b1oodhunt

The rune scimitar ----F2P In my opinion, it will go down but not for a while. If you look at the trends it has gone up over 200% in 1.5 months and is still growing. But eventually, it will rise too high (45k) estimated at around December 1st, where people will have found a substitute to it. Already many people began buying short swords instead of scimitars, and battle axes instead of rune 2hs. Initially, the range-baxe tactic was started because 2hs were in such high demand that it was impossible to get one easily. The same thing will happen with scims, people will resort to either range-baxe (most likely) or short sword baxe combos. This will result in the lower price of scims, and the higher price of short swords and baxes which will lower 2hs and stabilize equipment for a short term period. During this period the price of runite ores will drop and will result in less people mining and more people buying runite ores for smithing. This will result in more rune weapons and lower the price of them even more. When the cost of weapons are lowered, pkers will have more money than they did b4 and will now stop using tuna as a substitute for lobsters, so the price of tunas will lower again but the demand for lobsters will go even higher. Then more people will start fishing instead of smithing and this is around the time everyone would have switched back to scimitars from short swords/range, so the market will continue to fluxuate in this pattern until further updates are made, or until people learn to read forums. Second reason for increase of price in scimitar. WARNING THIS IS JUST A SPECULATION - NO ACTUAL EVIDENCE Since pvp worlds have come out, people have been losing their scimitars when they die, but the person who kills the person might not recieve a scimitar because of the random drop system. This has resulted in the scimitars dissappearing from the game forever and eventually there are fewer and fewer scims and the demand is rising higher and higher (but of course not as high as the first week of pvp). Whereas in bounty hunting, scims did drop and were successfully looted atleast 80% of the time. But in pvp worlds, resources show that only 15% of scims lost are recollected. When Jagex decides to give this a fix to help the economy, to make the likelyhood of rune scimies drop more instead of other things. Safe to say the woodcutting and fletching industries will remain stable. I have no words on the runecrafting industry as i dont give a carp about them because you can frikin buy them at unlimited amounts from the general store, and people are wasting their time on runecrafting and could be doing better things like helping out the pkers by stockpiling fish.