Skill mastery

The maximum skill level a player can advance to is level 99 (13,034,431 experience points), although players can have up to 200,000,000 experience in any skill. The following table shows the numbers of players at level 99 for a specific skill as of January 5, 2008. (The last figure is the number of characters having level 99 in all skills.)

The maximum total level is 2,376 (24 skills multiplied by 99 = 2,376). Pay-to-play players reaching level 99 in a skill are entitled wear a Cape of Accomplishment. A cape can allow a player to have a temporary level of 100.

Fletching and Cooking, which allow very fast training without a significant cost in coins, are the skills with the most players at level 99 in them, followed by Combat skills.

See hiscores for the relative total rankings of the different skills.



The newest skill, Summoning, was released on January 15, 2008, which brought the maximum total level to 2,376. "Nercychlidae" reached 99 summoning on February 8, 2008, 24 days after it was released.

Until the skill interface update, players with a level 99 skill could view the experience it would take them to earn level 100. However, because this is calculated based on the current level, which remains 99 even if this number is passed, it was possible to have an experience higher than this figure.

15th of January 2008, the Summoning skill got released. The first person to get 99 summoning was Nercychlidae.

Milestones in reaching level 99
Below is a list of the first players reaching noteworthy milestones related to level 99 skills.

* Cowchicken and Dragoon 787 reached level 99 Firemaking on the same day, but it is commonly accepted that Cowchicken reached it earlier.

** Snake Slava was banned for macro use after Jagex mistook his English-Russian translator for cheating software. To prove that he did not cheat, he actually brought his computer to the Jagex headquarters. To prove that he could achieve it again, he trained his second character Snake Slavik to 99 Ranging as well before anyone else could do so.

*** Cursed You was banned for real-world trading, not for causing the Falador Massacre.

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 stats, it's often agreed that such players don't stand out much anymore. However, other members of the RuneScape community still consider it a major achievement.