And then every monsterhunting team in existence requires you to have ~99 smithing to go bandos/armady/dks/nex. Think that might generate a few rants as aswell, don't you? How many NON COMBAT SKILLS should we have to max to compete with others at COMBAT. All the skills play a role in Combat, why Smithing can't? They play a very small role, like for training and they aren't untradable so they can be bought. I suggest you read this thread. http://forum.tip.it/topic/287268-skilling-and-untradeable-high-level-rewards/page__st__20__p__4721146__hl__tertiary__fromsearch__1#entry4721146 Edit: The OP is the most relevant part. If its kept in line and not ridiculously overpowered in comparison to other options like overloads are, yeah I think that's okay. I think it's the 'I hoped this update would be what overloads were to herblore' type comments in other threads that are eating at me. Wrong place wrong time perhaps but I thought it should be said.