bill gates main sponsor ? <| sep |> It ' ll have value and use after the rework . It has a lot of niches it could easily fall into Cheap training small profits . Some people train with maple logs even at high firemaking , just as en example . It ' s not efficient , but it ' s cheap and something they can just do when they ' re not doing anything else anyway . Low level training . Some things simply don ' t have value to end game players , and that ' s fine . It ' s important for the sake of new players that there are items that exist that are there to help them get to higher levels . Invention fodder . This is the big thing , the straight up monetary value . People are already paying a fair few K for mithril and adamant stuff . Rune stuff has an even lower junk rate . Lets take for example , adamant kiteshields vs . rune kiteshields . Adamant kiteshield is 56 % 44 . 9 % junk chance meanwhile with rune it ' s 45 % 36 %. So you ' re getting 8 . 9 % 11 % more stuff disassembling rune kiteshields compared to adamant kiteshields , and how much do adamant kiteshields cost ? 5 point 5 fucking k . So it would follow that rune kiteshields , offering about 10 % more parts and comps on average per item would be about 6 K at least , even with an alchemy value of 1 GP they could have that . Not too shabby for a T 50 shield . Is rune going to be worth as much as before ? No . Will it have a fair amount of value ? Yes . It actually will have a fair amount of relevance to the game , I think . Just through invention instead of alchemy .