What is the most honored skill cape?

[Kekek]

Runecrafting ;F

[Aerynae]

Agility & Slayer

[Cdub]

It depends what you mean by 'honored'. In sheer xp/hr the two most difficult skills are Slayer and RCing. It seems like many people respect these due to the time commitment they entail. The skillcape I respect the most is Mining, because I feel it's the hardest skill to train.

[Rebdragon]

All 99 skills have my respect. Anyone who has one and shows they have the patience to get one, in my opinion, must be a respectable person too.

 

Eh... :| .

 

 

 

Me, I've got nothing against capes, what I hate is the idea of people getting capes just for the glory of it. Meager "glory" in a a compute game. I mean, it's pathetic.

 

 

 

Play for fun, not pixels :-$ .

[Bard_Bow_Man]

1 Slayer

 

2 Agility

 

3 Herblore

 

4 Mining

 

5 Runecrafting

[Solidus_77]

Biggest missconception in my opinion is

 

 

 

"X skill is easy because it's buyable"

 

 

 

First of all, if this was AT ALL the case, Construction would not be one of the rarest capes, so this already shows that it's not so easy after all to "just get the money". Sure some people have gotten it buy just selling a rare that they had in the bank since they were dropped. But does that mean the years and years spent waiting for the rare to mature don't count? It's not like everyone has the means to do so.

 

 

 

Second, usually people omit the time it takes to get the cash and then conclude that getting 99 in the skill only takes a relatively short ammount of time. But getting the cash is the challenge and it's a rather different challenge, because different people have different ways of getting cash. So a buyable skillcape will take weeks for some and years for others.

 

 

 

Third, money helps differently in different skills. If you define "buyable skill" as one for which you can buy the raw materials, then runecrafting is a buyable skill. Furthermore, there are ways to speed up slayer that require money like buying a cannon or all the extremely usefull armor, so is slayer a buyable skill? Even agility can be speeded up if you buy a ton of super energy pots.

 

 

 

In conclusion, people seem to have this illusion that getting millions upon millions is some kind of easy task that can be accomplished in the blink of an eye and thus doesn't count as part of getting the skillcape and people seem to only think of "buyable skills" as "expensive skills".

 

 

 

However there is more to it than that, just the fact that the skill can be bought is only one of the factors that makes it difficult to obtain. The return is also just as important: This is the reason why smithing isn't as hard as it may seem: because you get a certain %age of your investment back. This means that, although you need the means to get a lot of cash and buy the materials, you will not entirely lose all of it making it cheaper and thus easier. This is not the case, however, for prayer or construction, which are the two most expensive skills (both over 100 mill, assuming you use the fastest method) because you will get no return.

[Aerynae]

All 99 skills have my respect. Anyone who has one and shows they have the patience to get one, in my opinion, must be a respectable person too.

 

Eh... :| .

 

 

 

Me, I've got nothing against capes, what I hate is the idea of people getting capes just for the glory of it. Meager "glory" in a a compute game. I mean, it's pathetic.

 

 

 

Play for fun, not pixels :-$ .

 

 

 

I agree, when they first came out, I made up my mind not to try for one.

 

 

 

Granted I decided differently recently, but I want 99 because it's a challenge, not because I care what other people think of them. So many people have them, it hardly matters anymore in terms of showing off. -shrugs-

[Alg]

 

 

 

it is possible to 'buy' 99 fishing... feathers are cheap, and so are lobster pots.

 

buying 99 wc or mining is just buying an axe or pick

 

 

 

You cant buy fishing our mining you still have to be there for hours raising up that skill.

 

same with other buyables, actually

 

 

 

considering what was said on another thread, there are more than twice as many woodcutters maxed than fishermen, and more attackers than fletchers