Alchemy Guide
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- See also: Money making guide
The Alchemy Guide provides players with help on high and low alchemy spells and which items are profitable or good for experience. Please remember that the RuneScape economy is always changing, which means some information in this article may be slightly inaccurate or outdated.
A confirmation has been when casting High Alchemy on items with a Grand Exchange value of 500,000gp or higher has been added. This should prevent the accidental alching of those expensive items.
[edit] Profit scale
Note: The profit scale reflects the High Level Alchemy spell only. Low Level Alchemy is generally not used for turning profit.
***** A downright horrible choice to alchemise, simply because the item's value/rarity is worth far more than the coins returned from casting High Level Alchemy. ***** The cost of the item and nature runes needed for alchemy far surpass that of the alchemy price, meaning players makes a negative amount of money. ***** The cost of the raw materials to create the item or the item itself plus the nature runes needed for alchemy slightly surpass that of the alchemy price, thus making these item unprofitable. ***** These items are good for gaining Magic experience as the final loss from the item is very close to zero. ***** Alching these items will turn a small profit, but they are hard to buy on the Grand Exchange ***** Alching these items will turn a small profit, and are usually easy to buy on the Grand Exchange. Highly recommended.
[edit] Alchemy values
What follows is a listing of items and their low/high alchemy values; i.e. how many coins each item yields for its respective spell.
- Note that the current market price of Nature runes is: 312 coins update
- Objects in italics are for members' only.
- 1 Based on crafted nature runes. Subtract 312 coins from this value if the runes are bought.
Item Low Level Alchemy High Level Alchemy Profit scale GE price Profit or Loss1 Adamant boots 768 1,152 ***** 1,555
-403
Adamant chainbody 1,920 2,880 ***** 2,940
-60
Adamant longsword 1,280 1,920 ***** 1,720
200
Adamant platebody 5,120 9,984 ***** 9,789
195
Adamant platelegs 2,560 3,840 ***** 3,788
52
Adamant plateskirt 2,560 3,840 ***** 3,670
170
Adamant sword 832 1,248 ***** 1,052
196
Adamant warhammer 1,648 2,472 ***** 2,946
-474
Air battlestaff 6,200 9,300 ***** 9,018
282
Black claws 144 216 ***** 932
-716
Black d'hide body 5,392 8,088 ***** 7,958
130
Black platebody 1,536 2,304 ***** 3,483
-1,179
Black warhammer 392 764 ***** 573
191
Blue d'hide body 3,744 5,616 ***** 5,408
208
Earth battlestaff 6,200 9,300 ***** 9,136
164
Fire battlestaff 6,200 9,300 ***** 9,269
31
Gold ring 140 210 ***** 231
-21
Green d'hide body 3,120 4,680 ***** 4,528
152
Green d'hide vambraces 1,000 1,500 ***** 1,394
106
Lava battlestaff 6,800 10,200 ***** 9,998
202
Magic longbow 1,024 1,536 ***** 1,401
135
Magic shortbow 640 960 ***** 857
103
Maple longbow 256 384 ***** 287
97
Maple shortbow 160 240 ***** 161
79
Mithril chainbody 780 1,170 ***** 1,004
166
Mithril platebody 2,080 3,120 ***** 2,944
166
Mithril scimitar 416 624 ***** 451
173
Mithril sq shield 624 936 ***** 741
195
Oak longbow 64 96 ***** 48
48
Oak shortbow 40 60 ***** 30
30
Ring of duelling(8) 510 765 ***** 1,701
-936
Ring of life 1,410 2,115 ***** 6,056
-3,941
Rune hatchet 5,120 7,680 ***** 7,548
132
Rune battleaxe 16,640 24,960 ***** 24,841
119
Rune chainbody 20,000 30,000 ***** 30,100
-100
Rune dagger 3,200 4,800 ***** 4,624
176
Rune full helm 14,080 21,120 ***** 20,900
220
Rune med helm 7,680 11,520 ***** 11,300
220
Rune pickaxe 12,800 19,200 ***** 19,200
0
Rune platelegs 25,600 38,400 ***** 51,177
-12,777
Rune sq shield 15,360 23,040 ***** 23,000
40
Rune sword 8,320 12,480 ***** 12,270
210
Sapphire bracelet 460 690 ***** 572
118
Steel platebody 800 1,200 ***** 1,034
166
Steel platelegs 400 600 ***** 401
199
Water battlestaff 6,200 9,300 ***** 9,055
245
Willow longbow 128 192 ***** 96
96
Willow shortbow 80 120 ***** 60
60
Yew longbow 512 768 ***** 649
119
Yew shortbow 320 480 ***** 353
127
