Cape of Accomplishment

A Cape of Accomplishment (a.k.a. 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.

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. These capes can only be bought on a member's server, and free to play, 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 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.

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.

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 Fletching, Firemaking, Strength, 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-leveled players.

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
 * }
 * 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
 * }
 * Pikkupstix
 * Thieving cape
 * Rogue's Den
 * Martin Thwait
 * 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
 * }

Common 99s
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.


 * {|class="wikitable"

!Rank !Skill
 * 1
 * Strength
 * 2
 * Cooking
 * 3
 * Fletching
 * 4
 * Attack
 * 5
 * Hitpoints
 * 6
 * Defence
 * 7
 * Ranged
 * 8
 * Woodcutting
 * 9
 * Firemaking
 * 10
 * Fishing
 * 11
 * Magic
 * 12
 * Prayer
 * 13
 * Hunter
 * 14
 * Thieving
 * 15
 * Crafting
 * 16
 * Slayer
 * 17
 * Smithing
 * 18
 * Farming
 * 19
 * Agility
 * 20
 * Mining
 * 21
 * Herblore
 * 22
 * Summoning
 * 23
 * Construction
 * 24
 * Runecrafting
 * }
 * 17
 * Smithing
 * 18
 * Farming
 * 19
 * Agility
 * 20
 * Mining
 * 21
 * Herblore
 * 22
 * Summoning
 * 23
 * Construction
 * 24
 * Runecrafting
 * }
 * 23
 * Construction
 * 24
 * Runecrafting
 * }
 * Runecrafting
 * }

Trivia

 * 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". Members that come to F2p worlds for various reasons usually come with the cape on. A lot of them can be found wearing them on pvp or bounty hunter worlds.
 * 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 Capes of Accomplishment 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 Runecrafting cape is currently the least common skillcape.
 * There are 32 NPCs in RuneScape wearing Capes of Accomplishment. 28 NPCs for skills, one for the Quest Cape, and numerous Construction NPCs.
 * The Wise Old Man is the only cape seller not to wear the cape.
 * The Quest Point Cape is the only untrimmable cape, and cannot be used to trim other capes.
 * The payment of 99,000 coins is an obvious reference to the skill's level, which has to be 99.
 * Trimmed capes tend to make a player's words higher when sitting in the rest position. ( or if a player is to unequip all items and rest.)
 * Mod MMG announced that a certain cape would be available to long-serving players. Some players speculate that it is the Capes of Accomplishment that he is referring to, or the RuneScape Classic cape, that has been suggested in the Classic forums.
 * The only NPC to wear a trimmed skillcape is Ignatius Vulcan, the master of Firemaking.
 * The 99 Slayer cape (untrimmed) is one of the rarest Capes of Accomplishment in the game as most players obtain level 99 combat-related skill or hitpoints skill prior to achieving 99 slayer, resulting in the cape being trimmed when they reach 99 slayer.
 * The trim on the Firemaking cape seems to be smaller then the other trims on the other Capes of Accomplishments.
 * Many players believe there is going to be a cape that acknowledges the attainment of every Accomplishment Cape. However, this would be very difficult to achieve, because as of June 21, 2009, there are only 263 players with 99 in all skills, and the amount with that and also the quest cape is unknown.