I think strength should be added and FM'ing taken down. More people have 99 strength than anything else and firemaking is VERY labor intensive (for me at least) and really annoying. Not everyone can get 99 FM.

 

Correction: not everyone wants to waste their time grinding on a useless 99.

 

 

 

Yep...explains why we both have 99 FM, right? :P

 

I regard it as a neccesary evil. Not sure about you :P

and I started feeling like it was more work than fun around level 80. Cooking was much easier, as you don't have to be clicking to get xp. Firemaking is one of the very few skills where you have to be clicking to be obtaining xp. (That's a point I bring up every time this discussion comes around.)

 

 

 

Yes by the end of 99 firemaking i was to sick death of clicking :roll:

 

Interesting replies guys, keep it up.

 

If you consider a game work, you shouldn't be doing it...

What the hell.. I'm in the midst of getting 92 firemaking (For Adaze and I'll train WC and FM simultaneously) and this thread comes out?

 

 

 

I'm going to have to disagree with firemaking being a "Nooby" skill. True it does not have many uses but it requires hell lot of dedication and patience to stay at that spot and firemake.

 

and I started feeling like it was more work than fun around level 80. Cooking was much easier, as you don't have to be clicking to get xp. Firemaking is one of the very few skills where you have to be clicking to be obtaining xp. (That's a point I bring up every time this discussion comes around.)

 

 

 

 

Yes by the end of 99 firemaking i was sick to death of clicking :roll:

 

Interesting replies guys, keep it up.

 

 

 

If you consider a game work, you shouldn't be doing it...

 

 

 

Maybe i didn't explain myself fully.., at the time i had a half-dead mouse, so clicking on anything was a chore, and i didn't have the time to go out and get a new one, (Studying) Hope that clears it up.

last summer i spent 1.7m on 45k maples to try to get 99 fm right? (i was f2p at the time) well, its grinding to the max doing it. only burned enough to get 60 something. its hard... but cheap

No skill capes are nooby.

 

 

 

If you think they are then mind your own [bleep]ing business and let people play the way they want.

 

 

 

If you're worried other people will think that it is and you want to get it, ignore the [developmentally delayed]ed people who like to show off and be general [wagon], ANYTHING you do on Runescape is an achievement. If you get to level 60 in Woodcutting, it's an achievement. If you get a quest cape, it's an achievement, if you craft your first double nats... it's an achievement.

Yes, every level/drop/kill ect is an achievement, but i'm simply saying some of the things i've had happen to me, and the things that people think about these certain skills.

Firemaking is a nice cape, and on level with any in my opinion but:

 

 

 

Cook-X, Fletch-X. They are also cheap to buy and quick-ish to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I appreciate Firemakers' because they too know what's like to get a CONSTANT click 99 >_>.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's very possible to have cook, fletch, or firemaking as a favorite skill, just do what you want (I say this as Agility has been my favorite since it came out).

 

 

 

Training beyond a 99 is purely for enjoyment for me.

RuneAge, I like how you motivate us all by telling us to keep it up :

 

On another note, fletching is not dirt, it takes a very important/hard to cope with thing, boredom.

 

I swear, I was so bored fletching at lvl 85 I could of might as well been slumping in my chair, my eye shaking violently, drooling :thumbsup:

 

But truly, no offense, do we need another one of these threads agian?

 

(And I hope theres not another "What 99 should I get?" thread agian)

It's not that the capes are nooby, it's that the people who wear them have an undeserved sense of arrogance to them.

No; it's a personal achievement and every 99 is worthy or recognition. A good 75% of the people here will give that same answer. This thread idea has been used countless times.

Thieving is faster AND cheaper than any of those three skills. So why isn't thieving right up there above all of them as the least respected skillcape? Because it has fewer people? Well then what about strength, which is the most common by a pretty significant margin, with nearly as many strength cape owners as firemaking and fletching cape owners combined? Maybe it's because cooking, firemaking, and fletching are "useless"...but then why are smithing, herblore, and farming so prestigious? Cooking is much more useful than herblore; I've made millions and millions and millions off of it. Is it because it's just click and wait? No, because then woodcutting and fishing would be even higher up the scale of lameness, and firemaking wouldn't fit at all.

 

 

 

Clearly, those who say cooking, fletching, and firemaking are "dirt" are either ignorant, or using some sort of composite criteria based on multiple values. But these people seem to take it for granted that cooking tops the list, as I've never seen or heard of any actual attempt to create an actual, accurate, objective system for valuing a skillcape.

