Abyss runecrafting

by: Feone

The first thing you need to have done is the quest from the mage of zamorak, he is located outside edgeville, this will gain you a small pouch and some runescrafting xp.

There are 4 types of pouches, one for 3 essence, one for 6, one for 9, and one for 12 essence. The runecrafting level for these are: 0, 25, 50, 75. You can get these by killing monsters in the abyss, this might take a long time though and you will probably have to kill alot of monsters.

About the Abyss:

The abyss contains 2 rings, the outer and the inner ring, and there is also a chamber in the middle.

The outter ring: This is the place where you appear once you enter the Abyss. The monsters are also located here: Abbysal leaches, guardians and walkers. The leaches dont hit very high, but fairly fast. the guardians hit high and at normal speed, these are the biggest thread. The walkers usually dont hit very high (they can hit high!) and are fairly slow, not a big threat, but watch out if you appear between them.

To get to the inner ring you wil have to use a skil to get past a blockage, the skills needed are : thieving/mining/agility/woodcutting/firemaking (for mining woodcutting and firemaking a pickaxe/hatchet/tinderbox are needed. you must use one of these skills to get past a blockage. In the inner ring there are portals to all the altars, even blood and soul (these cant be used until jagex adds blood and soul altars).

In the central chamber is a dark mage, he repairs pouches for you.

If you enter your prayer will be drained to 0, and you will get skulled.

Monsters give very little xp here, it is not a good training spot.

How to craft using the abyss:
note: a low combat level is always an advantage, most pkers are lvl 80-100, you will need to walk through level 4-6 wildy, combat levels higher or lower than these will prevent them from attacking you (about 6 levels higher or lower!)

there are several ways commonly used:

Ways with few deaths but high costs if you die

You should take your pouches with you on these methods

1: Walking from edgeville to the Mage of zamorak*, go trough the abyss , then crafting the runes and use a amulet of glory to teleport back to edgeville.

Items needed: The best dragonhide armor you can use, an elemental/mind shield , pickaxe , a helmet which gives both magic and melee protection, boots of lightness if you have them else metal or normal boots, ring of life, amulet of glory (preferably more, so you wont have to recharge too often) and a spotted/spottier cape, or a god cape (depending if you prefer more running energy or mage protection)

Skills: a high thieving/mining/firemaking/woodcutting/agility level is an advantage, also a high defense level will help. An high ranged level is a must, the higher dragonhide you have, the higher the chance of survival!

Dangers: Pkers are the biggest danger here, they wil stand between edgeville and the mage of zamorak. They will generally use spells like entangle and teleblock and then attack you useing ranged magic or melee.

Abbys monsters not really dangerous if you use high dragonhide amor, unless yiu are damaged by pkers.

Lag: Make sure you are in a world where you dont have lag! Lag is deadly while abyss crafting, it will prevent you from effectively outrunning pkers, or abyss monsters!

2: Walk to mage of zamorak from edgeville*, go through abyss, craft the runes, then use ring of duelling to tele to castlewars, and then get a glory from your bank and tele to edgeville.

This method is the same as the first except you wont have to carry an expensive glory to pkers and the abyss.

* There are two ways of getting there from edgeville, west and east of the river.west is faster but more dangerous because there are more pkers on that side. east means running a bit longer, but there are fewer pkers.

Ways with more deaths but lower costs if you die:
These ways are a bit slower then the precious ways, but they are better if you are low level.

DO NOT TAKE POUCHES WITH YOU WHEN YOU ARE USING THIS METHOD!

1: Walk from edgeville to mage of zamorak, go through abyss, craft runes, tele to lumbridge, use the canoe to get back to edgeville

Items needed: a hatchet and armor you dont mind losing, and some lumbridge teleport runes.

Skils: same as other methods except ranged isnt necessary.

Dangers: Same as other methods, except abyss monsters are more dangerous now because you have no/little armor

2: The same as before except you take a ring of duelling with you, to tele to castlewars and then use a glory to get back to edgeville.

-----------------------

Ways to evade pkers:
Dragon hide armor!: this will block alot of spells fired at you, and it will also protect you from ranged and melee.

World hop if you encounter a pker around your level, dont try walking past him/her several times, they WILL PROBABLY catch you.

Set your private chat to : Off/Friends, this will prevent pkers to follow you if you world hop to evade them!

Always set auto retalliate to off! You do not want your character to run towards a pker if you are under attack :P

Abbysal bracelet: This will prevent you form getting skulled when you go through the abbys.

General tips:
If you are in the outer ring of the abyss, heading to a blockage, walk in the direction where the inner ring is the thinnest, this will usually take you in the direction of the entrance to the central chamber.(close to nature altar)

Use a ring of life, no guarantee that it will save you, but there is a chance :)

Always check if your ring of duelling/glory still has a charge, Else you will have to walk back (even if you have home tele)

Keep an eye on your hitpoints, if you forget to heal you might die from pkers/ abyss monsters (healing can be done at the bank, for food will take up inventory space.

Profits:
The part you are probably looking for!

At lvl 50+ runecrafting you can use 3 pouches, that means you can carry 43 pure essence. When crafting natures you can make 200-300k an hour.

at level 75+ it will go even faster (another pouch) and at level 91 you can craft really fast (2 nats per essence)

at runecrafting levels under 44 (no nats) you could make some monney making cosmics or other runes, but you wont be able to use 3 pouches, so it will go slower.

And of course you will get alot of runecrafting experience, and a little xp in the skills you use to get past the abyss blockages.

Costs:
The part you dont want to know about :P

I recommend having about 10+ glorys, fewer is not really a problem, but you will have to recharge more often, which costs time, and time is money!

If you use them abbysal bracelets might cost some money.

And of course the armor you use will cost some money.