On the contrary, pure essence had a huge impact on runecrafters. People went from having to spend 25 gp on essence, to 110 gp on pure essence, so it reduced their profit by 85 gp. That basically knocked off 1/4th of the gp they make. As any hardcore runecrafter would know, that's a lot. I now make almost 200k gp less per hour than I was making before rune essence came out. I think you can all agree, that 200k gp is a big difference (went from 700k to 500k, more or less). So yes, any runecrafter would know that pure essence had a huge impact. I have several friends who quit runecrafting all together since their profit decreased by so much. maybe you should read the whole thread before posting