Charms

Charms are items used in the Summoning skill as a requirement to create Summoning pouches. They are obtained from monster drops, Thieving (level 52) from chests in Dorgesh-Kaan or from Soul Wars using zeal points. Most of the time, they are dropped 1 at a time, making them slow to collect; however, some stronger monsters can drop multiple charms at once.

Note that charms CANNOT be traded between players or through the Grand Exchange.

Types
There are several different charm types:

Ordinary charms

 * [[Image:Gold charm.gif]] Gold charms
 * [[Image:Green charm.gif]] Green charms
 * [[Image:Crimson charm.gif]] Crimson charms
 * [[Image:Blue charm.gif]] Blue charms

Special charms

 * [[Image:Abyssal charm.gif]] Abyssal charms
 * [[Image:Obsidian charm.PNG]] Obsidian charms
 * [[Image:Nail beast charm.gif]] Talon beast charms
 * [[Image:Ravager charm.PNG]] Ravager charms
 * [[Image:Shifter charm.PNG]] Shifter charms
 * [[Image:Spinner charm.PNG]] Spinner charms
 * [[Image:Torcher charm.PNG]] Torcher charms

Special charms are nonstackable and used as a tertiary ingredient in several summoning familiars. Like ordinary charms, they are untradable.

Gold, Green, Crimson and Blue Charms
275 gold charms are part of the reward for the Wolf Whistle quest.

With a few exceptions monsters will only drop 1 charm at a time.

Note that currently all of the monsters which drop multiple charms (excluding Bork, of course) drop the same amount of each charm, thus looking at any one of the columns of a monster will suffice to know the number of charms it drops for all the colours.

Note: Bork and his Ork legions are the only monsters with a 100% drop rate of charms. Bork will drop always drop 2 Green, 7 Crimson, and 5 Blue charms; however he can be fought only once a day. The legions will each drop one Gold, Green, Crimson, or Blue charm.

Obtaining charms
This section is designed to help you decide what to attack while trying to get as many charms as possible. The sections are divided not based on combat but the advantage of the level of the skill you are using, your hitpoints, your defence, and your prayer on the higher numbers (you can also use summoning if you are fighting monsters in a multi-combat zone).

Summoning charms can also be obtained as a random treasure by Thieving (level 52) from the chests in Dorgesh-Kaan.

* Bork will ALWAYS drop 5 blue charms and can only be fought once within a 24 hour period. Requires the completion of What Lies Below quest and completion of Chaos Tunnels: The Hunt for Surok.

Charm Drop Rates
The table below is the approximate drop rates of charms one may expect to obtain by killing 100 of that monster type. Information rarely reflects one person killing 100 of a monster type, but instead combines averages of 2 or more players each killing 50 or more and then extrapolating based on those numbers. This list is by no means all of the charm droppers. The total number can be higher than 100, because some monsters drop more than 1 charm. The only monster to have a 100% drop rate on charms is Bork.


 * Black demon charm drop rate is based on those located in the Chaos Tunnels, those in other locations have a significantly lower drop rate.