Money making guide/Runecrafting (P2P)

This article is about the members guide. For the free-to-play guide, see Money making guide/Runecrafting (F2P).

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For running runes through the abyss, See abyss for good gear suggestions.

Effectiveness	Runecrafting level requirement	Details	Other requirements
1*****	Level 1	Either through the skill or through rune running, you can make air runes. World 16 is the official world for running air runes. Air runes are best made with rune essence. If running airs, it can be easy to find a high level Runecrafter who can assist you in crafting multiple runes. If you find a player who can craft 6 or more air runes per essence, this can make you a profit of approximately 14,224 coins per trip. As you reach higher levels, you will be able to craft more runes per essence (if you craft them yourself), which further increases profit. See the Air Running Guide for more information on this topic. Bring everything that can to make you faster and efficient this is a every effective way being so close to Varrock, do not bring any armour besides anything to do with runecrafting or running/lightness. Drop off your pickaxe off at the bank on the way if you use it every Kg counts against you.	Rune Mysteries completed.
3*****	Level 44	Crafting Nature runes via the abyss is a good source of experience and cash. Nature runes are always in high demand sell for 405 each, which is a profit of 375 per essence if you buy your essence on the Grand Exchange.	Abyss miniquest completed
1*****	Level 44	Another method to crafting Nature Runes is by using your pure essence with Jiminua at Jiminua's Jungle Store North-West of the Nature Altar and she will un-note the desired amount of essence for 2 gp per essence (Don't sell it to her). Then run back to the Nature Altar and craft the essence and repeat this process.({{expr:405--2}} profit per essence)You need to have 1 space with coins, 1 space with noted pure essence and 1 space free for nature runes. It is recommended that you wear weight-reducing clothing to make this process more efficient. Be wary of monsters that can poison.
2*****	Level 50	At 50 Runecrafting you can enter the Runecrafting Guild and craft runes in The Great Orb Project, then sell the runes with no need to buy essence. This gives a modest profit since you get the full value of the runes in profit and you can make them a lot faster.
***** 68,000		With your tokens from The Great Orb Project, you can purchase pure essence which currently sells for 30 coins. See this page for a detailed calculator of value of items obtained from trading in tokens.
4*****	Level 54	Law runes are one of the best runes to craft for profit. They sell for roughly 570 coins in bulk on the Grand Exchange. You can also sell law runes to players in certain banks. As you cannot take pickaxes with you to Entrana, when crafting in the abyss some players opt to stock up on Bronze Pickaxes and drop them before entering the rift. You can also run law runes - see the Law Running Guide for more information. You can also sell the Law runes you craft to buy twice the amount of pure essence (for example, selling 100 law runes gives you roughly enough money to buy 200 pure essence at the Grand Exchange. But always be aware of the price changes). This is a great cost-effective alternative. Stocking up on normal logs and yew logs gives you an advantage if you have completed the Enlightened Journey quest. You can use the Balloon transport system from Castle wars to Entrana (One normal log required to travel to Entrana and one yew log required for the return trip). To reduce running time even more, you can stock up on Ring of Duellings to teleport straight to Castle Wars. Though it is up to you if you want to craft/enchant the rings yourself or buy them in bulk. This method averages about 230,000 coins per hour, making about 3,300 coins per inventory at current prices, with one full run usually ranging from 56-60 seconds.
5***** 500-700k/h	Level 65	Craft death runes via the Abyss. Death runes are very popular due to the fact that they are the highest level combat rune available to free players, so selling them via the Grand Exchange will nearly never be a problem. Deaths runes will sell for about 232 coins each, a profit of 202 coins each if you buy your essence. Profit can be farther increased if you mine your essence, however, this is not recommended because the time required to mine pure essence, could instead be used to craft more Death runes and yield enough money to buy thousands of more pure essence.	Mourning's Ends Part II completed, Abyss miniquest completed
4*****	Level 77	Craft blood runes via the Abyss, which sell for about 678 coins each, a profit of 648 coins each if you buy your essence.	Legacy of Seergaze completed
4*****		At this level, you can craft both blood and death runes, you can use all four runecrafting pouches, and depending on your Summoning level, you can summon an abyssal parasite or lurker. With these extras you can craft around 2,000 runes per hour by using the Abyss. You earn less per rune when compared to law runes or sticking to only blood runes or death runes, but the quantity you make will earn you more gold per hour in addition the little extra experience per rune if you only made law runes. With altar teleport tablets from the Great Orb Project, approximately 5,000 runes can be crafted per hour.	Legacy of Seergaze completed Mourning's Ends Part II completed High Summoning level.
4*****	Level 82	Craft double astral runes via Lunar Magic. Much like crafting double cosmic runes, this can bring a great profit. Double astral crafting earns you about 800 coins per essence if you buy your essence.	Lunar Diplomacy completed
5*****		The above method is extremely fast if you use duelling rings, all 4 runecrafting pouches, an abyssal parasite or lurker, and Astral Teleport Tablets (to teleport directly to the altar). With all this you can make about 1,000 astral runes every 10 minutes or so. If you bought 500 pure essence, crafted them quickly, and then sold the runes, you could make about 400,000 coins every ten minutes, or 2,400,000 coins per hour.	Lunar Diplomacy completed 54 Summoning
4***** 300,000 - 350,000/hour		Another method with which to craft double astral runes is to use a spirit terrorbird (52 Summoning required) to make running easier, wield a staff of earth and use Tele Group Moonclan for transport to the altar. Beware of the level 111 suqahs that may attack you on the way to the altar.	Lunar Diplomacy completed 52 Summoning
5***** 450,000 - 550,000/hour	Level 91	Crafting double nature runes via the Abyss is widely considered to be one of the best money makers in the game, as making double runes more than doubles the net Runecrafting profits. If you have 57 summoning, you can summon the Spirit Graahk which enables you to do runs to the nature altar faster than the abyss, making it the preferable choice. Two nature runes per essence means a profit of 780 coins per essence, if you buy the essence. Using all 4 runecrafting pouches allows one to carry up to 54 essence at once and thus make 108 nature runes per trip, which is a total of 42,120 coins profit per trip. Under the right conditions, this method can make you a million gold in just about an hour. If you don't have 91 Runecrafting, you can go to world 36 (the nature running server) and there may be players offering free double natures.	Abyss miniquest completed Optional: 57 summoning
3*****	Level 99	99 Runecrafting can be extremely difficult for member players (400 hours of game play to obtain), but at level 99, you make ten air runes per essence used. This can give you a profit of 868 coins per essence, or 24,304 coins per inventory.

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