Wicked hood

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The wicked hood is a members-only item released on 17 October 2011 alongside the 2011 Hallowe'en event update. It can be obtained from Tam McGrubor in Burthorpe free, or from Wizard Finix in the Wizards' Tower, for 175 Runespan points.

The Wicked Hood functions the same way as a talisman, tiara, or staff, granting access to the Runecrafting altars. To gain access to the altar of your choice, you must "feed" the corresponding talisman to the hood. Then simply wear the hood as you would a tiara. 1 hood can serve as a talisman for every altar.



Although the Hood officially requires Talismans to be 'fed' to it, tiaras work as well. The latter may be a cheaper alternative. However, whichever you choose, the talisman/tiara will be lost when 'fed.' It takes only 1 talisman per type of rune.

At level 50 players can access the Runecrafting Guild to make an Omni-talisman which will unlock the hood's ability to make Pure essence instead of regular.

If a player is already in possession of an Omni-talisman or tiara, it is suggested to 'feed' that one to the hood. This will make 'feeding' all other talismans/tiaras obsolete, as the Omni encompasses all (with exception of the Elemental talisman, which may be fed to the hood later without losing the benefits of the Omni-talisman or tiara). To obtain another Omni-talisman, talk to Wizard Elriss.

Abilities
The hood has a range of Runecrafting functions:

It is also possible to upgrade your Wicked Hood by purchasing certain items from Wizard Finix' runespan shop. The bonus will apply as long as you own these items.

With the introduction of the new update to Runespan, the Wicked Hood gained an ability to teleport right next to the portal outside the Runecrafting Guild. Right-clicking on the Wicked Hood will reveal "Teleport" and if you are within Gielinor, you will automatically teleport to the Runespan portal. However, if you are within the Runespan and right-click the teleport option, you will be asked to confirm if you want to leave the Runespan and convert the runes and essence in your inventory into Runespan points (this is to avoid accidentally teleporting out of the runespan).

If a player is Runecrafting with the hood, it is advisable to withdraw the essence at the altar. This allows the player to craft runes from 100 essence without banking once a day.

The wicked hood will not let you teleport to the Law Altar if you have banned equipment (armour and weapons not allowed on Entrana). If you attempt to teleport to the Law Altar with any banned equipment, the message, "The power of Saradomin prevents you taking armour or weaponry to Entrana" will appear in the chatbox; you will remain where you are, and you will not waste one of your two daily teleport charges by attempting to teleport to Entrana with banned equipment. Attempting to use the hood during Devious Minds while the pouch containing the orb is in your inventory will yield the same result. The wicked hood itself is allowed onto Entrana.

Having multiple wicked hoods will not allow a player to get more rune essence or teleports each day. Additionally, when one wicked hood is fed talismans or tiaras, all other wicked hoods a player owns will also be upgraded.

The hood can allow you to get 2331 Runecrafting experience a day (roughly 2368 with Master runecrafter robes minus the hat) if you teleport to the Blood altar twice with four full rune pouches, a full inventory of pure essence and an abyssal familiar with essence. Without an abyssal familiar and pouches you will get 1638 Runecrafting experience (roughly 1672 Runecrafting experience with Master runecrafter robes). After acquiring the wicked cape, wicked robe top and wicked bottom from the runespan your abilities are enhanced to gather more essence and have more teleports daily. Once you have bought and worn the wicked set parts, their individual upgrades will function on the hood, even if they are still in your bank. However, if you lose the other parts through death or otherwise, the effects will be removed from the hood.

How to upgrade
Once a talisman is "consumed" by the hood, the hood may teleport to that altar, create that type of rune, and enter that altar. Players can upgrade with other talismans or their corresponding tiaras to expand its repertoire of rune types.

Using an omni-talisman or omni-tiara unlocks all the available rune types as well as upgrading the Essence option to getting Pure essences instead of Rune essences. Also, obtaining the omni-talisman from Wizard Elriss requires only having all 12 talismans and/or tiaras in the backpack inventory which are kept by the player; no talismans or tiaras are lost (and you may subsequently speak to Wizard Elriss to obtain another omni-talisman, as if you had lost it). This excludes soul runes (as a Soul altar does not exist yet) and the elemental talisman (as this talisman has different properties to begin with).

Using an Elemental talisman on the hood allows using the Rune option two times a day.

Other use
Members can use the teleport to the Astral altar to easily switch to the Lunar/Standard Spellbooks. With the addition of the lodestones, this can be considered a waste of the hood's limited teleports, since the Home Teleport spell has unlimited uses and the Wicked Hood teleport is only slightly faster than the Home Teleport spell.

