120 skillcapes

[-Leaf-]

At this point it is a certainty that 120 skillcapes will be released.

 

Consequences of the cape:

 

High-level players now have an alternative goal they can go for if they never want to get Max or Completionist.

 

The stats of the cape will most likely be lower than a Max cape.

 

Standard 99 skillcapes will be devalued. 120 capes will probably be slightly less prestigious than the Max cape, depending on what skill the 120 is in. 120 is approximately the same amount of XP as 8 99s. This may result in elitist attitudes by 120 cape owners toward players with 99 in the corresponding skill, and may discourage newer players.

 

This opens up the possibility of Milestone capes above 99 in the future. There is a lot of controversy behind this idea, with the main argument being that it promotes excessive, unhealthy gameplay.

 

The community will become even more efficiency and XP focused rather than "fun" focused.

 

Production skills will become more expensive to train, since the richest players now have incentive to buy and use massive amounts of supplies. If you voted with the expectation that it would not affect you, you are very wrong.

 

 

Anyway, I thought this would be a good time to share concept videos of 120 skill emotes.

 

Note that with Jagex's current plans, the 120 capes will NOT have new emotes, and will instead share the same emotes as the 99 capes.

Edited March 28, 2014 by -Leaf-

[zooey]

I think that if they actually added more tiers to the game with those levels it'd be a good thing, but if not it seems silly in my opinion. Didn't they specifically state that they would never be extending any other skills to 120?

[-Leaf-]

There are no plans to release new content for levels above 99, other than the capes.

[Army of One]

I'd be happy if they released the capes. A new goal if 99 in a skill just isn't enough for your liking, and I'd personally set my sights on some if they were released.

[Fabio]

thats just a link to the rs forum mate and 99s forever

[Shooter585]

What is the point of level 120 skillcapes if they can only be used for one skill? I might have missed something, I didn't look at the post because I'm not logged onto the official forums.

 

On a side note, I hope they never go above 99 because that would be awful to train on freeplay -.-

[Sobend]

Don't really care as it does not affect me. Sort of like prestige. I don't see why anybody would be against something like this.

[Army of One]

Don't really care as it does not affect me. Sort of like prestige. I don't see why anybody would be against something like this.

Hurr jagexwillmakeskillsgoto120 durr

is the main complaint

[Sobend]

I don't really think that is an issue. If they were to do that they would set up another poll and it would be voted down hard.

[-Leaf-]

thats just a link to the rs forum mate and 99s forever

Oh sorry I put in the wrong link

 

http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/forums.ws?16,17,129,65309399

[tea pls]

This would add more long term incentive to the game and bring higher level players that quit back to the game. Definitely do it up.

[MrHurpieee]

I think they should add prestige, and change the cape in some way for the skills that people have prestiged, maybe a gold outline or something. Level 120 doesnt seem like a good idea to me. Just my thoughts.

 

EDIT: Or something like the gold stars on the bottom of a clan cape, to show that person has prestiged that skill X amount of times

Edited March 11, 2014 by MrHurpieee

[Sobend]

^Yeah, levels to 120 aren't in the plans.

[Josh]

I think the main complaints of those voting against it are 'wasted' development time and more unnecessary items that exist just for the sake of showing off.

[Shooter585]

I don't see why it would be 120 if they were going to make these capes. If anything there should be capes for 200M only, because after they release 120 capes they would inevitably release 200M capes.

[Army of One]

For those who are thinking about the dev time, they're reskinned capes. How long can it take?

For those who say it should be 200m capes.

Why not both?

I'm aimimg to get one or two of these (dunno if I ever will) which is why I voted yes.

[Josh]

No doubt it's a rather small job, but it's still using development time which would otherwise be used on a different project; everything has a cost.

[Poolerthem]

thats alot of exp = time

[tea pls]

 

Wow these are actually nice looking they should be quite desirable :P

 

source:

[Sobend]

What's going to be rarer: the comp cape or a 120 skillcape?

[-Leaf-]

What's going to be rarer: the comp cape or a 120 skillcape?

A comp cape (hell, even the Max cape) is significantly harder to achieve than even the slowest 120 capes, Divination and Agility.

 

 

Anyway, I thought this would be a good time to share concept videos of 120 skill emotes.

 

Note that with Jagex's current plans, the 120 capes will NOT have new emotes, and will instead share the same emotes as the 99 capes.

 

Added this to the first post.

[Army of One]

Those look awesome! I really do want to get my hands on some of those, but all in good time.

I remember those old 120 emote videos. Those were incredibly well done, both editing and presentation - I'd enjoy having those for our emotes, even if we don't get them straight away.

[tea pls]

I think it is definitely something they should add to the new capes, it will create a bit more 'prestige' at the 120 level :P

[Josh]

What's going to be rarer: the comp cape or a 120 skillcape?

 

My guess (you can check if you're that interested by siphoning through the hiscores) is that having a comp cape would be rarer than having a 120 cape, but having a specific 120 cape would be rarer than having a comp cape.

[tea pls]

Considering that Max cape would require a lot more time in spect because you need such a vast amount of overall xp across all skills. I think we will have to wait and see what the community sees is more desirable before we know what will be seen more often. Comp cape is already pretty common, but will people desire 120 skills? 104m xp in 1 skill is a lot but comparable to all 27 ~99 is much more xp.