Sir_Kurity Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Also, I would disagree with skill capes being easier to get. Jad takes an hour. Even 99 fletching or cooking takes several. If you already happen to have the 99, then skill capes are easier to get cause its only 100k. O.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidmorgan744 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 As per me the idea behind that they are wearing this skill cape for the purpose of being unique. It makes them count different in number of users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_Marche Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I wear my slayer and agility capes because I am proud of them, simply. I cam back to rs exactly one year ago with none of these 99s and to me it's a great achievement. I won't bash your cape at all if you don't bash mine. For some people, 99 cooking is an achievement. For some people, 50m slayer exp is easy. If it's an achievement for you, you should wear your cape with pride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Eh, I guess its because people want to be sure everybody can see their dedication and effort they have put in to this game or simply because they want to show everybody that they are better than them. (Which is kinda stupid because atleast I don't play this game to constantly compare myself to other players) I mean before qc and skillcapes it was hard to prove someone that you indeed have that 99 agility although I don't remember anyone caring about the '99's back then or atleast not as much as today. I wear my qp cape because it makes me feel like I've really achieved something in this game and tbh, I also like the design. Though I mainly I wear SW cape when ever killing monsters. I highly doubt that everyone wears a skillcape to show others that they are better than them, but I do know that a small minority (at least it was small in my eyes) do actually do it to prove they're better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulxai Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I wear my cooking skillcape because I like the cape. I like it better untrimmed than trimmed, so that's why I haven't had a fire under my [cabbage] to trim it. Does anyone ask me for emote requests? Nope. Does anyone respect me for it? Nope. Do I care? Nope. I wear it because I like it, not because other people do. ~ Proud Father ~ Proud (Currently Deployed) Army National Guardsmen ~ Proud Lakota ~ Retired Tip.It Crew ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EU Slayer Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I mainly wear my att or defence cape, cause I like them. Only use my firecape for Ice strykes or Clan wars.I like the skillcape look over firecape, and cause i'm pround of my 99's I don't know which mod did this. I don't know why they did it. If they're looking for money, I can tell them I don't have any as I'm a student. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over 4 years of RuneScape. Skills that I have worked hard for and people like them can't take them away. If they give me my particles back now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for them, I will not pursue them. But if they don't, I will look for them, I will find them, and they won't like what'll happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonewall337 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 The occasional "OMG I want your cape" keeps me wearing my slayer cape This. I wear Fire cape/SW cape most of the time slaying/bossing. But if I am skilling, or just "dressing up" I wear my slayer/prayer/summoning cape. [hide=Drops]Araxxor Eye x1 Leg pieces x2GWD: 5000 Addy bar Steam B Staff x3 Z Spear x6 Sara. Hilt x2 Bandos Hilt x2 (LS, Solo)SS x6 (1 LS)Tormented Demons: Shard x6 Slice x5 Claws x9 Limbs x3DKS: Archer x21 Warrior x31 Berserker x30 Axe x51[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar_god_2007 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Why feel ashamed to have 99 strength. Its still a level 99 isn't it?I got 99 cooking first, and yet I still wear my cape and feel proud knowing I'm level 99. I use soul wars cape mainly for slayer, in case I want to use some ultimate strength or piety, and My skill capes to show off. Goals: 15m Slayer xp | 85 Herblore | 75+ All Stats | Chaotic Rapier | 125k/200k Tokens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frede173 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 On my level 70 member account (Well, it's not a member anymore) I wear my trimmed thieving cape because:A) The trim is black, which matches the rest of my outfit. (Default black clothes, Dragon archer hat and gloves of silence)B) I fail everytime I attempt to get a fire cape. :DC) There's no way in hell I can beat Nomad with 70 Ranged and 22 Summoning. Owner of a comp cape since February 11th 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 On my level 70 member account (Well, it's not a member anymore) I wear my trimmed thieving cape because:A) The trim is black, which matches the rest of my outfit. (Default black clothes, Dragon archer hat and gloves of silence)B) I fail everytime I attempt to get a fire cape. :DC) There's no way in hell I can beat Nomad with 70 Ranged and 22 Summoning. What's a 'Dragon Archer Hat'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frede173 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 On my level 70 member account (Well, it's not a member anymore) I wear my trimmed thieving cape because:A) The trim is black, which matches the rest of my outfit. (Default black clothes, Dragon archer hat and gloves of silence)B) I fail everytime I attempt to get a fire cape. :DC) There's no way in hell I can beat Nomad with 70 Ranged and 22 Summoning. What's a 'Dragon Archer Hat'?It's one of the chompy hats. You have to kill 2250 chompy birds to obtain it.That's me wearing the dragon archer hat (Without gloves of silence and Thieving cape). The RuneScape wiki has a complete gallery of all the 15 chompy hats. (And I'm on most of the images. :P 5/5 for viewing pleasure) Owner of a comp cape since February 11th 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Oh, ok. Makes sense now. :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmuall Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Seriously, is it too hard for some players to work for a better cape? I wanted to stop reading as soon as I read this line. Saying that there are "better" capes means you recognise that some capes have merits over other capes. By recognising that the cape has merits, you are recognising a reason to wear it. Meaning that I have no idea why you decided to make this topic. OT: People do it because they can. There are innumerable reasons why someone would