Thursday, February 25, 2010

I need an easy skill for trim

When capes of accomplishment were released in October 2006, there was much rejoicing. Now proof could be shown when a person claimed to have 99 in a given skill or had completed all the game's quests.

The downside of these capes would be dumping certain skills into an "easy" category. "Easy" is relative to the player. Cooking may look easy, especially with the cook-x option, but those who claim it's "easy" typically don't have the perseverance to roast 10k lobsters every day for two weeks. Time isn't taken into consideration for these "easy" skills. They want a fast cape to show off and an even faster one to trim it.

The opposite end of that spectrum is the "respectable" cape. Capes such as runecrafting, slayer, mining, herblore and prayer are termed "respectable", though keep in mind they are also skills which require constant attention, a considerable amount of spendable cash or both. 

Once a skill has reached 99 and a cape claimed, many players continue to train the skill despite it providing no benefit to them. Usually, they'll wear the cape while training said skill (I do it myself) such as the woodcutting cape while woodcutting or fishing cape while fishing. It brings out the question of why train a skill you've already maxed. Some skills work in harmony with others, especially if you're the type of player to gather your own resources, such as woodcutting/fletching/firemaking or fishing/cooking and by training in one skill, you're helping train another. A few people see this as stealing experience or resources, claiming you should stop training [insert skill name] now that you have 99 in it. It can be difficult to believe that players enjoy a skill so much that they just keep training it.

The quest cape is a category of its own. I state it to be the hardest cape to wear because you have to constantly train and quest to continue your right to wear it. Once a person gets the quest cape for the first time, they are happy to be done with questing for the moment, yet they can be quite frustrated at losing the cape within a few days due to a new quest appearing. When that happens, you can only hope the quest will be simple to follow and complete.

I see capes of accomplishment as just that - an accomplishment. These capes are a little reward for striving through a skill and finishing it. I love each of my skill capes and wear them as a show of the hard work I've done throughout my RuneScape "career".

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