prices are suppose to adjust due to supply and demand across the GE, I'm surprised they still are not at 600 ea as alot of other things have settled into their price ranges by now.

 

 

 

in other words, someone must be buying at that price.

 

 

 

Exactly. When less longs are being bought the price will go down. :P

prices are suppose to adjust due to supply and demand across the GE, I'm surprised they still are not at 600 ea as alot of other things have settled into their price ranges by now.

 

 

 

in other words, someone must be buying at that price.

 

 

 

Exactly. When less longs are being bought the price will go down. :P

 

 

 

I was sure that I've seen a topic stating that the minimum price was set by the GE at 704 gp. This would mean that yew longs won't be available for cheap magic xp. :wink:

prices are suppose to adjust due to supply and demand across the GE, I'm surprised they still are not at 600 ea as alot of other things have settled into their price ranges by now.

 

 

 

in other words, someone must be buying at that price.

 

 

 

Exactly. When less longs are being bought the price will go down. :P

 

I think the prices change based on transactions made in the GE. So, they go down if more people buy at the lowest price. If nobody buys them, the GE won't have any info to put in its database, and so it'll stay the same. Buying less of them does not make the price drop.

I cant remember as it doesnt matter to me but arnt they restricted at a high base level they cant fall below.. Might be wrong on this as I dont care.

 

 

 

Yew longs might die out or the other items drop considerably such as nats have. Eventually they will probably die out to other items that can be alched if adjustments arnt made. Especially since bots are going.. we see what will happen to gathered item prices soon. We could all say people will alch green bodies instead but if there arnt any people farming them 24/7 who are willing to sell cheap.. well.. who knows. Same with rune ores as there used to be many bots and farmers for those too.

 

 

 

Figuring old prices there were many other items to alch with not so bad loss rates and even other ways to train magic. There may be a decrease in alching or there might not. People might suddenly start crafting alot more and alch that junk instead.

 

 

 

...Im 96 magic and possibly 1/4 - 1/2 of it was done from superheating if not more! 8-) The rest was alching stuff I made while crafting/smithing etc. So magic isnt all based on alching even if a large portion of it is. Not forgetting I teleport from place to place a few hundred times a day. :wink:

Here's the two ways I see this could be solved:

 

 

 

1. Craft all of your natures, fletch your own yews you've cut.

 

 

 

2. Stock up now for the trip to 99 magic.

 

 

 

I'd prefer option 1 so you can get higher levels in Runecrafting and in Woodcutting. I hope you can get it through your thick skull (said from a very hard headed person) that Jagex wants you to gather stuff. Magic in my eyes is only worthy of killing monsters. Besides I wouldn't want to be a person who is recognized for one of their skills. I eprsoanlly would want all of my skills trained well. Just my quick hot headed view on this :) .

I have a few possible suggestions:

 

 

 

1. Jagex said that many of the GE prices were off, so this may be an example of one of those prices. In that case, they will be fixed in due course.

 

 

 

2. The lack of bots (and the resultant drop in raw material production) is causing somewhat of a shockwave throughout the whole economy. Hopefully this will stabilise.

 

 

 

3. With yew longs at unreasonable prices, you shouldn't be using them. If you have to train to 99 Magic, use an alternative method. As other people have said, green d'hide bodies and steel plates are popular for alching. Combat magic at metal dragons are also popular with the mages. By defiantly buying yew longs at these prices, you are thereby maintaining their price. Your call.

 

 

 

4. As the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy so famously stated: Don't Panic. Do something else, like, uh, Hunter or something. This isn't the end of the world.

just go curse some cows... way cheaper (and more fun :thumbsup: )

jagex fixed it like this, now alching cant be something that you simply buy nats and buy bows and profit.

 

 

 

you now have to buy yew logs and fletch them yourself then alch, at least now you have to make some effort. gl

OK, maybe Steel plates aren't the best option. It was only an example. My point is that alching for mage xp will not go away as a result of January's impending trade update.

 

 

 

I don't think it will either, it's still a reasonably good XP return on your money, but it will become more expensive. And I doubt it will be done through yew longs much any more - the elimination of bots has seriously reduced the availability of yew logs.

jagex fixed it like this, now alching cant be something that you simply buy nats and buy bows and profit.

 

 

 

you now have to buy yew logs and fletch them yourself then alch, at least now you have to make some effort. gl

 

Profit? When did people profit from alching Yew Longs?

 

600 + 255 > 768

Maybe things are that way because Jagex expects you to gather resourses YOURSELF, Not buy them.

 

 

 

Yes this may be absurd, but that's what it seems like.

 

 

 

I'm with you on this one! I didn't get my fletching up to 70+ just because it looks cool. (well, ok not the ONLY reason). With 75 fletching and 60 woodcutting, your only cost is the nature runes.

