Death runes are used in great amounts by mages that cast Ancient Magicks, as they are needed to cast the different varieties of the rush and burst combat spells. Death runes are also needed to cast the level 85 spell Teleport Block, the only free-to-play spell which requires death runes. Members can create death runes using the Runecrafting skill at level 65 at the Death altar in the Temple of Light after completing the quest Mourning's Ends Part II.
The value of 1 Death rune in Investment Credits in Mobilising Armies is 63 Investment Credits.
These are the most powerful rune stocked in any store in free-to-play. Before the Evolution of Combat update was released, non-members needed death runes to cast blast spells. Free players can craft Death runes with 65 Runecrafting in dungeons of Daemonheim (the quest is not required to craft them in Daemonheim), making it the highest requirement rune to be crafted in Daemonheim for free players. Crafting them in Daemonheim as a free player is pointless as the only spell that they can cast with Death runes is not available inside dungeons. Crafting them gives 10 experience per essence (or 0.2 experience per essence in Daemonheim).
Prior to the update which gave most stores in RuneScape an infinite stock of their goods and a fixed price, death runes were often bought from magic stores until they ran out of stock because there was high demand and the store price was slightly under the street price. After the update, the store price was raised above the street price. However, due to the new update in which all stores are different for each player, players can only purchase a limited number of death runes in game each day, creating a lack of death runes and making it much harder to purchase large quantities quickly on the Grand Exchange. In the Runespan, Death Runes are worth 2.5 points each once siphoned.
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Grand Exchange price | GP / Exp (per essence) | |
Nature rune | 405 | 45 |
Law rune | 570 | 60 |
Death rune | 238 | 23.2 |
Blood rune | 678 | 64.6 |
Soul rune | 1,345 | Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",". |
Adult cats can be exchanged for 100 death runes with a Civilian in West Ardougne (or 200 death runes while possessing the Ardougne cloak 1 or better. Please note that you don't have to wear or carry it).
250 Death runes (along with 750 Air runes) can also be obtained from any Slayer Master for 35 Slayer reward points after completing the Smoking Kills quest.
Spawns
For members there is a death rune spawn in the Feldip Hills. It respawns 1 minute and 45 seconds after picking it up.
Spells
Free-to-play spells
With the Evolution of Combat update, the only use for death runes in free-to-play worlds is in casting Teleport Block.
Pay-to-play spells
These spells can only be cast in pay-to-play:
- Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Onyx)
- Slayer Dart (requires level 55 Slayer and a Slayer staff, Staff of light or Abyssal wand)
- Shadow Rush*
- Smoke Rush*
- Blood Rush*
- Ice Rush*
- Smoke Burst*
- Shadow Burst*
- Ice Burst*
- Blood Burst*
- Vengeance Other**
- Vengeance**
* Part of the Ancient Magicks spellbook and can only be cast by players who have completed the Desert Treasure quest and have switched their spellbook to Ancient Magicks.
** Part of the Lunar spellbook and can only be cast by players who have completed the Lunar Diplomacy quest and have switched their spellbook to Lunar Spells.
Store locations
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Seller | Location | Cost | Currency | Base stock | Members? |
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Disassembly
Disassembly XP | 1.9 |
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Item quantity required | 50 |
Material count | 8 |
Base junk chance | 28.5% |
Possible materials | |
Often | |
Magic parts | 85% |
Sometimes | |
Crafted parts | 13% |
Rarely | |
Powerful components | 2% |
Drop sources
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Source | Combat level | Quantity | Rarity |
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Barrows | N/A | 70–1190 | Common |
Barrows | N/A | 15 | Common |
Bladed muspah | 150 | 20 | Common |
Brine rat | 49 | 7 | Common |
Chewed bones | N/A | 8–15 | Common |
Columbarium | N/A | 8–15 | Common |
Crystal chest | N/A | 50 | Common |
Dagannoth Prime | 303 | 84–92 | Common |
Elf | N/A | 2 | Common |
Feral vampyre | 61 | 2 | Common |
Giant Mole (historical) | 76 | 7 | Common |
Gnoeals | 70 | 1–4 | Common |
Ice strykewyrm | 106 | 20 | Common |
Ice troll | 84; 89 | 15 | Common |
Infernal Mage | 72 | 7 | Common |
Infernal Mage (elite) | 82 | 7–60 | Common |
Ivory Gromblod (cursed) | 82 | 4 | Common |
Ivory Shredflesh (cursed) | 82 | 4 | Common |
Kal'gerion demon | 126 | 75 | Common |
Kalphite Queen | 333 | 100–150 | Common |
King Black Dragon | 276 | 50 | Common |
Nechryael | 96 | 5–10 | Common |
Nechryael (elite) | 106 | 5–100 | Common |
Shadow nihil | 160 | 30 | Common |
Sunspear | N/A | 15 | Common |
Throwing muspah | 150 | 20 | Common |
Tormented demon | 119 | 20–52 | Common |
Undead troll | 77; 81; 86; 95 | 5–10 | Common |
Vampyre | 61; 89 | 2 | Common |
Vampyre Juvinate | 58; 61; 63; 84 | 10 | Common |
Vyre corpse | N/A | 8–15 | Common |
Vyrelady | 98 | 10 | Common |
Vyrelady | 98 | 15 | Common |
Vyrelord | 98 | 15 | Common |
Vyrelord | 98 | 10 | Common |
Vyrewatch | 49; 70; 72; 75; 78; 86; 91; 97 | 1–25 | Common |
Wallasalki | 79; 84; 91 | 1–10 | Common |
WildyWyrm (historical) | 382 | 50 | Common |
Zamorak crafter | 26 | 3 | Common |
Harold | 98 | 5 | Random |
Bandit (Wilderness) | 18 | 2 | Rare |
Bandit Brawler | 112; 118 | 2 | Rare |
Basilisk | 70; 77 | 10 | Rare |
Black key black | N/A | unknown | Rare |
Black key brown | N/A | unknown | Rare |
Black key crimson | N/A | unknown | Rare |
Black key purple | N/A | unknown | Rare |
Black key red | N/A | unknown | Rare |
Chaos Elemental | 305 | 100–226 | Rare |
Chaos dwarf | 28; 45; 47; 84; 101; 108 | 3–6 | Rare |
Trivia
- The most death runes required for a spell are 2, for the Smoke, Shadow, Blood and Ice Burst spells.
- The picture on a Death Rune shows a skull & X, which is most likely meant to imitate the jolly roger or more commonly known as the skull & crossbones.
- Death was rolling a Death Rune with his fingers in 2009 Hallowe'en event. This may be a reference to Pirates of the Caribbean, when Jack did this with one of the cursed Aztec gold coins while in skeletal form.
- Prior to the Evolution of Combat update, death runes were used in Blast spells, Surge spells, Blitz spells and Barrage spells. The removal of their usage in these spells caused a dramatic fall in their Grand Exchange price.
- Although Death runes have no use in Dungeoneering for free players following the Evolution of Combat, they can still be runecrafted and can even be found in the starting room.
- In the german version of runescape, they're called "afterlife runes".
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