i would say a LOT cheaper basic runes, simply because there is no longer a competition between the p2p and f2p essences, leading to excessive number of Normal Rune essences on F2p, and the best thing that f2p can make are air runes, the price of these airs will plummet (it is already starting to fall from 20 ea to 17-18ea) This means bad for those world 16 air runner hirers, such as myself as leveling RC is a much more expensive business now. Jagex certainly would have done much better if it had asked players for opinions how this should be done, but it has a very large impact for both economies (negative largely) EDIT: though what you say about the prices of ess not dropping below 20ea... unfortunately those lv 3 macro'ers has started to sell them at 15ea, i scored 100k of it recently on world 1... Which means that if macro'ers continue to macro, they would have to lower the prices to sell their ess, but that means depressing rune ess price overall, and the cycle continues, until it drops to like 5ea or something... (i am a pessimistic person, so pardon me for my views)