Summoning/Starting

Starting Summoning.
Summoning can be a complex skill at first, but once you know the basics it's actually very easy. This is a breakdown of the basic steps needed when Summoning:


 * Pouch Creation/Scroll Creation
 * (Recharging Summoning points)
 * Summoning the familiar from the pouch
 * Using the familiar
 * Familiar's timer runs out and familiar is dismissed.

Below you will find out what these steps mean and what takes place.

Pouches
The first step of Summoning and the most common way to gain xp!

By now you should have finished Wolf Whistle, if not then it is probably best to do that before you read the guide. You should have plenty of gold charms to start off with.

At first you will start off making Spirit Wolf pouches. When making pouches you need 4 ingredients, a charm, some spirit shards, a pouch and the specified ingredient.

To find out what specific items you need, you must first go to your skill interface and click on Summoning, and a list will pop up! First, find the familiar you are looking to create. Right now it is the Spirit Wolf - So find that, read the ingredients, and gather them.



You need:


 * A Gold charm (you should have plenty from the quest right now)
 * A pouch (buyable - can be bought from Pikkupstix - 1gp each)
 * 7 Spirit Shards (buyable - can be bought from Pikkupstix - 1gp each)
 * A set of Wolf Bones (obtained by killing wolves or bought from other players)

Once you have all the correct items needed, you must proceed to a full obelisk (We will focus on the one in Taverly in this guide, but you will find out more locations later).

The route from Falador to Pikkupstix.

Once at the obelisk, right click "Pouch-Creation", and find the familiar that you are looking to create, click it, and there we go! You have a pouch - wasn't so hard was it?

When you are ready to use your familiar, you should summon the pouch. Simply right-click on the pouch and select "Summon" and there you have it, your familiar is summoned. Be warned - there are a select few places that you cannot summon or take a familiar.

Scrolls
Pouches summon mighty familiars - but that's not all! With the help of scrolls, you can activate some unique and powerful special attacks that that familiar and only that familiar can access. Making scrolls is alot easier than making pouches!


 * Choose which familiar you would like special attack scrolls for.
 * Obtain the pouch for that certain familiar.
 * Find a full obelisk (such as the one we visited earlier in Taverly)
 * Right-click "Create-Pouch" on the obelisk [[Image:Creation.PNG|thumb|250px|The button to click to switch to creating scrolls screen.]]
 * Click the "Create-Scroll" button in the top left corner of the box.
 * Find the familiar you would like to create scrolls for and click.

Each pouch you turn into scrolls produces 10 scrolls.

After you have created them, you will need the corresponding familiar summoned (so if the scrolls you have were Adamant Bull Rush, then you would need an Adamant Minotaur familiar summoned to activate them).

You must then enter your summoned familiar's interface, which is a button next to your buddy list (and it will only be visible when you have a familiar summoned), and click the scroll button -

There we have it, you activated a scroll! Note that combat-scrolls can only be activated in Multi-Combat areas, and if you use a scroll attack on an enemy the enemy will switch aggression to you, and not the familiar - so beware!

Scrolls a problem taking up inventory space?? Not at all! Apart from the fact that they are stackable, at certain Summoning levels, some helmets can be enchanted by Pikkupstix and then can hold combat scrolls for you, and those scrolls will be randomly activated when in combat. For more info on this - refer here: Summoning.

Recharging Points
Can't summon a pouch? Wondering what those strange stones all over RuneScape are? Read on. They are obelisks! When you have a familiar out, your points slowly drain, and when you have too low points, you can't summon any more familiars! To get your points back up, you should either drink from a summoning potion, or find a full or mini obelisk to recharge on.

The difference between big and mini Obelisks is the fact that you can make pouches with the big obelisks as well as recharging, but the mini ones are purely for recharging points.

This is an example of a player recharging their points on a big obelisk -



One of the dozens of mini-obelisks scattered around RuneScape -



Familiar Interface
The familiar interface can be daunting to look at sometimes.. but really it's not hard at all -

This Button is clicked to activate a familiar's scroll! The number indicates how many scrolls you have left to use.

This is the special move points bar. Whenever you use a scroll, a certain number of points are temporarily taken away to stop you using them over and over, but dont worry they will very shortyly regenerate. A full bar consists of 60 points.

This little icon shows you how many Summoning points you have left. When you summon a pouch, a certain number of points will be removed, and while your familiar is still summoned, slowly your points will drain. If you don't have enough points to summon the pouch then you will have to either go and recharge your points (See above for more on recharging) at an obelisk or sip from a summoning potion. The amount of points you have is your total Summoning level.

Each familiar has a specified time that they survive for, and this icon shows how much time they have left. When the timer is up, your familiar will disappear and if you want it back you'll have to get a new pouch and summon it.

Your familiar stuck behind a wall or you want it to fight with you? This button is what you need! It calls your familiar and brings it right to you. If you are in combat when you call it - your familiar will fight with you!

A select few familiar's can carry items for you, their inventories range from 3 slots all the way up to 30. This button, when clicked, will transfer as many items from their inventory as you can fit into yours. This can also be used on forager familiars to withdraw items collected.

This button is clicked when you no longer wish for the aid of your familiar. It will make your familiar disappear and if you want your familiar back you'll have to get a new pouch and summon it.

Pets
Pet's don't actually have any use, apart from showing off your well-earned Summoning level and having a buddy by your side. They can't fight.

Certain pet's are found in egg form, to hatch them you must take them to a pet shop such as the one in Taverly or Yanille.

F.A.Q
Q. Why isn't my familiar attcking?

A. Certain familiar's are non-combat, others will only fight to defend themselves, but the most common reason why familiar's won't fight is because you are not in a multi-combat area. You must be in multi-combat areas for familiar's to aid you fighting.

Q. Where can I get Charms??

A. Charms are monster drops. Certain monsters drop different amount of certain charms - for more info refer here - charms.

Q. Is summoning expensive?

A. Very! Summoning is currently one of the most expensive skills in the game, however, the pouches may be sold or traded in for shards, cutting the cost down by alot. More info here - Bogrog.

Q. Where can I get more in-depth and detailed info on Summoning?

A. Summoning has a very very detailed summary of the skill, once you have mastered the basics that is where you should go.

Q. What's a forager?

A. A forager is a name for any familiar that produces items for you, to see if your familiar has produced any items for you right-click on them and select "withdraw".

Q. What's a beast of burden?

A. a familiar that carries items.

Q. What's an "invisible" boost?

A. A boost that does not actually effect your physical level, instead increases the speed of how you use that skill. For instance if you were level 50 fishing and you had a familiar "invisibly" boost your fishing by 4, then you would catch fish at the speed you would catch them as if you were level 54 fishing.

Q. What's a right-clcik ability?

A. Aside from scrolls some familiars have other abilites too, such as a right-clcik option, simply right-click to see if there is anything to offer.