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Hunting or hunter?

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So, is it just me or is hunter a really weird name for the skill? I mean, why isn't i called hunting like all the other skills are. I mean u don't train fisherman or chef lol. The only other skill that is like this is slayer but that makes sense cause slaying jussounds wrong. Oh yeah, I'm off to train my priest.

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Hunter is hunter the same reason slayer is slayer.

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It's not just Hunter that we should be focused about, its why Jagex decided to call Slayer instead of Slaying. Almost every skill before that were in the verb form of the skill. Fishing, Smithing, Runecrafting, Mining. All of a sudden we have Slayer and then Hunter.

 

I don't know why they did that, typo in the orginal idea and it just stuck perhaps?

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well its hunter for the same reason that you train slayer or attack, when you would be training your attacking skill. Also I dont see the problem with no verb form for skill names there were plenty before slayer

 

-hitpoints

 

-attack

 

-strength

 

-defence

 

-magic

 

-prayer

 

-agility

 

-herblore

 

-ranged kinda

 

Becides its not like jagex didnt release consruction and then summoning which are both in verb form.

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With the whole -ing thing at the end, the name was too long? Who cares?

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Slaying sounds weird, hunting doesn't. They (being whomever named the skill) probably used slayer as a precedent, even though the same logic doesn't really apply.

 

 

 

With the whole -ing thing at the end, the name was too long?

 

Because "hunting" is longer than "runecrafting."

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As long as it doesn't affect how the actual skill works, I don't care what they call a skill.

 

 

 

Hunting would have sounded nicer though. ;)

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well its hunter for the same reason that you train slayer or attack, when you would be training your attacking skill. Also I dont see the problem with no verb form for skill names there were plenty before slayer

 

-hitpoints

 

-attack

 

-strength

 

-defence

 

-magic

 

-prayer

 

-agility

 

-herblore

 

-ranged kinda

 

Becides its not like jagex didnt release consruction and then summoning which are both in verb form.

 

Its not that hunter is a noun liek attack or hitpoints, its that i could have been like all the skills in a -ing form(forgot grammatical term) and still sound right. So attack is fine as a noun because u cant have a skill called attacking or herbloring? But hunting unilike slayer couldve ended in -ing.

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What's wrong with calling it slaying? It doesn't have to be slayering.

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Lets look at each skill individually:

 

 

 

The ING:

 

 

 

Fishing

 

Mining

 

Woodcutting

 

Crafting

 

Smithing

 

Firemaking

 

Cooking

 

Fletching

 

Thieving

 

Runecrafting

 

Farming

 

Summoning

 

 

 

The ER:

 

 

 

Prayer

 

Hunter

 

Slayer

 

 

 

The rest:

 

 

 

Attack

 

Defence

 

Strength

 

Hitpoints

 

Magic

 

Ranged

 

Agility

 

Construction

 

Herblore

 

 

 

Theres no problem calling it PrayING, HuntING, or SlayING, so why not just keep it consistant?

It's so the little kids don't think it is the real sport of hunting.

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It's runecraft, not runecrafting. :-#

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It's runecraft, not runecrafting. :-#

 

Its Runecrafting on Kb so I thing thats just shortened due to length...

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It doesn't really matter, does it? Even if they called it Hunting, it'd still be the same.

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It doesn't really matter, does it? Even if they called it Hunting, it'd still be the same.

 

What can I say, we're obsessed with continuity. But, I agree with you, this really doesn't matter considering two other skills also end with 'er'. If it was an odd one out, then I'd question it.

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i like hunting better,no idea why :D

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Never thought about it until now :|

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Becides its not like jagex didnt release consruction and then summoning which are both in verb form.

 

 

 

*cough*cough*

 

 

 

SCNR :mrgreen:

Becides its not like jagex didnt release consruction and then summoning which are both in verb form.

 

 

 

Construction is a noun. emot-eng101.png?w=23

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Maybe because hunting is generally connected with killing animals and nothing else? In my view, the word hunting means killing deer and other animals, not butterflies or catching imps.

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You can hunt people too. Logic doesn't apply.

 

 

 

"Hunter" is an idiotic name made by idiots. Probably worth a rant more than *insert any bad update other than no wildy and the trade limit*.

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You can hunt people too. Logic doesn't apply.

 

 

 

"Hunter" is an idiotic name made by idiots. Probably worth a rant more than *insert any bad update other than no wildy and the trade limit*.

 

 

 

You're not a troll at all. =D>

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Exactly what I wondered when Hunter was announced. But tbh I don't really care anymore; it's totally slipped my mind.

yea they should rename it, like they did with herblaw to herblore

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