Ring of wealth

The Ring of wealth can be made by casting the spell Enchant Level 5 Jewellery, which requires level 68 Magic to cast, on a dragonstone ring. The ring of wealth increases the chance of its wearer getting a drop from the rare drop table. It is also confirmed to increase the likelihood of creatures dropping Summoning Charms, but it is unclear if these are on the rare drop table. The update on 15 March made the ring of wealth much more popular because it has been confirmed that there is a 15% chance that the drop will be duplicated. This effect could prove useful against numerous foes.

The ring of wealth has two teleport options - the Grand Exchange and Miscellania (provided you have completed the Throne of Miscellania quest). The ring has four teleport charges, and the number of charges remaining is displayed in brackets at the end of the item name. The Grand exchange teleport takes you to the southern entrance of the Grand Exchange, whilst the Miscellania teleport takes you to the room containing Advisor Ghrim within Miscellania Castle.

Charging the ring
The ring can be recharged by using it on the Fountain of Heroes below the Heroes' Guild. Access to the Heroes' Guild requires the completion of Heroes' Quest. All carried Amulets of glory and Rings of wealth, including those worn and those with charges remaining, will be fully recharged to 4 charges at once. This ring may not be charged in noted form.

At level 89 Summoning, a Geyser titan can be used to recharge Rings of wealth by using them on the familiar. This negates the need to travel to the Heroes' Guild fountain.

Getting to the guild
The Heroes guild can be reached by a number of methods:
 * Using a Games necklace to teleport to Burthorpe Games Room, and run south to the Guild.
 * Use a Combat bracelet to teleport to the Warrior's Guild then run south to the Heroes' Guild.
 * Teleport to the POH portal near Taverley using Teleport to House or a Taverley tablet, and then run north.

How the Ring Works


As of 15 March 2011 the way the ring of wealth works has changed, in order to make it more useful. It has been improved so that it will better increase your chances of receiving rare items - wearing a ring of wealth will slightly increase the drop chances of many rare items obtained from Slayer monsters and various bosses, as well as all clue scrolls. It will also occasionally improve some common drops, and give you bonus items in a few specific pieces of content. The ring will now also let you know when it has made a difference to your drops.

The ring will increase your chances of getting better rewards and more items from various activities, including:
 * Looting the Barrows chest
 * Pyramid Plunder - better chances of receiving a Pharaoh's sceptre or jewelled golden statuettes
 * Guaranteed improvement to drops when killing Bork
 * Better loot when catching kingly implings.
 * Further improving your chances of receiving gems while mining (if also wearing a charged amulet of glory).
 * Monster drops have better coin rewards.

Previous functioning
''The ring of wealth used to work in a different way to how it does now. The following section explains how it used to work before being updated.''

Monster drops are determined at random from a table. On many monsters, one of the slots on the drop table is the rare drop, which is not a single item. Instead, when this drop is randomly selected, the rare drop table drops another item at random from a separate list containing items like gems and half of a key. However, this second table normally contains many "empty" slots that, if landed on, cause the monster to drop nothing except for its 100% drops. The ring of wealth reduces the number of empty slots on the rare drop table, increasing the odds of receiving items such as half of a key.

It should be noted that, though wearing this ring helps remove the 'blank spaces' from the rare drop table, if the player is on an extended slayer assignment (or other expedition for real loot) it might be better to get nothing than rune spears or rune javelins or other of the 'rare' but dubiously valuable drops that clutter up the inventory the ring encourages. This problem might make some players question the efficiency of this ring, and makes it doubtful that it's worth wearing it over, say, a ring that can actually help combat.

In issue 24 of the God letters, Guthix had this to say about how a ring of wealth works:

This also sheds some light on how exactly the rare drop table is accessed.

Mod Ash discusses the Ring of Wealth
Mod Ash has stopped many popular rumours about the drops affected by the Ring of Wealth. Mod Ash stated that the Ring of Wealth only affects monsters that drop gems, and as thus, increases the chances of dropping dragon items. He later confirms he meant old dragon stuff (such as Dragon left halves and Half keys) and does NOT affect items such as Dragon claws.

Prices & merching
On the 15th March, 2011 the Ring of Wealth was updated to have new functions such as the ability to teleport to both the Grand Exchange and Miscellania (Providing the appropiate quest has been completed). Alongside that it also now shows a more noticeable drop rate and actually informs the user of when it has been helpful in a drop. Due to the new update price has jumped to over 70,000 gp per (uncharged) ring, and 100,000 gp for a fully charged ring. It was observed that several players had bought at the original 25,000 gp price weeks ago and sold at 60,000 gp after the update. The price seems to go down to a limit of 55,000 - 60,000 gp.

Trivia

 * The ring of wealth does increase the chance of better loot at barrows, pyramid plunder and while hunting Kingly imps.
 * The ring of wealth can be charged at the fountain of heroes in the Heroes guild.
 * The ring of wealth can be charged by geyser titans just like amulets of glory.
 * The Ring of Wealth grew over 300% in price in less than 10 minutes after the March 15th, 2011 update, whereas the fully charged ring grew anywhere between 200-500%.
 * Major Glitch


 * An update to the Ring of Wealth on 15 March 2011 caused the effect of the updated Ring of Wealth to stack depending on the amount of clan members with lootshare enabled. This caused the Corporeal Beast, and other bosses regularly hunted by clans, to drop sigils and other rare items at a near 100% frequency. This bug was patched within an hour of its release. Jagex later issued a statement with a apology and revealed that there would be no rollbacks. By doing so, many players took to the forums and demanded rollbacks to fix the market prices. Many players made billions of coins by this glitch. Some worlds, like 66, held vast riots.