Dead Skills and Fair Play?!

Okay, let's compose a list of the dead skills - and why they're dead - and not only at least one suggestion to improve it, but a suggestion on how you would make it mean MMO-friendly.

Herblore - I'm afraid adding new herbs and potions isn't going to do anything for the skill. It's expensive, slow, and boring.

I've said before, but untradeable add-ons to finished potions to add to their potency would be nice, as we've discuessed on the TST thread on RSOF

I think a simple solution would be to upgrade it to more of a medic skill. Potions that heal, slightly, among other things and YOU can use them on OTHER people to have the effect take place. Like you said, untradeables, I reckon a good effect from an untradeable ingredient would be an affect that lasts for a length of time and then stops, rather than slowly gets useless.

Now some suggestions?

You do you make profit from burning stuff? On my Ashes thread, we suggested that wood ash should be graded and sold for compost! Yew Ash would probably sell, if it's compost was better than super, but the others are just progression (the same with all skills).

So... most skills?

I disagree lol. Runecraft is a useless (some people consider it processing, but I suppose it's how you interpret the lore); Smithing is a useless processing skill, etc.