Overload

Overload is a potion made using the Herblore skill. A Herblore level of 96 is required to create this potion. You will receive 1000 herblore experience for making this potion. Currently as of 8th Feb 2010, The price to make overload potions is 63.94 gp/xp. The five extreme potions (3-dose only) and a clean torstol are the ingredients required to create this potion. This potion cannot be made with assistance. The combined cost of overload from scratch is 0 coins. Four empty vials will be left over afterwards.

When consumed, overload gives the stat effects of the extreme attack, extreme strength, extreme defence, extreme magic and extreme ranging potions combined, but only for a total of five minutes. This boost is repeated every 15 seconds during the 5 minutes, so if a player's stats are below their normal value (such as after drinking saradomin brew), then they will reach the maximum boosted values after sufficient 15 second periods.

These boosts allow players to reach previously unseen level highs of 125 Attack, Strength, Defence, and 122 Ranged all at once with starting skill levels of 99.

As a side effect, players will receive a total damage of 500 but divided into five equal parts (100 per second for the first 5 seconds). This damage can be healed immediately using food.

Overload also gives the player a 7 level boost in magic, which decreases over time, but gives 3% extra magic damage for every level boost. This stacks with the extra 10-15% boost from certain magical staves and that of Hexcrest.

When the potion wears off, the player's stats will return to normal and players will regain 500 life points too (if not already healed).

Creating

 * The experience for making one is always at least 2,200 experience because you have to make the Extreme potions.
 * The maximum experience that can be gained from making one Overload potion is 3,010.

Trivia

 * During the 5 minutes, the player's stats will temporarily drop by 1 in the usual way after each minute, but then will jump back to their extreme values again at the next 15 second boost repeat.
 * When first released, the Overload could be used in PvP situations, but within 48 hours, this was changed so they cannot be used in any PvP situation, dangerous or safe, however as of 17 November 2009 Overload along with all other untradeable potions can be used in safe PvP minigames.
 * According to Jagex, it "racks the body with spasms and burns the digestive tract".
 * The Overload potion has great potential when used with Dharok's, where all of the players levels are boosted, and life points are decreased by 500, increasing the strength of the user even more, makes a max hit of 1240 under perfect circumstances.
 * Many players drink this potion before attempting solos, or God Wars Dungeon, since even if you drink a saradomin brew, the stats will be restored to their boosted state, which allows having more saradomin brews than super restores because then super restores are only needed to restore prayer.