Before tip.it got hacked a couple months ago I had a thread about the Soul altar and felt the need to recreate it.

 

 

 

So, the last frontier of rune crafting. The mystical and unknown Soul Altar. It has a level requirement, but still the altar is not to be found.

 

 

 

It is an idea that the Soul Altar will be revealed in a current quest storyline my like its predecessors, the Death and Blood altars.

 

 

 

But the question up for discussion is, which quest storyline will the Soul Altar be released in or if you even think it will be released as in a quest.

 

 

 

Possible Storylines Include:

 

~ Desert Storyline

 

~ Maharajats/ WGS Storyline

 

~ Elf Storyline

 

~ Gnome Storyline

 

~ 150th Quest

 

~ Elemental Workshop ( Thanks to Beriorn )

 

~ Any Other Storyline that I have forgotten that you think could work. ;)

 

 

 

 

 

It is my personal belief that this altar will be part of the WGS storyline because of the fact that the quests in the storyline are long and hard and the Soul Altar would be a fitting reward for all the hard work leading up to the end.

 

 

 

 

 

Post your thoughts, opinions, and outlooks.

Elemental Workshop IV.

 

 

 

Elemental Workshop I and II gave us the Elemental and the Elemental Mind equipment. We all know that there's going to be an Elemental Workshop III because of the Body doors that "are locked... for now". Then there's the mantra "Mind, Body and Soul", which may hit at Elemental Workshop IV, in which we learn to create Soul items. I know this is pretty far fetched, but it's possible, no?

Elemental Workshop IV.

 

 

 

Elemental Workshop I and II gave us the Elemental and the Elemental Mind equipment. We all know that there's going to be an Elemental Workshop III because of the Body doors that "are locked... for now". Then there's the mantra "Mind, Body and Soul", which may hit at Elemental Workshop IV, in which we learn to create Soul items. I know this is pretty far fetched, but it's possible, no?

 

 

 

And how does Elemental fit into that?

Elemental Workshop IV.

 

 

 

Elemental Workshop I and II gave us the Elemental and the Elemental Mind equipment. We all know that there's going to be an Elemental Workshop III because of the Body doors that "are locked... for now". Then there's the mantra "Mind, Body and Soul", which may hit at Elemental Workshop IV, in which we learn to create Soul items. I know this is pretty far fetched, but it's possible, no?

 

 

 

And how does Elemental fit into that?

 

 

 

We've got Elemental Mind, soon we have Elemental Body, so to complete the mantra, we'll need Elemental Soul.

 

 

 

Again, it's far fetched.

I say it's hidden within Arposandra.

Some things to note:

 

We have a quest line involving lost ghosts (souls) in the wilderness.

 

A new cave has been spotted in the wilderness near the west zammy temple, looking almost identicle to the ones in the previous quests.

 

 

 

I think there's a significant chance that if it's going to be released via a quest, it will be one of the corp beast quests (can't remember name of the quests atm).

Some things to note:

 

We have a quest line involving lost ghosts (souls) in the wilderness.

 

A new cave has been spotted in the wilderness near the west zammy temple, looking almost identicle to the ones in the previous quests.

 

 

 

I think there's a significant chance that if it's going to be released via a quest, it will be one of the corp beast quests (can't remember name of the quests atm).

 

 

 

If you ask me, the Summer's quests have been finished.

Some things to note:

 

We have a quest line involving lost ghosts (souls) in the wilderness.

 

A new cave has been spotted in the wilderness near the west zammy temple, looking almost identicle to the ones in the previous quests.

 

 

 

I think there's a significant chance that if it's going to be released via a quest, it will be one of the corp beast quests (can't remember name of the quests atm).

 

 

 

If you ask me, the Summer's quests have been finished.

 

 

 

I think you'd get the same answer if you ask Jagex.

Some things to note:

 

We have a quest line involving lost ghosts (souls) in the wilderness.

 

A new cave has been spotted in the wilderness near the west zammy temple, looking almost identicle to the ones in the previous quests.

 

 

 

I think there's a significant chance that if it's going to be released via a quest, it will be one of the corp beast quests (can't remember name of the quests atm).

 

 

 

If you ask me, the Summer's quests have been finished.

 

When I did the 2nd quest it felt like there were some loose ends left. I can't remember what exactly is said at the end now, though.

I say it's hidden within Arposandra.

 

That's my idea too. The current gnome quests aren't really hard enough for a reward as big as the Soul Altar, but if they add one or more hard ones, I think it would be logical. After all, Glouphrie is messing with the Anima Mundi, the 'Soul of the World'.

Some things to note:

 

We have a quest line involving lost ghosts (souls) in the wilderness.

 

A new cave has been spotted in the wilderness near the west zammy temple, looking almost identicle to the ones in the previous quests.

 

 

 

I think there's a significant chance that if it's going to be released via a quest, it will be one of the corp beast quests (can't remember name of the quests atm).

