What if skills maxed at 120?

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** April 18th, 2010, 3:01 am

dragonkin892 wrote:

I think it'd be pretty awesome to raise the level cap from 99 to 120. Although if it was for all skills then it'd be a lil boring..especially in skills like Runecrafting and Mining. And 120 Dungeoneering will take someone ages to achieve.

Keep in mind they have another 20 levels to work with and can add things above 99 that could make training faster or easier.

Adbot · **Posted:** April 18th, 2010, 3:01 am

Alex_SE · **Posted:** April 18th, 2010, 9:12 am

Mod Emilee wrote:

Q: "Will you be raising all skill caps to level 120? "

A: There are no plans to change any of the other skills at this time.

-in Recent update FAQ

I wouldn't mind too much if they raised the cap

Directxfire · Retired Informer Writer - 9/29/10

Warning: Incoming Wall of Text...

I have a few points to make against raising the cap. First of all, high leveled monsters (such as bosses) hits/hp would have to be adjusted to account for players with higher skills. I'm sure that currently, there's a science to determining the difficulty of monsters in which the potential hits of players are taken into consideration. Change the level cap, and someone with combat skills maxed at 120 will have considerably less trouble with tough encounters than those without. You would either have to adjust the difficulty of existing monsters, or introduce an entirely new wave of content specifically geared towards even higher leveled players. Additionally, as someone who's not at all combat focused, I think there's already a large enough gap between those players who focus on combat skills, and those who prefer resource skills. A large percentage of the player base never even experiences God Wars, the KQ, Jad, or any other elite boss of that kind. Continuing to add more content for even higher levels seems a little counterintuitive. I think the cap's fine where it is and Jagex should continue developing high level content as they are.

The Killer · **Posted:** April 19th, 2010, 6:26 am

Directxfire wrote:

You would either have to adjust the difficulty of existing monsters, or introduce an entirely new wave of content specifically geared towards even higher leveled players..

i'm fine with this.

it's unlikely that they'll increase the difficulty of monsters, since, like you said, there are many players who hasn't had a chance to kill them yet. so it makes the latter more likely to happen if caps increased to 120, and obviously, harder monsters/bosses would mean new, higher level equipment that will entice high levels to continue playing instead of quitting from boredom.

besides, i don't like the fact that the best gear is something that level 80 shark botters and green dragon botters can buy and wear.

Tank Of H3ll · **Posted:** April 19th, 2010, 8:43 pm

I think it would be better than what is happening now (people getting all 99s relatively easily then getting 200m in the easy skills), as it would force players who want to max to train all skills fairly equally, and I don't think we would see any maxed total levels for quite a while. If Jagex is raising the cap for 1 skill, they need to do it for all of them.

jsbrules2 · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2010, 12:29 pm

The Killer wrote:

you know the speculation going around that jagex might increase level cap from 99 to 120, so here's something to talk about.

do you want the level cap to increase?

here's my thoughts.

since every man and his dog right now are maxed melee (99 att str def hp) it would make sense that the increase to 120 will be a good move.

not only will the max combat increase beyond 138, there'll also be more incentive for us to continue training melee after maxing, currently the only incentive around is slayer.

besides, i have over 30m hp exp, and i think since i've already earned "double lvl 99 exp" i certainly want to have it make a bigger difference than someone who has 13m exp.

agreed.... well said lol.

Adbot · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2010, 12:29 pm

koil163 · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2010, 1:47 pm

i think gercharts and zezima ect would be ***** because they would have to race and no life

rs josec78 · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2010, 4:34 pm

combat is already op as it is. 120 strength/ranged would be crazy. would be nice for skills though.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Why not just increase max xp to 1 billion? That's give no-lifers and skillers something to do.

Then increase max level to 120 or something. 120 is such an arbitrary number, though. It's like asking someone to pick a number from 1-100. Why 120? I don't see great significance in that. Like, what's the difference between 120, or 110, or 100, or 150? Just more levels imo.

Emper0r95 · **Posted:** April 24th, 2010, 1:23 am

Why not just increase max xp to 1 billion? That's give no-lifers and skillers something to do.

Then increase max level to 120 or something. 120 is such an arbitrary number, though. It's like asking someone to pick a number from 1-100. Why 120? I don't see great significance in that. Like, what's the difference between 120, or 110, or 100, or 150? Just more levels imo.

well said, thats my opinion too

Bloody Scene · **Posted:** April 24th, 2010, 10:22 am

Simply think here, if there's a guy with 120 str, overloads, etc etc in pvp he could pretty much kill anyone his level instantly. Aside from the pvp aspect it would be a decent addition it would mess up the entire hi-scores though.

The Killer · **Posted:** April 24th, 2010, 1:17 pm

Bloody Scene wrote:

Simply think here, if there's a guy with 120 str, overloads, etc etc in pvp he could pretty much kill anyone his level instantly.

you don't even know how pvp works.

Bloody Scene · **Posted:** April 24th, 2010, 2:31 pm

The Killer wrote:

you don't even know how pvp works.

I know that at 99 str someone can hit about a 75 with an ags spec in pvp.l I know at 120 str you could be able to hit about 85 with the best kinds of armor, potions, and prayer.. and dragon claws could probably spec 70s with ease.. So yeah even if your opponent had 120 hit points they could be killed quick. Especailly if they were using the common rune, with a neitz. So yeah.. please don't go around saying I know nothing
without anything to defend your own position.
By the way this is simply a scenario not saying everyone pks in such gear or uses such potions.

rs josec78 · **Posted:** April 24th, 2010, 2:57 pm

Bloody Scene wrote:

The Killer wrote:

you don't even know how pvp works.

I know that at 99 str someone can hit about a 75 with an ags spec in pvp.l I know at 120 str you could be able to hit about 85 with the best kinds of armor, potions, and prayer.. and dragon claws could probably spec 70s with ease.. So yeah even if your opponent had 120 hit points they could be killed quick. Especailly if they were using the common rune, with a neitz. So yeah.. please don't go around saying I know nothing
without anything to defend your own position.
By the way this is simply a scenario not saying everyone pks in such gear or uses such potions.

overloads/extremes aren't allowed in pvp.

Smallfib · **Posted:** April 26th, 2010, 4:34 pm

I guess it MIGHT be a smart update, to get people coming back.
But it might make a lot of newbies angry. We'll have a lot farther to go :evil: