Cape (emote)

A Skillcape emote can be performed when the player is wearing the proper Cape of Accomplishment. The emote has something in common with the skill whose cape you're wearing. For example, the Defence cape Skillcape emote shows a player defending him/herself from different threats.

Skillcapes will raise the level of the skill temporarily to 100, and will give the bonus to the skill, such as with the Strength cape, you can hit higher. While doing the Prayer or Constitution cape emote the level can't be raised to 100, but if you are down in that skill it can be raised up to 99, 1 level every minute. You can raise the level by taking off and putting on the cape, or going into the equipment interface and clicking "Boost". The emote's picture is a player with a Ranging cape and Ranging equipment, even though you might not have a Ranging cape.

Each Cape of Accomplishment has a different emote. It does not matter if the cape is trimmed or not; the emote is always the same, however there is currently some speculation the Dungeoneering cape with "true mastery" may have a different emote. This emote can be performed on free-to-play worlds, even if it is a members skill.

As of the 28 October 2008, performing the Skillcape emote also plays a short sound effect which fits with the actions of the emote. In the case of the Prayer Skillcape emote, one can hear the wings of the Prayer cape flapping, for example. Unlike the emotes, however, the sounds can only be heard by the person performing the emote.

The Dungeoneering cape has 3 different emotes, one with Magic armour, one with Melee armour and one with Range Armour.

On 19 March 2010, a player-submitted poll asked the community what their favourite skillcape emote was. The Prayer skillcape emote was chosen by a twenty percent majority (9431 votes out of 46932). . However, this was before the release of Dungeoneering and before skillcapes' emotes were changed

These are the animations produced by operating or using the Skillcape emote while wearing a Cape of Accomplishment.

As of May 25 2010, Jagex updated the skillcape emotes to look much smoother by "tweening" them and adding particle effects to them.

List of emotes

Trivia

 * The person on the emote icon seems to be wearing a Ranging cape, some kind of bow, green dragonhide armour and a robin hood hat.
 * The longest emote is the Cooking cape emote which is 14.04 seconds.
 * The shortest emote is the Magic cape emote which is 2.87 seconds.
 * Dungeoneering is the only Skillcape to have more than one emote.
 * The Attack cape emote and the Constitution cape emote are the only Skillcape emotes where some sort of object or item does not appear. (Constitution used to have 3 arrows hit the player prior to 25 May 2010.)
 * The Summoning skill emote has been changed. One familiar head has been removed.
 * The Fletching emote, though barely noticeable, has changes as well. The character holds the bow in the air slightly longer. This has added about .92 time onto the older emote.
 * The only skillcape that did not have particles added to it was Slayer, although it was changed.