Pure Essence

[limpid turtle]

Are we able to add a more copious and accessible source of pure essence?

Until now, to get pure essence I had to do scaled raids on iron and pray that my half-hour time input would result in a pure ess roll, or I would have to utilize alts to do soulwars with myself to farm spoils of war (again, another rng roll).

I've mined over 300k daeyalt and honestly never enjoyed it, since for it to be worth it during 'focused' time, I had to 1.5t for hours on end or else the banked xp/hr isn't competitive with pure ess, as banked pure ess is inherently better to use than going out of your way to afk daeyalt. Additionally, I do not just want to afk daeyalt - I want to play the game. I don't want to have to watch a series just to tolerate or stomach time spent mining daeyalt. I just want to play runescape and I want to just do the activity I want to do which is runecrafting.

I've done hundreds of deathless solo cox kc, scaled 1+x, and solo cms, and even after all that time input, I can only do lavas for a couple days tops with ALL the pure ess obtained.

Since I know someone is going to bring it up, I'll address it now - I do not enjoy Guardians of the Rift. It's a lot of focus and is essentially regular runecrafting with a crafting table instead of a bank with forced downtime that breaks the flow of the activity, with some forced mining. Additionally, the xp is very underwhelming and the only "effective" way to do it longterm is in smallteam which is tough in and of itself to get into, similar to getting on a tob team.

I've thought about it at length and can't reconcile with any justification for why pure ess is so limited to ironmen. Having to use scar ess mine to buy runes, straight up shops, or turning a skill into a minigame (gotr) is not in the spirit of the gamemode, and in my opinion is anti-old school runescape.

So, can we have an effective way to source large amounts of pure essence? Please.

[raven temple]

Pure essence is dropped in such huge quantities, theres no way you need that much, unless you are going for post-99 exp, and if you need just runes, then stop wasting pure ess on lavas

Just doing zulrah for the uniques should net you hundreds of thousands

[limpid turtle]

Completing zulrah shouldn't be the solution for an unrelated activity. Even to use the 'couple hundred thousand' you're still only going* to get a couple million xp for thousands of kc at the boss (also an rng roll) - lavas are not wasteful, either, as they are 10xp per, and blood runes are 10.5xp, for example.

I personally don't accept the "that's good enough" take as you can essentially green log cox and get all your zulrah items and still not have enough essence to do 99rc as the skill intended.

Do wonder though how having an overabundance of pure essence implemented into the game is an integrity issue? The player still has to do the actual runecrafting as the skill is intended - It should be encouraged. Somehow we have enhanced buying runes (scar ess), but we are still trivialized by improved access to the actual skill.

[ocean rivet]

They also added a significant source of pure essence to the scar that you can just mine

[drifting tulip]

👆 this, scar ess mine gives ~10k/hr, also Zeah Runecrafting, since it doesn't need pure essence?

[limpid turtle]

You can mine that many daeyalt per hour which is 150% of the xp, which makes it dead by default. Additionally daeyalt doesnt cost

Zeah is bad xp and the alternative is doing true bloods for more xp and 10k bloods per hour, which is a method I do enjoy.

[drifting tulip]

you can mine about 40% of that amount, which gives a total of 60% xp for the time according to wiki figures

[manic moat]

Slayer.
Many bosses.
Soulwars.
Daily ardy reward.
The list goes on, the game has to much essense it will forever be a 1gp item for that reason.

Dont play the iron card. Thats the only game mode i play anymore and on every account i accumulate more then the account will ever need.

[limpid turtle]

You're a GIM, don't play the iron card. I've also done 40m rc xp, so have experimented with all methods. If you aren't doing traditional rc & combo runes, and instead do gotr, of course you'll have more than you'll need. There's also the 99% probability there's someone in your group who is a pvmer and cba with rc so you can inherit all their essence. This is a non-issue for you.

[analog elbow]

Irons asking for more accessbility will never not be funny

you have so many options that don't involve pure ess lmao, throw a dart at the board and pick one