 

 

 

high alching yew longs is still my #1 moneymaker....with crafting blue hides a close second.

 

 

 

...now that I think about, I should get back to making greenhide sets, since jagex foo-barred up the wildy.

Aw man now all those people who brought thier alchs are going to come train mage with battle spells and take my monsters :cry:

 

 

 

But good, i really dont see the fun in standing in one place clicking the same spot in your inventory 30 thousand times for one or two levels. nice waste of your time :thumbsup:

50M for 99 magic is nothing, 50M use to be the price for 99 prayer, now its 100M. Maybe I ask why? because all the green dragon autoers aqre gone so the price doubled..how going to kill them now? no one thats who...

It might be just me , but arent the COMBAT skills supose to be leveled with FIGHTing something ... thats why they are COMBAT ...

 

 

 

Magic isn't just a combat skill, you ignorant boob. I rarely use magic for combat. 90% of my magic exp came from alching, teleporting, enchanting and lunar spells.

 

 

 

As for this...I don't know exactly what will happen, but I'd also like to remind you that Jagex stated that the more quest points you have, the more of a difference in wealth you'll be able to trade, leading up to 300k gp for those who have all the quest points.

 

 

 

This means that for those with higher quest points, this update really shouldn't effect you too much.

50M for 99 magic is nothing, 50M use to be the price for 99 prayer, now its 100M. Maybe I ask why? because all the green dragon autoers aqre gone so the price doubled..how going to kill them now? no one thats who...

 

 

 

50m was never the price for 99 prayer. It's always been around the 75-150m mark. The only way you could get 99 prayer for 50m from level 1 using dragon bones is if you got them for about 900 gp each. And unless I'm wrong, Dragon Bones have never been less than 1.2k each.

jagex fixed it like this, now alching cant be something that you simply buy nats and buy bows and profit.

 

 

 

you now have to buy yew logs and fletch them yourself then alch, at least now you have to make some effort. gl

 

 

 

Eh? When could you buy everything and profit? In the past year, not even fletching your own was enough. You had to either cut you own logs, craft the nats, or spin flax to profit.

You forget one thing.

 

 

 

The GE adjusts prices. Yew longs will go down.

As has been said in this thread before...

 

 

 

YEW LONGS WILL NOT GO BELOW 704EA

 

 

 

That is the minimum price the GE will ever sell for unless JaGex themselves alter the price. Certain items have a price range that they will not go out of. This was done to prevent price manipulation. The bottom of that range for Yew Longs is 704. That simple fact is, in reality, the only reason this thread even exists...

Like omg we can't get 99 mage without *gasps* LOSING money!!1!

 

 

 

 

 

-.- Took long enough.

As for this...I don't know exactly what will happen, but I'd also like to remind you that Jagex stated that the more quest points you have, the more of a difference in wealth you'll be able to trade, leading up to 300k gp for those who have all the quest points.

 

 

 

This means that for those with higher quest points, this update really shouldn't effect you too much.

 

 

 

30k, actually. It's not going to help very much.

I think that the prices will stabilize in the near future, making yew long alching worth it. I believe that the complete removal of autoers was the reason behind the huge rise in price. For around a week or two, I was often alone while chopping yew logs, however, there has been a rise in the amount of choppers. This means that soon, the buyers of yew logs will be satisfied, causing a large drop in price of yews, which will consequentially cause a drop in the price of yew longs, allowing alchers to make more money.

I don't think it will drop that much. Yew autoers before pretty much ensured that every yew tree on every f2p world was being cut 24 hours a day. Live players won't be cutting anywhere near that many logs. Not to mention the fact that crowds tend to scare people away from cutting, whereas a bot didn't care if there were 20 other players cutting trees. Many trees will never get cut at all, and plenty of spots will go unused in emptier worlds.

You forget one thing.

 

 

 

The GE adjusts prices. Yew longs will go down.

 

That's not true. JaGEx adjusts prices. They do so as they see fit. For most items, they will go with supply and demand, however when it hits one of their imaginary price floors or price ceilings, they'll restrict it from moving any further. Like what has happened to Yew Longs.

 

 

 

If they will go down, why haven't they already?

Or you could smith mith plates then alch them. Depending on 1 item is quite silly.

"The high alch market has a fever. When your baby gets a fever, you take it to the J mod. If that J mod says he needs to intervene, he probably won't, but you don't say that you read somewhere in the scholastic guide for runescape that they should! If the market's on fire, you aren't gonna speculate that they might fix it, you're gonna know they're not gonna fix it!!"

 

 

 

By Al Gore

 

 

 

Well... okay, maybe I missed a few key words.