Fire rune

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Fire rune

Also known as?	Fires
Members only?	No
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	Yes
High Alchemy	2 coins
Low Alchemy	1 coins
Destroy	drop
Store price	17 coins
Exchange price	7 coins update
GE Database	Look up price
Examine	One of the 4 basic elemental Runes.
Weight	0 kg
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The fire rune is one of the four basic elemental runes.

Contents 1 Acquiring 2 Prices 3 Spells 3.1 Free spells 3.2 Member spells 4 Store locations 5 Trivia 6 References

[edit] Acquiring

Fire runes can be created from Rune essence or Pure essence through the Runecrafting skill, procured from drops by killing monsters, bought from other players, or picked up from spawns on the ground. Fire giants are among the monsters that drop fire runes often and in large quantities. Fire runes can be created using the Runecrafting skill at level 14 at the Fire altar in Al-Kharid.

Fire runes and air runes are the most popular runes to craft in free-to-play.

[edit] Prices

Fire runes are one of the most traded items in the Grand Exchange. In the 180 days before 13 September, 2009, 5.0 billion fire runes were traded in the Grand Exchange, placing as the sixth most traded item.

They are currently sold for 7 coins each in the Grand Exchange, or for 17 coins in stores when there are no fire runes in the player stock.

For a long time, fire runes had a price floor of 9 coins each in the Grand Exchange. Fire runes reached this price floor, and for over a year, they were very difficult to sell in the Grand Exchange, and would buy instantly. However, in September 2009, Jagex changed the price floor from 9 coins each to 5 coins each. Fire runes quickly crashed to 5 coins each, but the balance of supply and demand was such that fire runes did not stay at this new price floor, but rather increased in price to 7 coins each. Fire runes may now be easily both bought and sold on the Grand Exchange.

[edit] Spells

Fire runes are used in a large number of spells, as listed below.

When casting a spell requiring fire runes, the fire rune requirement may be eliminated by wielding a staff that gives infinite fire runes, such as a staff of fire, fire battlestaff, fire talisman staff, lava battlestaff, mystic fire staff, mystic steam staff or mystic lava staff. Staves of fire can be bought from Zaff's Superior Staffs! shop in Varrock.

Fire Strike, Fire Bolt, Fire Blast, and Fire Wave are the most powerful elemental spells and require fire runes, air runes, and one other rune. Even though more fire runes than air runes are required, fire runes are much cheaper than air runes, and therefore many people cast these spells while wielding an air staff, consuming fire runes.

Fire runes are also used in god spells.

[edit] Free spells

All players can cast these spells:

• Fire Strike
• Fire Bolt
• Fire Blast

• Low Level Alchemy
• High Level Alchemy
• Superheat Item
• Enchant Level 3 Jewellery
• Varrock Teleport
• Bounty Locate

[edit] Member spells

Only members can cast these spells:

Fire Wave Trollheim Teleport Teleport to Ape Atoll Iban Blast Saradomin Strike Claws of Guthix Flames of Zamorak Charge Charge Fire Orb Enchant Level 5 Jewellery Enchant Level 6 Jewellery Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Red Topaz) Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Ruby) Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Diamond)

Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Dragonstone) Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Onyx) Smoke Rush Paddewwa Teleport Smoke Burst Smoke Blitz Dareeyak Teleport Smoke Barrage Bake Pie Humidify Barbarian Teleport Tele Group Barbarian Superglass Make Magic Imbue Fire Surge

[edit] Store locations

This item can also be bought or sold at:

• Aubury's Rune Shop in Varrock
• Betty's Magic Emporium north of Port Sarim
• Ali Morrisane's stock of elemental runes after completion of the Rogue Trader miniquest
• Zamorakian Mage in the Wilderness
• Void Knight's Outpost magic shop

[edit] Trivia

• The most fire runes required for a spell are 30, for the Charge Fire Orb spell.

[edit] References

• Grand Exchange Database - Current price

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