Alchemy spells/Guide

See Also: Money making guide

The Alchemy Guide provides players with help on high and low alchemy spells and which items are profitable or good for experience. Please remember that the RuneScape economy is always changing, which means some information in this article may be slightly inaccurate or outdated.

Profit scale
Note: The profit scale reflects the high level alchemy spell only. Low level alchemy is generally not used for turning profit.''

***** A downright horrible choice to alchemy, simply because the item's value/rarity is worth far more than the coins returned from casting HLA.

The cost of the item and nature runes needed to alch far surpass that of the alching price, meaning players makes a negative amount of money.

The cost of the raw materials to create the item or the item itself plus the nature runes needed to alch slightly surpass that of the alch price, thus making these item unprofitable.

These items are good for gaining Magic experience as the final loss from the item is very close to zero.

Alching these items gives the player a modesty low loss.

A moderately low loss can be made from these items, however most of these take much time or money to gather in the first place.

Alchemy values
What follows is a listing of items and their low/high alchemy values; i.e. how many coins each item yields for its respective spell.

Note that the current market price of Nature runes is: .

Also note that objects in italics are members' only.


 * {| class="wikitable"

! Item !! Low Level Alchemy !! High Level Alchemy !! HLA profit scale !! GE price
 * Adamant boots || 768 || 1,152 || ||
 * Adamant chainbody || 1,920 || 2,880 || ||
 * Adamant longsword || 1,280 || 1,920 || ||
 * Adamant platebody || 5,120 || 9,984 || ||
 * Adamant platelegs || 2,560 || 3,840 || ||
 * Adamant plateskirt || 2,560 || 3,840 || ||
 * Adamant sword || 832 || 1,248 || ||
 * Adamant warhammer || 1,648 || 2,472 || ||
 * Air battlestaff || 6,200 || 9,300 || ||
 * Black claws || 144 || 216 || ||
 * Black d'hide body || 5,392 || 8,088 || ||
 * Black platebody || 1,536 || 2,304 || ||
 * Black warhammer || 392 || 764 || ||
 * Blue d'hide body || 3,744 || 5,616 || ||
 * Earth battlestaff || 6,200 || 9,300 || ||
 * Fire battlestaff || 6,200 || 9,300 || ||
 * Gold ring || 140 || 210 || ||
 * Green d'hide body || 3,120 || 4,680 || ||
 * Green d'hide vamb || 1,000 || 1,500 || ||
 * Lava battlestaff || 6,800 || 10,200 || ||
 * Magic longbow || 1,024 || 1,536 || ||
 * Magic shortbow || 640 || 960 || ||
 * Maple longbow || 256 || 384 || ||
 * Maple shortbow || 160 || 240 || ||
 * Mithril chainbody || 780 || 1,170 || ||
 * Mithril platebody || 2,080 || 3,120 || ||
 * Mithril scimitar || 416 || 624 ||   ||
 * Mithril sq shield || 624 || 936 || ||
 * Mystic battlestaff (Any) || 17,000 || 25,500 || || -
 * Oak longbow || 64 || 96 || ||
 * Oak shortbow || 40 || 60 || ||
 * Ring of duelling || 510 || 765 || ||
 * Ring of life || 1,410 || 2,115 || ||
 * Rune axe || 5,120 || 7,680 || ||
 * Rune battleaxe || 16,640 || 24,960 || ||
 * Rune chainbody || 20,000 || 30,000 || ||
 * Rune dagger || 3,200 || 4,800 || ||
 * Rune full helm || 14,080 || 21,120 || ||
 * Rune med helm || 7,680 || 11,520 || ||
 * Rune pickaxe || 12,800 || 19,200 || ||
 * Rune platelegs || 25,600 || 38,400 || ||
 * Rune sq shield || 15,360 || 23,040 || ||
 * Rune sword || 8,320 || 12,480 || ||
 * Sapphire bracelet || 460 || 690 || ||
 * Steel platebody || 800 || 1,200 || ||
 * Steel platelegs || 400 || 600 || ||
 * Water battlestaff || 6,200 || 9,300 || ||
 * Willow longbow || 128 || 192 || ||
 * Willow shortbow || 80 || 120 || ||
 * Yew longbow || 512 || 768 || ||
 * Yew shortbow || 320 || 480 || ||
 * }
 * Mithril scimitar || 416 || 624 ||   ||
 * Mithril sq shield || 624 || 936 || ||
 * Mystic battlestaff (Any) || 17,000 || 25,500 || || -
 * Oak longbow || 64 || 96 || ||
 * Oak shortbow || 40 || 60 || ||
 * Ring of duelling || 510 || 765 || ||
 * Ring of life || 1,410 || 2,115 || ||
 * Rune axe || 5,120 || 7,680 || ||
 * Rune battleaxe || 16,640 || 24,960 || ||
 * Rune chainbody || 20,000 || 30,000 || ||
 * Rune dagger || 3,200 || 4,800 || ||
 * Rune full helm || 14,080 || 21,120 || ||
 * Rune med helm || 7,680 || 11,520 || ||
 * Rune pickaxe || 12,800 || 19,200 || ||
 * Rune platelegs || 25,600 || 38,400 || ||
 * Rune sq shield || 15,360 || 23,040 || ||
 * Rune sword || 8,320 || 12,480 || ||
 * Sapphire bracelet || 460 || 690 || ||
 * Steel platebody || 800 || 1,200 || ||
 * Steel platelegs || 400 || 600 || ||
 * Water battlestaff || 6,200 || 9,300 || ||
 * Willow longbow || 128 || 192 || ||
 * Willow shortbow || 80 || 120 || ||
 * Yew longbow || 512 || 768 || ||
 * Yew shortbow || 320 || 480 || ||
 * }
 * Rune pickaxe || 12,800 || 19,200 || ||
 * Rune platelegs || 25,600 || 38,400 || ||
 * Rune sq shield || 15,360 || 23,040 || ||
 * Rune sword || 8,320 || 12,480 || ||
 * Sapphire bracelet || 460 || 690 || ||
 * Steel platebody || 800 || 1,200 || ||
 * Steel platelegs || 400 || 600 || ||
 * Water battlestaff || 6,200 || 9,300 || ||
 * Willow longbow || 128 || 192 || ||
 * Willow shortbow || 80 || 120 || ||
 * Yew longbow || 512 || 768 || ||
 * Yew shortbow || 320 || 480 || ||
 * }
 * Steel platelegs || 400 || 600 || ||
 * Water battlestaff || 6,200 || 9,300 || ||
 * Willow longbow || 128 || 192 || ||
 * Willow shortbow || 80 || 120 || ||
 * Yew longbow || 512 || 768 || ||
 * Yew shortbow || 320 || 480 || ||
 * }
 * Yew longbow || 512 || 768 || ||
 * Yew shortbow || 320 || 480 || ||
 * }
 * Yew shortbow || 320 || 480 || ||
 * }