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 XP per essence used.

Fire runes and air runes are the most popular runes to craft in free-to-play.

Prices
The fire rune is one of the most traded items 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 quickly crashed to 5 coins each, but the balance of supply and demand was such that fire runes did not stay at this new price floor, but rather increased in price to 7 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.

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. Even though more fire runes than air runes are required, fire runes are much cheaper than air runes, and therefore many people cast these spells while wielding an air staff, consuming fire runes.

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:

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


 * Aubury's Rune Shop in Varrock
 * 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
 * Void Knight Outpost magic shop
 * It is proven that Low Alchemy using Explorer's Ring from the Lumbridge Tasks set yields 6 coins instead of 1 coin.

Trivia

 * The most fire runes required for a spell are 30, for the Charge Fire Orb spell.
 * This was once used to obtain an onyx gem in the TzHaar shop, but it took about 3 hours to sell 540,000 fire runes needed to obtain it. These runes will 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. This is a main reason why fire runes have become less important to people.
 * The value of 1 fire rune in Investment Credits in Mobilising Armies is 4 Investment Credits.