I wonder what 2009 (the update year) will bring for summoning. Allthough the skill is great, it can use a few minor adjustments that make summoning just that little bit better.

 

 

 

*stares in crysta ball* (rembers other skills hard training being nerfed with make-x and pc)

 

 

 

lets see a new quest that allows u to craft your own shard for like 4gea.....

 

 

 

a mini game the rewards charms.....

 

 

 

u can now get 99 summ within 4 weeks and like 30m......

 

 

 

a bleak outlook? yes it wont come to that anytime soon anyway we will see better familiars graphical updates etc...... but eventualy they will make it easyer and easyer to train like everything else

funny you didn't mention combat. it saved runescape from flooding with maxed lvled players.

 

 

 

yah now it floods with 135-138 players :D but still most players arent 126 f2p but 138 will always be less common than 126 f2p...if thier was no summon id have got 126 months ago instead of 1 day ago gave the 126s something to do and also probably made some of them more motivated for max total instead of quitting at 126. Gwd and runecrafting and slayer are easier with summon and theirfore its easier to make money and train the buyables up and easier too train runecrafting/slayer even mining and fishing are easier with summon.

 

 

 

I do agree summon wasnt the be all/end all and i still remember runescape without summon but i use summon in everything i do when i play runescape only skills that i got since w/o a familiar out were woodcutting and firemaking and those are oldy skills.