"You're in the Grand Exchange, and standing out away from the crowd is a player with a Skillcape of (). You think to yourself, 'Wow. Nice.'"

What skillcape makes you do that?

I did remove Fletching, Strength, Cooking, and Firemaking. It is solely my opinion that these are skills that are commonly raised or raised purely for a Cape or Trim.
I mean no insult to Fletchers, Chefs, Arsons, and steroid-users "body builders" If you wish to say that you think one of those four are the most respected, please do so, but unfortunately I only have 20 Poll Spaces.

Skills are listed in order of commonality (literally, number of people who have earned the 99), the most common on top, the least common on the bottom. I know Firemaking isn't in the top 4, but I chose it to be removed over attack, again it's only my opinion that it's less-respected.

Summoning and Runecrafting

Both very respectable.

One that takes either a long time to get or a lot of money to get. (Smithing, Prayer, Summoning, or Construction).

I respect all skill capes equally, whether they be Cooking or Runecrafting.

Smithing and Mining, though for me it depends on how the person got their 99 for whether or not I will respect it.

Isn't that a bit biased? Lol.

First ones that come to mind is hitpoints and woodcutting. One of few skills I can think of at the moment that has to be earned the old-fashioned way i.e. it can't be "bought".

slayer,rc,sum,range

A 99 is a 99, and 99's take determination and the will to get it, even if it's just cooking or firemaking.

I love Strength and, in my most humble opinion, think that it's the best skill in all of RuneScape. So... Strength.

Mining, it's the cape I aspire to. However, I do think things will change with this new update

Slayer, Farming, Herblore, Runecrafting and Agility. Some 99's are harder to get than others, it's true and everyone knows it. Capes like Cooking, Fletching and Firemaking are so common now that getting one is not even an achievement anymore.

magic cape is so sexy

I respect farming and construction more cuz it takes an amazing amount of patience to get both.

Herblore cape now

I think the prices of herbs will go up significantly because of everyone trying to train at once - will make it harder to buy/afford herbs anymore.

Mining cape, because of the immense amount of mind dulling training you have to go through.

Herblore is a close second though

Mining and woodcutting, the hardest skills you can't buy.

Construction is one of the fastest skills in game, if you have the money.

Personally, I respect fishing, despite its exp/h speeds.

Farming, i hate farming the most and wonder how ppl manage to train it.

Mining. Can get very boring.

WTF is quests? HArdest skill cape to get, maintain and best emote .
Yes it may not take as long as others, but even following a quest guide is harder htan clicking an anvil a gajillion times

cooking ofc

You've got to be kidding me. I think you got 99 defense for the cape, take it off strength is more useful than smithing which makes it more desirable. The fact that you took those off shows that you alone care for capes more than the actual skill. There were more people with 99 strength than other 99s before capes. And it's not that much harder to level than defense or attack.

Why would you get 99 rc when 91 is the main thing everybody wants. Why would you get 99 slayer when the last monster is 90. Why would you get thieving at all? To make like 50k an hour pickpocketing knights? Why would you get herblore when there's nothing new at 99?

For the cape of course

I respect Construction, Crafting and Runecrafting the most. They take time, money and patience.

So what if you were dirt poor, got 80m from a drop and got con/craft? You must have really worked hard for that cash. And then con/craft hardly take any more patience than cooking.

Oh yeah. Don't support people who are getting 99s you call stupid. It just makes you a tool.

In terms of dedication, untrimmed slayer and summoning.

I ticked all of them except Prayer, Herblore, Smithing, Crafting and Construction.

or perhaps that u like the skill or want cash in the case of rc/slayer
but yeh most peopel train the skill because of cape


erm untrimmed slayer isnt hard anymore because someone already did the hard work and figured it out for u same with solo corp, the minute somone posted vid with brew/restore count everyone could do it

as with untrimmed summoning this isnt all that hard 2 do either just keep switching skills once u get 2 98 and use cannon whenever possible

I put mining, but their's an incredible amount of bias for whoever voted some of these. ;D

Slayer, Summoning, Construction. All are very hard to get.

Slayer just because you will have maxed combat by the end of it and it takes an amazing amount of dedication. Or mining just because of how slow and boring it is.

I'd have to say Runecrafting, Mining or Hit Points. They are very hard to get in f2p.

~Markbalex

heyy! why isnt quest on that D:
i have a quest cape and i love it
from that list i would pick slayer.. my fav skill and fav cape (:

So what if someone hacked an account and got up a level to 99.... Stop being so cynical buddy.

Quest Cape but that's not there, so herblore.

Then you didn't work for it? Somebody else did.

hes trying to say the chances of finding 80m on the ground are remote, so yes stop being cynical. Any cape except quest can be botted if you look at it in terms of easyness

Find me a bot for slayer and you win a prize.

Combat bots exist, And it was possible for some to bot in soul wars to get 99 slayer.

slayer cape, its basically one of the hardest capes to get.

its also not a buyable cape. everybody with a big pocket of money can train prayer, or construction.
same goes with runecrafting, it takes alot of work to get and theres no shortcuts to the cape.

Agility, Slayer, Runecrafting and Mining. They're all pretty dang tough, but at least slayer is vaguely entertaining

I think woodcutting is a very underrated cape. It's completely not buyable, the only thing that could possibly be bought is a dragon axe, which is only 2 mill, and not even necessary to train.
It seems to be not respected because so many people have it, but it's incredibly hard and long to get it.

I have to say, slayer is the hardest cape to achieve. I also love that having a slayer cape is kind of an indication that you probably have other 99's too (hitpoints, attack, strength, def). I know it's not a positive but most of the time...

Construction has more votes than Herblore?!?!
Construction isn't even expensive anymore.

I'd say Herblore, Summoning, Runecraft and Slayer. Mining is easy now with LRC.

Maybe they think building doors repeatedly is harder than making 100k potions.

I personally forgot what I voted for since I did it a while ago and didn't post. I would vote for Runecrafting though.

Runecraft, if anyone can get that then kudos to you.

Hitpoints.
It's your pixel's life.

I also like the colors and emote.

I respect the herblore cape the most, espeically the way Chikoritapro did it (not buying a single herb/second, collecting it him/her self <-- in this case it was her)

Mining, agility, and slayer on an equal level, Agility and Mining are mind-numbing to most and Slayer is just awesome.

Runecrafting takes like three months to 99. It's an amazing looking cape too. +1 to all who have it. Smithing also cause I !@#$%^& hate it. Can't stand it rawr.

do any have good defence stats as good as the obsidian cape?

All of them equally.

So someone with 99 Runecrafting is in the same boat as someone with 99 Fletching? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFF