For everyone that does not know the essence situation, I would recommend to lay low when it comes to this topic. I will however give a quick summary:

 

 

 

Few essence miners (Bots and gold farmers gone)

 

 

 

For high levels/mid levels it is not worth mining essence as it gives very poor xp and they have better ways to make money.

 

 

 

 

 

For the low levels it is a ok thing to do when it comes to money, but still the xp cuts short.

 

 

 

 

 

Result. Pure essence prices are higher than many runes and the whole market is dodgy. There is currently no balance in the system.

 

 

 

 

 

You could always give more xp for mining essence, but that would just make it too good for low levels and un-balance the game.

 

 

 

This is my solution to it however:

 

 

 

 

Low levels straight off tutorial island would still be able to get their essence to craft their runes. However they would not be able to get too much xp for it so other options such as copper and tin would be better for xp.

 

 

 

High levels

 

New reasons to get higher mining. Will get pure essence quicker than the lower levels. And they will get more xp to balance it more with other things to do with the mining skill.

 

 

 

 

 

No, this is not a "suggestion" so please don't move it. This is a topic to discuss the essence issue. (And possible fixes)

 

 

 

Essence prices 157gp atm?

Interesting, something certainly needs to be done, prices are really quite annoying :|

I like your proposals. They will never happen, of course, but I do like them.

 

 

 

That said.. I think the current overpricing of pure ess is due to two main factors. First, people are hoarding it due to rumors about a new rune being released for Summoning. Second, the Grand Excrement is not allowing the market price to be freely set, which increases the duration of run-ups in prices (or drops in prices in the other direction).

 

 

 

I think prices will go back down once the skill comes out -- probably dramatically so.

 

 

 

I consider this a good time to sell essence (and have in fact sold nearly all of mine.) Prices could still go higher but there's not much room for further profits at these levels.

 

 

 

And it's obviously a great time for ess mining if you like that sort of thing.

I think if a level 70 miner can fill their inventory in 10 seconds, while getting 20 xp/p ess, people will mine their own essence. I don't really know how to do that, though. i think we need to be able to mine 2k+ ess an hour.

I agree, this would be excellent. I love the way you made the interface, looks tight :)

Whats the levels in? combat? Mining? Runecrafting?

 

Also what are the current prices of ess?

Whats the levels in? combat? Mining? Runecrafting?

 

Also what are the current prices of ess?

 

 

 

The levels are in mining as it is today.

 

 

 

The current essence price and what they sell for is around 150 per essence.

 

 

 

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Thanks for all the replies.

I like this suggestion... I support :)

 

 

 

p.s. I knew this would happen when the announced killing off RWT'ers... so I bought 100k essence at 80gp each.. I'm so glad that I did that now