Trailblazer League (2020)/Guide/Runecraft

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Overview

Main article: Pay-to-play Runecraft training

All players begin the league with level 5 Runecraft. The training methods are mostly the same as the main game, depending on which altars are available. Daeyalt essence provides a 50% bonus to Runecraft experience when used to craft runes, requires completion of the Sins of the Father quest. Necklace of binding grants a 100% success rate to make combination runes and should always be used while crafting them.

Runecraft is modified by two tier 1 relics.

• Endless harvest greatly increases the speed at which players can obtain Pure essence, however Zulrah provides a similar amount per hour and Daeyalt essence mining reduces the time burden of mining essence to a negligible amount.
• Production master is not directly beneficial to Runecraft training.
• Skilling prodigy allows players to bypass low-level and low XP content.

Tier 2 relics choice have significant impact on Runecraft training.

• Last Recall makes is possible to teleport back to the altar removing the need for most of the running in the training cycle.
• Eternal Jeweler may make the training somewhat more convenient if you are using teleportation jewellery in the process (for example when using Abyss).
• Fairy's Flight is not very useful for Runecraft training.

The Equilibrium relic affects every inventory of essence only once, which makes it beneficial to craft an inventory of runes in separate steps. This can be achieved in several ways. The simplest way is to bring all pouches, and then craft runes in between every time you empty a pouch. Although this does increase the experience per inventory, players using the crystal of memories from the Last Recall relic might want to simply teleport back and forth instead. Another way to do this is to bring both pure essence and daeyalt essence in a single inventory, which get crafted individually. This causes Equilibrium to provide one extra experience drop per inventory. Finally, players without easy access to altars might want to consider dropping all essence, and then crafting them one-by-one to ensure more bonus experience from Equilibrium.

Training

Runecraft altar locations

Altar	Requirement	Location and notes	Region
Air Altar	1	North-east of the Crafting Guild and south of Falador.	Asgarnia✓
Mind Altar	2	Between Ice Mountain and Goblin Village.	Asgarnia✓
Water Altar	5	South of Lumbridge in the swamps and south-east of Draynor Village.	Misthalin✓
Earth Altar	9	North-east of Varrock, near the Lumber Yard.	Misthalin✓
Fire Altar	14	North-east of Al Kharid.	Desert✓
Body Altar	20	Between Ice Mountain and Barbarian Village, south of Edgeville Monastery.	Asgarnia✓
Cosmic Altar	27	The southern part of Zanaris. Requires Lost City.	Misthalin✓
Chaos Altar	35	Wilderness level 9, north-west of Edgeville.	Wilderness✓
Astral Altar	40	Southern part of Lunar Isle. Requires Lunar Diplomacy. No talisman required.	Fremennik✓
Nature Altar	44	North of Shilo Village.	Karamja✓
Law Altar	54	Northern part of Entrana. No weapons or armour allowed.	Asgarnia✓
Death Altar	65	Temple of Light, bottom floor. Also accessible from the Underground Pass. Requires Mourning's End Part II.	Tirannwn✓
Wrath Altar	95	South of the Myths' Guild through the Corsair Cove Dungeon. Requires Dragon Slayer II.	Kandarin✓ AND Fremennik✓
Ourania altar	1	Within the Ourania Cave south-west of West Ardougne. No talisman required.	Kandarin✓

Creating tiaras

Crafting tiaras can be a fast method to gain quick level starting at level 1. Tiaras can be crafted by using a talisman on the corresponding altar with a tiara in your inventory. It is possible to craft up to 13 tiaras in one trip, and can result in up to 50,000 base experience per hour.

• Dagannoth Prime commonly drops many earth, air, and water talismans
• Earth implings commonly drop fire and earth talismans

Other equipment

Item		Region	Notes
	Essence pouches	Wilderness✓	Although essence pouches can be obtained in the starting region via ALR, they cannot be repaired without unlocking the Wilderness region.
	Daeyalt essence	Morytania✓	Requires 60 Mining and the Sins of the Father quest. Provides 50% extra Runecraft XP when used. This bonus is multiplicative with the 70% bonus at the Ourania Altar, for a total bonus of 155%. This is significantly faster overall to train Runecraft than using pure essence when including the time necessary to obtain each.
	Pure essence	Misthalin✓ Tirannwn✓	Requires 30 Mining, pre-requisites are auto-unlocked. Zulrah provides an average of 120~ Pure essence per kill and can easily compete with normal mining methods. The Nightmare Zone reward shop cannot be used to obtain pure essence in the Trailblazer League.
	Binding necklace	Misthalin✓	Used to create combination runes with a 100% success rate. Degradable, has 16 uses. May be created with level 27 Magic and level 29 Crafting. Uncommon drop from the Abyssal Sire in increments of 25.

Temporary boosts

Item		Region	Notes
	Spicy stew (orange spice)	Desert✓	Boosts Runecraft by ±0-5. Requires manual completion of the Freeing Evil Dave subquest in Recipe for Disaster.
	Oldak	Asgarnia✓	Boosts Runecraft by ±2. Requires completion of Death to the Dorgeshuun.

Skillcape

Item		Region	Master	Notes
	Runecraft Cape	Misthalin✓	Aubury	While equipped allows access to all runic altars and prevents essence pouches from degrading. This is the only way to use essence pouches to train without unlocking the Wilderness or using NPC contact from the Lunar Spellbook.

Quests

Quest	Base XP Reward	Requirements	Required Regions	Autocompleted Regions
The Fremennik Exiles	5,000	65 Crafting 60 Slayer 60 Smithing 60 Fishing 55 Runecraft	Fremennik✓
What Lies Below	8,000	35 Runecraft	Wilderness✓

XP rewards with skill choice

Quest	Base XP Reward	Requirements	Required Regions	Autocompleted Regions
X Marks the Spot	300	-	Asgarnia✓
A Taste of Hope	2,500	45 Agility 40 Attack 48 Crafting 40 Herblore 38 Slayer	Morytania✓
A Tail of Two Cats	2,500 twice	-	Asgarnia✓ Desert✓	Fremennik✓
King's Ransom	5,000	65 Defence 45 Magic	Asgarnia✓ Kandarin✓
Sins of the Father	15,000 3 times	62 Woodcutting 60 Fletching 56 Crafting 52 Agility 50 Attack 50 Slayer 49 Magic	Morytania✓