Cape of Accomplishment
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A Cape of Accomplishment (also known as Skillcape) is a cape that symbolises the highest level of accomplishment in a particular skill. This means that the player has obtained level 99 in any of the skills available, or has completed all of the quests in the case of the Quest point cape. The Capes of Accomplishment were formally released on 18 October 2006 after having been alluded to several times within the forums after Jagex had received many complaints of dedicated high-levelled players not being able to have much to flaunt with.
Capes of Accomplishment cost 99,000 coins and are obtainable from specific NPC masters, who can be seen proudly displaying the cape. The NPC is located in a place related to his/her skill. These capes can only be bought on a members' server. Capes also come with matching hoods, although the hoods do not offer any bonuses. As they cannot be traded, the only way to obtain a Cape of Accomplishment is by reaching level 99 in a skill, or through completing all of the quests.
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[edit] Emote
Each cape comes with a special emote, which can only be performed while wearing it. The emotes are meant to "represent" the skill required to obtain the cape.
[edit] Skill Boost
In addition, wearing the cape and selecting the "Boost" option on the equipment menu temporarily boosts the player's effective level in the cape's skill by one, up to 100. This does not apply to the quest point cape. The Hitpoints, Prayer and Summoning capes have a one-minute "cool-down" period between uses of this effect. The effect of every cape's boost of course cannot be reactivated until the skill has dropped back to 99.
[edit] Trimmed capes
Most capes have two styles, regular and trimmed. If a player only has one level 99 skill, the cape will be in the regular style, otherwise it will be trimmed; there is no way to manually choose the style, as it is entirely dependent on the number of level 99 skills one has. Trimmed capes have an additional Prayer equipment bonus (of +4) over the regular capes, but other than appearance this is the only change. Once trimmed, a skill cape will never be untrimmed again. Regular capes will automatically be changed into the trimmed style the instant the player obtains a second level 99 skill, regardless of whether a second cape is purchased. It is also possible to trim your skill cape in a free-to-play world, provided that you have one 99, or you are wearing an untrimmed skill cape at the time. The exception here is the Quest point cape, which does not have a trimmed style, even if the player has two or more level 99 skills, and does not count towards the two level 99 skills needed for a trimmed cape.
[edit] Bonuses
[edit] List of Capes of Accomplishment
[edit] Rarity of 99s
For the number of players with level 99 in skills see level 99
Strength is currently the most common 99 skill in the game, followed by Cooking and Fletching. Below is a list of the order of the skills depending on the number of players having 99 in it. However, Cooking is said to be the easiest skill to achieve level 99 in, followed by Fletching and Firemaking
Rank Skill Reason 1 Strength Strength is popular among pures, who tend to have low defence and very high strength. Very cheap and easy to train. 2 Cooking Cooking is one of the fastest and easiest 99s to achieve. It requires little attention and you will make some cash. 3 Fletching Fletching is one of the fastest and easiest 99s to achieve. It requires not a lot of attention and is fairly cheap. 4 Attack Attack is also popular among pures, though pures and lower levels tend to get strength first. Very cheap and easy to train. 5 Hitpoints 99 hitpoints comes passively with high combat. Most players will achieve 99 in some other combat skill before they achieve 99 hitpoints making the untrimmed version semi-rare. 6 Defence Defence is the least popular of the combat skills, though it is still common because it is very cheap and easy to train. 7 Ranged Ranged is a very useful skill, if chinchompas are used it is one of the fastest 99s, it is still popular in both PvP and PvM. 8 Woodcutting Woodcutting is an easy 99 to achieve. It can be done quickly with no profit or slowly with quite a large amount of money. Little attention is required. 9 Magic Magic is debatably the 'hardest' combat skill to master. It is not particularly hard, but it requires a lot of attention and can be very expensive. 10 Firemaking Firemaking is one of the fastest 99s to achieve. It requires a lot of attention but is fairly cheap. 11 Fishing Though Fishing is not particularly fast, little attention is required, and it produces money. 12 Prayer Prayer is one of the fastest 99s to achieve. However, it is extremely expensive and is often achieved for the cape rather than its utility.
13 Hunter Hunter is a tedious 99 to achieve. Although it may seem slow at first, at higher levels it becomes quicker. Constant attention is required; it is a popular skill for money. 14 Thieving Thieving is one of the fastest 99s to achieve depending on the method. However, it requires constant attention. 15 Crafting Crafting is one of the fastest 99s to achieve. It requires very little attention but can be expensive, although a few ways like flax make it profitable. 16 Slayer Slayer is levelled alongside with combat, however players will almost always achieve 99 in all other combat skills before 99 slayer is achieved. It is often achieved simply for the cape. It also produces money. 17 Smithing Smithing can be a fast 99 to achieve. It requires some attention and is generally expensive, depending on the method used. 18 Farming Farming is a fairly easy 99 to achieve. It can be trained passively as plants can go unattended for long periods of time, however, depending upon how you train it, you will either gain or lose a lot of money. 19 Agility Agility goes at a slow-medium pace. Constant attention is required. The skill is often achieved simply for the skill cape, rather than for utility as it produces no money. 20 Mining Mining is a tedious 99 to achieve. Though it is not particularly fast, and constant attention is required, it produces money if the ores are banked, which, in many times, aren't in order to level up faster. 21 Summoning Summoning is one of the fastest 99s to achieve, once all the charms are gathered, which is extremely time consuming. It may also be extremely expensive. 22 Construction Construction is debatable the fastest 99 to achieve. It requires constant attention and all effective ways of training are expensive. 23 Herblore Herblore is a fairly fast 99 to achieve. It doesn't require much attention, but may be extremely expensive. 24 Runecrafting Runecrafting is a tedious 99 to achieve. Though it is slow, and it requires constant attention, it is currently one of the best skills for money once a high level is achieved.
[edit] Trivia
- In the Warriors' Guild section of the game guide, there is a screenshot of a player wearing an unknown skillcape. Jagex mods have said this is merely a skillcape whose colours appeared incorrectly while on the Work-in-Progress environment where Jagex does testing and gets screenshots for the Game Guide.
- While the capes themselves are members-only, if they are already equipped upon entering a free world the emotes can still be performed even though the cape itself becomes a "member's object".
- On 29 October 2008, skillcapes were updated to include audio, making the skillcape emote the fourth emote with audio, in addition to the Trick, Air Guitar, Freeze, Around the World in Eggty Days, and Dramatic Point emotes..
- The Capes of Accomplishment still show the old style skill symbols, and have not changed since the symbols' graphical upgrade.
- There are 32 NPCs in RuneScape wearing Capes of Accomplishment. One for each skill, one for each Estate agent, and an additional one for Kuradal, who has been sighted wearing a Slayer skillcape.
- The Wise Old Man is the only cape seller not to wear their respective cape.
- Trimmed capes tend to make a player's words higher when sitting in the rest position.
- The trim on the Firemaking cape seems to be smaller than the trims of other Capes of Accomplishment.
- The Armour Salesman is the only NPC that wears the Hood of the cape.
- A bug allowed players to drop the skillcapes for their first 99 and when they achieved their second 99, the dropped skillcape was unaffected by "trimming" and could be picked up and worn still as an untrimmed skillcape. This bug was fixed on 21 August 2009.
- Ignatius Vulcan, the master of Firemaking, is the only NPC who has his cape trimmed.
- There is a glitch associated with most Capes of Accomplishment in which the player can perform the emote while sitting down.
- A glitch concerning the Dagon'hai robe bottom and Capes of Accomplishment appear when walking. Part of the robe bottom appears through the cape.
[edit] References
- RuneScape Game Guide
