I'm nearly 92 runecrafting and was wondering:

 

A) What's the best method for obtaining mass amounts of essence? Should I just be siphoning soul esswraiths for essence or would a lower level creature with increased killrates offset the xp difference? Should I chip off essence from every creature I siphon, or is that not recommended?

 

B) Would 92-99 runecrafting get me enough points to get rank one esteem (already have about 28-29k points)?

 

C) Are the wicked robes worth getting at all?

 

Thanks

~yuusuke-u

A. I just do soul esswraiths for my essence, and keep doing them whenever no good nodes are around. Might be a good idea to siphon a few law esshounds, body esshounds, etc for travel.

 

B. Sounds like you should be close to Esteem 1 when you get 99. I've done around 3.5M XP and gotten 65k points.

 

C. Not sure, I'm saving for Esteem. :).

A) I tend to just stick to Soul wraiths and have enough essence, you don't need a huuuge amount to get started. I tend to siphon 10 body hounds when I first go in since I came the 2 soul wraith island area and end up needing fair few bodys and that gets me few hundred ess start up.

 

B) Shouldn't be an issue I've done 80 > 91 and have bought Greater Runic Staff (25k) Full Wicked (25k) Recolour (7k?) and have Esteem 3 so that's like near 100k Points already!

 

C) They aren't hugely worth it in terms of game changing, but they have their uses. Each piece bought adds 1 rune charge and 25 essence to the hood, but get all 3 and you get an extra teleport. And obv wicked hood teleports do have a few uses eg quickest way to get lunar mage, quick way to mutated velds etc.

I can't speak about points, but for xp/hr, you shouldn't touch soul wraiths (they are awful). Get ess from the law and nature esshounds. Don't waste time stocking up on ess, since there are hounds nearby to the islands you should be hanging around at; just get ess when you are running low, and the lower you are, the more nodes you should ignore (ie if you are under 100, ignore everything except your best two nodes, or something like that. It's not super important what guidelines you actually use, just that you don't run out of ess on the lower nodes which give great xp/hr but burn ess super fast like shifters and jumpers). I'm basically never above 1k ess, rarely above 500 even. 90-97 RC got me a bit under 100k points, I'm not expecting to hit 211k before 99.