#looking to ice burst in mm2 caves for 94 magic, when buying chaos runes hm should I buy per world?

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woven walrus
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Also is there a calc for how many bursts I'll need to do? cheers in advance

solemn oasis
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A chaos rune pack at base-price costs you 9950gp for 100 runes or 99.5 gp per rune
if you buy a single pack, the pack now costs 10049.5gp for 100 runes or 100.495 for each chaos rune.

taking a trip to the scar essence mine gets you twisted extracts at 1 per tainted essence chunk. this costs 6000 gp per twisted extract or 100 gp for each chaos rune.

so either you buy the shop empty and close your eyes, or take the cheaper approach that does not require world hopping and go get some [[Twisted extract]]

young estuary
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Would not recommend the method but yes you buy out the shop

woven walrus
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oh very interesting, thanks both for the help

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I assume the same is for the death runes?

solemn oasis
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Scar essence mine "sells" any elemental rune for 5 gp/rune, any combo rune, cosmics, chaos and sunfire runes for 100 gp a pop, nats/laws/astral/deaths for 200 gp a pop

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and blood, soul and wrath runes for 400 gp

woven walrus
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Never really thought about the scar essence mine, guess I'll get my chaos and deaths from there, thanks!

solemn oasis
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it's actually cheaper to get deaths in the actual shop

woven walrus
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oh

solemn oasis
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deaths go at a base price of 180 gp/rune, so if you buy 11 death runes/world it's cheaper to use stores

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Astrals are always cheaper from baba yaga's store

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law runes are cheaper at the scar essence mine

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blood runes are the 400/rune base, so if you buy per-1 it's cheaper in the magic store

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buying deaths 11/world is cheaper, buying souls 28/world is cheaper, astrals 139/world is cheaper, chaos rune pack is 1/world, chaos rune its 10/world

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but in-general you get the convenience of not needing to hop worlds if you use scar essence mine at the cost of requiring you go have the runecrafting level to craft the rune to obtain it

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so requiring lv90 rc to "buy" soul runes in large quantities is rather painful, except this discord ofter encourages bumrushing 95 rc rather quickly

near shard
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Fwiw the time differences in buy speed dominate all the optimisation of a few gp per rune several times over

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Any recommendation based on the gp cost without taking the time cost into account is worse than worthless

solemn oasis
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having a shitty isp that makes hopping worlds take 10-seconds kinda ruins any hop a billion times for shop method, but that's just me.

near shard
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You can always just multiclient hop

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In fact that's just better regardless

solemn oasis
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ngl, the current meta of being freed from red prison into immediately doing 4-tick alch-daelt mining and multi-skilling for 95 rc kinda feels like the 2024 equivalent of osiris kindly asking you to do 99fm at wintertodt after 2-hours of doing content.

like: "finally free of the red prison, off i go do another 100-hour grind while not even using the new gear i just got"

Tl;DR: do as you please, and have fun playing game
cause the best decision is usually the one that doesn't get you to quit the game/burn out

woven walrus
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I know it's not time efficient to only buy x amount of shop items per worlds; and normally I'd just buy worlds out but I'm just trying to rush 94 mage for the inferno and not have to make gp to slow that process down 😄

near shard
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Once you hit 82 magic id use smoke barrage over burst btw

woven walrus
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oh crap i've just got the chaos runes 🥲

stoic basin
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didn't someone make a proper scar essence calc already?

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i remember seeing it in hld and using it

dense ingot
dry jetty
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i.e. front-load all of the skilling and then do PVM

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That way once you get the bowfa you can just keep going

small thicket
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You can do a lot of the stuff in Ch. 3 in parallel, it's just written sequentially in the guide because that's more straightforward than explaining how you can put parallel paths together