Least/Most? Respected Cape?

Hells Sponge · **Posted:** September 28th, 2008, 3:09 pm

Any 99 is a 99 and is worthy of praise, but some are less admirable than others. To me, these include the Cooking, Fletching, and to an extent Firemaking. These skills are way to easy to buy, meaning you don't have to work that hard to obtain them; patience and lots of clicking is all you need. Also, there are skills that are near impossible to get 99 on.

Cooking is way too easy nowadays because of the Cook-X option. If Skill Capes existed back in RSC, then a Cooking Cape would be a rarer sight, and very honorable, in my opinion.

Fletching, in which prices have been lowered due to autoers, is now easier than ever to buy. Just click a few times and your guy (or gal) fletches away worry free, while you go about doing whatever else. Way too easy, in my opinion.

Firemaking; it may have a cool emote, but it's easy to buy as well. It takes a bit more, because you can't really do much multi-tasking whilst firemaking. It requires concentration to keep a steady experience-flow. But still, much too easy to buy.

What about the other Capes? Everyone nowadays is going for these 3 capes mainly. I see them way too often. Their emote has lost it's glamour. Wow, you can fletch a bow in 5 seconds flat.. So can thousands of other people. Oh, you can flip a pie? Yep, so can thousands of others.

I'd like to see more originality from people nowadays in obtaining a 99 in a skill. Yea, it's still cool to have a 99 in anything, but think of something else besides these I've mentioned. How often do you see a "99 Herblore" thread, or even a "99 Runecrafting" thread? Not often at all.

So my question is: What do you think the least admirable Skill Cape would be? Do you think any of them are overrated? How about the most respected? Share, elaborate, flame, praise. Whatever.

Note: I am not disrespecting skill capes, I dont have any, so any cape is better than I could do

Adbot · **Posted:** September 28th, 2008, 3:09 pm

Veggie Eater · **Posted:** September 28th, 2008, 4:16 pm

I think it all depends on how you go about getting the 99.

If you 'buy the lvl' then it's not going to be as respectable.

However, The Xbox Legacy has been going for 99 fletching for awhile now, and he's wcing all of his magic logs to use for fletching.

Now that takes a lot of time, patience, and work so I believe that's really respectable.

So yeah, I guess it just depends on if you 'buy the lvl' or not.

ryan1 · **Posted:** September 28th, 2008, 4:50 pm

Cooking, fletching, and the three melee stats are the least imo.

Cooking and fletching for the obvious reasons other people will state, and melee because so many people just sit in Pest Control for a month or two and get 99 in all three. The melee stats would be much more respectable if everyone got them the old fashioned way.

Hells Sponge · **Posted:** September 28th, 2008, 4:52 pm

I think that thats a valid point, but if someone say legacy without talking to him for a while, they would see "just another fletching cape"

I think its a good accomplishment for cutting your own logs

The Xbox Legacy · **Posted:** September 28th, 2008, 5:25 pm

Hells Sponge wrote:

I think that thats a valid point, but if someone say legacy without talking to him for a while, they would see "just another fletching cape"

I think its a good accomplishment for cutting your own logs

Veggie Eater wrote:

However, The Xbox Legacy has been going for 99 fletching for awhile now, and he's wcing all of his magic logs to use for fletching.

Now that takes a lot of time, patience, and work so I believe that's really respectable.

Thank you, I've said it before too. To me it just depends how much work you put into the cape ... most skills can be half bought (exclude fishing/mining/woodcutting) but that means they can be brought up from materials you collect too. Granted I might spend an eternity achieving 99 in the skill, but I know it's worth it. Other capes I have .. cooking came from all the shark obtained for 99 fishing, firemaking came from the logs I got from 99 wc.

Too bad everyone'll just see it as a nooby cape ... oh well, I know what I did to get it, that's all that matters to me.

Davo · **Posted:** September 28th, 2008, 5:32 pm

I guess I would have to say Cook, Fletch, and Thieving. My friend started thieving less than a month ago from about 60 and is already at 93 or something all from Pyramid Plunder. That's just a little too easy imo. Just because a skill is bought doesn't mean its not respectable. It's the fact that everyone has it. Construction can be bought but its a lot more expensive and a lot less people have it hence why its respected a lot more. I'm currently going for 91 rc and im debating on whether I should pursue 99 later down the road...

Adbot · **Posted:** September 28th, 2008, 5:32 pm

Hells Sponge · **Posted:** September 28th, 2008, 5:33 pm

well the BNB community will know it, and congratulate you

Big Karliny · **Posted:** September 29th, 2008, 8:24 am

for me it's hp and ranged idk probs coz i have both but yeah i like them most and so i think they are most respectable for me.

Warren · **Posted:** September 29th, 2008, 4:30 pm

Cooking
Fletching
Prayer
Strength
Attack
Firemaking
Woodcutting
Fishing
~Defence/HP

Those are the capes I'm most likely to think less of, mainly because of how many people have them. I really don't care how the 99 was obtained, my first impression will most likely be you're a noob who thinks you're great if you have an untrimmed fletching, until you prove me wrong (not like say "Hey I got this cape by ___" to everyone you meet, just general personality). :$ It's a really horrible way to judge people, but I guess it just comes from the majority who wear them being noobs.

Capes I like to see, though:
Runecrafting
Construction
Smithing
Herblore
Crafting
Mining

To narrow it down to one least and one most, it would be strength as the least respectable, and construction for the most respectable for me. Although construction is one of those skills that gold buyers like >_<.

Giveyoupain · **Posted:** September 29th, 2008, 4:34 pm

I would say that the most respected would be farming omg that would take a while to get ha ha, or is it only slow at a lower lvl. im not really sure?

crwire · **Posted:** September 29th, 2008, 4:51 pm

Giveyoupain wrote:

I would say that the most respected would be farming omg that would take a while to get ha ha, or is it only slow at a lower lvl. im not really sure?

Although it takes a long time, you only need to spend 15-30 minutes a day to get up to over 100k exp a run with the higher level trees

Most respectable cape.... I don't know. They are all respectable in their own way :mrgreen:

Hells Sponge wrote:

I'd like to see more originality from people nowadays in obtaining a 99 in a skill.

You can count on me in the future for that

lupike123 · **Posted:** September 29th, 2008, 6:19 pm

nice points =D>

i agree i dont think that cooking and fletching are really what u culd call "skills". i say this because they are way to easy to just "buy" your way to the 99 and sometimes even get your money + more than u lost! :roll:

blethorskite · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 2:30 pm

Least respected for me are Fletching (one I have myself) and cooking.

I think slayer is a worthy cape. It takes a lot of effort to get one. Doesn't look much though. And for the moment Summoning is one I think is worth a bit of respect.

Tim · **Posted:** October 4th, 2008, 3:36 pm

To me, Cooking and Fletching are the ones that are ones to me that are the least respected Capes and Construction, Runecrafting, Slayer, Prayer, Summoning, Farming, Agility and Herblore are the most respected to me.

EDIT=Post number 300 which means that I am now a Runite member!!!!

rs josec78 · **Posted:** October 4th, 2008, 3:39 pm

fletching and cooking are the least respected

prayer runecrafting construction summon farming slayer i respect the most