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[Deadliftonly]

Currently, the best way to farm pure essence is Zulrah, followed perhaps by Twisted Banshees. Normal Banshees also drop essence, though only at a minuscule  rate. This is a problem, specifically for low level Ironmen and Classic players (or any DIY players, really). There is no reason that bulk pure essence should be locked behind a high-level boss or PvM mobs, when Runecrafting is an essential skill that should be utilized from a very low level. Pure Essence should be able to be gathered the way it was intended to be.

 

Make mining a viable method of collecting pure essence.

 

Drop rates of essence do not need to be nerfed, but when you are spending time focused solely on farming essence, the rates should at the very least compete with other methods. There are a few ways which this can be accomplished:

 

1. AFK - Mine noted essence at an accelerated rate.

 

2. Semi-AFK - A majority of essence mined will be noted, while a stray unnoted essence will occasionally appear in the player's inventory. This will force players to bank every so often. Essence is mined at an accelerated rate. The rate of noted essence received could be another Donator benefit (ie: non-Donators get 90% noted essence, Donators get 95% noted essence, etc).

 

3. Non-AFK - Place an NPC who notes essence a short distance from the essence rock. Essence is mined at an accelerated rate.

 

Mining should yield the player several thousand essence per hour to compete with PvM methods. The rates would scale with Mining and/or Runecrafting level. I personally believe that method 2 is the best solution.

[Savitr]

Too OP in my opinion.

Maybe boost drop rates but definitely not these.

No support.

[Deadliftonly]

Too OP in my opinion.
Maybe boost drop rates but definitely not these.
No support.

How so?

I don't know the rates from Zulrah, so these are made up numbers, but let's say you get 10k essence from Zulrah in 1 hour, you also got a bunch of other loot, possibly a unique. With this method, even if you do get 10k essence per hour, you get no other loot, and barely gained any experience doing so.

Pure essence is expensive because the demand is high. This would raise the supply, lowering the price of essence, so it's not like this would be a game breaking money maker.
Also, the point of this thread is to add a non-PvM method to acquire pure essence in bulk. Adjusting drop rates from monsters doesn't address this issue. The rates I suggested are subject to change based on whatever the Devs think are reasonable.

[Sheep]

At some time when playing classic you can kill more slayer monsters like wyverns and ext. at some point you won’t even notice that you have like 5k pure essence, if you just keep doing slayer/bosses you’ll end up with a lot of pure essence, this was my problem too at first when playing classic but around 70 slayer you’ll have loads of pure essence.

If you don’t want to do PVM you can buy it from other people too.

So this suggestion isn’t needed.

No support.

[Not Salter]

I'm an Iron and I've never mined a single pure essence.
Doing a hundred kills of Zulrah gets you 99 RC. 

I can see the hassle if you're going for 200m but it's still quite easy to obtain essence from bossing.
No support from me.

[Dirty Nerd]

From being an iron, doing 100 Zulrah kills has accumulated me enough pure essence for 99 rc. Sorry but no support, I feel as if this would be too OP.

[Y0m0pk]

Not needed, you can’t expect everything handed to you on this server you actually have to do work as well you know?

[Aster]

Don't support since we have the essence mine that works no problem. I'm on 99 magic and 83 RC just from Essesnce Mine making Airs and Minds. If I was to make bloods or deaths I'd be done with RC. There's nothing wrong with mining it yourself..

[Mach]

No Support you eventually get their once you hit higher level Mobs 

[Deadliftonly]

Y'all missed the point hard af.

Being OP isn't a problem, rates used are just examples and will be changed for balance. I'm not asking for freebies, I'm asking to be able to get essence at a reasonable rate without pvm or buying from others. Runecrafting should not be locked behind pvm when the two aren't even remotely related.

[Oh Du Hast]

Though I like where you're going with this suggestion I don't think it's necessary to add. There are plenty of easy ways to get Pure essence.

I completely understood the point you were trying to make & I'm sure plenty of others did on this thread.

If you were persistent enough Mining at the Rune essence mine you'd have a few thousand by now, but instead tried to rant at us for not agreeing with a suggestion that honestly to me? Wouldn't even be a QOL update if it was implemented.

Don't play as a a Classic if it's too slow/difficult.

I look forward to.your future threads! The layout was really nice & you do have quite the imagination we need here at Alora.

[Dante]

With all of the monsters you can kill to get loads of pure essence I don't think it's necessary to add something like this. There are countless monsters that drop pure essence noted frequently.

[1]

Basically every person in this thread missed OP's point entirely, this wouldn't be overpowered in any way. I support making mining a more viable way of obtaining pure ess in some form (ideally the semi-AFK description you gave).

[HC Proxy]

Basically every person in this thread missed OP's point entirely, this wouldn't be overpowered in any way. I support making mining a more viable way of obtaining pure ess in some form (ideally the semi-AFK description you gave).

+1 As an early HCIM I had no choice but to bide my time and hit 72 Slayer before being able to gain a substantial amount of essence. I like the semi-afk idea too.

[IronSheepDog]

support, i like all 3 options, as currently getting ess is rather annoying unless youve got the stats'gear for zulrah, and since its still not safe death for hcim its alot harder for them aswell

[Dante]

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