Are all the "secondary skills"* such as fletching, cooking and herblore nowadays pointless "skill total raisers"** which waste money (raw materials are worth more than the finished product)?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*: "primary skills" mean the raw material collection skills like mining and woodcutting

 

 

 

**: a non-profit or negative profit skill that is trained only to raise skill total

They pretty much are nowadays. You lose money training them and now you can easily buy all your potions, bows, and other end-products with GE anyways. The main motivators now are the Skill Capes.

 

 

 

EDIT: Actually there are ways to make money, if you train them the sloooow way. For example, smelting ore and spinning flax. They make money, but the xp rate is really slow.