Cape (emote)

Cape
Release date	18 October 2006 (Update)
Members	Yes
Sound	Yes
Enhancer	No
Duration	Varies seconds
Requirements	Wearing a Cape of Accomplishment, Distinction, or Elven clan cape once (except milestone capes); the emote icon will show as unlocked thereafter
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A cape (formerly skillcape') emote can be performed when the player is wearing a Cape of Accomplishment or Cape of Distinction, with the exception of the milestone capes. The emote is related to the skill of the cape the player is wearing. For example, the Defence cape skillcape emote shows a player defending themselves from different threats.

Skillcapes will raise the level of the skill temporarily to 100 and will give the bonus to the skill. For example, with the Strength cape, you can hit higher. Players can raise a skill level by taking off and putting on the cape or going into the Worn equipment interface and clicking "Boost".

Each cape of accomplishment and distinction has a different emote. It does not matter if the cape is trimmed or not; the emote is always the same. The only exception to this is the completionist cape, which has a slightly different emote when trimmed. This emote can be performed on free-to-play worlds, as long as an appropriate cape has already been equipped before leaving a members-only world.

As of 28 October 2008, performing the cape emote also plays a short sound effect which fits with the actions of the emote. For example, when activating the Prayer cape emote, one can hear the wings of the Prayer cape flapping. Unlike the emotes, however, the sounds can only be heard by the person performing the emote.

The Dungeoneering cape has three different emotes—one with Magic armour, one with Melee armour, and one with Ranged armour.

On 19 March 2010, a player-submitted poll asked the community what their favourite skillcape emote was. The Prayer skillcape emote was chosen by a 20% majority (9,431 votes out of 46,932).[1] However, this was before the release of Dungeoneering and before skillcapes' emotes were changed.

On 25 May 2010, Jagex updated the skillcape emotes to look much smoother by "tweening" them and adding particle effects to them, as well as revamping several with a newer animation.

On 3 May 2011, with the Capes of Distinction update, four new capes with corresponding emotes were added: the veteran, classic, max, and completionist capes.

A cape for each clan in Prifddinas was released with the city on 22 September 2014, along with one made by combining all of the individual clan capes. The new capes were the Amlodd, Cadarn, Crwys, Hefin, Iorwerth, Ithell, Meilyr, Trahaearn, and Master clan capes (which can perform all eight emotes).

List of emotes

Cape	Emote	Cape seller	Performing time
Agility cape		Cap'n Izzy No-Beard in Brimhaven	00:03.92
Attack cape		Ajjat, in the Warriors' Guild	00:03.25
Constitution cape		Surgeon General Tafani in the Duel Arena	00:04.31
Construction cape		Estate Agent in various cities	00:06.69
Cooking cape		Head Chef in the Cooking Guild	00:14.04
Crafting cape		Master Crafter in the Crafting Guild	00:07.73
Defence cape		Harlan (melee instuctor) in Lumbridge	00:05.64
Divination cape		Orla Fairweather, west of the Lumbridge Crater, south of the jail	00:06:57
Dungeoneering cape (Melee)		Thok, south of Daemonheim	00:03.74
Dungeoneering cape (Magic)		Thok, south of Daemonheim	00:03.82
Dungeoneering cape (Ranged)		Thok, south of Daemonheim	00:04.05
Farming cape		Martin the Master Gardener in [[Draynor Village]	00:06.61
Firemaking cape		Ignatius Vulcan in Seers' Village	00:03.95
Fishing cape		Master fisher in the Fishing Guild	00:06.78
Fletching cape		Hickton in his shop south of Catherby	00:06.20
Herblore cape		Kaqemeex in the Taverley stone circle	00:08.55
Hunter cape		Hunting expert south of the Feldip Hills	00:06.09
Invention Cape		Doc, Invention guild	00:12.00
Magic cape		Robe Store Owner in the Wizards' Guild	00:02.87
Mining cape		Gadrin at ladder entrance of the Mining Guild	00:04.75
Prayer cape		Brother Jered in the Edgeville Monastery	00:05.87
Ranging cape		Armour Salesman in the Ranging Guild	00:04.69
Runecrafting cape		Larriar in Runecrafting Guild	00:06.89
Slayer cape		Kuradal at the entrance of Kuradal's Dungeon	00:02.92
Smithing cape		Thurgo on Thurgo's Peninsula	00:09.00
Strength cape		Sloane/Yadech Strongarm (After While Guthix Sleeps) in the Warriors' Guild	00:09.87
Summoning cape		Pikkupstix in Taverley	00:05.19
Thieving cape		Martin Thwait in the Rogues' Den	00:08.28
Woodcutting cape		Wilfred north of Falador	00:11.57
Quest point cape		Wise Old Man in Draynor Village	00:07.41

Cape	Emote	Cape seller	Performing time
Dungeoneering master cape		Thok, south of Daemonheim	00:06.01
Farming master cape		Martin the Master Gardener in Draynor Village
Herblore master cape		Kaqemeex in the Taverley stone circle
Invention master cape		Doc, in the Invention Guild
Slayer master cape		Kuradal, outside the entrance to Kuradal's Dungeon

Cape	Emote	Cape seller	Performing time
Classic cape		Iffie, knitting at Thessalia's Fine Clothes shop	00:04.00
Veteran cape		Hans, walking around Lumbridge Castle	00:06.90
Veteran cape (10 year)		Hans, walking around Lumbridge Castle	00:06.90
Veteran cape (15 year)		Hans, walking around Lumbridge Castle

Cape	Emote	Cape seller	Performing time
Clan Amlodd cape	Play media	Amlodd herald in the Amlodd district of Prifddinas	00:07.70
Clan Cadarn cape	Play media	Cadarn herald in the Cadarn district of Prifddinas	00:07.70
Clan Crwys cape	Play media	Crwys herald in the Crwys district of Prifddinas	00:07.70
Clan Hefin cape	Play media	Hefin herald in the Hefin district of Prifddinas	00:07.70
Clan Iorwerth cape	Play media	Iorwerth herald in the Iorwerth district of Prifddinas	00:07.70
Clan Ithell cape	Play media	Ithell herald in the Ithell district of Prifddinas	00:07.70
Clan Meilyr cape	Play media	Meilyr herald in the Meilyr district of Prifddinas	00:07.70
Clan Trahaearn cape	Play media	Trahaearn herald in the Trahaearn district of Prifddinas	00:07.70

Cape	Emote	Cape seller	Performing time
Max cape		Max, running around eastern Varrock	00:26.00
Completionist cape		Museum guard, guarding the cape at the Varrock Museum	00:11.25
Trimmed completionist cape		Museum guard, guarding the cape at the Varrock Museum	00:11.25

Update history

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• patch 3 July 2013 (Update):
  • The flowers on the farming skillcape emote no longer clip through the players face.

• patch 6 October 2010 (Update):
  • Stopped skillcape emote animations from continuing while teleporting.

• update 28 October 2008 (Update):
  • A large number of sound effects and changes to sound effects have been added, especially to capes and the skillcape emotes.

• update 18 October 2006 (Update):
  • Added to game.