Hello everyone! We've just added a new article to the Herald. This week's article is written by Polaki, and is about one of the most important factors in the game; the skills: How Balanced Are They? We hope you'll enjoy the article; many thanks to Polaki for writing this great article!

Also, if you want to write an article, feel free to do so and PM Aliensvortex with it. We will not add poorly written articles, so be sure to take your time when your write it. If we add it, all credits will go to you and it will be announced like all the other articles. That's all for now; we hope you enjoy this week's article. After you've read the article, feel free to post any comments or thoughts you may have in this topic.

Thats a very interesting topic you have there...good job polaki, brought it out into the open at last...

Herblore capes are extremely hard, but whats the prize at the end? the most common cape is either attack, strength, or defense i think.
Ive never seen a construction cape, yet most people have houses. maybe they stop when they get a gilded altar or something.
fishing at lvl 76 gives u almost 1k per shark, at 75 woodcutting you cut magic logs which are about 1k. at the 70-80 level, you get most of the "good" items and materials such as barrows(def, mage, range, atk, str) mage logs, sharks, ranging potions, and other such things.

it "should" be balanced, but some skills just arent. Why did they make the cooking level not the same as the fishing level to fish/cook the same fish?!?!

Ya I think one of the reasons for skill capes is to give people a reason to get 99.

jagex likes to encourage their customers!

I like the article. Good work Polaki

e.g w/c can be very quik and esy money az in draynor there like 8 willows that r right next to bank which iz esy i gt from playin 1 hour a day from lev 34 w/c to lev 74 in 8 days