Lvl 10 Dungeon Ranarr Spawn and Jagex’s Great Conspiracy
Everybody thinks Ranarrs are going to continue crashing because of the new cave which spawns them that you only need 10 Dungeoneering to enter. I beg to differ.
In this cave, Ranarrs spawn once every 100 seconds. This means 36 can be gathered on each world per hour hour. If people can get 8k each for them then (36*8k) that’s 288k per hour. They can also pick up Irit herbs which would add about 100k and make it 388k per hour. But that’s only if there is no competition. If there is, that profit could easily be halved or worse.
Only the noobiest noob would sit around for an hour picking up spawns for (a questionable) 388k gp and no exp. Especially when there are so many other more profitable, less tedious and exp-gaining ways to make money. If the prices did drop alot they wouldn’t stay down for long because then it would be even less worth it to pick up spawns i.e. it might only be 250k per hour then.
The reason Ranarr herbs are dropping now is artificial. Everybody is dumping because people don’t understand that it’s so not worth it to gather ranarrs and irits and that nobody is going to bother. As soon as people realize the truth they’re gonna stop dumping and start buying at max (because the price will have dropped and you’ll be able to get for really cheap.) and the price will go back to normal.
EDIT: I just found out that there are Chaos Druids in the lvl 10 cave,
too. This may provide people a greater incentive to camp there because they can kill druids for their herb drops and pick up the ranarrs at the same time. This means ranarrs might be going down afterall – though not for sure.
If, as they always do when there’s a PvP update or more people playing for whatever reason, the prices of Ranarrs go up a bunch, it will make gathering this way somewhat profitable so people will start gathering again and the prices of Ranarrs will go back to their average price. So what this cave really does is keeps the price Ranarr Herbs and prayer pots from getting too high.
It’s not only the price of ranarrs and prayer pots that Jagex wants to keep low, though, they also want to decrease the price of leveling smithing and prayer. This is, of course, what I call “Jagex’s Great conspiracy”.
Prayer: Frost Dragons drop bones that give 2.5x as much exp as dragon bones but aren’t that much harder to kill than normal dragons. Everybody’s going to be killing them to get 20k for the bones and so there will be a lot of supply and price will go down along with prices of other bones and the price of leveling prayer.
Smithing: There are 3 runite ores in one of the caves. This will make it much easier to obtain ores and thus increase their supply, effectively lowering the price it costs to smith rune stuff. Also, in one of the Dungeoneering caves there are steel + iron dragons and and anvil all together. This means people can kill the metal dragons and then make iron/steel platebodies to get free smithing exp. Plus (one of the most shocking things) one of the resource dungeons holds 6 mithril 3 silver and 13 coal rocks that are right next to a bank and, what’s more, F2P players can access them! This will definitely make the prices of coal and mithril fall, along with the prices of all bars.
More about the whole conspiracy thing: I think it is a conspiracy because this isn’t the first time they’ve done stuff to cheapen or “noob down” skills. Take double exp weekend when people could get 99 summoning for half the money and time or effigies which make lvling slayer a lot faster because they’re dropped all the time and give a ton of exp. I’m sure there are more out there that I’m not aware of. I think they’re doing this to cater to the desires of all the 12 year olds (who make up the majority of their members) out there who all want an easier game.
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about 1 month ago
Great post!
I agree the price of bones is going down. Over the past month, most of the bones have created a 1-2-3 top formations – and all the technical indicators were calling for lower prices.
Ranarr and Prayer potions will drop in price and find a new, cheaper level.
Runite ore and bar also just completed a 1-2-3 top formation and seemed to be going lower about a week ago.
It seems clear that Jagex is moving Runescape toward a World of Warcraft leveling system with an “end game” focus, where gaining 99′s is not nearly as difficult, but there is plenty of challenge in the Dungeons once you have your skills maxed out.
Now the big question for us merchanters is, what will be going up because metals are going down?
Will the extra runite ore cause a shortage of coal?
Cheers,
Linkbuilder
about 1 month ago
There are a lot of variables goiong into ever updates Jagex has been putting out :o
I like the new methods of training ,but i hate the fact everything is centered around the new skill (which I have yet to do much of).
I do not like the fact that people are getting an “easy way out” with the free smithing xp , herb xp , and prayer xp. They always seem to make some aspect of the game easier with every update.
KZISME
about 1 month ago
@KZISME
you’re exactly right. They already made Summoning literally half as easy to level when they released double exp weekend and now they’re doing the same for all the other skills that people in the past had to spend a lot of time on. Even Slayer is being noobed down now by effigies which provide tons of slayer exp all the time.
about 1 month ago
Hey guys I heard from I think it was MOD ash ,that they will release a new prayer for ranging as an dungeoneering reward on an upcoming update.
about 1 month ago
Yes they will be releasing a new prayer for ranging and new rings that reduce the amount of bar special attacks use up and recoil melee damage.
I do kind off agree with Jagex in some ways, like prayer really does need to be made cheaper. I’m not going to spend over 100M just to get turmoil.
about 1 week ago
Ted, I’m not being funny or anything but when you mention the 12 year olds who want an easier game, don’t forget it’s just a game, you might be taking it to seriously, all those 12 year olds just get on with there lifes, and like me when they get in at the end of the day, Just go on there computer for a few hours max, Just to chill and for something to do. Not make a hobby out of an mmorpg, LOL!