Money making guide/Smithing rune items

The profit rate assumes items made per hour. Your actual profit may be higher or lower depending on speed.

Runite bars can be smithed at 99 Smithing into rune 2h swords, rune platelegs, or rune plateskirts. Due to these items' use in high-level alchemy, they can be fairly profitable to make, while also being low-effort and giving a decent amount of Smithing experience. The most valuable item to smith currently is rune plateskirt(update), with a value of 37,620.00 (after tax). It is possible to increase profit by using high alchemy on the smithed rune items. Simply withdraw coins, nature runes, and equip a fire staff in addition to the 25 bars and hammer to efficiently utilize inventory space.

The optimal location to smith in free-to-play is the Varrock west bank; the optimal location for pay-to-play is Prifddinas, which is 2 ticks faster per inventory. Simply withdraw a hammer and 27 runite bars, run to the anvil, and begin smithing your item of choice. The rune items can then be sold on the Grand Exchange, or to other players for a slightly higher price. There are often players willing to buy them on world 308 around the Varrock anvils, usually at 37800, although this might be a slower process than selling them at the GE. If items are sold on that anvil then the hourly profit would be 599400 gp.

The rate of items made per hour can be made quicker if the player is wearing the Smiths' Uniform obtained from the Giants' Foundry. Each of the four pieces of the outfit gives a 20% chance to speed up Smithing actions performed at an anvil by 1 tick, up to a 100% chance with the full set.

Item		Materials	Profit
	Rune 2h sword	x3	106.00
	Rune platelegs	x3	68.00
	Rune plateskirt	x3	219.00