"N00b skillcapes" : they're also skillcapes!

[Eddo89]

Answer me this...why is no one bashing strength?

 

 

 

There are over 57,000 people with 99 strength that's about 4,000 in front of cooking and about 6,500 in front of fletching in fact more people have 99 strength than any other skill and by the standards of this thread it makes it the "n00biest" skill cape.

 

 

 

Another question...only about 16,000 people have 99 fire making. There are 9 skills in front of it. So saying that people get it because it is quicker or easier than other skills can't be 100% true if only 16,000 people have it. But then to compare it to skills like cooking and fletching in terms of "n00biness" is just stupid because there are over 3 times as many people with 99 in both cooking and fletching.

 

 

 

Aside from that I appreciate any skill cape. You obviously have to put some time and effort into it. If some 99's weren't true achievements would Jagex give them a skill cape to mark that achievement?

 

 

 

Is really very simple:

 

-Strength: A lot of people has it, but this skill is already the TOP 99 skill before skillcapes. An important thing is, 99 strength beats 85 strength. Hence why no one bashes it as one who wants it probably wanted to be stronger, thus their 99 quest is quite legitimate. People ALWAYS wanted to hit big, cape or not.

 

 

 

-Firemaking: Numbers don't mean a lot, is not a skill a lot of people would have trained in the past, is not well liked, it isn't useful at all, hence lower number. It is also overshadowed by fletching and cooking, the prime choice of 99. Most people STOP once they trimmed the cape. As in why it is cheap, it is because IT IS CHEAP. I got enough maples from Manage thy Kingdom without meaning to collect it for the purpose. It also give xp at a high rate, it is n a higher tier than cooking and fletching for people by virtue of the requirement to click, otherwise it is very easy XP.

 

 

 

Achievement capes was made as a reward for 99, there wasn't any hidden meaning behind it. Some people argue prayer has no worth after 70, to some degree it is true. But for a lot of skills, is special milestones not cape related.

 

 

 

There is the issue of "buying" a skill. i think regardless of whether you bought it or not, if the skill is quick, is quick. Is naive to think just because you fished and cooked every single fish you cook it makes appear at a higher plane than others who bought their 99. But really though, who cares? As long as you know you achieved it the hard way, you can smile to yourself at the hardwork, irrespective of what others think. This really comes down to an issue of the skillcape, it is pointed outwards, towards people. Too many do it for the limelight as opposed for personal achievement.

 

 

 

I know a lot of 99 capers on easy skills literally cry out for people to respect their cape. I would say "why should I?" This is as a big of an issue as people disrespecting it.

 

 

 

Bottomline however:

 

-99 capers are NOT noob because of their cape, ever. Even if they chose the easiest skills. If they are a noob, it is because they are stupid to begin with and no nothing apart from "withdraw fish, cook all, bank rinse and repeat".

 

-"Noob capes" are not a big as an achievement, simple as that. You respect cash, you expect 100m more than 50m, same could be said of the skill.

 

-99 cookers or fletchers, don't ever complain please. If you ever find it boring and tedious, drop everything and try get 99 smithing.

 

 

 

Whether a cape is respected is not due to how many people put it down, is due to how many people praise it. It is a skillcape, but that doesn't mean I have to look at it with any more respect than I look at something like the Obsidian Cape.

[paulieepablo]

i was going for 99 fletching but while i was traning it i realised that it is a very good way to make money i can make 1-2 mill every hour from yew longs or magic longs but people still come up to me while im fletching a call me a noob but there the noobs with no money or skill

[AlexDT]

 

Ect Ect.

 

 

 

Chins, Super sets, ect ect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Call me pedantic if you like, but ect means absolutely nothing. For those that are not aware, etc. is an abbreviation generally held to have stemmed from the Latin phrase ET Ceteri. Let's get the basic 3 letter words right shall we now?!

 

Call me pedantic, but don't you mean 'et cetera'?

 

The term 'etc' is widely accepted to mean the same thing as 'et cetera' - that is, 'and the rest', or 'and other obvious and implied things which fall under aforementioned category'. So in that sense, it does mean quite a lot.

 

 

 

OT: I can only see 5 reasons to get a skillcape:

 

 

 

• -You can't afford an obsidian cape
   
  - You want a cape which gives a +4 prayer bonus
   
  - You are for some reason fond of the number '99'
   
  - The 99 you're trying to achieve is useful
   
  - You just like the way skillcapes look

 

 

 

Doing it so that other players will respect you just seems a little odd.

