Air rune

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Air rune
Detailed
Release	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Value	17 coins
Value	17 coins
High Alchemy	3 coins
High Alchemy	3 coins
Low Alchemy	2 coins
Low Alchemy	2 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Exchange	90 coins (info)
Buy limit	25,000
Weight	0 kg
Examine	One of the four basic elemental runes. Used in Magic (1).
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Air runes are one of the four basic elemental runes. They are the most basic and most common runes in RuneScape. All players with a Runecrafting level of 1 can craft air runes at the Air Altar west of Varrock. Crafting air runes provides 5 Runecrafting experience per rune essence or pure essence used.

Information

Air runes are used in most missile spells as well as most teleportation spells. They are used very often, so players should have a large supply of air runes at hand if practising magic, or an staff of air to have an infinite supply. Air staves can be bought from Zaff's Superior Staves in Varrock or from the Grand Exchange.

Prayer urns (impious, accursed and infernal) can be finished by adding an air rune to them.

Air runes can be combined with water runes to make mist runes, with earth runes to make dust runes, and with fire runes to make smoke runes.

The magic tutor in Lumbridge formerly supplied players with 30 air runes and 30 mind runes, provided that players had no runes in their inventory or bank, and it has been 30 minutes since they last claimed items from either the magic or ranged tutor, though this feature has since been removed. Now, all players can obtain 30 air and mind runes that Aubury of Varrock samples instead; after a half hour, one can re-obtain all 30 air and mind runes.

Instruments that provides unlimited air rune to all players when equipped are: staff of air, air battlestaff, mystic air staff, avernic wand, tower mindspike, mindspike, bat staff, staff of limitless air, and Armadyl battlestaff.

Air runes can sometimes be found inside barrels.

The maximum likely limit for crafting air runes in one air altar visit is 3058. This would be achieved by having 99 Runecrafting (giving a 10x bonus) and carrying 103 essence to craft (23 in the normal inventory, 48 in the 5 sizes of Runecrafting pouch, 20 with an abyssal titan and 12 in the infinity ethereal outfit) and a full set of wicked robes, which grants 175 essence per day (which can be withdrawn from the hood once your inventory is emptied). Whilst wearing an explorer's ring this can be increased, it has a 1 in 10 chance of creating an extra rune per essence. It is possible that a few extra air runes could be gained from the use of the explorer's ring. 

Crafting multiple air runes

For more information about Runecrafting multiples, see crafting multiple runes.

Multiplier		GE Price
1x	1	90
2x	11	180
3x	22	270
4x	33	360
5x	44	450
6x	55	540
7x	66	630
8x	77	720
9x	88	810
10x	99	900

Spells

Air runes are needed in a large number of spells, as shown in the list below, for this reason many mages will use a staff of air, Caitlin's staff, Mindspike (air),air battlestaff, mystic air staff, bat staff or Armadyl battlestaff instead of air runes (in order of accuracy).

Free spells

All players can cast these spells.

Air Strike Water Strike Earth Strike Fire Strike Air Bolt Water Bolt Varrock Teleport Enchant Level 2 Jewellery Earth Bolt

Lumbridge Teleport Telekinetic Grab Fire Bolt Falador Teleport Air Blast Water Blast Earth Blast Fire Blast

Member spells

Only members can cast these spells:

Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Opal) Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Emerald) Camelot Teleport Air Wave Water Wave Charge Air Orb Earth Wave South Falador Teleport Fire Wave NPC Contact Superglass Make

Smoke Rush Paddewwa Teleport Smoke Burst Smoke Blitz Dareeyak Teleport Smoke Barrage Opal Aurora Intercept Air Surge Water Surge Earth Surge Fire Surge

Disassembly

Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	50
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0% 2 49 96.0% 3 64 94.0% 4 69 92.0% 5 78 90.0% 6 83 87.1% 7 91 85.1% 8 95 82.1% 9 105 79.2%
Possible materials
Often
Magic parts	85%
Sometimes
Crafted parts	13%
Rarely
Powerful components	2%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 98.9 Junk chance: 98.9

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Drop sources

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Air elemental	44	15	Common
Air wizard	16	4–10	Common
Ancient mage	103	150–250	Common
Aviansie	89; 92; 95	15–30	Common
Banshee	37	3	Common
Chaos druid	32	9–36	Common
Chaos druid warrior	65	12–36	Common
Chaos dwarf	28; 45; 47; 84; 101; 108	12–24	Common
Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer	70; 101	24	Common
Cockroach drone	4	1–10	Common
Corpse Spider	4	10	Common
Crystal chest	N/A	200	Common
Dagon'hai Monk	77	10–36	Common
Dark wizard	22; 30; 33; 35; 37	10–18	Common
Dung kalphite	N/A	5	Common
Eclectic impling	N/A	30–60	Common
Elite Dark Mage	98	11–40	Common
Elite Dark Warrior	98	40	Common
Elite Khazard guard	77; 84	4–10	Common
Essence impling	N/A	30	Common
Essence impling jar	N/A	30	Common
Exiled kalphite soldier	84	30–88	Common
Fire spirit	N/A	5–220	Common
Giant Mole (historical)	76	105	Common
Giant ant worker	49	3–48	Common
Goblin	1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 11; 84	2–10	Common
Guard	18; 25; 35	6	Common
Imp	5	5	Common
Imp herald	98	5	Common
Kalphite Soldier	65	15–29	Common
Kalphite Worker	58	11–19	Common
Killerwatt	61	5	Common
Necromancer (monster)	39	10–18	Common
Pirate	26; 29; 32	10	Common
Skeleton	15; 16; 32; 43; 46; 47; 49; 51; 53; 54; 58; 70	12–15	Common
Skeleton (Lumbridge Catacombs)	15	12	Common
Skeleton fremennik	23; 28; 30	60	Common
Spellwisp	18	5–12	Common
Wall beast	47	3	Common
Wallasalki	79; 84; 91	1–6	Common
Warped bat	16	12	Common
Warped cockroach	1	3	Common
Warped terrorbird	82	24–60	Common
Winter Weekends (2012)	N/A	100–1000	Common
Wizard	18	5–12	Common
Zamorak crafter	26	5	Common
Zamorak wizard	70	60–192	Common
Zombie (New Varrock)	1	1–10	Common
Zombie pirate	49; 50	3	Common
Zombie swab	47	3	Common

Trivia

• The most air runes required for a spell are 30, for the Charge Air Orb spell.
• The value of 1 air rune in Investment Credits in Mobilising Armies is 6 Investment Credits.