Soul Altar/Strategies

Loadout
The ideal setup for making soul runes utilises the infinity ethereal outfit, the Wilderness sword, the set reward from Sliske's Endgame, and a demonic skull. The ethereal outfit is used for its multiple set benefits; in addition to weight reduction, the head acts as a wicked hood, the chest stores up to 12 pure essence, pouches have a 50% chance of not degrading (increased to 75% with Sliske's set), and bonus XP will be awarded if the player owns the master runecrafter robes, even if the set is in the bank or stored in a player-owned house. The Wilderness sword is used to provide a teleport to Edgeville, and may be placed on the action bar; this allows players to quickly travel to the Abyss, as well providing a one-key teleport should one see a PKer. The set reward from Sliske's Endgame will grant the player additional experience in Runecrafting every five minutes by siphoning the manifested knowledge that appears. Portable fairy rings can be stored in the pocket slot in place of the demonic skull if using Fairy rings to return to the Soul Altar. The inventory should contain filled pouches, and the remaining inventory slots as well as the inventory of your beast of burden should be filled with pure essence.

Strategy
If using the setup above, along with the small through massive pouches and an abyssal titan familiar, players can bring a total of 108 pure essence with them per trip, allowing them to deposit 100 essence in the charger and convert them to 25 charges. This allows the player to get into the rhythm of using the abyss every fourth run, although this requires some setup. First, complete a single run of 100 essence, adding the first 25 charges to the altar. From there, the new cycle begins; three runs through wicked hood teleports or fairy rings, and then the fourth through the abyss, crafting the soul runes before depositing the 100 essence. On the fourth run, where the runes are crafted, use the Wilderness sword to teleport to Edgeville and load a second preset, this time replacing the portable fairy rings with the demonic skull, being sure to leave one open slot for the soul runes. One slot should be left open in this preset, to make room for the soul runes themselves. Optionally, players may choose to replace two of the essence slots in the inventory with urns, or three if using the urns alongside an urn enhancer. A melee off-hand switch can also be used, augmented with the Mobile perk to allow for the use of Surge, Barge and Bladed Dive to be used when entering the Soul Altar via the Abyss to reduce time taken.

Presets
Bank presets can be used to reduce time spent banking and preparing for a trip. With an action bar properly set up, it's possible to completely fill all every Runecrafting pouch as well as the infinity body, as well as the inventory of both you and your familiar in as little as 2 seconds. The familiar inventory should also be included in the preset. As mentioned before, a second preset for the Abyss run should be stored as bank preset 2, with the pocket slot containing a demonic skull, and inventory containing urns as desired. The cape is optional, although the max cape is recommended for its teleport option.

Action bar
To optimise the presets, bind your action bar from left to right with your pouches, starting with the small pouch, followed by the medium pouch, then the infinity body. The withdraw beast of burden should be selected as the summoning icon left click option, which should be placed in slot four on the bar.. These should be bound with either 1 2 3 4 or q w e r on your action bar. The withdraw beast of burden option allows you to skip the delay of opening the bank window a third time. The large pouch and giant pouch should be in the fifth and sixth slot on the bar, followed by the Wilderness sword.

The run
When you're ready to being your runs, first complete a one-off fill up of the first 25 charges. From here, start counting runs; every fourth run, use the wilderness sword to teleport to Edgeville, use the second preset, run through the Abyss, and craft the soul runes before filling up the charger as normal. When banking, click on the banker, then right click the massive pouch and select fill while still in the bank screen. Then, withdraw the appropriate preset, and then fill up your pouches as discussed before, first filling the small and medium pouch, followed the body. Remove the essence from the beast of burden and fill the large and giant pouches, and then click on the banker again and remove the preset once again, completing the filling of your inventory and pouches.

Bonus experience is applicable on the charge converting step, but ignores the 3.5x multiplier of the Demonic Skull.