Hardest 99?

[Aiel]

I'd like to vote for agility: agility offers little rewards, unlike runecrafting or slayer, making agility way more tedious for most players.

 

Agility offers little rewards? :blink:

 

It offers rewards in 3 different skills, as well as helping in practically every aspect of runescape that requires travel.

 

The rewards arent immediately noticable, but they exist.

dont forget agile.

[Sir_Kurity]

Quests aren't a skill, but the quest cape follows the same skill cape theme, and I think Jagex meant it to be a "special" skill cape.

 

True also that it requires more exp than a 99, but a lot of reqs for quests are already done (for example, say you had 55 magic to cast high alch, then you found out about desert treasure and said, "hey cool, I already have 50 magic!")

 

Yea, but also at the same time, quests are constantly added into the game.

 

I remember saying this a few years ago, but the quest cape will eventually be the longest/hardest cape for a new player to get simply because quests are added all the time.

[Melencholy]

Of course for those of us who already have it it is a simple matter of continually maintenance and getting the 1-2 skills that got higher each time a new quest comes out and then doing it. but yes, if runescape goes on long enough the questcape will be insanely long and difficult someday. Who knows, maybe a few... decades from now there will be a quest with a 99 skill requirement. or low to mid 90's at least. lol

[Sir_Kurity]

Of course for those of us who already have it it is a simple matter of continually maintenance and getting the 1-2 skills that got higher each time a new quest comes out and then doing it. but yes, if runescape goes on long enough the questcape will be insanely long and difficult someday. Who knows, maybe a few... decades from now there will be a quest with a 99 skill requirement. or low to mid 90's at least. lol

 

That or jagex feeds a bone to all those level 138's and decides to make some insanely hard quest.

[ibxtoycat]

Runecrafting

 

Slayers harder at low combat

 

and then probably dungeoneering for 3rd place

[Dark_Yeng]

Runecrafting. Slow and boring!

[Zoov]

Definitely runecrafting.

 

Agility is hard, too.

 

So is firemaking.

[noble_aloof]

construction isnt expensive anymore. It's like 6 gp/xp with SC hammers.

people just don't think construction is a cool skill.

Construction is cheap like a Cooking Cape.

Gotta' no-life the 99 though, so why bother.

construction cheap?

lolwat

[MstrMonopoly]

Guys, firemaking is NOT hard. You can do it in like a week, not no-lifing at all, if you have a good Barbarian Assault team. It doesn't require much mental attention, just clicking. I found firemaking to be the easiest of my 99's, even cooking. The experience bar just went up so fast that I was almost surprised that I had 99. No pun intended, but I wasn't even CLOSE to "burned out" by 99 firemaking. I felt like I still had a good 4-5M experience left in me, and after I max out my melees, I think I'm going to get 15 or 16M firemaking just for the lulz.

 

Oh, by the way, Slayer is easily the hardest if you're starting out with level one everything.

[Wheels]

construction isnt expensive anymore. It's like 6 gp/xp with SC hammers.

people just don't think construction is a cool skill.

Construction is cheap like a Cooking Cape.

Gotta' no-life the 99 though, so why bother.

construction cheap?

lolwat

Compared to many other skills nowadays, Construction is incredibly cheap. Right now it's under 5 gp/xp. You just have to deal with getting SC hammers, but it's well worth it.

[xpx]

Oh, by the way, Slayer is easily the hardest if you're starting out with level one everything.

That is true if you consider there to be no combat skills in the game, as in, those skills can't be trained as they come hand-in-hand with slayer, IF you consider there to be combat skills in the game, and understand that training them takes time, too, slayer shouldn't be, and looking at how popular it is, isn't a particularly hard skill. Slayer is a hard 99 if you are 99 att/str/def/hp/ranged/magic and summoning, as the only efficient xp you are getting then is slayer xp, and the rate is the lowest in game. If you aren't maxed in those stats, slayer can be considered 200-300k an hour skill. As for training skills with no stats at all, it is whole new discussion and really hard to realistically simulate, so assuming 80-99 or 90-99 is much more relevant in the discussion(since there is no reason to max out skills without becoming atleast somewhat wellrounded).

[MstrMonopoly]

Oh, by the way, Slayer is easily the hardest if you're starting out with level one everything.