[thibault357]

i think any skillcape is a cape to be proud of, but getting one just for the sake is having a cape isnt that great of an idea, i got my skillcape for 2 reasons, 1. i love the colour orange therefor i got the firemaking cape, 2. i wanted my 2nd cape to be trimmed +4 prayer is pretty sweet 8-)

[Atom Smash40]

i was going for 99 fletching but while i was traning it i realised that it is a very good way to make money i can make 1-2 mill every hour from yew longs or magic longs but people still come up to me while im fletching a call me a noob but there the noobs with no money or skill

 

funny, cuz i can drop all my money on either fletch/cook/fm and get 99. but i choose not to because the 99 i want is mining.

[skylor12344]

i cant really say anything about people going for just the cape, me personally im going for 2 of the hardest capes to get(well most time consuming next to fishing) and that Slayer and Strength/Attack not because i want the skillcape but because i see alot of advantages in it and i love to train more than i do skill..plus on that fact slayer has alot of bonuses like the Abby Demons and Dark Beasts which drops items that are worth alot

[lvl3skils3]

There is no such thing as a noob skillcape - less than 2000000 people have one!

 

So what if you train a skill to 99 for the cape!?! Do what you want to do!

 

I'm training to 99 cooking so there!

[Wee Man]

I don't have a 99 skill so i am speaking from an outside opinion. I believe any skill cape is worth having no matter how many people have had it before you, but i personally think that the harder it is to train or how much money you have to put into it defines how "good" a cape is. I would welcome any 99 at the moment wether it be slayer or cooking since i don't have one yet, but obviously slayer is the better cape due to the vast amounts of time you have to put into it.

 

 

 

If i did have a 99 in either fletching or cooking or any other so called "noob" skill and someone mocked me for it, i'd just ignore them, i mean how much of a fool are they for mocking someone for having the best level in a skill.

 

 

 

 

 

\ : :thumbsup: :D

[Kazel]

I got my Quest Cape (unwearable atm ) because I love doing Quests. Seriously, my friends would always call me "Mr. Quest Addict" cause that's all I did. I like the title, and I show it off with pride. I've had people call me a 'noob' for wearing it, saying "Quest Cape is such a noobish cape, I could get it in a week." And I reply with "I'd like to see you try". Even if they can, so what? I didn't get it to be unique, I got it because I wanted to. Before the Grandmaster, you saw people wearing Quest Capes left and right, one in ten people, maybe even one in five wore one. Now, it's a bit more respectable (I think), and I'm kinda hoping that the people who wear it get more respect, but even if they didn't create this mega-quest, I'd wear my cape with pride. That's who I am, and I won't let anybody else affect that.

[Silent_uk]

Runescape, like any game is about personal accheivement. Firemaking was my 2nd level 99, many thought I was crazy, but I wanted 99 stats, its always the dream in Runescape, oh I want 99 smithing, prayer, range. We all want 99 stats.

 

 

 

If you want to go for a Firemaking cape go for it, ignore what everyone else things, if they had half a brain they would probably have one too!

[Jeffwilson99]

Personally I have respect for anyone with a skill cape, because to get one in any skill requires a lot of determination and self motivation to stick with it!

[bedman]

I got my Quest Cape (unwearable atm ) because I love doing Quests. Seriously, my friends would always call me "Mr. Quest Addict" cause that's all I did. I like the title, and I show it off with pride. I've had people call me a 'noob' for wearing it, saying "Quest Cape is such a noobish cape, I could get it in a week." And I reply with "I'd like to see you try". Even if they can, so what? I didn't get it to be unique, I got it because I wanted to. Before the Grandmaster, you saw people wearing Quest Capes left and right, one in ten people, maybe even one in five wore one. Now, it's a bit more respectable (I think), and I'm kinda hoping that the people who wear it get more respect, but even if they didn't create this mega-quest, I'd wear my cape with pride. That's who I am, and I won't let anybody else affect that.

 

Just about the quest cape being less common now.

 

Trust me, ANYONE, who had quest cape before this quest, will have one now, or very soon. Seriously, the quest isnt hard, the reqs arent too high, the rewards are great. The only hard req would be 270 qp, if you hadnt done all quests yet, but since previous quest cape owners had done all of them...

[kwarlord]

because your lack of grammer gave me a headache, you're a noob.

 

 

 

and who cares what some idiot with no Legend cape says? If you can't complete the Legend quest, then you have no room to talk.

[kwarlord]

There is no such thing as a noob skillcape - less than 2000000 people have one!

 

So what if you train a skill to 99 for the cape!?! Do what you want to do!

