March 9, 201214 yr I just recently came back to RuneScape after I found out my brother has been playing. Back in the day I filled up my Zamorak, Saradomin, and Guthix prayer books for relatively cheap, and a few days ago I find out that the prices for Zam pages in particular have skyrocketed since then. Is the quest that allows you to make "illuminated" versions with bonus prayer the only reason, or am I missing something here?
March 9, 201214 yr I think because it is one of the best off-hand items for rangers and maybe for mages (can't recall if Mage's books is better), the other books just don't compare.
March 9, 201214 yr From what I understand, in July 2010 Jagex added a whole bunch of unique treasure trail rewards to the potential loot. So the chances of getting a reward went up, but the chances of getting pages went down, making them rarer.Also, January 2011 saw the return of free trade / old wilderness. This repopularized PKing, which means more pures buying zammy books. EDIT: Here's a graph of the prices relative to time. You can see that the increases follow the updates pretty well perfectly.
March 9, 201214 yr They don't require any defence level to use and they have strong offensive bonuses...they're also free to get back so pkers and pures tend to use them. Visit my blog! Click the madness for more madness!
March 9, 201214 yr The best off-hand weapon for pures to use as a "shield" slot. That about sums it up. x) 899th to 120 attack! August 9, 2014~!
March 9, 201214 yr It is the best offensive ranged bonus, mage book is nearly double it at 15, I believe. Also, the pages are stinking rare now. Maxed since Sunday, January 9th, 2014Completionist since Wednesday, June 4th, 2014
March 9, 201214 yr At some point there was an update that removed pages from treasure trails and made them unique to vyrewatch burning, iirc. That made prices go up a lot. They got added back to trails later, which brought prices down a bit. Then the number of possible pages got doubled, but all the new pages are worse than the old ones so the chances of getting the useful (Zamorak) pages were effectively halved. And pures can make money more easily nowadays I think. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted
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