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.

Charging the ring
After all four charges are used, it can be recharged by using it on the Fountain of Heroes below the Heroes' Guild. By doing so once, all carried Amulet of glorys & rings of wealth, including worn ones and ones with charges remaining, will be fully recharged to 4 charges. Access to the Heroes' Guild, however, requires the completion of Heroes' Quest. This ring may not be charged in noted form. To recharge the rings quickly, it is recommended that a Games necklace is used to teleport to Burthorpe Games Room, which is close to the Heroes' Guild, and run south to the Guild. Another more efficient, yet slightly longer, method would be to use the last remaining charge to teleport to Edgeville. From there one can use the Agility shortcut (21 agility required) to the Grand Exchange and the use the Keldagrim Mine Carts to travel to White Wolf Mountain Caves which is very close to the Heroes' Guild. One of the fastest methods of recharging the Ring of wealth is to use a Combat bracelet to teleport to the Warrior's Guild then run south to the Heroes' Guild.

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.

On the Grand Exchange, Rings of wealth are noted as either "Ring of wealth" for an uncharged ring or "Ring of wealth(4)" for a charged ring. Be sure to note this distinction when purchasing.

How the Ring Works


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.

Graphical Explanation of the Ring of Wealth
The following table is an example of a fictional loot list for killing 1000 greater demons. due to a recent update information collected on the ring is now obsolete

As can be seen, the player was given access to the rare drop table a total of 231 times.

The following is an example of what the player might receive if they had NOT been wearing a ring of wealth.

The following is an example of what the player might have received if they HAD been wearing a ring of wealth.

As can be seen, the number of times the player was given 'nothing' decreased as a result of wearing the ring of wealth, consequently causing the rest of the items on the Rare Drop Table to be dropped an increased number of times (and hence have had their 'drop rate' increased).

It can also be seen that the first table remains exactly the same for both scenarios (with and without the ring of wealth). The first table represents the drop table unique to Greater Demons; items such as the abyssal whip, godsword hilts and the staff of light are unique to specific monsters, and as such will only ever be found on the first table. Because of this, they are completely unaffected by the ring of wealth. Only items found on the second and third tables (i.e. rare drop table items) will ever be affected.

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 not affect Champions' Challenge drops.The ring of wealth does NOT affect the drop rate of the draconic visage, godsword hilt, dragon chainbody, Dragon full helm, spirit sigils, King Black Dragon Heads, or other unique drops. It only affects the items on the rare drop table.
 * The ring of wealth does not affect drops while LootShare is enabled.
 * The unenchanted counterpart is far more expensive than the Ring of Wealth itself. This is possibly due to the ability of an unenchanted dragonstone ring to be changed into a dragonstone ring (i), which gives large attack and defence bonuses.
 * The ring of wealh does increase the chance of better loot at barrows, pydramid 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 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%.
 * The ring of wealth was bugged upon 15/3/11 update for atleast 1 hour in which time anyone who killed corporal beast got a random sigil 100% of the time.