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This article is about pure essence. For other uses, see rune essence (disambiguation).
Pure essence
Pure essence
Release date 20 April 2006 (Update)
Members? No
Quest item? No
Tradeable? Yes
Equipable? No
Stackable? No
High Alch 2 coins
Low Alch 1 coin
Destroy Drop
Store price 1 Runecrafting guild token (on member worlds)
(Wizard Elriss)
Exchange price 68 coins (info)
Buy limit 25,000
Examine An uncharged Rune Stone of extra capability.
Weight 0 kg
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Pure essence detail

Pure essence is a type of essence that can be crafted into any type of rune through the Runecrafting skill, as opposed to rune essence, which can only create up to Body runes. It can be used on free to play worlds, although can only be mined on members worlds.

Players can runecraft only Air, Mind, Water, Earth, Fire, and Body runes with a regular rune essence. Members can create all types of runes with Pure Essence, although it is economically wiser to create the runes mentioned above with regular rune essence. It can be stored in an Abyssal parasite, Abyssal lurker and Abyssal titan if the player has the required summoning level of 54, 62 and 93 respectively.

Obtaining Pure essenceEdit

Here are a few ways of obtaining pure essence, besides trading with other players.

Essence
A player mining in the Rune essence mine
Members with a Mining level of at least 30 will mine pure essence instead of rune essence (both granting 5 xp) on member worlds at the Rune essence mine, after completing the Rune Mysteries quest. To access this mine, which contains four rocks with an unending supply of essence, players must get teleported by one of the five NPCs who are able to do so. It is possible for players with a high Mining level and a high level pickaxe to mine upwards of 2,100 pure essence an hour, resulting in an approximate 142,800 coins per hour profit at current prices. At level 30 with a mithril pickaxe, players mine approximately 700 pure essence an hour, resulting in an approximate 47,600 coins per hour profit at current prices. If mining Pure essence, players should consider taking weight-reducing clothing, or energy-boosting items and pouches so that more pure essence can be mined per hour. The best place to mine essence is by going to Wizard Distentor who is located in the magic guild in Yanille, but this requires 66 Magic. Players without this level should go for Aubury in Varrock. However, players can also go to Brimstail at Gnome Stronghold, Sedridor at Wizards' Tower, Wizard Cromperty in Ardougne, the Runecrafting Tutor in Burthorpe, or the rune essence mine at Lunar Isle.

Members can also receive pure essence throughout The Great Orb Project minigame's rounds. Furthermore, they may purchase pure essence with the Runecrafting guild tokens received after each game at a cost of 1 essence per token.

Pure essence also can be obtained relatively fast as a reward from Temple Trekking or Burgh de Rott Ramble, if the player plays at least on the medium paths and picks pure essence as a reward.

Members who own an Ardougne cloak 2 may receive a daily 100 pure essence from Wizard Cromperty (the time resets at midnight GMT). He will give 150 pure essence to those who own an Ardougne cloak 3.

Members who own a Wicked hood can pull 100 pure essence per day out of the hood, provided they have "fed" the hood an Omni-talisman once. This amount increases by 25 for each piece of the Wicked robes set bought for a maximum of 175 pure essence daily.

Although not a quick way to gain pure essence, players can find pure essence if they send squads to look for it in Mobilising Armies.

Although players can only mine them in pay to play worlds, they can still be bought in the Grand Exchange on free to play worlds.

Dropping MonstersEdit

Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity
Abyssal demon 124 60 (noted) 2Common
Gargoyle 111 35 (noted) 2Common
Minotaur 12,27 5–10 (noted) 2Common
Corporeal beast 785 2500 (noted) 2Common
Nex 1001 4800 (noted) 2Common
Jungle strykewyrm 110 60 (noted) 2Common
Desert strykewyrm 130 120 (noted) 2Common
Ice strykewyrm 210 200 (noted) 2Common
Banshee 22 13 (noted) 2Common
Mighty banshee 90 23 (noted) 2Common
Ankou 74,82,86 15 (noted) 3Uncommon
Rare drop table N/A 500–15000 (noted) 3Uncommon
TzHaar-Mej 103 4 (noted) 4Rare

History and updateEdit

Pure essence was released on 20 April 2006 to counter low-level macroing accounts that mined Rune essence and sold it for high prices with Real world trading (RWT). After that, members needed Pure essence to craft runes that were only craftable by members. Since they were the majority of the buyers, the demand for Pure essence went up, while the demand for rune essence (which uses were limited to the six basic runes) dropped. This benefited member essence miners and non-member runecrafters, while it hurt non-member essence miners and member runecrafters. Additionally, non-members who had bought essence before the update lost money value due to the drop in price of Rune essence. Members who had previously bought Rune essence were saved from this blow because all their essence was automatically converted into Pure essence.

However, real world traders obtained member accounts in order to mine and trade Pure essence (now higher in price than Rune essence), and because many of them used fraudulent credit card numbers to pay for those accounts, the Pure essence update became one of the causes of the RWT credit card fraud problem, suggesting that the update had a reverse effect than what was originally intended.

On 10 December 2007, many macro users disappeared from the game following a swift series of changes designed for their elimination, which caused the price of Pure essence to skyrocket from a low of 80 coins to more than 140 each. The price has also dropped when The Great Orb Project activity was released since one of the buyable rewards was Pure essence.

On 4 April 2011, with the release of Livid Farm, pure essence began to rise in price due to more people buying it to craft astral runes. The price of pure essence had continued to rise over a week later.

After the "Bot Nuke" update the price has been going down. This is due to the large amount of Runecrafting bots that have been disabled, even though there were a relatively large amount of essence mining bots as well.

After the RuneSpan Update, the price has dropped. Though some had expected the price to rise, the use of RuneSpan as a training method has dropped the demand for pure essence for use in training, meaning that the price drops as well. Also, because many monsters drop pure essence (such as bosses, rare drop table and some monsters), the amount of essence is in high numbers but low demand.

After Rune Memories players could access the Rune Chest which gives players Pure Essence for leveling Runecrafting. This has brought the price down due to huge amounts of Pure Essence coming to the game through the chest.


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Mining
Standard Metals and Ores

Copper oreCopper(Rock) • Tin oreTin(Rock) • Iron oreIron(Rock) • Silver oreSilver(Rock) • CoalCoal(Rock)(Concentrated) • Gold oreGold(Rock)(Concentrated) • Mithril oreMithril(Rock) • Adamantite oreAdamantite(Rock) • Runite oreRunite(Rock)

Quest items

Blurite OreBlurite(Rock) • Daeyalt oreDaeyalt(Vein) • Elemental oreElemental(Rock) • RubiumRubium(Vein) • Lunar oreLunar(Rock) • Sandstone (10kg)Sandstone(Rock) • Bane oreBane ore (Rock)

Dungeoneering

Novite oreNovite(Rock) • Bathus oreBathus(Rock) • Marmaros oreMarmaros(Rock) • Kratonium oreKratonium(Rock) • Fractite oreFractite(Rock) • Zephyrium oreZephyrium(Rock) • Argonite oreArgonite(Rock) • Katagon oreKatagon(Rock) • Gorgonite oreGorgonite(Rock) • Promethium orePromethium(Rock)

Other

ClayClay(Rock) • Uncut jadeGems(Rock) • Granite (5kg)Granite(Rock) • LimestoneLimestone(Rock) • Living mineralsLiving minerals(Remains) • Rune essenceRune essence(Mine) • Pure essencePure essence(Mine) • Liquid Gold Nymph chatheadCrust (Mine) • Red sandstoneRed sandstone (Mine) • Starlight oreStarlight ore (Source)

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