Cape of Accomplishment

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 player has obtained level 99 in any of the skills, or completed all quests in the case of the Quest point cape. The Capes of Accomplishment were released on 18 October 2006.

Capes of Accomplishment are only available to members, or in pay-to-play worlds.

Each cape can only be purchased by players who have accomplished one of these feats. Capes of Accomplishment cost 99,000 coins, and are obtained from a specific NPC master, who can be seen wearing the cape. The NPC is located in a place related to his/her skill. Unfortunately for free players, these capes can only be bought on a member's 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 one of these is by reaching the skill level or completing the quests required. Needless to say, if you can buy one of these capes you are on the hiscores for that skill.

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. In addition, wearing the cape or selecting the "operate" 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, Prayer, Hitpoints, and Summoning capes. Capes have a one minute "cool-down" period between uses of this effect.

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 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.

Please Note: Owning a skillcape for a 99 skill and owning a Quest cape does not trim your other skillcape. You need to hold level 99 in two skills in order to own a trimmed skillcape. Acquiring a Quest cape will not trim your other skillcape for you, as it is separate from a specific skill like Attack, Mining, etc.

Criticism
The capes have been criticised by some players as being useless, and an unfit reward for reaching an often difficult goal as well as provoking players for the sake of the cape rather than satisfaction or enjoyment from a skill. This mostly applies to faster and easier skills such as Firemaking, Fletching, and Cooking. Players are also sometimes dissatisfied by the inability to choose between the regular and trimmed styles of the cape. On the other hand, some players believe that Capes of Accomplishment were one of the few updates specifically targeted at higher-levelled players.

Also owning multiple skillcapes can be a pain as you can only wear one at a time.

List of Accomplishment capes

 * {| class="wikitable"

! !! Skillcape !! Location !! Seller
 * Agility cape||Agility arena||Capn' Izzy No-Beard
 * Attack cape||Warriors' Guild||Ajjat
 * Construction cape||Varrock, Falador, Seers' Village, Ardougne||Estate agent
 * Cooking cape||Cooking guild||Head Chef
 * Crafting cape||Crafting guild||Master Crafter
 * Defence cape||Lumbridge||Melee combat tutor
 * Farming cape||Draynor Village||Martin the Master Gardener
 * Firemaking cape||Seers' Village||Ignatius Vulcan
 * Fishing cape||Fishing Guild||Master fisher
 * Fletching cape||Catherby||Hickton
 * Herblore cape||Taverley||Kaqemeex
 * Hitpoints cape||Duel Arena||Surgeon General Tafani
 * Hunter cape||Feldip Hills||Hunting expert
 * Magic cape||Wizards' Guild||Robe Store Owner
 * Mining cape||Mining Guild||Dwarf (only those at guild entrance)
 * Prayer cape||Monastery||Brother Jered
 * Ranging cape||Ranging guild||Armour Salesman
 * Runecrafting cape||Varrock||Aubury
 * Slayer cape||Shilo Village||Duradel/Lapalok
 * Smithing cape||Mudskipper Point||Thurgo
 * Strength cape||Warriors' Guild||Sloane/Yadech Strongarm
 * Summoning cape||Taverley||Pikkupstix
 * Thieving cape||Rogue's Den||Martin Thwait
 * Woodcutting cape||Lumbridge||Woodsman tutor
 * [[Image:Questicon.PNG]]||Quest point cape||Draynor Village||Wise Old Man
 * }
 * Magic cape||Wizards' Guild||Robe Store Owner
 * Mining cape||Mining Guild||Dwarf (only those at guild entrance)
 * Prayer cape||Monastery||Brother Jered
 * Ranging cape||Ranging guild||Armour Salesman
 * Runecrafting cape||Varrock||Aubury
 * Slayer cape||Shilo Village||Duradel/Lapalok
 * Smithing cape||Mudskipper Point||Thurgo
 * Strength cape||Warriors' Guild||Sloane/Yadech Strongarm
 * Summoning cape||Taverley||Pikkupstix
 * Thieving cape||Rogue's Den||Martin Thwait
 * Woodcutting cape||Lumbridge||Woodsman tutor
 * [[Image:Questicon.PNG]]||Quest point cape||Draynor Village||Wise Old Man
 * }
 * Smithing cape||Mudskipper Point||Thurgo
 * Strength cape||Warriors' Guild||Sloane/Yadech Strongarm
 * Summoning cape||Taverley||Pikkupstix
 * Thieving cape||Rogue's Den||Martin Thwait
 * Woodcutting cape||Lumbridge||Woodsman tutor
 * [[Image:Questicon.PNG]]||Quest point cape||Draynor Village||Wise Old Man
 * }
 * Woodcutting cape||Lumbridge||Woodsman tutor
 * [[Image:Questicon.PNG]]||Quest point cape||Draynor Village||Wise Old Man
 * }
 * [[Image:Questicon.PNG]]||Quest point cape||Draynor Village||Wise Old Man
 * }

Trivia

 * The high cost of the hunter skillcape is due to its material which is made of Raharni Wildcat fur, a species close to extinction. Other Capes of Accomplishment are said to be made of expensive materials as well, probably having to do with the skill associated with the cape.
 * 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 and Freeze emotes.
 * While wearing the untrimmed version of a Cape of Accomplishment, the inside of the cape (the part against the character's back) is the main colour of the cape, but while wearing the trimmed version the inside of the cape is the colour of the trim. This excludes the firemaking cape, which is the only skillcape to not take on its trim colour when trimmed.
 * All untrimmed Capes of Accomplishment give the same stat boosts as the Obsidian cape.
 * The skillcapes still show the old style skill symbols, and have not changed since the symbols' graphical upgrade.
 * The Strength cape is currently the most common skillcape and the Construction cape is currently the least common skillcape.
 * Since Mod MMG's arrival in February, it has been rumoured that he claimed F2P skillcapes were a possibility, but not for "some time". It is currently unclear whether these rumours are true, since they have not been denied by any Jmod's on the official Runescape forums.