Rock climbing boots

This article is about the boots with stats. For the cheap, statless pair of boots, see Climbing boots.

Rock climbing boots formally known as just Climbing boots, are used in the Death Plateau, Troll Stronghold, Eadgar's Ruse, and Troll Romance quests. They cannot be used to produce spiked boots.

After finishing Death Plateau, players may buy climbing boots from Tenzing the sherpa for 75,000 coins or the cheaper pair of normal Climbing Boots for 12 coins, although the cheaper pair does not add the Strength bonuses. Players can purchase them through this method or by conveniently buying at the same price price on the Grand Exchange.

Rock Climbing boots are most commonly used to scale the Death Plateau Troll shortcut.

These boots are also used by players in PvP dangerous combat because of the +2 bonus in strength. The strength bonus is equal to that of rune boots -- however, rune boots require 40 defence and cost a slightly bit more, but they give significantly better defence bonuses than Rock Climbing boots (This has been changed due to the recent update).

The update on 24 June 2010 has introduced a large amount of coins into the game, as players could sell or alchemise the new "Rock Climbing boots" for 45,000 coins, when previously (before the update) they had been purchased as "Climbing boots" for just 12 coins each. All regular climbing boots in players' banks were converted to rock climbing boots; as some players had thousands, or more, climbing boots in their banks, the update added a significant amount of coins to the game via high alchemy, worsening the economy's inflation. Many players on the RuneScape forums believe that these players were granted wealth they do not deserve, and are calling for a reversal of the update.

Riots
After the update on June 24 many players began to riot around RuneScape, shouting rumours of the fall of the RuneScape economy.

As a result, on 24 June 2010, there was an official announcement from Mod Mark on the Jagex Forums "confirming" that there will be no rollback.



Trivia
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 * On 24 June 2010, Climbing boots increased from around 212 coins to 75,000 coins rising 35,277.3%, making it one of the most inflated items in the history of RuneScape.
 * Because of the update, some players gained thousands or millions of coins from the update by selling/high alching the boots that they had bought for 12 gp each before the update, which brought a massive profit of tens of thousands of coins each pair. The profit levels are shown below.
 * Because of the price update, a large riot broke out in Falador's town square, on world 66.