Mages' book

The Mages' book is a book used as an offhand weapon for spell-casting. It is a reward from the Mage Training Arena minigame, and was also a rare potential drop from PvP worlds or Bounty worlds until its removal from the PvP drop table on 16 June 2009. The Mages' book requires 60 Magic to wield and is held in the offhand slot. A Mages' book can be obtained from the Rewards Guardian in exchange for 500 telekinetic, 550 alchemist, 6,000 enchantment, and 500 graveyard pizazz points. The book may be recoloured in exchange for loyalty points.

The Mages' book has the exact same stats as a grifolic orb but is much more expensive and requires a lot more effort to obtain.

Price Drop
On 7 September 2014, the price that a Mages' book could be bought on the Grand Exchange fell sharply from around 600,000 to 30,000.

The cause of this is possibly a merchanting clan dumping their huge stock of the books or a duplication glitch.

Trivia

 * Until the release of the Arcane spirit shield and Spectral spirit shields, the Mages' book provided the highest Magic attack and Defence bonus of any item worn in the shield slot.

Mages' book