Skill mastery


 * See Hiscores for the relative total rankings of the different skills.



The maximum skill level a player can advance in a skill is Level 99 (with 13,034,431 experience points), although players can have up to 200,000,000 experience in any skill. Thus, if a player has level 99 in all the skills, the maximum total levels are 2,376 levels (that is 24 skills multiplied by 99).

Pay-to-play players reaching level 99 in a skill are entitled to wear a Cape of Accomplishment for that particular skill. This cape can be bought from a specific skill master, for 99,000 coins. When operated, this cape allows a player to have a temporary level of 100, and the player performs a unique emote. Furthermore, if more than one Cape of Accomplishment is obtained, the player's skill cape becomes trimmed and any more skill capes the player obtains will also become trimmed (along with the newly received cape, of course).

Cooking and Fletching give fairly quick training, with a cost of 1-8 million coins depending how you train these skills. Another little-known skill that gives quick experience is Thieving (see the amount of people with 99 Thieving compared to Cooking and Fletching). 45-99 Thieving can be done in 2-4 weeks, depending on how long someone plays each day. However, getting 1-45 can take up to a week. It will cost more if players want faster experience in Cooking and Fletching. Cooking and Fletching have the most number of players at level 99, followed by Combat skills. However, gaining 99 levels is not easy no matter which skill, and thus classified as a major achievement. This is why wearing the Cape of Accomplishment is something to be proud of.

The skills that are considered cheaper or profitable to gain level 99 are Mining, Woodcutting, Fishing, Hunter and Runecrafting. A player can do this with a minimal amount of money or while making profit. However, levelling up these skills can be time consuming.

Before the Skill Interface update, players with a level 99 skill could view the experience needed to earn level 100.

In RuneScape Classic, the maximum total level was 1,782; with the addition of Runecrafting (1881), Slayer (1980), Farming (2079), Construction (2178), Hunter (2277), and the newest skill, Summoning, brought the maximum total levels to 2,376.

First players to achieve level 99
When level 99 stats first started appearing, players with such stats were often well known around the RuneScape community. However, as more and more people obtained level 99, it is often agreed that such players do not stand out much anymore. However, other members of the RuneScape community still consider it a major achievement.

Below is a list of the first players reaching level 99 in a particular skill.