Difference between runecrafting and eoc exp rates was that it was a update to one skill and people only went 99 either from the money made botting it, or for skillcapes(which turned the players from casual people into exp focused grinders when they were released)
99 runecrafting wasn't very rewarding, and runespan gives nearly no rewards beside the wicked robes and pouch which are a side reward from the massive exp piles.
Also Runecrafting managed to stay as one of the slowest skills of the game even with a 4x experience boost since it was released along with prayer. Even being able to store double the essence a trip, and get double experience per rune, it was ridiciouslly slow.
19-Nov-2012 22:04:21