The hood can be even more beneficial in the Great Orb Project (requires level 50 Runecrafting) at the Runecrafting Guild. A more practical choice would be the Ourania Runecrafting Altar (one can easily get over 2k experience a day using this method and only going to the Ourania altar, more than at any other altar - though not as profitable). These two places give double experience per Pure essence crafted. It may also be useful to take this hood with you while making Combination runes and are using a Necklace of Binding, even better in conjuncture with the Lunar spell Magic Imbue (level 81 Magic).

Interface


The interface, accessed by clicking the hood, shows you the remaining actions you have for the day.


 * Essence can be retrieved by clicking the 'Essence' button.
 * To make a rune, click the 'Runes' button followed by the rune you would like to make.
 * You can teleport to a rune altar by clicking 'Teleport' followed by the appropriate rune (you will be warned if attempting to teleport to an altar which you do not have the Runecrafting level to use).

Should you lose your hood, you can reclaim it from Tam McGrubor at any time, retaining any talismans you have added to the hood, but you may only have one hood at a time. The hood does not drop on death.

The wicked hood can be recoloured through runecrafting in the Runespan.

Daily routine
The following sequence can be done daily for maximum free experience:
 * (The official world for the Ourania Runecrafting Altar is: 70.)


 * Empty your inventory, withdraw runecrafting pouches, 1 law and 6 earth runes from your bank.
 * Equip your best pickaxe, wear the Wicked hood, Ardougne cloak 2 (or higher), Master runecrafter robes, and good defensive armour in the other slots. (Or weight reducing armour if you plan on taking the long, but safe route in the Ourania Cave.)
 * Operate the hood to teleport you to the Wizards' Tower.
 * Ask Sedridor in the basement to take you to the Essence mine, and gather pure essence.
 * Activate the hood to teleport you to the Astral altar.
 * Craft astral runes and switch to the lunar spellbook at the altar.
 * Return to the essence mine via the Wizards' Tower teleport, and gather pure essence.
 * Cast Ourania Teleport from your lunar spellbook and run the gauntlet to the Ourania Runecrafting Altar. (Or take the safe route.)
 * Withdraw all 175 essence from the hood and craft them into runes. (Takes 13 hood activations at 14 pure essence per withdraw.)
 * Return to the Wizards' Tower via the hood's teleport option, and deposit all runes in the deposit box.
 * Gather pure essence in the essence mine.
 * Use the hood's second daily teleport charge to return to the Astral altar and switch back to the normal spellbook. Craft astral runes.
 * Teleport back to the Wizards' tower, deposit runes, gather essence again.
 * Use the third teleport charge on the best altar you have access to. Craft runes.

Runecrafting
The following table shows the profit that can be obtained from each altar, using just the essence carried in the hood.

Runes withdrawal
The following table shows the profit gained by withdrawing runes from the hood.

Trivia

 * Although the Runescape manual (already) shows the Soul Icon, it is not possible to obtain Soul runes from the hood or teleport to the Soul altar, since there isn't a Soul talisman or open altar yet.
 * The interface in the Game Guide shows the Soul Icon as being unlocked. This could mean that the altar will be revealed in an upcoming update, though this is still only speculation.
 * Wicked hood popup.png.]]The Runescape manual states that you may withdraw 25 un-noted rune or pure essence 4 times per day, but the hood actually fills all empty inventory spaces with un-noted essence when activated up to a maximum of 150 essence per day, allowing for greater versatility.
 * Before an update, Tam appeared in Varrock square.
 * Each Talisman added to the Wicked hood grants 80 Runecrafting experience, the Omni Talisman and Elemental Talisman grant more due to unlocking more than one talisman respectively.
 * Upon clicking on the Soul Icon, your Wicked hood will say "...UNDISCOVERED..."
 * When you try to add a talisman of a type you have already unlocked, your Wicked Hood will say "...REDUNDANT..."
 * Upon eating a talisman or tiara, the hood proclaims "...DELICIOUS..."
 * If you try to add anything that is not a talisman or tiara that has been charged with a talisman, your Wicked Hood will say "...IRRELEVANT..."
 * Levelling up Runecrafting after adding a talisman to the hood gives a glitch where the game states that the player has advanced 0 levels, a known glitch.
 * The hood you get from Wizard Finix is a slightly darker colour than the one from Tam.
 * The Wicked Hood does not currently stack when more than one is banked.
 * There is currently a glitch where if the player equips a different piece of head gear while wearing the wicked hood, its colour will be reset to the default red upon re-equipping it. Logging out does not fix this - the only way to get the colour back is to spend 2000 points in the Runespan. This also applies to the other wicked equipment, and has not been addressed yet.
 * Sometimes the hood will "morph" and contain two colours; containing the basic red and your new colour. This has yet to be fixed.