My first will be Farming.

Farming is one of the hardest skills to train in RuneScape, as it takes much time and effort outside of Farming to get seeds, and then it takes much time and effort inside Farming to get levels. If you can get a high level in this skill, I respect you, as should the RuneScape community. That being said, I still feel as though the skill is useless.

1. Farming is a way to make Herblore easier. I know, most of you don’t remember a time before Farming, but for those that do, Herblore was much different. Not many people could achieve 99 Herblore, or for that matter a high level. What Farming did was fix that. It increased the amount of herbs fivefold. It was an awkward way out of a situation that was perfect in RuneScape Classic, but in the new, fast-paced, high velocity RuneScape, having few herbs was bad.

2. Farming is a waste of my time. Farming takes hours on end to train, or hours on end to get items to give you automatic levels. For what? Herbs? Trees? Magic Jutes? In a personal experiment I had, I planted a rannar seed, and then went to Fire Giants. In the time it took for the rannar seed to grow into 4 rannar weeds, I successfully received 2,000 gold coins, 2 rannar weeds, 1 irit leaf, and about 600 fire runes. All in all, I came out about even. But what is the difference? I gained almost 10 times as much combat experience over Farming experience.

3. Farming is unrelated to other skills from the inside out. Oh yeah, Farming produces herbs and secondary herbs, but other than that, it helps almost no other skill. Fishing affects cooking which affects combat. Mining affects smithing with affects combat. Fletching affects range. Runecrafting affects magic. What does farming help, with the exception of herblore at a high level? Nothing. It is isolated from the rest of the RuneScape skills. Even with it affecting herblore, there are faster ways to get those herbs.

In conclusion, yes, I do have a low farming level. Yes, I do not train it. Yes, I did whine when Jagex released it. But at least I am sensible, and did at least try it enough to get it to 52 (I think…)

Anyways, until next time,

Guerrillero Heroico