

I'm biased on this so take it for what it's worth but I still prefer the fm cape over the strength cape which is more common (14.9k 99's atm) than even fletching or cooking. And before anyone feels the need to rebut that, I didn't say anything about ease I just said it was more common.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14,926 at 99 strength

 

 

 

11,998 at 99 fletching

 

 

 

11,898 at 99 cooking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although 99 strength is more common, its takes much longer to level. My friend got from 78-82 cooking in 3 hours. Can't do that easily with strength.

i think its one of those skills that no one cares about since its so boring and theres nothing very rewarding you get out of it.

I was hoping that the salamanders would have a firemaking level requirement on them, make sense no?

even though firemaking might be the most useless skill ever....it still takes a lot of work to get to 99 in a skill...even if it is firemaking

I like the color. Nice and bright :) I'll get it for that reason alone...

Ppl lvl it for the lvl 99 cape and emote.

 

 

 

But yup, it's pretty pointless. I hope jagex makes it useful for something in the future. For the time being, the only thing it could be useful at is burning shade remains with pyre logs. That's a very thin usefulness range :lol:

 

I'm biased on this so take it for what it's worth but I still prefer the fm cape over the strength cape which is more common (14.9k 99's atm) than even fletching or cooking. And before anyone feels the need to rebut that, I didn't say anything about ease I just said it was more common.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14,926 at 99 strength

 

 

 

11,998 at 99 fletching

 

 

 

11,898 at 99 cooking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although 99 strength is more common, its takes much longer to level. My friend got from 78-82 cooking in 3 hours. Can't do that easily with strength.

99 atk is more common than cookin and fletching according to you numbers almost as common as 99 str. Right now there are 13,677 people with 99 atk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like i said when i posted earlier i got 99 fm when there were less than 300 people which made it very appealing. Also gettin over 200k hr made it so much better it meant easy total exp and total lvls..

i do! plus, the emote is awesome, i feel anyone with the time to get it deserves some respect

It is the one skill I care about getting to 99.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check my sig. :wink:

People who aren't noobs and like the feeling of accomplishing something. People who aren't poor and can afford it. People who don't write skills off because they don't give a "real" benefit e.g. making them teh phr33 money innit.

I'm biased on this so take it for what it's worth but I still prefer the fm cape over the strength cape which is more common (14.9k 99's atm) than even fletching or cooking. And before anyone feels the need to rebut that, I didn't say anything about ease I just said it was more common.

 

 

 

14,926 at 99 strength

 

 

 

11,998 at 99 fletching

 

 

 

11,898 at 99 cooking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although 99 strength is more common, its takes much longer to level. My friend got from 78-82 cooking in 3 hours. Can't do that easily with strength.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's pretty much why I said the part I just bolded. But since you want to bring up ease, you can't click once per minute and expect to lvl firemaking as you can strength. *clicks monster, goes back to watching tv, pays attention again when it dies.* That is perhaps an exaggerated case, but let's be fair about the amount of attention something requires compared to the relative speed and apparent ease.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got to the point I could light a partial load of logs while keeping the screen on the periphery of my vision but that's hardly being able to focus enough do many other things (read, chat, watch tv) as I can when doing a combat based skill.

Hey, I'm getting 99 firemaking...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Partially because I want my total up....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Partially because I want a nice cape, and this is an easy 99...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mostly because I accidentally withdrew all my money and have a members bank so I can't put it back in so I decided to do this :oops:

 

Personally I only saw the point of firemaking when it was a completely useless skill. Way back in Rs1 all you could light were normal logs so the skill was basically unbuyable. The players who trained it, only did it for fun or to be different which IMHo made it more cool. :twisted: Now its pretty much buyable which destroys the coolness factor AND it is still useless. However if someone levels it because he enjoys firemaking, then more power to him. What's lame is buying a ton of expensive logs just to easily get a skill cape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yeah, skill capes have really pushed the idea of 99 to a new level...

 

 

 

when the update occured, a record of people started getting 99's in skills, especially fletch, cooking and fm... me personally, even if the cape wasnt there, id go for 99 fishing! all the buyable skills are just slowly loosing admiration...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you, I am glad other people see it that way. Again, let me just repeat that if people get 99 because they like firemaking, that is ok for me. I just think getting 99 simply for the skill cape or emote is silly considering fm isn't that useful. It's sad that skill cape actually made some skills less respectable since everyone suddenly started trying to get 99s of even the skills they don't enjoy.

I like it, its a waste of time..just like everything else, and thats what a game is, right? a waste of time..

people tell me fishing is pointless because it is so boring... well:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quothe my Blog:

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." ~Aristotle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the only reason i dont like fire making is cause it drains money not gains it.

 

 

 

Fishing. thats a great skill to get up

Yeah Firemaking is mostly pointless, but it has it's uses. I have the Cape (just got it like, last week), and I love it. :D

I don't respect the people because of 'what', but of 'how'.

 

 

 

I don't care whether the person has 120 firemaking or 2 firemaking, I care about the person inside the skills more.

Firemaking...pointless? wait a sec isn't this whole game pointless just sucks up my spare time by having fun trying to be better than my friends.... :-w

You're all missing the point of the game itself... If you put your ideas into the thoughts of the game... You'll see the whole game is pointless

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow. You're right. I quit.