choose to but ultimately, it comes down to the fact that they can wear it, and therefore they'll find a reason why they should. give F2P a penny and they want a dime; give P2P a quarter, they want 100,000 dollars, your car, house, boat, social security number, credit card numbers, drivers license, clothes on your back and everything you ever owned or interacted with ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordkafei Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 This post is more of a cry for affirmation than anything else. Seriously, is it too hard for some players to work for a better cape? I've worn a construction skillcape for about 6-7 months when I finally decided there were too many players already wearing them so I worked on getting a firecape and it only took me 2 tries in 1 day. So what happens when too many people start wearing fire capes? Or SW capes? When do you step off the treadmill and wear what you want for your own reasons? Or do you go through your RS life constantly checking the pulse of the community to see what is currently hot & popular? Some of us really don't give a rat's ass what the rest of you think of our in-game apparel. PvP is not for meIn the 3rd Year of the BoycottReal-world money saved since FT/W: Hundreds of DollarsReal-world time saved since FT/W: Thousands of Hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frede173 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Introducing the latest fashion!!!Are you tired of everybody wearing the same skillcape as you??Are you sick of people asking if Jad was hard??Are you fed up by people asking how you killed the Nomad? Well, then this is just the cape for you:A REGULAR BLACK CAPE@@It doesn't yell "Look at me!" and most of all: It's almost free! All you have to do is kill a level five highwayman! Now, how's that? Owner of a comp cape since February 11th 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Introducing the latest fashion!!!Are you tired of everybody wearing the same skillcape as you??Are you sick of people asking if Jad was hard??Are you fed up by people asking how you killed the Nomad? Well, then this is just the cape for you:A REGULAR BLACK CAPE@@It doesn't yell "Look at me!" and most of all: It's almost free! All you have to do is kill a level five highwayman! Now, how's that? That was stupid. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazi Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 On my level 70 member account (Well, it's not a member anymore) I wear my trimmed thieving cape because:A) The trim is black, which matches the rest of my outfit. (Default black clothes, Dragon archer hat and gloves of silence)B) I fail everytime I attempt to get a fire cape. :DC) There's no way in hell I can beat Nomad with 70 Ranged and 22 Summoning. What's a 'Dragon Archer Hat'? Reward for killing a certain number of Chompy birds. http://www.tip.it/runescape/?page=chompy_hunting.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 That question was already answered, thanks though. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sana Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Well, I agree to some extent with OP that such capes as the strength cape do make me yawn when i see them, and forgive me if this seems rude. It is just the fact that so many people, often the kinds of people I wouldn't want to socialise with, wear them to get "reputation" and this just does not appeal to me. Other skillcapes such as slayer are, generally, recognised and being "hot" or "admirable" - whether due to aesthetics, or the work behind them. I would ofcourse value these skillcapes more highly than the buyable, fast capes. Please do not think that I am now limiting the "worthiness" of a cape to the ones that take the longest to obtain, I personally like the firemaking cape as it is a vibrant colour and the emote is very nice. I am currently well on the way to untrimmed Dungeoneering, being 200k-ish from 98 at this moment in time. I want this cape becuase it will be the first major goal I have succeeded in egtting, I have the Firecape and SW Cape and do not see why these would in any way be superior to my Untrimmed Dg. The Dg cape looks very nice, the emote is very nice and it shows that I, unlike many people out there, classify Dungeoneering as a skill and give merit to the fact by spending months training it. I hope that my post has contributed to this topic, unlike a few posts about chompy hats - surely a pm question could be appropriate and more on-topic? Sanafari. Capes: Dungeoneering, Dungeoneering (t), Defence (t), Attack (t), Constitution (t), Quest, Soulwars (both), Fire, Tokhaar Kal Massive thanks to [)en[)en for my signature picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 If i had any 99s, which I don't (:thumbdown:), then I would wear it because it shows achievement. Oh and they look awesome :D RIP TET "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 If i had any 99s, which I don't (:thumbdown:), then I would wear it because it shows achievement. Oh and they look awesome :D:thumbup: Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frede173 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 If i had any 99s, which I don't (:thumbdown:), then I would wear it because it shows achievement. Oh and they look awesome :DSome of them do. The colours of the cooking cape (red and purple) don't really match IMO. :P Owner of a comp cape since February 11th 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 If i had any 99s, which I don't (:thumbdown:), then I would wear it because it shows achievement. Oh and they look awesome :DSome of them do. The colours of the cooking cape (red and purple) don't really match IMO. :P I think that's because the colors are so close on the color wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frede173 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 If i had any 99s, which I don't (:thumbdown:), then I would wear it because it shows achievement. Oh and they look awesome :DSome of them do. The colours of the cooking cape (red and purple) don't really match IMO. :P I think that's because the colors are so close on the color wheel.Probably. :o Owner of a comp cape since February 11th 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 If i had any 99s, which I don't (:thumbdown:), then I would wear it because it shows achievement. Oh and they look awesome :DSome of them do. The colours of the cooking cape (red and purple) don't really match IMO. :P I think that's because the colors are so close on the color wheel.Probably. :o The only thing it really even semi-matches with is full Dragon, but even that's not very close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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