Water rune

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This article is about the rune. For other uses, see Water rune (disambiguation).

The official world for RC Running & ZMI Altar is world 36 (P2P).

Water 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	25 coins (info)
Buy limit	25,000
Weight	0 kg
Examine	One of the four basic elemental runes. Used in Magic (5).
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The water rune is one of the four elemental runes. They are used to invoke the power of water, in spells such as Water and Ice spells, and may be substituted for by a water staff, water battlestaff, mud battlestaff, steam battlestaff, or tome of frost. Water runes are also substituted in spells by the mystic version of all staves mentioned previously. These runes are also used for ice spells.

These may be made using the Runecrafting skill at level 5 Runecrafting, granting 6 experience per essence, using the water altar south-east of Draynor Village in the Lumbridge Swamp. They can also be found at various spawns around the game, such as the spawn in the scorpion pit north of Al Kharid. Water runes can also be dropped by monsters. They can sometimes be found inside barrels. After the quest Dealing with Scabaras, water runes may be used on a water tiara, requiring both 50 Magic and Runecrafting, to make an enchanted water tiara. This item replaces waterskins in the desert heat, with three water runes accounting for one dose of water. The amount of charges that the tiara can store is unlimited. Similarly to infusing a druid pouch, the user must use at least 3 water runes on the tiara.

Crafting multiple water runes

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

Multiplier		GE Price
1x	5	25
2x	19	50
3x	38	75
4x	57	100
5x	76	125
6x	95	150
7x	114*	175

Spells

Water runes are needed in a vast amount of spells, as listed below. Because of all the spells that need water runes, many mages will just use a staff of water, water battlestaff or mystic water staff.

Free Spells

All players can cast these spells:

• Water Strike
• Water Bolt
• Water Blast
• Falador Teleport
• Bones to Bananas
• Enchant Level 1 Jewellery

Member Spells

Only members can cast these spells:

Water Wave Bones to Peaches Charge Water Orb Enchant Level 5 Jewellery Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Sapphire) Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Pearl) Ice Rush Ice Burst Lassar Teleport Ice Blitz

Ice Barrage Ghorrock Teleport Bake Pie Humidify Waterbirth Teleport Tele-group Waterbirth North Ardougne Teleport Khazard Teleport Tele-group Khazard String Jewellery

Stat Restore Pot Share Magic Imbue Boost Potion Share Fishing Guild Teleport Tele-group Fishing Guild Catherby Teleport Tele-group Catherby Ice Plateau Teleport Tele-group Ice Plateau Water Surge

Sapphire Aurora Shield Dome Crystallise Rapid Growth

Store locations

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Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?

Drop sources

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Water wizard	19	4–10	Always
Waterfiend	102; 107	1	Always
Waterfiend (Temple of Aminishi)	107	1	Always
Waterfiend (elite)	111	1	Always
Aviansie	89; 92; 95	30	Common
Bandit looter	42	3–17	Common
Barrel (Viyeldi caves)	N/A	1–11	Common
Blue dragon	74	75	Common
Cave bug	8; 12	1–167	Common
Cave goblin	1	6	Common
Cave slime	26	15	Common
Chaos dwarf	28; 45; 47; 84; 101; 108	10	Common
Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer	70; 101	10	Common
Chaos dwogre	92; 98	10	Common
Cockatrice	44	1–2	Common
Cockroach drone	4	1–8	Common
Corpse Spider	4	2	Common
Corpse mage	21	8	Common
Crystal chest	N/A	200	Common
Dagannoth (Lighthouse)	77; 78	15–30	Common
Dagannoth spawn	65	3	Common
Dagon'hai Monk	77	10–18	Common
Dark warrior	16	1	Common
Dark wizard	22; 30; 33; 35; 37	10–18	Common
Dragith Nurn	26	8	Common
Elf warrior	84; 89	70	Common
Elite Khazard guard	77; 84	4–10	Common
Essence impling	N/A	30	Common
Essence impling jar	N/A	30	Common
Exiled kalphite paragon	84	31–89	Common
Exiled kalphite soldier	84	53–84	Common
Frog	77	6	Common
Giant ant worker	49	28	Common
Giant rock crab	95	1–39	Common
Gnoeals	70	30–44	Common
Goblin	1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 11; 84	6	Common
Green dragon	63	75–150	Common
Hill giant	44	7	Common
Ice giant	51	12	Common
Ice troll	84; 89	65	Common
Imp	5	5	Common
Imp herald	98	5	Common
Jailer	39	unknown	Common
Kalphite Worker	58	11–19	Common
Knight of Ardougne	53	70	Common
Molanisk	53	1–13	Common
Mourner	33; 79; 85	70	Common
Paladin	49	30	Common
Rock lobster	100	9	Common
Salarin the Twisted	77	12	Common

Disassembly

Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	50
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  94.5% 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 94.5% 1 34 93.6% 2 49 91.7% 3 64 89.8% 4 69 87.9% 5 78 86.0% 6 83 83.2% 7 91 81.3% 8 95 78.5% 9 105 75.7%
Possible materials
Often
Magic parts	85%
Sometimes
Crafted parts	13%
Rarely
Powerful components	2%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 94.5 Junk chance: 94.5

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Trivia

• The most water runes required for a spell is 30, for the Charge Water Orb spell.
• Water runes used to have a price ceiling of 16 coins each, and were extremely hard to buy on the Grand Exchange. On 9 September 2009, the price cap was removed (and shortly before, the infinite stock of water runes in shops had been removed), and water runes increased in price to over 40 coins each. Due to this it was very smart to buy water runes from rune shops at 17 coins and sell on the Grand Exchange. However, this is not applicable anymore as the Grand Exchange price is now cheaper (25).
• The value of 1 water rune in Investment Credits in Mobilising Armies is 6 Investment Credits.