 

I'm training to 99 cooking so there!

 

 

 

so less than 2 million people playing runescape have a skillcape? there aren't even 2 million people playing the game, idiot!

[ghoulmeister]

There is no such thing as a noob skillcape - less than 2000000 people have one!

 

So what if you train a skill to 99 for the cape!?! Do what you want to do!

 

I'm training to 99 cooking so there!

 

 

 

so less than 2 million people playing runescape have a skillcape? there aren't even 2 million people playing the game, idiot!

 

 

 

Correction: There are less than 2 million members. Therefore, it is not possible for 2 million people to have skillcapes because skillcapes are members only.

[spyderownzyou]

There is no such thing as a noob skillcape - less than 2000000 people have one!

 

So what if you train a skill to 99 for the cape!?! Do what you want to do!

 

I'm training to 99 cooking so there!

 

 

 

so less than 2 million people playing runescape have a skillcape? there aren't even 2 million people playing the game, idiot!

 

aren't high-scores top 2mil now?

 

because in some skills there is a 1,999,999 and 2,000,000 ranked player? so that must mean there are 2mil active accounts at least

 

and all of them can't have cape :roll:

 

and doesn't matter if your f2p or member, 99 is equal to a cape tbh, just a small cost per month stopping them having the said cape ;)

 

pics = proof?...coming up \

 

2mil accounts

 

 

less than 2mil players with cape ;)

 

[DMJUGGALO]

I think any that calls some1 that is training a skill to 99 (no matter the reason they training it) a noob or nolifer is in fact a noob themselves. I have 7 99's and working on my 8th. The reason I am getting 99's is to max all my skills. I dont have to enjoy it to make it meaningful. I do it becuase it makes me money in most situations. For all them people out there that bug us skillers, find the nearest highest cliff and try grow wings and learn to fly! You are more pathetic than the ppl that complain about not having a 99 skill yet do not work at them.

[Canadan]

some skills are easier than others to train, but a 99 is a 99. people who play rs know that a runecraft, slayer or agility cape carries more time behind it than a cooking cape, but still takes time and patience to get. if someone has all the 'noob' capes, he/she still spent many many hrs of playing to get them. who cares how many people have that cape.

[neji125]

There is no point in doing a skill you don't like for the cape I love cooking and strength and right now I'm going for 99 cooking eventually you'll have to do that skill but don't do it for the skill cape I hate people that do that no offense =P~

 

str- 70

 

cooking- 46(started 11/28/08 on this skill) \

[rupert519]

I am currently going for 90 strength but after that i will go for 99 cooking and i hope people don't call me noob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Xx_Flare_xX]

some skills are easier than others to train, but a 99 is a 99. people who play rs know that a runecraft, slayer or agility cape carries more time behind it than a cooking cape, but still takes time and patience to get. if someone has all the 'noob' capes, he/she still spent many many hrs of playing to get them. who cares how many people have that cape.

 

 

 

+1 It took me 7 months to get my Agility cape compared to 3 months for woodcutting and 2 months for Firemaking cape :P

 

 

 

Whether your 99 Cooking or 99 RuneCraft it doesn't matter, you worked hard for that 99 and you deserve to wear a skillcape.

 

 

 

Theres no such thing as a noob skillcape. period.

 

Oh and whips and Godswords are noob weaps cos over 10K of the RuneScape population has one ;)

[DarkX99]

When I first got members, the skillcapes weren't released yet and I was happy doing what I wanted to do.

 

When they were released, I wanted one so badly that I started to go for 99 Cooking.

 

 

 

Looking back, I see my self as a noob going for that 99 Cooking, but I am happy that I received that cooking cape.

 

I don't see any skillcape as a NOOB skillcape because time and effort (some a lot less than others :P ) need to be put into each one. :

[Estonian dude]

+1 for what Dark said.

 

Also, I know people who love cooking. And they didn't get cooking skillcape for having a skillcape. I also know F2P people with levels 99. They don't have the skillcape. They do not need it.

[PURESMITHER]

Getting a skillcape of any kind is hard.

 

Every skill cape deserves respect, don't mock skillcapes unless you have multiple skillcapes which are harder to get - even then, don't be a jerk about it.

[Phixcire]

lmao i have 99 cooking 99 fishing and if they are noob skills i dont give a f*** at least i got a skill so in your face currently going for 99 range 99 fm 99 def lost quest cape since i quit rs for a year and now have 18 new quests to do so anyone saying 99 cooking is noobish can just gtfo and quit rs also i dont buy [cabbage] for my 99's i earn it so it means even more to me