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the RuneScape economy is always changing, which means some information in this article may be slightly inaccurate or outdated.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