Fire rune



The fire rune is one of the four basic elemental runes. Fire runes can be created from Rune essence or Pure essence through the Runecrafting skill, procured from drops by killing monsters, bought from other players, or picked up from spawns on the ground. Fire giants are among the monsters that drop fire runes often and in large quantities. Fire runes can be created using the Runecrafting skill at level 14 at the Fire altar in Al-Kharid, which gives 7 experience per essence used.

Prices
The fire rune is the most traded item on the Grand Exchange. In the 180 days leading up to 11 December 2009, 8.5 billion fire runes were traded in the Grand Exchange, and 12.9 billion in the 180 days leading up to 10 August 2010. This averages out to 829 per second, peaking on busy days at over 1650 per second. By 25 August 2010 13.1 billion had been traded in 180 days, which is 842 per second. After a brief dip, this rose again to an incredible 13.7 billion over 180 days up until 9 December 2010, an incredible 880 per second.

They are currently sold for coins each in the Grand Exchange, or for 17 coins in stores when there are no fire runes in the player stock.

For a long time, fire runes had a price floor of 9 coins each in the Grand Exchange. Fire runes reached this price floor, and for over a year, they were very difficult to sell in the Grand Exchange, and would buy instantly. However, in September 2009, Jagex changed the price floor from 9 coins each to 5 coins each. Fire runes may now be easily both bought and sold on the Grand Exchange. Although they are one of the most commonly traded items on the Grand Exchange you may only buy 25,000 every four hours on the Grand Exchange.

Following the release of the Polypore staff, the price of fire runes has greatly risen due to the popularity of the staff and the fact that it is charged using 15,000 fire runes, using five per cast. This has brought the price up dramatically and caused some turbulence on the market.

Spells
Fire runes are used in a large number of spells, as listed below.

When casting a spell requiring fire runes, the fire rune requirement may be eliminated by wielding a staff that gives infinite fire runes, such as a staff of fire, fire battlestaff, lava battlestaff, mystic fire staff, mystic steam staff or mystic lava staff. Staves of fire can be bought from Zaff's Superior Staves! shop in Varrock.

Fire Strike, Fire Bolt, Fire Blast, Fire Wave and Fire Surge are the most powerful elemental spells and require fire runes, air runes, and one other rune. More fire runes than air runes are required, fire runes were much cheaper than air runes before Polypore Dungeon, but now it is much cheaper to use a fire rune supplying staff.

Fire runes are also used in god spells.

Free spells
All players can cast these spells:
 * Fire Strike
 * Fire Bolt
 * Fire Blast
 * Low Level Alchemy
 * High Level Alchemy
 * Superheat Item
 * Enchant Level 3 Jewellery
 * Varrock Teleport

Member spells
Only members can cast these spells: 15,000 fire runes, along with 3000 Polypore spores, are also required to charge the built-in spell of a Polypore Staff for 3,000 casts.

Drops
Fire runes are dropped by the following monsters:
 * Fire giant
 * Harpie Bug Swarm
 * Fire elemental
 * Pyrefiend
 * Lesser demon
 * Dust devil
 * Greater demon
 * Fire wizards
 * Flesh Crawler
 * Cockroach Drone
 * Kalphite Soldier

Store locations
This item can also be bought or sold at:


 * Aubury's Rune Shop in Varrock (300 in stock)
 * Betty's Magic Emporium north of Port Sarim
 * Ali Morrisane's stock of elemental runes after completion of the Rogue Trader miniquest
 * Zamorakian Mage in the Wilderness (1000 in stock)
 * Void Knight Outpost magic shop (1000 in stock)

Trivia

 * It was once used to obtain an onyx gem from the TzHaar shop, but it took about 3 hours to sell 540,000 fire runes needed to obtain it. All these runes would have cost 3,780,000 coins at 7 coins per fire rune to buy an Amulet of Fury. But this is no longer a method used to buy the amulet because you are not able to sell items to TzHaar shops anymore for Tokkul.
 * Jack used a fire and an air rune to make fire in the first age.