OFF TOPIC:
I'm only annoyed by the lvl 3 'skillers' that seem to congregate around a specific tree in Draynor. Im a mod but it annoys me that macroer's can still get away with it - scammers I can deal with, annoying newbies, I can deal with
ON TOPIC:
I'm not 100 combat (only 83 atm) and can't really see the point of leveling it except by defense in order to use elf crystal. I think it's ridiculous that lots of the skills have new items etc upto and including lvl 80.
Combat.... lvl 70 or 60... Thats the problem. No high-level combat gear, to allow high level players to exploit the fact they have trained much more than people my level..
Why? Easy. If Jagex release a lvl 90/80, it means that everyone will raise combat fats to get the item. Then they hit the max 99 and have nothing left to do - you can't release higher and higher items forever, unless the 99 max changes.
Combat is the be-all and end-all. At the end of the day all the other skills (except construction which is a sideline skill), support combat. No combat, no need for food and armour, potions. And so the system fails...
Overall I think that this however is no excuse for the lack of high-level equipment. Some combat gear, for both rangers (armour particularly lacking here....) and melee - possibly magic although already it has lots of high level content....
Two pence from a relative (compared to the threadie) noob.