That is true if you consider there to be no combat skills in the game, as in, those skills can't be trained as they come hand-in-hand with slayer, IF you consider there to be combat skills in the game, and understand that training them takes time, too, slayer shouldn't be, and looking at how popular it is, isn't a particularly hard skill. Slayer is a hard 99 if you are 99 att/str/def/hp/ranged/magic and summoning, as the only efficient xp you are getting then is slayer xp, and the rate is the lowest in game. If you aren't maxed in those stats, slayer can be considered 200-300k an hour skill. As for training skills with no stats at all, it is whole new discussion and really hard to realistically simulate, so assuming 80-99 or 90-99 is much more relevant in the discussion(since there is no reason to max out skills without becoming atleast somewhat wellrounded).

 

I'd tend to agree. I mean, training Slayer even from Turael assignments is incredibly futile with Level 1 Attack, Strength, and Defense with no other skills or money.

 

That being said, I'm going to have an awfully hard time training slayer after I've maxed Strength, Defence, and Ranged. Strength and Defence both have about 6.5M XP left, that's 13M total of xp and about 4.25M more slayer XP. After that, it's less than 2M for Ranged. There's still another 1M experience or so left to go... ugh. At least cannon will help mitigate some of that, but boss hunting will give all that and more back. I may be stuck at 97 or 98 Slayer for a long time.

[Sir_Kurity]

construction isnt expensive anymore. It's like 6 gp/xp with SC hammers.

people just don't think construction is a cool skill.

Construction is cheap like a Cooking Cape.

Gotta' no-life the 99 though, so why bother.

construction cheap?

lolwat

Compared to many other skills nowadays, Construction is incredibly cheap. Right now it's under 5 gp/xp. You just have to deal with getting SC hammers, but it's well worth it.

 

Getting over 200 SC hammers as well as 50 mill seems pretty darn hard to me.

[Aruschpler12]

Wouldn't Dung be harder than Slayer, with everything starting at 1? You can cannon slayer at least.

[Youmu]

Wouldn't Dung be harder than Slayer, with everything starting at 1? You can cannon slayer at least.

When you are low leveled, monsters are very, very easy, so probably not by a large margin.

 

Well if a level 3 manages to reach to the point where he meets boss monsters like Bal'Lak the Pummeller, then we have a problem.

[SirIzenhime]

I tried making a new account and going strait to dungeoneering to see what it was like.

 

I ran out of hiem crabs (the ONLY food you get) in the first room. The monsters are only level 1-2, but when there's 3-4 of them on you, and you have level 1 in all your combats, you aren't going to get very far.

[Greg295]

99 slay is by far the hardest IMO. Would have put rc but I have a friend irl who plays rs and 100% botted 99 rc in 3 months of 24/7 nat macros. If bots and macros didn't exist though, rc hands down.

[jsboutin2]

Dungeoneering is very recent, but should setle in the 10 or so rarest capes in the game, say, 2-3 years from now.

 

Agility is very boring. Very, very boring.

 

Runecrafting is very, very long.

 

Slayer is pretty much giving up a bit of speed in other skills to raise another, no really really big deal.

 

Firemaking is probably the most boring, but one can buy magic logs for a pretty low price and get it done in 35 - 40 hours. Guess it calls for buying a TV serie you like on DVD.

 

Mining is now just like fishing, perhaps longer?

 

Herblore and prayer are very easy skills, but gaining the money can be a pretty hard task. Where looking at 280-300M (?) for herby, which is quite a while for most of us.

 

Constuction is either half of prayer or a huge lot of SC. Depends.

[3hitm4g3u]

I'd say runecrafting. Dungeoneering is pretty fast xp and can actually be fun.

[Bows]

I'd say runecrafting. Dungeoneering is pretty fast xp and can actually be fun.

 

Dungeoneering seems quite repetitive to me. :mellow:

[Knitewulf]

No skill is really "hard" to get. If we were to go by difficulty to get. Definitely the quest cape even though its not a skill the quests are hard. Mournings End part 2 and Nomad's Requiem without using quest guides? No thanks.

 

If I was to try and name one hard skill to get it would be dungeoneering though probably. Runecrafting is just repetitive. Dungeoneering is too, but the bosses are actually hard if you don't know what your doing.