I hat summoning. I do. Waste of time and money. Summoning is a dumb skill and Runescape shouldn't have created.

Q: Just a question its true that you need to spend money on the skill?? I saw some videos and they walk with 1m on their inventory could you explain me that thank you

A: Yes you must buy shards (25gp each) to? make pouches and you need about 80 shards to make 1pouch. So yeah that adds up into mills.

You see, and this was answered  by a lvl 84 because i asked him! Look the skill is just CRAZY!
If you have time check the poll out!

i agree it is a load of bunk. Just look at the creatures - it's all too common and boring(and shit-tastic). This is one of the worst skill, I repeat WORST SKILL that jagex made. Hellcat? Vulture? Damn...what is this a cartoon copy of hell? They could at least put more creativity and action into this shameful thing.

I think Jagex is trying to turn the members world into a Zoo where kids can play live with pets.

i find summonings okey. i mean i wouldn't care if they took it out of the game, but some people love it.

what do you like about it?

one of the saddest things about summoning is the inability to ride on your pet.

Summoning just doesn’t work right with runescape, it makes runescape feel like pokemon(since every high level has a familiar following them all the time). Before summoning came out I don’t think I have ever heard a player ask for it or talk about how it would be cool “to have a summoning skill”. When summoning came out the noob player base reaction was “0mg s0 c00l Pl0xers moore!”(because most of them are kids) while the vets reactions was “wtf is this crap”, but the sad truth is no one really wanted summoning, they wanted necromancing.

I think summoning could have been one of the best skills if Jagex had made it the right way. The way the implemented it was just unorganized and unoriginal. I hate most of the creatures. I wish they would make the creature more useful in combat, like make them able to fight in non-multicombat areas. I also wish you could ride some of the creatures, and I wish they added dragons.

If you do combat enough to actually have reason to use summoning then it comes in great handy.

Using titans allows me to solo KQ much more quickly, conserving food, and being able to use monks as opposed to sharks.

Graahks are wonderful for training runecrafting, being significantly faster than the abyss with banking.

Using the Spirit Kyaat (sabre one) allows summoning to be boosted at the fastest rate of any skill. Averaging roughly 545K xp per hour around 74+.

The unicorn and bunyip allow far less ruthless slayer and boss tasks. Offering healing capablities.

The terrorbird is extremely useful generally anywhere you would normally run out of energy.

The geyser titans glory refill and ranged proficiency make it a wonderful familiar for skilling and combat.

The list goes on, generally all moderate to high level familiars have uses. If you're upset because the desert wyrm you can summon doesn't bring in the mills. You should try actually achieveing something.

I can't wait to max it, I look forward to using the steel titan during my soloing trips.

Yes that's good, that's actually very good, but i'm still disgusted with the creatures them selves. I don't know what to say...poor improvisation?lol

worstless skill?

Originally posted by Palo_god

Summoning just doesn’t work right with runescape, it makes runescape feel like pokemon(since every high level has a familiar following them all the time). Before summoning came out I don’t think I have ever heard a player ask for it or talk about how it would be cool “to have a summoning skill”. When summoning came out the noob player base reaction was “0mg s0 c00l Pl0xers moore!”(because most of them are kids) while the vets reactions was “wtf is this crap”, but the sad truth is no one really wanted summoning, they wanted necromancing.

Yeah I agree with you. Nobody really talked about or ever really wanted summoning nor necromancing for that matter, but necromancing would go better with the game.

I like the idea of summoning creatures to help you fight and boost skill levels. Its a great idea, but the way you level the skill itself up and having to make pouches is just tedious at best, and it takes away most of the fun and lots of gold.
 
About Necromancy, they already have some dead looking familiars already. Making it Necromancy wouldn't change the concept of Summoning, it'd just give it a new name which wouldn't accomplish much. And I can just imagine using bones to summon them, that'd be worse than what's implemented now :O

Originally posted by Raikul

I like the idea of summoning creatures to help you fight and boost skill levels. Its a great idea, but the way you level the skill itself up and having to make pouches is just tedious at best, and it takes away most of the fun and lots of gold.
 
About Necromancy, they already have some dead looking familiars already. Making it Necromancy wouldn't change the concept of Summoning, it'd just give it a new name which wouldn't accomplish much. And I can just imagine using bones to summon them, that'd be worse than what's implemented now :O

If you think necromancy is just summoning but with dead monsters you're a fool, and if you think mixing pokemon with runescape was a good idea then you're an even greater fool.

Originally posted by Bonemane

Originally posted by Palo_god

Summoning just doesn’t work right with runescape, it makes runescape feel like pokemon(since every high level has a familiar following them all the time). Before summoning came out I don’t think I have ever heard a player ask for it or talk about how it would be cool “to have a summoning skill”. When summoning came out the noob player base reaction was “0mg s0 c00l Pl0xers moore!”(because most of them are kids) while the vets reactions was “wtf is this crap”, but the sad truth is no one really wanted summoning, they wanted necromancing.

 

Yeah I agree with you. Nobody really talked about or ever really wanted summoning nor necromancing for that matter, but necromancing would go better with the game.

Well I wouldn’t say that, I know a lot of people that have been talking about necromancing for a long time in runescape because jagex would always hint about it. That’s why they were so surprised when summoning came out because they were expecting necromancing since it was hinted to be the next skill for years.

as a former rs player, this game seems to just keep goign downhill.

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Originally posted by Palo_god

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Originally posted by Raikul

I like the idea of summoning creatures to help you fight and boost skill levels. Its a great idea, but the way you level the skill itself up and having to make pouches is just tedious at best, and it takes away most of the fun and lots of gold.
 
About Necromancy, they already have some dead looking familiars already. Making it Necromancy wouldn't change the concept of Summoning, it'd just give it a new name which wouldn't accomplish much. And I can just imagine using bones to summon them, that'd be worse than what's implemented now :O

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If you think necromancy is just summoning but with dead monsters you're a fool, and if you think mixing pokemon with runescape was a good idea then you're an even greater fool.

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Please tell me how Summoning and Necromancy are such different concepts that one will make the update so much better. They both revolve around summoning something.

Originally posted by Raikul

 

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Originally posted by Palo_god

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Originally posted by Raikul

 

I like the idea of summoning creatures to help you fight and boost skill levels. Its a great idea, but the way you level the skill itself up and having to make pouches is just tedious at best, and it takes away most of the fun and lots of gold.
 
About Necromancy, they already have some dead looking familiars already. Making it Necromancy wouldn't change the concept of Summoning, it'd just give it a new name which wouldn't accomplish much. And I can just imagine using bones to summon them, that'd be worse than what's implemented now :O

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If you think necromancy is just summoning but with dead monsters you're a fool, and if you think mixing pokemon with runescape was a good idea then you're an even greater fool.

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Please tell me how Summoning and Necromancy are such different concepts that one will make the update so much better. They both revolve around summoning something.

Necromancing is about summoning the power of the dead and using it in dark magic, summoning undead is just a part of it. with a necromancy skill you could drain the life out of a living being, reanimate fallen enemies and use their skills against others, make yourself undead, fuse the bodies of your fallen foes together to make undead flesh golems, summon a bone cage to protect yourself from an attack etc.

Since you say Jagex fails with all it's updates since the wildy was taken out, would you really want them to try to make a necromancy skill?

Originally posted by Tuss

Since you say Jagex fails with all it's updates since the wildy was taken out, would you really want them to try to make a necromancy skill?

lulz he's right.. every skill they pump out sucks... summoning probably started out as necromancy and then realized it wasn't suitable for the 3-9 age group rs consists of