Runeology

1. Starting rcing
2. How to get the ess
3. The right rune for you
4. The abyss
5. The ZMI Alter
6. Making Astral runes
7. The Baths
8. Rcing with summoning
9. Suggestions

1. Starting rcing

To start rcing simpley do the quest "Rune Mysteries." Once completed you will get your air tally and now you can start rcing!!

2. How to get the ess

To get the ess you can do one of two things, you can mine it, or you can buy it. To buy it simpley go onto the forums, go to world 2, or go to the grand exchange. There are two good place to mine ess, the best place that is closet to the bank is the magic guild. If you do not have 66 magic then you can mine your ess at Aubry's rune shop located in varrock. If you have 30 mining you can mine pure ess which is sold for around 150gp each! Regular ess is sold for around 35gp each.

3. The right rune for you

level 1-17: doesn't matter, this goes so fast. Do what you need to do to get done fast. Airs work, you don't have to do many. Regular ess the only one available.
level 17-44: fire runes. Start at castle wars, bank (fill with ess,) teleport to duel arena, run north to fire alter, craft, teleport back to castle wars. Repeat. Use regular ess, of course.
44-54: natures in the abyss. must use pure ess
54-91: laws via balloons. Start at cw, withdraw 1 normal log (have them stockpiled before you start), and draw your ess (bring a super energy (3) if your energy is below 50%). Run north to the balloon by castle wars, take it enterna. Run to law alter. Teleport back to castle wars.
91+: nats in the abyss

Forget all the other runes, they're a waste of time - the thing about using the balloons is
1) It is always the same amount of time. you don't have to wait because you keep failing a trip.
2) Never worry about reverants or abyssals attacking you. This also means less time wasted eating food to restore hitpoints.
3) It's faster than the abyss (by about 3-4 seconds a trip! which is a lot!)
4) You can keep your prayer running the entire time (stat-restore prayer restores energy, so I'm told)
5) You can't use a pickaxe or hatchet in the abyss because weapons aren't allowed on enterna. This only slows you down even more. avoid that with balloons.

4. The Abyss

The Abyss is a fast way to craft runes. To use the abyss go to the mage of Zamorak in Edgeville. He will ask you to preform a task and will ask you to meet him in the alter in the southeast part of varrock.
For more information on this see the runehq guide.
http://www.runehq.com/RHQMiniQuestsView.php?id=00742

To use the abyss take this path from edgeville


In this abyss you can kill the monsters and get pouches, pouches help you to craft more ess and get more runes. There are 4 pouches total.

The small pouch

can be used at level 1 and holds 3 ess

The medium pouch
can be used at level 25 and holds 6 ess

The large pouch

can be used at level 50 and hold 9 ess

The giant pouch
can be used at level 75 and hold 12 ess

If you pouch degrades you can talk you the dark mage in the center of the abyss and he will fix them for you.

The gear you use for the abyss varies but it is recommended that you use light weight gear. Things such as penace gloves, spotted and spottier capes, and boots of lightness help with this. Also note that the mithril pickaxe is the lightest pickaxe there is

This is the gear that I wear


It is also suggested that you are on anicent magics while rcing. This is because you can home teleport back to edgeville.

To get back to Edgeville you can either use glories (you should have atleast 28 so you don't have to keep recharging)

The abyssal monsters are also known to drop elemental talismans. These allow you to go to the air, earth, fire or water alter but you only need one tally.

*Note there is no astral rift in the abyss, you have to craft them at lunar isle*

5. The ZMI Alter

The ZMI alter is a great way to get fast exp. However getting to the alter is somewhat of a challenge. There is a bank there but you must pay runes to use it. The best way to craft runes here is to be on lunar magics. To access lunar magics you must do the quest Lunar Diplomacy. You must also have level 71 magic to use the spell. Once you are ready to craft you must talk to Baba Yaga in the chicken house north of the bank to use the spell. The spell then requires 2 astral runes, 1 law rune, and 6 earth runes to use. (it is suggested that you have an earth staff) Once you teleport go west to the alter and go down the ladder to the west of the alter.

Here is a map of the alter entrance


Here is a map of the alter


6. Making astral runes

The only way to make astral runes is at Lunar Isle. To get here you MUST do the quest Lunar Diplomacy. There is a bank in the city so you don't have to teleport.
Astral runes are only used for Lunar Spells. They are required in every single Lunar Spell except for home teleport.

Here is a map of the astral alter.


7. The Baths

If you've completed the quest "As a First Resort" you will have access to the baths in that city that can give you unlimited run for a certain amount of time. (for 65 agility its around 20 minutes). The best way to get to the city are through charter ships. *Note you will need 1.7k*
The suggested way to get to the baths the fastest in through charter ships, to do this first get to catherby. The best way to get to catherby is through Lunar Magics. Lunar magics has a teleport to catherby spell (level 87 magic or 84 with mind bomb). The spell requires 3 astrals runes, 3 law runes, and 10 water runes.





Once you've teled to Catherby, go south to the docks and then go east to the sailors and sail to "Oo'Glog." It will cost 1.7k to travel there, if you forgot money, simpley go to the bank and grab some. Once in the city go east to the middle bath also known as the salt water bath.



If you do not want to use charter ships or do not want to give up the anicent home port spell for rcing, there is another method. Using your dramen or lunar staff you can use the fairy rings from the quest "Fairytale part 2." Since you are already at edge, rune west to over the bridge and then south to the fairy ring. Tele to the code "AKS." If you forget fairy ring codes like I do I suggest putting them on your ignore list.

8. Rcing with summoning

There are a few ways you can runecraft with summoning. To effectively use this you need ateast 52 summoning.
1. Create terrobird pouches AND scrolls (gold charm, raw bird meat, 12 shards).
1a. Once ready to rc summon your terrobird and use the special move when low on energy to restore your run (the % stored is based on your agility level).
1b. Continue this process until you run out of summoning points, once you run out go recharge your summoning points on the mini obelisk conveniently located west of the bridge in edgeville.

This will keep you from having to use super energy potions to restore your energy.

2. Create Spirit Graahk pouches (requires 57 summoning and 1 blue charm, 1 Graahk fur, and 154 shards).
2b. Teleport to the Graahk hunting area.
2c. Take one of the following routes (I suggest the red line to the blue line because it is the fastest route). Some people who have a lot of lag many want to use the red line to the black line because you don't have to change to angle of the screen. The third option is the red to orange line. This is a hard one for me to judge because I have been rcing with people that have beaten me using this method and I have yet to figure out why. If you test it and figure out that it is a faster method than you should not listen to me and use that line.

2d. When you are out of summoning points there is another summoning obelisk where you can recharge your points, once again conveniently located right next to the nature alter.


9. Suggestions

-Always wear light equipment while rcing so you can run more
-Use super energies while rcing so you are always running
-Dont bring anything that is not required for you to make your runes and adds weight
-Use pouches while mining ess as you can get more pure ess this way
-They're are no more abyss pkers so you do not need a teleport, relevants are not really a threat.


Post here with questions or comments.

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Guide written by cubs17fan17 with a few tips from mastermule52, Mierda142, A_C_D_C55, and The_Psyhco