99 Firemaking is not easy....

Killjoy · **Posted:** July 10th, 2010, 12:06 am

Just a cool little stat for you before I go to bed.
Firemakeing is often considered of the "Easy 3" to get... yet..

List of players with 99s
Attack 102,714
HitPoints 93,118
Mining 7,906
Strength 144,105
Agility 6,748
Smithing 8,067
Defense 76,921
Herblore 6,309
Fishing 33,484
Range 64,850
Thieving 14,834
Cooking 120,644
Prayer 17,032
Crafting 10,663
Firemaking 45,941
Magic 61,057
Fletching 100,092
Woodcutting 84,212
Runecrafting 4,091
Slayer 10,336
Farming 8,167
Construction 5,608
Hunter 18,552
Summoning 8,623
Dungeoneering 324

Interesting no?

Adbot · **Posted:** July 10th, 2010, 12:06 am

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Just because people don't have a 99 in Firemaking doesn't mean it's not easy. Could mean people think it's easy and therefore don't want to do it. Or they considered it no worthwhile since Firemaking doesn't do much for you, esp. at 99. Stats could be skewed any way you want them to be skewed, but if anything, I would say this doesn't prove it's not an easy skill, just one that isn't desired.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** July 10th, 2010, 1:49 pm

Any skills easy these days if your boring enough to merchant long enough to raise the money to buy your way to 99.

Warren · **Posted:** July 10th, 2010, 4:43 pm

It is very easy but it is also boring. Fletching and cooking is like lol w/e click once every minute.

Chief Snake · **Posted:** July 10th, 2010, 9:19 pm

Yeah, agree with the above. Thieving is another interesting one which is very easy as long as you have access to Pyramid Plunder, and you don't even spend any money. I've never understood why more people didn't have 99 in that. Requires a fair bit of concentration and clicking, but many other skills do too.

Pat · **Posted:** July 11th, 2010, 5:07 am

if you can't tab out while doing it, it's not easy

**** is mad tedious

Adbot · **Posted:** July 11th, 2010, 5:07 am

Pennstate315 · Runite Member 5-25-10

I find Firemaking difficult, It requires 100% concentration

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Well, if concentration defines easiness, then Firemaking might grab win in difficulty due to clickage. Otherwise, it's not hard to train, esp. if you can purchase all the materials.

ryan1 · **Posted:** July 11th, 2010, 5:12 pm

As other people above have stated, it IS easy, it's just boring and not very useful. The one good use I found that got me to 99 firemaking was burning Fiyr shades from the Shades of Mort'ton mini-game. I made a ton of money in the process as well.

trekkie · **Posted:** July 11th, 2010, 10:42 pm

Agility 6,748

i hate agility!

Holyhelltv · **Posted:** July 12th, 2010, 12:32 pm

Its not Hard ether
Well it is harder then level 99 Fletching and level 99 Cooking, but thats really it.
the reason not alot of people have 99 Firemaking is because
heres an example:
the point of...
Cooking: so you don't burn food/shark as much, and to make different kinds of foods. to heal your self with.
Defense: so you dont get hit as much. and so you can ware more kinds of armor.
Attack: so you can hit enemy's more often, with out missing, and so you can ware more kinds of weapons.
Strength: so you can hit higher.
Constitution: so you can take more pain, before falling over dead.
Prayer: so your pray lasts longer and so you can use different kinds of prays.
Magic: to unlock more spells, and to hit higher with magic, and to be able ware more magic stuff.
Range: to be able to hit higher with range, and so you can ware more range stuff.
Fishing: so you can fish faster and catch different kinds of fish. for food. so you can heal your self. and for money.
Fletching: so you can make more kinds of arrows for the range skill. and for money.
Woodcutting: so you can use more types of axes, and so you can cut down more trees, and to cut down trees faster, for money. and wood is used for alot of things.
Slayer: so you are able to kill more different kinds of monsters, for charms, for combat level ups, and for money.
Smithing: so you can make more kinds of armor, to ware or just for money.
Mining: so you can mine more kinds of ores, to mine faster, for smithing, and for money
Runecrafting: to be able to craft more different kinds of runes, to get more runes from essence, for the magic skill, and for money.
Firemaking: so you can burn things......... so you can burn more kinds of things? because...?
see Firemaking has no point.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Well, you just gave it a point...burning things. Not to get into semantics, but burning is what Firemaking is all about. So it does have a point, just not a useful one. Most all the other skills have a much more useful purpose than Firemaking. Not sure which one would be less purposeful than Firemaking, but you could argue that if you aren't ever going to use a skill after getting a 99, what's the point of getting a 99 anyway except to "look cool?"

Arb 67 · **Posted:** July 13th, 2010, 1:47 pm

I just think it's increadibly boring and no one wants to get it easy xp tho simple as that.

GuyNamdJesus · **Posted:** July 13th, 2010, 7:04 pm

ah yes firemaking, the times ive had to lvl it up to 50 just to do desert treasure... granted in RL i'm a pyro so i like burning things they just need to make it a more useful skill, like flaming weapons that do a damage like posioning but just for a few seconds. etc. make it useful and you will see the 99's go alot higher

Lucy · **Posted:** July 28th, 2010, 8:23 am

firemake is just a bunch of clicking I guess to some its hard to others it varies.