 

 

 

Any disdain for these skills is simply irrational. Cooking, as a matter of fact, is one of the game's deepest skills, with a wider variety of training methods than most people give it credit for, and some pretty good moneymaking opportunities. (In f2p, not much outside of runite mining can stand up to anchovy pizzas for cash.) And those who know a little about backwards firemaking can tell you that it takes more dexterity than most other skills. As for fletching, ever see those videos of Zarfot fletching bolts while training agility and firemaking and whatnot? That's skill.

 

 

 

So like I said, any disdain for these skills is irrational.

I personaly don't see firemaking is a "Skillcape of dirt" It's not like cooking and fletching. This you got you do it manualy. Maybe I'll think the same if Jagex ever make burn-x which i hope they never will.

firemaking came is a mouse coma... period... it takes a good bajillion clicks

This you got you do it manualy. Maybe I'll think the same if Jagex ever make burn-x which i hope they never will.

 

 

 

Yes i hope this doesn't happen to, because all of the people who worked hard towards 99 firemaking (me included) will be frowned upon due to they may think we used the "burn-x" method, but i doubt if it will ever come out, "crosses fingers" :wall:

Great replies guys :

 

Also, i never thought about how easy thieving was, and that you could get 200k an hour :o

 

 

 

Rainy_Day edit: No need to bump your topic up needlessly after being just a day without a reply :thumbup:

It's not that the capes are nooby, it's that the people who wear them have an undeserved sense of arrogance to them.

 

Thankyou!

I just think they're really ugly. Well, not fletching, that one's okay. But cooking and firemaking and fishing and hunter all look terrible.

They are dirt because a lot of people don't train that skill for fun, kaphias being an example.

 

 

 

found Firemaking to be very challenging, and I started feeling like it was more work than fun around level 80. Cooking was much easier, as you don't have to be clicking to get xp. Firemaking is one of the very few skills where you have to be clicking to be obtaining xp. (That's a point I bring up every time this discussion comes around.) Cooking starting feeling like work around level 92, or halfway

 

 

 

Before skill capes, people trained skills because they liked them, or because they were useful (99 str for pking). Now it's a neverending race for skillcapes.

I just think they're really ugly. Well, not fletching, that one's okay. But cooking and firemaking and fishing and hunter all look terrible.

 

 

 

I strongly disagree, i really like the fishing cape, i quite like firemaking cape (t) and hunter is a good look aswell, but more too the point, it's about wether you enjoy the skill or not, not what the skillcape looks like.

Sigh, here we go again. Fletching was my first 99, and I did get it in part for the cape, but I also intended to train Mage by alching my 50k or so bows. I even got up to 85 Mining beforehand so I could alch them all at the heros guild while mining Rune Ore. Now, with 83 Slayer, one can alch the bows while getting one hit in on a Sara Mage and letting the Gorak/Werewolf kill it. One of these days, I feel like running around in game with my White Phat, Divine, and Fletching Cape, see how many people call it nooby then.

I give people props for sticking with a skill to 99, but I'd guess most did it only for a cape. If they don't care for that skill, and they just want a fancy 99 cape so they can show off, it's kinda cheap.

 

Sure, there's more people with str or att or whatever, but combat skills are more useful in general (quests, more hp=less chance of dying due to something stupid like poison) and make the most money (pvp or gwd or slayer are probably the best profit in rs today, and even killing green drags is better profit than mining rune, fishing monkfish/shark, or cutting yews/magics per hour)

Getting a 99 shouldn't be done just to impress others, but be made as a personal goal. That's what Runescape is all about, isn't it?

Getting a 99 shouldn't be done just to impress others, but be made as a personal goal. That's what Runescape is all about, isn't it?

 

 

 

I do not totaly agree with you.

 

offcourse you get a 99 for yourself, but you are wearing the cape to show everyone that you have 99 in that skill. ( and because you like it ).

Getting a 99 shouldn't be done just to impress others, but be made as a personal goal. That's what Runescape is all about, isn't it?

 

 

 

I do not totaly agree with you.

 

offcourse you get a 99 for yourself, but you are wearing the cape to show everyone that you have 99 in that skill. ( and because you like it ).

 

 

 

Yes, but the skillcape bonus is something that makes it attractive to wear. ;) I do agree that you should get a 99 if you like the skill. (I got 99 Firemaking because I like the skill. Yes, really.)