Release date | 18 October 2006 (Update) |
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Members | Yes |
Sound | Yes |
Enhancer | No |
Duration | Varies seconds |
Requirements | Wearing a Cape of Accomplishment, Distinction, or Elven clan cape once (except milestone capes); the emote icon will show as unlocked thereafter |
A cape emote (formerly skillcape) can be performed when the player is wearing a Cape of Accomplishment or Cape of Distinction, with the exception of the milestone capes. The emote is related to the skill of cape the player is 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. 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 and distinction has a different emote. It does not matter if the cape is trimmed or not; the emote is always the same. The only exception to this is the completionist cape, which has a slightly different emote when trimmed. This emote can be performed on free-to-play worlds, as long as an appropriate cape is worn.
As of 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 cape 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).[1] 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.
On 25 May 2010, Jagex updated the skillcape emotes to look much smoother by "tweening" them and adding particle effects to them, as well as revamping several with a newer animation.
On 3 May 2011, with the Capes of Distinction update, four new capes with corresponding emotes were added: the veteran, classic, max and completionist cape.
A cape for each clan in Prifddinas was released with the city on 22 September 2014, along with one made by combining all of the individual clan capes. The new capes were the Amlodd, Cadarn, Crwys, Hefin, Iorwerth, Ithell, Meilyr, Trahaearn, and Master clan cape (which can perform all 8 emotes).
List of emotes[]
Cape | Emote | Cape seller | Performing time |
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Dungeoneering master cape | Thok, south of Daemonheim | 00:06.01 | |
Slayer master cape | Kuradal, outside the entrance to Kuradal's Dungeon |
Cape | Emote | Cape seller | Performing time |
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Classic cape | Iffie, knitting at Thessalia's Fine Clothes shop | 00:04.00 | |
Veteran cape | Hans, walking around Lumbridge Castle | 00:06.90 | |
Veteran cape (10 year) | Hans, walking around Lumbridge Castle | 00:06.90 |
Cape | Emote | Cape seller | Performing time |
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Clan Amlodd cape | Amlodd herald in the Amlodd district of Prifddinas | 00:07.70 | |
Clan Cadarn cape | Cadarn herald in the Cadarn district of Prifddinas | 00:07.70 | |
Clan Crwys cape | Crwys herald in the Crwys district of Prifddinas | 00:07.70 | |
Clan Hefin cape | Hefin herald in the Hefin district of Prifddinas | 00:07.70 | |
Clan Iorwerth cape | Iorwerth herald in the Iorwerth district of Prifddinas | 00:07.70 | |
Clan Ithell cape | Ithell herald in the Ithell district of Prifddinas | 00:07.70 | |
Clan Meilyr cape | Meilyr herald in the Meilyr district of Prifddinas | 00:07.70 | |
Clan Trahaearn cape | Trahaearn herald in the Trahaearn district of Prifddinas | 00:07.70 |
Cape | Emote | Cape seller | Performing time |
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Max cape | Max, running around eastern Varrock | 00:26.00 | |
Completionist cape | Museum guard, guarding the cape at the Varrock Museum | 00:11.25 | |
Trimmed completionist cape | Museum guard, guarding the cape at the Varrock Museum | 00:11.25 |
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