Combination rune


 * "Combination runes" redirects here. For the book, see combination runes (book).

A combination rune is any rune that is made by combining two of the basic elemental runes (air, earth, fire, and water runes) at a Runecrafting altar. Combination runes simultaneously count as one of each type of the runes required to make them; dust runes, for example, count as an earth rune and an air rune. Teleport to House, a spell that normally uses one earth rune and one air rune, would instead need only one dust rune.

Combination runes are made by taking pure essence, certain pre-made runes, and a matching talisman to a certain Runecrafting altar. For example, to create steam runes, a player could:
 * Go to the fire altar with water runes, a water talisman and pure essence; or
 * Go to the water altar with fire runes, a fire talisman and pure essence.

In the process of crafting combination runes, the talisman is consumed. (The Lunar spell Magic Imbue, which requires 82 Magic, allows players to craft combination runes without using up the required talisman.) This can make combination runecrafting somewhat expensive as some talismans have fairly high prices (such as water talismans, which are currently priced at coins). In addition, each rune has only a 50% chance of being successfully created. A binding necklace raises this chance to 100%, although the necklace is destroyed after 15 uses.

Combination runes
As of now, only lava, steam and mud runes have an elemental staff modeled after them: the lava battlestaff, steam battlestaff and the mud battlestaff, respectively. Being battlestaves, each of these also has a mystic version.