 

 

 

If you ask me, the Summer's quests have been finished.

 

When I did the 2nd quest it felt like there were some loose ends left. I can't remember what exactly is said at the end now, though.

 

If you haven't done anything past the official end of the quest, then yes, there's some more stuff to do, such as exploring the remaining portals, fighting the Corporeal Beast and finishing off the spirit shield. But since we can do that, there's no loose ends in the game any more. This is a rare example of Jagex actually finishing a storyline (if you call two quests a storyline).

 

 

 

I reckon Arposandra would be a good choice for the altar, but we've forgotten about the possibility of new runes, or more combinations of existing runes, and so on and so on. It's the last known frontier, but not necessarily the last. ;)

Elemental Workshop IV I think. Mind, body, soul.

I wan't more elemental workshop quests. Possibly the quest line I wan't advanced the most. I really like working with all the machinery. I wan't more. Elemental Workshop IV shounds like a nice choice.

Well, Elf got us Death altar, I don't think its gnome, so I'm gonna go for WGS (Soul Altar in desert just sounds illogical to me)

I think it's going to be in the desert. We've already had altars in the north, east, and west, but not in the south. And the Desert quests have the gods competing to get your soul. The Devourer, for example.

i dont see why we need a soul altar, There is no demand. The supply would drive the price down to the floor.

i dont see why we need a soul altar, There is no demand. The supply would drive the price down to the floor.

 

 

 

No demand yet, but who's to say that if they ever release it through a quest they wouldn't give them another use?

i dont see why we need a soul altar, There is no demand. The supply would drive the price down to the floor.

 

 

 

No demand yet, but who's to say that if they ever release it through a quest they wouldn't give them another use?

 

The demand is now, and it tells that a soul altar is unneccesary. If a soul altar is released now, there has to be a demand that follows it. If the demand comes ahead of the altar, the price will rise until an altar is a neccesity to have.

 

 

 

It is pointless to speculate until demand rises or when altar is released.

i dont see why we need a soul altar, There is no demand. The supply would drive the price down to the floor.

 

 

 

We need it because the skill is not complete yet. There's a spot in the abyss for it, there is a level for it, and yet we can't craft them.

 

 

 

It's not like anyone crafts chaos runes, why do we need them?

Don't forget we also have that big black square still in the North West part of the wilderness.

 

It is easily possible that the soul alter could be hidden within the ice there.

 

 

 

As a progression, higher alters tend to be in more dangerous/secluded areas away from banks, and traveling to the high level wilderness to an alter would be very dangerous.

 

 

 

Since the map there has been left blank for quite some time and no content was placed there, I get the feeling that might be where its located.

If the level requirement does indeed follow the pattern and ends up at 90, the altar will be virtually useless. 2 nature runes is worth more than 1 soul rune, and that's only one more level. If it's xp you are after, ZMI is better. The only useful way to do this would be to create the altar and a crafting method with a speed that allows profits or xp to rival graahk runecrafting or ZMI.

If the level requirement does indeed follow the pattern and ends up at 90, the altar will be virtually useless. 2 nature runes is worth more than 1 soul rune, and that's only one more level. If it's xp you are after, ZMI is better. The only useful way to do this would be to create the altar and a crafting method with a speed that allows profits or xp to rival graahk runecrafting or ZMI.

 

 

 

Not to mention the fact that soul runes will probably drop to the low 200s, if not lower. Currently there are not many sources of soul runes.

i dont see why we need a soul altar, There is no demand. The supply would drive the price down to the floor.

 

 

 

Simply enough, there's not anything in the game that *really* adds a constant flow of soul runes to the game. Monsters drop them, but usually in 4s and 5s.

 

 

 

If the Soul Altar were released, people would use them more. Remember bloods? 500 gp each and people wouldn't use them to train magic? Now they are 275 each and people use them in place of deaths for faster magic training. This is simply because of the release of the Blood Altar. It's the fastest rc exp in the game if you're making your own runes for profit, and not using the ZMI or runners. Because of this people make deaths for a nice balance of exp + profit. This creates more bloods in the economy, and more people people use them as there is a steady, cheap flow of them.

 

 

 

Souls will essentially be similar to this, only souls aren't attacking runes. They're just used for the stat lowering spells. Yet, still, I predict more use. The price will be lower, but there will be more use.

If the level requirement does indeed follow the pattern and ends up at 90, the altar will be virtually useless. 2 nature runes is worth more than 1 soul rune, and that's only one more level. If it's xp you are after, ZMI is better. The only useful way to do this would be to create the altar and a crafting method with a speed that allows profits or xp to rival graahk runecrafting or ZMI.

 

 

 

I have to agree, maybe they will be doing something involving a new magic update to create a giant demand for soul runes?

Perhaps with the introduction of a new spell book that requires large volumes of soul runes? I don't think its likely but it could be a possibility...