Additional runecrafting thoughts, from Drawrof

Regular reader and commenter Drawrof / Drawrof1 has a few things to add about my initial Basic Runecrafting Guide post. Check it out!

Drawrof1 writes:

"Firstly, you must decided if you are in the rune crafting business for making money or facilitating your mage advancement.

If it is about money, stick to mining ess. You can get 20 to 30 gp per ess, with the higher end associated with 1K plus inventories. (Rune Crafters dont want to waste their time with small orders) Making money in the F2P worlds from rune crafting is tough at best. Firstly, the elemental rune, air, water, earth and fire are cheap. This is mostly due to the fact that staffs replace their role. However, the most common of these rune is the Air. Most spell requires an air rune. Secondly, Mind Runes are required for the "strike" spell and are good for early advancement of magic. However, the demand for this product is quickly deminished when the mage advances to the "Bolt/Chaos" and "Blast/Death" which can make a rune crafter good money. However a f2p rune crafter does not have the luxury to craft either chaos or death runes. At the end of the day, you can mine ess and sell it for 20 gp. Or you can mine ess, then run to an altar, make a rune and sell it for 20 gp. So unless you are planning on becoming a member, do not rune craft for money making, just mine ess.

Rune Crafting for Mage advancement ,on the other hand, for the f2p world is beneficial. Even if the air rune are only 20 to 40 gp that mean a 1000 airs will cost some 20,000 to 40,000 gp. This is pricey stuff to advance a level. Unlike advancement of skills such as mining, raising mage cost more than what you gain at first. Making money as a mage occurs at level 54 with High Alchemy. It take alot of spells, ie rune to reach that lofty goal.

So mine your own ess (Several K's), make your own air and mind runes (try to maximize efficiency by making airs when you can make 2x's then switch when mind are 2x's etc), and buy a fire staff. Then get busy killing stuff that drops runes, (dark wizards south of Varrock are a nice start)

Drawrof1"

As always, thanks for sharing the excellent info!

PS, Drawrof1: Wow, congrats on the Zammy plate from that treasure trail!! Nice reward for the dangers you had to face, for sure!!

PS: Others who want to read what I'm talking about, check out the comments on this post about PKing.